Book Reviews
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Rating Key

**          Average. Some value.
***        Good. A welcome addition to your library
****      Very good. Much to learn.
*****    The cream of the crop.  
  
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Title:  The One Minute Manager
Author:  Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Stars:  ****

Title:  Out of the Crisis
Author:  W. Edwards Deming
Stars:  ****

Title:  Purple Cow:  Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Author:  Seth Godin
Stars:  ****

Title:  The Present: The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at
Work and in Life
Author:  Spencer Johnson
Stars:  ***

Title:  Random Acts of Management:  A Dilbert Book
Author:  Scott Adams
Stars:  ***

Title:  Russell Rules:  11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth
Century’s Greatest Winner
Author:  Bill Russell with David Falkner
Stars:  ****

Title:  7 Habits of Highly Effective People        
Author:  Stephen R. Covey
Stars:  *****

Title:  Simplicity is the Key:  Thoughts on Leadership, Change
Management, and How Things Get Done in Organisations
Author:  Trevor Gay
Stars:  ****

Title:  The Situational Leader
Author:  Dr. Paul Hersey
Stars:  ***

Title:  The Six Sigma Way:  How GE, Motorola, and Other Top
Companies are Honing Their Performance
Author:  Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh
Stars:  ****

Title:  The Speed of Trust:  The One Thing That Changes Everything
Author:  Stephen M.R. Covey with Rebecca R. Merrill
Stars:  ****

Title:  Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
Author:  Harvey Mackay
Stars:  ***

Title:  The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
Author:  Patrick Lencioni
Stars:  ****

Title:  Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up
Author:  Stanley Bing
Stars:  ***

Title:  Unstoppable
Author:  Cynthia Kersey
Stars:  ***

Title:  What Color is Your Parachute        
Author:  Richard N. Bolles
Stars:  *****

Title:  What the CEO Wants You to Know:  How Your Company Really
Works
Author:  Ram Charan
Stars ****

Title:  What Matters Most:  The Power of Living Your Values
Author:  Hyrum W. Smith
Stars:  ***

Title:  Who Moved My Cheese
Author:  Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Stars:  **

Title:   
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?
Author:  Louis Gerstner
Stars:  ***

Title:  Winning
Author:  Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
Stars:  ****

Title:  Wisdom from the Robber Barons:  Enduring Business Lessons
from Rockefeller, Morgan, and the First Industrialists
Author:  George David Smith and Frederick Dalzell
Stars:  ***

Title:  The World According to Peter Drucker
Author:  Jack Beatty
Stars:  ***

Title:  The World is Flat:  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Author:  Thomas L. Friedman
Stars:  ***

Title:  Zapp!  The Lightning of Empowerment:  How to Improve Quality,
Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction
Author:  William C. Bylan, P.H.D.  with Jeff Cox
Stars:  ***

Title:  Why Employees Don’t Do What They’re Supposed to Do and What
to Do About It
Author:  Ferdinand F. Fournies
Stars:  ****
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