Your Road Map For Success Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Your Road Map for Success: You Can Get There from Here, by John C. Maxwell. In this book, the author shows you how to prepare your own success journey. Maxwell shows you how to pack for the trip, overcome detours, include your family in the journey and build important professional relationships along the way. Throughout the book, Maxwell provides exercises to focus your thinking and planning, and check your progress.

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• What You Become By Reaching Your Goals

Work From the Inside Out Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Work from the Inside Out: Seven Steps to Loving What You Do, by Nancy O'Hara. In this book, the author shows you how to find meaning in your job by looking inside yourself. Rather than get stuck in the routine of our jobs, office politics, and problematic projects, O’Hara provides a simple plan to reclaim your job and your life – and ultimately find the ability to truly love what you do.

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• How To Figure Out What You Really Want

Unlimited Power Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement, by Anthony Robbins. In this book, the author shows you how to do, have, achieve, and create anything you want out of life. Robbins shows you how to reprogram your mind, gain energy, improve your relationships, become a persuasive speaker, and effectively model the success of others.

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• Seven Meta-Programs for Understanding People

THINKERTOYS Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition), by Michael Michalko. In this book, the author, a former Disney Imagineer, provides expert creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. You can apply the techniques to create original ideas to improve your personal life and business life.

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• Idea Techniques (Group A)
• Idea Techniques (Group B)
• Idea Techniques (Group C)
• Idea Techniques (Intuitive)
• Personal Invention Quotas
• Storyboarding the Disney Way

Think and Grow Rich Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller--Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century, by Napoleon Hill and Arthur Pell. In this book, the authors share patterns and practices for building wealth and success in whatever you take on. The techniques are based on a lifetime of research studying successful people. The authors teach you specific techniques for self-direction, organized planning, auto-suggestion, master-mind association, self-analysis, and selling your personal services.

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• Emulate the Great

The War of Art Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield. In this book, the author shows you how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to your own creativity and success. The author writes about defeating resistance and unleashing your true self through action and discipline and conquering your fear of failure and success.

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• Fear of Becoming Who You Truly Are
• How to Overcome Resistance

The Power of Focus Book Nuggets

This is an index post of my book nuggets from The Power of Focus: What the Worlds Greatest Achievers Know about The Secret of Financial Freedom and Success, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Hewitt. In this book, the authors show you the specific focusing strategies used by the world’s most successful people. The authors show you how to focus on your strengths and eliminate everything that is holding you back. The purpose of the book is to free up your time, improve your bank account, and enrich your most important relationships.

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• Choose-Tos Over Have-Tos

The Leadership Challenge Book Nuggets

This is an index post of my book nuggets from The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner. In this book, the authors show you patterns and practices for effective leadership. Rather than surveying star performers in excellent companies to discover best practices, they interviewed ordinary people describing extraordinary experiences to find key patterns of success.

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• 5 Practices and 10 Commitments for Leadership

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, by Patrick M. Lencioni. In this book, the author outlines a model and actionable steps for overcoming hurdles, and building a cohesive, effective team. The five dysfunctions are (1) absence of trust, (2) fear of conflict, (3) lack of commitment, (4) avoidance of accountability, and (5) inattention to results.

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• Building Trust on Your Teams

The First 90 Days

This post is an index of my book nuggets from The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, by Michael Watkins. In this book, the author shows you how to get up to speed and be effective within the first 90 days of your job. He provides practical steps you can take to get on top of things, initiate changes, perform self-assessment, and have effective conversations with your new boss and direct reports.

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Business Situation Analysis:

• Diagnosing Your Portfolio
• Start-ups, Turnarounds, Realignments and Sustaining-Success
• STARS Model of Business Evolution

Change

• Action-Forcing Events
• Framing Compelling Arguments

Managing Up:

• Five Conversations to Have with Your Boss
• Fundamental Do's and Don'ts for a Productive Relationship with Your Boss

Personal Performance:

• Avoiding Vicious Cycles
• Building Your Advice-and-Counsel Network
• Checking Whether You're on Track
• Guidelines for Structured Reflection
• Influence Network
• Securing Early Wins
• Ten Key Success Strategies
• Three Pillars for Building Self-Efficacy
• Yerkes-Dodson Human Performance Curve

The E-Myth Revisited Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael E. Gerber. In this book, the author shows you how to grow your small business in a predictable and productive way. Gerber shows you how to apply the lessons of franchising to work on your business rather than in your business. You’ll also learn how to effectively manage your inner Entrepreneur, Manager and Technician, as well as understand and leverage the stages of your business.

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• The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician
• The Fat Guy and The Skinny Guy
• The Fatal Assumption
• Why Some Small Businesses Fail

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, by Al Ries and Laura Ries. In this book, the authors show you the keys behind how to build a product or service into a world-class brand. Along the way, they share stories and anecdotes on how the best brands in the world do it, as well as the mistakes too avoid. They also tackle branding on the Web, where they show you counterintuitive strategies and secrets for building a category-dominating, world-class brand.

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• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

The 3 Keys to Empowerment Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results, by Ken Blanchard, John P Carlos, and Alan Randolph. In this book, the authors give you a roadmap for creating a culture of empowerment. This roadmap includes integration the three keys for empowerment, the three stages to empowerment, and situational leadership II.

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• Situational Leadership II

Sources of Power

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, by Gary Klein. In this book, Klein shows you how people tackle challenges in difficult, nonroutine situations. The explanations are based on observations of humans acting under such real-life constraints as time pressure, high stakes, personal responsibility, and shifting conditions. This book also presents an overview of the research approach of naturalistic decision making.

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• How Experts Make Decisions
• Satisficing to Get Things Done

Social Psychology Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from Social Psychology: Theories, Research, and Applications, by Robert S. Feldman. In this book, the author teaches you how to use social psychology to understand the world in which you live in a fuller way. Feldman presents social psychology as a dynamic, evolving scientific discipline with substantial relevance to people’s lives. The result is a balanced integration of theory, research, and applications.

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• Cooperative Controversy Over Competitive Controversy
• Improving Job Satisfaction
• Superordinate Goals
• Personal Space

Six Thinking Hats Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. In this book, the author teaches you skills for thinking better. The book uses deliberate role playing to create a climate of clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. You can use the technique for improving decision making and exploring new ideas, whether individually or with teams of people.

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• Six Thinking Hats 

Simple Zen Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from Simple Zen: A Guide to Living Moment by Moment (Simple Series), by C. Alexander Simpkins and Annellen M. Simpkins. In this book, the authors provide a clear and accessible introduction to the practices of Zen Buddhism. The authors also provide simple exercises for Zen practice, as well as concise discussion of the themes and practices associated with Zen, including koans, enlightenment, and ethics.

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• Shouts, Hits and Awareness

Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life Book Nuggets

This is an index of my book nuggets from Little Guide To Your Well-Read Life: How To Get More Books In Your Life And More Life From Your Books, by Steve Leveen. In this book, the author shares lessons learned about choosing books, how and when to read, and how to remember more from what you read. Leveen draws from his own experience, as well as from reading books about reading, and by interviewing a variety of readers including, librarians, editors, writers and businesspeople.

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• Proven Techniques for Remembering
• Reading is an Investment
• The Truth About Speed Reading
• Why You Should Write in Books

It's Not The Big That Eat the Small

This post is an index of my book nuggets from It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business, by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton. In this book, the authors show you how to make speed a competitive tool in your business. They show you how to stop dreading high velocity and rediscover the thrill of deciding, acting, and staying fast.

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• Launch a Crusade

Get Them On Your Side Book Nuggets

This post is an index of my book nuggets from Get Them on Your Side, by Samuel B. Bacharach. In this book, the author shows you how to assess allies and resistors, understand the agendas of others, negotiate support, and build coalitions. Bacharach uses an approach of Map the Political Terrain – Get Them On Your Side – Make Things Happen, to produce effective results.

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• Counter-Coalitions
• Political Competence
• The Politically Competent Leader, The Political Analyst, and the Consensus Builder
• Putting Good Ideas in Place