HRMagazine, July 1, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 7, Pg.S24

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July 1, 2006

SECTION: Pg. S24(6) Vol. 51 No. 7 ISSN: 1047-3149


HEADLINE: Organizational development;
Legislation

BODY:
10 Rules for Strategic Innovators
From Idea to Execution
Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. Although they lack a provenformula for making a profit, high-growth industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enough and smart enough.This book makes recommendations regarding staffing, leadership roles, reporting relationships, process design, planning, performance assessment, incentives, cultural norms, and much more. Chris Trimble and Vijay Govindarajan (288 pp., hardcover, 2005)
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Be Heard the First Time
The Woman's Guide to Powerful Speaking
Have your nerves ever gotten the best of you while giving a presentation? Do executives and co-workers at your office glance over you and dismiss your thoughts and ideas? Such experiences are common to many people, especially women. Dr. Susan Miller presents tips to empower women with effective compelling communication skills so they can articulate and achieve their goals and communicate their needs. Susan D. Miller, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (199 pp., paperback, 2006)
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Bench Strength
Developing the Depth and Versatility of Your Organization's Leadership Talent
Talent is the key to sustained competitive advantage in any industry, not size, image, or technology. Bench Strength offers a step-by-step approach to building a powerful talent strategy that will ensure the perpetual availability of potential leaders. The book also reveals the seven principles of talent deployment, which will help align your strongest players with your most critical and challenging needs. Robert Barner, Ph.D. (256 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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Built to Change
How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness
Authors Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley (322 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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CCL Handbook of Coaching
A Guide for the Leader Coach
Based on a philosophy of leadership development from the Center for Creative Leadership, the book uses a coaching framework to give guidance to leaders who coach to boost employee performance and build sustainability, not because coaching is their profession. Sharon Ting and Peter Scisco (496 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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Decent People, Decent Company
How to Lead With Character at Work and in Life
With their original and dynamic Leadership Character Model, the Turknetts have captured the essence of what it takes to revitalize attitudes and behavior, unleash leadership integrity, and reinvigorate organizations. The chapters focus individually on the eight essential traits of leadership. Robert L. and Carolyn N. Turknett (224 pp., hardcover, 2005)
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Effective Succession Planning
Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent From Within 3rdEdition
The book presents strategies for identifying competencies, clarifying values, assessing current and future needs, and creating a complete, systematic succession planning program. The third edition includes new material reflecting Rothwell's surveys on whole system transformation, software support packages, tapping retirees to manage succession crises, the growing activism of boards and more. William J. Rothwell (400 pp., hardcover with CD-ROM, 2005)
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Emotional Intelligence in Action
Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers
Emotional Intelligence in Action shows how to tap the power of El through forty-six exercises that can be used to build effective emotional skills and create real change. The workouts are designed to align with the four leading emotional intelligence measures--EQ-I[R] or EQ-360[TM], ECI 360, MSCEIT[TM], and EQ Map[R]--or can be used independently or as part of a wider leadership and management development program. Marcia M. Hughes, L. Bonita Patterson, and James Bradford Terrell (416 pp., paperback with CD, 2005)
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Get Them on Your Side
Win Support. Convert Skeptics. Get Results
Named a Fast Company Book of the Year in January 2006. Learn how to navigate the politics of your workplace or organization, build yourpolitical competence, and develop your leadership skills to garner support for your ideas and ensure your success at work. Samuel Bacharach is the director of Cornell University's Institute for Workplace Studies. Samuel Bacharach (256 pp., hardcover, 2005)
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Essentials of Managing Change and Transition
HR[R]
The high failure rate of corporate change initiatives underscores the difficulty of this challenge. But for companies--and leaders--whomanage change successfully, the rewards are substantial. Human resource professionals are uniquely positioned to champion change in theirorganizations. This book offers strategies and tools that will enable HR professionals to work side by side with other senior executives to effect successful changes. Wendy Bliss, J.D., SPHR (224 pp., paperback, 2005)
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Hire Me, Inc.
Turn Yourself into the Product That Is Every Employer's Dream
Find a new job by thinking of yourself as owning your own company--positioning yourself as the sole product. The book puts you in charge of marketing yourself through all phases of the job search. The cover letter presents the "product" and demonstrates its competitive advantage. Business cards and resumes brand the applicant. The interviewis the sales pitch. It's a whole new concept of how you can present yourself--as a special commodity the hiring organization must have. Roy J. Blitzer (272 pp., paperback, 2006) Available in August.
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How To Say It At Work
Putting Yourself Across with Power Words and Phrases, Body Language, and Communication Secrets
Learn how to avoid the common verbal and nonverbal pitfalls that can derail an otherwise promising career. This book gives practical advice you can begin using right away such as 50 common words to avoid using, secret techniques to command authority if your physical stature doesn't do it, and savvy scripts for dealing with a nightmare boss:the tyrant, the guilt monger, the blamer, the dreamer, and the volcano. Self-assessment quizzes and checklists are found throughout the book. Jack Griffin and Tom Power (408 pp., paperback, 1998)
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How to Say It for Women
Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success
A practical guide of tips, techniques, and examples arming women with communication expertise, this book shows women how to transform themselves by transforming their language; shed weak words, phrases, and gestures; empower themselves to win attention and respect; and gettheir ideas across with confidence and power. Phyllis Mindell (256 pp., paperback, 2001)
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How to Say It for Executives
The Complete Guide to Communication for Leaders
The complete guide to every aspect of leadership communications, How to Say It for Executives offers everything current and future leaders need to know how to get their ideas across powerfully, efficiently, and humanely. Full of practical tips, words, outlines, and models,this guide shows how to prepare and deliver effective speeches and talk to large and small audiences, reinforce a message with effective use of nonverbal language, avoid words and phrases that undermine authority, handle difficult or hostile people with grace, and more. Phyllis Mindell (208 pp., paperback, 2005)
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The Invisible Employee
Realizing the Hidden Potential in Everyone
A business fable full of practical advice, The Invisible Employee teaches management how to engage their staff by setting a clear guiding vision, recognizing the strengths in their employees, and providing a sense of visibility and connection to corporate values and goals.This book shows managers how to get involved and lead their people from obscurity to achievement--and reap the rewards across their entire organization. Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton (176 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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Leading Through Conflict
How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities
Through absorbing examples drawn from decades of work with organizational, political, and global conflicts of all kinds, Leading Through Conflict provides a powerful new framework for the leader as mediator and outlines eight specific tools these leaders use to transform seemingly intractable differences into progress on deep-seated problems. Both practical and passionate, this book makes the tools of cross-border leaders accessible to anyone who wants to help create healthier companies, communities, and countries. Mark Gerzon (288 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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New Employee Orientation Training
This book offers a flexible format and dozens of worksheets, exercises and assessments that allow you to develop customized new employee training lasting from one hour to a full day. A CD-ROM is provided with ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations and electronic copies of all supporting material featured in the book. Karen Lawson (205 pp., paperback with CD-ROM, 2002)
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New Supervisor Training
Help all supervisors make the transition from individual contributor to leader with ready-made training tools in this hands-on guide. Acompanion CD-ROM provides key exercises, handouts, assessments, structured experiences and ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations developed from the book. John E. Jones and Chris W. Chen (190 pp., paperback with CD-ROM, 2002)
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Organization Development
Principles, Processes, Performances
Bridging the gap between heavy theory and heavy practice, Organization Development provides an emphasis on performance and results in addition to an overview of tools, techniques, and processes. Covering basic steps such as marketing, start-up, planning, and evaluation, the book includes a comprehensive discussion of implementation from theindividual level to the global level. The book gives consultants, managers, and students of the field a holistic perspective into the full range of values that organization development has to offer. Gary N.McLean (436 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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Measuring What Matters
Simplified Tools for Aligning Teams and Their Stakeholders
Demystifying such popular systems as balanced scorecards and Six Sigma, Measuring What Matters finally brings the power of measurement down from the loftiness of strategy to where the real work gets done:inside work teams. This guide details step by step how to identify ateam's key stakeholders--customers, employees, and owners--determinewhat each core group values and expects, and assess how well the team and stakeholders meet each other's expectations. The book provides instruments to gather measurable information, case studies to understand the data, specific dialogue, reproducible exercises, and originaldiagnostic tools. Rod Napier and Rich McDaniel (400 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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The Next Level
What Insiders Know About Executive Success
After the thrill of promotion to the executive level comes the sobering reality of just how difficult it is to succeed at this level--and how hard it can be to find help. In The Next Level, Scott Eblin draws on 20 years of experience as a leader and executive coach to identify why new executives fail--and offers a practical program for achieving success. The book identifies nine sets of opposing behaviors that can make or break new executives and describes how to handle them.The Next Level is essential for corporate leaders who have just beenpromoted to or are on track for the executive level, as well as for leadership development specialists and coaches. Scott Eblin (184 pp.,hardcover, 2006)
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The Opt-Out Revolt
Why People Are Leaving Companies to Create Kaleidoscope Careers
With research data from the authors' 5-year study of more than 3,000 professional women and men, and co-published with WorldatWork[R]/Alliance for Work-Life Progress, this one-of-a-kind look at today's workplace profiles hundreds of modern-day trailblazers who have createdkaleidoscope careers (defined by personal needs, life values, and a new 21st Century definition of success inside and out of traditional corporate boundaries). Featuring dozens of examples from leading companies that have already achieved remarkable success in turning aroundthis threatening "brain drain" trend, Mainierio and Sullivan offer ablueprint for designing a workplace that encourages loyalty, retainstalent, and, ultimately, improves the health and competitiveness of the organization. Lisa A. Mainiero, Ph.D. and Sherry E. Sullivan, Ph.D. (400 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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The Seven Minute Difference
Small Steps to Big Changes
In The Seven Minute Difference, Lewis motivates business professionals to grow through micro-actions that can be completed in as littleas seven minutes. This book coaches readers to realize their full potential by focusing on four fundamental truths: Change begins to happen the moment you decide to change; you must want to change; you mustexpect change; you should enjoy the process of change. Drawing upon years of experience as a motivational speaker and financial advisor, Lewis shows how she has successfully used these principles to help thousands of corporate executives, financial advisors, insurance executives, entrepreneurs, accountants, and attorneys change their lives. Allyson Lewis (238 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors
This management expert's fable offers solutions to a key, real-life workplace issue--the influence of turf wars and political infighting on organizational effectiveness. "Silos," vertical structures within organizations, are barriers to workplace effectiveness, devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. The book's lessons offer business professionals practical advice on managing interoffice conflict and competitiveness. Patrick Lencioni (224 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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The Simple Truths of Service
Inspired by Johnny the Bagger
Best-selling authors Ken Blanchard and Barbara Glanz have written a book, well on its way to becoming a customer-service classic, that your company can use to reshape their culture around serving the customer. This is an unforgettable true story about a young man with DownSyndrome who changes the culture of a grocery store by being creative and giving the customers more than they expect. Ken Blanchard and Barbara Glanz (64 pp., hardcover, 2005)
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Sink or Swim
New Job. New Boss. 12 Weeks to Get It Right.
Like most new employees today, you'll probably get thrown into your new position with little or no orientation. You'll have to "sink orswim" in the first 90 days--or face termination. Sink or Swim shows you how to be a top performer from day one. With week-by-week charts,and straightforward information, Sink or Swim enables you to decode the company's culture, discern what your priorities should be, and survive and thrive in your first twelve weeks, no matter what industry you're in. Milo Sindell and Thuy Sindell, Ph.D. (320 pp., paperback, 2006)
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Stories Trainers Tell
55 Ready-to-Use Stories to Make Training Stick
Telling stories is a powerful way to make a point, especially whenthe stories are compelling, well constructed and poignant. This bookcaptures thought-provoking stories contributed by trainers, nationally known speakers, consultants, business leaders, educators and professional storytellers that help make challenging ideas and abstract concepts stick. Mary B. Wacker and Lori L. Silverman (432 pp., paperback, 2003)
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The Subtle Art of Strategy
Organizational Planning in Uncertain Times
Organizational planning is subtle and demanding. To successfully deal with the complex, interacting forces inside and outside the organization, strategy must create a culture that fosters a "strategic mindset" throughout the organization and develop a strategic vision. This book shows you how strategy must deal with the totality of the organization in the context of its total environment. Ian Wilson (192 pp., paperback, 2003)
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Successful Manager's Handbook
Develop Yourself, Coach Others
Managing will never be easy, but it doesn't need to be difficult either. This new edition of Successful Manager's Handbook can help--it's like having a management consultant at your side to provide adviceon the challenges you'll face in today's fast-paced work environment. Susan Gebelein, et al., eds. (800 pp., paperback, 2001)
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The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search
The Proven Program Used by the World's Leading Careers Services Company
This insider's guide covers every phase of the job search, leadingyou step by step through the process of creating a clear-cut plan essential to every job search. Job seekers get a structured, step-by-step plan that brings together an array of best practices, commonsense techniques for measuring progress, and surefire ways for staying focused and avoiding burnout. Using the Pierson Method, you'll learn how to develop a target list, create a "core message" about yourself thatdecision makers won't forget, and present yourself in the best possible light to prospective employers. Orville Pierson (288 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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Work It Out
Using Personality Type to Improve Team Performance
Now with fresh insights on applying key concepts from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator[R] tool (MBTI[R]) in executive coaching, and morehands-on exercises and examples, this newly revised edition of Work It Out expands its focus on the powerful solutions-type theory that addresses some of today's most pressing issues: fostering sustainable change, building strong management teams, preparing for rapid business growth, or battling office politics. Sandra Krebs Hirsh and Jane A.G. Kise, Ed.D. (240 pp., paperback, 2006)
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Workforce Crisis
How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent
As the massive boomer generation begins to retire and fewer skilled workers are available to replace them, companies in industrialized markets will face a labor shortage and brain drain of dramatic proportions. Based on decades of groundbreaking research and study, this book presents innovative and actionable management techniques for leveraging the knowledge of mature workers, re-engaging disillusioned mid-career workers, and attracting and retaining talented younger workers. This timely book helps organizations sustain their competitive edgein tomorrow's inevitably tighter labor markets. Ken Dychtwald, Robert Morison, and Tamara Erickson (288 pp., hardcover, 2006)
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The Chief Learning Officer's Critical Role
Driving Value Within a Changing Organization
As budgets get tighter and resources more limited, learning is essential to the successful achievement of business goals, and the ChiefLearning Officer (CLO), as the executive in charge of employee training and education, can add significant value to an organization, but the challenge is showing this value in terms that business leaders and financial analysts can appreciate. This book shows the value that can be achieved in organizations where great management and leadershipare provided. Jack J. Phillips and Tamar Elkeles (304 pp., paperback, 2006)
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A Whole New Mind
Moving From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
In the tradition of Emotional Intelligence and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes aseries of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world tohelp readers sharpen the necessary abilities. Daniel Pink (272 pp., hardcover, 2005)
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Understanding Change
Theory, Implementation and Success
Based on extensive research, this book provides an overview of change and organizational theory, leading in particular to the author's definition of the "input" elements of the high-performance organization. It also contains a section looking at the management of change, with case studies illustrating approaches to managing change which areconducive to achieving sustainable high performance. Linda Holbeche (432 pp., paperback 2005)
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Workforce Wake-Up Call
Your Workforce is Changing, Are You?
Workforce Wake-Up Call is an all-in-one guide for business leadersseeking to move into the future of talent management. It provides leaders with a holistic picture of the changing workforce and its implications for talent management, while providing effective action to minimize chaos and maximize the opportunities brought about through these changes. Organized into five basic sections, the book features a wealth of expert opinion that current managers won't find anywhere else. Robert Gandossy, Nidhi Verma, Elissa Tucker, Editors (368 pp., hardcover, 2005)
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