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A great primer on business and ethics...
Ethics is one of the topics that can be very stimulating or very dry.Fortunately, John R. Boatright is able to present a very engaging discussion filled with critical thinking, and practical examples.The examples mentioned are relevant and timely to any contemporary discussion of ethical issues in business.As a student of business, I commend any person interested in the topic to delve inside this great piece.

Very satisfied!
Shipment was timely and well packaged.Thank you! Will buy again

Excellent teaching text
Have used this text (2nd and now 3rd editions)to teach business ethics classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels for several years.It is well written and popular with students.Case studies represent the spectrum of ethics issues found in business today.The foundational ethics theory is clearly articulated, appropriate and sufficient. ... Read more

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Buy Something Else
This book is a waste. I read about 95% of this book. A fair price for a new copy of this book would be $12.95, not $112.95. The book is boring and does not provide much useful information. Fortunately, for other students who have not yet taken the course that required it, the MBA program at my school is changing to a different textbook for the summer session. I would recommend looking for a different book to learn about either written or spoken business communication.
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Keep the Spirit Fishy!
Keep your experience of the Fish Philosophy fresh! This is a great companion to the original book. When you talk to folks about Playing and some of the other important parts of bringing a workplace alive, they often counter with, "What about the kind of job where you can't play. Like a hospital?" This little volume recounts tales of just such venues. Some stories are bite sized morsels, some are more substantial. They all provide nourishment!

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Insightful!
Things are going swimmingly in Fish! land. In the latest volume, Fish! Tales, authors Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, Harry Paul and Philip Strand build on the successful training program that evolved from their first Fish book. Tales shows how four companies - a long-distance call center; a hospital neural-renal unit, a car dealership and a roofing company - have applied Fish! theories effectively. They also provide short examples from other companies to show how well the Fish! function. The four main principles are familiar by now - keep the work fun, seek to serve others, stay focused on your customers and have an enthusiastic attitude - but the examples in the book bring them alive. Along the way, the authors heavily sell their Fish! courses and merchandise - that's just good salesmanship - but the real catch of the day is the final how-to section, showing ways to apply these principles in any organization. The lively writing style helps keep you hooked. We suggest that if you haven't yet caught any Fish!, start with this one. Its cheery, accessible methods should lure you in, hook, line and sinker. ... Read more

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Tools for creating a Learning Culture
Peter M Serge, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
enlightening concepts about leadership
It seems to me that The Fifth Discipline (the previous publication of the series) is more attacting to me. The second book can be more precise and concise in content. Generally speaking I still like these two books as a foreign reader.

The Fifth Discipline
This book is a collection of theoretical summaries, reports, analyses, and strategies all quite useful to anyone interested in generating some thinking and action around change. The team of five writers (Peter Senge, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, Charlotte Roberts, and Art Kleiner) provide some original work, but also serve as editors to a vast quantity of material drawn from practitioners, theorists, and writers in the field of organizational improvement. According to Senge, "great teams are learning organizations - groups of people who, over time, enhance their capacity to create what they truly desire to create." (p.18) This book is really about creating and building great teams. The learning organization develops its ability to reflect on, discuss, question, and change its current and past practices. To do this, people and groups in the organization need to meaningfully pursue the study and practice of the five disciplines - personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. Read more

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Disappointing generalities
A colleague thought I would enjoy this book, and I understand why.Cultural relativism is usually intersting.It is not uncommon for pop business books to feel like overextended magazine articles...that's not all bad.But I must say, this book seems to me to be an overextended chart of cultural differences...and the author didn't even provide a chart; instead he provides meandering prose.I realize I'm in the minority in terms of reviews, but this book is at best mediocre.It is superficial and not informative.But please note: I have only read 100 pages of this 200 page tome.I didn't want to waste anymore time so I recycled the book.

Marketing Genius!
Read this book and unlock the secret door to the rest of your life! Clotaire Rapaille will give you insights into your own desires and help you understand the world in which you live with uncommon clarity.

Good marketing is knowing what you audience really desires
Clotaire Rapaille writes an original work in that you should discover what your audience really desires.Marketing your product with the natural desires of the population is they key in marketing that will return high yields.Rapaille suggests that we must dig and discover what the primal desire is for any particular product for a marketing campaign to be a success.
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The world you live in is all in your mind, according to Wharton Business School Professors Yoram Wind and Colin Crook. Read more

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A toolkit for shifting your paradigm
This book is a great combination of theoritical thinking as well as practical business problems.It examines the discussion on paradigms - which the authors prefer to call 'mental models' and how they constrain your perception of reality.So far, so good.Then they start outlining a practical methodology for changing your mental model, which should enable you to 'think impossible thoughts' meaning in this context, thinking thoughts that were impossible in your previous paradigm.I like the depth of research behind the concept and the academic structure given to the book on a subject that has been much discussed, but manages to give it a new perspective and some practical tools to take away with you.
The power of viewing and molding your reality...
It's often the case that our vision of reality is a product of our own mental biases.If you can change the way you look at something, the reality of it can undergo a dramatic shift.This whole subject is explored very well in the book The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business by Jerry Wind, Colin Crook, and Robert Gunther.Very powerful stuff...
We Should Invest In Our Mind's R & D
"The Power of Impossible Thinking" is labelled as a "business book" and it's very hopeful for those in business, both big and small.But it has tremendous value to everyone, in every aspect of our lives.Our "mental models" determine where we'll go and what we'll do and accomplish, throughout our lives.And, our mental models can limit us in our lives as well.One of the focuses is on the thought process, as it should be.Our thought process is often what hinders us.This book reminded me many times of the perils of stagnation.Mental and attitudinal stagnation.This leads to the oft-times subtle downward spiral of complacency, and just plain getting too comfortable.
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Jack Groppel is a speaker-consultant on business issues and a partner in a company that helps sports stars such as Ernie Els and Monica Seles enhance their competitive edge by fine-tuning their training regimens and overall lifestyles. In Read more

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OUTSTANDING!
This great book should be on the desk of every stressed out business executive.It brilliantly describes what it takes to be in a peak state of mind when you need to be.There is no question that business people as wellas everyone should train their bodies to get their minds in top shape.Thisbook illustrates that with great information about diet,exercise,and properattitude.A wise investment.

Lacking new Insight to an age-old problem
I waited in anticipation for this book to arrive. Much hype had been made about this new research and the 21 day plan.Business men and women stuggle to balance work and home-life, and the foundation of this book isright on. If we loose weight, drink more water and exercise we will havemore energy for both. The problem with this book is that it says verylittle more.I found myself brousing through the book looking for newideas to give me some boost. The book does have some excellent chapters onhow to deal with stress in the work place. In fact, this book is worthbuying just for these two chapters.However, for those of us who read selfhelp books on a daily basis, you might be looking for more.

At the Top of Your Game
Finally - a book that delivers on its promise to help you get to the top of your game, to help you achieve maximal performance levels in life - and does so using a common sense approach that integrates experience, study andscience with focus and commitment.The key is training like an athletewhether its following an exercise or nutrition program or developing apositive attitude. What a refreshingly realistic concept in this "apill a day takes the fat away" world!Through Dr. Groppel'sconvincing clarity, it all makes perfect sense.And you don't have to bein the business arena to benefit from the principles of THE CORPORATEATHLETE.Maximizing performance can be a goal that crosses age, gender andoccupational or vocational boundaries.But what makes this book stand outfor me is Dr. Groppel's holistic approach - completing the palate offitness by incorporating the physical, mental and emotional with thespiritual.It takes courage to take spirituality out of its politicallycorrect closet and plop it onto the Board Room table, to make it a keycomponent of performance enhancement.Could it be that the growth ofcourage, confidence, conviction and character is a natural end product ofone's development into the ultimate corporate athlete? I am convinced,after reading the book, that this is the case. ... Read more

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Information Dashboard Design
This book primarily deals with what the title says. Dashboards. I was not aware ofthe complexity and breadth of this type of interface, but since it is not a forte I usually provide to clients, the book was an interesting read.
Disappointing
I had high hopes when picking up this book.In the end I found little of use.Perhaps I was looking for more than an approach that was business oriented.Information displays for systems monitoring are a topic almost completely missed in the book.
Important Resource For Dashboard Designers/Developers
What is a dashboard?
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Overview, technique and implementation
An outstandingly well written book that decribes the balanced scorecard and provides excellent examples. An effective, practical guide for C-level executives and mid-level managers for implementing strategic scorcarding. I recommned this book for the breadth and depth of the explanation of the subject matter and concise implmentation examples.

If you can measure it, you can manage it
The Balanced Scorecard was initially designed as a financial and non-financial corporate performance measurement tool.Organizations focused on strategy have taken the Balanced Scorecard and transformed it into a strategic tool for measurement.These 5 key principles transform the Balanced Scorecard:
Highly Recommended!
The fact that executives keep trying new strategic initiatives despite their abysmal rate of failure is, like second marriages, a triumph of hope over experience. Or, it may indicate just how much pressure top managers face to improve their profits. By one estimate, nine out of ten companies fail to execute their strategic visions. Yet, CEOs - who witness a world in constant flux - continue to introduce change initiatives. Are they trapped in the operational definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Or, are they just ready for this book? Authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton offer wise counsel to help executives break the cycle of strategic flops. They advise executives to transform their companies into "Strategy-Focused Organizations" using the "Balanced Scorecard" and "strategic mapping" tools. With these initiatives, CEOs can ensure that every employee pays attention to strategy implementation. Kaplan and Norton, the all-star co-author team who wrote "The Balanced Scorecard" and "Strategy Maps", have done it again, in this well-organized but somewhat dry volume. We strongly recommend this book to any manager who is responsible for designing or implementing a strategic change initiative. ... Read more

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Best place for on line purchases
As always, very happy with the service received by Amazon. Pront delivery and in perfect condition.

Overall a very good book
This is a very well written book. I used this book as part of my MBA program. No frills or fluff - just goes right to the point and explains it well in relatively fewer words. Also helped me tremendously in my job and the knowledge gained from this book does helps me in doing a better job. A must read for all managers.

Easy to understand
This book gets right to the point. Even though it is direct it also offers excellent examples to help you understand the information quickly. ... Read more

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Organizational Behavior, 11th Edition by Stephen P. Robbins
This is the text that we are currently using in my Organizational Behavior class. While the text is well laid out, easy to read and well-written, Robbins' tendency to blame the baby-boomer generation for all of society's modern-day problems and ethical issues is a bit much to swallow. I do not enjoy reading mere opinions that potentially carry the weight of fact by students when presented in a text-format by a "OB professional" and not presented as merely the opinion of the author. For example, Robbins states in chapter 3, page 74:
Apologyfrom the seller
The book I had received from Escobook was not hardcover as it was promised. It was also an Indian edition. (No color, thin paper, no different than photocopy) I paid almost $80 for $20 book. As soon as the the seller was informed about my dissatisfaction of the product, she sent my money back.
BEWARE!
If you are expecting a real version, buyer beware.The version I received through Amazon was not a real US copy, but rather the "Eastern Economy Edition".It was a "photo-offeset reproduction" which is legally for sale only in Bangledesh, Burma, etc.You can purchase these on E-bay for a fraction of what I was charged.It is a black and white version only, so pictures and graphs intended for color are much harder to read.Since it is basically a photocopy of the original, even the text is harder to read than it should be.
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Book for Class
I bought this book for school. So far it is alright. If one is looking into a leadership role it is a good read

Very useful and educational book
We are using this in my Intro to Leadership course at college and I have found the book to be very interesting. The author writes very clearly and explains everything quite well. I know its weird to write about, but I really enjoy this authors writing style. I rarely get an academic book where the writing is simple and very straight forward. In a crunch, I can read the first setence or two from each of his paragraphs and understand the concepts of the chapter quite well.
great leadership resource
Found this book a great resource for any nursing leadership class or just to have as a nurse leader. Good information on all styles of leading. ... Read more

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Media Planning: A Pratical Guide
This book is filled with useful information about Media Planning.Every student of the Advertising Industry should have this book to use as a guide when starting out in the Advertising career path.

Ouch!
Jim Surmanek may know a great deal about media planning. However, most of the people who attempt to read this book will never discover that. Why? Jim does not know how to communicate effectively. I have not made it too far into this book, and every inch has been a struggle. What I have learned thus far could have been expressed in one, maybe two, paragraphs. Not Worth It
Contrary to what the previous reviewers have to say about this book, I was extremely unsatisfied. The author makes what is so simple into something that is confusing and frustrating. Earlier chapters talk about topics that aren't even explained until later in the book. It takes a paragraph of confusing examples to explain what could be easily said in a sentence. Equations are given without proper explanation of how things were achieved. This book shows the 5th step with the assumption that the reader figures out steps 1-4. To someone new to the media planning field, I would recommend you pass this one by. ... Read more

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Think and Become Great
Many life coaches and business gurus use most of what Napoleon Hill learned over 50 years ago.Anthony Robbins has built most of his core philosophy on Mr. Hill's teachings.

Some Useful Information---Worth Reading!
Napoleon Hill devoted 20 years of his life to researching and writing this book. It's about how to "make money" but the ideas seem to me to pertain also to "how to feel successful" even if you don't make millions of dollars.Much of the book is "I already knew that" information.But, it never hurts to be reminded of things you may know but are not putting into practice.And, there are some other ideas that are quite "original" such as the chapter on "The Transmutation of Sexuality".I recommend this book highly.Email: Boland7214@aol.

Wow!!!
I am a huge fan of "Think and Grow Rich" and have read the book countless times.This is a book to study not just read.I love this version!"Think and Grow Rich" is the undisputed greatest book on achievement ever written.Great job with this restored version.This is a must have for all Napolean Hill fans.David Otis, Author of "Walk Fast, Talk Loud and Smile". ... Read more

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A look at leadership from the inside out
If you do a search of available Amazon books on professional and technical leadership you'll find about 60,000 entries. Many of these books will focus on the qualities possessed by great leaders or the characteristics one needs to be successful.
Very pragmatic, useful book - every manager should read it!
Alpha Male Syndrome is a very well written and very useful book. It breaks down the various types of alpha behavior in ways that make the information actionable - how to deal with an alpha boss or colleague, how to be a more effective alpha executive - and how to apply those lessons to improve your home life.
Best book every written about alpha males!
“The Alpha Male Syndrome” is an amazing book! Well-written, insightful, and real contribution to the field! Eddie and Kate have done an incredible job! As an executive and CEO Coach with publishing experience I know first hand just how difficult it is put on paper the important insights about Alpha Males and their issues in today’s corporate environment.The book certainly has the look and feel of a best seller.
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Great condish but no quick ship
See above.Took longer to arrive than I would have liked.Maybe 2 weeks.

Great book : Easy to follow and practical
I have the 2000 edition, I like it very much. Practical, easy to follow, great use of Theory of Games exemples.
Its in my top 2 textbooks for Economics Undergraduate
I've only used 9 textbooks in my undergraduate carrer in Economics, however, this book would probably fit either as the best or 2nd best... I can't really determine which deserves the "coveted" "best" slot.