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Recommended Books
Every book has been reviewed by one or more members of the Taku Group team
and is a treasured part of our own library. We highly recommend you read every
one of these books. Start building your own personal library for success with
these books by these highly successful businesspeople, salespeople, and executive coaches.
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A Manager’s Guide to Improving Workplace Performance by Roger Chevalier.
While many supervisors know how to identify flaws in their employees’ performance,
only the best managers truly know what it takes to fix the problem. A Manager’s Guide to
Improving Workplace Performance offers a practical, step-by-step approach to guiding employees
to excellence by analyzing their problem areas, developing creative solutions,
and implementing change. Employee performance expert Roger Chevalier has helped thousands
of managers and human resources professionals to bring out the best in their workers.
Using case studies and real-life examples, he shows supervisors how to take their employees
from good to great. Full disclosure: We love this practical, hands-on book!
Roger is also a member of our team, and we’re proud of his accomplishment as an
advisor, trainer, and author.
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Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development by Toby Freedman.
Toby Freedman, PhD, has conducted interviews with hundreds of key players in the industry,
who provide first-hand explanations of their day-to-day roles and responsibilities and offer
key insights into how they landed their jobs in the first place. Careers in everything from
discovery research to venture capital investment are covered in detail.
This books is a great reference not only for those seeking to enhance their career success
within the biotech industry but also those building the best possible team for their own
biotech companies. This book will help you understand what the drivers are in key positions
within a biotechnology company's extended team of stakeholders.
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman.
Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even
strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies – down to the level of our genes – for
good or ill. In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling
implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability,
constantly engaged in a “neural ballet” that connect us brain to brain with those around us. Our reactions
to others, and theirs to us, have far-reaching biological impact. …Is there a way to raise our children to
be happy? What is the basis of a nourishing marriage? How can business leaders and teachers inspire the
best in those they lead and teach? How can groups divided by prejudice and hatred come to live together
in peace? The answers to these questions may not be as elusive as we once thought.
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The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships by Johnathan M. Tisch.
The Power of We offers a clear and compelling lesson in how today's business leaders can create new
synergies and gain competitive advantage by learning how to partner successfully. Tisch's experience,
optimism, intelligence, and common sense are reflected in this fresh look at the rewards of partnerships.
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Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty
by Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe. Managing the Unexpected is the essential book for managers
who want to anticipate and adapt to surprises. Weick and Sutcliffe present a set of challenging ideas in a
way that is clear and compelling, and then turn these critical insights into practical guidelines that have
broad application and relevance.
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Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders
by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas. Geeks and Geezers is an insightful and absorbing culling
of wisdom from remarkable leaders whose ability to create meaning out of adversity is profoundly inspiring.
Read this wonderful book for its useful lessons from those already at the top, but also to get to know the
emerging heroes who are shaping our future and changing the very definition of leadership.
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Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device. For the frequent travelers and commuters among you,
check out Amazon's new wireless reading device. Amazon Kindle is a wireless, portable reading device with instant
access to more than 145,000 books, blogs, newspapers, and magazines. Let us know how you like it!
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Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans and Sherry
Suib Cohen. We live in sensitive times. Everyone's temper is quivering right at the surface, and it takes almost nothing
to set off fury. When our buttons are pressed, many react by fighting back, but some of us just feel helpless and retreat
from the conflict because we're sure we can't win the battle. We sense we're being manipulated or bullied, but we just
can't deal with the anger.
Well, now we can. Sybil Evans, a celebrated conflict resolution expert, has written Hot Buttons, an essential handbook
with can't-fail techniques on how to get what we want without alienating people - without pressing their buttons.
Whether you're dealing with the office sadist, an unruly child, or the love of your life - conflict can be a killer.
But here's the irony: Conflict can also work for you, can be an energizing, inspiring, even sexy force if you know
how to harness it. Hot Buttons shows you how.
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Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
by Brian Tracy. A completely integrated personal planning system, Focal Point will help you achieve life-transforming results
faster than any other approach. In one place, in one reading, you'll learn how to focus on higher-value activities - the skill that
distinguishes the world's most successful and most fulfilled people. Based on the fundamental truth that "the clearer you are
about the things you really want, the more rapidly you will bring them into your life," Focal Point helps you clarify your
desires and take galvanizing action in key areas.
As you work your way through these areas, you'll learn above all how to strip away the nonessentials. Soon everything you do,
every waking minute of every day, will create positive change. You will have internalized the laser-like power of Focal Point.
The process will be yours forever. And it will carry you higher than you ever dreamed you could go.
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Don't Be So Defensive!: Taking the War Out of Our Words with Powerful Non-Defensive Communication
by Sharon Ellison. Don't Be So Defensive! takes the war out of our words by offering an alternative system that disarms our instincts
for reacting defensively and helps us become more confident and competent. Ellison's model shows readers how to use the basic
communication tools non-defensively, and then offers easy-to-follow techniques for practicing them. Examples cover a wide variety
of situations from intimate relationships to parent-child relationships to professional relationships.
This detailed system that Ellison has been teaching for years offers the freedom to communicate effectively without being dependent
on the other person's cooperation. It allows people to be well-protected while being direct and vulnerable, clear and compassionate.
Equally important, this is truly a process that can be adapted to individual personalities. Ellison also shows us how to use
communication as a potent tool for social change.
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