In his book "Peak - How great companies get their mojo from Maslow," author and successful hotelier Chip Conley explains how to apply psychologist Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" theory of human motivation to your company to attain top performance.
The book "Fire Them Up" reveals the seven simple secrets of motivation as practiced by the world's most inspiring business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators. Author and communications coach Carmine Gallo shows how improving your communication skills will empower your professional – and personal-- life.
The book "The 4-Hour Workweek" says you can work a lot less and enjoy life more. Author Timothy Ferriss explains how to escape the 9-to-5 grind and work just four hours a week.
In "Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur," Stuart Skorman recounts the ups and downs of his high-stakes career. Skorman launched the online video store Reel.com in 1997 and sold it three years later for $100 million — but his online learning site Hungryminds.com bombed. More recently he made a come back...
Author Michael Moe, who successfully predicted the rise of Starbucks, Google, and other superstars, gives a glance into his book, “Finding The Next Starbucks” and explains how to use the Four P’s (people, product, potential, and predictability) to spot the next big stock market winners.
There are 5.4 million middle managers in the Unites States. Are all of them in dead-end jobs? Author Vince Thompson says no. In his book "Ignited," he argues that middle managers are in fact uniquely positioned to energize their companies. Thompson joins BNET to share an exercise in how to...
World News IN BRIEF *LOS ANGELES Wildfires have forced thousands of people to flee their homes in California's hills. More than 2,000 firefighters spent the weekend battling 300 fires that have now destroyed more than half a million acres of countryside and at least 69 homes. A...
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq said on Thursday it has created a special task force to investigate the theft of valuable ancient Judaic manuscripts that later turned up in Israel. The rare books, confiscated during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, were rescued from US bombing at the start of...
Personal experiences with food seem to generate a lot of books and blogs lately. One food-lover making a name for himself is Adam Roberts, whose book "The Amateur Gourmet" is a spin-off of his Web site amateurgourmet.com. It's how to shop, chop and table hop -- the...
Business News IN BRIEF *Stobart Group, the owner of the haulier Eddie Stobart, has saved about 1,300 jobs at the chilled goods distributor Innovate Logistics after the company was bought out of administration. Innovate, which was owned by the Icelandic shipping company Eimskip, went into administration on...
"I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience." Thus spake...
The Return of History and the End of Dreams, by Robert Kagan (Knopf, 128 pp., $19.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ROBERT KAGAN has produced a brief and lucid book on world politics in the 21st century, a well-written manifesto clearly aimed at influencing U.S. foreign policy. It features...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/106c99/empowering_dialogu) has announced the addition of the "Empowering Dialogues Within: A Workbook for Helping Professionals and Their Clients" report to their offering. "This important book reaches out to mental health clinicians representing many schools of psychotherapy with detailed case examples. It is...
Kennedy Health sponsors book program in Voorhees The Kennedy Health System, through its ElderMed program, is offering a book discussion program at 1 p.m. July 8, at the Camden County Library, 203 Laurel Rd., in Voorhees. The ElderMed Book Club is under the direction of the library's staff. To register,...
WANTED -- ** 1/2 -- James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman; rated R (violence, gore, profanity, drugs, sex, vulgarity, brief nudity, slurs) "Wanted" asks an awful lot from moviegoers. Among other things, the movie asks audiences to completely suspend their disbelief, primarily by ignoring...
Home News IN BRIEF *An inscribed presentation copy of a first edition of Emma by Jane Austen, right, fetched a record 180,000 yesterday. The rare three-volume set was expected to sell for between 50,000 and 70,000. The sale, at Bonhams in London, set a world...
Home News IN BRIEF *Children's books and romantic novels have topped a survey of Britain's secret reads. The Harry Potter books topped the poll of 2,000 adults, conducted for Lulu.com by YouGov, followed by Jilly Cooper novels and the Lord of the Rings series...
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk), 5 Upper Saint Martin's Lane, London, WC2H 9EA, 2003, 192 pages, $19.95 hardcover; 2004, 208 pages, $12.95 softcover. Author Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies,...
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine -- Even the staunchest opponents of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq are loathe to take issue with World War II, the quintessential conflict between good and evil that became the model of a morally just war. So it's no surprise that novelist Nicholson...
I walked into my first education job midyear as an English teacher of 9th graders who had driven my predecessor and two substitutes onto other career paths. The students were ready for me, but I was not prepared for them. By the end of the year, I had...
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