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Success Acceleration
Tony Jeary
Manufacturer: RiverOak Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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No shortcuts, no gimmicks, no empty promises... just practical and proven strategies for overcoming roadblocks and getting on the fast track to true success.

Bold Leadership for Organizational Acceleration

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Bold Leadership for Organizational Acceleration
Jim Tompkins
Manufacturer: Tompkins Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0965865991

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Everyone suffers from extreme overload today. The world has morphed into a global village where immediacy rules. Things must be done right away without sacrificing excellence. If we were honest every time someone asked, How are you? the reply would be, Way too busy to even think about it. Our hectic business and personal lives leave us feeling as if we are constantly trying to fit 15 pounds of apples into a 5-pound bag. The more apples we try to stuff into the bag, the more difficult the task becomes and the more frustrated we grow. But here is good news! There is a remedy, and it is called Bold Leadership. In this insightful book, organizational change and leadership expert Jim Tompkins shows you how to become the leader that you have always wanted to be. More importantly, you will understand how to encourage others to lead so that you can concentrate on the big picture. Get your life out of overload mode, professionally and personally. Author Jim Tompkins outlines his case for inspirational leadership, advises how to define the core competencies of your organization, and gives you the tools to respond to the boundless changes that seem the norm in our lives. He also provides illuminating self-appraisals and current case studies about organizations like Google, Wal-Mart and IBM. Also included is a valuable and thorough assessment tool Jim gives to his own clients. Use it to take critical actions in all parts of your organization that will make or keep your business resilient.

Failure & Progress : A Powerful Performance Acceleration Strategy!

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Failure & Progress

Failure & Progress : A Powerful Performance Acceleration Strategy!
Gary Ryan Blair
Manufacturer: Goalsguy Learning Systems Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Success | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

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Failure & Progress.......1999-12-06

People are naive about the benefits of failure. Wrongly founded assumptions about failure replace potentially accurate assessments of what is necessary to achieve success. Failure, which spends much of its life in the gulag of public perception, is, by all measures, essential to success. It is failure's peculiar fate that its reputation is routinely reinforced by negative perceptions.

Gary Ryan Blair explained to me that failure does have an ulterior motive... not to get you to quit, but to stop you long enough so that you may learn something, re-strategize, and re-launch again more prepared for success.

This single insight was one of the most important thoughts I'd come across in years. This little book packs a powerful message!

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Success Acceleration Proven Strategies
Tony Jeary
Manufacturer: UNSPECIFIED VENDOR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UD8GTO

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Success Acceleration Proven Strategies
Tony Jeary
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Success Acceleration Second Edition
Tony; Tracy, Brian Jeary
Manufacturer: Tony Jeary; 2nd edition (2005)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000V6WFZQ

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Success Acceleration Second Edition

Manufacturer: Tony Jeary
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000BTLOM8

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Success AccelerationProven Strategies to Put You on the Fast Track to New Levels of Achievement.

10 Insider Secrets(TM) Job Search Acceleration Program: Your #1 Resource for Job Hunting Success! (Complete VHS, CD-ROM, Workshop & Book Program)

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10 Insider Secrets(TM) Job Search Acceleration Program: Your #1 Resource for Job Hunting Success! (Complete VHS, CD-ROM, Workshop & Book Program)
Todd Bermont
Manufacturer: 10 Step Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0971356971

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Looking for a job is one of the most difficult endeavors you will ever do. Yet, unlike many other things we learned in school, most of us were never taught how to conduct a successful job search!

Unless you are a professional job seeker, how are you supposed to know where to start and what to do when looking for a new job?

That is why we created this NEW and INNOVATIVE job search program.

With this program, you will first watch a 30-minute video by Todd Bermont. In this video, Todd will cover many of the basic essentials you need to succeed on your job hunt. Next, you'll focus your job search by completing the three-hour, self-paced workshop "10 Insider Secrets™ Career Transition Workshop."

Once you identify the job you really want, then "10 Insider Secrets To Job Hunting Success" will show you exactly how to get your ideal job - fast and easily!

In addition, throughout your job hunt, the Internet will play a major role. This program includes the "10 Insider Secrets™ Internet Job Search Guide" to help you get the most out the Internet while searching for your ideal job.

Finally, if you follow the steps in this program, you should get flooded with job interviews. "10 Insider Secrets™ Job Interview Preparation Templates" will provide you with outlines you can use to prepare for and ace your job interviews.

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Fantastic book

Vintage Cookbooks and Advertising Leaflets
Sandra J. Norman , and Karrie K. Andes
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Baking | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0764306219

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Colorful and informative, this in-depth pictorial review and price guide includes over 850 color photographs of cookery pamphlets and advertising memorabilia from the 1860s to the 1950s. Through the use of these materials, food companies achieved brand name exposure while providing consumers with new and exciting ways to use their products. Featured in the book are chapters on brand-name foods, wartime-era cookbooks, black memorabilia, highly collectible die-cut books, children's books, and more. In addition, the authors provide helpful suggestions for getting started with your own collection, identifying dates, and caring for these entertaining and delightfully illustrated collectibles. If you've overlooked advertising cookbooks in the past, you'll certainly take a closer look now!

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Fantastic book.......1999-01-28

This is an excellent resource book for the beginner or the saavy collector. The book is organized for easy identification of books and leaflets. The photographs are clear replicas of the originals, the descriptions and history are thorough and very informative. I highly recommend this book

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Good Halloween Book!

Too Crafty

If You Have The Time...

What you expect.

Beautifully laid out book

Halloween: The Best of Martha Stewart Living
Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 060980863X
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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Halloween books abound, but none is as elegantly spooky or as eerily opulent as this gorgeous guide from Martha Stewart Living. Set the scene for the ultimate Halloween party with a magical yard full of pumpkins glowing with vibrant geometrics and sparkling with Christmas lights. Welcome guests with shadow lanterns flickering with bats and haunted windows. Strew the house with chiffon ghosts and fill the air with haunting sounds. Then host a pumpkin-carving feast, a crafty party, or a ghoulish supper, and whip up eyeball highballs, croaked messieurs, and spider-web sundaes. And don't forget the creepy makeup: follow along as willing victims transform into a skeleton, mummy, and several other creatures (Martha herself becomes an astonishing black widow). Excellent directions, full recipes, beautiful photographs, and an extremely detailed source list should inspire anyone to celebrate All Hallows' Eve with style. --Amy Handy

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Halloween is rivaled only by Christmas when it comes to the holidays that generate the most interest for Martha Stewart Living’s readers. Halloween is a compendium of the best Halloween ideas published in the magazine over the last decade.

To help celebrate this ghoulish holiday, the editors of Martha Stewart Living bring us Halloween, a compilation of all the best tricks and treats of the spooky season.

Organized in two sections, Halloween makes this holiday so much fun it’s scary. In “Tricking,” pranksters will find all manner of pumpkin carving, eerie lighting, and makeup and decorating ideas. “Treating” provides the recipes for having a Halloween feast or a hanted-house party and ideas for making mischief with kids.

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Good Halloween Book!.......2007-10-03

I ordered a lot of craft and cookbooks for halloween and this is one of my fave for sure!

Too Crafty.......2007-01-04

I was hoping for sophisticated and stylish ideas for a halloween party. This was more like construction paper grade school crafts. I was very disapointed.

If You Have The Time..........2006-11-28

Excellent ideas for Halloween decorating and parties....if you have the time. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time on my hands so I wasn't able to use the book for this past Halloween (2006). Hopefully, I'll have more time next year, or I'll start preparing ahead of time. The ideas are clever and original and I'd like to use them. The book is of great quality, thick paper. The photos and instructions are clear and not at all confusing.

What you expect........2006-11-10

Nice pictures, quality book. Ideas & recipes you would look for from Martha Stewart.

Beautifully laid out book.......2006-11-10

I bought this book for Halloween decoration ideas and this book didn't fail to disappoint. Unfortunately being an apartment-dweller, this book is geared towards people lucky enough to have a nice, big old house in New England with requisite front porch, etc. The food section provides some great ideas that go beyond candy corn and Dum-Dums, that anyone can try. It was fun just looking through the book. For those that go all out for Halloween, this is something that would be a welcome addition to their holiday deco library.

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Interesting but uneven

Cheap and concise, but with problems.

A fan book on Churchill

A Well-Written Synopsis, but Not a Great Work of Historical Writing

The Ever-Lasting Appeal of Churchill

Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
John Lukacs
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0300103026

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This powerful book presents a clear-eyed view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman.

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Interesting but uneven.......2006-12-05

This is another of the "short" Churchill books that have become popular over the last several years and are less than full blown biographies but more than just private musings of the author. This author has an engaging style and if you've read any of his previous books on this subject it should come as no surprise that this book is for the most part a positive portrayal. The book covers the several themes stated in the title with a varying degree, (in this reader's opinion), of success. The high points include insight into Churchill's role, (and motivation), as an historian, his role with Stalin and the division of post WWII Europe and the evolution of Churchill's relationship with Eisenhower, (maybe the best chapter in the book). Considering all that has been written on Churchill this reader found some "new" perspectives and food for thought in the above. On the downside, several of the other chapters - the rehashing of Gallipoli, Churchill's "wilderness" years do not provide much detail or insight and the last chapter - a journal entry written contemporaneously describing Churchill's funeral - was little more than filler to this reader. This disparity in the writing is unfortunately one of the salient points I took away from the book. That being said, (written), this book would not be the place to start with Churchill but it is a more than an adequate supplement.

Cheap and concise, but with problems........2006-02-27

I read this book here in Brazil, last year.It's cheap, concise and easy to understand.There's failures in this book?Yes.
At first, this book is biased.John Lukacs is a Churchill's fan.
To exemple, Mr. Churchill was a deeply eugenist.This book never talks about this.Another exemple is that in 1899, Winston Churchill spoke against Islam something like this:"How dreadfull are the curses which mohammedanism slays on its votaries...No stronger retrograde force exists in the world..."
The core of this book is to show Churchill after 1930.Even this, it fails sometimes.In chapter 4, Lukacs claims that Eisenhower was wrong about than USSR, and Churchill was right.In fact both were right.The american politics for Cold War, was basically the same, for every american president, since Truman,in 1945, to George Bush in 1991.
Churchill also was among the men who created Iraq.Churchill also put the last Iran's Xah in power.All of these Churchill's mistakes aren't in this book.
This is a fan's book, not an unbiased book.

A fan book on Churchill.......2006-01-28

What we have is a series of essays written about Churchill by a man who is both a highly regarded historian and a fan.

The last essay, I found quite moving where he discusses his time at Churchill funeral.

Yet the quality of these essays is not brilliant. In some ways they are repetitive with the same facts repeated again in another essay. Also the writer is also prone to exaggeration eg that the Germans could in June or July 1940 successfully invaded Britain.

I have read much on Churchill and found this book disappointing maybe as from a historian of the quality of John Lukacs, I expected more.

A Well-Written Synopsis, but Not a Great Work of Historical Writing.......2005-12-04

This was my first book by Lukacs and I am not a historical scholar. I picked it up to learn more about Churchill, and where this admirable leader was coming from. If you are looking for a primer or a thorough biography of W.S., this is not the book for you. However, if you are already familiar with his background, ancestry, and accomplishments in detail, this book serves as a kind of postmortem love letter.

It is certainly well-written--Lukacs is a talented writer who knows how to turn a phrase, as he exhibits in his diary entries describing Churchill's funeral. However, for all of W.S.'s greatness, Lukacs seems a doggedly loyal to the man and utterly resistant to any criticism. There is also noticeable resentment toward Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and other American officials, as the author apotheosizes Churchill above any and all other leaders during the most critical time in 20th century history. Regardless of the veracity of his position, I would recommend reading up on other perspectives to temper Lukacs' ode to Churchill's infallibility.

Overall, this is a brief and awe-inspiring read: a worthy eulogy for a worthy man that sometimes sparkles in prose, sometimes fizzles in excessive reverence.

The Ever-Lasting Appeal of Churchill.......2004-06-14

John Lukas clearly states at the beginning of his short book that his collection of essays is neither a biography nor a scholarly study of Winston Spencer Churchill (pg. xiii). Therefore, potential readers of Lukas' book who do not know anything about the key milestones in the life and career of Churchill should not start here. These readers can read books such as "Churchill a Life", "Churchill a Study in Greatness", "Clementine Churchill The Biography of a Marriage", "Winston and Clementine The Personal Letters of the Churchills" or "The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill" to fill in the most glaring gaps in their knowledge of Churchill for that purpose.

Lukas writes to the attention of an audience who has an unquenchable thirst to know more and more about an individual who remains a source of inspiration to many men and women who stand in the way of barbarity and illiberalism around the world.

Although Lukas is generally sympathetic to Churchill, he is not blind to his major shortcomings: impetuosity, impatience, stubbornness and fancifulness (pg. 4, 154). Furthermore, Lukas reminds his audience in his essay "His Failures. His Critics" that Churchill had accumulated errors and mistakes that Churchill critics and detractors were attributing to his flawed character (pg. 129). For example, Churchill's futile fight against granting Dominion status to India from 1929 to 1935 was perhaps compatible with his imperialist credentials but certainly a clear blemish on his record. As a very experienced politician and knowledgeable historian at that time, Churchill should have known much better (pg. 14-15, 24, 135-136). Therefore, Lukas' collection of essays should not be construed as a shameful hagiography.

Furthermore, Lukas reminds his audience in "Churchill's historianship" and "Churchill the visionary" that Churchill was generally cognizant of the lessons that he could draw from past events to articulate his often-visionary policies while reflecting on and shaping history on his turn (pg. 1-18, 47). Churchill was not only a spectator, but also a key actor and play writer of human comedy (pg. 102).

Lukas also explores the ups and downs that Churchill had in his relationships with other history shapers such as Charles De Gaulle, Dwight Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin (pg. 19-20). Lukas convincingly explains that Churchill was facing an unpalatable choice between a Europe entirely ruled by Nazi Germany or half of Europe dominated by the Communists in case of allied victory (pg. 11, 27-28, 35). Churchill rightly first gave top priority to successfully fighting Hitler to death before trying in vain to stop Stalin in 1944-1945. Unlike some unimaginative people, Churchill understood right at the birth of the Soviet Union that the Bolsheviks should be stopped immediately before they grew into a gathering threat to the world. War-weary, the victors of WWI, unfortunately, gave only half-hearty support to the White Russians in their desperate fight against the Soviets (pg. 23). Once again, long-term pains were the reward for short-term gains.

Some (American) readers will not be very pleased while reading Lukas' unflattering portrait of Eisenhower and the men around him in "Churchill and Eisenhower." As mentioned above, Churchill was definitely right to try to thwart in 1944-1945 the apparently irresistible advance of the Soviets in Central and Eastern Europe. Churchill clearly understood that geography and territory mattered, not ideology (pg. 42). For that reason, the British army met the Russians east of the entry to the Danish peninsula at the request of Churchill in 1945 (pg. 45). Unfortunately, the American leadership did not want to hear anything about it at that time (pg. 35-40, 46). Some European regions such as former East Germany and the Czech Republic should have been eventually spared the murderous and inefficient rule of the former Soviet Union (pg. 43). The Greeks should continue to be very thankful to Churchill for saving them from a communist tyranny (pg. 41, 48).

In his famous, visionary Iron Curtain speech in 1946, Churchill expressed his concern with the murderous, inefficient embrace of Communism in the European regions under Stalin's control. American reception of this historic speech was at best lukewarm (pg. 47). Churchill knew better and was predicting at the end of 1952 that time was not on the side of Communism (pg. 48, 79).

After the death of Stalin in 1953, Churchill, Prime Minister again, could not convince his friend Eisenhower, who in the meantime became President of the U.S.A., of finding some kind of accommodation with the new Soviet leadership (pg. 70, 73-74). Subsequent events proved that Eisenhower was right when he saw no difference after Stalin was gone (pg. 71, 77). Contrary to what Lukas thinks, Eisenhower should not be described as a leader without any vision under the nefarious influence of men such as John Foster Dulles (pg. 79-80). Many western leaders shared Eisenhower's views on this subject (pg. 81-82). The former Soviet Union was not yet in sufficient decline in the early 1950s to negotiate in a position of force with it as world leaders such as President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher understood very well in the 1980s.

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Churchill : visionary, statesman, historian / John Lukacs
John (1924-) Lukacs
Manufacturer: New Haven : Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VZ97X0

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Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.(Book Review): An article from: The Historian
Roger Adelson
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000B9DSF4
Release Date: 2006-01-30

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 589 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.(Book Review)
Author: Roger Adelson
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Page: 628(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Churchill Visionary, Statesman, Historian

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Churchill Visionary, Statesman, Historian
John Lukacs
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSBY2Q

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In the 1950s and 1960s, Neil Haugerud served as sheriff of Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota. In Jailhouse Stories, Haugerud describes what it was like to live next to a prison, where jailbirds and jailbreaks were part of family life. We meet colorful people on both sides of the law, whose problems range from the ordinary to the offbeat to the downright bizarre. In the end, Haugerud emerges with his faith in human nature intact.

Neil Haugerud was sheriff of Fillmore County from 1959 to 1967 and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977. He now resides in Preston, Minnesota.

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Jailhouse Stories Tales from a better time.......2005-03-11

Jailhouse Stories is a short book long on wisdom. Neil Haugerud was sheriff of Fillmore County in southern Minnesota from 1959 to 1967. Elected sheriff after a short stint as sole deputy in this small, rural county, he has craftily translated 18 years of old-time country law enforcement onto paper.

Haugerud exemplifies the courage and fair-minded justice that we expect in our law enforcers. He seldom wore a sidearm, much less a uniform as he handled his often dangerous duties with or without his staff of one deputy. Later, the department expanded to a pair of deputies and a secretary. Most of his career he relied on his wife, Helen, to handle much of the housekeeping as well as occasional assistance with female body searches. Oh, have times changed.

The Haugeruds and their growing family lived in a residence conected to the Fillmore County jailhouse. Their front door was opposite the entry to the jailhouse. Helen cooked the meals and trustee prisoners would do yardwork and occasionally help with housework. Haugerud would usually transport prisoners uncuffed in the family car rigged out to be a Sheriffs vehicle with a little red cherry on top. The communications center¿ That would be the Haugerud's family phone, at least at some point set up with a second line.

Now, how does a man survive "the jungle" of human cruelty, frustration, anger, mental illness, alcohol induced behavior, etc, that universally comes with the job¿ How does a man dare to leave his family at all hours alone in the same edifice with assorted sordid characters, albeit locked down¿ Well, think Andy Taylor. Although Haugerud faced down many more dangerous situations than you would probably recall from Andy's days in Mayberry, the philosophy, the zen was the same. Like Andy, Neil was born and bred in the environment and knew the land, the people and the culture of his widespread workplace. More importantly, he respected the people and the culture. The people rewarded him with their trust. It was also a time when the badge carried more weight.

Haugerud admits that he played loose too often with his luck in rushing in unarmed or tactically exposed. He was told by one inmate who had been in possession of a loaded revolver that the former would have been shot had it not been for the respect that was shown him including the humanity to be found in the jail quarters, especially the Haugerud daughters habit of playing poke and grab with their fingers under the door separating the jail from the residence. The girls knew each of the inmates by the texture of their hands and they never were hurt.

I often judge a book on how I felt at the end. Neil Haugerud left me wanting more.

I always judged a good cop by how much I would want him working my neighborhood when I was away. Neil Haugerud would have been a great protector.

Excellent.......2002-07-27

As a modern-day law enforcement dispatcher, I couldn't put this book down. I laughed and laughed. It was all too familiar, but kind of sad that these days are gone now. Too many new officers these days are in it for all the wrong reasons. They could stand to learn a lot from the old guys like Neil Haugerud who cut the trails of what law enforcement is today.

real life mayberry.......2002-05-22

This is a short book, and a quick read. The first chapter is worth the book by itself. In it he tells the story of letting his airplane take off by itself, thats a must read. Many of the other stories a good as well, some better than others. If you like Andy Griffeth you will like this book. I would recommend it to anyone.

Happened upon the book...........2001-04-19

I was staying at a Bed And Breakfast at Rushford MN and found this book laying on the coffee table upstairs. I started reading and couldn't put it down until I was done at 12:30 am. A very fascinating book. I wish he would write more. I still want to know why Nehring asked him if he wanted to sleep with his wife. There are stories waiting to be fleshed out here. Can't wait. Good book.

I know Neil Haugerud.......2000-10-27

Please edit my ealier review. I am not 12 years old I am 54 years old. Thanks Earl Sethre

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Creativity produces ideas. It is important to solve the right problem. Defer judgment to get ideas.

same old

Surprising Find

Leading on the Creative Edge: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through the Power of Creative Problem Solving
Roger L. Firestien
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Are you using your best business weapon?

Creativity isn't just for artists and musicians. It's a strategic business weapon crucial to gaining and maintaining a competitive edge. The organizations that will thrive over time are not the ones with the deepest pockets, but the ones that unleash and apply the creativity of their workforce.

Leaders play a vital role in nurturing and developing other's creativity. Whether you lead a multi-million dollar corporation, help a volunteer group, coach Little League, or work for a non-profit organization, leaders make the difference between whether their employees' creativity is nurtured or destroyed. "Leading on the Creative Edge" provides you with the vital information you need to take your leadership to a new level.

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Creativity produces ideas. It is important to solve the right problem. Defer judgment to get ideas. .......2006-11-10

Even in the worst employment environments a person has a 33% chance of improvement through creativity and an imaginative idea is needed. The book ideas are designed for situations that are complex and ambiguous and where a working solution does not exist. First, take responsibility for creativity. Second, leader management quality directly affects the level of worker creativity. Many leaders will not tolerate an idea that does not fit their world. Creativity starts small and begins with small questions. Third, identify the problem to be solved by asking five why questions before settling on a problem definition. For example, Question 1: why should I write the Service Request software? Answer: To create a central electronic location for the purpose of coordinating software development. Question 2: Why is coordinating group activity important? Answer: Group coordination allows for the sharing of information and provides quick communication and relevant information. Question 3: Why is quick communication important? Answer: Quick communication reduces development delays, reduces time caused from rework, and reduces error caused from ambiguity. Question 4: Why is reducing time and error important? Answer: Because reducing time and error improves quality and quality sales. Question 5: Why is quality important? Answer: Quality allows the software developer to have more time increasing value and reduces waste that distracts from value.

Defer judgment on an ideas, "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." By deferring judgment allowing individuals who are looking for a better way to do business too have a space where they can voice their ideas and opinions. Judgment used at the wrong time is one of the greatest inhibitors of creativity. Get ideas fast, defer judgment, strive for quality, become "free wheeling", and combine ideas and gain improvement. By deferring judgment 70% more good ideas can surface.

An idea is not an action. An idea is potential action that might be taken after careful evaluation. "The danger is I will close myself off to new opportunities because they don't fit in my preconceived notions". Contrast US and Japanese employees: the Japanese employee submits 32.5 ideas and 88% of these ideas are implemented and the US worker submits 0.17 ideas and 37% are implemented; Eligible Employees:US 6.7 mil verses Japan 1.7 mil; Suggestions received (US 1.1 mil verses Japan 56 mil); Participation rate (US 8% verse 73.6%); Adoption rate (US 37% verses 88.7%); Average award per adoption (US $510.67 verses $3.20); Avg net savings per adoption (US 6k verses $197)

Ideas and planning must be based on affirmative judgment. Be consciously looking to find strength in the idea. State the idea to be developed in the form of an idea phrase; picture what the concept might look like in action; the idea should be written with a specific and measurable result in mind; list the key learnings from the idea; list on paper three good things about the idea; list on paper the potential about the idea; list on paper the concerns about the idea; develop action steps and solutions; and review action steps and develop a plan.

The five qualities of innovation are: 1. relative advantage 2. compatibility 3. complexity 4. Trial ability 5. observability.

same old.......2004-09-18

Why do all these books about creative thinking keep repeating all the stuff that has been written before. It's always the same old same old. If you have nothing new to contribute, why publish one more book. Save the tree.

Surprising Find.......2001-06-27

I was in the final throes of completing a training course and went to the library to gather some minor research support. In looking through one section I stumbled onto this book. What a lucky find. While the organization/sequencing of the materials was not as "tight" as I might like, there were enough concepts here that got me thinking, which is just what I needed. I look for things that inspire. There was even an example in the book that I'm using to illustrate a good solution that missed its potential (not the author's intent). Roger even reminded me of the importance of other research I've done before and helped me find a way to tie that research into the materials I was collecting.

Even more importantly, it introduced a concept that blew out a personal mental block I was having (a performance limiting factor). My family will be grateful for that serendipidous event.

Book Description

Data on government sector receipts, and on taxes in particular, are basic inputs to most structural economic descriptions and economic analyses and are increasingly used in international comparisons. This annual publication gives a conceptual framework to define which government receipts should be regarded as taxes and to classify different types of taxes. It presents a unique set of detailed and internationally comparable tax data in a common format for all OECD countries from 1965 onwards.

Revenue Statistics 1965-2000: Statistiques Des Recettes Publiques (Statistiques De Recettes Publiques Des Pays Membres De L'o C D E/Revenue Statistics of O E C D Countries)

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Revenue Statistics 1965-2000: Statistiques Des Recettes Publiques (Statistiques De Recettes Publiques Des Pays Membres De L'o C D E/Revenue Statistics of O E C D Countries)
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Manufacturer: Organization for Economic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 9264095152

Revenue Statistics of Oecd Member Countries 1965-1996 (Statistiques De Recettes Publiques Des Pays Membres De L'o C D E/Revenue Statistics of O E C D Countries)

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Revenue Statistics of Oecd Member Countries 1965-1996 (Statistiques De Recettes Publiques Des Pays Membres De L'o C D E/Revenue Statistics of O E C D Countries)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Manufacturer: Organization for Economic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9264055215

Book Description

Provides detailed information on tax revenues of OECD Member country governments broken down by type of tax and level of government.

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