TopPicks Index
Top 9 Little Business Books With Big Impact
One current trend in business books is the short management book, often written as a story or fable. These business books are approachable, useful and may help encourage more people to read. These business books pack a solid punch in a small package. Read some of my favorites. I think you'll quickly agree with my assessment and understand why they have such universal appeal.
Top 10 Principles of Employee Empowerment
Looking for real management advice about people? You want to create an environment in which people are empowered, productive, contributing, and happy. Don't hobble them by limiting their tools or information. Trust them to do the right thing. Get out of their way; watch them catch fire. These are the most important principles for managing people. They reinforce employee empowerment, accomplishment, and contribution. These management actions enable the people who work with you / for you to soar.
Top 10 Books for Job Seekers and Career Changers
Thinking about your current job search or a career change? These books will help you find your way. Learn about the job market. Translate your most important needs, interests, and goals into a rewarding career. Find techniques for a successful job search. These are my long term favorites. Gift a favorite person with the opportunity to explore their desired future.
Top 10 Human Resources Books for Human Resources Staff
Building a foundation library for you and your Human Resources staff? These book reviews will help you select the core Human Resources, business, and management books critical to your reference collection. Find the information you need fast with these recommended Human Resources, business, and management books. These book reviews will save you research time. Check them out.
Top 10 Ways to Be Happy at Work
Working at Google sounds very cool. I'd be the first to tout Google as a motivating employer: free food, engineers who spend 20 percent of their time on their own projects ... Google and other Fortune magazine top 100 employers provide best workplaces. At the same time, perks that enable employees to spend all their time at work exploit people and destroy work - life balance. So, even the best employer may not be best for everyone. These are the factors that will help you find happiness at work.
Top 5 Books That Enlighten Management Thinking
My current fabulous book finds illuminate and clarify aspects of management, organization development, productivity, marketing, business and change. Not management books, per se; they address different issues. But, they are applicable to human resource management and organizations. These are my current favorites. May my book reviews of these books serve you well, too.
Top 8 Business and Management Book Reviews: Must Do Reading
These business books are my current favorites for managers, supervisors, and Human Resources professionals. Management topics are often boring; these books offer new and useful ideas in a readable format. These books won't put you to sleep. I promise! These book reviews tell you why.
Top 10 Reward, Recognition, Award, and Thank You Ideas
Looking for convenient, appreciated, reasonably cost-conscious ways to provide rewards and recognition, demonstrate your appreciation and say 'thank you' for contributions that people make at work? These ideas for rewards and recognition will help.
Top 9 Team Building Books: Accelerate Your Team Building Success
People in every workplace talk about team building, working as a team, and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team building or how to develop an effective team. Many view teams as the best organization design for involving all employees in creating business success and profitability. These books will help you accelerate your team building and development success.
Top 5 Award Winning Business and Management Books
Business and management books that win prestigious awards are worth reading. Business and management books listed here have won awards, are widely recommended, and in the universe of published books, well worth your reading time.
Top 9 Time Management and Productivity Tools
Your time is your life, so, you want to spend your time on the goals and tasks that enable and enrich your life. Time management will increase your productivity and give you more time for life's more important moments. Time management and productivity tools boost your self-image because you accomplish more and feel better about your achievements. Spend your time where it counts most for you.
Top 10 Ideas About What Employees Want From Work
Every person has different reasons for working. The reasons for working are as individual as the person. But, we all work because we obtain something that we need from work. The something obtained from work impacts morale, employee motivation, and the quality of life. To create positive employee motivation, treat employees as if they matter - because employees matter. These ideas will help you fulfill what people want from work and create employee motivation.
Top 3 Books for Career Search
Thinking about your career and job search as you begin your career? These books will help you plan a career, search for a job, and get started with the rest of your life. These are my long term favorite career books. Gift a favorite person with the opportunity to explore their desired future career.
Top 10 Management Books for the Human Resources Book Shelf
Certain business and management books belong on the book shelves of every Human Resources office. These are the Human Resources books you'll reference repeatedly. When managers seek your help to deal with problems or opportunities, you'll share or recommend these business and management books. Some are old, some new, but all are worth your reading and book review time. Part of a series.
Top 6 Performance Management, Evaluation, Review, and Appraisal Books
Performance appraisal systems don't work as traditionally practiced in organizations. Both the people who do performance appraisals and the people who receive performance appraisals, despise the process. You need to provide feedback and measure and reward contribution. There is a better way. Consider a performance management process instead.
Top 10 Toughest Questions - Asked and Answered
Regular emails from readers ask hundreds of questions each year. Patterns emerge about the toughest situations you face in your organizations. These are the ten toughest, but most frequent questions you send my way. I’ve written a how-to piece to answer each question you’ve asked. These articles address and answer your toughest questions.
Top 10 Most Popular Topics
Looking for some of the most popular topics on the human resources site? New articles and articles I blog usually become the most popular topics for a time. But these ten pieces are among the site’s most popular topics about human resources issues over time. Enjoy reading.
Top 10 Performance Consulting, Measurement, and Improvement Books
Effective performance consulting and training can provide big payoffs for the employer in increased staff productivity, knowledge, loyalty, and contribution. These resources increase your ability to do performance consulting, measure performance improvement, and provide resultant training using internal staff. Increase your self-sufficiency in performance consulting and improvement.
Top 10 Motivational Posters and Pictures That Reinforce Your Culture
Your organization culture is a result of the values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors shared by the employees. You can see your culture live in your language, symbols, stories, legends, and daily work practices. Emphasize the values and culture you desire with motivational, inspirational posters, pictures, and prints that remind people of the most important and respected characteristics desired.
Top 5 More Lessons from Military Management and Leadership
To the uninitiated, management and leadership practices in armed services groups such as the Army Rangers and Navy SEALs may appear rigid, brutal and hierarchical. Not true. As the recent spate of books about military leadership and management attests, the civilian world of business can learn much from the military. Here are five more of my favorite military leadership and management books.
Top 5 Books About Management and Leadership: Lessons From the Military
A reviewer of military leadership and management books wondered whether he wanted an MBA or an Army Ranger on his business team. You'll wonder, too. Management and leadership practices of elite groups such as the Rangers are highlighted. You may think of the armed services as rigid, hierarchical organizations. Far from it. There is much to learn about vision, mission, values, core beliefs, team work, empowerment and more from these recommended military books about leadership and management.
Top 6 Work-Life Balance Books: Your Family-Friendly Future
Spring is the season for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Family Support Month. Concurrently, work-life balance is a hot issue in the HR field. Organizations search for ideas and examples of innovative approaches to recruiting and retaining employees who are interested in more flexible, family-friendly employment. These books will help you recruit your next generation of employees.
Top 5 Predictors and Promises for the Future of Human Resources Books
If you wish to jump start your career in the Human Resources profession, these Human Resources books will tell you where to invest your time and attention. These Human Resources books are recent, on-target, study-based and key for Human Resources career growth. These Human Resources books target trends such as becoming a strategic partner for the business and roles to leave behind such as policing. These Human Resources books are a value-added gift for your favorite Human Resources professional.
Top 10 Audio Books About Management for Road Warriors
Do you commute? Travel between offices? Drive to clients or customers? If so, forget talk radio and listening to music and news. These audio books about business management for the road warrior will help you learn while you travel. Listen to business, management and Human Resources audio books on tape. Unabridged where available.
Top 7 Books About Consulting: Internal Consulting and External Consulting
Looking for ways to find clients, keep clients happy and hone your consulting skills? If you're starting a consulting practice, these consulting books will save you the time you might have invested in the learning curve. Internal consultants will use these consulting books, too. Experienced consultants may have missed these informative, special consulting books. They emphasize service delivery, marketing and how to run a consulting business. You'll be happy you checked them out.