Category: Book review
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Ensuring performance improvement: a review of Learning Transfer at Work by Paul Matthews
How to make sure learning and development activities actually generate the performance change you want.
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Review: The Strengths-Focused Guide to Leadership
If you want a practical manual to understanding how to harness strengths, for you and your team, this book is a great place to start, as it: introduces the key concepts of strengths provides the research base for more inquisitive readers illustrates with narratives prompts you with a range of exercises and action points explains…
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Book Review: The Positive Organization by Robert E Quinn
So many business books leave you wondering “…but how does that work in reality?” That’s not a problem with The Positive Organization – this short book (less than 160 pages from cover to cover) is packed with ideas, examples, case studies and practical exercises, written in an engaging and straightforward style. Throughout, Quinn challenges us to consider…
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Big Data by Bernard Marr
Big Data is an expression that we hear often but not everybody understands what it is and how to use it beneficially. Bernard Marr’s book is a guidebook for all businesses on harnessing the potential of data. He argues that data by itself is valueless, data only has value if it is converted to insight–…
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Edison’s method – Collaboration is the key
The light bulb; just a simple object in your everyday life. We need it at home, in the office, on the street, almost everywhere. Thomas Edison frequently receives credit for inventing the light bulb (inspite of the efforts of inventors such as Davy and Swan who came before him). We tend to imagine every great…