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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work and In Your Life £4.79 (save 20%) Buy from Amazon	Whilst I do not agree with the thoughts behind the book it does give a very clear window onto the way many modern business managers treat staff as a consumable that can be written off if they do not follow the need for change philosophy.	Recommended by: Mark Jarvis Technical Pre-Sales Manager Fujifilm Graphic Systems Fujifilm Graphic Systems supply Professional Pre-Press equipment and consumables to the Print, Graphic Arts and Design markets. Fujifilm is a multinational organisation researching, developing, manufacturing and supplying imaging and information products to professional and consumer markets. www.fujifilm.co.uk/
	A wonderful short-story insight into the nature of change and its management.	Recommended by: Colin Wilson PerformanceProcess.com Personal and Professional Development Consultants; High Performance Coaching
The Ultimate Entrepreneur's Book A straight-talking guide to business success £10.39 Buy from Amazon	Written by two self-made millionaires, Richard Dobbins and Barrie Pettment, published 1999. This is a practical book that encourages you to get on and achieve your goals - and enjoy it.	Recommended by: Jerry, Entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant Marketing Strategy & Action Ltd Business Innovation Centre Coventry
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People £8.79 (save 20%) Buy from Amazon	Or any of Stephen Covey's other books	Recommended by: Alex Chatterley Strategy & Policy Yorkshire Forward www.yorkshire-forward.com
	Although it is very American, it is full of practical, positive advice about how to motivate oneself and others in business and personal life. Come to think of it, it's about time I read it again.	Recommended by: Pete Wise Switzerland
Learning Organizations by Peter Senge £23.30 Buy from Amazon	Or any of Peter Senge's other books	Recommended by: Alex Chatterley Strategy & Policy Yorkshire Forward www.yorkshire-forward.com
Cheaper by the dozen £3.50 (save £1.49) Buy from Amazon	By Frank Gilbreth, which describes his childhood as one of twelve children, brought up by an eccentric father and patient mother, who put the above philosophy into every day practice. They even developed their ideas into a pseudo science based on "Therbligs". You can read all about it at http://gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com	Recommended by: Pete Wise Switzerland
Body and soul £22.00 Buy from Amazon	Anita Roddick's book is the story of some-one starting with a loan to build a business which has been enormously successful using all kinds of criteria. I particularly admire the way she has fought to maintain her integrity and stick to her well defined principles.Her first words in the book are I am still looking for the modern day equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently, worked hard, spent honestly, saved honestly, gave honest value for money, put back more than they took out and told no lies. This business creed, sadly seems long forgotten.	Recommended by: Pauline Bell PPD Tel/Fax 01636 814524 Visit our website to see details of courses and resources. www.p-pdevelopment.co.uk
The Empty Raincoat £6.39 (save 20%) Buy from Amazon	Or any of Charles Handy's other books	Recommended by: Alex Chatterley Strategy & Policy Yorkshire Forward www.yorkshire-forward.com
Images of Organization £25.00 Buy from Amazon	In which Gareth Morgan identifies key organisational cultures and describes how they drive organisations and their internal practices	Recommended by: Richard Baker Age Concern England
The One Minute Manager £4.79 (save 20%) Buy from Amazon	Written by Kenneth Blanchard	Recommended by: Alex Chatterley Strategy & Policy Yorkshire Forward www.yorkshire-forward.com
Mentoring Executives & Directors £21.99 Buy from Amazon	This book demonstrates the purposes and benefits of mentoring through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors. It shows how mentoring helps to resolve how to sustain learning in people at the top. It includes company and individual cases across different sectors and different company sizes.	Recommended by: Pete Richardson Partner, Spark
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom £6.30 Buy from Amazon	A classical mentoring real-life story of the author and his relationship with a dying man - his old teacher at college. Together they touch on many life issues.	Recommended by: Dr Robert Ashworth
The Mentoring Pocketbook £6.99 Buy from Amazon	Companies are increasingly relying on formal mentoring to tie in with their continuous learning and development initiatives. This book examines how to prepare as a mentor, how to conduct mentoring sessions and how to maintain the relationship through the different stages of the training.	Recommended by: Pete Richardson Partner, Spark
The Heart of Success £4.89 (save 30%) Buy from Amazon	By Rob Parsons of Care for the Family, Cardiff. The latest of a number of books on family life. Rob is a top lawyer, and writes from a wealth of personal experience into the issues facing business people in every sphere of work. Rob borrows from Professor Murray and his "7 laws of business and life". It is not only the depth of wisdom in this book, but the very readable style that makes this book memorable. A real must for everyone in business. Especially the young man embarking on his business career. It has only just been released	Recommended by: Tony N Tufnell Pilgrims Hall An Essex based counselling agency
The Mentoring Pocketbook £6.99 Buy from Amazon	Companies are increasingly relying on formal mentoring to tie in with their continuous learning and development initiatives. This book examines how to prepare as a mentor, how to conduct mentoring sessions and how to maintain the relationship through the different stages of the training.	Recommended by: Pete Richardson Partner, Spark
'Creating' by Robert Fritz www.robertfritz.com	Everyone should read 'Creating'. A key book in understanding how creativity is the core of managing our life and deepening our commitment to what we do. I use Fritz's idea's everyday.	Recommended by: Pete Turner Bread and Circuses Instilling the instinct to create !
Winnie-the-Pooh on Management by Roger E. Allen	A book that shows management is not complicated/fancy things and that a very mixed bunch can manage very well without the high flying gurus.	Recommended by: Rob Martin "Into The Buttercup" Training and Consultancy Bradford
The Beano £0.60 Buy from your local newsagent Or order from the Beano website	If you haven't got time to do even the smallest useless thing - you're too busy	Recommended by: Geoff Makin Environmental Health Manager (Commercial) Coventry City Council www.covenvhealth.org.uk