Also, I really liked that there was a book for teens (Greatness Zone). I have a brother and sister in their late teens – one is an over-achiever the other is stuck and depressed. They can each benefit from this book.

Hope to meet you one day at a Gainesville networking event.

Take care,
Stephanie

Here is another one for anyone who is going through a life transition (which is everyone, at some point):
Becoming a Life Change Artist: 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life, by Fred Mandell Ph.D and Kathleen Jordan Ph.D

Great video and recommendation.
A very good book I just read is Drive by Dan Pink

also here is a good video about employee motivation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

freddie

At a time where employees have to be both good at what they do and passionate about doing it to activate customer loyalty (which drives the bottom line), it is critical that companies better articulate the performance attributes that leads to performance success. Even when an organization clearly defines these, they still rely on job candidates being self-aware enough to know if they are a good fit for the role. Great hiring requires a “meeting in the middle” – better attribute requirements from the organization and a more self-aware job applicant. I like Unique Ability’s approach to discover our innate abilities- so we can become that more self-aware person – in both work and life.

Thanks John for the constant dialog about greatness, performance and impact.

There’s a book that Jack Malcolm recommended to me that I’m now recommending to others before reading any other books by “experts.” It’s called “Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us–and how to know when not to trust them”: http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-consultants/dp/0316023787

I think that many of the ideas in this book can help people who read other books to sift through information that is simply persuasive to get to information that is rooted in solid evidence. With all of the information out there, I’ve found it’s important to be able to identify the difference between luck, personal experience that may not generalize to other people (or times) and knowledge that stands the test of validity checks.

Hope you are well!

Just finished reading, “The Ultimate Sales Machine” by Chet Holmes and would highly recommend it for someone developing a Sales Process in their organization.