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Book recommendations

Read Chris Cooper's book reviews and purchase securely through Amazon. Here Chris recommends some essential reading for anyone involved in business.

 

One of my favourite new releases. Unusually written in a single chapter this book is about developing tribes of like-minded people to deliver great results.

'There are tribes everywhere, all of them hungry for connection, meaning and change. And yet, too many people ignore the opportunity to lead, because they are "sheepwalking" their way through their lives and work, too afraid to question whether their compliance is doing them (or their company) any good. This book is for those who don't want to be sheep and instead have a desire to do fresh and exciting work. If you have a passion for what you want to do and the drive to make it happen, there is a tribe of fellow employees, or customers, or investors, or readers, just waiting for you to connect them with each other and lead them where they want to go'

Well worth a read I reckon,

Chris Cooper

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This is a fascinating book based on significant research. It explains the psychology behind why people say 'yes' and includes six universal principles and how to use them. It also helps us understand why we may have allowed ourselves to have been tricked into buying something we may not have wanted. In fact why sales has in the past had a bad image.

Having read the book I decided to invite a kitchen company to visit me to see if they changed their ways And yes they tried every trick in the book. Rather than operating authentically and professionally they were using the dark side of the principles. And judging by the volume of negative comments posted on the web were destroying their brand in the equation! Change your ways or there will soon be an empty 'space' in the kitchen sector!

Chris Cooper

 

 

 

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Trust, says Stephen M. R. Covey, is the very basis of the 21st century's global economy, but its power is generally overlooked and misunderstood. Covey shows you how to inspire immediate trust in everyone you encounter - colleagues, constituents, the marketplace - allowing you to forego the time-killing and energy-draining check and balance bureaucracies that are so often relied upon in lieu of actual trust.
This book is a process blueprint for building a visionary organization with a values-driven approach
· Based on tested models and tools developed internationally on how work, values and leadership will change in the 21st century
· Originated from work within the World Bank where the author was Values Coordinator and Founder of the World Bank Spiritual Unfoldment Society and a member of the Institutional Change and strategy Dept. at the World Bank.
The Psycho-Cybernetics programme has helped millions of people achieve life-changing goals. Newly updated to include recent changes in our lives you will learn how to awaken your automatic success mechanism and: how to de-hypnotize yourself from negative beliefs, how to acquire the habit of happiness, how to have confidence on demand, how to live more courageously.
Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

The must read personal development book. A book that has influenced many successful people and one I choose to read regularly. Napoleon Hill was a reporter who was given a great opportunity by Andrew Carnegie the steel magnate to write a book on success. To do so he was given access to Andrews' personal address book including some of the most famous people of his time. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Dr Alexander Graham Bell to name a few. One of my prize possessions is a beautiful limited edition of this book given to me by my friend and mentor Helen Urwin. At the end of September I will be running a weekly tele-seminar of this book. The current programme is fully booked. However if you would like information about future programmes then please click here for details of the Think and Grow Rich teleseminar programme.

'The Great Depression Ahead - How to Prosper in the Crash Following The Greatest Boom in History' by Harry S.Dent If you are interested in Economics or managing you own wealth. Or the scale of the recession for business planning then this book is for you. Harry is becoming my hero when it comes to understanding and predicting the market place. Back in 1989 he predicted the scale and timing of the current recession. He also said that things would start to feel better this summer (2009) before the next dip. He was the economist who predicted the decline of Japan and someone who many at the time ridiculed. Not now! He looks at the causes such as demographics and not the effects. For anyone interested in business planning and wealth I would recommend studying this.