You don’t want to make Baby Jesus cry, but you could if you were SHRM and featured a book this month titled “Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews.” Get out the Kleenex, because this is going to be a doozy. Here’s the description:
Writing performance appraisals is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks managers face. [...]

Who better to write a book that’s subtitled How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time than the fabulously-named Joel Comm? After all, Twitter is a communication device if there ever was one, even if it’s communication at 140 characters at a time.
In Twitter Power, Comm (man, I wish that were my [...]

I know that the pearl in the peapod was a graphic design decision in Alexandra Levit’s Success for Hire, but it caught my eye. Alexandra’s writing kept me going.
Success for Hire has a very descriptive subtitle: Simple strategies to find and keep outstanding employees. You know what I like? It’s true. Alexandra set up this [...]

I stayed at my first Ritz-Carlton when I was 22 years old. I was sent on a 3-day business trip at Laguna Nigel. Just go take a peek at the pictures in this link and you’ll get the idea. Stunning. I was told before I went on the trip that I would need to “dress,” [...]

The Breakthrough Imperative starts with four simple ideas:
1. Costs and prices always decline
2. Market position dictates strategy
3. Profit pools don’t stand still
4. Simplicity gets results
With that straightforward idea, authors Mark Gottfredson and Steve Shaubert launch into an excellent and actionable approach to [...]