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Leading In Times of Crisis
Navigating through Complexity, Diversity and Uncertainty to Save Your Business. (Jossey-Bass, $19.77)


Driving Results Through Social Networks
How top organizations leverage networks for performance and growth. (Jossey-Bass, $19.77)


A Seat at the Table
How Top Salespeople Connect and Drive Decisions at the Executive Level (Greenleaf, $19.95)


Management Rewired
Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons From the Latest Brain Science (Portfolio, $25.95)


The Power of Small
Why Little Things Make All the Difference (Broadway, $17.95)



Inprint: Cats: The Nine Lives of Innovation
By Stephen Lundin, McGraw Hill, 192 pp., $19.95


Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry
By Nancy Tennant Snyder and Deborah L. Duarte, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 272 pp., $27.95


Inprint: Leadership Success in China: An Expatriate's Guide
4 By Yue-er Luo, Erik Duerring, William Byham, and The DDI China Team, DDI Press, 256 pp., $30


Courageous Training: Bold Actions for Business Results
By Tim Mooney and Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Berrett-Koehler, 244 pp., $29.95


Fave Reads 2008
Before you close the chapter on 2008, you might want to check out the following training/business books our reviewers have singled out as their favorites throughout the year.



Book Excerpts
Boreout! Overcoming Workplace Demotivation: We Seek Meaning (Excerpt 2)
Are you and your employees suffering from boreout? Philippe Rothlin and Peter Werder explore this syndrome in their book, "Boreout! Overcoming Workplace Demotivation."


Transforming the Way We Do Business: Learning How to Leverage Facebook
It's time to learn how to leverage social networking to transform the way your business operates, and to profit from doing so.


"Mission" Impossible? Define Your Performance in Actionable Terms
For a mission statement to do it's job, it must be actionable.


What Organizations Are Likely Sponsors of Sales Benchmarking Initiatives?
Looking for benchmarking assistance? You have seven allies to turn to.


Gender Communication Differences in Sales
Sales is greatly impacted by the gender differences—after all, sales is all about communication with men and women.



Book Q & A
Incentive Interview: Lencioni's Strength of a Story
Patrick Lencioni uses the particulars of a "fable" to impart universal truths about leadership.


Would Your Employees Pass the Passion Test?
Not enough passion in your organization? It's costing you. See if your emploees—or you—make the mark when it comes to total motivation.


Spark Sales With Incentives
Sales Blazers is a book that could only come from someone who understands the incentive and motivation industry inside and out. And, indeed, it has.


Incentive Interview: Russ Edelman
CEO and strategist Russ Edelman compares being "overly nice" with being "effectively nice," and explains how to succeed in business without being a jerk


Motivate Your Sales Team Through the Obstacles
O.C. Tanner Director Mark Cook, author of Sales Blazers, discusses what it takes to be a leader in sales.



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