books about: ability

books about: ability

books:

Ability

Running Hot (Arcane Society, Book 5)

Jayne Ann Krentz

Putnam Adult, 2008

An enjoyable read...once again
I couldn't wait for this book to come out as I have enjoyed Ms. Krentz's books for as long as I can remember. I wasn't disappointed as I am with many other formerly favorite authors. The main criticism I "hear" about her books is that they are all similar. Well, ...

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

Michael Watkins

Harvard Business School Press, 2003

Great Primer for Taking On a Management Job
The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins is squarely aimed at the task of a manager coming in and dealing with a new team. Those first ninety days can really make or break a business relationship and it is well worth studying this information before you take on a new job. ...

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Twyla Tharp

Simon & Schuster, 2005

Twyla shares pearls from her life's creative adventure
A refreshing and inspiring glimpse into the creative habits employed by a successful artist, generously shared in a well thought out, intelligent, down-to-earth practical way. Twyla shares her personal experiences and keen observational skills in a way generalizable ...

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

Oliver Sacks

Vintage, 2008

A deeply intelligent, loving book.
Dr. Sacks has written a book that is astounding in its depth and love for humanity, his patients, the mysteries of life and music the great connector of us all. Music, how we each perceive it and it effects us. The stories in this book amaze and awaken us to the ...

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Simon & Schuster, 1999

This Book Is Pure Gold
The authors should be given credit for creating an extremely insightful book on leadership and management. Most leadership books are either a collection of war stories or an abstract view of management principles. In many cases, an author will describe how they ...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Steven Pressfield

Grand Central Publishing, 2003

I felt as if this was written directly for me...
I had seen the book The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield recommended by quite a few experts in the field of creativity and productivity. I finally got around to putting it on hold at the library, and I eventually worked my way to the ...

Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 (4th Edition)

Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell

Allyn & Bacon, 2005

Review for QRI-4th Edition
This is an important resource for anyone working in the field of K-12 education. The text teaches you how to use the assessment tool and provides assessment materials for students at all reading levels. This book was required for a class I am taking, and Amazon's ...

Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings

Kelly Rae Roberts

North Light Books, 2008

beautiful!
I love this book, kelly is so talented and the collage elements are wonderful as well as the ideas in the book. great gift for your crafty friends.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

Marcus Buckingham

Free Press, 2007

Use your strengths in the job of your dreams!
`Go Put Your Strengths to Work' gives us six clear steps for increasing our personal productivity. Author, Marcus Buckingham, draws our attention to several myths, for example that as we age we improve in the areas we have always been weakest. In fact such a myth only ...

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]

Julia Cameron

Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002

Immensely helpful book
I first bought The Artist's Way a few years ago as part of a creative writing class, and came back to it recently. I'm in week 11, and it's changed my life so much! Every week provides exercises, which along with the morning pages, are meant to mine out some important ...

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

Michael Michalko

Ten Speed Press, 2006

An Essential Guide for Creative Thinking
This book, together with my treasured Roger von Oech books, sit prominently on my bookshelf when working on a variety of problems - software development, film production, creative writing for scripts or novels, and developing opportunities in this mediacentric age. ...

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...

Clayton M. Christensen

Collins Business, 2003

Disrupt your competitors, not your customers!
With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's ...

How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide

Dan S. Kennedy

Plume, 1996

Great fundamental reading
I read this book as Timothy Ferris referred to it as recommended in his book. I can now see how The Four Hour Work Week utilised many of the strategies in this book. I own and run a factoring company and am constantly referring to this book in order to make sure our ...

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2004

Emotional Intelligence Greater Component of Success than IQ: Develop Your Own EI and Leadership to Make a Difference
"Leaders have always played a primordial emotional role [...] Quite simply, in any human group the leader has maximal power to sway everyone's emotions" (5). Daniel Goleman, author of the bestseller Emotional Intelligence, explores the power of EQ in leadership and ...

How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

Keri Smith

Perigee Trade, 2008

How to "Be" Guide for Artists
Smith's newest book is the most recent installment in her passionate, ongoing process to distill life and the art process (indistinguishable to most artists) down to it's bare matter. If you can embrace playfulness, open courageously to the idea of art as life, are ...