books about: responsibilities

books about: responsibilities

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Responsibilities

Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a ...

Tim Sanders

Doubleday Business, 2008

Saving the Person at Work by Saving the World at Work
Simply put, this book will open your eyes in very realistic and reasonable ways to what you as an individual and you as a leader (or one who does not know they are a leader yet) can do to change the world starting at that place we all spend much time and energy: work. ...

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Yvon Chouinard

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

A fun, unique, and compelling biz book
This book will appeal to 2 types of reader (and I trend to both categories): 1. The hardcore, outdoor purist (and core Patagonia dirtbag customer) who is interested in how Chouinard turned his passion into a thriving business; 2. The socially responsible ...

QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

John G. Miller

Putnam Publishing Group, 2004

QBQ Should Be Required Reading for Everyone!
I found QBQ through Dave Ramsey's radio program. Dave is the Financial Peace guru and author of The Total Money Makeover. I am a big Ramsey fan and I figured if QBQ was mandatory reading for his staff then it should be for me and my team as well. QBQ is a quick read ...

Stop Whining, Start Living

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Harper, 2008

Life Altering!
This book is AWESOME! Life altering, confirmation of everything I believe about life in general. I AM not a person who suffers from depression, in general I totally dance through life, but... I just went through a HELLACIOUS DIVORCE from a 23+yr marriage and I was ...

Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)

Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay

Pinon Press, 2006

This book is in line with recent studies
For the people reviewing this book who think it is cruel to children, or might lead to a drop in self-esteem, I suggest reading a study by a Dr. Dweck. It did a study on praising children, and the gist of the study is that children respond better to being told they ...

Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World

Matthew Bishop, Michael Green

Bloomsbury Press, 2008

Changing the world through smart philanthropy
Authors Matthew Bishop and Michael Green have talked to some of the world's most fascinating - and wealthy - people about the innovations they've brought to tackling major humanitarian challenges such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, poverty and hunger. Individually, people like ...

The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability

Craig Hickman, Tom Smith, ...

Portfolio Hardcover, 2004

I built a company culture on this book!
I'm now using this book to build a corp. culture for the second time. I buy a copy for every employee. I know they don't all read it. But, we use it as the text for company meetings, training and performance expectations. Big help in getting people to take more ...

The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable ...

Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, ...

US Green Building Council, 2008

An important contribution to sustainability strategies
This is one of the most interesting and important contributions of 2008 to the vital area of sustainability thinking. MIT's Peter Senge is well known for deep analysis of organizational effectiveness (that can be challenging to read). He applies the same "systems ...

The Ecology of Commerce

Paul Hawken

Collins Business, 1994

Get it now, no need to think twice
I'm pretty sure that after you've read this book, you'll feel the way I do: that this in the one book that everyone in the world should read. If there is a more eye-opening book on the same topic than this one out there, I have yet to read it, but it doesn't matter. ...

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Muhammad Yunus

PublicAffairs, 2008

"Creating A World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus
In "Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism," the follow up to "Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty", Muhammad Yunus describes a new economic entity he calls the "social business." In short, this ...

Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy

Anne T. Lawrence, James Weber

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007

The Leader in Corporate Social Performance
The book is very pricy compared to Jim Collins books. However, for a college textbook it is an average price. As for what is inside the book, there is nothing average about it. The first edition of this book was published in in the 1960's by Prof's Keith Davis and ...

The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental ...

Andrew W. Savitz

Jossey-Bass, 2006

If You Want To Get Fluent Fast, Read This Book
This book is for interested general consumption rather than a technical practitioners' text book and as such is more than successful in teaching the basics of the triple bottom line. I'm not quite sure why some of the Amazon reviewers seem so testy about this, as the ...

Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and ...

Marc J Epstein

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008

A Guide to the Implementation of Sustainability Principles
Making Sustainability work does a significant contribution for practitioners on how to put sustainability principles and ideas into practice. We have seen in the past other important contributions about sustainability. The difference regarding this new book is in ...

The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11

David Ray Griffin

Interlink, 2004

September 11, 2001 Day of Deceit
The collapse of the twin towers didn't look right to me, but so much was happening that I had to let it go. There was the antrax attacks that was "military grade" thought to come from Ft. Dietrick. There was a killer in my neighborhood called the DC sniper. Oh yeah, ...

The Secret Between Us

Barbara Delinsky

Doubleday, 2008

The Secret Between Us
This is a very well written book and caught my interest from the first page. Any book by Barbara Delinsky is a good buy. I ordered my book from Amazon.com. I always receive my orders in a timely manner. They let you know when your merchandize is sent and about what ...