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Miles Franklin Award Winner 2008 | Man Booker Prize winner 2007 | Bestseller | Just released |
| Fishing for Stars ~ Bryce Courtenay | The Time We Have Taken
~Steven Carroll |
The Gathering
~ Anne Enright |
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
~ Stieg Larsson |
Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, Book 5)
~ Richelle Mead |
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Bestselling author Tom Clancy will deliver his first new book in seven years when his longtime publisher Penguin releases Dead or Alive December 7. The novel will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in the U.S. with simultaneous release in the U.K. by Michael Joseph. Dead or Alivewill feature all of Clancy's best-know characters, including Jack Ryan who, along with other Campus recruits, is dispatched by the new president to track down the "Emir," the mastermind of "vicious terrorist attacks on the West," according to Penguin.
~ Cliff Atkinson
Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences today are no longer sitting quietly taking notes during live presentations. Instead, they’re carving out a new space in the room called the backchannel, where people are online searching for resources, checking your facts, and connecting with others inside the room and out.
If I had to pick one key to success for any business, it would be this: create a service culture. However, what many companies fail to realize is that a service culture is more than serving the customer. It's also about serving each other.
A manager should make it clear to each employee: your job is not to serve me. In fact, it's the opposite...my job is to serve you. My job is to give you the tools you need to serve our customers, but more importantly, I must create a climate where we enjoy serving each other.
Of course, the key to serving each other is built around two core values: mutual respect and working together.
That's what A Peacock in the Land of Penguins is all about. It's a short story that author, BJ Gallagher, has 
told in an amazing way, about how to create a land of opportunity in any organization. In fact, Ken Blanchard...the best selling author of The One Minute Manager said this:
"Every once in a while a small book comes along that deals with a profound subject in a simple, elegant way. A Peacock in the Land of Penguins is that book!"
And the results speak volumes. Over 300,000 copies have been sold to organizations around the world to reinforce that "attitude" of mutual respect and working together that is critical for any business or organization to succeed.
Click here to read more about our featured book today as well as 2 more that I think combine to make a well-rounded set for any business .... A Peacock in a Land of Penguins, Customer Love and The Richest Man in Town
"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born, and the day we discover why."
William Barclay
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."
- Cherie Carter-Scott
"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Marie Curie
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"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
- Ayn Rand
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-- T. S. Eliot
