Review:Fish! is a wonderful little book with a super philosophy: Play; Be there; Make their day; and Choose you own attitude. I've been to the Pike Place Fish Market and I use the "Fish Philosphy." Simple and powerful! Read more

Review:There isn't anything new in this book, it's a repackaging of ideas developed by better authors. She rips off more then half of the material and relabeled it as her ideas never crediting the original author.The story telling is weak, mostly self aggrandizement of the authors education, world travels, and positions held in prominent companies. It's a parade of self appointed awesomeness. Do yourself, and your credibility a favor by passing up on this hack. Read more

Review:This is a good book that illustrates how the 5 Love Languages concept can be applied in a professional work environment. Motivating employees and team members requires work and effort, and even a small amount of appreciation expressed in the right way (i.e. the employee's primary appreciation language) can pay off in spades. The book explains the different appreciation languages and gives tips and examples of how to manage people using those concepts. Read more

Review:Great second edition with updated model - the skills work anywhere - professional or personal. I give this book and Crucial Conversations to anyone I know graduating from high school or college - wish I'd known all of this when I was that age! Read more

Review:If I told you that a book about squirrel spirits, beaver best practices and gifts that geese give could transform your company and according to Tom Peters, "...revolutionize any organization which adopts it, and those that don't won't survive.", what would you tell me? After the success of "Raving Fans" Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Bowles returned to their pithy, aphorism-filled well to deliver their readers an amalgamation of religion, Native American spiritualism and a tried and true underdog story. ... Read more

Review:This is a great book to help organizations recruit and train ideal team players. Patrick's no nonsense approach makes it easy for anyone to grasp the concepts. His "parable" brings those concepts to life and lets the reader experience each of the team player virtues before hammering them home on the discussion/description that follows. Great book. I can't wait to start building ideal team players in my organization! Read more

Review:I like how the book is formated with meets expectations / ned iprovements and goals.
I would like to see more phrases that are currently used in today's corporate world. Specifically technical phrases Read more

Review:I'd recommend this read to any supervisor who needs a better understanding of motivation. A person who truly aspires to be a good leader or even a business owner to help their workers be the best they can be. Read more

Review:Taking the strengthsfinder inventory is fun. I learned some things about myself. You have to be honest when you answer the questions, so if you don't know yourself or have a false self-concept, the results are invalid though--that's a drawback for any self-report instrument. It would be better if you could take the test yourself and then have your spouse/partner and/or a close friend to complete it as well, responding to the questions with you in mind---then you could compare the results and ... Read more

Review:It is a text book... boring. Term after term - it seems to me many of which are just there for the sake of being a term. To be fair maybe that is the subject matter and not so much the book. But there has to be a better way, a more interesting way of conveying the information without forcing the reader to read a bunch of terms and their definitions. So I take it back - yeah it is the book. Read more