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Personal and Career Development

Be the Person You Were Meant to Be.

Jerry Greenwald. (1973)

Summary: This book tells you how to determine whether your behavior is emotionally "nourishing" or emotionally "toxic." It shows you all about yourself- even things you dislike; offers a new way of changing your life style by looking at yourself. (pp.287)

Key words: Nourishing, toxic, behavior, loneliness, relating, yourself

Be True to Your Future.

Elwood N. Chapman. (1988) 

Summary: This book provides a program for life planning. It will help you define life goals, discover a career consistent with those goals, and then locate a job in that career field. It Explains how to design a career contingency plan to survive the winds of change that can affect anyone's career. (pp.222). 

Key words: Future, career, goals, job, field, plan, changes, life, success

Book of Think (The).

Marilyn Burns and Martha Weston. (1976). 

Summary: This book is about what to do when you are puzzled, or perplexed, or stumped, or can't get there from here. It is about using your noggin. This book is about how to think even when you know you are fresh out of ideas. (pp.125). 

Key words: Wandering outside, knowing a problem, brain push-ups, your mind run, pillow method, real problem

Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills.

Karl Albrecht. (1980) 

Summary: The author helps you develop your ability to think, how to use creative problem solving strategies, in business and in private life. You will learn specific ways for maintaining a positive frame of mind and blocking out negativism in your environment. (pp.305) 

Key words: Mental skills, thoughts, ideas, business world, techniques, feelings

Burn Out: How to Beat the High Cost of Success.

 Herbert J. Freudenberger.

C Zone (The): Peak Performance Under Pressure.

Robert Kriegel and Marilyn Harris Kriegel. (1984) 

Summary: This book is a model for meeting the challenges of the 80's, You will learn why you respond to pressure the way you do, and what you can do about it. It helps you identify your personal trouble spots, exercises and techniques will improve your performance. (pp.138) 

Key words: Behavior, experience, obstacles, confidence, control, programming, yourself, conditioning, belief, feeling, C zone

Career Development in Organizations.

Douglas T. Hall and Associates. (1986) 

Summary: This book details techniques for improving career management programs in organizations as well as methods for effective career planning by individuals. (pp.349) 

Key words: Careers, development, roles, programs, experience, work, researches, theories, studies

Career Dimensions II: Managers Guide.  

Walter Storey. (1986) 

Summary: This book will help people and organizations to do effective career planning. It can be used to plan, execute, and evaluate your career development. (pp.83). 

Key words: Employees, career, development, job, possibilities, new location, manager

Career Dimensions III: Trainer's Guide.

Walter Storey. (1986) 

Summary: This book can be use to plan, execute, and evaluate your career development; employees are better able to provide clarity in their lives and to create more satisfying and productive work environments. (pp.64) 

Key words: Employees, career, development, job, possibilities, new location, manager, skills, satisfaction, environment.

Career Dimensions l Personal Planning Guide.

Walter Storey. (1986) 

Summary: This workbook is designed to help you to select meaningful goals for your life and to determine and accomplish your next career development actions. (pp.139) 

Key words: Career, personal planning, needs, attitudes, interests, personal wants, choices, documentation, work, actions

Career Mastery.

 Harry Levinson.

Changes. Becoming the Best You Can Be.

Gary R. Collins, Bill Cosby, Rick Little, Peggy Mann, Hank Resnik, Charlie W. Shedd, W. Clemont Stone, Barbara Varenhorst. (1985) 

Summary: This book is about the changes, the feelings, the struggles, the surprises, the dreams, and the joys of growing up in the teenage years. (pp.195). 

Key words: Changes, feelings, surprises, dreams, emotions, friends, goals, family, decisions, clothes, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana

Changing Course.

 Maggie Smith.

Co-Dependence: Misunderstood - Mistreated

Anne Wilson Schaef. (1986) 

Summary: This book is an attempt to develop alcoholism, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive personalities, and certain psychoses. It provides an evolving definition of co-dependence and the addictive process, and clarify how co-dependence is related to the addictive process. (pp.103) 

Key words: Co-dependence, implications, decease, addictive, characteristics, treatment, alcoholism, personalities, eating disorders, family, health, school

Conative Connection (The): Uncovering the link between who you are and how you perform. 

Kathy Kolbe. (1990) 

Summary: This book shows you how to reduce what you and other people will and won't do, how to avoid the forms of stress that grow out of misplaced expectations, and how to turn obstacles to productivity into synergy. (pp.209) 

Key words: Instinct, initiative, energy, synergy, intensity, results, mental

Confrontation.

Blank, Gottsegen, and Gottsegen. (1971) 

Summary: This book discusses new encounter techniques and their implications for Psychotherapy, education, and business. It offers thorough descriptions of techniques useful in understanding human potential and facilitating emotional growth. (pp.506) 

Key words: Experience, methods, techniques, education, school, community, industry, groups, technology, cotherapist, catalyst, therapeutist, rehabilitative

Creating Your Future. Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals.

George L. Morrisey.

Creating Your Future: A Guide to Personal Goal Setting.

George A. Ford and Gordon L. Lippitt. 1988) 

Summary: This book includes tools to help people focus and create satisfactions for themselves, and to take more control over their lives. It is a workbook. (pp.128) 

Key words: Lifeline, objectives, goals, risk taking, future, family, career, life planning, personal growth, vision, goal clarity, work

Cynergetics Sixty Minute Success/Wealth Guidebook (The).

Applies Cynergetics. (1989) 

Summary: This guidebook provides a description of the seven applied cynergetics breakthroughs, it is through the cynergetics real word's newsletters, seminars and sessions. (pp.93). 

Key words: Competitors, customers, employees, coworkers, ideas, breakthrough, compromises, success, cynergetics

Cynergetics Special Package of five Bonus.

Applied Cynergetics. (1989). 

Summary: This book offers techniques for advertising your business as well as procuring products and services for your business. It offers sources of professional, legal and financial assistance. (pp.19). 

Key words: Profits, company, authority, customers, products, participation, development, control, solutions

Dealing Successfully with Personal Transition.

William Bridges

DeBono's Thinking Course.

Edward DeBono. (1985) 

Summary: This book covers important aspects of thinking, such as perception, pattern-forming, analysis, creativity and decision making. It has tools and techniques for improving your thinking. (pp.188)

Key words: Intelligence, education, thinking, perception, analysis, communication, emotions, values, decisions, feelings, information

Development of Human Resources.

Robert R. Carkhuff. (1984) 

Summary: This book records an educational adventure into resolving some of the problems of our time. It records the contribution that an agency of a small urban college can make to the development of the surrounding community. (pp.398) 

Key words: Society, human, development, training, relations, organization, community, motivation, participation

Developing Human Resources.

Leonard and Zeace Nadler. (1989)

Summary: This book provides models that can help to organizations in staffing the Human Resources Development (HRD) function, analyzing, performance, and identifying emerging roles. Teachers, students, and research will use the book as a comprehensive guide to understanding the (HRD) field and how it relates to both organizations and society. (pp.258) 

Key words: Humans, resources, development, models, training, education, employee, customers, vendors, applications, implications, consultants

Different Drum (The). Community making and peace.

Summary: In this book, the author shows us how to make the leap from individual growth to small-group community, and ultimately to global community. It describes the exhilarating process by which we join together, whatever our cultural backgrounds and religious beliefs, overcome our prejudices, transcend our differences, and learn to accept and love ourselves and each other. (pp.334). 

Key words: Community, realism, safe place, crisis and community, group of all leaders, pseudocommunity, dynamics of community, community size, behavior, realism, human nature, patterns of transformation, transcending culture

Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow.

Marsha Sinetar. (1987) 

Summary: This is a handbook that shows readers how to follow their own hearts to the work of their dreams. It is at its core a comment about the spiritual aspects of work. It stretches the psychology of work beyond mundane understandings of vocational theory into a developmental commentary about work. (pp.209) 

Key words: Dreams, distinctive self, money, vocation, love, devotion, work

Dont Say Yes When You Want to Say No.

Herbert Fensterheim and Jean Baer. (1975) 

Summary: This book helps you to break from a self-limiting way of life- and become that kind of person who always seems to naturally get his or her due in every situation without being pushy, and being able to say "no" when you want to, and knowing how to express anger and resentment when you have to. (pp.286). 

Key words: Behavior, therapy, personality, goals, relationships, sex, habits, job, group, exercises, communication, sexual variants

Finding Your Purpose. A Guide to Personal Fulfillment.  

Barbara J. Braham. (1991). 

Summary: This book tries to answer the questions: Why I am here? And What is my purpose?. You will embark upon a journey of personal and spiritual growth. (pp.103). 

Key words: How busy are you, work your purpose, your skills, cultivate solitude, talents and skills, develop courage, take risks, risk-taking, your values

Fulfilling Lives- Paths to Maturity and success

Douglas H. Heath with Harriet E. Heath. 

Summary: This book helps you to understand yourselves, determine your goals, and understand the characteristics required to realize potential and achieve satisfaction in life. (pp.384). 

Key words: Success, relationships, marital, partner, sexuality, vocations, intimacy, health, children, mothers, adolescents, woman, school, family, development

Getting Them Through the Wilderness: A Leaders Guide to Transition.

William Bridges

Guide for Career Development Practitioners: Up Is Not the Only Way.

Beverly L. Kaye. (1985) 

Summary: This book defines important human resource development activities to make your career development programs work. It gives exercises, designs, and ideas for implement: preparation, profiling, targeting, strategizing, execution, and integration. (pp.260). 

Key words: Process, options, stages, plans, skills, success, errors, practitioners, profiling

Guide to Career Planning, The Job search, Graduate school, Work-Related Education. 

CPC Annual-Four-Year College Edition (two copies). (1991-92). 

Summary: This book offers advice on how to take stock of yourself, how to identify prospective employers, how to develop effective resumes and letters, how to prepare for interviews, and how to make the final decision. (pp.112). 

Key words: Career, job, search, school, work, education, employers, resume, letters, benefits, plans, companies, economics, market

Guideposts to Meaning: Discovering What Really Matters.

Joseph Fabry. (1988) 

Summary: The author guides you step-by-step in discovering what really matters in your life- the personal meanings, beliefs, and values. (pp. 157) 

Key words: Attitudes, responsibility, marriage, family, groups, goals, dialogue, transcendence

Habits of Highly Effective People (The): Powerful Lessons in Personal Change.

Stephen R. Covey. (1989).

Summary: The author presents an approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes. It reveals pathway for living with famines, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. (pp.340). 

Key words: Leadership, management, communication, cooperation, interdependence, influence

Healing the Masculine Soul

 Gordon Dalbey. (1944) 

Summary: This book calls men to realize masculine courage and strength in all aspects of our lives- as lover of a woman, worker, father, warrior, and church member. The book delineates the need in every boy for a father to call him away from the woman into the company of men, and thereby become grounded in his masculine identity. (pp.210) 

Key words: Man, worker, father, love, sexuality, spirituality, homosexuality, church, sons, daughters, life

Higher Creativity. Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights.  

Willis Harman, Ph.D. and Howard Rheingold. (1984) 

Summary: In this book the authors discuss this self-imposed limitation and argue persuasively for an enlarged image of everyone's creative potential. (pp.226) 

Key words: Creativity, beliefs, religion

How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life.  

Alan Lakein. (1973) 

Summary: This book is a guide to managing your personal and business time; shows how to set short-term and long-term goals, establish priorities, organize a daily schedule, and achieve better self-understanding. (pp.157) 

Key words: Time, priorities, schedules, decisions, planning, lifetime, goals, quiet time, methods, success, save time

How to Get the Degree You Want.  

John Bear Ph.D. (1982) 

Summary: This book describes and discusses every approach known to earring a degree. It describes programs at Colleges and Universities which offer fully-accredited degrees. (pp.258). 

Key words: Education, degrees, methods, financial aid, academic experience, foreign, alternative schools, Doctorates, Masters, Credit, scholarships, requirements, transcripts, accreditation

Human Processing and Human Productivity.  

Robert R. Carkhuff. (1986) 

Summary: This book helps us to learn how to include the foreign and, where appropriate, exclude the familiar and comfortable. The reader will realize a new psychology that can be the property of every person, yet is basic enough to nourish the unique characteristics of us. (pp.155) 

Key words: Human, crises, cultural, industrial, evolution, ages, computer, mechanical, skills, work, organization, productivity, personal growth

Human Resources Revolution: Implementing Progressive Management Practices for Bottom-Line Success.  

Dennis J. Kravetz. (1988) 

Summary: This book how innovations in job design, participates management, flexible work periods, and employee career planning can translate into solid growth in sales, profits, dividends, and earnings per share. (pp.195) 

Key words: Organizations, work, culture, humans, resources, development, roles, relationships, workplaces

If You Don't Know Where You're Going You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else.

David Campbell. (1974) 

Summary: This book will help you understand, appreciate and use the positive assets you have going for you. It helps you to find what you want to do with your life and improve your relationships with family and friends. (pp.138) 

Key words: Job, marriage, company, friends, family, education, talents, intelligence, motivations, experiences, planning

Inner Excellence: Seven Principles to Revitalize Careers and Companies.  

Carol Orsborn. (1992) 

Summary: This book shows you how to break new ground, forging the connection between spirituality and business to revitalize careers and companies. (pp.146) 

Key words: Business, human resources, beliefs, success, limitations

Learning to Learn from Experience.  

Edward Cell. (1984) 

Summary: This book explores the process of learning from experience, showing how it affects one's personality and offers means to cope with feelings of powerlessness and insignificance. It illustrates the interrelationships between experiential and academic learning. (pp.244). 

Key words: Experience, learns, story, models, patterns, skills, tools, emotions, feelings, judgments

Life Skills: Taking Charge of your personal and Professional Growth. 

Richard J. Leider. (1994) 

Summary: This book has ideas of life and work planning, including exercises, and self-assessments. It teaches you how to align your career objectives, talents, and deepest values. (pp. 188) 

Key words: Planning, values, time, career, talents, relationships, money, purpose, health, power

Maintaining Professional Competence: Approaches to Career Enhancement. Vitality. and Success Throughout a Work Life.  

Sherry L. Willis and Samuel S. Dubin. (eds.) (1990) 

Summary: This book presents key developmental approaches to maintaining and enhancing the knowledge and skills of mid career and senior-level professionals, scientists, engineers, faculty, physicians, or managers. (pp.314) 

Key words: Competence, adults, intelligence, motivation professional, environment, techniques, work force

Make All Your Time Quality Time.

Tom Rochester.

Mind Traps: Change Your Mind Change Your Life.

Tom Rusk.

Moral Development.

Ronald Duska and Mariellen Whelan. (1975) 

Summary: The authors offer information about development in moral to parents, educators and adults for their personal lives and their relationships with children and adolescents, and between moral developmental theory and Christian morality. (pp.123). 

Key words: Development, theories, moral, Christianism, judgments, stories, situations, justice, rules, parents, children, adolescents

Overwhelmed - Coping with Life's Ups and Downs.  

Nancy K. Schlossberg. (1989) 

Summary: This book is a guide to dealing with the challenges- expected and unexpected- that accompany change. It offers real-life examples and specific guidelines for responding to the changes welcome, and unwelcome. (pp.148) 

Key words: Transitions, changes, experience, characteristics

People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts.  

Robert Bolton. (1979) 

Summary: The author explains how to acquire the ability to listen, assert yourself, resolves conflicts, and work out problems with others. This is a communication-skills handbook that can help you eliminate these and other communication problems. (pp.295) 

Key words: Communication, love, success, work, changes, solutions, listening, hearing, feelings, body language, relationships, messages, control, conflicts, emotions, empathy

Principles of Human Resource Development. 

Jerry W. Gilley and Steven A. Eggland. (1989). 

Summary: This book addresses the key questions to understanding HRD. It explains what HRD id, including individual, career, and organizational development, and how these areas interrelate with one another. It also examines the roles of HRD manager, learning specialist, instructional designer, and consultant. 

Key words: Human resource development, concept, evolution of HRD, purpose, components, learning activities, law, language, HRD manager, learning specialist, instruction in HRD, the consultant, program planning, design, evaluation, needs assessment, HRD consulting, philosophy

Quick Job-Hunting Map (The).

Richard N. Bolles. (Booklet). (1985) 

Summary: This book is for anyone unsure of what their skills are- the mid- career change, the housewife or the student. (pp.57). 

Key words: Job, career, housewife, student, skills, goals, organization, level

Recovery from Loss

Lewis Tagliaferre and Gary L. Harbaugh, Ph.D. (1990) 

Summary: This book helps you to accept the reality of the loss, to experience the pain of grief, to adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing, and to withdraw emotional energy and reinvest it in new relationship. (pp.184) 

Key words: Feelings, substitute, detach, reconstruct, grief, personalities, relationships, families, loss, acknowledge

Real Power.  

Janet Hagberg. (1984) 

Summary: This book is for individuals who aspire to power, who long to understand what power really is; for leader, to provoke their thinking about what true leadership is; for organizations, as a practical tool for developing people and vision for organizations, as a practical tool for developing people and vision for the future. (pp.266). 

Key words: Power, powerlessness, leadership, women, men, power, organizations, association

Resume Kit (The).  

Richard Beatty. (1991) 

Summary: This book helps you in capturing the personnel executive's attention and landing that important interview. It provides advises for those with special problems: unemployed, fired, handicapped, too many jobs. (pp.285). 

Key words: Employment, manger, myths, Resumes, letters

Resumes That Work - How to Sell Yourself on Paper 

Loretta D. Foxman by Walter L. Polsky 

Summary: This book shows you how to maximize the effectiveness how to sell professionally sell yourself, your experience, and your expertise on paper. (pp.96). 

Key words: Goals definition, inventory, skills, letters, employment, career, future, resumes, preparation, job, employment

Return to Love (A).  

Marianne Williamson. (1992) 

Summary: This book is about the practical application of love, and about the practice of love as a daily answer to the problems that confront us, whether our psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health. (pp. 260). 

Key words: Hell, God, you, work, the body, miracles, surrender, heaven, relationships

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change.  

Stephen R. Covey. (1989) 

Summary: This book reveals how or actions follow from who we are. It shows how we can end self-defeating behavior at home and at work. (pp.340) 

Key words: Leadership, personal, principles, communication, cooperation, interdependence, dependence, habits

Six Action Shoes.  

Edward de Bono. (1991) 

Summary: This book lets us identify different situations in business or life situations so that we can take control of them and respond in the most effective way possible. It offers styles, actions and methods. (pp. 174). 

Key words: Business, life, situations, control, styles, actions, methods, routines, investigation, information, motivation, actions

Smart Moves: 14 Steps to Keep Any Boss Happy; 8 Ways to Start Meetings on Time; and 1600 More Tips to Get the Best from Yourself and the People Around You.  

Sam Deep and Lyle Sussman. (1990) 

Summary: This book has the moves for every task manager face-writing reports, resolving conflicts, budgeting time, hiring employees, and more. It includes checklists of tips, rules, techniques, and strategies. (pp.247) 

Key words: Communication, listening, techniques, managers, speech, reading, leadership, rules, strategies, meetings, quality, productively, interviews, organization, Boos, time, success

Stepping Up to Supervisor.

Marion E. Haynes. (1987) 

Summary: This book helps you in your new work as supervisor, and provides focus, direction and stimulation in your development. (170) 

Key words: Boss, authority, communication, dealing, planning, projects, activities, rules, training, employee, work, productivity, skills, career, guide

Straight Talk: A Guide to Saying More With Less.

Robert Maidment. (1983) 

Summary: This book offers a look at the most common pitfalls of communication, examining the conscious and unconscious ways we confuse, mislead, and frustrate one another. (pp.109). 

Key words: Power sources, planning, sarcasm, acceptance, incentives, feelings, statements, humor, messages, confidence

Surviving the Survivor Syndrome.

William Bridges

Take the Road to Creativity and Get Off Your Dead End.  

David Campbell. (1985) 

Summary: This book shows how you can become a genuinely creative person, while the author emphasizes that the road to creativity is paved with work, energy, and a willingness to take risks. (pp.129) 

Key words: Creativity, people, organizations, risks, financial, intellectual, sexual, families, children,communication

Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself.

Richard D. Carson.

Thinkertoys.  

Michael Michalko, (1991) 

Summary: This book will teach you to generate ideas for new businesses, new products and product extensions, new markets, and new sales techniques. It outlines techniques which can be used by individuals, or in meetings and brainstorming sessions. (pp.334) 

Key words: Businesses, new products, new markets, new extensions, new sales, techniques, sales, small business, people, government, ideas, persons, tips, creative

Thinking Body, Dancing Mind.  

Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch. (1992) 

Summary: This book is a synthesis of Eastern philosophy and western techniques that can transform the way you think. By mastering the strategies and mental exercises of Tao Athlete, you'll be able to unlock the powers of body, mind, and spirit. (pp.294) 

Key words: Sports, philosophy, Taosports, foundation, beliefs, relaxation, intuition, fear, success, injuries, expectations, perfectionism, winning, motivation, leadership, athletics

Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them (The).

Richard N. Bolles. (1981) 

Summary: In this book the author demonstrates that our lives are rigidly defined into three periods based on primary activity-education, work, and retirement. The author provides a structure to deal with the transition into each of three periods. (pp.461)

Key words: Life, learns, work, planning, myths, students, careers, education

Up the HRD Ladder: A Guide for Professional Growth.  

Neal Chalofsky and Carnie Ives Lincoln. (1983) 

Summary: In this book the authors cover the skills necessary to be effective in Human Resource Development (HRD), a clear definition or HRD, the roles, activities, and competencies of HRD professionals as well as personal ethics. (pp.147) 

Key words: Profession, career, development, roles, activities, planning, life, alternatives, effort, activities, resources

Understanding the Enneagram

Don Richard Riso. (1990) 

Summary: This book teaches reader more about the subtle sophisticated system of the Enneagram, a geometric symbol that reveals the nine basic personality types of human nature and their complex interrelationships. (pp.274) 

Key words: Personality, development, essence, spirituality, changes

Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential.

Charles T. Tart. (1986) 

Summary: This book is based in Gurdjieff's notion that most people are, spiritually speaking, asleep-entranced automatons controlled by mechanical habits of thought, perception, and behavior. It presents spiritual exercises and practices. (pp.313) 

Key words: Hypnosis, awakening, consciousness, work, compassion, spiritualism, God, reality, emotions, Defense Mechanisms

What a Great Idea! 

Charles "Chic" Thompson. (1992). 

Summary: This book will teach you how to challenge the assumptions you hold that stifle your creativity, freeing to discover you innate innovative abilities. You will also learn about the step necessary to get from brainstorming to finished product: freedom, expression, creation, and action. (pp.216). 

Key words: freedom, expression, creation, action, creative muscles, innovation, challenging assumptions, metaphorical thinking, exploring the problem, nature of creativity

What Smart People Do When Losing Their Jobs.  

Kathleen A. Riekle. (1991) 

Summary: This book offers how to survive with no income for as long as 12 months; how to find a new and better job, including surefire resume and interviewing techniques; and how to prepare yourself and your family for imminent jog loss. (pp.175). 

Key words: Emotions, spouse, unemployment, family, finances, security, job, Resumes, savings, office, humor, feelings, expectations, decisions

When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success.  

Carloe Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb. (1987) 

Summary: This book tells you the most common reasons people fail; the stages of failure, shock, fear, anger and blame, shame, and despair- and how to through each one; How expand your choices; How to forgive and "reinvents" yourself after a setback. (pp.236) 

Key words: Failure, reinventing, yourself, choices, suggestions, steps

Where Do I Go From Here With My Life.  

John C. Crystal and Richard N. Bolles. (1974) 

Summary: This book was designed to give anyone much greater mobility within, or in and out of, the world of work. It is helpful to people who are not job-hunting, but who want to better establish their goals and increase in use of their talents. (pp.245) 

Key words: Students, liberal arts, housewives, professionals, engineers, minority, men, women, careers, job, productive, occupations, retirement, instructors, counselors

Winning the Innovation Game.  

Denis E. Waitley. (1989) 

Summary: This book teaches you to become a trend-spotter, make intuition your internal navigation system, develop your own breakthrough idea, become a prudent risk taker, build a team of supporters. (pp.212) 

Key words: Winners, changes, innovations, skills, student, success, work, creativity, technique, opportunities, ideas

Worklife Visions.  

Jeffrey J. Hallett. (1987) 

Summary: This book shows how the information economy, and its affect on work, careers and education. The author examines the shift from industrial to information economy and the fundamental changes it will cause in the workplace. (pp.209) 

Key words: Careers, economy, employees, environment, work, tools, future, technology, productivity, quality, excellence, work life, relationships, leaderships, education

You Don't have to go home from work exhausted!

Ann McGee-Cooper with Duane Trammell and Barbara Lau.

Summary: This book shows how to guide for energizing your work habits, thinking patterns, work environment, morning routine, commute time, evening and weekend playtime, relationships, and overall approach to life. (pp.349).

Key words: Energy, myths, dreams, work, play, vitality, fun, environment, energizing, personal, balance.

Last Updated: August 23, 2000
Contact: Kaela Postma at postma@iastate.edu