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Book selection for leaders

	Laura Komócsin 77 TRUE STORIES OF EXECUTIVES FROM COACHES AND COUNSELLORS (Hungarian) „Very amusing stories, which are worth reading by enjoyong a cup of coffee. Managers can learn much more from this than the dry-as-dust books on management” Dr. György Beck, CEO, Vodafone Hungary. You can order this book at info@businesscoach.hu for 4990 HUFs including shipping.
	Laura Komócsin METHODOLGICAL HANDBOOK for Coaches and Coaching-Approach Executives(Hungarian) „Concise, credible, comprehensible and practical. Together these are especially of great virtue in coaching. Reading this book makes you managing your people with coaching-approach and being assisted by a professional coach at the same time. We tried and tested it, it works!” Orsolya Sekerka, Development Manager, Pannon
	Manfred Gellert - Claus Nowak TEAMWORK-Team Building-Team Coaching A Practical guide to working in and with teams+ CD-ROM. The only training book on teambuilding in Hungarian! Rich teorethical work and 65 training exercises. What do we mean by ’team’? Are two people a team? And what if there are 20 people? What makes a team outstanding? The answers can be found in this book!
	Detlev Blenk Inhalte auf den Punkt gebracht Often it is easier to transfer the meaning of our thoughts with one short story, rather than with thousand smart words. So things fall into place more easily. Moreover, those who tell these stories in the right time and place, with great enthusiasm, not seldom reveal opportunities that otherwise would remain undetected.
	David Noonan Aesop and the CEO: Powerful Business Lessons from Aesop and America's Best Leaders In a clever melding of modern business sense and ancient wisdom, David Noonan has used the animal-based stories of Aesop as springboards to launch these 50 lessons. The short, easy-to-read vignettes cover every aspect of corporate life: negotiations, hiring and firing, mergers and acquisitions, marketing and sales, and day-to-day management.
	Michael Michalko Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck This ingenious pack of brainstorming cards was developed to assist people in stimulating their creativity and foster new and different ideas. It is a great tool for coming up with creative ideas for developing new (or changing existing) products, services, names, businesses, processes, marketing materials, etc. --- anything you need to think about in fresh, new ways.
	dr. Andrea Bencsik Human Side of Knowledge Management(Hungarian) Knowledge Management (KM) is a more and more often mentioned term both in management researches and corporate practice. Only those organizations can survive in knowledge-based economy, who have up-to-date knowledge and can use itas well.
A könyvre kattintva kedvezményesen megvásárolhatja !	John Whitmore Coaching for Performance (People Skills for Professionals) This book helps to master the skills, routine and art of good coaching, recognize it’s fantastic values and the ability to explore the opportunities in people to maximize their performance.
	John M. Huntsman Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten) Timely topic in our profit-oriented world. As the author is a positive and successful person, the book focuses on these human values. He believes that the only way to success in the long run is to play fair and square, which is exemplified by his own career told in the book. Not only does it help finding the way in the ethical maze of the business world, but presents useful management techniques too.
	Gyula Pulay The beloved leader(Hungarian) What stages lead one to the state, where most of his employees like him, are satisfied having him as a boss and don’t want to exchange him for an other? This question, sometimes unexpressedly, is asked by many people appointed with leading others. The clear principles and examples of the author help understand the appropiate leadership methods and behaviours and also avoid inappropiate ones.
	Gyula Pulay The beloved leader at home(Hungarian) How can an executive appointment of the husband or wife become a means of binding their marriage more closely together? A practical advisory book with lots of personal examples and stories, illustrations. The author is a father of a large family and worked through three governmential periods as educational under-secretary. A piece of advise from the book: at promotion/pay raise buy champaigne/flowers for your wife to express your gratitude for her support.
	Timothy Ferriss The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich The author spent more than five years to pick up the secrets ofthe New Rich, who discarded the pleasure of adjourned life (drudging, skimping, retiring) and instead mastered to handle the new currencies of time and mobility in order to create a luxurious lifestyle without any further ado. "The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work? A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it!" DEAL Definition of fundaments Elimination of obstacles Automation of processes Liberation from restrictions
	Kristy Ginman Be Your Own Confidence Coach: Banish Self-Doubt and Boost Self-Esteem Self-esteem is crucial in success and happiness. If you really come round with yourself, you can reach everything, but if you struggle with self-doubt, everything seems out of reach. The book provides several easy but efficient ideas and techniques that help banish self-doubt and boost self-esteem.
	Lívia Mohás Who knows what success is?(Hungarian) Dealing reasonably with our most inner life is not a waste of time, but as important as our personal hygiene, fitness or creating a safe housing. This book is for smart teenagers and adolescents– and for those, may they be hundred years old, who remained teenagers. They didn’t stop exploring, but want to place themselves in the waste universe and understand: ’Who am I?’. And sometimes speculating: ’What is this all for if someday it’ll all end?’ Among others the book covers the hidden drives of our behaviour, the success-oriented man, ’winners’ and ’losers’, death as the final failure and even the question: is it worth being agressive in the interest of success?
	McCormack, Mark H. What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive Do we need business tricks in every situation? Searching stubbornly the key of everything to gain an advantage? Exploiting every relationship for maximum profit? Am I as ruthless as I think of myself? Partly yes, partly no. Yes, because I believe in my written advises, and no, because I don’t use them all the time – tells us the author.
	Marcus Buckingham és Donald O. Clifton Now, Discover Your Strengths This book gives insight how abilities can be improved to strengths in a comprehensible, yet scientifically based way. This and the StrengthsFinder test standing inthe focus of the book and also available online with instant feedback, make this work the most useful and most modern business handbook.
	Marcus Buckingham és Donald O. Clifton First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently This book is about excellent managers. Specific examples guide the reader in the real life of real managers, and show how they assist, motivate and develop their employees. Excellent managers turn talent into efficiency. They transform their mediocre company into an excellent company and their employees into excellent co-workers.
	Jim Collins Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?"Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time.Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not so great, the book offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence that any organization would do well to consider.
	Lois P. Frankel Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers Dr. Lois P. Frankel is the president of Corporate Coaching International as well as the author of several books and numerous articles. She is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of workplace behavior of women. Besides dealing with the executives and managers of Fortune 100 companies, with over twenty years of experience in human resources development, she is a frequently invited guest on talk radio, television, conferences, corporate workshops, and retreats.
	Stephen R. Covey The 7 habits of highly effective people Rightly is this the most successful and most demanded management book of the world. After it’s 1989 publication, over 15 million copies were sold and was translated to 38 different languages.
	Rob Parson The Sixty Minute Father: How Time Well Spent Can Change Your Child's Life No one ever said on their death bed, "I wish I would have spent one more day at the offce." The author concisely and ingeniously sets goals for fathers that prevent them from losing the biggest opportunity of their life and thus be left out from the lives of their children. The book can be read in one hour, but will change the whole life of our children. „A book for busy fathers that every mother wants to read.”
	Amelia Thomas 132 - Seize the Days Seize your life, because you have only one, break out of monotonity! – is the main message of the book. You have 132 days for this, as this is the total of weekends, time-offs and payed holidays in Great Britain. Even a few days more in Hungary. This may seem far more just to spend it sitting in front of the box or even worse – doing overtime. The author provides a variety of ideas from exploiting the lunch break (some of the tips: one-hour cooking course, Buddhist meditation, steel pole strip course) to programs of several months (surviving tour in Guyana, volunteering in Africa or learning the finger-alphabet, because travel is also meant as an inner travel). Like a devil on the shoulder, the author always whispers in our ears: ’Work less!’ and gives advices how to convince our boss that he/she also benefits letting us go one month off to the Himalayas. As a last resort, we can ask for unpaid leave.