"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 
This is my favorite part of the website. I get to share my unconventional ideas with you. I am going to update this page as my research continues. These white-papers will show the ideals I think are most useful/needed in today's workplace.

Traci Totino, PhD
Co-Arthur of Speaking of Success


 

Employing Strategy

Generations of Success

Life Cycles

Shift Happens
The Lifetime Value of A Customer
Saving Good People from Bad Meetings
Managing People is Environmentally Correct Part 1
Managing People is Environmentally Correct Part 2

High-Impact Business Reading

 

The following recommended texts (both classic and new) cover nearly all aspects of modern business, business basics, business history and effective management theory:

Title

Author(s)

 

 
 
The One-Minute Manager – Anniversary Edition

Ken Blanchard
Spencer Johnson
 
 
The HR Answer Book Shawn Smith,JD
Rebecca Mazin
 
 
Getting to Innovation Arthur B. VanGundy  
 
First Time Manager Loren B. Belker
Gary S. Topchik
 
 
Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt  
 
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey  
Good To Great:
Why Some Companies Make The Leap … And Others Don’t

Jim Collins

 
 
Out of the Crisis W. Edwards Deming  
 
Understanding The Corporate Annual Report Lyn Fraser  
 
Execution:
The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Larry Bossidy

 
 
What The CEO Wants You To Know Ram Charan  
 
Winning Jack Welch (GE)  
 
The Five Dysfunctions of A Team Patrick Lencioni  
 
The Little Red Book of Selling:
Principles of Sales Greatness
Jeffrey Gitomer
 
 
Economics In One Lesson:
The Shortest and Surest Way To Understand
 Basic Economics
Harry Hazlitt

 
 
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership  John Maxwell  
 
2000 Tips For Trainers and Staff Developers RACE  
 
The Essential Drucker Peter Drucker  
 
Working With Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman  
 
Getting to YES
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher
 
 
The Ten Day M.B.A.
A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills
Taught In America’s Top Business Schools
Steven Silbiger

 
 
How To Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

 
 
Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
 David Allen
 
 
Essentials of Accounting

Robert Anthony
Leslie Breitner
 
 
The Art of Project Management Scott Berkun  
 
On Writing Well:
The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction
William Zinsser
 
 
Crucial Conversations:
Tools For Talking When The Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson
 
 
A Primer On Business Ethics
Tibor Machan
James Chesher
 
 
The 80/20 Principle:
Success by Achieving More With Less
Richard Koch
 
 
Principles of Statistics  M.G. Bulmer  
 
American Business 1900-2000:
How It Worked
Thomas McCraw
 
 
Brand New:
How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers Trust
From Wedgewood To Dell
Nancy Koehn

 
 
How To Read A Financial Report John Tracy  
 
Influence:
The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
 

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