Book Reviews
Recommended books
The combination of SMC’s longstanding industry experience and passion for training means that our commitment to leading developmental programmes in the sector is not only limited to ourselves.
To that end, we are constantly observing the plethora of additional training options in the market and evaluating them with our trademark eye for detail. We are able to recommend an extensive list of courses, reading material and business products to our clients, which we believe will serve as the ideal accompaniment to the training on the e-learning courses.
Our market research has identified the following books and articles to complement the services we provide:
Book Reviews
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
A very useful book that provides an antidote to the crazy business of modern life. An engaging easy to read book full of practical tips on developing a more focussed and productive life.
Chapters cover focus on goals, overcoming barriers to focus, successful time management strategies. The best part of the book is the [...]
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The author defines flow as the positive aspect of human experience that encompasses joy, creativity, the process of total involvement with life.
In his search to understand what conditions are necessary for someone to experience flow he has come to a rather profound answer that perhaps we always really knew but often reject as it [...]
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
I do like the MindGym, from their eye catching and clever branding to the well researched and organised books that I seem to keep having to go back to and dip into. I also like how their books are organised so you choose which order to read them and they guide you to what is [...]
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
I have never lost my love of history. I am always constantly dumfounded how often the lessons from history are not learned and mistakes are repeated.
Therefore, this is a book I was immediately drawn to when it was first published back in the 90’s. This book blends lessons from great historial events and draws [...]
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
My copy of this book was given to me as a prize. Interestingly, I had the choice of prizes, the book or a bottle of whiskey. As the giver of the prize was an HR professional, and as I have learnt from experience never to trust anyone from HR*. I knew the choice was some [...]
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
This book compliments the discussions in the Achieving Focus lesson.
This lesson will help you understand:
The Success Factors for High Achievers
How to Set Inspirational Goals
How to develop Your Own Commitment to Achievement
About techniques to build up your own Resolution to recover from set backs
The importance of Continually developing your own competences
How to Use the Pursuit of Happiness [...]
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman tackle how good managers create and sustain employee satisfaction in First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. The book is a result of observations based on 80,000 interviews with managers as conducted by the Gallup Organization in the last 25 years.
The book provides a great [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Old sales adage ’sell first your company then your product then you’.
Stephen Covey’s best-selling book presents a framework to improve you and your personal effectiveness. Simply scanning the pages and stripping out some of the key phrases from the text;
Pro-activity
Thinking win-win
Seeking first to understand and then to be understood
Synergise; seeking a solution based on mutual [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
On 29th September 1996, 14 identical yachts left Southampton to participate in ‘The worlds Toughest Yacht Race’ - the BT Global Challenge - a 30,000 mile journey round the world the ‘wrong way’. Each yacht was led by professional skippers but was crewed by teams of volunteers. Many of these had limited sailing experience prior [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Sir Earnest Shackleton was one of the greatest explorers and leaders of men in the 20th Century. In 1914 Shackleton organised an expedition team to the Antarctic, when their ship the Endurance became wrecked he led the 27 strong team through a two-year long harrowing fight for their survival. Despite finding himself stranded 1200 miles [...]
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