Day: March 2, 2015

Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy – How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

Authors: W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 287 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book is a bestseller on www.Amazon.com. It has a super high rank with just four digits: 2,337. In Amazon’s marketplace where tens of millions of books are sold, this is a very enviable position to be in. A book’s ranking on Amazon rises as more copies are sold. The authors write that in the 10 years since it was published, more than 3.5 million copies of this  book have been sold. There is good reason why it has...

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Book Review: Introduction to Counseling, 8th edition

Editors: Jeffrey A. Kottler and David S. Shepard Publisher: Cengage Learning – 536 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Jeffrey Kottler and David Shepard wrote this book to offer a unique student-centered approach to the study of counseling, both to those who are intending to make it their career, as well as others who want to possibly consider this profession by discovering what counseling is all about. The authors lament that most books on counseling lack the “personalized warmth and sensitivity that is the basis of our profession.” They write that very often, “education emphasizes theoretical knowledge and scholarly...

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