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Book Review: On Change Management – HBR Series on Management

Authors: John P. Kotter, David A. Garvin, Michael A. Roberto, Paul Hemp, Thomas A, Stewart, Debra E. Meyerson, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Michael Beer, Nitin Nohria, Harold L. Sirkin, Perry Keenan, Alan Jackson, Russell Eisenstat and Bert Spector Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 210 pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram We have read often that growth cannot occur without change. Human beings typically resist change because it takes them out of their comfort zone. Most people want to stay in their comfort zone. This is why there...

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U.S. Job Growth in May Was Negligible. 3 Million Jobs Lost Since June 2008

By Katie Eder – NJ Biz May 31, 2012 – Ahead of tomorrow’s monthly jobs report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, private-sector nonfarm employment grew by 133,000 jobs in the United States in May, according to data released today by Roseland, New Jersey-based Automatic Data Processing, which revised its April worker increase down from the initial report of 119,000 to 113,000. (BIZ INDIA Editor’s Note: To get some perspective, 133,000 jobs is a gain of less than one-thousandth of one percent (.009) of the total U.S. workforce of 142,058,809 people today. In other words, relatively negligible growth. This...

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Book Review: On Managing People – HBR Series on Management

Authors: Daniel Goleman, Frederick Herzberg, Jean-Francois Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Carol A.Walker, Marcus Buckinghm, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Chris Argyris, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Max H. Bazerman, Dolly Chugh, Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith, John J. Gabarro, and John P. Kotter – Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 224 pages – Article Featured on the Cover: Leadership That Gets Results, by Daniel Goleman – Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram – If you ask anyone what leadership qualities are needed on successfully managing people, you will probably get as many answers as the number of people you ask. But Daniel...

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Fear Washington’s Inability to Rein in Spending, and Leaders’ Inability to Admit U.S. Government is Broke

By Larry Edelson – Weiss Research For weeks now I have been describing to you every step that China has been taking to make its currency, the yuan, a world class, international currency. Thing is, you shouldn’t fear it. China’s economy, by some measures, is already the largest in the world. So its currency deserves to be a vital part of today’s monetary system. Plus, China is not out to destroy the United States economy. China needs the U.S. just as much as the U.S. needs China. So I for one can hardly blame China for taking the necessary...

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Book Review: The Art of Phlebotomy: Claiming Your Personal Power

Author: Lucien G. Prince, MD, MBA Publisher: AuthorHouse – 118 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This is a very well-organized and detailed book on the art of phlebotomy or drawing blood and other related work. The procedure of drawing blood is also known as venipuncture. Do phlebotomy and venipuncture refer to the same thing – drawing blood? Pretty much, after having checked several medical terminology books, but there are some differences. Phlebotomy typically refers to this particular field of medicine and its practitioners are called phlebotomists, who puncture a vein to draw blood, inject medicine or feed a...

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