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Terry the elephant farts everywhere she goes and her best friends finally decide that she …
I remember reading this to my kids years ago I don't think they got the "toots" double entendre
Change Your Stories - Change Your Life
This book is about helping people choose to be an "everyday hero". It is told in the format of a parable.
No one is free from challenges both at work and life. we all have tough moments, times when we become angry and frustrated with the world.
The key message in this book is not that 'stories' are a panacea. We cannot solve all our problems by living in a 'fantasy' world. However, the tools discussed in the book, can help the reader tell better stories, and by telling better stories, can lead us back onto a path of happiness and success.
The book follows the fictional character 'Jeff', described as a 'good guy with talent and high hopes'. Although the story is fictional, you may find it easy to relate. On Jeff's journey he meets an old friend 'Martin' and who teaches …
Change Your Stories - Change Your Life
This book is about helping people choose to be an "everyday hero". It is told in the format of a parable.
No one is free from challenges both at work and life. we all have tough moments, times when we become angry and frustrated with the world.
The key message in this book is not that 'stories' are a panacea. We cannot solve all our problems by living in a 'fantasy' world. However, the tools discussed in the book, can help the reader tell better stories, and by telling better stories, can lead us back onto a path of happiness and success.
The book follows the fictional character 'Jeff', described as a 'good guy with talent and high hopes'. Although the story is fictional, you may find it easy to relate. On Jeff's journey he meets an old friend 'Martin' and who teaches him about the three types of stories we tell ourselves, and how to 'flip the script' by asking the simple question - If this were a 'story' - What would the hero do? The answer helps us turn the event into something that we are a part of creating, not something that 'happened to us', and gives particle advice on how to make things work 'for us' not 'against us'.
The Goal is about new global principles of manufacturing. It's about people trying to understand …
Eli Goldratt & Jeff Cox brings to the business world, what Albert Einstein brought to Physics. In his book the character of Alex learns about the Theory of Constraints from his mentor 'Jonah'. Through a series of events (and stresses) in Alex's life, he carefully examines the ongoing processes within the fictional company of Unico and to what extent these processes meet 'The Goal'.
This was my first business novel, and it is what lead me to many other business novels down the road..sort of the 'gateway drug' of the business novel.
You can read more at blog.geekwisdom.org/p/book-notes-goal-process-of-ongoing.html