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Resources
Whether you are a client or visitor to Brilliance Within, it is one of our core values to make every experience with us an enriching one. The following are resources to support you in your growth. We hope you find them as valuable as we have. In addition to these references, we have a tremendous network of resources to support you in almost every aspect of business and life. Call or contact us to take advantage of this free service.
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Recommended Books
| Art of Possibility by Rosamund Zander & Benjamin Zander
This amazing book provides the reader with deceptively simple practices based on two premises: that life is composed as a story ("it's all invented") and that, with new definitions, much more is possible than people ordinarily think. The book shifts our perspective with uplifting stories, parables, and anecdotes from the authors' personal experiences as well as from famous and everyday heroes. From "Giving an A," to the mysterious "Rule Number 6," to "Leading from Any Chair" -- the account of Ben's stunning realization that the conductor/leader's power is directly linked to how much greatness he is willing to grant to others -- each practice offers an opportunity for personal and organizational transformation.
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
In a book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success, W. Chan Kim and Ren e Mauborgne argue that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors, but from creating "blue oceans": untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. Such strategic moves-which the authors call "value innovation"- create powerful leaps in value that often render rivals obsolete for more than a decade.
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Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath
Made to Stick is a book that will transform the way you communicate ideas. It's a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures) the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of "the Mother Teresa Effect"; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas andtells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.
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Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
Leadership is all about people. It doesn't matter if it is leading a family, a business or an organization like a church. A significant key to success is the ability to form, develop, influence and build credible relationships. In the book Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi argues that what distinguishes the highly successful leader from most other people is the way they build relationships.
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Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer
Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this book. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This book explores intention-not as something you do-but as an energy you're a part of. We're all intended here through the invisible power of intention. This is the first book to look at intention as a field of energy that you can access to begin co-creating your life with the power of intention.
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Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing by Thomas M. Koulopoulos, Tom Roloff
Smartsourcing goes beyond outsourcing by showing companies how to partner with service providers strategically-to not only cut costs but increase innovation as well. Rather than moving the work to where the least expensive workers are, Smartsourcing shows you how to abandon the status quo-and make outsourcing an opportunity to improve operations across the full spectrum of your business. The first book to be ahead of the curve, Smartsourcing is the hands-on guide every manager needs to capitalize on one of the most important shifts in business today.
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It
Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a business and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether it is a franchise or not. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.
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Other Links
| A Case for Coaching
Coaching produced a 529% return on investment (ROI) and significant intangible benefits to the business. The study provided powerful new insights into how to maximize the business impact from executive coaching.
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Beyond Outsourcing to Smartsourcing by Robert Malone
This interview with Tom Koulopoulos, founder and CEO of the Delphi Group--the management and technology arm of Perot Systems -- and author of the recently published book Smartsourcing, from Platinum Press provides an incisive view of world trade and the part played by suppliers and manufacturers as they move from bringing workers to the work to taking work to where the workers are.
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International Coach Federation
The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the largest worldwide resource for business and personal coaches, and the source for those who are seeking a coach. The ICF maintains a high visibility for the profession through public relations, publicity campaigns, marketing strategies and the Coach Referral Service (CRS). developed and promotes an industrywide Code of Professional Standards. ICF also developed the first universally accepted Accreditation process which will preserve the integrity of coaching through standardized credentials that will assist consumers in choosing professional coaches.
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Making Your Dream Job Come True
Goldman Sachs' Mark Tercek left a senior investment banking position for his dream job. How he did it and how you can do the same. This is an inspiring model for everyone who longs to land their dream job and provide bottom-line hints on getting there.
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My Stroke of Insight
This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. I was personally moved to consider making a greater connection in my world and stepping into my "right" brain more often.
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