Books and Other Reading Material Recommended by Billiken Group
One Piece of Paper
Mike Figliuolo
Leadership seems complicated to many. With competing philosophies and methods, as well as a rapidly changing workplace, is it possible to clearly, succinctly, and simply convey your personal approach to leading others?
One Piece of Paper provides an authentic, accessible model for any leader to do just that. Simple, applicable, and without pretense, it’s real leadership for the real world.
One Piece of Paper guides you through a simple approach for creating, articulating, and living your personal leadership philosophy—one that can be shared on a single piece of paper. Figliuolo’s model distills leadership to four easy-to-understand aspects.
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The Drucker Lectures
Peter F. Drucker and Rick Wartzman
Drawn from the Drucker Archives at the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, these 30 lectures—collected, edited, and with an introduction by Rick Wartzman, the Institute's Executive Director—open new windows into our understanding of Peter Drucker's life's work and tremendous legacy. Focusing on many topics germane to effectively and ethically managing large institutions, this book also offers a glimpse of Drucker's wisdom, wit, profundity, and prescience.
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A Compass To Fulfillment
Kazuo Inamori
The international bestseller A Compass to Fulfillment is a spiritual business guide particularly relevant to our present day and age.
Kazuo Inamori, founder of Kyocera and KDDI, weaves together his Buddhist faith and personal experience to create a life/business philosophy based on the simplest but most profound of human concepts: do the right thing, always. Inamori credits his and his companies’ extraordinary success to the daily practice of this timeless truth.
In A Compass to Fulfillment, the author helps you develop your own personal philosophy for success by:
- Recognizing your deepest desires and using them to create a better reality
- Informing all decisions with simple truths and principles
- Elevating your mind and practicing humility
- Living your life steered by an attitude of selfless service
- Controlling the trajectory of your life by accepting the “will of the universe”
A Compass to Fulfillment is about strategic thinking, but not in the sense of business and management technicalities. It is about, first, understanding yourself, and then using that knowledge to get to the point you want to be— in your career, in your business, and in your life.
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Computers and Communications - A Vision of C&C
Koji Kobayashi
In this book, Kobayashi puts forth one of his practical and realizable visions: C&C, or the perfect union of computers and communications. Integrating them has become possible because both now involve the processing of digitalized information through semiconductor circuits. Here he describes a remarkably ambitious C&C project that is unlikely to reach the pay-off point until early in the next century: the automatic interpretation telephone system.
With such a system in place, a caller in Washington can dial a party in Tokyo (or Moscow) and the conversation will be automatically translated into Japanese (or Russian) on one side and into English on the other. Kobayashi's commitment to this development is based on his conviction that it will do more than simply speed up the flow of information - far more important, it will enhance the free exchange of ideas and international understanding.
He points out that since this system involves the integration and synthesis of most of the technologies appropriate to computer and communications design, its development will serve "as an effective index for the progress of C&C." Some of the needed technologies, such as digital speech generation and multifont optical character recognition are rapidly being realized, while others such as general purpose machine translation and large vocabulary speaker independent speech recognition will take longer.
The future that Kobayashi envisions is in fact deeply rooted in the past he reviews - his own, NEC's, Japan's. For Western readers, this will be one of the most fascinating aspects of the book, providing a rare glimpse into the development of a major Japanese industrial corporation from the point of view of its top management.
This book is out of print, but may be available at some outlets. Click on the above image of the book to check the inventory at Barnes & Noble.