January 2011
Beginner
294 pages
5h 28m
English
book
The Information and Knowledge Professional's Career Handbook
by Ulla de Stricker, Jill Hurst-Wahl
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At the end of the movie The Time Machine, H.G. Wells returns to the future and takes three books with him. Although his friends wonder what books he chose, the real question becomes what books they each would take if they had been in his shoes. If Ulla and Jill had been in H.G. Wells’ position, here are the books they would have selected:
Carnegie, DaleHow To Win Friends and Influence People. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. [First published in 1937 and republished multiple times since].
De Bono, EdwardSix Thinking Hats. New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1999.
Gelb, Michael J. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. New York: Dell Publishing; 1998.
Gerber, Michael. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small ...
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