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Published on March 14, 2008

By Liker and Hoseus

Price : Bt1,100

To become the Toyota of your industry, it is vital to emulate not only the company's process, but to learn from its company-wide culture. Toyota has changed the economic and business landscape and in "The Toyota Way", Jeffrey K Liker explains that this success was the result of consistently applying four key management principles for organisational excellence - philosophy, people, problem solving and process. In "Toyota Talent", Liker and co-author Mike Hoseus explain how people are trained to perform their jobs at exceptional levels. Now Liker and Hoseus delve even deeper to explore how Toyota creates and maintains a culture that sustains consistent growth, innovation, profitability and mutual prosperity between the company and its employees. Liker skillfully weaves 25 years of experience studying Toyota with the insider experience of Hoseus and the Centre for Quality People and Organisations, a group founded to teach the Toyota Way to outside organisations and support training at Toyota. "Toyota Culture" helps your company change their culture so that individuals at all levels can achieve exceptional results.

Available at Asia Books

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Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success

By Brian Tracy

Price: Bt798

In "Flight Plan", Brian Tracy reveals the real key ingredients that go into accomplishing any long-term, meaningful success. Using the metaphor of an aircraft trip from coast to coast, Flight Plan shows that the real secret to success is to first figure out your destination and lock in on it. Second, you must take off - identify precisely what you must do to achieve the goals you have set for yourself and take action. And third, you must persist through the inevitable challenges and setbacks by making continual course corrections until you reach your destination. Tracy observes that any aircraft, headed for any destination, will be off course 99 per cent of the time because of air turbulence. But, by locking in on its destination, taking off, and making continual course corrections, the plane will arrive as scheduled. The same is true of people's journey through life.

Available at B2S

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Jacked Up

By Bill Lane

Price: Bt995

Bill Lane was Jack Welch's speechwriter for 20 years. In this, the first book by a GE insider, Lane shows that the real secret to Welch's immense success as a leader was his ability as a master communicator. Welch launched a communications revolution that took GE from a ponderous supertanker of a company, to what Welch called a high-speed "cigarette boat" capable of radical moves and rapid learning from the best institutions in the world.

"Jacked Up" gives you a front-row seat to Welch's 20-year campaign to transform GE. Lane's first-hand account reveals some of Welch's most vivid and exciting moments, including an analyst's presentation in Florida, where Welch's angry remarks ignited GE's stock growth and a packed GE classroom at Crotonville, New York, when Welch and Bob Nardelli decided to stop construction on a multimillion-dollar investment based on a class presentation.

Lane describes how Welch, in meetings with his top advisers, blasted dull presenters and lavished kudos on articulate managers. The book describes Welch's simple, often brutally enforced guidelines for "making a great pitch", and how he practised them himself in his memorable appearances before employees, financial analysts and customers. It includes hilarious cameo appearances by Don Imus, Welch's ex-wife Jane Welch, Conan O'Brian, and "Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog". The book demonstrates how a leader can teach, inspire, shock and provoke, all at once. This is Jack Welch at his very best.

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