Aug 19, 2009

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?

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Gerstner quarterbacked one of history's most dramatic corporate turnarounds. For those who follow business stories like football games, his tale of the rise, fall and rise of IBM might be the ultimate slow-motion replay. He became IBM's CEO in 1993, when the gargantuan company was near collapse. The book's opening section snappily reports Gerstner's decisions in his first 18 months on the job-the critical "sprint" that moved IBM away from the brink of destruction. The following sections describe the marathon fight to make IBM once again "a company that mattered." Gerstner writes most vividly about the company's culture. On his arrival, "there was a kind of hothouse quality to the place. It was like an isolated tropical ecosystem that had been cut off from the world for too long. As a result, it had spawned some fairly exotic life-forms that were to be found nowhere else." One of Gerstner's first tasks was to redirect the company's attention to the outside world, where a marketplace was quickly changing and customers felt largely ignored. He succeeded mightily.

Aug 11, 2009

The Speed Reading Book by Tony Buzan

The Speed Reading book is a part of Tony Buzan's revolutionary "MIND SET" series. It helps in eye and mind coordination and helps to reach higher speeds in reading.

Super Creativity by Tony Buzan

Give your brain a creative workout by learning the revolutionary Mind Mapping technique. Program of exercises to coordinate the powers of the right and left hemispheres of your brain. By integrating both sides of your brain, you synergistically increase creativity and imagination, and solve problems more easily.

Aug 10, 2009

Use Your Memory by Tony Buzan

Tony Buzan, author of the best-selling Use Your Head and inventor of the revolutionary Mind-Mapping technique, has acquired fame by improving the memory and learning capability of thousands of people. In this book, based on the latest research into the workings of the human brain, he presents an ingenious system for training the memory to achieve extraordinary feats.
The book provides surprising, yet simple, techniques for remembering names, dates, phone numbers and appointments. Special programmes are given for card players and there is a useful section for students on how to attain optimum examination results.
Buzan reveals his methods with engaging enthusiasm, drawing upon extraordinary, surreal images to illustrate how the mnemonic system works. Some of these images are illustrated in full colour. For anyone who has difficulty in remembering facts and figures, people and places, Use Your Memory will be invaluable.

Aug 8, 2009

Use Your Head by Tony Buzan

Based on Use Your Head -a BBC series of ten television programmes produced by Nancy Thomas.
Since its first publication in 1974, Use Your Head has acquired the status of a classic. Translated into twelve languages, with worldwide sales well in excess of 250,000, Tony Buzan's book has helped scores of people to understand the true capacity of the human brain and realise and develop many of the abilities that normally lie dormant.

Now in a new and revised edition of his classic bestseller, Tony Buzan explains the latest discoveries about the brain and helps you to understand more clearly how your mind works.
Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, with tests and exercises designed to improve your reading power and memory, Use Your Head will help you to study more effectively, solve problems more readily and develop your own ways of thinking.

The PhotoReading Whole Mind System

When you learn Photoreading you will experience what might sound impossible. You will PhotoRead the written page at rates exceeding a page per second, directing information into the expanded processing capabilities of your brain. There the information connects with your prior knowledge and becomes useful to accomplishing your purpose. You get your reading done in the time you have available, at a level of comprehension you need.


Aug 2, 2009

Teach Yourself Speed Reading


Speed reading is about reading (and being able to recall) more written information in less time. Teach Yourself Speed Reading is a practical guide to effective speed reading. It includes tools and information on a variety of reading and memory techniques, including a five-step strategy that will enable
you to read any non-fiction material easily.