All I Need to Know about Business I Learned from a Duck
Helpful links from my book
Chapter 1 – Business Philosophy
- Steve & Rachel Kaplan have found that the cure for what ails you could be a simple as a walk in the woods
- The American Institute of Stress
- Impact of interior plants on human stress & production
- Into the Deep: Cousteau on the Ocean Crisis
- Health Hint: Healing Through Forgiveness
- The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination – 2008 Harvard University Commencement Address
- Integral Transformative Practice – What is Leonard Energy Training (LED)?
- The Myth of Multitasking
- Be Obsessive About Details
- Systems Theory: The Interdependence of All Life
- Determine Your Personal Values
Chapter 2 – Managing/Supervising/Leadership
- About Robert Fritz author of The Path of Least Resistance for Managers
- Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
- Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership by Gene Klann, Center for Creative Leadership
- Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
- Global Warming is Accelerating Faster than can be Naturally Repaired
- Workplace Fear and How To Prevent It
- Teamwork in the Workplace (collection of articles)
- Institute for Ethical Leadership
- E-Myth Worldwide
- Decision Making Techniques: How to Make Good Decisions
- Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations
- What Is Emotional Intelligence? Definitions, History and Measurements of Emotional
- Management Not Leadership
- How to Establish a Mentor Program: Tips for small businesses looking to enhance employee development and performance with formal – or informal – mentoring
Chapter 3 – Corporate Culture
- Company Culture: What it is and How to Change it
- Eleven Cultural Values to Run Your Company by … Frank Addante: the Rubicon Project
- Top 5 Reasons for Leaving a Job as Reported by Employees (2007-2008 Job Satisfaction and Retention Survey)
- CEO Mentors: High Performance Culture What’s Empathy Got To Do With It? Bruna Martinuzzi
Chapter 4 – Sustainability/Ecology
- Zero Waste Alliance: Following Nature’s Model
- Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI)
- Environmental Waste Solutions
- Open Directory Project
- Solid Waste Solutions Corp.
Chapter 5 – Control/Change
- Small Business Owners Learn How Vision and Flexibility are Win-Win Combo
- Think Like a Winner – A Chain Reaction (Brian Tracy in Success March 20, 2008)
- Achieving Market Leadership – Kellogg World Alumni Magazine
- Market Leadership Strategies: Winning In the Customer-driven Rapidly Changing Market Place
- 10 Principles of Change Management: Tool and Techniques to Help Companies Transform Quickly
Chapter 6 – Work-Life Balance
- Articles On Work-life Balance: Molly Gordon, Master Certified Coach
- Work-life Balance: Ways to Restore Harmony and Reduce Stress (Mayo Clinic Staff)
- Alliance for Work-Life Progress
- Wellpower Inc.
- Everyday Playtime for Adults: Be a Kid Again (WebMD Feature)
- Fun and the Importance of Play: Why Adults Need to Play Too
Chapter 7 – Human Resources
- The Myers & Briggs Foundation
- DiscProfile: Online DISC Profiles & DISC Tests for 35 years
- Understanding the Five Element Theory Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water
- The Five Basic Elements of the Universe: Fire, Earth, Metal, Wood
- Wisdom Horse®
- Report: Retiring Baby Boomers Expected to Hurt U.S. Companies – Many businesses are not prepared for the loss of experienced workers that will occur over the next decade
- The Surprising Impact of the Retiring Baby Boomer Generation
- Marketing Momentum and Tempo: When One Marketing Idea Works It’s Time To Strike with Another
Chapter 8 – Communication
- Email Etiquette
- Essential Email Etiquette For Business Professionals
- Positive Body Language (Max Wideman)
- Top 10 Nonverbal Communication Tips: Improve your nonverbal communication skills with these tips
- Nonverbal Communication Skills: The Power of Nonverbal Communication and Body Language
- Proxemic Communication
- Proxemics: How We Use Space
- NLP Articles and NLP Strategies
- NLP Articles
- Communication Barriers
- Dealing with Workplace Gossip
Chapter 9 – Personal Selling
- The Four Personality Types
- Building Rapport a Matter of Eye Contact, Mirroring and Body Language
- Reading Body Language for the Sales Professional
- Zappos Lessons: Building a Customer-Focused Culture
- Is Your Business Really Customer-Focused?
- Business Segmentation: Emerging Approaches to More Meaningful Clusters
Chapter 10 – Branding/Marketing
- How Legacy Brands Are Reenergized and What Libraries Can Learn from Them
- Working Knowledge for Business Leaders: The Three “Ds” of Customer Experience
- Personal Branding and Career Self-Marketing Tools for Job-Seekers and Career Activists
- Best Personal Branding Tips: Free Download
- Motivation in the Workplace: Myths and Tips
- Employee Motivation: Theory and Practice
- First Things First: Create Employee Loyalty to Drive Customer Loyalty
- 3 Rules for Niche Marketing
- Write a Marketing Plan
- How to Write a Marketing Plan
- Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness: Michael E Porter Publications
- Marketing Strategy: Change Before You Have To
- Why Should I Read Your Ad?
- The Value of Reputation
- Social Marketing Journal: Reputation Management the Steve Jobs Way (and other articles)
Chapter 11 – Decision Making Process
- The Decline of Ethical Behavior in Business: How the Quality Professional Can and Should Meet the Challenge
- Respecting Your Business’s Ethics Policy: It’s Not Enough to Post Your Mission Statement
- and Values on the Wall. You’ve Got to Integrate Them Into Your Company’s Culture
- The 10 Biggest Blunders (and How You Can Avoid Them)
- Herd Mentality, Herd Behavior: Social Mimicry Among Human Beings
- The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer and How to Reach It
Chapter 12 – Board of Directors
- Overview of roles and Responsibilities of Corporate Board of Directors
- The Board of Directors: Responsibility, Role, and Structure
- Free Complete Toolkit for Boards
Chapter 13 – Best Business Practices
- Confidentiality Agreement Form
- Confidentiality Agreement (sample)
- Covenants Not to Compete: A History Lesson and Nine Tips Arising from It
- GAP Inc Code of Vendor Conduct
- Baystate Health Vendor Code of ConductSouthwest Airlines Co. Code of Ethics
- Corporate Compliance Insights – Tips for Writing and Updating Your Corporate Code of Conduct
- Employers Find that it Pays to Provide Financial Education to Employees
- Capitalizing Your Company
- Disaster Recovery Planning from A-Z: The Disaster Recovery Guide
- Disaster Recovery Template, Business Continuity Planning Booklet
- Business Continuity Plan Free Template Download
- Would You Recommend Us? That Simple Query to Customers is shaking Up Planning and Executive Pay
- Re-evaluate the Net Promoter Score
- The importance of Key Business Indicators to Small Business Management
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI): How an Organization Defines and Measures Progress Toward its Goal
- Business Planning Papers: Developing a Strategic Plan
- 500+ Sample business Plans
Chapter 14 – Body-Centered Lessons
- Wild Health: Cindy Engel
- The China Study
- Radical HealthWorks: Proposal for a Workplace Nutrition Education Program
- Overview of Circadian Rhythms
- Stretching: The Truth; Basic Neurophysiology Indicates We’ve Been Going About Our Stretching All Wrong
- Active Stretching
- Health Hint: Breathing Exercise
- Breathing – The Proper Technique
- Waking Up to the Benefits of Napping at Work
- Why You Need to Take a Nap at Work
- Correlation Between Height and Income No Tall Story
- The Secret to a Successful Career: Being Tall and Attractive?
Chapter 15 – Instincts/Intuition
- Basic Instincts: In Business, Sometimes it’s Better to Let Your Gut do the Talking
- How to Make Better Decisions
- Gut Almighty
- Is There a Sixth Sense?
- (Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Creativity
- The de Bono Group –
Chapter 16 – Additional Lessons
- Biomimicry Institute: Inspiring, Educating and Connecting Biomimics Throughout the World
- Biomimicry Guild
- Symbiosis in Business
- Employee Swap: Small Company has an Informal Symbiotic Relationship with GE.
- The Two Companies Trade Employees Frequently
- Start-Up Symbiosis
- Animal Totem
Books of Interest
- Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by NatureBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work
- Cannibals with Forks by John Elkington
- Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by
- Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High
- The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus,
- Dominate Your Market
- In Earth’s Company
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
- The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
- The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement
- Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of living lightly on the earth
- How Customers Think: Essential Insights Into the Mind of the Market
- The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
- Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
- The Growth Illusion by Richard Douthwaite
- Introduction to Forestry Economics
- Mapping the Journey: Case Studies in Strategy and Action toward Sustainable
Development - Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy
- Mid-Course Correction, Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface ModelNatural Capitalism
- The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology & the Evolutionary Corporation (Conscientious Commerce)
- The Path of Least Resistance for Managers
- Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
- Ripples from the Zambeszi by Ernesto Siroli (1999)
- The Sacred Balance
- The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line(Conscientious Commerce)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Upsizing, The Road to Zero Emissions: More Jobs, More Income and No Pollution
