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The Mentor's Guide
by Lois J. Zachary and Laurent A. Daloz
(Jossey-Bass, $25.95) Mentors everywhere will appreciate this action-based handbook aimed at teaching effective mentoring
behaviors. The authors work from a four-phase mentoring cycle: preparing, negotiating, enabling and closing. Chapters cover real-life issues such as distance mentoring, time management, mentor
preparation, goal setting and receiving feedback from protégés. All are supported with plenty of exercises.
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The Wealth of Choices
by Alan S. Murray
(Times Books, $24.95) This reporter for the Wall Street Journal has an unrelentingly optimistic view of how the New Economy is affecting our lives. In this personal
improvement tome, he describes how to make the best use of the individual opportunities it offers in our health, education, career, personal finance, investing and retirement.
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The Value Effect
by John Guaspari
(Berrett-Koehler, $22) Tired of the never-ending stream of corporate fads and buzzwords, consultant Guaspari creates a business mystery around the murder of a management
consultant. The mystery uncovers the "value effect," that is, "When people strive to deliver the maximum value to customers, they get and stay energized."
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DOE Simplified
by Mark Anderson and Patrick Whitcomb
(Productivity Inc., $39.95) This introductory text explains, in an entertaining way, how to apply design of experiments. It's
aimed at experimenters with minimal statistical backgrounds. A fully functional, 180-day time-limited, educational version of Design-Ease software comes bundled with the book, allowing readers to
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