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最近读的几本好书

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1. 《Conscious Business》- Fred Kofman

我是一个偶然的机会在图书馆的网站上借了这本书的有声版,听了以后觉得非常好,于是又在Amazon上买了精装版,后来还买了Kindle版,可以看出我是够喜欢这本书的了吧。我强力推荐这本书,如果我们每个人都能读读这本书,这世界会变得美好的多。

在这里我还是直接引用Amazon上的介绍吧:

More and more business leaders are catching on to an often-overlooked fact: consciousness is our basic faculty for survival and success. Without it, we forget what's important to us and lose sight of the steps we might take to reach those goals. “Conscious business, ” explains Fred Kofman, means shining this awareness on every area of your work: in recognizing the needs of others and expressing your own;in seeing the hidden emotional obstacles that may be holding your team back;in making good decisions under pressure?and even in delving into such ?spiritual? questions as “Who am I?” and “What is my real purpose here?” In Conscious Business, this visionary teacher and consultant to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and other leading companies presents the complete training manual in the breakthrough techniques he has shared with over 20,000 executives on four continents.

2. 《走过美国》- 喻海翔

这本书是一个中国留学生在美国读完经济学硕士毕业后带着一个背包,一顶帐篷,一个睡袋,依靠徒步和搭便车,独自从美国西岸的旧金山出发,横穿美国大陆,用了六个月时间,途经二十三个州,最后来到美国东北部的麻省后写的游记。作者用朴实无华的语言真实地讲述了他在旅途中遇到的形形色色的人和事,有很多都让人感慨和感动。值得一读。

 

 

 

 

image_thumb13. 《正面管教》- Jane Nelson

我也懒得写书评了,就直接从Amazon上抄来下面的介绍:

For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition. The key to positive discipline is not punishment, she tells us, but mutual respect. Nelsen coaches parents and teachers to be both firm and kind, so that any child–from a three-year-old toddler to a rebellious teenager–can learn creative cooperation and self-discipline with no loss of dignity. Inside you’ll discover how to
• bridge communication gaps
• defuse power struggles
• avoid the dangers of praise
• enforce your message of love
• build on strengths, not weaknesses
• hold children accountable with their self-respect intact
• teach children not what to think but how to think
• win cooperation at home and at school
• meet the special challenge of teen misbehavior

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Dust

妞妞最近总爱问我“人为什么会死?”“人死了以后去哪里?”这些很难回答的问题,我告诉她人死了以后会变成Dust,妞妞昨天晚上睡觉前又想这个问题,她说“Mommy, when you die, I will collect your dust and put it into a clean place so I know you will always be there."

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今天的收获

I was reading this article “How to Give a Good Compliment”. One point really made me think. That is: “It takes confidence and self-esteem to notice good things about others and to make the first caring move to tell them about it”.

Also the comment from Barbara made me smile:

When my now 14-year old daughter was about 4 years old, she would always compliment cashiers. I started to think she only did it to get a “surprise” (usually stickers or a balloon). So, I looked at her one day & asked, “Stryker, are you complimenting people just to get prizes?” She looked up at me and answered seriously, “Yes, but I do always find something I like. When I can’t find anything, I tell them I like their smile because everyone has a pretty smile.”

Wisdom from a little one.

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