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You Could Live a Long Time: Are you Ready? – Book Review “You Could Live a Long Time: Are you Ready?” By Lyndsay Green Published in 2010 by Thomas Allen Publishers Drawing on first-person interviews with over 40 Canadian ‘elders’, as she calls them, sociologist Lyndsay Green’s new book “You Could Live a Long Time: Are you Ready?” offers a realistic snapshot of the emotional, physical, [...] |
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife David Eagleman (The Penguin Group) $16.00 Are you having one of those days? Not sure if your work is really making an impact? Then pick up a copy of Sum by American neuroscientist David Eagleman. Eagleman has imagined 40 quirky little tales of heaven and hell in a funny, [...] |
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The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web Tamar Weinberg (O’Reilly Media, Inc.) $31.99 If there’s one book about social media marketing that you should have on your shelf, this is it. Written by Internet marketing consultant Tamar Weinberg, the book is laid out in easy-to-follow sections covering everything from what makes social media [...] |
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, Inc. (Business Plus, Hachette Book Group) $28.99 Ever since he was nine, Tony Hsieh wanted to make money. His first business was an unsuccessful ant farm, but eventually he succeeded spectacularly: LinkExchange, which he co-founded in 1996, was sold two years later [...] |
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When the Headline Is You: An Insider’s Guide to Handling the Media When the Headline Is You: An Insider’s Guide to Handling the Media Jeff Ansell (Jossey-Bass) $35.95 Media calls and crisis situations can be fear-evoking moments when you’re the one returning the call on behalf of your retirement residence. Jeff Ansell’s new book, When the Headline Is You: An Insiders Guide to Handling the Media is [...] |
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New book honours WWII vets Inspired by the 2010 death of Canada’s last WWI veteran in January, and in tribute to the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Chartwell Seniors Housing has embarked on a compelling new book project, HONOUR, a moving portrait of 35 WWII veterans and those who supported the war effort. Featuring photos [...] |
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KAA-BOOM by Barbara Jaworski: a review KAA-BOOM: How to engage the 50-plus worker and beat the workforce crisis Author: Barbara Jaworski Publisher: Trafford Publishing In a manner that’s easy to read and digest, Barbara Jaworski addresses the issue of Canada’s aging workforce and shrinking talent pool. Her thesis is direct: “Act now or lose out later as the competition heats up [...] |
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Manager’s Guide to Coaching by Emerson & Loehr: a Review A Manager’s Guide to Coaching: Simple and effective ways to get the best out of your employees Author: Brian Emerson and Anne Loehr Publisher: AMACOM Not every one of us has an inner coach desperate to get out and help a stumbling colleague or show a new employee the way. We might be shy, too [...] |
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Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot: a review Exit Lines (novel) Author: Joan Barfoot Publisher: Knopf Canada Depending on whether we’re staff or family or actually living in one of the cosy apartments, we tell ourselves different stories about life in a retirement residence. Age and health may change our point of view, but the stories come from what our lives have made [...] |
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Author: Oliver Sacks Publisher: Vintage Canada We may not understand the power of music but we feel its deep, mysterious force. Author Dr. Oliver Sacks, professor at Columbia University, is a renowned psychiatrist, neurosurgeon – and avid amateur musician. In this book, he helps us understand what happens [...] |
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Creating Magic by Lee Cockerell Creating Magic: 10 common sense leadership strategies from a life at Disney Author: Lee Cockerell Published by: Doubleday You can’t expect to produce Mickey or Cinderella or Goofy in your lobby to brighten up your cranky clients, but according to Lee Cockerell, you don’t need them. Cockerell’s magic comes from combining common sense with a [...] |
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Click by Bill Tancer: Book Review Click: What millions of people are doing online and why it matters Author: Bill Tancer Publisher: Harper Collins Canada ($27.95) We hear it often: everything and everyone is online. Consumers are going online for traditionally offline tasks – from looking up a phone number to researching and buying a car. Businesses must adapt, or get [...] |
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Followership by Barbara Kellerman: Book Review Followership Author: Barbara Kellerman (Harvard Business Press) $32.95 Leadership books take up a fair share of the business executive’s office shelf space; a book on followership would be a rare find. Leaders have more power, authority and influence than followers do, but the two are “inextricably enmeshed,” Barbara Kellerman says, so leaders should never underestimate [...] |
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Warm Breezes, Classical Comfort: CD Review Warm Breezes, and Classical Comfort By Bev Foster From: Room 217 ($19.99 each) These two new instrumental CDs are produced by musician Bev Foster and available through the Room 217 therapeutic music resource library at www.room217.ca. Warm Breezes (guitar and piano) and Classical Comfort (piano) join three earlier Room 217 CDs in a series originally [...] |
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Norene’s Healthy Kitchen: Cookbook Review Norene’s Healthy Kitchen: Eat your way to good health Author: Norene Gilletz Published by: Whitecap Cookbooks can be used on many levels and Norene’s Healthy Kitchen has more layers than most. With 600 recipes, this is a delightful idea book for individuals preparing food for their family as well as those cooking for much larger [...] |
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You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Client by Tom Markert You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Client: And 49 other rules for providing great service Author: Tom Markert Published by: Collins Typical of this collection’s succinct rules for keeping customers satisfied, this title offers common sense that veterans shouldn’t need to be told. Still, reminders can’t hurt. For someone new to the retirement homes [...] |
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Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People Author: Susan F. Benjamin Published by: McGraw-Hill So you’ve discovered you have an angry employee who is sabotaging projects and talking behind your back. You know you have to confront her but you don’t want to make things worse. Author Susan Benjamin has lots of advice in her [...] |
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Effective Leadership in Organizational Health, Safety and Wellness Effective Leadership in Organizational Health, Safety and Wellness, Books 1-5 Author, Published by: Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare This new series of resource documents and educational programs covers Ontario codes and standards, employer due diligence, hazard awareness and control, accident cause analysis and prevention programs and achieving an integrated culture of safety. These [...] |
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Joseph Jaffe’s Join the Conversation Join the Conversation: How to engage marketing-weary consumers with the power of community, dialogue and partnership Author: Joseph Jaffe Published by: John Wiley and Sons Changing technology, with the Internet, blogs and podcasts, is forcing us to rethink the way we market to our target audiences, author Joseph Jaffe says. Unfortunately the first half of [...] |
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The Leisure Economy by Linda Nazareth The Leisure Economy: How changing demographics, economics, and generational attitudes will reshape our lives and our industries Author: Linda Nazareth Published by: John Wiley and Sons As you read this book, you’ll wish you had paid more attention to your economics professor in university. Instead of a barrage of arcane economic theories, which I remember [...] |
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I Remember It Well: Poetry writing for seniors I Remember It Well: Poetry writing for seniors Author: Carol A. Adams Published by: General Store Publishing House ($19.95) This groundbreaking how-to book on poetry workshops created by Carol Adams, a Toronto author and poet, targets the ever-growing need for the healing of the spirit within the senior population, many of whom are depressed and [...] |
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The Boomer Factor: What Canada’s most famous generation is leaving behind The Boomer Factor: What Canada’s most famous generation is leaving behind Author: Reginald W. Bibby Published by: Bastian Books ($19.95) Author Reg Bibby knows us very well. He knows how stressed we are, how many hours we sleep; he can write with some assurance about whether we’re feeling more or less fulfilled and, yes, how [...] |
