Mana‘o on a Virtual Bookshelf

My most precious possessions, not of the human relationship variety, are books. If I were to strip my home and my office of all but the most basic-to-my-life essentials, my books would be the last things left. When I am ready to embark on a trip, two or three books are the very first things I pack to have with me.

I always opt for hard covers, and I write in them extensively, creating my own indexes for them anew each time I devour them. Therefore, my books become quite unique; they capture my mana‘o, my deeply held beliefs polished from near exhaustive tumblings and bruising, gleefully endured in my mental gymnastics.

I print subsequent writings (mine or the authors’) and insert them between the covers, and you can pick out my dog-eared favorites quite easily as they sit on the shelf, because they are those that no longer close that well, their accommodating spines being stretched in an intention of palena ‘ole, unlimited capacity for abundance.

“Pristine” would never be a word used to describe my private library, yet they are far more respected and loved than those you might find elsewhere, exiled into cleanliness and neglect.

This Virtual Bookshelf page will be a work in progress, one I continually add to as my books are mentioned and referenced here at Managing with Aloha Coaching and at Joyful Jubilant Learning. If you wish to remain on this page, right click on the links offered and open them in a new tab or window. Entries at listed by author, alpha by last name, and include a few keywords on what the book covers. When you hover your mouse over the book title, you will see the book jacket linked to a purchase-page at Amazon.com.

Allen, David: Getting Things Done
Keywords: work, productivity, habits.
Aug 07: The Purpose-Finding of Ho‘ohana and Wabi-Sabi
Sept 07: Three Authors on Agreements: Stephen Covey, David Allen, and Don Miguel Ruiz
Oct 07: Learn a 5-Step Weekly Review: You’ll love it.

Aria, Barbara with Russell Eng Gon: The Spirit of the Chinese Character
Keywords: calligraphy, writing, mastery, spirit.
Feb 08: Kung Hee Fat Choy! What I learned from Clara

Bishop, Claire Huchet with Kurt Wiese: The Five Chinese Brothers
Keywords: fable, children's literature, China.
Feb 08: Kung Hee Fat Choy! What I learned from Clara

Blanchard, Ken with Paul J. Meyer, and Dick Ruhe: Know Can Do! Put your Know-How into Action
Keywords: business parable, knowing-doing gap, action, learning process
March 08: Book Review

Buckingham, Marcus: Go Put Your Strengths to Work
Keywords: strengths, weaknesses, productivity, self-awareness.
Aug 07: How Strengths and Performance Coaching Intersect with Managing with Aloha.
Aug 07: 4 Things Managers Can Do to Bring Managing with Aloha to their Company Culture
Also See our Learning Project for this book on Joyful Jubilant Learning: Learn to Lead with Your Strengths.

Cameron, Julia: The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, and
The Artist’s Date Book, A Companion Volume to The Artist’s Way
Keywords: writing, creativity.
Aug 07:  Morning Pages, Artist Dates and Rhythm

Collins, Jim: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Keywords: business success profiles.
Aug 07: Branding fame, the ability to provoke, and degrees of follow-up

Covey, Stephen R: Living the 7 Habits : The Courage to Change
Keywords: experience, short story, habits.
Sept 07: Three Authors on Agreements: Stephen Covey, David Allen, and Don Miguel Ruiz

Ferriss, Timothy: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Keywords: quality of work-life, entrepreneurship, productivity, reinvention of business models
July 07: Start a Bigger Thinker’s List: “What I Want to Learn”
March 08: Sunday Mālama: The Open-Minded Contrarian

Goldsmith, Marshall: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Haneberg, Lisa: Focus Like a Laser Beam: 10 Ways to Do What Matters Most
Keywords: focus, habits, productivity, organizational culture.
Aug 07: A Ma'alahi Persuasion for Calm.

Haughton, Laurence: It's Not What You Say...It's What You Do: How Following Through At Every Level Can Make Or Break Your Company
Keywords: organizational culture, decision-making, buy-in, business success profiles.
Aug 07: Branding fame, the ability to provoke, and degrees of follow-up

Kanahele, George: Kū Kanaka, Stand Tall, A Search for Hawaiian Values
Keywords: Hawaii, history, values.
Sept 07: Learn Koa, the Hawaiian Value of Courage.

Lencioni, Patrick: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
Keywords: fable, leadership, organizational culture, discipline, focus.
March 08: Book Review done for Talking Story

Meyer, Danny: Setting the Table, The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Keywords: hospitality, service, business.
Mar 07: Book Review done for A Love Affair with Books
Aug 07: Jubilant Learners Speak Up! An Interview with Danny Meyer

Michelli, Joseph: The Starbucks Experience, 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary
Keywords: hospitality, service, business, branding, strategy.
Oct 07: About the Starbucks Partners (employees) by Jim Alling, President U.S. Business

Mosley, Walter: This Year You Write Your Novel.
Keywords: writing and composition.
Aug 07: This Year You Write Your Novel.

Nader, Ralph: The Seventeen Traditions
Keywords: values, traditions, heritage, parenting, teaching.
Nov. 07: Believe, Think, or Know?

Peck, M. Scott: Abounding Grace, an Anthology of Wisdom
Keywords: quotations, context, serenity prayer, wisdom
April 08: Abounding Grace: Found First in Forgiveness?

Penn, Mark: Microtrends, The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
Keywords: trend-spotting, statistics, culture, behavior.
Jan. 08: Book Review for Joyful Jubilant Learning

Port, Michael: Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling
Keywords: entrepreneurship, business, work-lifestyle, sales, marketing
Mar 08: How to Talk About What You Do (a mini review)

Rath, Tom: StrengthsFinder 2.0
Keywords: assessment, strengths, talent labeling, self-awareness.
Aug 07: How Strengths and Performance Coaching Intersect with Managing with Aloha.
Also See our Learning Project for this book on Joyful Jubilant Learning: Learn to Lead with Your Strengths.

Rath, Tom: Vital Friends, The People You Can’t Afford to Live Without
Keywords and phrases: friendship, relationships, workplace engagement, roles
March 07: My book review on Talking Story
Oct 07: Beat 1 Coaching for Kākou: Who is your We?
April 08: Joe D.Cool is one of my vital friends :)

Ruiz, Don Miguel: The Four Agreements
Keywords: self-awareness, ancestral healing.
Sept 07: Three Authors on Agreements: Stephen Covey, David Allen, and Don Miguel Ruiz

See, Carolyn: Making a Literary Life
Keywords: writing, creativity, lifestyle, publishing.
Aug 07:  Morning Pages, Artist Dates and Rhythm

Sharpnack, Rayona: Trade Up! 5 Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out
Keywords: context, paradigm shift, leadership, language of intention
Mar 08: Are you ready to Trade Up? and for Sunday Mālama: Know Can Do! ~ Part Two