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... in the Trans-Arabian Corporation's Boardroom

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Fiction with a message!

"1001 Nights in The Trans-Arabian Corporation's Boardroom" is a self help/self improvement book aimed at those who want to engage in the workplace with greater creativity.
The book offers you insight into spotting the different personality types and the way they impact a business; and an understanding of the underlying truth that business is a series of personal interactions. This is presented in the context of an entertaining fictional read.
This book can benefit you as an individual making career choices; as the manager of a team to improve performance or as part of an organisation to assist in engaging and energising staff.
 
Here's what the back of the book says:
 

In an entertaining and highly addictive form, this book uses the ancient story-tellers’ forms of parable and fable to offer unique business strategy and career guidance insights.

Plunging from vampire stories and time travel to tales of bureaucracy and workplace backstabbing, the narrative rushes from idea to idea to offer a colourful palate of situations and characters.

Each short story offers both succinctly made points and thought starters to unleash your creativity and expand your business knowledge.

Fiction is a powerful form of illustration: consider how many people quote anything from Monty Python to Shakespeare in order to connect their thoughts to concepts we can all understand.

Reviews of the book can be read by scrolling down.

You can buy the book here.

If you have the book, you can access the additional on-line resources here.

What the Readers & Reviewers have said:
Very entertaining and engaging. Kept my interest well and has a delicious Australasian flavor ... Thank you for providing me a fantastic distraction while traveling. It's wonderful to escape to a light and fun book amid the discomforts of travel.
Shally Steckerl, Chief CyberSleuth, JobMachine Inc

Apart from being fascinated by the futuristic Trans-Arabian Corporation run by the ultimate uber female executive, I loved the way the book delivered the basic rules of business life.

Delivered in an entertaining way, these are the sort of lessons that usually take years of experience and painful trial and error to learn. Borrowing from a classic narrative style, Godden creates an imaginative series of tales set in extraordinary places populated by rich, quirky characters. It is absorbing reading - as much holiday escapism as a career 'must read'.
You choose.

Kate Southam, Editor, CareerOne.com.au and author of the syndicated Ask Kate career web and newspaper column.
 

….Thought provoking, mind-shifting, Robert’s book will challenge status quo thinking about leadership in the workplace.

Brett Minchington, Managing Director, Collective Learning Australia

Due for Release December 2007