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Featured Books from the FountainBlue Community

We are pleased to profile the many talented executives in the FountainBlue community, and support them in spreading the word about the wisdom and advice they have gained in their years in the Silicon Valley trenches. Each month, we will profile a book recently released by a member of the list, which would be of relevance to the decision-makers growing high-tech, life science and clean energy companies in the valley, with impact across the globe.

If you are a FountainBlue community member and would like to submit your book as a Featured Book to your fellow members, please e-mail us by the 15th of each month and the chair of our book evaluation committee will acknowledge receipt of your submission and send out monthly recommendations to the list.

We hope that you enjoy reading the recommended books and that you will support fellow FountainBlue members by promoting these books to others in your network who would also be interested in reading them.


Our May
featured book is profiled below.

BOOK NAME, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, DATE:

Lisa Orrell, author of Millennials Incorporated

Millennials Incorporated: The Big Business of Recruiting, Managing and Retaining North America’s New Generation of Young Professionals, by Lisa Orrell.

Publisher: Intelligent Women Publishing, an imprint of Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 1st edition (November 2007, second edition will be released in September of 2008).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lisa Orrell is an in-demand expert hired by well-known companies to educate their HR-related executives and Boomer/Gen X managers about how to effectively recruit, manage and retain Millennials (as well as how to improve their internal generation relations). She also conducts on-boarding workshops for their Millennial new-hires. Recently, Lisa was featured in Human Resource Executive magazine, Recruitment & Retention magazine, and Employee Benefit News. For more info and access to her popular Generation Relations Blog, simply visit: TheOrrellGroup.com.

WHO THE BOOK WILL HELP:

This book is targeted at Human Resource-related professionals, internal corporate recruiters, and front line managers at mid-sized and large corporations. It will also help small business owners who employ, or plan to recruit, Millennials (Gen Y) at their companies.

KEY LEARNINGS FROM THE BOOK:

Lisa breaks the book down into 3 main sections: Understanding the Millennials, How to Attract, Recruit & Retain Millennials, and How to Manage & Motivate Millennials. Each chapter is filled with tips the reader can immediately implement within their department or companywide. And, Lisa has also included real-world examples of innovative strategies well known companies are using to improve their recruiting and retention of Millennial talent.

TESTIMONIALS:

This book is the best resource I have seen on how to communicate, hire and retain the new generation of young professionals. Everyone is talking about the generational differences, but Lisa Orrell has done the research and has come up with practical, easy to implement solutions on how to effectively communicate and motivate this generation and how those of us from different generations (especially the baby boomers) can learn from them as well. This book is well written and should be a handbook for anyone involved in the recruitment of personnel and for anyone who manages people. As a HR professional, I found the book not only educational (lots of aha moments!) but also fun to read.

Joyce Prescott

President: Prescott & Associates

30-year HR & Recruiting Professional

Lisa Orrell's new book offers fantastic insights into the Millenial mind. If you are a manager, supervisor, or team lead with younger workers, after reading this book you will find you are able to better understand and connect with this segment of your team.

Have you ever been stunned to have a parent show up at an interview?

Are you frustrated that your new hires are already insisting on flextime?

If so, this is a book you need on your bookshelves!

Cindy Ventrice

Author of Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works

Employee Retention & Management Expert

If you work on teams, manage or lead people, you must read this book. Lisa has done a great deal of research, and hands you practical assistance we all need in working with the new Millennials. And they are a different breed of cat!

Deb McClanahan

President: BroadBand HR Consulting

25-year HR Professional

 

PRICE & PURCHASING LINK:

This book has a 5 Star Customer Review Rating on Amazon and is available for $11.95 on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Millennials-Incorporated-Lisa-Orrell/dp/1932279822/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194980814&sr=1-1

 


Below is a list of our past featured books, with authors and titles and links for purchases.

Month Author Title Link for Purchase
Apr-08 Dean Lane CIO Perspectives http://www.kendallhunt.com/index.cfm?PID=201
Mar-08 Linda Popky Marketing Your Career: Positioning, Packaging and Promoting Yourself for Success http://www.woodsidebusinesspress.com/order/
FB_special_offer.html
Feb-08 Laura Lowell 42 Rules of Marketing http://www.happyabout.info/42rules/marketing.php 
Jan-08 Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley Awakening Social Responsibility: A
Call to Action
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1600050654
http://happyabout.info/csr.php.
Dec-07 Kimberly Wiefling The 12
Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1600050514/
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