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100th Day Worries (Jessica Worries)

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I found this book to naturally combine important math concepts (different ways to get 100 items) with the many emotions and experiences that the average child faces. I believe children (and even adults) will find themselves in the pages of this book as they relate to the times when the creative energies are not flowing and the deadlines are fast approaching.

We first checked this book out of the library and we just love it. The story is so refreshing and Jessica's(the main character and the worrier) family really comes through for her. My five-year-old loves the math concept: the different ways to get to 100. This book reinforces a little learning in a loving and thoughtful way.

Very timely shipment and the book was in condition as stated. I will definitely be buying from this person again. Thank you

This book is darling. It is a wonderful addition to my collection of 100th day books. Thank you!

There are 100's of 100 Day books out in the market, but this BOOK is the BEST one by far. The reason why I love this book so much is that it is always every child's worry about what they will do for their collection and this books puts every one at ease. A wonderful, fun book!

Margery Cuyler (Author), Arthur Howard (Illustrator) have done a brilliant job. They have taken an anchor senior management tool that has strong, striding legs on four continents for three decades; and given it a fresh and strikingly relevant slant... dressed up as a kiddies book.

Never mind that the kids get a serious teaching that can last them a life time, if they get under the 100-Day Action Projects skin and grasp the blunder that Mr. Martin (the kindergarten fall-guy in the story) makes, because he is as clueless as most senior managers and many school teachers are, when it comes to cutting-edge project management.

Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) includes the catalytic seeds of 100-Day Action Projects - the way, we at One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ taught in Sub Saharan Southern Africa timber, sugar and commodity sectors with massive success in the 1980-2000 era as we waited for Nelson Mandela to restore socio-economic sanity to the sub-continent.

Collaberating with Robert Schaffer High-Impact Consulting: How Clients and Consultants Can Work Together to Achieve Extraordinary Results (Completely Revised and Updated) and more recently Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change thousands of 100-Day Action Projects seeded the thinking of hundreds of soon-to-be managers with 100-Day Action Projectsî Always Chart Before You Change.

Jessica's story is artfully simple, as all great teaching is. It would be a shame if senior management around the world missed it while they struggled through 'education' like The Six Sigma Handbook: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels, Revised and Expanded Edition and 'training' like Six Sigma for Dummies which might easily be 'Six Sigma By Dummies For Dummies'.

Our own educational and training programme 100-Day Action Projectsî Always Chart Before You Change is simple, straight-forward and successful and it would have saved Jessica (the plucky little heroine in Cuyler and Howard's book/story) all the agonising worries from her 100th Day project.

Of course, if Jassica is the chronic worry wart that she is made out to be
in the book, then she needs help outside of management, something like. I'm OK--You're OK should do the trick.

Before you, as a senior manager, authorise/design the next mangement project in your life, study this book very carefully, before you launch it. Just keep Jessica in mind, and make sure you are not another Mr. Martin full of kind intentions and clueless as to reality.

"100th Day Worries" is a story about a girl who is supposed to bring a collection of one hundred things into school for the 100th day of school. She worries about it up until the night before the 100th day still with no idea about what kind of collection she is going to take into school. The next morning, she was still stumped, so she turned to her family for help. They gave her each groups of ten things to take into school. So her problem was solved and she ended up having the best collection because her collection was "filled with love".
I think that this is a pretty good book. I didn't really think too much of it, but I'm sure many other people think highly of it. I didn't think it had too much of a meaning to it. The plot was pretty well put together, but it wasn't anything to get all hyped up about. Overall, I think it was an ok book.