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What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
Author Robert Kaplan
How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential?Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to “success” as defined by those around us—an....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Gary Donaldson , Stanley Siegel , Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson interview many of the world's most influential chief technology officers in CTOs at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to the highly acclaimed bestseller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston and Peter Se....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Author Ling Chen
This handbook takes a multi-disciplinary approach to offer a current state-of-art survey of intercultural communication (IC) studies. The chapters aim for conceptual comprehension, theoretical clarity and empirical understanding with good practical implications. At....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Ken Kirk
This Infoline will tackle the readability issue more appropriately by discussing guidelines for mastering clear and concise sentences in your workplace writing. The goal is to practice composing a sentence that requires only one reading to decipher the intended mess....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author John Hoover
Praise for Hoover’s bestseller How to Work for an Idiot:“Anyone who has to work should read How to Work for an Idiot.”– USA Today“Dr. Hoover recommends admitting that you are ‘powerless’ over the jerks in your life. Otherwise, ‘harboring all that resentment is like ....
Release Date 2003/11 -
The Government Manager's Guide to Plain Language
Author Judith G. Myers
The ability to write well correlates highly with the ability to think well—to analyze information, weigh alternatives, and make decisions. Government managers must make instructions and policies clear to employees, give effective presentations, and communicat....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, 5th Edition
Author Sharon Jordan-Evans , Beverly Kaye
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Since employees who walk out the door cost their companies up to 200 percent of their annual salaries to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. And with so many surveys reporting that employe....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author Robert B. Kaiser , Robert E. Kaplan
Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you. You can have too much of a good thing. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in t....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Problem Manager: Careers in IT service management
Author Colin Rudd
Problem management is about finding permanent solutions to technical problems and recurring incidents in a business's IT infrastructure. The desired outcome is an increase in the quality and availability of IT services and a reduction in the number and impact of in....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Computational Thinking - A beginner's guide to problem-solving and programming
Author Karl Beecher
Computational thinking (CT) is a timeless, transferable skill that enables you to think more clearly and logically, as well as a way to solve specific problems. With this book you'll learn to apply computational thinking in the context of software development to g....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume I
These two volumes are about understanding—why—and application—how—with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.Quality is the consistent achievement of the user’s expectations of a product or service. The achievement needs to be “The right thing, right first time, every time, in time..... -
Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume II
These two volumes are about understanding—why—and application—how—with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.Quality is the consistent achievement of the user’s expectations of a product or service. The achievement needs to be “The right thing, right first time, every time, in time..... -
Author Kwang-Yul Kim , Gerald R. North
Written by renowned experts in the field, this first book to focus exclusively on energy balance climate models provides a concise overview of the topic. It covers all major aspects, from the simplest zero-dimensional models, proceeding to horizontally ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Meetings That Work!—Business Skills
Author Tora Estep
Meetings are a precious resource: an expensive waste of peoples time if run poorly and amazingly valuable and productive if run well. Yet many people and organizations hold meeting after meeting without knowing how to do so effectively or even what they want to acco....
Release Date 2005/05 -
It's Your Move: Dealing Yourself the Best Cards in Life and Work
Author Jill Bremer , Cyndi Maxey
Life is like a card game... and you have the power to deal yourself the winning hand! In It's Your Move, image and self-improvement specialists Cyndi Maxey and Jill Bremer use the analogy of life as a card game to introduce you to powerful strategies for improving ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Ronald J. Luyet , James W. Tamm
What is Your Collaborative Intention?James W. Tamm and Ronald J. Luyet provide tools that will increase your ability to collaborate. You will learn to be more aware of others and how to problem-solve and negotiate. Collaborative skills have never been more importan....
Release Date 2010/06 -
The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time
Author Robert Maurer
Discover the power of KAIZEN to make lasting and powerful change in your organization“Maurer uses his knowledge of the brain and human psychology to show what I have promoted for the past three decades—that continuous improvement is built on the foundation of people....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Author Jeremey Donovan
DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE--AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREERA nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Edie Adams , Trevor van Gorp
Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process. The conscious and unconscious origins of emotions a....
Release Date 2012/06 -
The Truth About Employment Scams
Author Steve Weisman
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Avoiding Scams (9780132333856) by Steve Weisman. Available in print and digital formats.Don’t let employment scammers and fake work-at-home schemes con you out of your hard-earned money!Like many cons, this one appeals....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Presentation Skills That Will Take You to the Top (Collection)
Author Jerry Weissman
Three breakthrough books help you deliver outstanding, winning presentations — whatever your goals, whatever your audience!Jerry Weissman has helped the world’s top executives create the most important presentations of their lives: make-or-break investor presentatio....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life
Author Daniel Silvert , Merrick Rosenberg
Use DISC to discover profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, gain deeper self-awareness, maximize your personal strengths, and influence others more powerfully than ever before! Taking Flight illuminates the proven DISC four-style model of human behavio....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Michael Lawrence Faulkner , Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford
Electrify all your job search communications and build the great career you want!The right verbs• make you unforgettable• powerfully demonstrate your value• attract employers like moths to flameGrab the right verb and use it the right way to:Craft outstanding résumé....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Michael Heppell
There’s a simple way of thinking, acting and doing that, once learned, will make sure you get the very best out of everything.This book challenges you to get curious about how you interpret and handle every situation. It liberates you from the beliefs that have been....
Release Date 2013/03 -
The 12 factors of Business Success: Discover, Develop, and Leverage Your Strengths
Author Mollie Marti , Dave Lakhani , Kevin Hogan
Praise forThe 12 factors of Business Success"Kevin Hogan is a thinker-and a doer. He has a devoted following that lives by his wisdom. His latest book on achievement is not optional. If you are looking to climb the success ladder, Kevin Hogan's book will be there f....
Release Date 2008/09 -
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Bible
Author Kelly L. Murdock , Ted Padova
As one of the few books to cover integration and workflow issues between Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Acrobat, and Version Cue, this comprehensive reference is the one book that Creative Suite users needTwo well-known and respected authors cover topics ....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Practical Intelligence: The Art and Science of Common Sense
Author Karl Albrecht
Karl Albrecht’s bestselling book Social Intelligence showed us how dealing with people and social situations can determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes the next step and explains how practi....
Release Date 2009/02 -
Landing Page Optimization For Dummies®
Author Michael Harwood , Martin Harwood
Turn landing pages into profits with the right toolsSuccessful landing pages don't happen by accident, they follow a carefully crafted formula. If you want to convert visitors to your site into sales, it's crucial to understand how to design, monitor, and maintai....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur: Why I Can't Stop Starting Over
Author Catherine Guthrie , Stuart Skorman
Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman—the founder of Elephant Pharmacy, Hungryminds.com, Reel.com, and Empire Video—grew up in a retailing family in Ohio. He worked every kind of job, from cab driver to professional poker player to CEO. In this entertaining, personal account ....
Release Date 2007/02