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Infectious Greed: Restoring Confidence in America's Companies
Author Kenneth Kim , John Nofsinger
In Infectious Greed, two leading financial experts offer a powerful new explanation of why the corporate scandals happened—and propose market-driven reforms that don’t just “patch” the system but fix it for generations to come. Discover how the system came to provid....
Release Date 2003/01 -
Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace
Author Bruce Tulgan , Heidi Wenk Sormaz
Everyone in the workplace is under stress including your employees. The good news is that, with training, employees can learn how to work well under pressure. This practical pocket guide for managers will teach you how to channel stress to enhance your own performan....
Release Date 2003/01 -
Author Salvatore J. Iacone
Practical, proven techniques to make writing for business more effective and less stressful.Thanks to e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, pagers, and, of course, the ever-expanding Web, we live in an age of information overload. Although all of these wonders were desig....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Author John Schuster
So many people today feel "called" to find more in their lives beyond the usual definitions of success, to live lives of purpose and meaning. Answering Your Call is aimed at people who know they are on the planet for a reason and want more than encouragement-th....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Leadership in Action: The Search for Solutions: Choosing the Right Approach to Generating Ideas
Author Stan Gryskiewicz , Sylvester Taylor
Solving problems requires skills in both problem identification and idea generation. Techniques for generating ideas range from the relatively safe and conventional, building on existing knowledge, to more radical approaches in which the original framing of the prob....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Creating Leaderful Organizations
Author Joseph A. Raelin
The times demand a new style of leadership. Employees today are highly trained and independent-they can offer much more to an enterprise than simply their obedience. And with the relationship between worker and organization constantly changing, no one pers....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Consumer Gadgets: 50 Ways to Have Fun and Simplify Your Life with Today’s Technology…and Tomorrow’s
Author Nicholas D. Evans
Consumer Gadgets is the easy "how-to" guide to 50 of today's most amazing high-tech innovations -- and tomorrow's. Discover how these breakthrough technologies can enable you to have more fun, simplify your life, and be more productive wherever you are. Nicholas D....
Release Date 2003/03 -
Author Charles Manz
Emotions sometimes get the better of us all, but you can learn how to analyze and manage your emotional reactions in any situation. Emotional Discipline details 5 easy-to-learn steps and 25 specific strategies for responding to your feelings in the present and ....
Release Date 2003/03 -
From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical Approach
Author Faranak Nekoogar , Farzad Nekoogar
Information you can put straight to work!ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) and SOCs (Systems On a Chip) are among the hottest topics in semiconductor chip design today. If you're a front-end or back-end chip designer looking to learn the latest techn....
Release Date 2003/05 -
Informal Learning—Managing the Training Function
Author Bob Hoffman
Informal learning can pack quite a punch in terms of boosting workplace performance and efficiency. But what is it, and what can you do to promote informal learning in the workplace? According Bob Hoffman, informal learning is anything that is not recognizable as fo....
Release Date 2003/05 -
Author Robert J. Rosania
Presentation Basics is designed to provide the basic training tools to individuals and organizations facing the reality of rapidly changing jobs, roles, and, responsibilities. This book offers a simple, step-by-step approach that guides readers through the entire pr....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Author Harvard Business School Press
With advice and tools for improving a wide array of communication skills--from delivering an effective presentation to drafting proposals to the effective use of e-mail--Business Communication helps managers deliver information effectively. Show and hide mo....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Author John de Graaf
Forget oil or gold time is the most precious commodity in America today. Americans have less free time than anyone else in the industrialized world. In fact, modern Americans work longer hours than medieval peasants Here, well known experts and writers explore ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
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 -
Be Your Own Brand—A Breakthrough Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd
Author Karl D Speak , David McNally
Brands are typically associated with products and businesses, but David McNally and Karl Speak suggest the same concept can be applied to individuals and relationships, with powerful results. Be Your Own Brand shows how personal branding, like product branding, crea....
Release Date 2003/09 -
ACE Programmer's Guide, The: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming
Author Umar Syyid , James CE Johnson , Stephen D. Huston
If you're designing software and systems that must be portable, flexible, extensible, predictable, reliable, and affordable, this book and the ACE toolkit will enable you to be more effective in all of these areas. Even after spending over a decade developing ACE a....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving
Author Barbara Mirel
Software for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals, but when actually put to use it often disappoints and even frustrates users. This software rarely follows the user's own work methods, nor does it give people....
Release Date 2003/11 -
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 -
Author George Piskurich
Subject matter experts (SMEs) and occasional trainers are increasingly sharing the training burden in organizations. Yet these "instant trainers" often are not familiar with even the basic terminology or practices of the training profession. Trainer Basics is writte....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients, and Contracts
Author Tom Sant
With over 40,000 copies sold, the first edition of Persuasive Business Proposals helped many readers construct dynamic, effective proposals. Now in paperback, this fully-revised second edition still gives readers simple, effective techniques for organizing, writing,....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First
Author D. Quinn Mills , Sasha K. Mattu , Kirstin R. Horn
Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop!Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Winning Habits: 4 Secrets that Will Change the Rest of Your Life
Author Dick Lyles
4 Simple Secrets of Success...Make Them Work for You!“In Winning Ways, Dick Lyles showed us how to work well with people. Now, in Winning Habits, he gives us the secrets to a lifetime of fulfillment.”—SPENCER JOHNSON Author of the worldwide best seller Who Moved My ....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author Bob Pike
101 of the best games from Creative Training Techniques Newsletter gathered into one book. These classroom-tested games, exercises, and activities add spark and energy to your training sessions—and help adults really learn without even knowing it. Includes one-day w....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author Bob Pike
Now Bob Pike brings you 101 More Games for Trainers. 101 More and better games from Bob Pike. This volume includes 26 openers, 32 energizers, 15 games that improve communication, 25 team building games, and games that address resistance to change, trainer training, ....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author David West
In OBJECT THINKING, esteemed object technologist David West contends that the mindset makes the programmer—not the tools and techniques. Delving into the history, philosophy, and even politics of object-oriented programming, West reveals how the best programmers rel....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Author Kathy Levinson , Erica Orloff
"Orloff and Levinson guide us in how to actively take control of what we cancontrol with concrete strategies, mindfulness, and respect for ourselves." --EDMUND C. NEUHAUS, Ph.D., HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND MCLEAN HOSPITALLife out of balance? Stop worrying about it. ....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable . . . About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Author Patrick M. Lencioni
Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life.In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial fu....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors, Second Edition
Author Elizabeth Wilde , Shannon Rouiller , Deirdre Longo , Polly Hughes , Ann Kilty Hernan
"The examples are excellent--right on target and easy to understand and adapt. Even those who don't adopt the entire procedure can profit from the parts, but the greatest value will flow to those who adopt the whole." --Carolyn Mulford, senior writer and editor of ....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Grantseeking, Second Edition
Author Andy Robinson
In the revised second edition of the bestselling guide to grantseeking, author and activist Andy Robinson walks you through the challenges of incorporating grants into a complete fundraising program, using grant proposals as organizing plans, designing fundable proj....
Release Date 2004/04