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Extreme Productivity - Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
Author Robert C. Pozen
A road-tested formula for improving your performance, from one of the business world's most successful—and productive—executives.Robert C. Pozen taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-serv....
Release Date 2012/10 -
F**k Work, Let’s Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid for It, 2nd Edition
Author John Williams
‘A compelling 10-step escape from corporate life that could spell a rash of resignation letters’– Sunday TimesStuck in a job that’s boring you to tears? Slogging away at a business that’s never quite taken off? Still can’t decide what you’d rather do? It’s time to say ‘enough’.The world has changed.....
Release Date 2020/11 -
Author Kimberly Devlin
Help them make the most out of every meeting. Rambling group discussions, tangential concerns, difficult attendees, and unclear objectives can all derail a facilitated event—and often do. But more than just learning how to avoid the pitfalls, effective faci....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd Edition
Author Sam Kaner
Unleash the transformative power of face to face groupsThe third edition of this ground-breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking. It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion for solving a p....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them
Author Holly Weeks
Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating -- you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. Such exchanges, which run the gamut from firing subordinates to parrying verbal attacks from colleagues, are so loaded with anger, confusion, and fear that m....
Release Date 2008/09 -
Author Sharon Atkin , Patricia Noller
Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive behaviour. Unfortunately, this view of adolescents is the focus of the media, even though it relates to just a small pro....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Dianna Booher
Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emails that get results and how to organize documents to gain control and increase your productivity.Today, most business writing is email writ....
Release Date 2019/06 -
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 -
Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message, Second Edition
Author Center for Creative Leadership
Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas. One, focus on the situation. Two, describe the other person's behavior you observed in that situation. And third, describe the impact that behav....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Feel Good: How to Change Your Mood and Cope with Whatever Comes Your Way
Author Graham Law , Shane Pascoe
A practical, inspirational guide to managing your moods, improving your outlook, and beating stress and anxietyFeeling overwhelmed, overstressed, or just plain down about life? This book is the cure for what ails you. Mood can affect every aspect of your life, from ....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Feeling Loved: The Science of Nurturing Meaningful Connections and Building Lasting Happiness
Author Jeanne Segal , PhD
If you feel that something is missing in your pursuit of nurturing relationships and lasting happiness, you are right. And you are not alone. Many of us feel tense and disconnected because we are lacking the most crucial component of emotional wellbeing: t....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Female Entrepreneurship in East and South-East Asia
Author Philippe Debroux
This detailed study of female entrepreneurship in Asia examines the high economic growth that is increasingly driven by market-oriented economic reforms favouring entrepreneurship. There is a higher awareness by women of their political and socio-economic rights and....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Author Sage Cohen
Produce your best work. Live your best life. Make your greatest impact. You have everything you need--and you are everything you need--to do the writing you are meant to do. And yet the path to success can be difficult to find and follow. Veteran author and writing ....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Shelly Stewart Kronbergs , Jackie Huba
Work through your fears by getting fierce!Fiercely You is a creative, playful approach to the serious problems that women face regarding confidence and risk taking. At a particularly low point in her life, bestselling author Jackie Huba serendipitously stumble....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Mandie Holgate
DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND SUCCESS IN LIFE? IT'S YOU! CHANGE YOUR MINDSET TO DEAL WITH YOUR FEARS AND YOU INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS. Fear of failure, fear of public speaking, fear of being you, fear of asking for what you want, fear of sa....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author William Turner
Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner—a Berkeley law professor who has argued three cases before the Supreme Court—shows how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of free spee....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Author Tim Grierson
Screenwriting looks at the foundation on which every great film is built—the script. Whether an original concept or an adaptation, the screenplay is the key to the success of a movie—good dialogue, story pacing, and character development are the framework everything....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Author Christina Stein , Brian Tracy
Accomplish what matters mostBecause we all have too much to do, it feels like our lives are out of balance. But Brian Tracy and Christina Stein argue that imbalance results not so much from doing too much but from doing too much of the wrong things. They provid....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Find Your Fit: A Practical Guide to Landing a Job You'll Love
Author Sue Kaiden
Master the new world of work. You want—no, you need—a new job. But not just any job. The job. So you polish your resume till it shines. You apply for countless openings, tailoring your message to each. You search for the hidden job market, although it....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Lucy Whittington
Finding it, refining it, loving it, and actually getting out there and doing itDon't waste your life not doing something you aren't brilliant at, not setting the world on fire with your ideas, your thinking, your inventions, your words — it doesn't matter how yo....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Finding Your Logical Presentation Flow
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.Create a natural flow for your presentation: help your audience follow you ....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Susan Reynolds
Ignite Your Writing Brain!Whether you're an experienced writer or just starting out, an endless number of pitfalls can trip up your efforts, from procrastination and writer's block to thin characters and uninspired plots. Luckily, you have access to an extraordina....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email
Author Peter D. Hipson
There's a new browser in town: Firefox is quickly becoming a leading alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you are new to Firefox and want to see what all the buzz is about, Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email is the guide that you need. By ....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
Author David B. Wolfe , Rajendra S. Sisodia , Jagdish N. Sheth
Today’s best companies get it. From Costco® to Commerce Bank, Wegmans to Whole Foods®: they’re becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they’re doing it for all the....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, Second Edition
Author David B. Wolfe , Jagdish N. Sheth , Rajendra S. Sisodia
Today’s best companies get it. From retail to finance and industries in between, the organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters....
Release Date 2014/02 -
First Fault Software Problem Solving: A Guide for Engineers, Managers and Users
Author Dan Skwire
Written by a veteran in mission-critical computer system problem resolution, problem prevention, and system recovery, this book discusses solving problems on their FIRST occurrence while emphasizing software supportability and serviceability. Who should read this bo....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You
Author Mark Allen , Brant Secunda
From setting appropriate goals for each type of fitness to learning how to feed both body and soul, this ground-breaking guide goes beyond the typical health mantras—eat right, exercise regularly, reduce stress—and explores the emotional and p....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work
Author Alan Lurie
Imagine the leaders of one of New York City’s top real-estate firms coming together every Monday morning to hear…the moral and spiritual thoughts of a Rabbi. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall? To hear the paths Alan Lurie traced for his listeners, how he hel....
Release Date 2009/03