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The Truth About Better Business Communication (Collection)
Author Leigh Thompson , James O’Rourke , Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
150 powerful bite-size techniques for supercharging all your business communications: print, web, e-mail, and in person!Three full books of indispensable, practical advice on virtually every form of business communication! Discover how to write e-mails, reports, pro....
Release Date 2010/11 -
The Truth About Being a Successful Manager: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes
Author Dr. Stephen P. Robbins
“The premiere writer of management textbooks has sifted through the research to extract the truths every manager should know. This book is an antidote for the unsupported opinions handed out in many popular management books.”Kenneth W. Thomas, Professor of Managemen....
Release Date 2007/09 -
The Truth About Being a Leader...and Nothing But the Truth
Author Dr. Karen Otazo
When it comes to effective leadership, everyone has an opinion. But you don’t need opinions: you need proven, real-world solutions, based on facts and evidence. That’s what The Truth About Being a Leader delivers: high-power leadership techniques you can use every d....
Release Date 2006/11 -
The Truth About Behavioral Change
Author Tayler Lord , Damon Centola
In this article drawn from his new book, How Behavior Spreads, UPenn professor Damon Centola explains how the thinking about social networks is changing. Recent research reveals that depending on long-established concepts such as “weak ties” and “....
Release Date 2018/12 -
The Truth About Background and Reference Checks When Hiring
Author Cathy Fyock
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Hiring the Best (9780132381864) by Cathy Fyock. Available in print and digital formats.How to ferret out and avoid “scam-didates”: job candidates who flat-out lie about their credentials and experience.The candidate yo....
Release Date 2010/07 -
The Truth About Avoiding Credit Scams: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes
Author Steve Weisman
"You should read this book and take Steve Weisman's advice. And from the money and assets he helps you protect, take a few dollars and buy a copy for a good friend."--Alan Colmes, Syndicated radio talk show host and co-host of Hannity and Colmes on Fox News Cha....
Release Date 2008/01 -
The Truth About Acting Decisively
Author Robert E. Gunther
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Making Smart Decisions (9780132354639) by Robert E. Gunther. Available in print and digital formats.Why even the wrong decision is better than none at all!A Swiss army unit was hopelessly lost during survival maneuvers....
Release Date 2010/08 -
The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workplace
Author Ron Alsop
The first wave of the Millennial Generation—born between 1980 and 2001—is entering the work force, and employers are facing some of the biggest management challenges they’ve ever encountered. They are trying to integrate the most demanding and most coddled generatio....
Release Date 2008/10 -
The Transfer of Skills Training
Author Richard L. Sullivan
This Info-line describes a model that can be used to determine that the transfer of skills training has occurred. The steps are: 1) conduct needs assessment, 2) standardize performance skills, 3) develop performance checklists, 4) transfer using demonstration, 5) co....
Release Date 1998/04 -
Author Mike Rother
Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results!In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list o....
Release Date 2017/10 -
The Top 10 Things You Must Know About Hiring the Best
Author Cathy Fyock
Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!Supercharge your workforce with these 10 practical, powerful techniques for hiring better pe....
Release Date 2010/11 -
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A fable for managers (and their employees)
Author Patrick Lencioni
A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve your job satisfaction and performance.In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to: the causes of a miserable job. Millions of workers, even th....
Release Date 2007/08 -
The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
Author Dave Logan , Steve Zaffron
When a hurricane warning is announced, everyone's concerns and actions become focused on that expectation; the hurricane essentially becomes the future which people are "living into." Similarly, when an organization needs to transform or make the leap to a higher l....
Release Date 2009/02 -
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 -
The Smart Way to Respond to Negative Emotions at Work
Author Christine M. Pearson
It is impossible to block negative emotions from the workplace. Whether provoked by bad decisions, misfortune, or employees’ personal problems, no organization is immune from trouble, and trouble agitates bad feelings. In many organizations, negative emotions....
Release Date 2017/04 -
The Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced techniques for taking visual notes you can use anywhere
Author Mike Rohde
The Sketchnote Workbook, the follow-up to Mike Rohde’s popular The Sketchnote Handbook, shows you how to take the basic sketchnoting skills you learned in the Handbook and use them in new and fun ways. You think you have fun taking sketchnotes in meetings? Try using....
Release Date 2014/08 -
The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams
Author Trent Hamm
Struggling with debt?Frustrated about work?Just not satisfied with life?“Trent Hamm set out to boost his happiness by freeing himself from debt. This account of how he succeeded, and how he was able to construct the life he’d always wanted, will inspire readers to p....
Release Date 2010/06 -
The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help—or Hurt—How You Lead
Author Carol Kinsey Goman
A guide for using body language to lead more effectivelyAspiring and seasoned leaders have been trained to manage their leadership communication in many important ways. And yet, all their efforts to communicate effectively can be derailed by even the smallest nonver....
Release Date 2011/04 -
The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change
Author Jon Gordon
An illustrated business fable that gives you the faith, courage and confidence to win in today's tough economic climateFear and uncertainty are staples of daily life in today's struggling economy. As bad as things can be, economic downturns also lead to new opport....
Release Date 2009/09 -
The Seven Competences of the Sustainable Professional
Author Anouchka Rachelson , Niko Roorda
The Seven Competences of the Sustainable Professional shows how every professional can contribute to sustainable development. Through real-life stories told by a range of professionals, each illustrating a sustainability competence, this book provides a practical g....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Jeanette Bronee
The world has changed, our lives have changed, and in recent years, our work has changed. Despite the disruption, our relationship and understanding of self-care have remained the same as we still see it as something fluffy or a perfect list of habits that we “do” alone outside of work to recover. B....
Release Date 2022/11 -
The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work
Author JON GORDON
A business fable to help you discover your purpose in work and lifeNew from Jon Gordon, the international and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Energy Bus, The Seed takes you on a quest for the meaning and passion behind work. Josh, an up-and-comer at hi....
Release Date 2011/05 -
The Secret Language of Business: How to Read Anyone in 3 Seconds or Less
Author Kevin Hogan
The Secret Language of Business reveals the secrets of body language and nonverbal communication. Successful professionals need more than just good communication skills, you also need the ability to interpret the nonverbal signals that everyone displays. You’ll lear....
Release Date 2008/01 -
Author Eric Williams
In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and reinvent storytelling paradigms. Williams presents seven different aspects of storytellin....
Release Date 2017/09 -
The Savage Way: Successfully Navigating the Waves of Business and Life
Author Bill Cos , Frank Savage
Inspiring lessons on business and life from Frank SavageFrank Savage's is an unlikely success story. Raised in segregated Washington, DC, by his mother, a hairdresser and entrepreneur with little formal education, Savage's career has taken him around the world as ....
Release Date 2012/11 -
The Savage Truth on Money, 2nd Edition
Author Terry Savage
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on moneyIf you are overwhelmed by money decisions and in today's post-crisis economy, who isn't? Terry Savage can help. In The Savage Truth, Second Edition, she takes the fear out of financial decision-making a....
Release Date 2011/06 -
The Rules of Work, 4th Edition
Author Richard Templar
NOW WITH 10 NEW RULES A definitive code for personal success ‘The Rules of Work is an eye-opener for all those who would like to rise to the top, but don’t seem to be able to find the map.’Sir Antony Jay, author of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minster, and founder....
Release Date 2015/10 -
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Author Richard Templar
A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of lifeSome people seem to find life easy. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards, always saying and doing the right things, whatever the situation. Everybody likes them – they are great to live with and great to work with. They....
Release Date 2022/09