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Author Brian S McWilliams
More than sixty percent of today's email traffic is spam, according to email filtering firm Brightmail. This year alone, five trillion spam messages will clog Internet users in-boxes, costing society an estimated $10-billion in lost productivity, filtering software....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Speak for a Living: The Insider's Guide to Building a Speaking Career
Author Sardek Love , Anne Bruce
Get into the business of speaking and training. There are dozens of books on public speaking. But only Speak for a Living will show you how to launch, build, and sustain a successful speaking and training career. Wondering whether making the leap into this industry....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Speak for a Living: The Insider's Guide to Building a Speaking Career
Author Anne Bruce
Becoming a professional speaker and trainer is a dream for many, but it an incredibly tough industry to break into without the appropriate guidance. Speak for a Living shows readers how to take their natural talents to the next level by becoming an in demand speaker....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Harry Key
If you think that talking is easy, think again! Why? Because, whether at a meeting at work or a dinner party at home, what you’re saying and how you’re saying it matters. It can open doors - or close them; it can make you friends - or lose them; it can get you not....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author Brian Tracy
The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people’s great respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest -- even most impossible-seeming goals. But what many people don't realize is that anyone can lear....
Release Date 2008/01 -
Speak Up, Speak Out (HBR Women at Work Series)
Author Harvard Business Review , Francesca Gino , Amy Jen Su , Laura Morgan Roberts , Ella
Make yourself heard.When women we admire such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised, "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" and Vice President Kamala Harris has to remind a room full of men, "I'm speaking," it can feel as though having our own voices heard at work is a lost cause. Whether we're con....
Release Date 2022/02 -
Author Mike Acker
Build your communication confidence and master the ability to inspire your audienceIn Speak with Confidence: Overcome Self-Doubt, Communicate Clearly, and Inspire Your Audience, keynote speaker, author, and executive communication coach Mike Acker delivers a practical and hands-on playbook to buildi....
Release Date 2022/12 -
Speaker Camp: A Self-paced Workshop for Planning, Pitching, Preparing, and Presenting at Conferences
Author Samantha Starmer , Russ Unger
Are you interested in getting out of the audience observing and onto the stage sharing your thoughts, ideas, and experience with the world? If so, Speaker Camp is for you! Russ Unger and Samantha Starmer are seasoned and popular presenters at venues such as South b....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author Ryan Avery , Jeremey Donovan
The secrets of superb public speaking—based on the best of the best of ToastmastersToastmasters, a name synonymous with public speaking, is dedicated to developing its members’ communication and leadership skills.Now Distinguished Toastmaster Jeremey Donovan and Pub....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS
Author Jason Cranford Teague
Speaking in Styles aims to help Web designers learn the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet. Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it's too hard to learn. Jason takes an approach to CSS that breaks i....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Author Frederick Gilbert
If you are in middle management, you live with daily ambiguity, lack of control, and even chaos. To get anything done, you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. Careers and projects can come unwound in a matter of minutes....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Barbara Baig
Elevate Your Writing From So-So To Spectacular!Great writing requires more than an original idea, compelling characters, or a scintillating plot. An author needs all of these to be successful, but writing--and writing well--also demands an entirely different skill s....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement
Author Nido R. Qubein
Success is not a matter of good fortune or an accident of birth. It is a matter of decision, commitment, planning, preparation, execution, and recommitment. Nido Qubein's six-step program for personal and professional achievement will help you make the most of your....
Release Date 1997/04 -
Author Mick Spencer
Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit with a counterintuitive approach to starting your own venture or taking your career to the next levelStart Before You’re Ready offers entrepreneurs an inspiring new roadmap to success — one that runs against nearly everything you....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Author Andy Bass
Start with What Works helps you to create new growth opportunities using the resources you already have at hand. It sounds obvious but frequently, managers discount the value of their familiar resources, and instead, they look outside for something new. This can demotivate employees and be costly in....
Release Date 2021/04 -
Start Your New Job with Confidence: Ideas for Success in Your First 100 Days
Author Martha I. Finney
This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats.Got a new leadership job? Take charge with confidence--no matter what happened in your previous pos....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Luis J. Echarte Fernández
Since I was diagnosed with cancer in 2003, I have spent a lot of time working on writing this book, a personal account of my life and the lessons I have learned along the way. After plenty of crying, laughing and feeling melancholic, I have come to the realization t....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur
Author Amy Batchelor , Brad Feld
Real life insights on what it takes to make it in a relationship with an entrepreneurEntrepreneurs are always on the go, looking for the next "startup" challenge. And while they lead very intensely rewarding lives, time is always short and relationships are often lo....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Author James H. Allen , III , PE , PhD
The fast and easy way to ace your statics courseDoes the study of statics stress you out? Does just the thought of mechanics make you rigid? Thanks to this book, you can find balance in the study of this often-intimidating subject and ace even the most challenging u....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition
Author Ron Snee , Roger Hoerl
How statistical thinking and methodology can help you make crucial business decisionsStraightforward and insightful, Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition, prepares you for business leadership by developing your capacity to apply stati....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Author Jon Gordon , Daniel Decker
Fuel yourself and others with positive energy—inspirational quotes and encouraging messages to live by from bestselling author, Jon Gordon.Ever since he wrote the mega bestseller The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon has been sharing inspirational messages and encouragement via his ....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Author John B. Izzo
In his bestselling book The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die, John Izzo tackled the secrets to lifelong happiness. Now he gives readers the key to a great career, a great workplace, better relationships, and a better world. Stepping Up argues that ....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Author Peter Block
Service, Accountability, and Partnership Stewardship was provocative, even revolutionary, when it was first published in 1993, and it remains every bit as relevant and radical today. Most organizations still rely on patriarchy and hierarchy as their core form of go....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers: How to Negotiate Work Drama to Get More Done
Author Linda Byars Swindling , JD
Turn constant complainers into productive contributorsConstant complainers take up resources, time, and mental bandwidth in the workplace. When you change a culture of complainers to one of contributors, you boost morale, increase productivity, and promote effective....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Nat Greene
Become the greatest problem solver you can be!Bad problem solving costs individuals and society incalculable amounts of time, money, and sanity. In this book Nat Greene—who's been solving hard problems professionally for over twenty years—shares nine behavior....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Madeleine Lowe
Madeleine Lowe has kissed more frogs than she cares to remember. After a string of terrible boyfriends and one failed marriage, this writer and working mum, finally found her Prince Charming. Thankfully he proposed and they now live happily ever after in the wilds of Yorkshire.She’s still waiting ....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Michael Bungay Stanier
Giving advice is a habit you’ve been encouraged to adopt all your life. But most of the advice you give isn’t all that great, for three reasons: (1) We tend to solve the wrong problems. (2) When we do zero in on the right challenges, we propose mediocre solutions. (3) The....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Author Leigh Thompson , Tanya Menon
Stop Wasting Precious Time and MoneyYou have a complex problem at work, and you know the standard solutions: hire a consultant, enlist a superstar employee, have more meetings about it. In short, spend money and hours to dig your way out. But you’ve been down this ....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Author Geoffrey Tumlin
PLAY DUMB. BE BORING. DON'T SOLVE PROBLEMS. AND ABOVE ALL, DON'T BE YOURSELF.Not exactly what you'd expect to hear from a communication expert, but these counterintuitive strategies are precisely what we need to interact productively and meaningfully in today's ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Stop Talking, Start Doing Action Book
Author Shaa Wasmund
A motivational kick in the pants to get the most out of your lifeHave you got an itch? To start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to li....
Release Date 2016/04