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Author Gene Zelazny
Hands-on tips for powerful presentations in this all-new companion to the bestselling Say It with ChartsThrough four editions, Gene Zelazny's classic how-to Say It with Charts has generated more than $1.5 million in revenues. Now, in the companion Say It with Chart....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Al Switzler , Ron McMillan , Joseph Grenny , Kerry Patterson
The authors of the New York Times bestseller Crucial Conversations show you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing bad behaviorDiscover skills to resolve touchy, controve....
Release Date 2004/08 -
The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business
Author Robert Gunther , Colin Crook , Yoram Wind
This book is about getting better at making sense of the world...so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not some obsolete model of reality. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research and their experience with corporate transformations, Jerry Wind a....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Author Hector Levesque , Ronald Brachman
Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on ....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Author William R. Torbert
“Action inquiry” is a fresh approach to learning leadership in the midst of action. This highly accessible process takes each of us beyond muddling through daily dilemmas to exercising transforming power at key moments and more timely action in general. Bill To....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Author Freda Hansburg , Melvin Silberman
Bringing out the best in others is good business. When we bring both respect and interpersonal savvy to our work relationships, we do more than make people feel good. We enhance personal and organizational performance. And as the workplace grows more complex and com....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Author Phil Hood , Alex Lowy
Consultants, managers, MBA students all utilize a representational tool referred to as the "2 × 2 matrix", the most flexible and portable weapon in the knowledge worker's intellectual arsenal. This book is a single, integrated resource for reviewing, selecting, and....
Release Date 2004/05 -
Author David G. Pugh
In their book Winning Behavior, Terry Bacon and David Pugh showed how great companies outperform good ones through "behavioral differentiation" -- going beyond superior products and dependable service to connect with customers at every touchpoint. The Behavioral Ad....
Release Date 2004/05 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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