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How to Identify and Weed Out Low Performers in Any Business
Author David Russo
This Element is an excerpt from 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent: Why Engaged Employees Are Your Greatest Sustainable Advantage (9780137146703) by David Russo. Available in print and digital formats.A better way to identify low perfor....
Release Date 2010/04 -
How to Solve Almost Any Problem
Author Alan Barker
Problems block and slow down your progress; here’s how to overcome them–simply, efficiently and effectively. This book offers straightforward, empowering science-based solutions to problems, big and small, at work or in life. It takes a never before seen approach to....
Release Date 2013/02 -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013
Author Roger Penrose , Mircea Pitici
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013 makes available to a wide audience many article....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Personal Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
Author Brian Tracy
Why are some people more successful than others? What gives them their “winning edge”?World-renowned performance expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying uncommonly high achievers, and in this short, inspiring volume, he shares what he has learned: Even small ....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Superpower: How to Think, Act, and Perform with Less Effort and Better Results
Author Ford Saeks
A road map to better decision-making and a better life!Do you want more out of your life and your job with less effort and better results? Have you ever felt that there just has to be a better way to get there? If so, you're not alone. Millions of people, just like....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
Author Bhiksha Raj , Tuomas Virtanen , Rita Singh
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result i....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Jamie Beaton
Now a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller!How do you REALLY get accepted to Harvard, Yale, and the Ivy League? Told from the fresh and personal perspective of 26-year-old Crimson Education CEO and Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford graduate Jamie Beaton, Accepted! is an honest and practical guide ....
Release Date 2022/02 -
Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition
Author Beverly A. Browning
Write award-winning grant proposals that build organizational capacity!For nonprofit and for-profit firms alike, grants can be a singular generator of growth and impact. But many leaders are intimidated and confused by the sometimes-complex grant application process. The truth, however, is that anyo....
Release Date 2022/03 -
Author Marilyn Beker
Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters witho....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Author A & C Black Publishers
Offering practical, jargon-free advice, E-mail etiquette sets out to help with a wide range of essential issues, including managing your inbox, composing e-mails that hit the right note every time, responding to tricky messages, and understanding the legal implicati....
Release Date 2009/01 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker
Author Thomas A. Lisk
Get the gift of gab.In this guide, readers will find indispensable information on how to pursue public speaking as a full- or part-time career. Written by a 30-year veteran public speaker and bureau chief, this book shares details, advice, and insider tips on how t....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Encourage Unconventional Thinking
Author James F. Parker
This Element is an excerpt from Do the Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and Large Profits (9780132343343) by James F. Parker. Available in print and digital formats.Your employees’ wild ideas: they’re one of your greatest resources for bus....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Capturing Your Audience Immediately (and You are Off to a Great Presentation!)
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 “Opening Gambits” that grab your presentation audience from the very....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Ray Jayawardhana
In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover ....
Release Date 2013/04 -
The Most Valuable Things in Life Do Not Involve Currency
Author Saly A. Glassman
This Element is an excerpt from It's About More Than the Money: Investment Wisdom for Building a Better Life (9780137050321) by Saly A. Glassman. Available in print and digital formats.Restoring real perspective on life: what money will buy you and what it won’t.If....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author Bryan Tillman
Create compelling, original characters using archetypes and design elements such as shadows and line with the tips and techniques found in this image-packed book. Bryan Tillman bridges the gap between the technique of drawing characters and the theory of good charac....
Release Date 2012/12 -
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 Ben Renshaw , Robert Holden
Perfect for the briefcase or portfolio, these four new guides in the Essential Managers series are ideal for experienced or novice managers in companies both large and small. Having sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, these books are relevant to every work en....
Release Date 2002/03 -
Author Aimee Cebulski
Learn to use Kickstarter to make your great ideas a realityAs a crowd-funding website for creative projects, Kickstarter has the power to make creative ideas come to life. This helpful guide walks you through the potential of this amazing tool, which has helped proj....
Release Date 2013/06 -
In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work
Author Kerry Hannon
Navigate the post-pandemic workplace and take an active role in shaping your career and financial future Anyone who began working 20 or 30 years ago has witnessed astonishing changes in the workplace during their career. When the global pandemic hit, older workers fortunate enough to retain their j....
Release Date 2022/04 -
The Root Cause: Rethink Your Approach to Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems
Author Hans Norden
“Impeccably researched and astoundingly insightful, The Root Cause reveals how to go from ‘putting out fires’ to finding true, lasting solutions . . . A must-read guide for executives and leaders at any stage of their career!” ―Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Leadership Thinker and #1 New York Tim....
Release Date 2022/04 -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Author Mircea Pitici , Freeman Dyson
This anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not e....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Author James Manktelow
Learn how to manage stress effectively with this WorkLife guide
Release Date 2007/02 -
Understanding Government Contract Source Selection
Author Margaret G. Rumbaugh
Your Go-to Resource for Government Contract Source Selection!From planning to protest and all the steps in between, Understanding Government Contract Source Selection is the one reference all government acquisition professionals and contractors should keep clo....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Author Jessica Livingston
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with ....
Release Date 2007/01 -
The Intelligent Optimist's Guide to Life
Author Jurriaan Kamp
The world isn’t coming to an end, contrary to what you may have heard. But the media’s near-exclusive focus on conflict and disaster means that the progress and everyday acts of brilliance taking place across the globe go unnoticed.Jurriaan Kamp shows that optimism—....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Milennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work
Author Lee Caraher
As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations and Millennials join companies at a steady rate, companies are faced with the truth: they can’t just wait for management to age out to fix the dissonance and tension between Boomers and Millenn....
Release Date 2014/10