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Author Sarah van Gelder
We’re bombarded by messages telling us that more, bigger, and better things are the keys to happiness—but after we pile up the stuff and pile on the hours, we end up exhausted and broke on a planet full of trash. Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine ....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Michael Edmondson
This book examines a variety of assumptions prevalent in the mental models of undergraduates, parents, educators, higher education leaders, administrators, and policymakers that cause people to fall into a series of mental traps when selecting a major. Divided into....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Author Tamiko L. Cuellar
This book will help business/MBA students, aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders to think like entrepreneurs in 12 critical focus areas.Both success and failure start in the mind. From Tamiko’s years of practical experience in coaching entrep....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Author Stan Silverman
This book teaches how to be different. It is based on personal experience serving in the trenches as a CEO as well as a director on public, private and nonprofit boards.The fundamental goal of any business is to be different—to be better than those with whom it is ....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Linnda Durre
Proven techniques for dealing with workplace issues successfullyDo you dread going to work? Dealing with pestering coworkers, unmanageable managers, angry clients can take its toll on your job performance. And in these difficult economic times, no one can afford to ....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Author John A. Allison
The highly anticipated follow up to The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure—the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestsellerThe Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure reveals the integrated principles he sees as critical to the succe....
Release Date 2014/10 -
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 -
You’ve Been Laid Off: Now, Make a Plan!
Author Martha I. Finney
This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha I. Finney. Available in print and digital formats.Laid off? Perform “personal strategic planning” to stay on track, focused, and strong enough to....
Release Date 2010/02 -
How to Have a Brilliant Life, 2nd Edition
Author Michael Heppell
Do you want to live life to the full? To know in years to come that you really gave it your all – and got the most out of it? The simplest way to a brilliant life is by making sure you’re paying attention to the stuff that matters, in every area of your life, and by....
Release Date 2012/11 -
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 -
Weaving Dreams: The Joy of Work, The Love of Life
Author Tami Longaberger
Tami Longaberger is CEO of The Longaberger Company, the premier U.S. manufacturer of handcrafted baskets and other home and lifestyle products. With great tenderness, transparency, and candor, this book opens her heart, offering readers a glimpse of her unique "Amer....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Author Janis Fisher Chan
In today?s competitive global environment?where people at all levels need to accomplish more, in less time, with fewer resources?the ability to manage priorities is key to personal and professional success. How to Manage Your Priorities, Second Edition, provides ma....
Release Date 2007/03 -
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 -
Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything
Author Jonathan Tepper , John Mauldin
Greece isn't the only country drowning in debt. The Debt Supercycle—when the easily managed, decades-long growth of debt results in a massive sovereign debt and credit crisis—is affecting developed countries around the world, including the United States. For these ....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
Author Derek Roger
FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS.If you’re like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it’s not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Melina Costi , Jan Mühlfeit
Discover how to banish stress and negativity, rediscover your best self and become an inspirational leader – starting now. Inspirational leaders: Target strengths, not weaknesses Have a dream Manage energy, not time Put happiness before successBased on cutting e....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author A & C Black Publishers
So much work, so little time...Life at work has never been busier, and it's easy to feel swamped by endless 'to-do' lists, half-written emails, and a constantly-ringing phone. If you want to take back control of your desk , prioritise your work and create more ti....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Author A & C Black Publishers
While it's said that a little stress is good for you, too much can damage your health, your performance at work, and your relationships.With a self-assessment quiz, step-by-step action points, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of ....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
Author Stewart Friedman
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller"For nearly thirty years, my life’s work has been to help people like you find ways to bring the often warring aspects of life into greater harmony." — Stew Friedman, from Leading the Life You WantYou're busy trying to lead a "full" ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Mark Burgess
Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn’t matter whether we’re talking about humans on a team, b....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Jeffrey Russell , Linda Russell
Change is one of the great paradoxes of life. While change, or the possibility of change, is a key source of positive energy and even excitement, it is also a source of extreme personal stress and anxiety. Change Basics offers a single reference point for anyone see....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Author Miriam Plavin-Masterman
Recent scholarship on institutional entrepreneurship highlights the kinship between for-profit entrepreneurship and the equally transformative innovation and initiative of entrepreneurs in the non-profit, community, and policy-activist fields. This expanded explora....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author N.S. Sanath Kumar , S. Nayana Tara
The book focuses on the status of vocational education programs, challenges of achieving quality and attaining competitive excellence in a globalized socioeconomic order, and the role of government and industry in achieving these avowed goals.India’s transition to ....
Release Date 2018/09 -
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 -
Embrace the Outlier: To Do Differently You Must See Differently
Author Colin Crook , Yoram Wind
This Element is an excerpt from The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business (9780131425026) by Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Colin Crook with Robert E. Gunther. Available in print and digital formats.How to start seei....
Release Date 2010/09 -
The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection), 2/e
Author Leigh Thompson , Martha I. Finney , William S. Kane , Robert E. Gunther
A brand new collection of state-of-the-art tools for making better business decisions…4 authoritative books bring together hundreds of bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for optimizing every business decision, choice, interaction, and negotiation!Your decisions drive....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Dr. Hendrie Weisinger
Why do we sometimes get into the wrong relationships, take the wrong jobs, and make the wrong choices? The answers and solutions to these everyday plights are revealed by today’s “scientists of the mind,” evolutionary psychologists who have discovered stunning new ....
Release Date 2009/03 -
HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A
Author David Card , Orley Ashenfelter
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?"Developments in Research Methods and their Application" (volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, c....
Release Date 2010/10 -
A Kick in the Attitude: An Energizing Approach to Recharge your Team, Work, and Life
Author Sam Glenn
"Good old fashioned advice on how to have a great attitude, delivered in a pithy andinteresting way."?—Karen Leland, bestselling author of Watercooler Wisdom: How Smart PeopleProsper in the Face of Conflict, Pressure and Change?"Sam Glenn is known for his funny and ....
Release Date 2010/01 -
The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line
Author Nanette Fondas , Joan Blades
Ideas for transforming the workplace to fit today's workforceIn this book, Blades and Fondas offer business professionals an indispensable handbook for transforming the way we work and breaking free from the old, inflexible, 40-hour workweek. The authors show creat....
Release Date 2010/08