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Technical Management for the Performing Arts
Author Dennis Dorn , Mark Shanda
Technical Management for the Performing Arts: Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money is a comprehensive guide to the tools and strategies of a successful technical manager. This book demonstrates how you can coordinate personnel, raw materials, and venues, all while kee....
Release Date 2015/12 -
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 -
Author Thomas A. Kochan
Shaping the Future of Work lays out a comprehensive strategy for changing the course the American economy and employment system have been on for the past 30 years. The goal is to create more productive businesses that also provide good jobs and careers and by doin....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Author Aoife Lawton
The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as "do they feel invisible?" and "How many times have they heard somebody say ‘but everything is on t....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Abbie Griffin , Scott Swan , Michael G. Luchs
Develop a more systematic, human-centered, results-oriented thought processDesign Thinking is the Product Development and Management Association's (PDMA) guide to better problem solving and decision-making in product development and beyond. The second in the New P....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives
Author Anese Cavanaugh
GET INSPIRED. GET EXCITED. GET RESULTS. A proven approach to corporate culture that’s positively contagiousYou are about to enter a new era of leadership. With more competiton, more connectedness, and more opportunities than ever before, this exciting new era deman....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Gareth Jones , Rob Goffee
Imagine designing the best company on earth to work for... What would that company be like? How would you build and sustain it? As a leader, you need to know. In the past, businesses made people conform to the organization’s needs. But the old paradigm has sh....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author David Shapiro , Richard J. Leider
DISCOVER WHAT YOU'RE HERE TO DOIt's the end of work as we know it. Career paths look nothing like they did in the days before phones got smart. We work more hours at more jobs for more years than ever before. So it's vital that we know how to find work that....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Feeling Loved: The Science of Nurturing Meaningful Connections and Building Lasting Happiness
Author Jeanne Segal , PhD
If you feel that something is missing in your pursuit of nurturing relationships and lasting happiness, you are right. And you are not alone. Many of us feel tense and disconnected because we are lacking the most crucial component of emotional wellbeing: t....
Release Date 2015/11 -
How to Stand Out: Proven Tactics for Getting Noticed
Author Rob Yeung
Win the respect you deserveYou probably already have the skills to be more fulfilled and successful. But sometimes it's about showcasing these skills so that colleagues, customers, friends and the rest of the world can recognize what you do.Drawing on extensive re....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Justin Zappulla , Nick Kane
Master these top-performing sales skills to dominate the marketplaceCritical Selling is a dynamic and powerful guide for transforming your sales approach and outperforming your competition. This book is based on Janek Performance Group's, an award winning sales pe....
Release Date 2015/10 -
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 -
The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC)
Author Gerhard Fischer , Hal Eden , Ernesto G. Arias
he Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) is a long-term research platform exploring immersive socio-technical environments in which stakeholders can collaboratively frame and solve problems and discuss and make decisions in a variety of application do....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine
Author Chris Orwig
Creativity is not a gift for a select few, but an ongoing process of growth and self-realization available to anyone who puts in the effort to pursue the spark. In this book, Chris Orwig offers a unique perspective on the creative process, showing you how to find me....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Michelle LaPointe , Jason Wingard
Today’s global knowledge economy requires individuals and companies alike to quickly adapt to new tools and strategies. To remain competitive, both must continually upgrade their skills. In the United States, however, support for ongoing education lags far behind ot....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Owen Yamauchi
How can you take advantage of the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and the Hack programming language, two new technologies that Facebook developed to run their web servers? With this practical guide, Owen Yamauchi—a member of Facebook’s core Hack and HHVM teams—shows y....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Your Critical First 10 Days as a Leader
Author Eric J. McNulty
Get your leadership launch period right and you set yourself up for sustained, long-term success.Forget the first 100 days. As a leader, your impact begins from minute one. Within your first 10 days, your direct reports, boss, peers, and other key stakeholders will....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Christina Stein , Brian Tracy
Accomplish what matters mostBecause we all have too much to do, it feels like our lives are out of balance. But Brian Tracy and Christina Stein argue that imbalance results not so much from doing too much but from doing too much of the wrong things. They provid....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Lead the Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment
Author David Creelman , Ravin Jesuthasan , John W. Boudreau
A detailed look at the evolution of employment and its far-reaching implicationsLead the Work takes an incisive look at the evolving nature of work, and how it's affecting management and productivity at the organizational level. Where getting things done once mean....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Johanna Rothman
"Are you a technical person, such as a software developer, tester, writer, or project manager? You know that a job search is tough. You have to network, online and in person. You have to customize your resume for each job, so you can showcase your talent and technic....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change
Author Michelle Gielan
We are all broadcasters. And the messages we choose to broadcast predict our success. All of us constantly broadcast information to others, even when we don’t say a word. Sales professionals broadcast to potential clients in a way that wins new bus....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Sales Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
Author Brian Tracy
The job of the sales manager is to recruit, manage, and motivate a top team of high-performing sales professionals. This book shows you how to do it. World-renowned sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying what ....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Richard Templar
With a stunning new look in 2015, and with more new Rules than ever, get ready to experience the Rules effect. Begin to get more out of life, shrug off adversity more easily and generally be a happier, calmer, more fulfilled person. You’ll feel the benefits, and so....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Thumbs Up!: Five Steps to Create the Life of Your Dreams
Author Arun Gandhi , Joey Reiman
Purpose defines you. What you do with that purpose redefines the world. Joey Reiman was told he might never move his hand again after a horrible, paralyzing accident in 1975. Refusing to accept this prognosis and give in to negative thoughts, all he want....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Your Critical First 10 Days as a Leader
Author Eric J. McNulty
Get your leadership launch period right and you set yourself up for sustained, long-term success.Forget the first 100 days. As a leader, your impact begins from minute one. Within your first 10 days, your direct reports, boss, peers, and other key stakeholders will ....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Build Your Business In 90 Minutes A Day
Author Martin Gladdish , Nigel Botterill
A super practical guide to building a successful business by spending ninety minutes a day on the stuff that really matters.Have you got a brilliant business idea, but are not sure how to find the time to start making it a reality? Or perhaps you have your dream up....
Release Date 2015/06 -
S.U.M.O (Shut Up, Move On), 10th Edition
Author Paul McGee
Celebrating 10 Years of Shut Up, Move On!Paul McGee's international bestselling personal development heavyweight S.U.M.O. has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world fulfil their potential, seize opportunities, succeed at work, and respond to adver....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies
Author Joelle Jane Marshall
Don't panic!Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies is a practical guide to overcoming your worries and minimising anxiety using mindfulness techniques. The National Health Service and the National Institute for Care and Excellence recommend mindfulness as a ....
Release Date 2015/06 -
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