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41. |  Leadership in Action: Putting Some Life into Your Leadership By: Marian N. Ruderman; Patricia J. Ohlott Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-DEC-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Putting Some Life into Your Leadership
Community work, friendships, parenting, and spousal relationships can help you develop the interpersonal skills needed for managerial success.
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42. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Reception Gets Fuzzy Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Reception Gets Fuzzy
Not all feedback comes through the traditional, direct routes. Much of it comes indirectly.As we get older, we start to screen indirect messages.
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43. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Language, Leadership, and the Old Tomato By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Language, Leadership, and the Old Tomato
Regardless of how much experience you have or how intelligent you are, people judge you by the way you speak.
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44. |  Leadership in Action: Getting the Message: How to Feel Your Way with Other Cultures By: Don W. Prince; Michael H. Hoppe Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Getting the Message: How to Feel Your Way with Other Cultures
Unconsciously we expect other people to think, feel, and act the way we do. When they don't conform to our expectations, we put our own interpretations on their behavior.
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45. |  By: Florian Rustler; Tony Buzan Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mind Mapping For Dummies
Unlock your brain's potential using mind mapping
Mind mapping is a popular technique that can be applied in a variety of situations and settings. Students can make sense of complex topics and structure their revision with mind mapping; business people can manage projects and collaborate with colleagues using mind maps, and any creative process can be supported by using a mind map to explore ideas and build upon them. Mind maps allow for greater creativity when recording ideas and information whatever the topic, and enable the note-taker to associate words with visual...
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46. |  J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013: For Preparing Your 2012 Tax Return Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013: For Preparing Your 2012 Tax Return
America's number one bestselling tax guide offers the best balance of thoroughness, organization, and usability
For over half a century, more than 39 million Americans have turned to J.K. Lasser for easy-to-follow, expert advice and guidance on planning and filing their taxes. Written by a team of tax specialists, J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013 includes all the outstanding features that have made this book the nation's all-time top-selling tax guide. It covers some of the most important topics associated with your taxes, from what must you report as income and strategies that will...
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47. |  By: Ken Fisher Brown; Lara Hoffmans Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Whether you're in retirement, just getting ready to retire, or 5, 10, or 40 years out, this book can help you invest smarter your whole life and yes, plan better for retirement.
Harmful mythology abounds about retirement investing. Many retirees or soon-to-be retirees have heard a plethora of advice. Take 100 (or 120) and subtract your age to get your equity allocation, put the rest in bonds or cash. Buy only bonds. Buy only high dividend stocks. Or some combination! Buy equity-indexed annuities or some "guaranteed" income product. All examples of a potentially harmful myth many folks...
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48. |  By: David M. Darst Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Protect assets during times of crisis with this new edition of the New York Times bestseller!
When the first edition of this book appeared it was before the economic crash. This new edition shows how David Darst's particular kind of asset allocation helped his investors during that volatile period. It also contains a discussion of downside and risk tolerance and new self-tests for determining your risk tolerance. And, finally, it reveals how the asset allocation model has changed since 2008. In all of these areas, the author will continue to include new insightful anecdotes like those...
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49. |  Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader By: Thomas N. Bulkowski Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader
Comprehensive coverage of the four major trading styles
Evolution of a Trader explores the four trading styles that people use when learning to trade or invest in the stock market. Often, beginners enter the stock market by:
Buying and holding onto a stock (value investing). That works well until the trend ends or a bear market begins. Then they try
Position trading. This is the same as buy-and-hold, except the technique sells positions before a significant trend change occurs.
Swing trading follows when traders increase their frequency of trading, trying to catch the...
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50. |  Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City By: Brad Feld Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities
"Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small business energy. Startup Communities documents the buzz, strategy, long-term perspective, and dynamics of building communities of entrepreneurs who can feed off of each other's talent, creativity, and support.
Based on more than twenty years of Boulder-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist Brad Feld's experience in...
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51. |  Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition By: Charles P. Jones Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition
In today's economy, it's critical for investors to have a strong understanding of the strategies needed to make the best decisions. Jones arms them with the most up-to-date information in the field while offering a proper balance between investment opportunities, techniques and analytics. He includes new discussions on the rapid rise and interest in exchange-traded funds, the new NYSE-Euronext market, the merger of the NYSE and Amex, and more. Expanded coverage is also presented in behavioral finance and the bond markets. In addition, investors will benefit from the updated problems and...
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52. | Rough Cuts  The Truth About Negotiations, Second Edition By: Leigh Thompson Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 25-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 | Overview: The Truth About Negotiations, Second Edition This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Learn to be a world-class negotiator: get what you want and need
out of any negotiation! Here, top negotiations expert Leigh
Thompson brings together 50+ proven negotiation principles and
bite-size, easy-to-use techniques that work! Now fully updated,
this edition contains brand-new “truths” for
negotiating successfully across generations and cultures,
negotiating in virtual environments, and more. Thompson provides
realistic game plans that work in any negotiation situation and
shows how to create win-win deals by leveraging carefully...
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53. |  By: Brian Tracy Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Praise for The Power of Self-Confidence
"Brian Tracy is the master in understanding and teaching self-enrichment. In this priceless book, he unlocks the key to your door of success and fulfillment—belief in your own potential. Internalize his wisdom and you will surely realize your goals."
—DENIS WAITLEY, author of Psychology of Success
"Brian continues to impact the lives of everyone he touches. This book provides a logical road map that everyone can use to maximize their true potential."
—JOSEPH SHERREN, CSP, HoF, author of iLead: Five Insights for Building Sustainable...
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54. |  By: Terry Hawkins Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Why Wait to Be Great? Discover Your Super Power!
We all want to change something about ourselves: lose weight, quit smoking, improve our finances, and so on. But change is hard, even painful, and it’s our nature to avoid pain. In this inspiring how-to guide, Terry Hawkins provides exactly what we need: a straightforward way to break free of old habits that hold us back and adopt new ones that move us forward. It’s a process Hawkins herself used to rise above poverty, abuse, and serious health problems.
Two fictional characters—Pitman and Flipman—demonstrate two possible ways of being. As Pitman, we’re trapped...
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55. |  By: Robert L. Jolles Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Change Minds Persuade, Don’t Push!
Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing on his highly successful sales background and decades of research, he lays out a simple, repeatable, predictable, and ethical process that will enable you to lead others to discover for themselves what and why they need to change. Whether you hope to make a sale or improve a relationship, Jolles’s wise...
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56. |  By: Simon Tyler Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Simple Way
How many of you have observed (and experienced) life and business scenarios that are extraordinarily complex – complications that have festered and grown and led to delays, confusion, disappointment and paralysis? The frustrations and stress of such scenarios are all too common to most of us. Worst still, they act as barriers to our own development and fulfilment. This book provides 52 powerful and thought-provoking perspectives and ways to simplify common business and personal situations and challenges. As the author suggests: "To simplify is to change". It challenges the traditional idea...
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57. |  By: Anette Prehn; Kjeld Fredens Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Play Your Brain
How can I understand myself better and become more skilled in reaching my goals in my career and life? By combining the mindset of a musician and the latest discoveries in brain science, this inspiring book teaches you how to create change in your life. The brain holds the key to your success. What actually happens in your brain determines the level of success in your attempts to gain control of your life. Helping you to understand how the brain functions and how it responds to stimuli, and how you can steer this in the right direction, is one of the key objectives of this book.
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58. |  By: Mario Alonso Puig Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Reinventing Yourself
We all face obstacles and problems in life which often brings us to a standstill. Many people do not know what to do when their relationships go wrong, for example. Others would like to be more daring, more decisive or more successful. Yet, something gets in the way and they finally give up. When faced with adverse or unfamiliar circumstances, our natural reaction is to become anxious and negative. A No.1 bestseller in Spain already (over 30,000 copies sold since May 2010), this book is designed to transform your outlook to life. By examining how the human brain works and seeing what is...
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59. |  The Truth about Lies in the Workplace By: Carol Kinsey Goman Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth about Lies in the Workplace You Work with a Bunch of Liars—Learn What to Do About It
Sure, everyone tells little white lies now and then, but real deception in the workplace is a poison that can destroy relationships, careers, and companies. Carol Kinsey Goman, a leading workplace body language expert, combines her own experiences with the latest research to identify fifty subtle physical and vocal cues that will enable you to spot destructive workplace lies. She analyzes the role we play in supporting lies—how our own vanities, desires, self-deceptions, and rationalizations allow us to be duped. And once you detect a...
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60. |  By: Joyce M. Roché; Alexander Kopelman Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Empress Has No Clothes You Deserve Your Success!
Joyce Roché rose from humble circumstances to earn an Ivy League MBA and become the first female African-American vice president of Avon, president of a leading hair care company, and CEO of the national nonprofit Girls Inc. But despite these accomplishments, she felt like a fraud. She worked more and more, had less and less of a personal life, and was never able to enjoy her success.
In this deeply personal memoir, Roché shares her lifelong struggle with what she now recognizes as “the impostor syndrome,” a condition that plagues successful people in all walks of...
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