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61. |  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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62. |  By: DK Publishing Publisher: DK Publishing Publication Date: 01-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Healing Foods
Take control of your life and your health through what you eat with Healing Foods, an indispensable resource that shows you exactly what foods are best, and how to optimize their super-food potential.
With more than 200 healing foods, from carrots to clementines, and 150 easy-to-prepare recipes that heal, Healing Foods empowers readers to practice optimum nutrition, and shows how certain foods can be incorporated into daily life to target specific health issues. ...
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63. |  DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston By: David Lyon; Patricia Harris Publisher: DK Publishing Publication Date: 01-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston will lead you straight to the best attractions Boston has to offer. You'll find detailed background information on the best things to do in Boston, from visiting historic Harvard University and taking one of many walking tours to watching a Boston Red Sox game. This best-selling travel guide is packed with beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all Boston's major sights, as well as 3-D aerial views of its most interesting districts. Features include the itinerary planner, Four Great Days Out in Boston, Street Finder mapping throughout, and a pull-out map...
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64. |  By: David Thompson Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Magic Blackberry
This short story introduces you to a simple model which will help you take a more thoughtful and effective approach to the way you navigate the workplace and the relationships made with people inside and outside of your company. Written in the style of a fictional story (in same way as the author's previous book, Career Helium), the book recounts the journey of a man who discovers he has a magic BlackBerry. One day, in a moment of anger, he responds to an equally rude email. When he presses the "send" button, however, the BlackBerry refuses to send the email. Instead, the man receives a...
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65. |  By: David Thompson Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUN-2007 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Career Helium
What does it really take to climb the corporate ladder? Just doing a good job is not enough - what gets you paid does not get you ahead. Most people are competent. But of you have ambitions to take an upward path in your career, competence just doesn't cut it. This book explains the concept of career heliun - a powerful secret that is known to a select few, an approach to work that provides the fuel to float past the others who are naively pinning their hopes on being tlent spotted by the boss. Those who really achieve superior recognition and reward at work manage their boss, their...
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66. |  Leadership in Action: Dispersed Teams Need to Get Off on the Right Foot By: Valerie I. Sessa; Michael C. Hansen; Michael E. Kossler; Sonya Prestridge Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dispersed Teams Need to Get Off on the Right Foot
The latest research by CCL sheds light on how members of dispersed teams interact, how to best build and support such teams, and how dispersed teams achieve their goals
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67. |  Leadership in Action: Follow-Up - A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development By: Jennifer W. Martineau; Judith L. Steed Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Follow-Up - A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development
People can be motivated by charting a leadership development path and looking forward to periodic measures to indicate their progress.
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68. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Take This Job and Love It By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-FEB-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Take This Job and Love It
Frequently, people's ideal job has nothing to do with what they really do for a living.
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69. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Cultivating Teams Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Cultivating Teams
The leader needs to examine and create or develop appropriate structures and systems to support teamwork.
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70. |  Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Presence of Mind - A Conversation with Tony Buzan Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Presence of Mind - A Conversation with Tony Buzan
Tony Buzan is a leading authority on the brain and techniques of thinking and learning. More than forty years ago he developed Mind Maps®, a powerful graphical and visualization tool designed to unlock the brain's potential.
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71. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - How Leaders Can Get Off the Hamster Wheel By: Melodie Jancerak Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - How Leaders Can Get Off the Hamster Wheel
People who are stuck tend to be able to describe the situation and the problem in excruciating detail.
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72. |  Leadership in Action: In Focus - Health - Stress Takes a Toll on Leaders Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: In Focus - Health - Stress Takes a Toll on Leaders
All stress is not created equal, and stress is not always negative.
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73. |  Leadership in Action: Getting to the Roots of Conflict with Your Boss By: Davida Sharpe; Elinor Johnson Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Getting to the Roots of Conflict with Your Boss
Conflict with the boss can prevent managers from effectively contributing to their organizations. But if it's clearly understood and skillfully managed, conflict can actually become a positive.
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74. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Leadership Gold from the Silver Screen By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Leadership Gold from the Silver Screen
There are lots of movies out there that are not only entertaining but also teach excellent leadership lessons.
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75. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Two Ways About it - Learning to Deal with Ambiguity By: Don W. Prince Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Two Ways About it - Learning to Deal with Ambiguity
Because even with ambiguity, one thing is certain: in today's increasingly complex, perpetually changing, ever-more-diverse world, life and work will get only more ambiguous.
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76. |  Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Telling the Untold Story - A Conversation with Stella M. Nkomo Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Telling the Untold Story - A Conversation with Stella M. Nkomo
Managing editor Stephen Rush recently talked with Nkomo about her latest work and what it means for leaders. Here are some excerpts from the interview.
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77. |  By: Elinor Johnson; Roger Conway Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Every organization can benefit from creating supportive alliances and that executives must understand the desirability of such connections and be socially and politically savvy.
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78. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Leading with Purpose - Where it All Begins Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-FEB-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Leading with Purpose - Where it All Begins
Purpose is built upon reason, intention, and drive.
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79. |  Leadership in Action: In Focus - Health - Exercising for Excellence Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2003 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: In Focus - Health - Exercising for Excellence
Exercising for longer durations at easy to moderate intensities and occasionally exercising at higher intensities for shorter periods of time (assuming your heart is healthy) are both important for overall health and physical fitness.
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80. |  An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Managing Ambition Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 05-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Managing Ambition
Ambition is a good thing, but too much of it can cause problems. You need ambition to be successful, but if you have too much, it can derail your career. This guidebook will help you determine whether you have a problem with ambition.
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