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61. |  By: Tojo Thatchenkery; Carol Metzker Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 18-MAY-2006 Insert Date: 12-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Appreciative Intelligence Appreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to their goals, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intelligence are realistic and action oriented--they have the ability not just to identify positive potential, but to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.
Drawing on their own original research and recent discoveries in...
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62. |  Attitude: Protect Your Most Priceless Asset, Fifth Edition By: Wil McKnight; Elwood N. Chapman Publisher: Axzo Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Attitude: Protect Your Most Priceless Asset, Fifth Edition
Protect your Most Priceless Asset
You may not be able to control the traffic on your way to work or the chaos once you get there, but you have total control over the affect these have on you—and your work. In fact, those who can keep their head, remain positive, and inspire others to do the same earn the highest respect. You can be that person.
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63. |  E-Mail Management: Keep Your Inbox Under Control, Second Edition By: Nancy Flynn Publisher: Axzo Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Mail Management: Keep Your Inbox Under Control, Second Edition
Keep your Inbox under Control
Enhance productivity. Save time. Access information quickly. This is everything e-mail once promised — before it became the labor-intensive, time-consuming daily grind it is today. You can get all the benefits back by following 50 simple steps. You can help your entire company get back on track.
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64. |  What You Need to Know About Leadership Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 26-APR-2011 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What You Need to Know About Leadership What You Need to Know About LeadershipBusiness Needs Leaders. Every day, good and bad leaders make and break organizations. If you want to get anywhere in your career, showing leadership is crucial.So what do you really need to know about leadership?Find out:What it's all aboutWhy vision mattersHow you can build a great teamWhy leaders need to motivate and inspire the people around themHow to lead when the going gets toughk
What You Need to Know about Leadership is the book you need to get to the corner office.Read More in the What You Need to Know Series and Get up to Speed on the...
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65. |  By: Stephen J. Sampson Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leaders without Titles
What does it mean to lead? Are there natural born leaders? Can leadership be taught? Throw out everything you thought you knew. Leaders Without Titles challenges the way we determine who our leaders should be and uncovers the factors that really influence the ability to lead.
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66. |  Resilience at Work: How to Succeed No Matter What Life Throws at You By: Salvatore R Maddi; Deborah M Khoshaba Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 26-MAR-2005 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Resilience at Work: How to Succeed No Matter What Life Throws at You
Resilience is the key not just to coping with unwanted change and stressful circumstances, but to truly thriving in the workplace.
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67. |  Administrative Assistant’s and Secretary’s Handbook By: James Stroman; Kevin Wilson; Jennifer Wauson Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 24-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Administrative Assistant’s and Secretary’s Handbook
An administrative professional’s job requires a diverse range of abilities.
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68. |  Critical Thinking: Make Strategic Decisions with Confidence, Second Edition By: Daniel A. Feldman Publisher: Axzo Press Publication Date: 23-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 24-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Critical Thinking: Make Strategic Decisions with Confidence, Second Edition
Solving problems. Evaluating options. Choosing direction. You need to be adept at critical thinking every day on the job. Learn how to tell the difference between effective and ineffective methods of thought. When you can show that your decisions are based on sound reasoning, you give yourself an unbeatable advantage as a leader or a rising star.
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69. |  Managing Anger in the Workplace By: Donald Gibson Ph.D.; Bruce Tulgan Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Anger in the Workplace
Relationships at work tend to be interdependent, competitive, hierarchical, overexposed, and compulsory. Keeping the interests of yourself, your boss, your peers, your subordinates, your vendors, and your customers in alignment all the time is impossible. Meanwhile, you must also contend with competitors and unpredictable markets. Thus, for most people, work involves a constant juggling of-and wrestling with-competing interests. Whether the stakes are pecuniary, psychological, or both, they are always on the line in every interaction at work. While the workplace is an environment more...
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70. |  By: Laurel Alexander Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 15-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
We all struggle as professionals to stay on top of our game. Here is a book with hundreds of practical ways to take control of moving your career in the direction you want to go – and of helping your people do the same. 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People reflects the real needs of real people in today's workplace. You'll gain exercises, activities and strategies that will help you develop your ability to build positive work relationships, change an aspect of your interpersonal behavior, come across as powerful in meetings, listen, make decisions, survive a downsizing and much...
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71. |  By: Cresta Norris Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: You.com The internet is vast and can be an inhospitable place for organizations and individuals trying to make their mark. To stand out in the crowd, you need to learn how to be creative online and get your various profiles on different websites working in tandem to promote your brand and your business.
You.com gives vital advice on how to manage your online image using tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to your best advantage. It shows how you can stay connected to the things that matter (via RSS feeds, news feeds, netvibes, etc) and includes essential tips on using online...
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72. |  How to Write Reports and Proposals By: Patrick Forsyth Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Write Reports and Proposals
Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business.
How to Write Reports and Proposals offers pointers for anyone who needs to impress, convince, or persuade their colleagues or clients. Using checklists, exercises and examples, it explains how to plan what to write, how to transfer ideas onto paper, and how to edit them to achieve the best results. There is also valuable information on the power of language, persuasive writing, and presentation.
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73. |  By: Joanna Gutmann Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Taking Minutes of Meetings
Minutes are vital to the success of meetings. Attendees rely on them for information they may have missed, and they serve as an essential communications tool for non-participants. In addition, the action points highlighted in minutes act as a timely reminder for the whole organization. Taking minutes involves listening skills as well as the ability to absorb information and summarize it simultaneously. The minute-taker is one of the most important and powerful people in a meeting. Although the tasks can be daunting, it is an opportunity to develop knowledge, broaden horizons and build...
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74. |  By: Rebecca Corfield Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Preparing the Perfect CV
Preparing The Perfect CV provides sample CVs for job seekers of different abilities applying for various types of work. It is therefore useful for every age and calibre, from new graduates to those wishing to return to work after a career break.
Careers expert Rebecca Corfield analyzes the content and presentation of a well-prepared CV, helping readers impress the employer and get an interview. Complete with new online CV templates to get readers started and a comprehensive checklist of dos and don’ts, Preparing the Perfect CV is an guide that every job seeker can benefit from.
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75. |  By: Ray Grose Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Sell Yourself
Everyone working in an organization has seen unworthy executives advance up the corporate ladder while more competent candidates are overlooked. Why does this seemingly unfair situation occur over and over again?
It is because many dedicated and competent executives concentrate on doing their jobs to the very best of their ability but fail to promote themselves as valuable organizational members. In particular they pay little attention to a fundamentally important factor in organizational success: their personal ‘image’ - the impression of them that other people hold, made up from...
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76. |  By: Jonathan Passmore Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Diversity in Coaching
Understanding how diversity impacts coaching is a crucial element to coaching effectively in today’s diverse society and can give coaches the edge when responding to the needs of their coachees. This book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, cultural, national, racial, and generational difference.
Each chapter is written by a coach who specializes in coaching in specific countries or to specific groups. They provide guidance on understanding diversity and how coaches can adapt coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural...
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77. |  By: John Seymour Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited Publication Date: 25-JUL-2001 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maximizing Performance
Learn all you need to know about Neurolinguistic Programming--achieving excellence by copying the behavior and thought patterns of outstanding professionals. Maximizing Performance shows you how to boost your confidence by changing the way you see yourself and also provides practical techniquesin a variety of settings. power tips help you to deal with real-life situations and develop skills to overcome many challenges. The Essential Manager have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alikecan benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into a...
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78. |  By: Robert B. Tucker Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 26-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
Innovation isn't something you do after you get your work done. It's how you do your work.
Organizations all over the world are shedding jobs in record numbers. Yet today, they are desperately in need of people with the abilities and skills to think ahead of the curve, delight customers, motivate colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results.
In this practical road map to becoming irreplaceable, global innovation guru and bestselling author Robert B. Tucker reveals why honing your I-Skills (Innovation Skills) may be the smartest career move you'll make. Based on...
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79. |  Discovering the Leader in You: How to Realize Your Leadership Potential, New and Revised By: Sara N. King; David G. Altman; Robert J. Lee Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Discovering the Leader in You: How to Realize Your Leadership Potential, New and Revised
Praise for Discovering the Leader in You
"An excellent guide for both new and seasoned leaders on the unique and complex challenges of leadership in the twenty-first century. This well-written, concise book will take you through the steps needed to make conscious, deliberate leadership choices in our 24/7 world of constant access and rapid change—choices that will help you better shape and control the influence you want to have."—Molly Corbett Broad, president, American Council on Education
"All great leaders strive for excellence by committing and periodically recommitting to...
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80. |  Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers, Second Edition By: Andrea Marks Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 31-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers, Second Edition Writing can be a challenge, especially for artists and designers
who tend to be more visual than verbal. Writing for Visual
Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers is designed to help
people who think in pictures—a segment of learners that by
some estimates includes almost 30 percent of the
population—gain skills and confidence in their writing
abilities.
Writing for Visual Thinkers approaches the craft of writing
from many directions, all with the ultimate goal of unblocking the
reader's verbal potential. It offers a guide to mind mapping,
concept mapping, freewriting,...
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