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81. |  Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-MAY-2004 Insert Date: 10-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Consultants, managers, MBA students all utilize a representational tool referred to as the "2 × 2 matrix", the most flexible and portable weapon in the knowledge worker's intellectual arsenal. This book is a single, integrated resource for reviewing, selecting, and deploying the best 2 x 2 framework for a specific situation....
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The Career Survival Kit (Collection) Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Career Survival Kit (Collection) A brand new collection of essential
insights for your business and career from world-renowned
experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great
price!
3 expert guides to supercharging your
career… wherever you are, wherever you want to be!
Three great books help you build an
outstanding career! Four Secrets to Liking Your Work helps
you make any job more fulfilling and joyful. Use Get a
Life, Not a Job to redesign your career with more passion,
balance, and money! Then, master The Rules of Work, Expanded
Edition’s 108 easy, bite-size rules for moving ahead
fast!
From world-renowned...
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Essential Lessons on Leadership (Collection) By: Doug Lennick; Jon Huntsman; Fred Kiel; Russell E. Palmer; James Parker Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Lessons on Leadership (Collection) Understand the surprisingly robust links
between morality and business success – and learn how to
improve both!
Learn how to succeed at the highest levels,
without sacrificing the principles that make life worth
living… discover why doing what’s right is the surest
way to optimize and sustain business value… understand the
powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business
success… successfully promote “moral
intelligence” throughout your organization!
From world-renowned leaders and experts,
including
Jon M. Huntsman, James F. Parker, Doug
Lennick, and Fred Kiel...
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Best Practices for Persuasive Presentations (Collection) By: Mark Magnacca; James O’Rourke; Jerry J. Weissman; Terry J. Fadem Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Best Practices for Persuasive Presentations (Collection) 3 expert guides to creating and
delivering the best presentations of your life!
Learn how to make winning presentations
fearlessly and painlessly… prepare quickly, efficiently, and
well… manage anxiety and handle hostile audiences…
answer the crucial “So What?” question brilliantly,
every time… capture even the toughest, most high-level
audience in 90 seconds... tell compelling stories that move your
listeners to action!
From world-renowned leaders and experts,
including
James O'Rourke, Mark Magnacca, and Jerry
Weissman...
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The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection) By: Robert Gunther; William Kane; Leigh Thompson; Martha Finney Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 03-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 28-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection) 150 powerful bite-size solutions for
improving every decision you make!
Three full books of practical guidance for
making smarter, better decisions — in business, and in life!
Discover how to learn and profit from your mistakes… minimize
your risks, and act more decisively… make choices that help
your organization thrive in change… make negotiating
decisions that lead to win-win solutions and enduring business
relationships… and much more!
From world-renowned leaders and experts,
including
Robert E. Gunther, William S. Kane, and
Leigh Thompson...
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86. |  Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness By: Randal Pinkett; Jeffrey Robinson; Phi Lana Patterson Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 27-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 18-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness
Rethinking the African-American experience now and in the future.
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87. |  SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best By: Laura Stack Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 21-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best
To be successful in the business world and reach your full potential in life, it's not enough to be simply competent. Our modern, super-competitive world is full of opportunities for the go-getter, but to take advantage of them, it's essential to become "SuperCompetent." The SuperCompetent person is one that companies fight to get, fight to keep, nurture as team players, and see as future leaders in their business growth.
But SuperCompetence isn't something you're born with-it's something that you can learn, no matter where your strengths lie or what industry you work in. In...
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88. |  By: Bruce Tulgan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 14-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 20-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
Get what you need from your boss
In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan argues that as managers demand more and more from their employees, they are also providing them with less guidance than ever before. Since the number one factor in employee success is the relationship between employees and their immediate managers, employees need to take greater responsibility for getting the most out of that relationship. Drawing on years of experience training managers and employees, Tulgan reveals the four essential things employees should get from their bosses...
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Embrace the Outlier: To Do Differently You Must See Differently By: Yoram (Jerry) Wind; Colin Crook Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Embrace the Outlier: To Do Differently You Must See Differently 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 seeing what you usually
miss–and open yourself to the powerful new ideas that can
transform your business.
We ignore so much of the world around us. We
are sleepwalkers in our own lives: We see without seeing. We
quickly classify others as “others” and don’t see
them as individuals. We classify new ideas as “crazy”
and don’t give...
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Making Better Sense: How Your Mental Models Define Your World By: Yoram (Jerry) Wind; Colin Crook Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Making Better Sense: How Your Mental Models Define Your World 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 Gunther. Available in print and digital
formats.
Understand the mental models you use to view
the world: how they help you, how they limit you, and how to
overcome those limits.
Your mental models shape how you see the
world. They help you quickly make sense of the noises that filter
in from outside, but they can also limit your ability to see the
true picture. They are with you always. They...
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Does It Feel Right?: Develop the Intuition to Act Quickly By: Yoram (Jerry) Wind; Colin Crook Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Does It Feel Right?: Develop the Intuition to Act Quickly 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.
Learn how to hone your intuition so you can
rely on it more confidently.
Your intuition is crucial to making
real-world decisions. But it is very difficult to explain, and it
can also be wrong, if it is based on a model that is out of sync
with the current world. What is intuition? How does it help us make
sense and act quickly? How can you...
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92. |  By: David Lindahl; Jonathan Rozek Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 13-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
Proven methods for building an online income stream
You don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.
The Six-Figure Second Income explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.
In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek tested dozens of tools and techniques. This book is centered around principles they derived from all the tests they...
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93. |  The Art of Business Seduction: A 30-Day Plan to Get Noticed, Get Promoted and Get Ahead By: Mark Jeffries Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 13-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 08-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Art of Business Seduction: A 30-Day Plan to Get Noticed, Get Promoted and Get Ahead
These days, more than ever, you need an edge to win the job, the sale, or the contract that you want. And once you have it, keeping it is part of the job. You're always selling yourself, getting re-hired everyday with everything you do and say.
The Art of Business Seduction elevates your game by allowing you to recognize what's essential in getting noticed for the right reasons and by the right people. You'll get powerful tools you can use immediately, including
A Strategic Communication plan
The no-fail, four-step L-WAR process (Listen, Watch, Anticipate, React)
Real-life...
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94. |  The ACE of Soft Skills: Attitude, Communication and Etiquette for Success By: Gopalaswamy Ramesh; Mahadevan Ramesh Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 21-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The ACE of Soft Skills: Attitude, Communication and Etiquette for Success
This book provides a broad-based coverage of what constitutes soft skills and covers nearly 40 essential soft skills along with numerous case studies, cartoons, figures, tables and quotations.
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The Truth About Making Better Decisions Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Making Better Decisions This Element is an excerpt from The Truth
About Making Smart Decisions (9780132354639) by Robert E.
Gunther. Available in print and digital formats.
Get serious about your decision-making by
transforming your choices from “abstract” to
“concrete.”
Get real. If you want to consider a decision
seriously, move it from an abstract idea to a concrete reality.
When motorists were asked about buying cleaner gasoline “in
the abstract,” they were all for it, but when it came down to
paying extra at the pump, that was different. Making decisions more
concrete will change the way you approach them....
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The Truth About Using Facts AND Intuition in Decision Making Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Using Facts AND Intuition in Decision Making This Element is an excerpt from The Truth
About Making Smart Decisions (9780132354639) by Robert E.
Gunther. Available in print and digital formats.
How to combine knowledge and intuition to
consistently make better decisions.
I recently kayaked down the Grand Canyon.
There are scorpions and 14 different kinds of rattlesnakes, cliffs
and rocks that can break limbs, and some of the West’s
biggest water. That trip offered plenty of ways to be injured or
killed. But what actually almost killed me had nothing to do
with the risks I’d identified before I left. It was a simple
toe infection.......
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Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: No More Bad Decisions Business success stories may be instructive,
but we need to know more about why smart people make bad decisions.
Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School
who has studied these crucial questions for 15 years, tells how
decisions really get made and describes the four signals that can
alert you when emotions are interfering with your thinking.
Business bookshelves teem with success
stories. Companies in search of excellence always go from good to
great; Jack Welch tells how he made General Electric a winner; we
learn the “seven secrets of intelligent people” and
“the art of...
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98. |  Mind Chi: Re-wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day -- Strategies for Success in Business and Life By: Vanda North; Richard Israel Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 01-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mind Chi: Re-wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day -- Strategies for Success in Business and Life
8 minutes a day is all it takes to open up a world of superior mental performance.
Just as Tai Chi has been used for centuries to balance body and mind, Mind Chi will help you increase your mental energy and be more effective in everything you do. And all you need is 8 minutes a day...
Mind Chi is a powerful synthesis of thought and action based on the most recent research into how the brain works. By following the simple, daily exercises in this book, you will raise your mental performance to a level you never thought possible. Discover:
Sharper powers of concentration and...
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99. |  Performing Under Pressure: Gaining the Mental Edge in Business and Sport By: Saul L Miller Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 08-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Performing Under Pressure: Gaining the Mental Edge in Business and Sport
People in sport, business, the arts, and in virtually all walks of life are increasingly challenged with the pressure to perform and excel. In business the screws are continually being tightened. Customers need things done faster, better, and less expensively. In sport the push to compete and excel is ever present and the ethic is you are only as good as your last season or last game. Performing Under Pressure is for anyone interested in insights and techniques that will help them to succeed... and do so with more ease. The book is filled with a variety of engaging and illustrative...
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Helping You Be a Leader: The Vital Role of Your Administrative Assistant By: Karen Otazo Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 17-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Helping You Be a Leader: The Vital Role of Your Administrative Assistant This Element is an excerpt from The Truth
About Being a Leader (9780131873384) by Dr. Karen Otazo.
Available in print and digital formats.
Hiring the best possible administrative
assistant: why it’s so crucial and how to do it.
Many people you’ll deal with as a
leader start forming their opinions of you long before you meet
them--when they first call or visit your office and encounter your
assistant. This person advertises who you are in your
organization. Hiring the right assistant should be a top priority
as you enter your leadership role, and the process needs your
personal attention....
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