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How to Influence and Persuade 2nd edn, 2nd Edition

How to Influence and Persuade 2nd edn, 2nd Edition

By: Jo Owen

Publisher: Pearson International

Publication Date: 21-MAR-2013

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Everyone operating in business needs to understand how they should be using both influence and persuasion to make an impact, deliver outstanding results and really get ahead.   This brand new edition of How to Influence , is structured into three easy-to-access sections that will show you how to create willing allies across your organisation, turn potential crises into career defining opportunities, turn disagreement into consent, win key battles without fighting, push your agenda forward with authority, achieve more and stay in control.   Author Jo Owen is highly regarded as a...

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FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team

FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team

By: Graham Yemm

Publisher: FT Publishing International

Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013

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The tools and ideas to help you lead with confidence and achieve better results through your team.   This book provides all the tools and skills to help you be more effective in leading your team and achieving higher levels of performance. It focuses on three key elements: you as the leader, the principles of team working and team building, and getting individuals to contribute and perform.   As well as identifying obstacles and pitfalls, it assists you in improving your skills and coaches you to work out what you could be doing better. ...

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FT Essential Guide to Negotiations

FT Essential Guide to Negotiations

By: Geof Cox

Publisher: FT Publishing International

Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013

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A practical and clear guide showing you how to lead and secure a win: win outcome in all your business deals.   This book will take you through the steps, actions and communications skills necessary to ensure successful business negotiations.   Introducing a four-phase process that underpins successful negotiations and sharing the practices and actions of highly effective negotiators in a straightforward and practical manner,  this detailed, step by step guide will help you go into negotiations fully equipped with the key tools that you need to secure a win: win outcome. ...

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Living Leadership, 3rd Edition

Living Leadership, 3rd Edition

By: George Binney; Colin Williams; Gerhard Wilke

Publisher: FT Publishing International

Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013

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Reassess your leadership style, discover how to connect with people, and become a leader who can make things happen in the real world.   Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary aspects of leadership.   From building relationships, to working with the grain of the organisation rather than against it, and to knowing our limitations as much as pushing every boundary, the new edition of this...

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FT Guide to Pensions and Wealth in Retirement, 2nd Edition

FT Guide to Pensions and Wealth in Retirement, 2nd Edition

By: Mr John Greenwood

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013

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This book will help you navigate your way through the complex maze of state, private, workplace and individual pensions, offering you a range of achievable solutions you can carry out yourself to make a significant difference to your retirement income. It explains the different types of pension that exist and offers expert advice on efficient ways to build a secure retirement and how to manage that security once you have retired. ...

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How to Have a Brilliant Life, 2nd Edition

How to Have a Brilliant Life, 2nd Edition

By: Michael Heppell

Publisher: Pearson Life

Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012

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Do you want to live life to the full? To know in years to come that you really gave it your all – and got the most out of it? The simplest way to a brilliant life is by making sure you’re paying attention to the stuff that matters, in every area of your life, and by making positive and lasting change where it’s needed, when it’s needed. Although that’s not rocket science, it’s so very easy to just get swept along by the flow and then wonder what happened. We all need a bit of help to make sure we’re living our best possible life. And that’s where this book comes in. Taking each...

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How to Manage, 3rd Edition

How to Manage, 3rd Edition

By: Jo Owen

Publisher: Pearson Business

Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013

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The ultimate how-to of management. Based on years of management practice and actually watching what good managers do, it cuts through the noise of management theory, to show you how to develop the skills, behaviour and emotions to thrive as a manager. In How to Manage you’ll learn how to: Evaluate your own management potential Assess team members and help them discover how they can improve Identify and build the core skills you need to succeed Recognise the rules of survival and success in your organisation ...

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FT Guide to Wealth Management

FT Guide to Wealth Management

By: Jason Butler

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012

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The Financial Times Guide to Wealth Management is your definitive guide to preserving and enhancing your wealth and getting the most out of your finances. Whether you want to do it yourself, or get an overview of the basics so you can understand the experts, this book gives you the answers. Up to date with all the latest changes to UK pension, tax and legal rules, it covers everything you need to know in one easy to read guide. ...

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You Can Be Happy

You Can Be Happy

By: Daniel Freeman; Jason Freeman

Publisher: Pearson Life

Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013

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Do you feel that there’s room for a bit more happiness in your life? A lot more even? Then here’s the good news: you have much more control over your happiness than you probably think. And in this book, you’ll discover the often simple, but easily overlooked, steps you can take to reclaim more of those good feelings. What’s more, every single suggested action in this book has been scientifically proven to have a positive and lasting effect on happiness. There’s no hype here, just plenty of real hope. Better still, there’s no need for radical life change and no complicated programme...

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The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting

The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting

By: Stuart Fieldhouse

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012

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 If you think spread betting is complex and high risk then think again. Stuart Fieldhouse demonstrates that with the right knowledge and approach it needn’t be. From opening an account and carrying out basic technical analysis through to assessing market opportunities and minimising risk, this book offers a comprehensive walk-through of everything you need to know to trade successfully. The Financial Times Guide to Spread Betting gives you the tools to spread bet with confidence. The book includes: Different ways to trade, the markets available and various approaches you can use...

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Scripting mit Windows PowerShell 3.0 - Der Workshop

Scripting mit Windows PowerShell 3.0 - Der Workshop

By: Dr. Tobias Weltner

Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013

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Dieses Buch weist Ihnen den Weg, Systemadministration mit PowerShell 3.0 zu automatisieren, auch wenn Sie noch keinerlei Erfahrung mit Skripts oder Programmierung haben....

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Microsoft Office 2013 - Das Handbuch

Microsoft Office 2013 - Das Handbuch

By: Klaus Fahnenstich; Rainer G. Haselier

Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013

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Ob auf dem Desktop, dem Tablet oder in der Cloud - das vorliegende Handbuch bietet Ihnen das notwendige Know-how für den Einsatz von Office 2013....

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Psychobabble

Psychobabble

By: Dr Stephen Briers

Publisher: Pearson International

Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013

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Exposing the self-help myths that make us all more miserable. This is what your psychologist would really tell you–if he thought you could handle it!   This is the kick up the backside the self-help genre needs: an intelligent, provocative and thought-provoking expose of the modern myths that we’re told make us happier, but in reality screw us up.   Clinical psychologist, Dr Stephen Briers shines a light into the dark corners of self-help and explodes the myths, false hopes, quack philosophies and unrealistic expectations it routinely advocates. It is a refreshing antidote to the...

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How to Solve Almost Any Problem

How to Solve Almost Any Problem

By: Alan Barker

Publisher: Pearson International

Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013

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Problems block and slow down your progress; here’s how to overcome them–simply, efficiently and effectively.   This book offers straightforward, empowering science-based solutions to problems, big and small, at work or in life. It takes a never before seen approach to problem solving, powerfully combining lessons from cognitive science, established problem-solving theory and vast practical experience. It includes a radical new approach to analysing problems: The Problem Matrix . This will transform your approach to problems, challenge your thinking and help you develop new,...

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Simply Brilliant, 4th Edition

Simply Brilliant, 4th Edition

By: Fergus O'Connell

Publisher: Pearson Business

Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012

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Head banging against a brick wall? Nagging problem you just can’t solve? You’re not the only one. An astonishing number of intelligent people struggle to find solutions to some of the complex, varied and often frustrating problems we face in our day-to-day work. Whether it’s a major project, a minor quibble or something in between, a short, sharp dose of Fergus O’Connell’s simply brilliant advice gives you the tools to tackle problems head-on and join the few who manage to make common sense common practice. Through seven simple steps you’ll learn how to: Break down the complex and...

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What to Eat When You're Pregnant, 2nd Edition

What to Eat When You're Pregnant, 2nd Edition

By: Dr Rana Conway

Publisher: Pearson Life

Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013

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This is the definitive healthy eating guide for pregnancy, providing you with an instant checklist of what foods are safe and what foods you should steer clear of.  In this fully revised new edition expert nutritionist and pregnancy specialist Dr Rana Conway provides all the facts and everything you need to know to give your baby the very best start in life. ...

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Body Language, 2nd Edition

Body Language, 2nd Edition

By: James Borg

Publisher: Pearson Life

Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013

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Change the way you communication – forever. This is the one language that everyone speaks but only few really understand. But in 7 easy lessons, you can discover and learn everything you need to use body language to your advantage and become adept at reading the hidden signals of others. The new edition of this bestselling book will show you how to: Apparently ‘read’ the minds of other people with a degree of accuracy you never thought possible, whilst you gain a deeper understanding of what they’re thinking, how they’re feeling and why they do what they do. Find out what...

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Who Are Your Best People?

Who Are Your Best People?

By: Robin Stuart-Kotze; Chris Dunn

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 02-FEB-2010

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Do you know who the best people in your team are? Have you got a clear idea of how much they deliver? Many companies still proclaim that ‘Our people are our most important asset’, yet fail to treat that asset as valuable. In fact they often ignore their in-house talent, believing that the only way to get the top people is to seek elsewhere. Who Are Your Best People? destroys the widely-accepted myth of a talent shortage and shows how you can unearth and value the hidden talent that already exist in your organisation. This book will open your eyes to the reality of talent...

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Engineering Mathematics, Volume 2

Engineering Mathematics, Volume 2

By: E. Rukmangadachari

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Publication Date: 12-MAR-2012

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Designed for the core papers Engineering Mathematics II and III, which students take up across the second and third semesters, Engineering Mathematics Volume-II offers detailed theory with a wide variety of solved examples with reference to engineering applications, along with over 1,000 objective-type questions that include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, match the following and true or false statements. ...

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Cost Accounting

Cost Accounting

By: K. Alex

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Publication Date: 18-FEB-2012

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Cost Accounting is designed to provide essential skill sets to managers for planning and controlling their business financials. Covering a wide range of topics, this book is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of business study courses offered by universities across India. It also meets the requirement of the students of CA, ICWA and CS. ...