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61. |  By: David Thompson Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Idea A Day
Are you looking for a great idea or some inspiration to make your business more effective and cutting edge? Do you need to motivate and inspire your employees, shareholders or customers? Do you need to turbocharge your career? Do you want to do things different;y? By starting each day with a new idea, you can meet the challenges of modern-day business and work with energy and creativity. This bumper book contains 365 great business ideas, one for each day of the year, extracted from the world's best companies and managers. From marketing to PR, presentations to time management, starting up...
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62. |  What Is Global Leadership?: 10 Key Behaviors of Great Global Leaders By: Ernest Gundling; Terry Hogan; Karen Cvitkovich Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 16-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What Is Global Leadership?: 10 Key Behaviors of Great Global Leaders
What is global leadership? It turns out that many companies around the world are missing a key point: that global leadership is distinctly different from the leadership skills needed in a domestic operation. The global economy requires a new set of leadership skills imbued with a global mindset, cross-functional and effective across cultures and nationalities that were not as critical even a decade ago. In What Is Global Leadership?, the authors draw on cutting-edge research conducted by Aperian Global, including first-hand interviews with successful global leaders, which highlights 10 key...
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63. |  Social Media Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition By: Shiv Singh; Stephanie Diamond Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Social Media Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Get the last word on the most up-to-date social media marketing techniques
If you're not tweeting, Facebooking, or blogging by now, your business is getting left behind. Social media marketing is a highly effective way to engage with your customers. It's an easy, inexpensive way to enlarge your audience, add customers, and build your business. This guide provides an indispensable resource for small businesses and start-ups looking for low-cost online marketing strategies, as well as for marketers in larger companies who want to be more involved with social media. Learn which social media...
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64. |  Quantitative Risk Management: A Practical Guide to Financial Risk, + Website By: Thomas S. Coleman; Bob Litterman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quantitative Risk Management: A Practical Guide to Financial Risk, + Website
State of the art risk management techniques and practices—supplemented with interactive analytics
All too often risk management books focus on risk measurement details without taking a broader view. Quantitative Risk Management delivers a synthesis of common sense management together with the cutting-edge tools of modern theory. This book presents a road map for tactical and strategic decision making designed to control risk and capitalize on opportunities. Most provocatively it challenges the conventional wisdom that "risk management" is or ever should be delegated to a separate...
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65. |  Debt Markets and Analysis, + Website Publisher: Bloomberg Press Publication Date: 25-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Debt Markets and Analysis, + Website
An accessible guide to the essential elements of debt markets and their analysis
Debt Markets and Analysis provides professionals and finance students alike with an exposition on debt that will take them from the basic concepts, strategies, and fundamentals to a more detailed understanding of advanced approaches and models.
Strong visual attributes include consistent elements that function as additional learning aids, such as: Key Points, Definitions, Step-by-Step, Do It Yourself, and Bloomberg functionality
Offers a solid foundation in understanding the complexities and...
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66. |  Mastering Elliott Wave Principle: Elementary Concepts, Wave Patterns, and Practice Exercises By: Constance Brown Publisher: Bloomberg Press Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering Elliott Wave Principle: Elementary Concepts, Wave Patterns, and Practice Exercises
An innovative approach to applying Elliott Wave Principle
By convention, most Elliott Wave Principle (EWP) practitioners focus on individual market price movement. Connie Brown has a global reputation of developing analysis that focuses on the integration of global markets. In a two book series you will be taken through the steps to master the global cash flows of today's financial markets. The approach found in this first book differs from the traditional view of EWP because it shows you how geometry and the use of simple boxes drawn within a trend will guide you away from the common...
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67. |  By: Judith Hurwitz; Marcia Kaufman; Fern Halper; Dan Kirsch Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hybrid Cloud For Dummies
Choose the right combination of public, private, and data center resources to empower your business
Hybrid clouds are transforming the way that organizations do business. This handy guide helps you find out what this new cloud deployment model is all about. You'll get down- to-earth information about cloud technology, questions to consider, and how to plan and deliver your move to a hybrid environment.
Constructing the cloud — learn the basic concepts of the hybrid cloud from both a technical and business perspective
Delivering cloud services — dive deeper into the actual...
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68. |  Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions, 2nd Edition By: Tim Ash; Maura Ginty; Rich Page Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 24-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions, 2nd Edition
A fully updated guide to making your landing pages profitable
Effective Internet marketing requires that you test and optimize your landing pages to maximize exposure and conversion rate. This second edition of a bestselling guide to landing page optimization includes case studies with before-and-after results as well as new information on web site usability. It covers how to prepare all types of content for testing, how to interpret results, recognize the seven common design mistakes, and much more. Included is a gift card for Google AdWords.
Features fully updated information and...
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69. |  By: David J. Abner Publisher: Bloomberg Press Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Guide to ETFs
A visual guide to one of the fastest growing areas in trading and speculation
An Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)—a security that tracks an index, a commodity, or a basket of assets like an index fund, but trades like a stock on an exchange—offers diversification of an index fund, as well as the ability to sell short, buy on margin, and purchase as little as one share. Giving financial advisors, institutional asset managers, traders, and other investment professionals the information they need to get the most out of ETF opportunities, the Bloomberg Visual Guide to ETFs covers the subject in a...
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70. |  Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy By: Amy C. Edmondson; Edgar H. Schein Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not...
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71. |  Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach By: Joan E. Pynes; Donald N. Lombardi Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 24-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach
This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care management programs. Written by the authors of Handbook for the New Health Care Manager and Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, the book covers the context of human resources management in the unique health care business arena from a strategic perspective includes SHRM and human resources planning, organizational culture and assessment, and the legal...
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72. |  From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health, 3rd Edition By: Jo Manion Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health, 3rd Edition
From Management to Leadership identifies the fundamental interpersonal skills that every health care leader (and aspiring leader) needs to develop in order to be a successful executive or manager. The third edition of the classic text offers suggestions for developing and improving essential health care leadership skills. Written to be a practical guide, the book presents concepts and skills that can be immediately applied to everyday situations. Completely revised and updated, this edition includes new concepts and resources based on the latest research and practices.
Praise for the...
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73. |  The Visual Marketing Revolution: 26 Rules to Help Social Media Marketers Connect the Dots By: Stephanie Diamond Publisher: Que Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 09-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Visual Marketing Revolution: 26 Rules to Help Social Media Marketers Connect the Dots Get Straight to Your Customer’s Mind, Heart, Buy
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Skip past the filters: jump straight into your customer’s
powerful visual instinct, where 83% of all human learning is
processed. Craft messages that can be brilliantly expressed
visually. Then, brilliantly express them. Learn the modern
and timeless arts of visual persuasion from a master: Stephanie
Diamond. Design irresistible visual persona. Tell masterful visual
stories. Create breakthrough images, infographics, and video. Use
all the visual social tools at your disposal, from Instagram to
Pinterest to YouTube. Words...
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74. |  Leadership in Action: Inklings - A Mid-Career Leadership Curriculum for High-Potential Leaders Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Inklings - A Mid-Career Leadership Curriculum for High-Potential Leaders
A high-potential program should fly the flag, teach the company, train the individual, build networks, and invoke the arts and sciences.
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75. |  Leadership in Action: Single-Gender and Single-Race Leadership Development Programs By: Patricia J. Ohlott; Martha W. Hughes-James Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Single-Gender and Single-Race Leadership Development Programs
The truth is that white women and men and women of color deal with difficult realities at work on a daily basis.
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76. |  Leadership in Action: Leading Resilient Organizations By: Mary Lynn Pulley Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Leading Resilient Organizations
Organizations must think in terms of creating a network of strategic alliances.
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77. |  Leadership in Action: Profitability and the Common Good By: Pam Mayer Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Profitability and the Common Good
Striving for profitability and working to enhance the common good should not be at odds.
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78. |  Leadership in Action: The Art of Feedback By: Stéphane Brutus; Sam Manoogian Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: The Art of Feedback
One of the most emotionally powerful insights to come out of these sessions is the recognition of one's strengths.
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79. |  Leadership in Action: Preparing for a leadership Development Program Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Preparing for a leadership Development Program
The mind-set of the prospective participant can have a significant bearing on the program's success.
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80. |  Leadership in Action: Seven Common Beliefs About Teams: Are They True? By: Glenn L. Hallam Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Seven Common Beliefs About Teams: Are They True?
Glenn L. Hallam is a research scientist at CCL in Colorado Springs. He has looked closely at these beliefs and has found some surprising answers.
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