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41. |  The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All By: Julie Clow Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All
Embrace connectivity, increase empowerment, and achieve better work-life blending
We live in a new age of global companies, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely, our workplaces are lagging behind the promise of this open and collaborative world. Most organizations are rule-based, top-down, dreary environments optimized for conformity and little else. The Work Revolution creates a compelling portrait of a different kind of work.
"I believe that freedom in the workplace is worth fighting for and that every person and...
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42. |  Zennovation: An East-West Approach to Business Success By: Tomio Taki; Adam Taki; Mortimer R. Feinberg, PhD Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Zennovation: An East-West Approach to Business Success
Combining the principles of Eastern and Western business practices for powerful success
As an entrepreneur, manager, and problem-solver, Tomio Taki has shared advice with businesspeople ranging from managers of mom-and-pops to high-powered executives from across the globe. The Innovation Instinct showcases the author's breadth of life experience and illustrates how the principles of Eastern and Western business practices can be meshed together as a powerful source for success. Lessons range from the benefits of asking the simple questions to the importance of establishing oneself and...
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43. |  By: Andrew W. Savitz Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
HR Professional's guide to creating a strategically sustainable organization
Employees are central to creating sustainable organizations, yet they are left on the sidelines in most sustainability initiatives along with the HR professionals who should be helping to engage and energize them. This book shows business leaders and HR professionals how to: motivate employees to create economic, environmental and social value; facilitate necessary culture, strategic and organizational change; embed sustainability into the employee lifecycle; and strengthen existing capabilities and develop new...
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44. |  Social Media Metrics For Dummies By: Leslie Poston Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 13-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Social Media Metrics For Dummies
Discover how to gauge your online success based on social media metrics
With so many social media monitoring and measurement tools available, it can be overwhelming to figure out which tool is right for you when it comes to calculating the success of your social media marketing efforts. This fun and friendly guide helps you determine which tool will serve you best for understanding your online audience.
You'll learn to sift through all the information available about social media monitoring and metrics so that you can listen to what is being said about your business, read your analytic...
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45. |  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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46. |  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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47. |  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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48. |  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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49. |  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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50. |  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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51. |  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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52. |  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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53. |  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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54. |  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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55. |  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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56. |  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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57. |  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
Button…Visually!
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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58. |  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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59. |  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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60. |  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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