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81. |  By: Brian Tracy Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 19-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Negotiation Negotiation is an essential element of almost all of our interactions—personally and professionally. It’s part of how we establish relationships, work together, and arrive at solutions for our clients, our organizations, and ourselves. Simply put, those who don’t negotiate well risk falling victim to those who do. Throughout his career, success expert Brian Tracy has negotiated millions of dollars worth of contracts. Now, with this concise guide, you too can become a master negotiator and learn how to: • Utilize the six key negotiating styles • Harness the power of emotion in hammering out...
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82. |  Fostering Spirituality in the Workplace By: Priscilla Berry Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 28-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fostering Spirituality in the Workplace Today, there are deep and rapid changes on companies, employees, and the global economy that should not be underestimated, and future world leaders must be prepared to lead in a manner that is socially responsible, ethical, and pro_ table. A corporation with a business model that polarizes or operates solely in the interest of its shareholders is unsustainable and current benchmarks can be unrealistic tools for businesses to rely upon as measures of future success. This book explores historical data, analyzes current events from the world stage, and delivers a worldview that challenges some...
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83. |  By: Peter Shaw Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 20-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting the Balance Right
Managers are continually faced with new challenges and dilemmas. Getting the balance right is never straightforward, however. We are always having to find the right point of equilibrium between leading and managing, the short and long term, the individual and the team, activity and reflection, and being resolute and adaptable.
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84. |  By: Jacky Tai; Wilson Chew Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: B2B
If you are involved in running a business and are beginning to wonder when you should start looking into branding (how does it work, anyway?), brace yourself. According to Jacky Tai and Wilson Chew, you should have started your branding exercise yesterday! This book distils the authors' wealth of experience in grappling with branding strategies in the real world into a practical and easy-to-understand guide for everyone involved in branding.Revised from the 2007 bestseller, Transforming Your Business Into A Brand, this updated branding manual will show you just how a business becomes a...
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85. |  By: Jacky Tai Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Get A Name
So many companies and brands out there in the market, it will be impossible to stand out without a great name. Just imagine, there are already more than 150,000 companies operating in a small country like Singapore. How will your brand stand out if it doesn't have a great name? Finding a great name is also no longer easy because of the proliferation of companies and brands in our society. Chances are, the name you think of has already been registered and trademarked by someone else. So, what do you do? The 10 Rules Of Naming will show you how to create a powerful brand name in a simple,...
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86. | Rough Cuts  By: Chris Boudreaux; Susan F. Emerick Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 23-AUG-2013 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2013 | /c
Brands that empower employees and customers
generate significantly greater awareness and revenues, while also
decreasing costs of marketing, selling, and customer service.
However, employees must engage in public, real-time conversations.
And most people are not professional communicators.
Enabling employees and partners in modern
business requires new skills, business processes, governance,
measurement, and infrastructure. In addition, leaders must learn
new ways of managing risk, while helping employees build and manage
external relationships in real time. Nearly every industry...
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87. |  By: Michael Lawrence Faulkner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 09-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Electrifyall your leadership
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right verb and use it the right way to:Drive home your
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Promote collaboration to maximize performance
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Jam-packed
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literature, and experience
Indispensable for everyone who intends to be a truly great
leader ...
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88. |  Picture Your Business Strategy: Transform Decisions with the Power of Visuals By: Christine Chopyak Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 07-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Picture Your Business Strategy: Transform Decisions with the Power of Visuals
PICTURE THIS: A BOLD NEW BUSINESS STRATEGY DRAWN FROM TODAY’S HOTTEST VISUAL TRENDSScientific studies have shown that looking at pictures, drawings, and other graphics engage both sides of the brain--opening the “mind’s eye“ and business systems to new possibilities we might not otherwise see.
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89. |  Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Core Disciplines for Top Performance, Second Editon By: Shoshanah Cohen; Joseph Roussel Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Core Disciplines for Top Performance, Second Editon
The classic guide to supply chain strategy--re-created to help business leaders gain an advantage in today’s volatile, globalized arenaThe definitive guide to supply chains that deliver valueThe global landscape has changed dramatically since the first edition of Strategic Supply Chain Management established itself as the authority on creating value and achieving competitive advantage from the supply chain.
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90. |  By: Jeb Brooks; Marty Scirratt Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The PERFECT quick-reference guide for selling more through quality referralsThis streamlined guide provides salespeople with the right words at the right time in every situation.Perfect Phrases for Sales Referrals presents hundreds of hundreds of time-saving tips and ready-to-use phrases in a quick-access format that’s ideal for salespeople on the go.
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91. |  By: Dave Ulrich; Norm Smallwood Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 12-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
MAKE YOUR LEADERSHIP EFFORTS STICKEvery day, thousands of people put great effort--and money--into becoming more effective leaders, through seminars, personal coaching, and employee development plans. These undertakings can do wonders to help leaders of all stripes improve their effectiveness.
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92. |  By: Doug Lipp Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 05-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
With a Foreword by Jim Cora, former Chairman of Disneyland International “A leadership blueprint, applicable in any organization.” -- Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, U.S. Navy (Ret.), and author of It’s Your Ship When I first arrived at The Walt Disney Company, I was surprised to find I had to go back to school--at Disney University! There, I learned the fundamentals of guest service that consistently gave Disney a tremendous advantage in the marketplace.
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93. |  By: Randy Bartlett Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 15-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The Definitive Guide to Using Analytics for Better Business Decisions A must-read for anyone who is directly or indirectly leading or managing an analytics function--and anyone who wants to make better decisions based on analytics, not just intuition or an overemphasis on industry knowledge, which crowds out good analytics.
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94. |  The Product Manager’s Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a Product Manager By: Steven Haines Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Product Manager’s Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a Product Manager
FORGE A POWERFUL STRATEGY TO BECOME A PRODUCT MANAGER WHO DELIVERS RESULTSThe world of business is moving at breakneck speed. More is being demanded of everyone--with fewer resources than ever. In no profession is this more apparent thanProduct Management.Written by one of today’s leading Product Managementthought-leaders, Steven Haines, The Product Manager’s Survival Guide provides best practices, practical on-the-job advice, and a step-by-step blueprint for succeedingin Product Management.
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95. | Rough Cuts  By: David Amerland Publisher: Que Publication Date: 05-JUL-2013 Insert Date: 26-MAY-2013 | This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Optimize Your Sites for Today’s
Radically New Semantic Search
Breakthrough “semantic search”
techniques are already transforming Google™’s search
results. If you want to be found, yesterday’s SEO
techniques won’t cut it anymore. Google Semantic
Search tells you what to do instead—in plain English.
David Amerland demystifies Knowledge
Graph™, TrustRank™, AuthorityRank™, personalized
and mobile search, social media activity, and much more. Drawing on
deep knowledge of Google’s internal workings and newest
patents, he also reveals the...
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96. |  Recovering from the Global Financial Crisis By: Marianne Ojo Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Recovering from the Global Financial Crisis Why are some global financial crises more difficult to recover from and overcome than others? What steps are necessary in ensuring that financial stability and recovery is facilitated? And what kind of environment has the previous financial environment evolved to and what kind of financial products have contributed to greater vulnerability in the triggering of systemic risks? These are among some of the questions that this book addresses. In highlighting the role and importance of various actors in post-crises reforms as well as the huge impact of certain factors and products that are...
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97. |  Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success By: John Pyecha; Shane Yount; Seth Davies; Anna Versteeg Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 05-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success
Succeeding where TQM, Lean, and Six Sigma fail, this proven process-based management system includes leadership as a key element to deliver sustainable successLeading Your Business Forward shows executives and high-level managers how to determine the organization’s long-term goals, engage staff to work towards them, gauge and improve performance on an ongoing basis, and manage success so it sticks.Anna VerSteeg is Founder and Principal of Competitive Solutions, an international consulting firm specializing in process based leadership.
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98. |  By: Kerry Patterson; Joseph Grenny; Ron McMillan; Al Switzler; David Maxfield Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 04-APR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Hold anyone accountable. Master performance discussions. Get RESULTS.Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior--they don’t just make others’ lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces.
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99. |  By: Eric Mosley Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
IS YOUR REVIEW PROCESS PERFORMING BELOW EXPECTATIONS?Fix the Performance Review with the Wisdom of Crowds!If you’re like most employees and managers, you dread the annual performance review. It’s outdated and frozen in time. It’s a relic of the way business used to work and doesn’t capitalize on the way business works today.
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100. |  The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt By: Ben Emons Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt
A NEW FINANCIAL STRATEGY FOR A NEW FINANCIAL WORLDAs an investor, you’ve probably taken advantage of the risk-free rates in the postcrash economy by putting your money into bonds, stocks, commodities, and currencies. With the rise of government debt across the globe, you can no longer rely on the notion of “safe” to perform asexpected. You need to adapt your investing strategy to a new financial reality.
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