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Business Reports for Busy People

Business Reports for Busy People

By: Greg Holden

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 02-JAN-2011

Insert Date: 03-APR-2013

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Business is about decisions. Reports that capture, analyze, and explain the right data in a clear, concise format allow managers and decision makers to generate the best possible results. Business Reports for Busy People is a comprehensive guide filled with a wide range of samples and templates that can be customized to produce professional-looking reports. NOTE : The ebook version does not provide access to the companion files. ...

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The Subversive Job Search

The Subversive Job Search

By: Alan Corey

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-APR-2013

Insert Date: 02-APR-2013

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Are you tired of missing out on that raise, bonus, or promotion?Do you want to turn your dead-end job into a high-paying career?Would a six-figure salary solve all your problems? Money-making guru Alan Corey faced all these questions himself, then went from collecting unemployment checks to a six-figure career in just over a year. ...

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Courting Business

Courting Business

By: Ann Marie Sabath

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-FEB-2013

Insert Date: 23-MAR-2013

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Why waste your time chasing after prospects when you can get them to come to you? Most self-proclaimed rainmakers let business drizzle in rather than positioning themselves to experience a downpour. Courting Business gives you the strategies for getting prospects to contact you. Ann Marie Sabath’s proven three-step strategy will inspire you to be creative, consistent, and politely relentless in a way that will please even the toughest prospects. ...

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The Winning Manager’s Playbook

The Winning Manager’s Playbook

By: John Cioffi

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-FEB-2013

Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013

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The Winning Manager’s Playbook gives business owners and managers what they so desperately need: a clear, focused, laser-sharp tactical manual of what they need to know right now to make their organization a success. ...

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The CEO Code

The CEO Code

By: David Rohlander

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013

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The CEO Code shows how to develop the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to master leadership and build a great company. This practical book shows you how to design your own program of development and create a masterpiece, personally and professionally. It is based on the wisdom gained from more than 30 years of business experience. ...

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9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams

9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams

By: Stephen E. Kohn

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 07-MAR-2013

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“Increasingly, organizations count on project teams to develop products and deliver services to their customers. Consequently, effective teamwork and team leadership are integral components of an organizations success.In 9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams, Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent O’Connell define the essence of superior performance by project teams at work, and identify nine attributes of team membership and team leadership that set the stage for accomplishment of group objectives.” ...

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The Manager’s Phrase Book

The Manager’s Phrase Book

By: Patrick Alain

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-JAN-2013

Insert Date: 06-JAN-2013

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The Manager’s Phrase Book is a collection of thousands of ready-to-use phrases that will enable you to move into the ranks of today’s most competent managers. You will have control of any situation at a moment’s notice, regardless of your position in the corporate world. You will have all the weapons you need to succeed where vibrant, meaningful, appropriate, and, perhaps above all, precise language is required.With this passport to success, you will begin a new game in which you are among the charismatic, the untouchable--the elite. The Manager’s Phrase Book is an amazingly fast paced,...

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When Talent Isn’t Enough

When Talent Isn’t Enough

By: Kristen Fischer

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 22-JAN-2013

Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012

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Too many creative professionals focus too much on their artistic abilities and too little on their business interests. In When Talent Isn't Enough, self-employed copywriter and journalist Kristen Fischer offers powerful strategies and practical stories from some of today's most prominent creative leaders to help you thrive while self-employed.The result: an easy-to-read guide that covers all aspects of launching and managing a successful business for any creative entrepreneur or solo practitioner.When Talent Isn't Enough offers extensive, practical, and easy-to-apply business advice for...

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100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

By: Chandler Steve

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 22-OCT-2012

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If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler. --Dale Dauten, Chicago Tribune Some books that can help you awaken and begin to change are ones by Steve Chandler, who, I am reading lately. Great stuff. I’m becoming a fan of Steve Chandler. --Joe Vitale, best-selling author of The Attraction Factor and contributor to The Secret "Steve Chandler lights you up with the glow of his internal neon. [He is] one of the funniest men I’ve ever known--what he proposes is so rock solid and reassuring. --Lisa...

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The Young Professional’s Guide To The Working World

The Young Professional’s Guide To The Working World

By: McDaniel Aaron

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 17-OCT-2012

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There are 80 million members of the Millennial generation. Each year more than 1.5 million of them enter the working world with little to no idea of how to succeed. While companies spend millions of dollars a year scrambling to learn more about them and adapt their work cultures to fit this generation, there are remarkably few resources dedicated to teaching these young people the traits and techniques that will help them succeed in an ever-changing and always-challenging corporate environment. ...

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100 Ways to Motivate Others

100 Ways to Motivate Others

By: Chandler Steve

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 10-OCT-2012

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Steve Chandler’s coaching has had a tremendous impact in my life. He was vital to my personal transformation from a man of ideas and dreams to a person of action and reality. Radames Soto, former managing director, The Wall Street Journal Steve Chandler lights you up with the glow of his internal neon what he proposes is so rock solid and reassuring. Lisa Schnebly, The Arizona Republic The world of leadership has changed dramatically since 100 Ways to Motivate Others was written, and now Chandler and Richardson have revised and refreshed their organizational classic to meet the times. ...

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Hal Becker’s Ultimate Sales Book

Hal Becker’s Ultimate Sales Book

By: Hal Becker

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 21-SEP-2012

Insert Date: 15-SEP-2012

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Containing a wealth of practical information that many seasoned salespeople have forgotten and which new salespeople need to master. This book helps to develop unique and proven selling methods, set goals, list prospects, and even discover your own ways to answer objections. ...

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12 Steps to a New Career

12 Steps to a New Career

By: Carl J. Wellenstein

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 15-APR-2009

Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012

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Changing jobs in your 30’s or at an executive or manager level requires you to think more strategically about your career. ...

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Propel

Propel

By: Whitney Keyes

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012

Insert Date: 31-JUL-2012

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Whitney’s keen understanding of marketing has lead her to enable business evolution and growth across a spectrum of influence: from teams inside giants like Microsoft women-owned start-ups in Africa! ...

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30 Days to Virtual Productivity Success

30 Days to Virtual Productivity Success

By: Gail Z. Martin

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012

Insert Date: 31-JUL-2012

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Laptops, smart phones, and tablet PCs have made today’s business owner more mobile than ever, but life on the go also makes it more difficult to stay organized, be productive, and focus on promoting one’s business. ...

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Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition

Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition

By: Roger Dawson

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2010

Insert Date: 31-JUL-2012

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Roger Dawson’s Secrets of Power Negotiating has changed the way American business thinks about negotiating. ...

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Coaching, Mentoring and Managing: A Coach Guidebook

Coaching, Mentoring and Managing: A Coach Guidebook

By: Micki Holliday

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-SEP-2001

Insert Date: 03-FEB-2010

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Inspire Employees—Don’t “Boss” Them This book offers hundreds of practical, easy-to-learn techniques every manager can use to coach employees to become more productive, positive, inspired and effective. Filled with real-world advice and management-changing exercises, this manual shows how to get the most from employees in today's era of downsizing, layoffs, buyouts and mergers. Managers will develop the attitude, the skills, and the strategies to become more like a coach and less like a boss. They will also learn: • How to instill team vision • Five insights of high performance...

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Creating Passion-Driven Teams

Creating Passion-Driven Teams

By: Dan Bobinski

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-JUN-2009

Insert Date: 21-DEC-2009

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Can passion be taught? Can it be fostered? The answer is yes. But perhaps more accurately, a team leader must create the right conditions for passion to emerge. Those conditions must be nurtured, not unlike a gardener creating the right conditions for his plants to flourish. Make your job easier. Get the inside scoop on the secrets of success that motivate teams to top performance. In the matrix of workplace roles and responsibilities, managers are pivotal to corporate success. Yet a manager is often the unsung hero who must adapt to demands from all sides—and do so with little or no...

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Think Like a Marketer

Think Like a Marketer

By: Lauron Sonnier

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-JUL-2009

Insert Date: 21-DEC-2009

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“I feel so empowered with Lauron’s clear, practical marketing strategies. She shows you how to make marketing automatic, and as a business owner, that’s exactly what I need. No business should run without this information.” — Valerie Boudreaux-Allen, First Step Business Training & Consulting; Houston’s SBA’s Women in Business Champion, 2007 Do you find marketing to be confusing, difficult, or overwhelming? Are you not sure where to begin? Do you have a plan, but don’t know how to make it happen? To act and succeed like a marketer, you must first think like one. When you do, marketing...

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They Don’t Teach Corporate in College

They Don’t Teach Corporate in College

By: Alexandra Levit

Publisher: Career Press

Publication Date: 01-APR-2009

Insert Date: 21-DEC-2009

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“This insightful and essential guide to mastering the politics of corporate America should be required reading for every college graduate.” —James A. Boyle, president, College Parents of America “This book is loaded with solid information designed to demystify the business world, including a short, to-the-point glossary of office lingo and a terrific chapter on how to make a long-term career plan.” —Anne Fisher, Fortune magazine They Don’t Teach Corporate in College has resonated with tens of thousands of readers and is currently used as a text in corporations and universities...