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Consumer Gadgets: 50 Ways to Have Fun and Simplify Your Life with Today’s Technology…and Tomorrow’s
Author Nicholas D. Evans
Consumer Gadgets is the easy "how-to" guide to 50 of today's most amazing high-tech innovations -- and tomorrow's. Discover how these breakthrough technologies can enable you to have more fun, simplify your life, and be more productive wherever you are. Nicholas D....
Release Date 2003/03 -
Author Charles Manz
Emotions sometimes get the better of us all, but you can learn how to analyze and manage your emotional reactions in any situation. Emotional Discipline details 5 easy-to-learn steps and 25 specific strategies for responding to your feelings in the present and ....
Release Date 2003/03 -
Author Salvatore J. Iacone
Practical, proven techniques to make writing for business more effective and less stressful.Thanks to e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, pagers, and, of course, the ever-expanding Web, we live in an age of information overload. Although all of these wonders were desig....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Author John Schuster
So many people today feel "called" to find more in their lives beyond the usual definitions of success, to live lives of purpose and meaning. Answering Your Call is aimed at people who know they are on the planet for a reason and want more than encouragement-th....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Leadership in Action: The Search for Solutions: Choosing the Right Approach to Generating Ideas
Author Stan Gryskiewicz , Sylvester Taylor
Solving problems requires skills in both problem identification and idea generation. Techniques for generating ideas range from the relatively safe and conventional, building on existing knowledge, to more radical approaches in which the original framing of the prob....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Creating Leaderful Organizations
Author Joseph A. Raelin
The times demand a new style of leadership. Employees today are highly trained and independent-they can offer much more to an enterprise than simply their obedience. And with the relationship between worker and organization constantly changing, no one pers....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Infectious Greed: Restoring Confidence in America's Companies
Author Kenneth Kim , John Nofsinger
In Infectious Greed, two leading financial experts offer a powerful new explanation of why the corporate scandals happened—and propose market-driven reforms that don’t just “patch” the system but fix it for generations to come. Discover how the system came to provid....
Release Date 2003/01 -
Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace
Author Bruce Tulgan , Heidi Wenk Sormaz
Everyone in the workplace is under stress including your employees. The good news is that, with training, employees can learn how to work well under pressure. This practical pocket guide for managers will teach you how to channel stress to enhance your own performan....
Release Date 2003/01 -
10 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople
Author Dave Kahle
Sell More Every Day • Reduce Stress • Balance Your Life With these 10 Management Secrets for Time-Starved SalespeopleBecause of the unique nature of the salesperson’s job, traditional time management techniques do not apply. Sales reps need their own set of time man....
Release Date 2002/12 -
How to Make Collaboration Work
Author David A. Straus
Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient. In How to Make Collaboration Work, David Straus, a pioneer in the field of group problem solving, introduces five principles....
Release Date 2002/10 -
Author Nancy Rhine , Cliff Figallo
A complete set of best practices, tools, and techniques for turning conversations into a rich source of business informationMany organizations are now recognizing that the untapped knowledge of their members can be used to benefit every aspect of their business, fro....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth Edition
Author Janis Fisher Chan
The ability to communicate clearly is the critical core competency for successful managers at all levels and in all industries. This self-study course is your guide to business communication that delivers the message?whether written, spoken, in person or via e-mail....
Release Date 2002/08 -
Writing Winning Proposals—Business Skills
Author Steve Theobald
Get more of your projects and programs approved and implemented by learning how to write better proposals. This Info-line provides the quick steps and easy techniques you need to anticipate and overcome objectives, consider all factors, write with style and brevity,....
Release Date 2002/07 -
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life
Author Linda Elder , Richard W. Paul
Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, an....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Author Al Switzler , Ron McMillan , Joseph Grenny , Kerry Patterson
A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL"Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our indust....
Release Date 2002/06 -
E-mail: Communicate Effectively, First Edition
Author Marcia G. Reed , Verna Terminello
Tame the e-mail monster and capture the power of this critical workplace tool!E-mail is the most basic and critical key to building healthy, productive work communities that communicate electronically. With these quick, easy guidelines, business people at all levels....
Release Date 2002/05 -
Author Ben Renshaw , Robert Holden
Perfect for the briefcase or portfolio, these four new guides in the Essential Managers series are ideal for experienced or novice managers in companies both large and small. Having sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, these books are relevant to every work en....
Release Date 2002/03 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers
Author Sarah J. Ennis
Today's tight labor market is forcing organizations to maximize the time they spend attracting and keeping top performers. Organizations that can attract, inspire,and retain top performers are in the position to beat out their competition. This is true both in mark....
Release Date 2002/01 -
The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book
Author Adele B. Lynn
We've all heard of ""IQ""...but what's ""EQ?"" It's ""Emotional Quotient"" (aka Emotional Intelligence), and experts say that EQ is a greater predictor of success at work than IQ. Companies are increasingly looking for ways to motivate and develop their employees....
Release Date 2001/12 -
Writing Information Security Policies
Author Scott Barman
Administrators, more technically savvy than their managers, have started to secure the networks in a way they see as appropriate. When management catches up to the notion that security is important, system administrators have already altered the goals and business p....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants
Author Martin John Brown , Larissa Golden Brown
Demystifying Grantseeking is an inspirational and instructional guide to grantseeking. The authors--successful grantseekers in their own right--show you how to overcome the common fears fundraisers often experience and offer sound, practical advice to successful gra....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Get Paid More and Promoted Faster
Author Brian Tracy
Bestselling author Brian Tracy reveals how, no matter what your current job, you can apply the secrets and strategies used by the highest paid people in our society to make yourself more valuable, maximize your strengths, and become virtually indispensable to y....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Author Michael Netzley , Mary Munter
This concise, practical book is written for you if you want to assure your meetings will be...Necessary and not just a waste of timeInteresting, coherent, and well-organizedA place for people to share, rather than show off, their ideasConstructive, thoughtful, and c....
Release Date 2001/06 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry
Author Nikki Moustaki
You're no idiot, of course. You've read poetry that has touched your heart, and you'd like to improve your own writing technique. But even though you have loads of inspiration, you're discovering that good instruction can be as elusive as a good metaphor.Don't let yo....
Release Date 2001/04 -
Author Gary Walker
The complete "best practices" guide to IT problem resolution!No matter how professional your IT organization, if you can't resolve problems quickly and effectively, you'll lose your stakeholders' confidence—and fail. Nowadays, help desk s aren't enough: companie....
Release Date 2001/03 -
Say It With Charts: The Executive’s Guide to Visual Communication, 4th Edition
Author Gene Zelazny
Step-by-step guide to creating compelling, memorable presentations A chart that once took ten hours to prepare can now be produced by anyone with ten minutes and a computer keyboard. What hasn't changed, however, are the basics behind creating a powerful visual - w....
Release Date 2001/03 -
Author David Shapiro , Richard Leider
Calling is natural. We all possess it. It needs only to uncovered, not discovered. Whistle While You Work makes the uncovering process inspiring and fun. Featuring a unique “Calling Card” exercise—a powerful way to put the whistle in your work—it is a liberatin....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author Taggart E. Smith
This book provides practical information on a major business concern—how to manage meetings. It demonstrates how to lead them effectively, in the shortest time frame possible. Three types of meetings are outlined: information-giving, interactive, and problem solving....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Leadership in Action: Assessing Emotional Intelligence - A Talk with Cary Cherniss
Author John Alexander
Cary Cherniss has long been interested in emotional intelligence—a set of personal and interpersonal competencies that determine how people manage their feelings, interact, and communicate—and how it works in leaders.
Release Date 2000/12