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Paperback. Condizione: Good. A business's greatest asset is the collective experience of its employees. According to estimates by the US Department of Labor, Millennials will represent roughly almost 50% of the workforce in less than 10 years. A flood of blogs, articles, and books are already trying to help professionals and executives understand how the clash of Millennial, Generation X, and Boomer preferences will impact their business and personal careers. The Multigenerational Sales Team focuses on the increasing need for sales organizations to more effectively leverage talent from generational groups who think, sell, and buy in vastly different ways. It addresses the challenges that many organizations are facing right now: How can generations with different perspectives find ways to successfully work together? How should you recruit, train, and deploy different generations of salespeople to build an effective sales team? How can sellers identify and address the generational "silent killers" within the sales process? You will learn how to overcome these obstacles by adjusting internal practices including recruitment, development, and management of salespeople. You will also learn how to improve client-facing activities for better diagnosis and accommodation of buyers' preferences. With The Multigenerational Sales Team as a guide, sales professionals and teams who begin this transformation will learn to leverage each generation's unique strengths to drive improvements in both individual and organizational performance.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Hate your job? Ready to quit? Facing a layoff before you even have a chance to quit? Is your boss is a flaming jerk? Think you might have a lawsuit? If any of these scenarios apply to you, you are facing a crucial career moment. Mistakes and misinformation will cost you dearly. In Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired, celebrated attorney Donna Ballman provides winning answers to these and many more tough questions, such as: I think they're getting ready to lay me off. What can I do? My boss is creating a hostile environment. Can I sue? What does it mean if I sign a paper saying I'm an independent contractor and not an employee? Am I exempt from overtime? Whether you're a recent college grad or an almost-retiree, newly employed or laid off after 20 years; gay or married with kids; janitor or CEO.Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired will give you the specific and relevant advice you need to face any career-threatening situation.and come out ahead. Of course, you could just say, "Screw you guys. I'm going home!".…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Is your company fast, creative, and adaptable enough to survive in today's volatile world? In our age of disruption, your company must be agile and courageous--yet it's easy to react to today's business climate with fear and indecision. Don't make that mistake. To move quickly and intelligently to the changes unfolding around us, you must be sure all levels and functions in your businesses are creative and responsive. Packed with practical examples, tools, and guidance, Fearless Growth provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster. You will learn how to: Capitalize on uncertainties in your market, rather than letting them slow you down. Leverage the talent, assets, technology, and data that exist outside your company. Get in sync with customers, gain early insight into changing needs, and bring the right solutions to market. Open the floodgates of employee creativity, empowering employees to respond quickly and effectively to emerging opportunities.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Is your company fast, creative, and adaptable enough to survive in today's volatile world? In our age of disruption, your company must be agile and courageous--yet it's easy to react to today's business climate with fear and indecision. Don't make that mistake. To move quickly and intelligently to the changes unfolding around us, you must be sure all levels and functions in your businesses are creative and responsive. Packed with practical examples, tools, and guidance, Fearless Growth provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster. You will learn how to: Capitalize on uncertainties in your market, rather than letting them slow you down. Leverage the talent, assets, technology, and data that exist outside your company. Get in sync with customers, gain early insight into changing needs, and bring the right solutions to market. Open the floodgates of employee creativity, empowering employees to respond quickly and effectively to emerging opportunities.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Is your company fast, creative, and adaptable enough to survive in today's volatile world? In our age of disruption, your company must be agile and courageous--yet it's easy to react to today's business climate with fear and indecision. Don't make that mistake. To move quickly and intelligently to the changes unfolding around us, you must be sure all levels and functions in your businesses are creative and responsive. Packed with practical examples, tools, and guidance, Fearless Growth provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster. You will learn how to: Capitalize on uncertainties in your market, rather than letting them slow you down. Leverage the talent, assets, technology, and data that exist outside your company. Get in sync with customers, gain early insight into changing needs, and bring the right solutions to market. Open the floodgates of employee creativity, empowering employees to respond quickly and effectively to emerging opportunities.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Living Proof tells the story of how, in just a few short years, Connecticut natives Adam and Pete took Onyx Spirits Company from a start-up concept born in a restored Civil War-era factory to a multimillion-dollar, award-winning spirit distillery by breaking rules, learning from failures, and challenging the status quo. Business lessons distilled from the mind of a moonshiner include: Finding your purpose in business (and life).Setting goals, reaching goals--then setting more goals.Founding a small business and growing it into a big company.Building a highly unique brand.Making money out of thin air (almost). Adam's ancestors were arrested in 1864 for tax evasion on a shipment of moonshine bound for Canada, resulting in the collapse of Chafee & Co. Distilling. Undaunted by their demise, the family opened the grand Chafee's Hotel in Middletown, Connecticut, at the dawn of the Roaring twenties, hosting an opulent and infamous speakeasy. The family legacy continues today with Onyx Moonshine. …

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. There is an epidemic facing our world today. People everywhere, even those who are successful by most standards, are utterly disconnected from what they really want out of life. We've abandoned our true passions and dreams in exchange for a daily grind that offers no fulfillment. Some estimates say that fully 80 percent of people don't enjoy their work and wish they could exert more control over their lives.Carve Your Own Road offers a powerful process for reconnecting to your dreams and expanding your opportunities. You will receive firsthand insight from people who have successfully made the leap to careers that invigorate and inspire.Carve Your Own Road also offers stories of dozens of inspiring entrepreneurs and individuals who have done something intimidating to most of us quit their jobs to pursue a whole new path, one filled with uncertainty and fear and passion and excitement.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. CEO Priorities provides direct, specific, and valuable real-world advice and insights for CEOs and aspiring CEOs or executives, supported by relevant stories couched in humor and irony. Neil Giarratana takes you inside the CEO's office and lays out a top executive's priorities--get these right.or else He covers the key areas that must be handled well and with smarts, and explains in detail how to do it. Weaving in examples from his 30-plus years of experience, Giarratana packs CEO Priorities full of fascinating, surprising, and always relevant information.You'll learn what you need to know about the critical areas of concern or activity for a CEO, any one of which could mean the difference between success and failure, plus targeted advice to help you: End divisive office politicsFast-track new product developmentHandle a bad quarterForecast earnings without being foolishEmploy moral responsibility as a competitive advantageAvoid the dark side of passionSuccessfully effect changes in company cultureIntroduce a new business modelEverything of major significance you'll have to face as a CEO is identified and analyzed in this important new title.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. If you want self-generating love that's unconditional and stimulates unlimited growth and expansion, read (this book). Its words are a blueprint for a healthier, happier, extraordinary love relationship with the one you love and with yourself.-Mark Victor Hansen & Jack Canfield,Co-Authors of Chicken Soup for the SoulA beautiful book of practical meditations that help keep us centered in the truth that Love is everything there is, and all that there is. -Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., Author of Love is Letting Go of FearThis is a revealing and personally empowering look at self-liberating insights that will assist you in achieving a healthy love relationship anchored in unconditional love. Its wisdom will inspire you to deeper levels of self-acceptance and understanding. These words of love will benefit anyone, married or single, couples already in a committed relationship, or singles who may be in search of a healthy love relationship.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. If you want self-generating love that's unconditional and stimulates unlimited growth and expansion, read (this book). Its words are a blueprint for a healthier, happier, extraordinary love relationship with the one you love and with yourself.-Mark Victor Hansen & Jack Canfield,Co-Authors of Chicken Soup for the SoulA beautiful book of practical meditations that help keep us centered in the truth that Love is everything there is, and all that there is. -Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., Author of Love is Letting Go of FearThis is a revealing and personally empowering look at self-liberating insights that will assist you in achieving a healthy love relationship anchored in unconditional love. Its wisdom will inspire you to deeper levels of self-acceptance and understanding. These words of love will benefit anyone, married or single, couples already in a committed relationship, or singles who may be in search of a healthy love relationship. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Jim Morris has been responsible for some of the most memorable ad campaigns in history. He knows best that bad ads don't just create themselves. Part indictment on the advertising industry, part cautionary tale on what not to do with your ads, Jim pulls no punches to better ad people everywhere. How can the ad industry even exist when almost all of the products that it produces fall on a continuum from flawed to failed? What is it about this industry and the process of creating, selling, and producing ads that causes so much advertising to be so bad? These are the questions answered in BADVERTISING. A provocative, truth-to-power exposé of ad agencies' flaws, foibles, and failings-and why they matter to the consumer and to those in the business. Morris, an advertising legend known as "Tagline Jim," surveys myriad advertising "agents of stupidity." Hilarious, horrifying, and insightful, each chapter is a grenade lobbed into the ad industry's bunkers. BADVERTISING is a candid, never-seen-before accumulation of real-world don'ts and more don'ts, providing valuable cautionary tales of advertising's stupid side. "How many ads have you seen that made you question the intelligence of whomever designed it? Probably too many. If every ad person read Badvertising, the world would be a more intelligent and prosperous place." -Jonah Berger, New York Times bestselling author of Contagious and The Catalyst "Incisive and daring, Badvertising is the only book you need to truly understand both the inner workings of America's ad agencies, and the minds of those who never cease to astound us with both their creative genius and profound stupidity. After just one reading, you'll never see advertising the same way again." -Drew Eric Whitman, bestselling author of Cashvertising.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Baby Boomers are reinventing retirement just as they have so many other aspects of their lives. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents and grandparents, and they plan to remain relevant, be fulfilled, and leave legacies. Many will continue to work well into their 70s and 80s, some because they want to, others because they need to. The Retirement Boom is a practical roadmap for making your "retirement years" a time of reinvention, excitement, and fulfillment. The coauthors of this practical guide are four Boomer professionals who have walked the walk and transformed themselves from corporate executives, CEOs, consultants, and national security policy experts into a range of new careers that more closely hew to their passions. They interviewed more than 300 people and 30 organizations in the writing of this book. The Retirement Boom includes tips, stories, exercises, and techniques to help you: Design your own "retirement" and plan for it. Use your time creatively and well. Understand what's changing in the workplace and the workforce today. Make your money last. Renegotiate life at home . Improve and keep your health. Build and leave a legacy. Simplify your life. And much, much more.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business is a straight-talking, highly practical guide to using NLP to significantly improve your results at work. Whether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, you can learn proven NLP techniques that will boost your career as well as the performance of colleagues and the organization itself. Using real-life examples and easy-to-follow exercises that apply to individuals, teams, and organizations, NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business shows you how to: Improve communication Achieve your career goals Develop your influencing skills Harness the mindset for success Gain a greater understanding of what motivates you Remove the limiting beliefs holding you back from the success you deserve Written in accessible, jargon-free language, NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business contains numerous examples and practical exercises that will help you use NLP to improve your career and achieve success at work, whether in the private or public sector, and regardless of your current role.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business is a straight-talking, highly practical guide to using NLP to significantly improve your results at work. Whether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, you can learn proven NLP techniques that will boost your career as well as the performance of colleagues and the organization itself. Using real-life examples and easy-to-follow exercises that apply to individuals, teams, and organizations, NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business shows you how to: Improve communication Achieve your career goals Develop your influencing skills Harness the mindset for success Gain a greater understanding of what motivates you Remove the limiting beliefs holding you back from the success you deserve Written in accessible, jargon-free language, NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business contains numerous examples and practical exercises that will help you use NLP to improve your career and achieve success at work, whether in the private or public sector, and regardless of your current role.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. The best-selling UFO book of 2007/2008 is revised and updated with even more hard-hitting eyewitness testimony of one of the most important eventsof all time: the actual recovery of a UFO outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. For more than 60 years, government authorities have led us to believe the wreckage was merely a very conventional weather balloon--but the witnesses who were there continue to tell a different story. Witness to Roswell once again takes you on a can't put down written account of what really transpired in Roswell, 62 years ago. It pries loose the truth the government doesn't want us to know. This revised and expanded edition includes: A growing litany of deathbed confessions describing the little people recovered at the crash site. The most comprehensive time line of events ever published on this seminal event. The identity of the Boeing engineer called in to examine the exotic wreckage from the crash. What really took place at the Roswell base hospital and what nurse actually ordered the children--s caskets. The story of the soldier who wore gloves at the dinner table after guarding the bodies. Clearly, the implications are foreboding, and one need just realize that officials now have four explanations to this historic event--but to which one do all the witnesses testify on their deathbeds? Witness to Roswell once again demonstrates to the world that no statute of limitation applies to the truth: We are not alone.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Office Politics Handbook is for business executives, managers, consultants, lawyers, agents, editors, and anyone who wants to become more politically astute, more powerful, and more successful. This is not a book on political game playing; it is for people who hate power games but who know that politics takes place in every organization and want to make sure they wind up on top of the heap.not at the bottom of the barrel. This book will explain why people are political animals, and why they engage in power-seeking behavior. It will also discuss different instruments of power to help you understand the cultural and collective forces at work in human nature, and the occasionally aggressive characteristics of the political animal. The Office Politics Handbook will show you how to: Cultivate your political skill Exercise power beyond your place in the organizational chart Defend yourself against political attacks Know when to fight, when to retreat, and when to lead.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Today more than ever, job candidates make initial contact with prospective employers via the telephone. Phone interviews are often the most unexpected facet of job interviewing, yet they are fast becoming the standard for employers when narrowing the pool of applicants and determining who will be invited for in-person interviews. The Essential Phone Interview Handbook covers: How to prepare, what to say, and when to say it How to establish your professional presence over the phone How to get to the next step.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Since 2008, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to the ins and outs of human resources. And no wonder Because whether you're a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, The Essential HR Handbook will help you handle any personnel problem--from onboarding to outplacement--quickly and easily. This fully updated 10th anniversary edition is packed with information, tools, checklists, sample forms, and timely tips to guide you through the maze of personnel issues in today's complex business environment.In it you'll find out how to: Attract talented staff through social media recruitingIdentify legal pitfalls to avoid lawsuits and regulatory interferenceTrain a diverse and inclusive multigenerational workforceProvide the compensation and benefits package that will make your organization an employer of choiceStreamline your orientation and onboarding practices so new employees hit the ground runningWhenever personnel problems arise, having The Essential HR Handbook on your bookshelf is like having a team of expert HR consultants at your beck and call.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Since 2008, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to the ins and outs of human resources. And no wonder Because whether you're a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, The Essential HR Handbook will help you handle any personnel problem--from onboarding to outplacement--quickly and easily. This fully updated 10th anniversary edition is packed with information, tools, checklists, sample forms, and timely tips to guide you through the maze of personnel issues in today's complex business environment.In it you'll find out how to: Attract talented staff through social media recruitingIdentify legal pitfalls to avoid lawsuits and regulatory interferenceTrain a diverse and inclusive multigenerational workforceProvide the compensation and benefits package that will make your organization an employer of choiceStreamline your orientation and onboarding practices so new employees hit the ground runningWhenever personnel problems arise, having The Essential HR Handbook on your bookshelf is like having a team of expert HR consultants at your beck and call.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Baby Boomers are reinventing retirement just as they have so many other aspects of their lives. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents and grandparents, and they plan to remain relevant, be fulfilled, and leave legacies. Many will continue to work well into their 70s and 80s, some because they want to, others because they need to. The Retirement Boom is a practical roadmap for making your "retirement years" a time of reinvention, excitement, and fulfillment. The coauthors of this practical guide are four Boomer professionals who have walked the walk and transformed themselves from corporate executives, CEOs, consultants, and national security policy experts into a range of new careers that more closely hew to their passions. They interviewed more than 300 people and 30 organizations in the writing of this book. The Retirement Boom includes tips, stories, exercises, and techniques to help you: Design your own "retirement" and plan for it. Use your time creatively and well. Understand what's changing in the workplace and the workforce today. Make your money last. Renegotiate life at home . Improve and keep your health. Build and leave a legacy. Simplify your life. And much, much more.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day is for anyone who has something to say or write but has difficulty doing so in standard English. It features: coverage of key areas of grammar; and a variety of exercises and an answer key to check work.