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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Turn constant complainers into productive contributorsConstant complainers take up resources, time, and mental bandwidth in the workplace. When you change a culture of complainers to one of contributors, you boost morale, increase productivity, and promote effective communication. In short, you get more done with less drama. In Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers, workplace communication expert Linda Swindling shares her expertise in negotiating tough situations in the workplace. Discover how to influence others to accomplish your purpose. Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers uses scenarios, engaging questions, and survey results to provide strategies that can be implemented immediately.\* Shows how to identify complainers and time drainers\* Provides forms to help prepare for discussions, suggested language to show up powerfully, and encouragement to apply strategies\* Offers concrete phrases and tactics to refocus a complainer and end unproductive conversationsStop Complainers and Energy Drainers is research-driven and focused on how to identify as well as manage conversations with 'venters,' complainers, whiners, and energy drainers. With these guidelines for communication, you'll see powerful results, improved relationships, and increased confidence.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Reach for the starsStargazing is the practice of observing the night sky and its contents - from constellations through to planets and galaxies. Stars and other night sky objects can be seen with the naked eye, or seen in greater numbers and in more detail with binoculars or a telescope.Stargazing For Dummies offers you the chance to explore the night sky, providing a detailed guide to the main constellations and also offering advice on viewing other night sky objects such as planets and nebulae. It's a great introduction to a fun new hobby, and even provides a fun way to get the kids outside while doing something educational!\* Gives you an introduction to looking at the sky with binoculars or a telescope\* Offers advice on photographing the night sky\* Without needing to get your head around mind-bending theories, you can take part in some practical physicsIf you're looking for easy-to-follow guidance on getting to know the night sky, Stargazing For Dummies has you covered.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestseller The Jelly EffectCommunication is supposed to cause something. That's the point of it. So, what do you want to achieve following your communication Do you want someone to answer 'yes' Do you want to improve your relationships Do you want people to understand exactly what you're talking about, first time Whatever you want to achieve, you'll need decent communication to get there, and expert and bestselling author Andy Bounds shows us exactly how to nail our communication. Using the same conversational style that made The Jelly Effect so popular, The Snowball Effect is packed with short, rapid fire sections complete with visuals and special features to help us get serious results from our communication.The Snowball Effect explains how to:\* Persuade people to say 'yes' more quickly, more often\* Enjoy your job more - because you'll be calling the shots for a change\* Remove the communication frustrations you feel all too often\* Get more done, more quickly - because you're getting people on your side faster (these techniques have saved people at least one month every year).

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The easy way to communicate best when it matters mostMost people are aware of the importance of handling critical conversations well. However, when it comes down to actually being in a difficult situation that calls for key communication skills, many do not know how to practically apply their own thoughts.Critical Conversations For Dummies is a step-by-step reference for the variety of crucial conversations life presents in the workforce. It's packed with strategies for preparing for high-stakes situations; being persuasive (not abrasive); knowing the value of assertive communication; resolving failed promises and missed deadlines; maintaining morale when firing staff; getting new employees off on the right foot; managing staff relations and strengthening team relationships; understanding audience needs and motivations to get positive results; altering confrontational language to cooperative language during difficult conversations; and building relationships in the face of conflict.\* Improve communication skills in crucial conversations\* Avoid common pitfalls and emotional tendencies\* Discover the benefits of success in crucial conversationsThis book is especially relevant to the hundreds of thousands of leaders who are tasked with multiple duties, whether addressing complex problems from stakeholders or achieving exceptional results from staff.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Traditional retail is becoming increasingly volatile and challenged as a business model. Brick-and-mortar has shifted to online, while online is shifting into pop-up storefronts. Virtual stores in subway platforms and airports are offering new levels of convenience for harried commuters. High Street and Main Street are becoming the stuff of nostalgia. The Big Box is losing ground to new models that attract consumers through their most-trusted assistant--the smartphone. What's next What's the future for you--a retailer--who is witnessing a tsunami of change and not knowing if this means grasping ahold of new opportunity or being swept away.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This bestselling guide to Microsoft Word is the first and last word on Word 2013 It's a whole new Word, so jump right into this book and learn how to make the most of it. Bestselling For Dummies author Dan Gookin puts his usual fun and friendly candor back to work to show you how to navigate the new features of Word 2013. Completely in tune with the needs of the beginning user, Gookin explains how to use Word 2013 quickly and efficiently so that you can spend more time working on your projects and less time trying to figure it all out. - Walks you through the capabilities of Word 2013 without weighing you down with unnecessary technical jargon - Deciphers the user interface and shows you how to take advantage of the file formats - Covers editing documents, working with text, using grammar and spelling tools, formatting, adding images and other design elements, and more Get the word on the latest Word with Word 2013 For Dummies!

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - MAKE YOURSELF A 'YES' MAGNETYou've finally plucked up the courage to ask for something. The afternoon off. A pay rise. Then comes that crucial moment where you wait with baited breath for the response. It's tense, but it doesn't have to be. You just need to master the art of 'the ask'.Taking a direct, light-hearted, wholly practical approach, Haider Imam zooms straight in on that moment of truth providing a set of proven tools and techniques for getting to 'yes,' every time. He instils readers with the confidence to ask bigger, more often and even ask for the impossible - and to get it.\* Based on sound psychological principles, Straight To Yes! offers tonnes of winning ways to make requests that get you to 'yes'\* Wholly practical in style and content, the book features accessible, straightforward techniques readers can put into action immediately\* Designed for quick-reference while on the move, it affords instant access to specific, step-by-step, single-page techniques as needed.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The easy way to make sense of managerial economicsDoes the study of Managerial Economics make your head spin Relax! This hands-on, friendly guide helps you make sense of complex business concepts and explains to you in plain English how Managerial Economics enhances analytical skills, assists in rational configuration, and aids in problem-solving.Managerial Economics For Dummies gives you a better understanding of all the major concepts you'll encounter in the classroom: supply and demand, elasticity, decision-making, quantitative analysis of business situations, risk analysis, production analysis, pricing analysis, capital budgeting, critical thinking skills, and much more.\* Tracks to a typical Managerial Economics course\* Includes easy-to-understand explanations and examples\* Serves as a valuable classroom supplementIf you're enrolled in business courses looking for a supplemental guide to aid your understand of the complex theories associated with this difficult topic, or a manager already in the corporate world looking for a refresher, Managerial Economics For Dummies has you covered.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try to combat real and imagined abuses and excess, regulating cults that brainwash vulnerable people, containing fundamentalism that threatens democracy and the progress of science, and identifying terrorists who threaten atrocities in the name of religion.The third edition has been carefully revised to make sure it is fully up to date with recent developments and debates. Major themes in the revised edition include the recently erupted 'culture war' between progressive secularists and conservative believers, the diverse manifestations of 'fundamentalism' and their impact on the wider society, new individual forms of religious expression in opposition to traditional structures of authority, and the backlash against 'multiculturalism' with its controversial implications for the social integration of ethnic and religious minority communities. Impressive in its scholarly analysis of a vibrant and challenging aspect of human societies, the third edition will appeal strongly to students taking courses in the sociology of religion and religious studies, as well as to everyone interested in the place of religion in the contemporary world.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A new and simple system to understanding and controlling the behavior of othersNoted body language, behavior and communication expert Mark Bowden offers a totally practical, easy-to-read guide to understanding the impulsive actions of others, along with the best tools to manage them. A number one anxiety in business is dealing with problem people. In Tame the Primitive Brain, Mark Bowden's fresh approach is the fastest and most effective way to understand why someone acts towards you the way they do; why you react to their behavior in the way you do; and most importantly, what exactly to do about it to achieve the right outcomes.\* Brings new and fresh perspectives to business readers for dealing with tricky behaviors\* Explains how to effectively manage those around you at any level in an organization\* Shares the latest evolutionary behavioral theory, neuroscientific evidence, and the tried and tested tools and tricks based on these premisesThis simple model of how we humans can and do relate to each other brings increased depth of understanding and expands your toolset to better manage yourself and others to achieve anything.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Frances Hesselbein could manage any company in America.' --Peter F. Drucker, New York Times.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Strategies for overcoming the 'sacred cows' that hold people back at workWe all know the 'sacred cows' at work-the conventional wisdom to try your best, work well with others, and produce excellent work. But these cherished nuggets of advice, in practice, have a dark side that can lead to career-limiting unintended consequences. Based on Jake Breeden's experience coaching thousands of leaders in 27 countries, and the latest scientific research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology, Tipping Sacred Cows reveals how to overcome the dangerous behaviors that masquerade as virtues at work, and how to lead with fewer self-imposed limitations and greater results.\* Identifies the seven most common sacred cows at work, including balance that turns bland, creativity that conceals narcissism, and passion that becomes obsession\* Offers simple steps for recognizing and overcoming the potentially career-limiting effects of each of the most common sacred cows\* Written by Jake Breeden, a faculty member at Duke University's Corporate Education program, rated by Businessweek and The Financial Times as #1 in the worldTipping Sacred Cows shines a light on the hidden traps that lie between good intentions and great results, clearing a path so leaders can finally realize their full potential at work.Take this quick 21-question survey to find out which of the seven sacred cows are standing in your way at work.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Winners in business aren't the ones who do the most things; the winners are the ones who do the most important thingsBe the Best at What Matters Most. is about the one essential strategy for business leaders, entrepreneurs, owners, managers and those who want to be one. Simplify, focus, and win by outperforming all your competition on those things that create real value for the customer. This is about substance, not flash, and the ultimate 'wow' factors of high quality performance, consistency and relentless improvement.\* Thought provoking questions, activities, and action steps are built into every section of the book\* Author Joe Calloway, an International Speakers Hall of Fame inductee, has been a popular business speaker for thirty years and worked with hundreds of companies to help them create and sustain success\* Author has published four books with WileyBe the Best at What Matters Most will help you and your team focus on taking the actions that maximize results, growth, and profit.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There are many moments in life when you have to ask someone a critical question that could determine your salary, whether you have a spouse, whether you get a job-your entire future. Do you know how to get the answer you want Do you understand how much influence you actually have over your fate The truth is, how that person is going to respond depends more on what's going on in your head than it does on what's going on in theirs. Your expectations, the words you choose, the environment in which you ask these questions-so many factors that you control-can determine whether you hear a 'yes' or a 'no.'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - CHANGE MANAGEMENT IS ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE DECIDE TO CHANGE SUCCESSFULLY.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - All school leaders want to help their teachers become more effective--but most administrators have too much to do and not enough time to do it. The Ten-Minute Inservice shows you how to enhance both teaching and learning in the most efficient and effective way possible.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Prodigal Christianity asks the questions that point to the issues troubling church leaders in the newly secularized post-Christendom cultures of North America. How is God revealed What is the gospel Where is the kingdom of God And, most importantly, how do we live these realities amidst the sexualities, pluralism, and injustices of our time Faced with these questions, many are looking for a way beyond the Emergent and Neo-Reformed movements, which seem to speak only to the people already convinced. Prodigal Christianity moves us beyond Christian-culture-bound ways of being Christian to living radically as Jesus's people present in the world.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger resultsMore than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.\* Provides practical guidance to help teams increase decision quality, decrease implementation time, foster innovation, get commitment, reduce costs and increase trust\* Outlines 5 core values leadership teams can adopt to exponentially improve results\* Author of The Skilled Facilitator and The Skilled Facilitator FieldbookGet the results you and your team need. Start by applying the practical wisdom of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Engagingly written by one of the world's leading scholars in this field, this comprehensively revised edition tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament right up to the present day.\* Charts the main figures, ideas, images and historical periods, showing how and why spirituality has changed and developed over the centuries\* Includes new chapters on the nature and meaning of spirituality, and on spirituality in the 21st century; and an account of the development and main features of devotional spirituality\* Provides new coverage of Christian spirituality's relationship to other faiths throughout history, and their influence and impact on Christian beliefs and practices\* Features expanded sections on mysticism, its relationship to spirituality, the key mystical figures, and the development of ideas of 'the mystical'\* Explores the interplay between culture, geography, and spirituality, taking a global perspective by tracing spiritual developments across continents.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A nonprofit leader's guide for engaging millennials in all aspects of a nonprofit organizationWritten by Millennials about Millennials, Cause for Change examines strategies for engaging Millennials as constituents, volunteers, and donors, and focuses on how organizations can realign themselves to better respond to this group of 80 million strong. At the heart of this research-based guide is the Millennial Development Platform, an action-based rubric developed by the authors and included in each chapter to help organizations create the infrastructure for a long-term millennial engagement strategy.\* Examines how Millennials communicate, volunteer, take action, influence their peers, and choose to give their time and money\* Explains how Millennials view their role in the workplace, and how their approach is re-shaping nonprofit culture from withinCause for Change profiles Millennials who have emerged as dynamic leaders to create and manage movements in their communities.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fashion is all about image. Consequently, fashion marketing communications - encompassing image management and public relations, branding, visual merchandising, publicity campaigns, handling the media, celebrity endorsement and sponsorship, crisis management etc. - have become increasingly important in the fashion business.This textbook for students of fashion design, fashion marketing, communications and the media sets out all that they need for the increasing number of courses in which the subject is a part.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A fresh and timely approach to nurturing wise, resilient, and flexible leadership in a world of growing complexityLeaders tend to obstinately stick to the leadership style that brought them most success in the past, usually one of two extreme styles: functional leadership that focuses on operational excellence or smart leadership that focuses on growth. When a leader's focus is too functional, the organization becomes introverted and can focus too much on bottom-line profitability while missing out on top-line growth opportunities. But when leaders focus too much on smart leadership, the organization may experience quick growth but lose its effectiveness quickly.From Smart to Wise offers a new approach that balances the two styles to achieve a form of wise leadership that is both functional and smart. Drawing on inspiring real-life stories of historical and contemporary wise leaders such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and even Mahatma Gandhi, the authors identify six characteristics of wise leaders and offer a practical framework to help readers develop their own style of wise leadership.\* A timely and innovative approach to leadership\* Written by noted speakers who conduct dozens of keynote speeches and workshops, training thousands of people annually.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The volume of emerging technologies can overwhelm the best of us. Yet it's impacting business and society alike. In recent years, many top Fortune 500 companies have slipped out of contention as their business models failed to keep up in these turbulent times. Survival requires constantly adapting as your customers' behavior changes. You need new systems, processes, and intentions in place to recognize disruption as it happens, assess new opportunities, and quickly test new ideas.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the Inter-generational Mentoring Community project, which develops the next generation of academic leaders, comes formation mentoring, a process to enable faculty to recover, sustain, and further develop a sense of vocation, mission, and purpose. This book is a concise and practical guide to convening and sustaining these kinds of formation mentoring groups in higher education. It provides the necessary direction and structure to orient the process but is open-ended enough to apply across many settings and professional or educational disciplines.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Best-Practice EVA tells the new EVA story from the ground up. Stewart covers EVA essentials--the classic economic profit version of EVA--in the first three chapters of the book. He shows readers how simple and intuitive EVA really is, how it is defined, and why it is better than all other measures of corporate profit. You discover how it naturally guides managers into making all the right decisions--the ones that will truly maximize value. You see how to use it in profit-sharing bonus plans that create the powerful incentives of an owner. Later, Stewart introduces new ratios that make EVA much more powerful and much easier to use than ever before. The pinnacle of the new ratio framework is EVA Momentum, calculated by taking the change in EVA versus the prior period, and dividing by the revenues in the prior period. It measures the growth rate in EVA, scaled to the sales size of the business. It is the only corporate performance ratio where bigger always is better, because it gets bigger when EVA does, which means it should be every company's most important financial goal, the one ratio metric that everyone aims to maximize as the key measure of corporate success. Stewart then walks through the nuts and bolts of Best-Practice EVA, kicking off with an in-depth look at EVA Margin, or EVA as a percent of sales. It's a key productivity metric, and Stewart's candidate to replace ROI. The last link in the Best-Practice program is PRVit--the EVA market score report. Stewart shows how to read and interpret the report, how the score is determined, and why investors are turning to it to screen and rate stocks. He also shows why it is finding a home with CFOs and IR directors who want insights into how the market is pricing their stock. The book concludes with battle-tested tips from the firing line, practical suggestions for how you can test drive and adopt Best-Practice EVA at your company.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.\* Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America\* Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship\* Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable\* Makes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers\* Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wenn Sie wissen müssen, was ein Bauteil aushält und was nicht, kommen Sie an der Festigkeitslehre oder Elastostatik nicht vorbei. James H. Allen hilft Ihnen hier bei Ihren ersten Schritten. Sie erfahren das Grundlegende zu Belastung, Beanspruchung, Verformung und deren Wechselwirkungen. Außerdem führt der Autor Sie ein in die Besonderheiten einzelner Materialien wie Metalle, Polymere und Keramik. So müssen Sie weder den Mohrschen Spannungskreis noch das Hooksche Gesetz fürchten und können entspannter der Festigkeitslehre gegenübertreten. 400 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wenn Sie wissen müssen, was ein Bauteil aushält und was nicht, kommen Sie an der Festigkeitslehre oder Elastostatik nicht vorbei. James H. Allen hilft Ihnen hier bei Ihren ersten Schritten. Sie erfahren das Grundlegende zu Belastung, Beanspruchung, Verformung und deren Wechselwirkungen. Außerdem führt der Autor Sie ein in die Besonderheiten einzelner Materialien wie Metalle, Polymere und Keramik. So müssen Sie weder den Mohrschen Spannungskreis noch das Hooksche Gesetz fürchten und können entspannter der Festigkeitslehre gegenübertreten. 400 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Getting the right cut for the right fabric is the key to good design.One of the most challenging aspects of a fashion designer's training is learning how to crate patterns that utilize the characteristics of fabrics. With an ever expanding range available, an understanding of the relationship between fabric, form and pattern shape is now the most important skill a designer has to acquire.Winifred Aldrich, a leading pattern cutting authority, explores how a garment's shape is created and discusses the factors that need to be considered when creating patterns and offers you a practical method for solving problems. No other pattern cutting book considers the effects of individual fabrics and its approach is based on the appraisal of the fabric and body shape.Fabrics and Patterns Cutting is the revised and simplified edition of Fabric, Form and Flat Pattern Cutting. It is fully illustrated and makes use of numerous practical examples. It also takes into account important new developments in fabric - new fabrics, new methods of fabric construction and new fabric finishes.Free block patterns are available online for readers to print out for use in their classes.