wiley apr 1998 (76 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Kafanov, Vasily (illustrator). Neuware - For busy people who don't have time to garden, 'The Lazy Gardener' covers everything from choosing the right plants to designing a manageable garden and paring down chores. 20 drawings.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A proven plan for kicking the habit from the nation's leading lung organization.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Parades, gladiator games, tunic weaving, and coin making!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The New York Public Library amazing women in American History.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prospecting-finding and qualifying prospective clients-is the first step in the selling proposition. It can also be the most daunting. The first big hurdle is knowing where to look for opportunities and recognizing them when they present themselves. Then there's the fear of rejection that makes it so hard to approach strangers and talk to them persuasively about the product or service you represent. The good salesperson recognizes these challenges and finds ways to cope with them. The great salesperson, according to sales legend Tom Hopkins, turns them to her advantage and uses them to supercharge her selling and sell, sell, sell.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if the earth were square.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The most revolutionary book you will ever read on selling successfully.' -- Glenna Salsbury, CSP, CPAE, and Author 'Filled with powerful principles that anyone can use to become a top-producing salesperson.' -- E. Anthony Reguero, Chartered Financial Consultant.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn where the markets are headed--and how to ride them to success.Global changes point toward a dramatically different next decade in the realm of finance. As the bull markets of the last twenty years fade away, new investment tools and strategies are necessary. In this book, William Gross, one of today's most respected money managers who has built his fame on tracking economic trends, prepares readers for a completely new approach to investing. He emphasizes bonds, the right kinds of stocks, and a globalized investment portfolio for this new era in investment. In an accessible style, Gross intermingles discussions of investment with humor, wit, and personal anecdotes.William H. Gross (Laguna Beach, California) is the founder, managing director, and CEO of Pacific Investment Management Company, which manages over $90 billion in assets for both institutional investors and individuals.; Eine gelungene Mischung aus interessanter Information, Humor und Anekdoten: Dieses Buch vermittelt nicht nur Wissenswertes, sondern es bereitet auch Lesevergnügen! Gross, einer der Top-Finanzmanager, der sich mit der Verfolgung wirtschaftlicher Trends einen Namen gemacht hat, beschreibt hier, wie sich der Geldmarkt der Zukunft wandeln wird: Uns stehen niedrige Zinsen und ein langsames, aber stetiges Wirtschaftswachstum bevor. Dies erfordert ein völlig neues Herangehen an Investitionen mit Schwerpunkt auf dem Rentenmarkt, dem richtigen Aktienpaket und globalisiertem Investment-Portfolio.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This practical resource gives educators in grades 7 through 12 a flexible, ready-to-use curriculum focusing on a wide range of contemporary topics such as stimulant use, family relationships, dealing with anger, managing threatening situations, and gang-related activities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - * A highly original study of the ways in which Hegel and Nietzsche addressed Judaism and the question of 'the Jew'. * The book argues that both authors were deeply ambivalent about Judaism and shows, at the same time, that their views were much more complicated than many commentators have assumed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There is one thing that can be said about A Fool and His Money that cannot be said about any other volume of investment advice: You will never make a penny from the information in this book. No work on the subject of personal finance has even tried to make this claim before. That is because works on the subject of personal finance are all lying. John Rothchild is the only fully honest author in the genre.'--from the Foreword by P. J. O'Rourke.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Restore Creativity and Trust to Your WorkplaceMuch has changed since Driving Fear Out of the Workplace first made the undiscussable discussable back in 1991. Advances in technology, new employee/employer relations, and the corporate push to optimize intellectual capital have introduced a host of new workplace anxieties that, left unaddressed, can seriously inhibit individual performance and cripple a company's ability to compete. Which is why, in this revised edition, authors Ryan and Oestreich revisit their original, best-selling work to confront the fears that permeate today's organizations--so that they can become the high-trust, high-performance organizations of tomorrow. This insightful book digs deeply into the root causes of fear and the pervasive 'flu of mistrust' that weakens motivation and commitment.--Terrence E. Deal and M. K. Key, authors of Corporate Celebration: Play, Purpose, and Passion at WorkYou'll discover:\* How fear prevents people from doing their best\* How fear operates in organizationsHow to build business relationships without fear.and much more!This work is a timely antidote to the insecurities of workers faced with the pervasive push toward leaner, meaner organizations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gute Unterhaltung und eine Fülle von Informationen. Lehrstunden mit Pat Kelly, einem erfolgreichen Unternehmensgründer (und gewandten Erzähler), in Sachen Management: Wie baut man ein Unternehmen auf Wie motiviert man die Angestellten zu maximalen Leistungen Wie ist man der Konkurrenz immer einen Schritt voraus Kelly muß es wissen: Sein Unternehmen Physician Sales and Service setzte sich innerhalb eines knappen Jahrzehnts an die Spitze seines Bereiches. (04/98).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here is a comprehensive, practical resource that makes building a successful baseball program considerably easier for both the new and the experienced coach. Included are proven techniques and ready-to-use materials for virtually every aspect of the coach's job, from recruiting to training talent for each position.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With a foreword by Elizabeth Martinez, 'Roots of Justice' recaptures some of the nearly forgotten histories of communities of color. These are the stories of people who fought back against exploitation and injustice--and won. From the Zoot Suiters who refused to put up with abuse at the hands of the Navy, to the women who organized the welfare rights movement of the 1970s, 'Roots of Justice' shows how, through organizing, ordinary people have made extraordinary contributions to change society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Judith Bardwick really dishes it out in this challenging book and does it in her own unique style. She.brilliantly illuminate[s] the darkness around innovation and risk and its enemy, entropy. What shines through is a seminal achievement of how organizations can maintain a delicate balance between risk and recklessness.'-Warren Bennis, author of Organizing Genius'.an excellent resource for any CEO faced with transforming a 'no-consequence' culture into one of 'reality-driven action.' Her insights ring true and are tremendously reassuring to those of us facing intense and/or very different competition for the first time.'-Erroll B. Davis, Jr. President and CEO, Alliant'Judy Bardwick here sets out a bold new management paradigm, where employees learn to take risks and accept accountability. A powerful and long overdue message.'-David G. Robinson, President, CSC Index'Insightful, thought-provoking insights into human behavior and leadership.a must-read book.'-Ned Barnholt, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Test and Measurement Organization, Hewlett-Packard'Every living system, including human beings, needs a certain amount of tension to operate at its best. People achieve the highest levels they're capable of, and feel more vividly alive, when they're challenged by risks.'-Judith BardwickIn Praise of Good Business celebrates the great business turnaround of the 1990s. But it does more than that. It shows the management skills needed to continue the management revolution. In her 1991 international bestseller, Danger in the Comfort Zone, Judith Bardwick showed the basis for the hard management decisions that provided the framework for the American economic resurgence. She now cautions us not to rest on our success and lays out very specifically how we need to manage in the new economic environment.Drawing on her work both as a psychologist specializing in management psychology and her 25 years as a consultant to the Fortune 500, Dr. Bardwick explains how and why the benefits of today's best business practices-those forged in the crucible of a global marketplace-extend well beyond a healthy balance sheet. Human beings thrive on manageable risk, and, by compelling employees to take more risks, accept more responsibility and succeed, business is not only achieving record profits, but it is also helping to create psychologically healthier people and a more resilient society.To more vividly illustrate her points, Dr. Bardwick presents fascinating and instructive case studies of uniquely successful companies across North America. From these she extracts valuable object lessons and action steps, and she develops a revolutionary new management model based on the principle of productive insecurity. A style of management pitched to the demands of a 'borderless economy,' her prescriptive approach entails steering a middle path between the macho, show-no-mercy downsizing approach and the 'no-consequences' model of too much security and too little accountability. Both, she contends, are a leading cause of company failures.In Praise of Good Business presents a very positive message. Offering an elegant, highly doable prescription for creating more courageous, self-reliant employees ready to meet the challenges of today's supercompetitive global economy, In Praise of Good Business is an invaluable working resource for executives and managers in organizations of all sizes. Far-reaching and grounded in the very nature of the human psyche, this is the only management book you'll ever need.In her more than two decades as a consultant and speaker, Dr. Bardwick has researched and contributed much to broaden business's understand-ing of the key contributing factors to human and organizational effectiveness. Her client list includes dozens of Fortune 500 companies, including Hewlett Packard, Champion Paper, IBM, An.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In high-stakes investing and business, success or failure largely depends on how well you play the game of risk-a game in which the rules of competition are constantly being rewritten. Strategies that proved effective in the past are no longer enough to win today. The key to success is not to rely on yesterday s news, but to peer into the future and ask what could happen tomorrow.Presenting a bold new way of thinking about risk, in Seeing Tomorrow Ron Dembo and Andrew Freeman offer a dynamic framework designed to enhance our ability to make important decisions, and consequently change how we manage our investments. By incorporating investors individual circumstances and tolerances -as well as the unique reasoning behind their decision making-this innovative approach captures much more of how we actually think about risk.From the basic building blocks required for forward-looking risk management, Dembo and Freeman define and explore the roles and significance of such fundamentals as time horizons, risk measures, benchmarks, and scenarios. Once the foundation is laid, these elements are used to construct a solid architecture for risk management and risk-adjusted analysis that is not only general enough to be able to handle a multitude of risks, but also able to present many different measures of risk.With clear-cut explanations and intriguing real-world examples, Seeing Tomorrow leads you step by step through the authors groundbreaking risk rules. These include: choosing an appropriate time horizon, selecting scenarios, computing Value at Risk (VAR), assessing both the upside and downside of a potential deal, calculating Regret, and compiling a reliable Regret matrix. By combining Regret, Upside, and a measure of our tolerance for risk, the authors demonstrate how these components create a powerful new way of approaching decisions. They offer guidance on very specific real life problems-such as buying a house or suing someone-as well as on broad matters of strategy and investing.Written by two leading authorities in the field, Seeing Tomorrow is a milestone addition to risk literature that will dramatically alter the way you view, identify, and manage risk.It is must reading for investors and decision makers alike.'Seeing Tomorrow is a powerhouse in the understanding of risk. With their ingenious blend of psychology and rigorous quantitative analysis, the authors have created an authoritative and innovative handbook of risk management that is essential for both practitioners and theoreticians.' -Peter L. Bernstein author, Against the Gods and Capital Ideas.'This excellent and readable book provides an innovative approach to choosing actions when the outcomes are uncertain. Anyone with an interest in improving their decision-making skills would benefit from reading this. Anyone with a professional interest in risk management must read it.' -Stephen A. Ross Fischer Black Visiting Professor of Finance Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management Sterling Professor of Economics and Finance, Yale University.'Ron Dembo and Andrew Freeman have done an excellent job of describing how to think about and measure risk. This will become required reading for businesses and personal investment executives.' -Ned C. Lautenbach.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. At its heart lies a new vision of Gothic identity, and of the social caste by whom it was defined and transmitted.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here's a remarkable sourcebook that places at your fingertips 236 tested model letters-- virtually every work-related letter you'll ever need-- to parents, students, faculty, and community leaders. Each letter is ideal for its particular purpose and each is ready to use at once or quickly adapt, saving you hours of valuable time and effort.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An economical, cutting-edge approach to executive development that brings training back on site. Dotlich and Noel, acknowledged experts in their field, teach readers how to create an executive 'gene pool' that will lead companies into the future without the need of expensive and time-consuming off-site training.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Überleben am unberechenbaren Markt - und zwar mit Profit. Der Autor erklärt Ihnen, wie Sie auch dann noch verdienen können, wenn die Aktien fallen, oder zumindest Ihre Verluste minimieren. Geistvoll, mit einer guten Portion Humor und einer Vorliebe für effektvolle Stories beschreibt Rothchild die Stadien einer Baisse und Ihre Möglichkeiten, sich die schwache Marktlage zunutze zu machen. (04/98).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Grantseekers spend much of their time and energy preparing grant requests. But do they really know enough about the foundations they are approaching to succeed in getting grants Foundations are some of the nation's most misunderstood and mysterious organizations. Dennis P. McIlnay offers a unique and remarkable look inside foundations, exploring the complex workings of the organizations that so often determine the success or failure of a nonprofit's fundraising ventures.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bismarck was one of the most dominant figures in nineteenth-century Europe. As minister-president and foreign minister of Prussia from 1862, he was the driving force behind the unification of Germany, and, as Chancellor of the new German Empire from 1871 to 1890, the dominating force in German politics, both at home and abroad. This book, now in an expanded and updated edition, provides a concise yet authoritative overview of Bismarck's personality, his work and his legacy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Changing Industrial Relations in Europe is the second edition of the influential and widely used textbook, Industrial Relations in the New Europe. As with the earlier edition, the book will be a definitive text and reference for all students in industrial relations and human resource management looking at international issues.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anti-Patterns - ein 'heißes Thema' in der Welt des objektorientierten Programmierens. Anti-Patterns helfen bei der Identifikation häufiger Fehler, Irrtümer und Mängel, die objektorientierte Projekte zum Scheitern bringen können. Wie Sie diese Muster erkennen und wie Sie effektiv darauf reagieren, zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch übersichtlich und anhand vieler Fallbeispiele. (04/98).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This essential resource provides a roadmap for redirecting school funds in ways that will dramatically improve student performance. Lead author Allan Odden3/4one of the nation's foremost scholars in school finance3/4offers a vision of finance reform that will give local schools more control over their budgets and ultimately boost student performance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Innovation tools that take public managers beyond mere competence to become the creative innovators needed in today's complex public sector. 'While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a 'realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies'.--Melvin Dubnick, Department of Public Administration, Rutgers University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are you dissatisfied with how your organization works frustrated by the complications of getting things done or the inability to show real results Or are you part of a good organization, but want to make it a great one If you answered yes to either of these questions, this book was written for you.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a professional, you can't just apply your expertise. You need to present solutions in a way that best suits your clients. You have to work with a wide variety of people: team members, subject matter experts, top executives, and others. Working effectively with associates--while keeping an eye on budgets, schedules, and results--requires a collaborative outlook.'Successful professionals today need more than technical skills-- they need to know how to foster and nourish relationships with clients. Consultative skills are essential in this process. The tools outlined in The Consultative Approach have proved to make a difference for our professionals in dealing with their clients.' > 'This book is rich, not only with specific suggestions and step-by-step instructions, but also with commentary and illustrations from [the authors'] own client organizations. It is a useful book about a very important subject.' > Working consultatively enables you to: \* Know how to work effectively with all types of people \* Use a strategic and collaborative communcation process \* Apply your expertise in ways that show your value . . . and more! The Consultative Approach is a how-to handbook that will enable you to reap the benefits of partnering. You'll find informative case studies, easy-to-use assessment tools, enlightening exercises, and practical worksheets. Plus, you'll get flow chart planning guides and a partnering strategy action plan that will enable you to chart your communication growth. The Consultative Approach has it all! Plot your path to consultative success with this comprehensive guidebook.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly-commissioned essays brings together the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives.