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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sales function is the front-line of any business. Keeping up with the latest sales techniques is essential, as well as ensuring you have a motivated, incentivised and focused sales team well-versed in the basics of selling, from identifying new prospects and getting repeat business to closing the deal. This module gives essential insight into all the key sales drivers such as account management, handling complex sales, selling services, FMCG selling, customer relationships and self-development for sales people.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written in a lively and practical style that will be of great interest to budding and blooming entrepreneurs.\* The rules covered in this book are applicable to any entrepreneur around the world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the demise of WorldCom amidst a flurry of accounting scandals dominating the front pages, and following hotly in the footsteps of the equally spectacular downfall of other telecoms giants including Global Crossing and Lucent Technologies in recent months, The Great Telecoms Swindle investigates the reasons behind a roller coaster ride that is set to continue for some time yet. Vivendi, France Telecom, Vodaphone and numerous other corporate behemoths all face testing and possibly life-threatening times that will demand radical solutions in the coming months.The telecoms story is set to run and run and investors are set to continue to feel the heat. For a market that, as little as eighteen months ago amounted to a license to print money, the question 'what went wrong ' must urgently be asked. How could companies like Cisco Systems go from being paragons of virtue in the new corporate age to near pariahs embroiled in a welter of financial difficulties in such a short space of time Is 'next generation telecoms' nothing more than a myth, a triumph of hype over reality Tracking the rise and fall of the telecoms market from deregulation in the eighties through the advent of the mobile world, and on to broadband, 3G, and the mobile Internet the authors uncover what fuelled the boom, where the mistakes were made (by industry players and investors alike), and what if anything the future holds.Taking the lid off the headlines, The Great Telecoms Swindle reveals and examines the real problems in the telecoms market today, and exposes an industry that is entirely unsure of its own future value proposition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finding the Real Me is an extraordinary collection of real-life stories told by a wide-range of sex and gender diverse people. These healing tales of struggle and transformation reveal just how creative, resourceful, and adventurous the individuals in this community can be and also helps to bridge the gap between ignorance and understanding. As each incredible story unfolds we become part of the author's journey to self-acceptance and join the celebration of their new life. Page by page, we laugh, cry, and learn to appreciate these wonderful courageous people and the road they walked to be their true selves. Finding the Real Me is a landmark book that encourages us to embrace diversity, to never fear our differences, and to remain always in awe of our amazing possibilities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cope with legal, financial, and medical issues Minimize anxiety and stress and make the later years golden Need help caring for an elderly loved one This sensitive, reassuring guide provides strategies for assessing older personsneeds, arranging for care, ensuring their safety, and enhancing quality of life -all while respecting their dignity. Youll see how to manage physical disabilities and chronic health problems, evaluate nursing homes, and help elders control their destinies. The Dummies Way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Practical pointers for rearing precocious preschoolers and academic achievers Discover the parenting secrets behind intelligent, well-rounded kids Whether youre a new mom or the dad of a teenager, you want to do all you can to make sure your child loves to learn -and does well in school. This friendly guide shows you how. From stimulating a babys senses to helping with homework and encouraging academic success, this book is packed with proven strategies for raising little Einsteins The Dummies Way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Damn Right!From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . .'Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual.' -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company'Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger's curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era's heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer's detachment, an historian's thoroughness, and a financial writer's common sense, Lowe produces a riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of the idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure.' -LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School, Author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America'For years, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and investors worldwide (me included) have struggled to learn more about Warren Buffett's cerebral sidekick. Now we can rest and enjoy reading Janet Lowe's book about this rare intellectual jewel called Charlie Munger.' -ROBERT G. HAGSTROM, Author of The Warren Buffett Way'Charlie has lived by the creed that one should live a life that doesn't need explaining. But his life should be explained. In a city where heroism is too often confused with celebrity, Charlie is a true hero and mentor. He lives the life lessons that he has studiously extracted from other true heroes and mentors, from Ben Franklin to Ben Graham. This book illuminates those life lessons.' -RONALD L. OLSON, Munger, Tolles & Olson llp'Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful.'-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A seemingly endless parade of consultants, academics and journalists continue to pontificate about management, leadership and the dream of the perfect organization. But only a tiny fraction have really changed the way business works. These are the gurus. In this new edition of worldwide bestseller, The Ultimate Business Guru Book, the authors have assembled the greatest business gurus in a unique, one-stop guide. The book keeps business leaders ahead of double-speaking colleagues and consultants by bringing them rapidly up to speed with the very best that the world s business thinkers currently have to offer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Simple yet profound, Max De Pree's observations are often quoted by America's top CEOs, educators, and opinion makers. The best-selling author of Leadership Is an Art and Leadership Jazz, he has done no less than revolutionize leadership thinking and practice. Now, in Leading Without Power, De Pree finds that the most successful organizations of the Information Age operate not as controlled collections of human resources, but as dynamic communities of free people. And in order to mobilize these communities, leaders must know how to lead without power, because free people follow willingly or not at all.'This is a book to be read, reread, shared widely within any organization. Every chapter has pictures for our mind that will remain vivid long after the book is closed. A vibrant testament to human potential, the why of work.'-- Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, Leader to Leader Institute formerly the Drucker FoundationDe Pree holds up nonprofits as mirrors of our greatest aspirations places where people work for the opportunity to contribute to the common good, and for the chance to realize their full human potential. He calls such organizations movements and challenges others to follow their example. Movements, De Pree maintains, transcAnd the deceptive simplicity of a single bottom line and set standards for leadership and service all organizations should reach for. They lead not with the power of the paycheck or with bureaucratic carrots-and-sticks, but with the promise of meaningful work and lives fulfilled. For that reason, nonprofit or otherwise, they are the most successful organizations of all. Brimming with rich, warm, and wise advice, Leading Without Power takes an enlightened look at the forces that drive selfless accomplishment. It offers encouragement and hope for creating organizations that inspire the very best in people. And it provides leaders at every level with a new context for effecting positive change. Table of Contents:\*\*Places of Realized Potential \*\*What's a Movement \*\*A Context for Service \*\*What Shall We Measure \*\*The Language of Potential \*\*Service Has Its Roots \*\*Attributes of Vital Organizations \*\*Vision \*\*Trust Me \*\*Why Risk It \*\*The Function of Hope \*\*Elements of a Legacy \*\*Moral Purpose and Active Virtue.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO PROTECT WHAT'S YOURS.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Liberty and duty, freedom and responsibility. That s the deal. ' John W. Gardner s life was dedicated to revitalizing the American Dream, a dream that must be recreated by each generation of caring citizens as they reshape it to meet the unrolling future. Now more than ever, citizens must step up and take action to create the world in which we want to live.Living, Leading, and the American Dream is an inspiration- and a call to action. Beginning with an exploration of Gardner s life and values in his own words, this stirring and engaging collection shares Gardner s vision on personal renewal, community, leadership, and civic engagement.The essays and speeches collected in this transformational volume are founded on Gardner s belief that we as a people want freedom- freedom at home as well as a world where freedom is possible. They are founded on his deep belief in the dignity and worth of the individual and his unshakable resolve to protect and preserve that dignity. They are founded on his belief that men and women should be empowered to achieve the best that is in them, and that we are the declared enemies of all conditions, such as disease, ignorance, or poverty, that stunt the individual and prevent such fulfillment.And they are founded on the fact that achieving these goals is difficult and requires the commitment of all citizens. The essays in Living, Leading, and the American Dream move from individual to community to society, offering Gardner s vision on the role of the individual in attaining the greater good. Leaders of innovative organizations, civic leaders, and concerned citizens will find guidance and inspiration in Gardner s unique vision of every citizen s responsibility and capacity to make a difference.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A groundbreaking paradigm that takes a scientific approach to marketing practiceTop executives at the renowned Zyman Marketing Group introduce a revolutionary new method for marketing managers-Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM). EMM systematically links marketing to all the essential functions within an organization, realigning the enterprise to put marketing efforts and customer service at its core. With an introduction by marketing guru Sergio Zyman, Enterprise Marketing Management covers topics such as brand architecture, investment measurement, and how to engineer creativity. EMM, adopted by many Z-Marketing clients, is a proven strategy for transforming organizations and achieving bottom-line results.Dave Sutton (Atlanta, GA) is President/CEO of Zyman Marketing Group. He has more than eighteen years of experience in management and technology consulting. He is a frequent speaker on brand strategy, marketing strategy, and e-business strategy, and serves as President of the Strategic Leadership Forum. He is regularly quoted in Fortune, Forbes, eCompany Now, Upside, and the Chicago Tribune. Tom Klein (Atlanta, GA) is Vice President of Zyman Marketing Group. He has fifteen years of experience in strategy, information technology, and brand marketing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today's business leaders must fight to win the renewed support of a skeptical public-- not through new products, fads, or other manipulations-- but with foundations of ethical absolutes the world can trust. Noel M. Tichy and Andrew R. McGill bring together thought leaders from private, public, nonprofit, and governmental organizations to highlight the dilemmas leaders are facing, the decisions some are making, and the reasoning they all must contemplate.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In today's society many young people have lost sight of the value of money and seem to believe that money really does 'grow on trees.' Part expose and part survival guide, Prodigal Sons and Material Girls addresses the nagging issue faced by many parents today - why do their children have such unrealistic expectations about money The book is divided into two comprehensive parts. Part I outlines the disturbing facts about America's possession-crazed youth and the society that has distorted their views. You'll be introduced to everything from the 'three-headed monster'-a high-powered triumvirate of consumer products companies, media conglomerates, and advertising agencies that has tremendous influence over your children-to the distorted view of the American Dream as shaped by principles known as 'The Teen Commandments.' In learning what you're up against you can teach financial responsibility from a position of strength.In Part II, Dungan offers creative and convincing examples on how to leverage his highly successful 'Share-Save-Spend' approach to money - critical elements for you to help your children break free from the materialism that has become ingrained in our society. Through insightful anecdotes and simple exercises, you will learn how to:Talk to your children about moneyUnderstand the difference between financial wants and needsIncrease the probability of your children having a prosperous lifeRaise your children's marketing IQMaintain healthy financial boundariesSet a healthy example for your children to follow The 'Share-Save-Spend' methodology will help your children establish healthy financial habits and will undoubtedly become their foundation for making a lifetime of responsible financial decisions.Nathan Dungan is an innovative leader in the financial services industry. Over the past 15 years, he has been a top-performing financial advisor outside of Philadelphia, PA and most recently served as Vice President of Marketing for Lutheran Brotherhood (now Thrivent Financial for Lutherans), a $57 billion member-owned financial services company with nearly 3 million members. Dungan is a frequent speaker and workshop leader and has been widely quoted on this subject in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and has appeared on CNN and PBS.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume of Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and language arts specialists a powerful and effective tool for addressing curriculum standards and competencies at the eighth-grade level and preparing their students for comprehensive assessment testing.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This perennial bestseller is an ideal introductions to epidemiology in health care. The fifith editon retains the book's simplicity and brevity, at the same time providing the reader with the core elements of epidemiology needed in health care practice and research. The text has been revised throughout, with new examples introduced to bring the book right up to date.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume introduces readers to the central debates of organization studies through a series of point and counterpoint debates by major figures in the field.Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates of organization studies.Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placing competing perspectives side by side.Includes contributions from major figures in the field.Structured in an innovative point and counterpoint format.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leading feminist scholars provide searching treatment of the long-neglected subject of gender and access to land in various regions around the world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The use of computers has opened up remarkable opportunities for innovative design, improved productivity, and greater efficiency in the use of materials. Uniquely, this book focuses on the practical use of computers for clothing pattern design and product development. Readers are introduced to the various computer systems which are suitable for the industry, the principles and techniques of pattern design applied to computer systems are explained, and readers are shown how product data management can be used in clothing product development.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die professionelle Dienstleistungsindustrie ist ein gigantischer Wachstumssektor. Er umfasst die Bereiche Finanzen, Banken, Versicherung, Marketing und Consulting. Für Peter Drucker stellen professionelle Dienstleistungsunternehmen eine Zukunftsindustrie dar. Die moderne Dienstleistungsbranche kann als Beispiel für andere Branchen dienen, denn sie hält wertvolle Informationen bereit in Sachen Personalmanagement und Management von immateriellen Vermögenswerten. 'The Professional Service Firm' nimmt professionelle Dienstleistungsunternehmen genau unter die Lupe. Anhand von Fallstudien und prägnanten Darstellungen wird anschaulich erläutert, wie sie arbeiten und wie man mit ihnen viel Geld machen kann. Die ideale Lektüre für Manager, die wissen wollen, wie und warum die Dienstleistungsbranche so erfolgreich ist.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Blackwell Publishing is delighted to announce that this book has been Highly Commended in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition. Here is the judges' summary of this book:Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 501 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Competitor Analysis' - Ein umfassender Leitfaden für Marketingexperten, Planer, Manager und Consultants! Hier lernen Sie, wie Sie bessere Informationen und Daten über die Konkurrenz zusammentragen und - vor allem - wie Sie diese Information zum Ausbau ihres eigenen Wettbewerbsvorteils nutzen können. Die Autoren bieten eine Fülle praktischer Ratschläge, wie man an die richtigen Informationen kommt, wie man sie verwertet und wie man Strategien für Angriff und Verteidigung entwickelt. Dieses Buch enthält neben einer Reihe erprobter Beispiele eine Vielzahl von Fallstudien aus verschiedenen Wettbewerbssituationen, die den behandelten Stoff anschaulich belegen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Strategy is all very well, but forget the human side of the business and your plans are destined for failure. Yet human resource management (HRM) has traditionally focused on administrative functions such as recruiting, disciplining, and rewarding employees. This book draws on practical experience and extensive research to offer a framework that shows how HRM can link to corporate vision, values, strategies and policies, both in a reactive and proactive way. It includes various case studies of HRM to illustrate how the model may be modified and applied in practice. In addition, the author pays special attention to the management of organisational change, and covers current trends to ensure that HRM adds value throughout the organisation. Rich in examples and practical advice, this book will help transform HRM into a major force in organisational success.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Community-Based Research and Higher Education is an exceptional book that represents a major contribution to the growing community-engagement movement in universities worldwide. This is an action handbook for faculty, university administrators, students, and community leaders. The book provides a blueprint for life after service-learning; it is a guide to building the capacity of community-based organizations to bring about lasting social change in our communities.' -- Phil Nyden, professor of sociology and director, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University, Chicago.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky s work.Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan.Includes Chomsky s substantial new replies and responses to each essay.The best critical introduction to Chomsky s thought as a whole.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy.Represents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative.Presents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the Scientific Revolution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn how to harness change and use it as a competitive advantage! Organizing Change shows you how to organize and activate a team process to accomplish a successful change initiative throughout your organization. Using the process outlined in this book, your organization will be able to respond quickly yet methodically to your organization's needs while your company maintains, and even increases, productivity and results throughout the change process.'In Organizing Change Lee and Krayer have taken what most executives regard as consultant candy and transformed it into a science . . . a doable science.'--Joseph F. Carlisle, senior consultant, Training Consulting Softek, Denton, TexasWritten for organizational development consultants, human resources professionals, managers at all levels, and organizational change agents, this important resource is a valuable asset that contains a wealth of tools, ideas, as well as a wide variety of checklists, worksheets, templates, and forms that you can use to assist you in organizing change initiatives.