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Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 26, No. 1

CRQ (Conflict Resolution Quarterly) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Presence-Based Coaching: Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body, and Heart

Doug Silsbee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Presence-Based Coaching offers coaches a hands-on resource for developing the capacities and skills needed to be reliably present in all situations, and shows how to let go of habitual—and often ineffective—ways of responding. As author and leadership expert Doug Silsbee explains, once a coach has mastered the inner moves of directing their own attention, they can work to develop the same capability in their clients. The ability of a coach to facilitate

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Designing Matrix Organizations that Actually Work: How IBM, Proctor & Gamble and Others Design for Success

Jay R. Galbraith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Organization structures do not fail, says Jay Galbraith, but management fails at implementing them correctly. This is why, he explains, the idea that the matrix does not work still exists today, even among people who should know better. But the matrix has become a necessary form of organization in today's business environment. Companies now know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries, and serve many customer segments

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Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build their Brand

Shel Holtz, John C. Havens, Lynne D. Johnson (Foreword by) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

While exposing the risks inherent in maintaining a nontransparent relationship with customers, Tactical Transparency provides a methodology that will help your organization create its unique plan to bring greater authenticity to your company and your brands. Drawn largely from interviews with leaders in companies that have achieved measurable success in this arena, authors Shel Holtz and John C. Havens provide step-by-step details on how executives

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The Credible Company: Communicating with a Skeptical Workforce

Roger D'Aprix — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

In The Credible Company, communication expert Roger D Aprix provides a logical and tested strategy to inform skeptical employees in a time of turbulent change. With information being the lifeblood of today s intellectual-capital assembly line, D Aprix explains, the internal communication task has taken on an unprecedented importance. Drawing on his experience as a corporate communication executive and consultant, the author offers a practical prescription

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High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

Chris Warner, Don Schmincke — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency. They push past current leadership trends in order to achieve the most extremely challenging goals. They don't fall prey to the platitudes or cliches we see so often see in leadership theory. Instead, they succeed by

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How to Be a Sales Superstar: Break All the Rules and Succeed While Doing It

Mark Tewart — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

A handy guide that every sales professional or business person can use to become a sales superstar

These days, making the sale is tougher than ever. That's why sales professionals and business owners who want to be the best they can be need more than just smooth talk to make it in the business. Selling is a job that requires an updated toolkit for real, lasting success. How to Be a Sales Superstar teaches salespeople all the specialized skills they

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The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It

John Gerzema, Edward Lebar, Peter Stringham (Foreword by) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

How to use brands to gain and sustain competitive advantage

Companies today face a dilemma in marketing. The tried-and-true formulas to create sales and market share behind brands are becoming irrelevant and losing traction with consumers. In this book, Gerzema and LeBar offer credible evidence--drawn from a detailed analysis of a decade's worth of brand and financial data using Y&R's Brand Asset Valuator

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Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS

Richard L. Church, Alan T. Murray — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

All organizations-businesses, government agencies, and even individuals face location and relocation decisions: where to open a new store, where to build a new factory, where to locate a new transportation hub? Written by two of the leading researchers in the field, here is the first book to cover the convergent use of GIS for Location Science analysis. The book's integrated approach enables analysts to look beyond theoretical location constructs

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The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workplace

Ron Alsop — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The first wave of the Millennial Generation—born between 1980 and 2001—is entering the work force, and employers are facing some of the biggest management challenges they’ve ever encountered. They are trying to integrate the most demanding and most coddled generation in history into a workplace shaped by the driven baby-boom generation. Like them or not, the millennials are America future work force. They are actually a larger group than the boomers—92

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In Search of the Obvious: The Antidote for Today's Marketing Mess

Jack Trout — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This is the first book that states the obvious: Marketing is a mess. Marketing guru Jack Trout intends to make a lot of people, who made the mess, very uncomfortable:

Advertisers are criticized as people who look for the creative and edgy, not the obvious. They will not be happy.

Marketing people are criticized for getting hopelessly entangled in corporate egos and complicated projects. They will not be happy.

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The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word

Tony Simons — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Corporate and government scandals continue to deepen our mistrust of leaders. While credibility is the foundation of effective leadership, most leaders struggle, and sometimes fail, to align their words and their actions. Now for the first time, leadership expert Tony Simons has measured the bottom-line value of business leaders who live by their word and actually do what they say they are going to do. In

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Achieving Class A Business Excellence: An Executive s Perspective

Dennis Groves, Kevin Herbert, Jim Correll — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

A tough, challenging, and eventful journey is outlined in this cutting-edge business story. Greg, the company President, uses the latest edition of the trusted industry standard, The Oliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence, to transform his business from mediocrity to industry leading performance. What he learns about senior management responsibilities and behaviors drives him to achieve outstanding rewards and benefits, not the least

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Trump University Branding 101: How to Build the Most Valuable Asset of Any Business

Don Sexton — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Trump University guide to building brand value for long-term business success

Whether a business is large or small, its brand is probably its most important and valuable asset. How a brand is managed has tremendous impact on an organization's ability to attract and hold customers, achieve high revenue and profits, and ensure future success. The most powerful brands are worth billions of dollars, but to build a powerful brand at any level requires

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Practicing Narrative Mediation: Loosening the Grip of Conflict

John Winslade, Gerald Monk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Practicing Narrative Mediation provides mediation practitioners with practical narrative approaches that can be applied to a wide varietyÂ of conflict resolutionÂ situations. Written by John Winslade and Gerald Monk—leaders in the narrative therapy movement—the book contains suggestions and illustrative examples for applying the proven narrative technique when working with restorative conferencing and mediation in organizations, schools, health care

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Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman: America's #1 Salesman Shows You How to Sell Anything, 2nd Edition

Ralph R. Roberts — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

"Ralph Roberts is a dedicated and passionate professional. He lives by the words he writes."
-Danielle Kennedy, speaker and author of How to List and Sell Real Estate, Double Your Income in Real Estate Sales, and workingmoms.calm

"Roberts has tapped into much more than selling. This book is a great instrument for the business community. It details how to become successful in life regardless of the challenges. Ralph is teaching us how to make certain

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Greentailing and Other Revolutions in Retail: Hot Ideas That Are Grabbing Customers' Attention and Raising Profits

Neil Z. Stern, Willard N. Ander — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

An introduction to greentailing and the five other biggest trends in the retail business

In their newest book on retailing, authors Stern and Ander examine the revolutions occurring in the retail marketplace, with particular emphasis on the influential green trend in retailing, or Greentailing. Greentailing is capitalizing on the huge and growing demand for organic, sustainable and wellness-related products. As it evolves, greentailing will force both

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The Attractor Factor : 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) From the Inside Out , 2nd Edition

Joe Vitale — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Discover the secret to lifelong wealth and happiness!

Now in an expanded paperback second edition that includes an Attractor Factor IQ test, exercises for putting lessons into practice, new stories, and more, Dr. Joe Vitale presents his even more powerful and effective five-step plan for attracting wealth, happiness, and success to your life.

"Whatever you want to attract to your life, Joe Vitale has the secret to make it happen. I highly recommend

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The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business, 2nd Edition

Steven D. Strauss — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

For a comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything a small business owner would need to know about starting and succeeding in business, consult The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business, 2nd Edition. Discover candid advice, effective techniques, insider information, and success secrets that will boost you confidence. This updated editions is even more accessible, with easy-to-follow information

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Winners in the Second Half: A Guide for Executives at the Top of their Game

Julie Perigo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Later career, 'the second half of the game', is not, as it is often perceived to be, a period of decline or a black hole, but an inspirational time of Generative Leadership and a challenging opportunity for better tactics.

This book explores common fears and uncertainties about the second half of the game, enabling you to feel comfortable exploring opportunities previously outside of your comfort zone and feel confident about your future. The common

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