| 1.
| - Why and How Power Verbs Can Pump Up Your Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviews, and Personal Networking Efforts
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By
Michael Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford
- Mar 21, 2013
- Learn why using power verbs is so important to job seekers and how to find the right power verb for your resumes, cover letters, interviews, and personal networking efforts.
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| 2.
| - Seven DISC Principles for Turning Style into Results
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By
Merrick Rosenberg
- Mar 6, 2013
- Merrick Rosenberg, co-author of Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life, offers a crash course on the DISC styles, where he examines the Seven Principles that transform style awareness into results.
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| 3.
| - Why and How Power Verbs Can Pump Up Your Speeches and Presentations
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By
Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford
- Feb 20, 2013
- The authors of Power Verbs for Presenters: Hundreds of Verbs and Phrases to Pump Up Your Speeches and Presentations discuss how their book can help you electrify your presentations, speeches, and pitches…and get the results you want!
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| 4.
| - The Financial Professional's Guide to Communication: Defining Your Core
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By
Robert L. Finder
- Dec 3, 2012
- Bob Finder asks you to answer a seemingly simple question: What do you do?
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| 5.
| - Introduction to the Financial Professional's Guide to Communication
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By
Robert L. Finder
- Nov 29, 2012
- In this introduction to his book, Bob Finder explains how he will teach you to actively listen, speak plainly with precision and passion, and engage clients with uncommon effectiveness.
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| 6.
| - Introduction to Winning Strategies for Power Presentations
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By
Jerry Weissman
- Nov 27, 2012
- Tired of giving mediocre presentations? In this introduction to his book, Jerry Weissman shows you how to avoid the mind-numbing scenario in which a nervous person stands in front of a room giving a verbatim recitation of a disjointed set of begged, borrowed, or stolen slides to a bored audience for far too long.
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| 7.
| - Activities Rule! Not the Clock: Don't Be a Slave to Time
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By
Mark Woods, Trapper Woods
- Oct 15, 2012
- Mark and Trapper Woods offer an easier way to approach the time challenges we face today in this chaotic world.
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| 8.
| - Preface to The Truth About Managing People, 3rd Edition
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By
Stephen P. Robbins
- Oct 10, 2012
- Stephen P. Robbins describes his book, which is organized around key, human-behavior-related problem areas that managers face: hiring, motivation, leadership, communication, team building, performance evaluation, and coping with change.
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| 9.
| - FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication
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By
Stephen R. Covey
- Jun 21, 2012
- This excerpt from FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication covers cliches, colons, color, commas, compound words, conjunctions, contractions, dashes, decimals, editing and proofreading, and electronic mail.
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| 10.
| - FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication: Abbreviations
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By
Stephen R. Covey
- Jun 20, 2012
- This Reference Glossary is designed and written to help writers and editors answer routine, yet important, questions about the preparation of business and technical documents. This section covers abbreviations.
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| 11.
| - Creating a Living Endowment for Ensuring Performance
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By
Richard C. Gillespie, Gene E. Fusch
- Jun 13, 2012
- Richard C. Gillespie and Gene E. Fusch introduce their book, which describes techniques to create a workplace where members of an organization continuously strive for performance improvement. Creating such a workplace often leads to dynamic leadership, empowerment, personal ownership, and a place where people want to be every day.
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| 12.
| - Introduction to Losing It! Behaviors and Mindsets that Ruin Careers: Lessons on Protecting Yourself from Avoidable Mistakes
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By
Bill Lane
- Jun 7, 2012
- Bill Lane explains that the ability to look at oneself in a cold, unflattering, florescent-lit mirror; evaluate what you see; and act on that evaluation is a faculty that can and must be cultivated if your train is to stay on its track—and accelerate.
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| 13.
| - Introduction to Leadership, Discipline, and Effective Communication
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By
Helio Fred Garcia
- May 29, 2012
- Helio Fred Garcia introduces his book, which applies the Marine Corps’ strategy doctrine, as embodied in its Warfighting manual, to leadership communication.
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| 14.
| - When Social Media Meets PR, Communication Unites with Technology
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By
Deirdre K. Breakenridge
- Apr 17, 2012
- Each new practice introduced in Social Media and Public Relations is the result of what happens when social media meets PR and communications unites with technology. Following are the eight new practices vital to your role today.
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| 15.
| - Introduction to Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters
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By
Jerry Weissman
- May 16, 2011
- Jerry Weissman introduces his book, which offers 80 lessons -- both what to do and what not to do -- from presentation masters.
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| 16.
| - Generating a Disruptive Idea: Unexpected Ideas Have Fewer Competitors
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By
Luke Williams
- Feb 10, 2011
- How do you transform an opportunity into an idea? Luke Williams explores the stumbling blocks to generating disruptive ideas and how to overcome them.
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| 17.
| - Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Identifying the Problem and the Solution
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By
Eric Kacou
- Nov 4, 2010
- Getting to the root cause of poverty requires moving beyond theory as we look at the problem from the perspective of typical individuals in Bottom of the Pyramid markets. In this chapter, Eric Kacou considers such individuals.
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| 18.
| - Introduction to The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success
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By
Richard Templar
- Jul 28, 2010
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| 19.
| - Foreword to The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success
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By
Richard Templar
- Jul 27, 2010
- If people think you have it in you to solve the problems of the organization itself, not just your small part of it, you've broken away from the pack. But how do you do that? Follow Richard Templar's Rules of Work.
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| 20.
| - Retirementology: Great Expectations
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By
Gregory Salsbury
- Apr 28, 2010
- Mark Twain said, "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." When it comes to expectations, the best thing you can do is check them at the door and plan for all kinds of weather in retirement. Gregory Salsbury shows you how to manage your retirement expectations and improve your retirementology IQ.
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