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Why and How Power Verbs Can Pump Up Your Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviews, and Personal Networking Efforts
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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Seven DISC Principles for Turning Style into Results
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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Why and How Power Verbs Can Pump Up Your Speeches and Presentations
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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Introduction to Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life
By Merrick Rosenberg, Daniel Silvert
Dec 10, 2012
The authors of Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life introduce their book: Whether you’re interacting with coworkers or customers, family members or friends, DISC will empower you to better relate with others. You will soon understand why you click with some people and clank with others. Moreover, you will gain a valuable framework for maximizing your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.
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Activities Rule! Not the Clock: Don't Be a Slave to Time
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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30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking: Strive to Be a Person of Integrity: Beware of Your Own Hypocrisy
By Linda Elder, Richard Paul
Oct 9, 2012
The authors of "30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking" discuss hypocrisy: a state of mind unconcerned with honesty.
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30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking: Discover Your Ignorance
By Linda Elder, Richard Paul
Oct 8, 2012
The authors of "30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking" discuss intellectual humility: the disposition to distinguish, at any given moment and in any given situation, between what you know and what you don’t know.
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FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication
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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Introduction to Losing It! Behaviors and Mindsets that Ruin Careers: Lessons on Protecting Yourself from Avoidable Mistakes
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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Stedman Graham's Nine-Step Process to to Identity: Your Passport to Success
By Stedman Graham
Feb 22, 2012
Stedman Graham shares a process for developing your identity, improving your life, and becoming successful through his nine-step success process to identity: your passport to success.
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Relevance of Neuroscience to the Business Environment
By Srinivasan Pillay
Feb 21, 2011
Neuroscience is highly relevant to the language and process of coaching in the executive environment. Neuroscience can be used in practical and effective ways to enhance the execution of strategies. Srinivasan Pillay shows you how.
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The Rules of Life: Rule 2 -- You'll Get Older But Not Necessarily Wiser
By Richard Templar
Nov 17, 2010
Be kind to yourself when you do muck things up. Be forgiving, and accept that it's all part of that growing older but no wiser routine.
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The Rules of Life: Rule 1 -- Keep It Under Your Hat
By Richard Templar
Nov 16, 2010
You are about to embark on a life-changing adventure, possibly, if you choose to accept your mission. You are about to discover ways to become positive, happy, and successful in everything you do. So there's no need to say anything to anybody about it. Keep quiet. No one likes a smart arse. That's it. First Rule: Keep It Under Your Hat.
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Introduction to The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life
By Richard Templar
Nov 15, 2010
Richard Templar explains that if we follow a few basic "Rules of Life," we tend to get more done, shrug off adversity more easily, get more out of life, and spread a little happiness around us as we go.
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Introduction to The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success
By Richard Templar
Jul 28, 2010
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Foreword to The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success
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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Retirementology: Great Expectations
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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The Wall Street Job Search: Winning in Any Market
By Roy Cohen
Apr 22, 2010
Most people are operating with passed-down wisdom, outdated advice, and popular magazine formulas for job search and career advancement that for the most part result in failure. Roy Cohen introduces the secrets and rules of the road that will really make a difference.
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Create a Personally, Professionally, and Financially Rewarding Career Doing What You Love
By Paula Caligiuri
Mar 24, 2010
With the downturn in the economy, the elimination of jobs, and the increased desire for work-life balance, people are looking for more stability, greater fulfillment, and increased satisfaction from work. Are you?
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The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing: Most People Aim for the Wrong Target
By Natalie Canavor, Claire Meirowitz
Jan 14, 2010
Take the first steps in writing-for-results by learning to describe the characteristics of strong writing.

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