Download or read book Check Your Egos at the Door written by G. B. Trudeau and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When forty five major recording artists emerged from their limos outside of A&M Studios one balmy night last winter, they made a kind of pop history. There as eyewitness to that history was G.B. Trudeau, the only major satirist invited to attend the proceedings. Several weeks later, the cartoonist showed his gratitude by being the first to reveal that the stars had indeed checked their egos at the door (as per producer Quincy Jones’s request), but that more than one had demanded a receipt. The coverage could have been worse. A few months earlier, 3,000 miles east, George Bush had checked his manhood into a trust fund, and the exclusive reporting of this event in Doonesbury had produced a firestorm of indignation. ‘Garry Trudeau is coming out of deep left field,’ the Vice president fumed. ‘The American people are going to be speaking out next Tuesday, and we’ll see whether they side with Doonesbury or the Reagan-Bush message.’ The author is currently demanding a recount." -- Back cover
Download or read book Articulating Design Decisions written by Tom Greever and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other nondesigners may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can’t get their support, your work will never see the light of day—no matter how good it is. This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs. Whether you design apps, websites, or products, you’ll learn how to get support from people who have influence over the project with the goal of creating the best user experience. Walk through the process of preparing and presenting your designs Understand stakeholder perspectives and learn how to empathize with them Cultivate both implicit and explicit listening skills Learn tactics and strategies for expressing the most effective response to feedback Create the right documentation for your decisions to avoid repeated conversations Learn why following through is just as important as the meeting itself
Download or read book Selling Sunshine written by Tony Hartl and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Chock full of practical ways you can overhaul your approach to branding and customer service. Tony Hartl's tried-and-true list of simple, actionable strategies grew as his took his start-up, Planet Tan, from an enterprise with three locations in Dallas, Texas, to seventeen tanning salons sold for millions of dollars thirteen years later..."--Dust jacket flap.
Download or read book How to Be the Employee Your Company Can t Live Without written by Glenn Shepard and published by Wiley + ORM. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous books, noted management consultant Glenn Shepard showed managers how to get the most from their workforce. Now, in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without, Shepard shows employees how to get the most from themselves, their jobs, and their careers. This practical, actionable guide explains what today's managers are really looking for in employees, what they place the highest value on, and how employees can surpass expectations to gain raises and promotions. Based on common-sense principles that will work for anyone in any career, this practical, real-world guide shows you how to: Answer the one question that will immediately make you a highly valued employee Excel in your job by simply showing your employer how much you care about your job Create job security by earning a reputation as the most reliable person around Learn the right way to make mistakes Develop the kind of professional work ethic that gets you promoted Be the problem-solver companies are looking for And take control of your professional destiny! Millions of Americans feel stuck in dead-end jobs that are getting them nowhere. Often they think, despite their best efforts, that no one will notice or reward their success. How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without shows you how to excel at the office and garner the recognition you've worked hard to earn. Master these principles and apply them every day at work and unlimited success will be your reward.
Download or read book The Unwritten Rules written by Guy P Fehr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective management impacts everything from the front line to the bottom line. As workplace leaders; the managers that deal most frequently with the front line staff have the greatest impact on a workplace's culture and funtionality. They are unique in their position to directly impact productivity and growth. Couple this with the fact every workplace has its own intrinsic rules that are not written down as policy or process, but are every bit as critical to a manager's effectiveness. Awareness and adherance to these unwritten rules is key to effective management. Inside The Unwritten Rules are twenty of the most important and the most applicable unwritten rules found in most businesses and organizations. Non-adherance to these rules can negatively impact employees and companies in many ways. One usually learns these rules over time as hindsight reveals their reality and importance. The Unwritten Rules saves you that time!
Download or read book 250 Rules of Business written by Steven Schragis and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no one rule for business success, no one principle that can help you meet every challenge. The realities of doing business are just too complex. However, there are lots of little rules that can guide and assist you along the way---and that’s what 250 Rules of Business is all about. In this groundbreaking book, Schragis and Frishman have collected all they've learned from the movers and shakers of virtually every industry and boiled it down into smart, simple strategies. Master just one rule a day and in no time you'll manage everything---people, workloads, companies---with more skill, more confidence, and more success!
Download or read book The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management written by Daniel A. Strachman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of the book that gives investors, advisors, and managers the tools they need to launch and maintain a hedge fund in today's economy The hedge fund industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent years. Investors of all types continue to want to place their assets into these investment vehicles even in the wake of the credit crisis, massive frauds, and insider trading scandals. Once the forbidden fruit of Wall Street, hedge funds are now considered "must have" investments in any diversified portfolio. Now in its second edition, The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management is revised and updated to address how the credit crisis, legislation, fraud, technology, investor demand, global markets, and the economic landscape have affected the industry. Providing readers with a detailed and in-depth analysis of the world of hedge funds, the people working in it, and a look at where it's headed, the book is a timely and indispensable reference and research tool for helping professional money managers, traders, and others to launch and grow successful hedge fund businesses. Addresses how the credit crisis and its fallout has affected the hedge fund industry and what this means for the future Provides the essential information needed to launch and maintain a successful hedge fund in the new global economy Walks the reader through running a hedge fund, helping you to gain success over years, not just months An essential resource for anyone looking to invest in these much-discussed investment products, The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management, Second Edition is now fully revised and updated.
Download or read book The Laws of the New Game Changers written by Raye Mitchell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON'T ACCEPT BEING AN AVERAGE GAME PLAYER WHEN YOU CAN BE A GAME CHANGER. The Laws of the New Game Changers: How to Make Breakthrough Impacts That Take You Forward gives you the inside tips and tools to create innovation. It breaks down the secrets of the new game changers into eight simple laws that make it easy for you to activate the next big breakout impact program, project, trend and new thing. Veteran innovators and game changers have their own internal playbooks and score cards. They have in their minds their own 'little black book' of notes, tips, and secret success habits that are proven winners. In this book, we share some of those secrets with you so that you can create your own breakthrough impacts. Now is your chance to shake up the status quo, disrupt the ordinary, and move forward. Go ahead, have fun and experiment. Innovate. We dare you.
Download or read book Transforming Healthcare Analytics written by Michael N. Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life examples of how to apply intelligence in the healthcare industry through innovative analytics Healthcare analytics offers intelligence for making better healthcare decisions. Identifying patterns and correlations contained in complex health data, analytics has applications in hospital management, patient records, diagnosis, operating and treatment costs, and more. Helping healthcare managers operate more efficiently and effectively. Transforming Healthcare Analytics: The Quest for Healthy Intelligence shares real-world use cases of a healthcare company that leverages people, process, and advanced analytics technology to deliver exemplary results. This book illustrates how healthcare professionals can transform the healthcare industry through analytics. Practical examples of modern techniques and technology show how unified analytics with data management can deliver insight-driven decisions. The authors—a data management and analytics specialist and a healthcare finance executive—share their unique perspectives on modernizing data and analytics platforms to alleviate the complexity of the healthcare, distributing capabilities and analytics to key stakeholders, equipping healthcare organizations with intelligence to prepare for the future, and more. This book: Explores innovative technologies to overcome data complexity in healthcare Highlights how analytics can help with healthcare market analysis to gain competitive advantage Provides strategies for building a strong foundation for healthcare intelligence Examines managing data and analytics from end-to-end, from diagnosis, to treatment, to provider payment Discusses the future of technology and focus areas in the healthcare industry Transforming Healthcare Analytics: The Quest for Healthy Intelligence is an important source of information for CFO’s, CIO, CTO, healthcare managers, data scientists, statisticians, and financial analysts at healthcare institutions.
Download or read book How to be the Best Manager on the Planet written by John Gaddis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to be the Best Manager on the Planet will tell you how to become a top notch manager of people by following a few simple rules. It will change how you think about doing your job as a manager. It will bring out the very best in your employes,your company,and most importantly yourself. No one has ever taught you how to be the best manager that you can be. That is about to change. Do yourself,your employees and your company a big favor and read this book.
Download or read book Start Up Saboteurs written by Ziad K. Abdelnour and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dispenses true-to-life advice on . . . pitching investors, facing down competition, and modifying your business to embrace disruption.” —Stanford B. Silverman, founder and CEO Minerva Capital Management Start-Up Saboteurs shows entrepreneurs how to create real wealth by abandoning their limited thinking, eliminating boundaries, and stop defining the outcome. Money is first and foremost about freedom and not about acquiring things nor flaunting them in front of family and friends. Money is about the freedom to do whatever one wants, whenever they want. Ziad K. Abdelnour calls upon striving entrepreneurs within Start-Up Saboteurs to empower them to create their own wealth. He guides them through the challenging maze of egos, incompetence, and ignorance so they can separate fact from fiction. By the end of Start-Up Saboteurs, entrepreneurs are inspired to create their own wealth, not for the sake of wealth, but for the sake of becoming free and independent. “Start-ups are not for a weak stomach nor is this book. I have seen many start-ups launch without a true and honest self-assessment that would have saved them and others years of heartache, pain, and chaos. Ziad guides you through that assessment and jolts you with the start-up world’s brutal realities to help protect you from the saboteurs—including yourself.” —Katherine Malmay Bazemore, CEO and president of Cocoon Resources, Inc. “As a veteran financier in private equity and the commodity markets, Ziad knows it’s not easy for start-up to succeed so he pushes you—hard—to reach your full entrepreneurial potential.” —Mark Skousen, investment expert and editor-in-chief for Forecasts & Strategies Newsletter
Download or read book The Search for a Nonviolent Future written by Michael N. Nagler and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler unveils a hidden history. Nonviolence, he proposes, has proven its power against arms and social injustice wherever it has been correctly understood and applied. Nagler's approach is not only historical but also spiritual, drawing on the experience of Gandhi and other activists and teachers. Individual chapters include A Way Out of Hell, The Sweet Sound of Order, and A Clear Picture of Peace. The last chapter includes a five-point blueprint for change and "study circle" guide. The foreword by Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is new to this edition.
Download or read book Further Family Lessons written by Steven E. Propp and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its three years later, and the grandkids are growing but so are the life challenges they face! Some of them are dealing with the additional issues created by attending junior high and high school. Theyre playing football and basketball; participating in cheerleading competitions; building castles and dioramas for school projects; attending birthday parties and swim parties; making and revising their Christmas Lists; and generally keeping their parents and grandparents busy, with all of their activities and interests. There are more and more things they need to learn how to do, such as multiplication and division; how to ride a skateboard, or a bike; how to bake cookies; how to swim without touching the bottom of the pool; how to play the guitar; how to compute the tip to leave at a restaurant; how to download games and apps to a new mobile device; and much more. The questions they pose for Papa and Nana are getting more complex, too. Beginning with simpler questions like Do whales eat people?; Can vampires come in the house if theyre not invited?; and Is that a boy fish, or a girl fish? they progress to more complex inquiries, such as, Can animals talk?; Do other planets have days, like we do?; Do you believe in global warming?; Whats it like to be an adult?; What do you think about the Big Bang?; and Do you believe in God? Whether theyre going to the Zoo; hosting a video game party; deciding which music video to watch first; visiting Papa at work; trying to cross a muddy path in the Nature Walk; reading a popular series of books; posting pictures on social media websites; dancing a Zumba workout; or making a Fathers Day card, the activities and mishaps recounted in this book may help you to better appreciate the joy, wonder, and beauty of young peopleand reinforce your belief in the ultimate and indispensable value of FAMILY.
Download or read book We Deserve Better Villains written by Jai Kristjan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Deserve Better Villains is a highly accessible how-to guide for video game designers no matter what level of experience to understand what is needed to be successful in the development cycle of any video game from concept to supporting the game live. Each chapter outlines a period in a video games development cycle, what key concepts need to be on a designers mind and how they can work to improve themselves every step of the way. To help visualize the journey the chapters start with a section centered on the reader as a hero character in a fictitious adventure video game that faces the trials and tribulations of the development cycle to completing the game. We all deserve better games, better heroes and villains which starts with learning what it takes to survive in the game development system as a videogame designer. Key Features Accessible enough for novices, insightful enough for veteran game designers Allows readers of at any level of video game knowledge to connect with the struggle of making a video game Concepts are delivered in a short, specific approach followed with practical exercises to follow to getting the reader into action to improve their skills
Download or read book Lead or Leave written by Roger H. Hull and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead or Leave provides a checklist of what works and what does not work for those wanting to lead colleges and universities in the 21st century and those with responsibility for the oversight of those institutions. Importantly, this book also seeks to keep educators on a morally straight course. Aimed at presidents and trustees (as well as those who aspire to those positions), Lead or Leave is a valuable guide for anyone concerned about institutions of higher education in the United States.
Download or read book Maximum Influence written by Kurt Mortensen and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you like to be able to read anyone instantly? Get people to trust you instinctively? Change minds easily? Convince anyone to give you almost anything? The secret lies in the 12 Laws of Persuasion. These “powers” are not unobtainable Jedi mind tricks but are actual skills that everyday people can discover and develop within themselves--today! Author and leading authority on persuasion, motivation, and influence Kurt Mortenson has studied the traits, habits, and mindsets of master influencers for over 20 years and has formed what the calls the 12 Laws of Persuasion, which anyone can master and put to work for themselves. These laws include: The law of dissonance The law of contract The law of expectation The law of esteem The law of obligation In Maximum Influence, you will learn why each law works, how to use each one, and what to avoid in carrying it out. Complete with new case studies and cutting-edge influencing techniques, this invaluable, must-have resource provides the keys to mastering the crucial tool anyone must develop and utilize to find success and prosperity--influence!
Download or read book BusinessThink written by Dave Marcum and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide on how to attain desired business results explains how leaders can create consistent and effective solutions and outlines rules for accelerating work while revitilizing an enterprise.
