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Book Gain the Edge

Download or read book Gain the Edge written by Martin Latz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2004-05-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martin Latz's Gain the Edge! is the best book I've ever read on negotiation strategy. If you negotiate for a living or only occasionally, Latz gives you the tools and tactics to succeed before you sit down at the table. Whether it's negotiating Randy Johnson's contract or the purchase of your next car, Gain the Edge! is clear, concise, and unfailingly useful." --Jerry Colangelo, Chairman and CEO, Arizona Diamondbacks and Phoenix Suns There's always more to learn about negotiation. That one new strategy or tactic you gain from this book may make the difference between your walking away a winner and leaving empty-handed. The margin of difference can be infinitesimal, yet the ramifications are often huge. Negotiating a new salary? Buying a car or a house? Closing a deal with a big client? Discussing where to vacation with your spouse? We negotiate every day. Yet most of us negotiate instinctively and don't give the process the strategic attention it deserves. We suffer as a result. Now negotiation expert Martin E. Latz reveals an easy-to-use strategic template you can use in every negotiation. This is not ivory-tower advice, or advice just based on instincts and experience: The tactics and techniques here come from the most up-to-date research and the knowledge Latz has developed in negotiating on the White House Advance Teams, from consulting with top executives at Fortune 500 companies and law firms nationwide, and from teaching thousands of business professionals and lawyers how to negotiate more effectively. The result is a comprehensive guide that takes you all the way from general strategies and principles--Latz's Five Golden Rules of Negotiation--to specific tips, techniques, and even phrases you can use at the table. Gain the Edge! will arm you with: * Practical strategies to get the information you need before you sit down at the table * Tactics to maximize your leverage when seemingly powerless * Secrets to success in emotionally charged negotiations * A step-by-step system to design the most effective offer-concession strategy * Ways to deal with different personality types, ethics, and negotiation "games" * Specific advice on how to negotiate for your next salary, car, or house * Negotiating tips for other business and personal matters Leave behind instinctive negotiating and its inherent uncertainties. Learn to negotiate strategically. Easy to understand and instantly applicable to real-life situations, Gain the Edge! is the ultimate how-to guide for anyone looking to master this critical subject.

Book The Trust Edge

Download or read book The Trust Edge written by David Horsager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 2009 by Summerside Press."

Book MMA Yoga on the Mat

Download or read book MMA Yoga on the Mat written by Khadi Madama and published by Price World Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect training supplement for martial artists, "MMA Yoga on the Mat" provides the best remedies and conditioning techniques for fighters looking to gain an edge. Khadi Madama,"The First Lady of MMA Yoga," has synthesized decades of MMA experience and over 40 years of therapeutic and sport yoga to create this one of a kind guide. The book supplies MMA fighters with the best information on: - General Conditioning- Flexibility Factors- Pre/Post Fight Training Relief- Remedies to Gain the Edge

Book Copycats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oded Shenkar
  • Publisher : Harvard Business Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1422126730
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Copycats written by Oded Shenkar and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In business, imitation gets a bad rap: some business leaders see imitators as 'me too' players forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. He reveals how imitation - the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation - is as critical to prosperity as innovation, especially when the two are used together."--Inside jacket.

Book The Specific Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Wien
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-09-17
  • ISBN : 9780990768609
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book The Specific Edge written by Mike Wien and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have the misconception that success is the result of innate talent, dumb luck, or a magic formula. In reality, winners succeed through a combination of three things: the concentration to retain focus, the discipline to continually improve, and the endurance to overcome obstacles and failures. The Specific Edge is a blueprint for the average person to achieve success and fulfillment far above average. You will be guided to discover your specific edge and develop a strategy to outsmart your competitors. You will acquire tools to sustain effort while avoiding burn-out. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a corporate executive, or an individual building your career, identifying and capitalizing upon your specific edge creates a competitive advantage. With your specific edge, you create a point of differentiation and tune into opportunities around you.Learn how you can improve performance and win in business and in life from Mike Wien's personal stories paired with practical tips. Included are hard-earned insights from the first twenty-eight years of Mike's career with leadership roles in marketing at Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Citibank, and Deloitte. These insights are combined with strategies learned from the second-half of his career--when he ditched corporate life and became a world-class triathlete. Mike has competed in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship four times in the past eight years.

Book The Caterpillar s Edge

Download or read book The Caterpillar s Edge written by Sid Mohasseb and published by Rugged Land. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business leaders, large and small, need to learn a new game with very different rules. They must accept an ever-changing and uncertain landscape, but a landscape that can be constantly leveraged for greater profitability. They must believe that their companies are caterpillars with the potential to become butterflies. The Caterpillar's Edge shows why we must embrace a future of flux. It exposes the addictions that chain us to our past and the truths that influence our behaviors. And, it shows just how to seize breakthrough advantages by pushing through all the noise around "big data." Within its DNA, the caterpillar aspires and pushes for more, and it gets just that, evolving gracefully from one entity into another, always building a competitive edge in the process. Break free from accepted archaic business practices by cracking that secret code which demands evolving your business always.

Book Database Systems for Advanced Applications

Download or read book Database Systems for Advanced Applications written by Yunmook Nah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4 volume set LNCS 12112-12114 constitutes the papers of the 25th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications which will be held online in September 2020. The 119 full papers presented together with 19 short papers plus 15 demo papers and 4 industrial papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 487 submissions. The conference program presents the state-of-the-art R&D activities in database systems and their applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry.

Book Ecosystem Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter J. Williamson
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 1503611868
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Ecosystem Edge written by Peter J. Williamson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To succeed in the face of disruptive competition, companies will need to harness the power of a wide range of partners who can bring different skills, experience, capacity, and their own networks to the task. With the advent of new technologies, rapidly changing customer needs, and emerging competitors, companies across more and more industries are seeing their time-honored ways of making money under threat. In this book, Arnoud De Meyer and Peter J. Williamson explain how business can meet these challenges by building a large and dynamic ecosystem of partners that reinforce, strengthen, and encourage innovation in the face of ongoing disruption. While traditional companies know how to assemble and manage supply chains, leading the development of a vibrant ecosystem requires a different set of capabilities. Ecosystem Edge illustrates how executives need to leave notions of command and control behind in favor of strategies that will attract partners, stimulate learning, and promote the overall health of the network. To understand the practical steps executives can take to achieve this, the authors focus on eight core examples that cross industries and continents: Alibaba Group, Amazon.com, ARM, athenahealth, Dassault Systèmes S.E., The Guardian, Rolls-Royce, and Thomson Reuters. By following the principles outlined in this book, leaders can learn how to unlock rapid innovation, tap into new and original sources of value, and practice organizational flexibility. As a result, companies can gain the ecosystem edge, a key advantage in responding to the challenges of disruption that business sees all around it today.

Book Competitive Advantage of Customer Centricity

Download or read book Competitive Advantage of Customer Centricity written by Sathit Parniangtong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents strategies that put the customer at the center of an enterprise. It elaborates on the reasons for viewing customers as assets that a firm needs to acquire, develop and cultivate in order to generate profitable relationships, and champions customer profitability as the metric for measuring business performance. Further, it advocates the need to provide solutions to customers’ requirements with bundles of products and services. It broadens the definition of customer value beyond tangible benefits and price to include both tangible and intangible benefits and total ownership costs, while embracing a variety of unique customer needs. The book highlights the value of business planning, marketing and sales mechanisms and changing employee behavior to create lifelong, high-value profitable customer relationships that satisfy the customer’s needs. Competitive Advantage of Customer Centricity maps a new journey that entire organizations must undertake in order to achieve these lucrative goals.

Book Beyond Grit

Download or read book Beyond Grit written by Cindra Kamphoff and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ''Beyond Grit,'' Cindra Kamphoff reveals the ten practices that the world's best use to gain the high performance edge. Kamphoff shares the tools and strategies she's taught executives, entrepreneurs, NFL ProBowl athletes, Olympians, college athletes, and championship teams. Based on almost twenty years of research and consulting with the world's best, she provides a practical, inspiring, and easy-to-use guide to radically accelerating your performance and improving your happiness.

Book Lean but Agile

Download or read book Lean but Agile written by William Rothwell and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As organizations strive to meet stringent budgets, the mandate to produce greater results with fewer resources is no longer sufficient. Rather than accepting less, managers and executives must strive for better--evaluating every process and every role and doing away with assumptions about how work gets done and who does it in order to streamline processes and maximize efficiency. William Rothwell, who was honored with the ASTD Distinguished Contribution Award in Workplace Learning and Peformance, presents a system for analyzing work and selecting the ideal combination of cost-effective resources--employees, consultants, contractors, temporary workers, and vendors--to accomplish it. Lean but Agile does this by teaching readers to focus on outcomes and work backwards--exploring the introduction, implementation, and management of lean work and agile staffing methods that will produce those outcomes. You’ll also learn about advantageous changes in hiring, goal-setting, learning and development, and performance management, and the fundamental role technology can play in transforming your processes. Packed with practical advice, examples, guides, worksheets, diagrams, and metrics, Lean but Agile will help leaders, managers, and human resource professionals optimize their workforces while still achieving superior results.

Book 365 Tarot Spells

Download or read book 365 Tarot Spells written by Sasha Graham and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beautiful tapestry of magic and tarot, woven together to improve your life through daily spells. Tarot is the perfect magical tool, and 365 Tarot Spells provides everything you need to manifest your desires and make your soul’s intention a reality. This accessible guide shows you how to achieve your goals with spells for: Family and Home Money and Career Creativity Health and Well-Being Love Letting Go Luck Chakra Opening Seasonal and Witchy Enchantments Protection Travel Sleep Personal Growth Each spell is based on a significant historical or magical occurrence on that particular day and is accompanied by a list of ingredients, visualization, meditation, affirmation, card layout, and more. Immerse yourself in the energy of all seventy-eight tarot cards with connection rituals. Cook with magical intention using a variety of recipe-based spells. An ideal companion to Sasha Graham’s 365 Tarot Spreads, this book offers spells for every calendar date that can be cast with any deck. Experience the wondrous interconnectivity of magic and tarot, and reinvent yourself in the process.

Book Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection

Download or read book Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection written by Jeffrey T. Frederick and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide will help you understand effective voir dire and jury selection strategies and adapt them to the circumstances you face in your trial jurisdiction.

Book Advanced Intelligent Technologies for Information and Communication

Download or read book Advanced Intelligent Technologies for Information and Communication written by Kazumi Nakamatsu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes new research results of scholars from the Third International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Technologies (ICAIT 2022) organized by IRNet International Academic Communication Center, held during October 28–30, 2022. The book covers research work from active researchers who are working on collaboration of industry and various intelligent technologies such as intelligent technologies applicable/applied to manufacturing and distribution of industrial products, factory automation, and business. The topics included are all computational intelligence techniques applicable/applied to industry, intelligent techniques in data science applicable/applied to business and management, intelligent network systems applicable/applied to industrial production, intelligent technologies applicable to smart agriculture, and intelligent information systems for agriculture.

Book Coaching for the Inner Edge

Download or read book Coaching for the Inner Edge written by Robin S. Vealey and published by . This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaches are continually searching for ways to gain the edge over their opponents. They work tirelessly to get their athletes in top physical condition, to develop their physical skills, and to implement successful routines and strategies for their teams. This physical training develops the athlete's outer edge -- the peak physical performance advantage over their opponents. But as most coaches realise, athletes also need an inner edge to perform successfully. This Inner Edge is the advantage that athletes cultivate within themselves by honing their mental skills, by learning to manage their energy in pressure situations and to focus effectively, despite distractions and obstacles. This much anticipated second edition is a must read for anyone interested in improving sport performance. Dr. Vealey distills and applies the proven methods, updated techniques, and her own experience into a practical, engaging resource for coaches, trainers, and consultants. Drawing from the preeminent research literature of master coaches, innovative sport psychologists, and from her own practical experiences as a college basketball player, coach, sport psychology researcher and consultant, Dr Vealey defines how to develop the Inner Edge in athletes.

Book Emotional Branding

Download or read book Emotional Branding written by Daryl Travis and published by Crown Business. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you launch a product in today's ultra-competitive and often saturated markets, break through the clutter, and develop strong and lasting customer loyalty? Get in touch with your customers' deepest emotions, of course. Emotional Branding teaches you the how's and why's of, "How does our product or service make our customers feel?" Author Daryl Travis (with a little help from Harry) leads you on a journey filled with colorful ideas and bottom-line lessons that will teach you how to instill brand loyalty in your customers. Whether you are a CEO, an advertising guru, or an innovative businessperson, you will discover how to use a brand's mystique to create powerful and lasting emotional connections with your customers. Travis also addresses: ·Branding as a product of intuitive thinking ·How people develop emotional responses to brands ·Bringing together a company's elements to form a brand ·Developing successful offshoot brands from existing ones ·And much more! Emotional Branding teaches you how to identify and empower your product's appeal and connect it to your customers' experiences with your product. The results unlock the secrets to emotional branding, enhance the brand-consumer relationship, and show you and your business new prosperity—all from discovering and applying these powerful new ways to use the "F" word, F-E-E-L-I-N-G-S. "Today's marketplace confusion can only be sorted out one way: by brand power. Daryl Travis's Emotional Branding sings, a book to savor and ponder. And, if approached in the right spirit, a book to change your worldview and renovate your bottom line. Hint: It's for finance and human resource folks as much as for marketers, as much for three-person architectural studios as for Virgin or GE execs." —Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence "Every CEO's job is to create value and build assets, and every company's most formidable asset is its brand. Daryl's book is an important reminder that brands must be protected and nurtured. Read it, take it to heart, and expect some amazing things to happen in your business." —James Berrien, president of Forbes magazine "I've been in the business of building global brands for more than 25 years, and I've yet to read a better account of what it takes to make a brand. Apply all the analytics you want to a great company or brand and in the end you'll find it comes down to how people feel about it. This book reveals why." —Thomas Oliver, CEO of Bass Hotels & Resorts, former executive VP of marketing, FedEx

Book Light Propagation in Gain Media

Download or read book Light Propagation in Gain Media written by Malin Premaratne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, optical amplifiers have become of key importance in modern communications. In addition to this, the technology has applications in cutting-edge research such as biophotonics and lab-on-a-chip devices. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the fundamental concepts, theory and analytical techniques behind the modern optical amplifier technology. The book covers all major optical amplification schemes in conventional materials, including the Raman and parametric gain processes. The final chapter is devoted to optical gain in metamaterials, a topic that has been attracting considerable attention in recent years. The authors emphasize analytical insights to give a deeper, more intuitive understanding of various amplification schemes. The book assumes background knowledge of electrical engineering or applied physics, including exposure to electrodynamics and wave motion, and is ideal for graduate students and researchers in physics, optics, bio-optics and communications.