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50 Cautionary Tales for Managers
An Entertaining Collection of Enlightening Parables for Managers
Author
Peter Honey
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Aimed at managers, this book presents the management life in 50 short stories, based on managers and events. It includes control-freaks, autocrats, egotists, bullies, perfectionists, ditherers and eccentrics, as well as managers striving to do their best in difficult circumstances. It also offers advice to improve their performance.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845281090 Pub Date: 28 Apr 2006
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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Behind the Japanese Mask
How to Understand the Japanese Culture - and Work Successfully with it
Author
Jonathan Rice
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This title concerns the Farnham Castle Centre for International Briefing, widely acknowledged as the world's leading provider of intercultural management training and briefing. It has an unmatched reputation for helping individuals, partners and their families to prepare to live and work effectively anywhere in the world.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857039689 Pub Date: 24 Sep 2004
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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Brilliant Business Connections
How Powerful Networking Can Transform You, and Your Company's Performance
Author
Frances Kay
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It's who you know that really matters...and what to do with those contacts. This practical and energetic book is for anyone who wants to succeed personally or professionally in their chosen field or sphere.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857039696 Pub Date: 26 Oct 2004
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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The Chinese Business Puzzle
How to Work More Effectively with Chinese Cultures
Author
Andrew Williamson
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Aimed at westerners who wish to do business with the Chinese, this is a practical text with authentic examples organized by topic.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857038828 Pub Date: 01 Aug 2003
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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Developing Mental Toughness
Gold Medal Strategies for Transforming Your Business Performance
Author
Graham Jones
Adrian Moorhouse
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Aims to show executives how they can thrive on pressure through the development of mental toughness.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781905862023 Pub Date: 01 Feb 2007
List price: £14.99 Online price: £12.74
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The Event Manager's Bible
The Complete Guide to Planning and Organising a Voluntary or Public Event
Author
D.G. Conway
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If you're responsible for organising a voluntary or public event, you will want it to go safely and well. This book helps you to research, plan, organise, manage and deliver any event, match, show, tournament or function that will be attended by more than a handful of people.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845281342 Pub Date: 30 Jun 2006
List price: £14.99 Online price: £12.74
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Getting Your Point Across
Now You Can be a More Effective and Interesting Speaker - This Book Reveals the Secrets of...
Author
Phillip Khan-Panni
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Helps in enhancing the communication skills. This book contains tips and advice on putting across your message more efficiently.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845281915 Pub Date: 25 May 2007
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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Grow Your Own Achievers
The Manager's Guide to Building Effective People
Author
Lesley Morrissey
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This guide covers topics such as how to grow an achiever, how to create a successful environment, how to create the tools of success, and how to make training really work.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857037586 Pub Date: 01 Feb 2002
List price: £6.99 Online price: £5.94
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Headless Chickens, Laidback Bears
Use Scientific Techniques to Create More Time and Revolutionise Your Life and Work
Author
Gordon Wainwright
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This is a time management book with a difference. You will learn to develop methodologies that will enable you to achieve a 25% increase in speed in most activities without any loss in the quality of performance.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857039733 Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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How to Exhibit at Trade Fairs
The Complete Guide to Making Your Company's Next Exhibition Enormously Rewarding
Author
John Appleyard
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Exhibiting can be enormously rewarding. That's why it accounts for over a tenth of total media spend in Britain. This book covers various aspects of the subject from the planning stages, to getting the best out of your stand at the show, right through to measuring the effectiveness of an exhibition campaign.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845281144 Pub Date: 26 May 2006
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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Killer Presentations
Power to the Imagination to Visualise Your Point - with PowerPoint
Author
Nicholas B. Oulton
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Includes a chapter on Web Presenting and links to several online seminars as well as a chapter on how to make your presentation content more memorable by using m62's Passive Mnemonic Processing techniques. This book illustrates its approach in detail: using real company examples and a series of 40 colour-images to show how such slides can work.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845281847 Pub Date: 10 May 2007
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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Learning to Counsel
Develop the Skills You Need to Counsel Others
Author
Jan Sutton
William Stewart
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This comprehensive book is essential reading for would-be counsellors, those working in the helping professions and anyone who uses counselling skills as part of their work.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857037968 Pub Date: 01 Jul 2002
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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Make Your Mission Statement Work
Identify Your Organisation's Values and Live Them Every Day
Author
Marianne Talbot
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This guide demonstrates how to write an organizational mission statement that really describes the values of the organization, and how to make sure that the values expressed are seen to affect every aspect of the work of the business or organization.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857038200 Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
List price: £8.99 Online price: £7.64
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Making Management Simple
A Practical Handbook for Dealing with Everyday Management Challenges
Author
Frances Kay
Helen Guinness
Nicola Stevens
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Countless books have been written on management theory. This one gets straight to the issues and tells you how to handle them effectively. The principles of good management are explained in an easy-to-understand way.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845280147 Pub Date: 25 Feb 2005
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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Mastering Book-Keeping
A Complete Guide to the Principles and Practice of Business Accounting
Author
Peter Marshall
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Explains the principles and practice of book-keeping, including: the bank reconciliation; writing up the petty cash book; extracting a trial balance; accruals and prepayments; setting up a limited company; accounting for VAT; plus step-by-step guides to compiling a balance sheet, depreciation,and more.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845280727 Pub Date: 30 Sep 2005
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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Organising a Conference
How to Run a Successful Event
Author
Pauline Appleby
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Manual for organising conferences or events for a large or small company. This book explains just how you go about it. It has all that is needed to know about: venue selection; speaker sourcing; brochure design; registration; budgeting; sponsorship; audio-visuals; press coverage; and evaluation. It shows how to plan and run an effective event.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845280642 Pub Date: 19 Aug 2005
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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The Pocket Media Coach
Author
Alan Stevens
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Provides a toolkit to help you cope in any media situation. This guide explains how to create and deliver a core message, how to use body language, and how to answer tricky questions. It is a combination of 5-minute guides, check lists, and trade secrets. It is aimed at individuals, and small and large companies, which need to be media-savvy.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845280741 Pub Date: 28 Oct 2005
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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Preparing a Winning Business Plan
How to Win the Attention of Investors and Stakeholders
Author
Matthew Record
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A business plan is one of the most important documents the business manager will have to produce. This is a practical guide to how to produce a well thought out and carefully structured plan, including checklists and action plans, case studies, and model business plans.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857038811 Pub Date: 01 Jun 2003
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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Presenting with Power
Captivate, Motivate, Inspire and Persuade
Author
Shay McConnon
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Talks about presentations and shares the secrets that professional speakers use to make an impact and a memorable impression on their audience. This book gives tips and techniques that aims to take you to the next level.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845281601 Pub Date: 24 Nov 2006
List price: £9.99 Online price: £8.49
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Producing Successful Magazines, Newsletters and E-zines
Author
Carol Harris
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Carol Harris presents great ideas, practical help and straightforward guidance for anyone planning their own publication. The text covers newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, reports, information sheets, e-zines and electronic newsletters.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857039641 Pub Date: 25 Jun 2004
List price: £12.99 Online price: £11.04
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