Make the move up to senior management with lessons from world-renowned business school expertsBased on themes from INSEAD's popular Transition to General Management programme, authors Kevin Kaiser, Michael Pich, and I.J. Schecter offer sound advice and practical insights for those looking to move to senior general management roles. By following the stories of three managers making the transition to general management, Becoming A Top Manager highlights not only the most cru...

**100% of the profits from this book are donated to support the future of NaNoWriMo and other writing programs.**Every November, hundreds of thousands take up the challenge of National Novel Writing Month and attempt to write a book in just thirty days. Most will give up along the way, but many will grind it out to the finish line and actually do it.If you're a writer, @WriMo is designed to be a book that tips the odds of finishing in your favor.Organized into thirt...

This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. Posthumanist ethics can help us understand what is at play in Saunders's fiction. Meanwhile, his texts can help us understand what is at stake in posthumanist ethics. This interdisciplinary project may be beneficial both to conceivi...

As teaching is socially, culturally, and politically constructed, it is important that teacher educators committed to social justice attempt to create secure environment where all voices are heard and teacher candidates can inquire into personally and socially challenging topics within a safe and caring classroom culture. Relationships of trust are fundamental to teaching about social justice and to being receptive as learners in such classes. Mindfulness on the part of teacher educators a...

**#1 New York Times Business Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller#1 Washington Post bestsellerFrom the bestselling author of Drive: the insightful and pragmatic book that explores the powerful role selling plays in our lives.**According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a p...

If you are tired of being shy, don't be! Life coach Marie Dubuque teaches you in this short book how to embrace what she calls an asset, not a character flaw! This book addresses how to keep a conversation flowing, how to give a speech, and that nerve-racking first date! You can survive and thrive in a world full of extroverts!

Writing prompts are a great way to jumpstart your muse and get the creative juices flowing. Sometimes you want to write and don't really know what to write about, and prompts can help guide you into a new story.This collection of 366 writing prompts can be used daily throughout the year (leap years, too!) as a starting point to get you writing ... and keep you writing. Each day of the year has its own, unique prompt. Set a timer for fifteen or twenty minutes, and write whe...

Bestselling author David Maister teams up with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford to bring us the essential tool for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors.In today's fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one's discipline is not enough, assert world-renowned professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. Th...

Whether its selling your companys product in the boardroom or selling yourself on eating healthy, everything in life canand shouldbe treated as a sale. And as sales expert Grant Cardone explains, knowing the principles of selling is a prerequisite for success of any kind.In Sell or Be Sold, Cardone breaks down the techniques and approaches necessary to master the art of selling in any avenue. You will learn how to handle rejection, turn around negative situations, shorten ...

Are you chasing an ever elusive concept of happiness? Stuck in a rut and have no idea how to handle it? Facing recent loss or negative life experiences?If you're waiting for your life to truly begin, this is the book for you! Remember that sometimes, the latest blooming flowers can last the longest and be the most beautiful. Let me help you to open up and bloom! It takes a bit of effort, but it can also be fun and exciting if you keep an open mind.You never know what might ...

"[A] highly intelligent and deeply funny debut memoir skewers a segment of the economy that nearly every white-collar worker has learned to fear and loathe: consultancies." — Publishers WeeklyThe basis for the Don Cheadle series on Netflix, an accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the twisted world of management consulting.Once upon a time in Corporate America paid certain people huge fees to tell o...

Online dating is not all fun and games and there are a lot of things that a person has to know about online dating before one gets into the intricacies of it. Online dating may seem to be the simplest thing in the world but it is not. It should be viewed in all earnestness or things could go haywire. Every game has its rules and unless you know all the rules, you just can't become a good player and eventually a winner. There are so many kinds of people around. Just look around you - how ma...