Managers who use their time well can double their effectiveness. Managers who also have the facility of an agile memory coupled up to their time saving can be streets ahead of the average executive. PART ONE outlines how to use correct time management not only to achieve more but to become a motivated leader who inspires "followers" – as opposed to incorrect time management that results in stress and loss of self-esteem as well as a loss of the respect of subordinates. Time is the only fin...

This short book is packed with advice, guidance and how-to's in two of the most important skills required of managers today. Assertiveness deals with the subject of human behaviour, with different personality types and how to recognise them. It deals with the subject of poor communication and how to influence changes in behaviour in such a way as to score advantages for our business when we are dealing with confrontational problems. You'll learn about the different "ego states" of the Chil...

This book is for anyone, anywhere, in any position in business. It will help you think things through creatively, quickly get the right solution and get you the recognition you deserve for your role as an innovative leader.You'll learn really useful techniques for generating ideas, a simple but effective method for the Evaluation of your Ideas - and when you have the Big Idea you can apply the "six-phases of decision-making" to make sure you have the right one.Anybody in an...

Today we have a myriad of electronic technologies for the business of communication. But when it comes to the manager standing on his own two feet, standing up and communicating personally, eye-ball to eye-ball and making his, or her, point verbally and with the correct body language? Leadership in management is all about communication as an interpersonal skill– effectively getting the message across personally so that delegated tasks are properly done. But also in such a way as the manage...

A two-part volume addressing vital communication issues confronting managers.People Problems – this part will teach you to deal with subordinates who “will not” or “can not” do what you require of them, who have issues that need to be resolved and who are sometimes, or even always, difficult, uncooperative and unmotivated. Learn how to shift into a different gear and so bring subordinates back to being enthused and productive whilst following you as their leader. Contents: Principle...

A two-part book packed with practical "how-to" advice on two vitally important management skills. Part One will teach you how to mould groups of individuals into a team, so that not only you, as leader, have a sense of direction and purpose but your followers also have a "collective" sense of direction and purpose. Part Two teaches how to vest in yourself the power of effectively and persuasively presenting your vision, your plan, your ideas to any assembly of listeners from your team, or ...

Phil Sinclair has a long career in writing and developing media for personal growth and self-development in the field of management. He is publications director for Leader's-Edge (South Africa) a business which has produced self-improvement and training modules for individuals and small to medium enterprises since 1984.Phil's audio seminars on human resources development topics have been heard by more than 100,000 business managers and his work has won international recognition in t...

**Winner of the 2025 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Silver Medal for Cookbooks**This book brings together more than 100 unique recipes from and inspired by America’s first true “farm-to-table” restaurant with the story of its creation.Working together, founders Ron Zimmerman and Carrie Van Dyck turned a farm garage into a restaurant like no other. In their pre-opening manifesto, they vowed to use only local ingredients to reunite ...

Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, we’re so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in th...

Many of us breathe a grateful TGIF when Friday rolls around, envisioning a weekend full of both productivity and refreshment. Yet too often our precious weekends seem to disappear, eaten up by unproductive work or leisure that fails to energize us. Monday morning comes too fast, finding us still unrested, with too much still undone.Time management expert Laura Vanderkam, continuing her series on What the Most Successful People Do, shows how we can take control of our weeke...

The third mini-ebook by the acclaimed author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast reveals how a few simple changes can make you more productive and fulfilled in your career.In her bestselling mini-ebook What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, Laura Vanderkam showed us how to take advantage of our often ignored morning hours to achieve our dreams.Then in the sequel, What the Most Successful People Do on th...

Meet a procrastinator: Me! After years of struggling to live with schedules and to-do lists, I began discovering how to get things done without forcing myself into a structure I couldn't live with. This book is the result.People like me (and perhaps you) who thrive on flexibility and spontaneity sometimes give up on time management because all that structure simply doesn't work for us. Dreams go unfulfilled, chaos takes over, and we resign ourselves to a life that is less than we ho...