Everyone has his or her own style at work. But if you look at the people who are successful, you'll see similarities. They always do the most important things first-they know how to prioritize. They can sum up how their company stands out from the pack in only a few minutes. They work with a sense of urgency, every day. These are the kinds of qualities and habits that never go out of style. Moreover, they are crucial to any successful career and life. By pursuing them regularly, you and yo...

Learn the proven, time-tested human relations principles from Dale Carnegie Training and discover how bring creativity, enthusiasm, and productivity to your job.With insights from leading figures in the corporate, entertainment, sports, academic, and political arenas, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide includes strategies to help you excel in your career.Featuring many useful, life-changing lessons including how to identify your leadership strengths; ac...

Soil Management and Greenhouse Effect focuses on proper management of soils and its effects on global change, specifically, the greenhouse effect. It contains up-to-date information on a broad range of important soil management topics, emphasizing the critical role of soil for carbon storage. Sequestration and emission of carbon and other gases are examined in various ecosystems, in both natural and managed environments, to provide a comprehensive overview. This useful reference includes c...

Most approaches to conflict resolution and negotiation result in just temporary settlement, compromise, or capitulation. This book offers new principles and new tools to show how to get to real, lasting resolution of any kind of personal, business, organizational, or community conflict

In this deeply personal and soulful book Stewart shares the poems that were his Morning Practice for a period of three years. One poem for every day of the year along with reflective questions. The poems will stir your soul and make you think about things that are present in your world. Careful reading and reflection will put you deeply in touch with the reality of who you are. It will provide the seeds for making changes in your life that will reward you and those around you with a richer...

“The business environment is so uncertain that no can afford to miss a step. Some forces are out of out control–recessions, cutbacks, layoffs. But being the best we can be at our job is not. We have total control over that.”--From the Introduction of The Six Fundamentals of SuccessEveryone has his or her own style at work. But if you look at the people who are successful, you’ll see similarities. They always do the most important things first--they know how to prior...

I had it all. Killer job, to-die-for apartment overlooking the Hudson, and the successful, doting boyfriend.Well, he was successful, at least. Guys who dote don't break up with you via Post-It.After that, I did the one thing I swore I'd never do. I went home to the smallest small town there is—a place so backward my family was still engaging in a hundreds-of-years-old feud with the Tuckers. Maybe it had evolved from the days of shooting one another to slightly more benign t...

My one-night stand is my new boss.I met him at the society wedding of the year; he's the man every woman in New York wants. He's rich. Devastatingly good looking.Charming. Mr. I-Could-Blow-Your-Mind.And yes, he did blow my mind. It was just supposed to be one night. I told him I don't date. But now he wants to make me his.How will I resist all those suits and the muscles they hide?How will I survive the unexpected ...

Juliet Manchester is America's best-loved movie starlet. But when a nasty divorce and a sex-tape scandal threaten to tarnish her spotless good-girl reputation, she turns to costar Ryan McDonnell to help distract the media with a passionate (and completely fake) new romance. The only problem? They're both in love with other people.Going home for Gran's ninetieth in Maryland was something I normally would've been looking forward to. But the timing is terrible. My ex is dragging me th...

Sometimes love makes plans for you while you're busy making plans of your own . . .Finding myself over thirty and divorced, living in the same small town where I grew up, was not exactly the fast track to personal success. So I took action.I landed a job with a bigger practice in a big city where I'd find more opportunities at work, and hopefully in my social life. I was ready to move on.But when Cormac Whitewood and his adorable daughters came into...

I'll just admit it right up front—I don't love the holidays. In fact, Christmas makes me downright cranky.Call me the Grinch if you must, but if your dad chose that day to decide he was wrong about that whole wanting a family thing, you'd grow up miffed about mistletoe too. Every candy cane, ugly sweater, and falalalala reminds me of the worst day of my life.So when my uncle—a bigwig network executive—gives me one last shot to salvage my disastrous TV production career on a...

My sister Juliet has always gotten everything she wants. It's fine though. I never wanted the spotlight. That was my sister's domain. And now that she's America's most popular starlet? She can have it.But when Gran—the feisty woman who raised us, and who I cannot seem to wean off video games, an afternoon doobie, or her daily Manhattan—has a huge party to celebrate her 90th birthday, Juliet brings the Hollywood madness straight to Maryland.In the form of my ultimate movie-s...