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Customer Centered Selling
Eight Steps To Success From The Worlds Best Sales Force
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
This revised edition of Robert Jolles’s classic book on sales technique features brand new material throughout, including illustrations, teaching aids, coaching techniques, and true implementation strategies!
When you have a process, you have a way of measuring what you are doing. When you...
by Maria Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation. At one level, everything has changed. And...
Orwell's Revenge
The 1984 Palimpsest
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Mark Zuckerberg's ‘A Year of Books’ Selection
George Orwell’s bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984. Orwell’s dystopian image of the telescreen...
Intelligent Enterprise
A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industr
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1992
In this penetrating study of how knowledge-based services and technology are revolutionizing the economy and every corporate strategy, James Brian Quinn argues that the successful companies of the 90's -- whether in manufacturing or services -- will derive their competitive edge not from ephemerally...
by Susan Rose-Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 1993
Rose-Ackerman sees recent advances in law and economics as an opportunity to tackle some of the failings of the US state. She proposes a progressive and positive agenda of reform rather than simple reduction or expansion of existing functions and services.
Harnessing Complexity
Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that...
Trust
Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1996
In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order "after...
The Educated Child
A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 1999
If you care about the education of a child, you need this book. Comprehensive and easy to use, it will inform, empower, and encourage you.
Just as William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues has helped millions of Americans teach young people about character, The Educated Child delivers what you need...
Ready or Not
Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Th
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Children today grow up so fast!" How often we hear those words, uttered both in frustrated good humor and in dumbfounded astonishment. Every day the American people hear about kids doing things, both good and bad, that were once thought to be well beyond their scope: flying airplanes, running companies,...
Blocking the Courthouse Door
How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Thanks to constant political oratory against "frivolous lawsuits" and "jackpot justice," it is widely known that there's a legal crisis in this country. President Bush never misses an opportunity to call for laws that would bring more "common sense" to a legal system that, he claims, is out of control,...
Profiting From Uncertainty
Strategies for Succeeding No Matter What the Future Brings
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
What manager is not anxious about the future? We live in a white-knuckled age of rapid technological change and global instability. But uncertainty is not the enemy, says management expert Paul J. H. Schoemaker. It is where the greatest opportunities are. To unlock these opportunities, however, requires...
by Karen Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
As so-called baby boomers age, there has arisen a new generation to be categorized, characterized, analyzed, stereotyped, written about, targeted, and advertised and sold to. And apparently none of this can happen without first tagging it with a label. The name that seems to have stuck so far is "Generation...
Fat and Mean
The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1996
Since the early 1980s, economic experts have recommended "downsizing" as the best way for U.S. corporations to remain competitive. Reducing unnecessary staff would lower costs, increase profits, and transform these companies into lean, mean production machines. As many American businesses pursued...
The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life
Keep What You Have And Create What You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
USA Today has called Suze Orman "a force in the world of personal finance." For years, Suze has anticipated what you need to know and want to know about your money. Her books, radio and television shows, columns, and newsletter about personal finance have helped millions of people like you turn their...