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Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps for Success

Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps for Success

by Stedman Graham

The teenage years are filled with growth, promise, trials, and tribulations. During this time, one may be faced with life-changing decisions and challenges. And often these dilemmas are not easily answered. In Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success, prominent businessman and author Stedman Graham guides readers to a better understanding of themselves, their strengths, and their desires, while helping... (more)

Teens Can Make It Happen Workbook

by Stedman Graham

Based on his New York Times bestseller Teens Can Make It Happen, Stedman Graham now introduces the Teens Can Make It Happen Workbook -- the essential hands-on guide to teen life. From Stedman Graham, the bestselling author of Teens Can Make It Happen, comes an activity-filled workbook designed to help teens realize their full potential. The Teens Can Make It Happen Workbook is packed with... (more)

Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver on Cost and on Time

Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver on Cost and on Time

by Harvard Business School Press

When it comes to project management, success lies in the details. This book walks managers through every step of project oversight from start to finish. Thanks to the book's comprehensive information on everything from planning and budgeting to team building and after-project reviews, managers will master the discipline and skills they need to achieve stellar results without wasting time and money. "The Harvard... (more)

All Write: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

All Write: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

by Dave Kemper, Patrick Sebranek, Verne Meyer, Mary Ross

Strengths Finder 2.0: A New & Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

Strengths Finder 2.0: A New & Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

by Tom Rath

DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your... (more)

Action Learning World Top Companies (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

Action Learning World Top Companies (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

by David L. Dotlich

A Strategic Boot Camp for Leadership Development "David Dotlich has worked with top management of the best companies to deliver Action Learning programs for over fifteen years. His insights into how leaders develop and his experience as a coach and executive are captured in this excellent book." --Arnold Kanarick, executive president and chief human resources officer, The Limited Plug into a dynamic leadership... (more)

Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers into Leaders (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers into Leaders (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

by Jay Alden Conger

Learn the art of transforming managers into leaders. Author shares his undercover experiences in five of the nation's most popular leadership programs to offer readers personal insights into the role training plays in leadership development. DLC: Leadership.

Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life

Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life

by Alan Deutschman

"CHANGE OR DIE. What if you were given that choice? We're talking actual life and death now. Your own life and death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think, feel, and act? If you didn't, your time would end soon--a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change mattered most?" This is the question Alan... (more)

What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future

What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future

by Judy Galbraith, Peter L. Benson

This book contains a variety of proven, practical ideas for teens to shape their own future and learn the best ways to succeed. Illustrations .

The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance

The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance

by Adrian Robert Gostick, Chester Elton

LEAD WITH CARROTS, NOT STICKS The Carrot Principle reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the most successful managers provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. Drawing on case studies from leading companies including Disney, DHL, KPMG and Pepsi Bottling Group, bestselling authors Gostick and Elton show... (more)

Start Something: You Can Make a Difference

Start Something: You Can Make a Difference

by Earl Woods

"I challenge you to make a difference in the world, to reach higher and farther than you ever imagined. I challenge you to start something." -- Tiger Woods, from the foreword Are you ready for a challenge? Are you ready to make a real difference in your life, and the world around you? You can do it even if you're not Tiger Woods. You can be a winner at school, and with your friends, your family, your team. You... (more)

Power Tools

by Samuel D. Deep

From the bestselling team responsible for "Smart Moves" and "Smarter Moves for People in Charge" comes a toolbox of tested techniques, tips, and tactical advice which shows managers dozens of ways to improve their workdays with minimal costs.

Women and the Work/Family Dilemma: How Today's Professional Women Are Confronting the Maternal WallDeborah J. Swiss, Judith P. Walker

Women and the Work/Family Dilemma: How Today's Professional Women Are Confronting the Maternal Wall

by Deborah J. Swiss, Judith P. Walker

The great dilemma for women who are professionally ambitious and who also want a family, is how to reconcile the two. The dilemma is a source of anger and frustration. This study begins to provide solutions by learning how those who have reconciled the two have succeeded. Based on a survey of 900 women graduates of Harvard Medical, Business and Law Schools over a ten-year period, the book gives solutions to real... (more)

Math Mazes

by Carolyn Anderson

Beyond the Learning Organization

by Jerry W. Gilley

The next step in organizational development, showing companies how to integrate all areas of human resource practice to drive continuous learning. Beyond the Learning Organization will help executives, managers, and human resource professionals put the concepts of the "developmental organization" into practice. Experts in the field of human resource and organizational development, Jerry W. Gilley and... (more)

Teaching on the Inside: A Survival Handbook for the New Correctional EducatorPauline Geraci

Teaching on the Inside: A Survival Handbook for the New Correctional Educator

by Pauline Geraci

The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition

The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition

by Douglas McGregor

“What are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?” So began Douglas McGregor in this 1960 management classic. It was a seemingly simple question he asked, yet it led to a fundamental revolution in management. Today, with the rise of the global economy, the information revolution, and the growth of knowledge-driven work, McGregor's simple but... (more)

Soft Skills for the Construction Industry: Tools for Success, a WorkbookNational Center for Construction Education and Research

Soft Skills for the Construction Industry: Tools for Success, a Workbook

by National Center for Construction Education and Research

The Big Book of Team Building: Quick, Fun Activities for Building Morale, Communication and Team Spirit

The Big Book of Team Building: Quick, Fun Activities for Building Morale, Communication and Team Spirit

by Edward E. Scannell, John Newstrom

Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Now you can spark morale in any work group by choosing from 70 stimulating games and activities specifically designed for the manager who's looking to raise sagging morale in a department, liven up boring staff meetings, enable team members to collaborate... (more)

Emotional Intelligence at Work

by Hendrie Weisinger

Access an Untapped Source of Success At long last, a book directed to the working world that acknowledges and demonstrates how managing our emotions and dealing with the feelings of others increases the bottom line. Practical, practical, practical! --Rita McGlone, assistant director of executive education, The Wharton School of Business Experts now acknowledge that emotional intelligence... (more)

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by Stedman Graham

by Stedman Graham

by Harvard Business School Press

by Dave Kemper, Patrick Sebranek, Verne Meyer, Mary Ross

by Tom Rath

by David L. Dotlich

by Jay Alden Conger

by Alan Deutschman

by Judy Galbraith, Peter L. Benson

by Adrian Robert Gostick, Chester Elton

by Earl Woods

by Samuel D. Deep

by Deborah J. Swiss, Judith P. Walker

by Carolyn Anderson

by Jerry W. Gilley

by Pauline Geraci

by Douglas McGregor

by National Center for Construction Education and Research

by Edward E. Scannell, John Newstrom

by Hendrie Weisinger