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"Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established by General Henry M. Robert himself. As indispensable now as the original edition was more than a century ago, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the acknowledged 'gold standard' for meeting rules" --
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Built to Last showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity...
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"Learn to make successful ethical decisions in the midst of the new business realities of 2020 and 2021 with Ferrell/Fraedrich/Ferrell's market-leading BUSINESS ETHICS: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING AND CASES, 13E. Packed with current examples and exercises, this edition demonstrates how to integrate ethics into strategic business decisions as reorganized chapters clearly present the ethical decision-making process in today's complex legal, social and political...
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Ann Templeton is proud to announce her new book , Color and Beyond. Unlike her first book, The Art of Ann Templeton: A Step Beyond, which is a collector's item; Color and Beyond is a how-to-paint book, based on her forty-year career as an acclaimed artist and teacher. However, it is also a "step beyond," going deeper into the art of color than is possible in her workshop lectures, organizing her approach to painting an orderly set of concepts and...
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"In the late 1950s, Glen Allan, Mississippi, was a poor cotton community. For many, it was a time and place where opportunities were limited by social and legal constraints that were beyond their control. It was a time and place where few dared to dream. Based on his own life experience, Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert has teamed up with entrepreneur thought leader Gary Schoeniger to create a powerful and compelling story that captures the essence...
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"This Fifth Edition is a comprehensive text that seamlessly integrates ethics across the nursing curriculum. Going beyond the evolving laws and policies affecting nursing practice today, the Fifth Edition focuses on the complex and provocative ethical dilemmas that students and nurses may face throughout the lifespan of a patient while also offering complete coverage of everyday ethical matters. This new edition will also include an appendix focused...
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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives". Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs...
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"We use data to make decisions and maximize performance. Student performance data are used to identify content areas that can be made more direct, concise, and systematic. Learning science reveals that students better learn and retain information when text is presented in a more focused, succinct, blocked format. Visual aids and numerous demonstration and guided example videos offer additional learning aids. New summary Cheat Sheets conclude each...
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Communicating at Work takes a pragmatic approach that features a strong multicultural focus, a heavy emphasis on effective presentations, and a pedagogical program designed to encourage group activities and skill building. This work provides coverage of new pedagogy, key new topics and an expansion of other important concepts including sources of on-the-job conflict, how to use informational interviews for career advancement, and stages in group problem-solving....
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"Tested principles for transforming an idea into a fully operational company. Startup Weekend--the organization behind 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups--has spawned both a global initiative in entrepreneurship as well as numerous successful startups. Startup Weekend, the book, contains best practices, lessons learned, and empowering...
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"Featuring examples of strategic writing throughout the book, this practical, multidisciplinary text takes students through the fundamental concepts, genres, and techniques of writing for strategic communicators to connect with their publics. The book contains concise instructions for writing the key multimedia documents in strategic communication, each with an example in the text. Short, practice-oriented chapters each cover a key theme, principle,...
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"Innovation requires more than a eureka moment. The vast majority of new product ideas never make it to market. Typically, this is because of the failure to address a real problem that a customer has experienced and is willing to pay to have solved. What do people and businesses need to know about the realities of innovating in order to develop products successfully? Lorraine Marchand-a seasoned practitioner who has guided Fortune 500 companies and...
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"This book focuses on the concept of use of self as instrument as a key dimension in the practice of developmental coaching. Developmental coaching places an emphasis on the whole person wherein the coaching focus links the work to multiple layers of the whole person. This approach differs from a remedial, tactical or performance-based approach where tools and techniques may be sufficient to aid the client over the short term. Coaches (and leaders)...