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The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career-now updated to address the challenges of today's economy、 With our current economic situation, more peopleare unemployed now than at any other time in recent history andmany who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable. Inthis revised and updated edition of I Don't Know What I Want,But I Know It's Not This , career coach Julie Jansen shows howanyone unhappy with their employment-or lack of-can implement areal and satisfying career transformation. A range of quizzes andper?sonality exercises help readers to identify the type of workfor which they're best suited, and then Jansen shows them how totransform this uncertain time from a period of crisis into anopportunity for positive change..

Any successful leader will tell you: Giving a strong presentation is the most immediate and powerful way to set goals, form strategies, and sell your vision-to both internal and external audiences. Perfect Phrases for Executive Presentations not only tells you how to plan and deliver your address, but also provides phrases for every part of the speech or presentation. Organized by speech type and audience, you'll be walked through the beginning, middle, and end of a speech, giving you effective phrases to use. This invaluable book includes

Until recently, most people expected to have one career withmaybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts adviseus to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple industry changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transferand repurpose your skills in a completely new direction. In The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention , Pamela Mitchellshows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can beadapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides thetools to help you navigate the full art of career change.

Draws on thephilosophies of the "Rich Dad" series about making a successfultransition from employee to company owner, in a guide for aspiringentrepreneurs that shares firsthand accounts of people who achievedsuccess. Reissue. 100,000 first printing.

G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa know what it takesto drive new ideas through complex organizations. They have advisedthousands of executives from companies such as Google, Microsoft,and General Electric to organizations like the World Bank and eventhe FBI's hostage rescue training program. In The Art ofWoo , they present their systematic, four- step process forwinning over even the toughest bosses and most skepticalcolleagues. Beginning with two powerful self-assessments to helpreaders find their "Woo IQ,"they show how relationship-basedpersuasion works to open hearts and minds.

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out-with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they’ve faced. The contributors share surprisingly personal anecdotes and offer authoritative and practical advice drawn from their years of hard-earned experience. The series launches with three volumes, each of which centers on a timely topic: Leading by Example Managing Your Career Managing Change A crucial resource for today’s busy executive, Lessons Learned gives you instant access to the wisdom and expertise of the world’s most talented leaders. 50 Lessons’ digital library holds more than 500 individual lessons from over 100 high-profile leaders from industry, the public sector, and academia from companies and institutions around the world

Harvard professor and health care policy specialist Christakis (Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care) became interested in social connectivity when observing that the mortality rate of spouses spike after a partner passes away. Christakis sought out a collaboration with Fowler, a health systems and political scientist, and together they compare topology (the hows of a given structure) across different social networks to better explain how participation and positioning enhances the effectiveness of an individual, and why the "whole" of a network is "greater than the sum of its parts." Five basic rules describe the relationship between individuals and their networks-including mutual adaptation, the influence of friends and friends' friends, the network's "life of its own"-but the results do more than promote the good of the group: they also spread contagions; create "epidemics" of obesity, smoking and substance abuse; disseminate fads and markets; alter voting patterns; and more. A thorough bu

Third Editions-Revised and Expanded. Based on the top-selling Best Home Businesses for the 90s, hereis a completely updated, comprehensive look at the leadingbusinesses for small and home-based entrepreneurs in the 21stcentury. This invaluable guide provides comprehensive profiles of morethan one hundred hot new businesses that promise the topopportunities for small-business people in the future. Paul and Sarah Edwards explore the best opportunities forself-employment in the next century--ranging from being abusiness-network organizer to running a tran*-digestingservice--and provide expert, step-by-step advice on: -- the skills and knowledge needed to startup; -- the start-up costs, pricing, and potential earning; -- the best ways to get new business; -- the advantages and disadvantages of each business; -- the hands-on advice of those already in the field. In addition to the nearly one hundred businesses profiled, anexpanded section on "The Best of

Filled with stories of hope，inspiration，and perseverance from 40 countries，If Life Is a Game These Are the Stories，is a treasury of tales that open your heart and uplift your spirit。 The stories reinforce the "rules of being human" that have circumnavigated the globe for 30 years! Quotes such as Leo Rosten’s reflection that "the purpose of life is not to be happy-but to matter，to be productive，to be useful，to have it make some difference that you have lived at all" add a special quality。 Wisdom rings through every precious，heartfelt slice of life in If Life Is a Game These Are the Stories，including passages by Franklin D。 Roosevelt，Maya Angelou，and Desmond Tutu。 The storytellers range in voice and locale-from the United States to Nicaragua，from South Africa to Romania，from Israel to Japan。 Whether the setting is local or exotic to the reader，the experience shared in each story seems deep and familiar。 These stories are a balm for the friction in today’s world。