At the end of the third century nc, as republican Rome's long war with Carthage in Africa draws to a close, a new danger is arising- the ruthless King of Macedon, Philip the Fifth,is moving against the independent city-states of Greece and threatening Rome itself. Against this background, Marcus, a young Roman, embarks on a sea crossing with his father. Pirates, led by the wild corsair Dikaiarchos, ambush the ship, and Marcus's father sacrifices his own life in order to save his son. Marcus vows to avenge his father's death, setting him on a voyage that will forge his character and bring him to his unexpected destiny.

What's it like to be an entrepreneur? What does it take to build a successful business? Clueless in Starting a Business gives you all the vital answers. Discover the right kind of company to start, how to structure it for success, how to design a business plan that minimises risks, how to continually build sales and customer loyalty, and how to attract better staff. Plus inspiring stories and tips from top Asian and global entrepreneurs to show how your new business can take off faster. This is the one book you need to get your business started!

Cooperation is the king! Teamwork achieves maximum results by infusing each member's talent, creativity, and energy into the given task. In today's fast-moving work environment, a team is far stronger than an individual in execution and creativity. This book provides 24 rules and guidelines for molding individual team membcrs into a solid and functioning group. Look at this value-packed book to learn how to: Forge a team that can make a difference and achieve great performances; Eliminate rivalries and focus on solving problems or challenges at hand: Handle the conflict well and drive for better results: Inspire creativity. This book shows you how to build a great team. working with individual members as well as the collective team to produce creative, consistent. and decisive results.

Whether it's interviewing for a job, evaluating employee performance, setting goals for the future, or keeping customers happy, the Perfect Phrases series has the tools for precise, effective business communication. Distilling complex ideas into specific phrases that diplomatically and honestly depict the concepts at hand, this invaluable series provides: Ways to enhance customer service in any business Dialogues and *s to practice interactions with customers or employees--tailorable to any industry or company culture The best answers to a wide range of interview questions Tips for documenting performance issues and conducting face-to-face reviews The ideal reference for anyone trying to create the most professional and polished cover letter possible, this book offers phrases that help create a strong first impression for prospective employers.

To be accepted into most North American undergraduate and graduate programs, international students must take and pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Perfect Phrases for the TOEFL Speaking and Writing Sections gives you all the phrases and most commonly used words you need to excel on both the writing and speaking sections of the test. Presented in the easy-to-understand Perfect Phrases format, these phrases allow you to effectively communicate and express yourself in standard American English, and to score your very best on the test.

If you have ever thought otherwise, then you're dead wrong. And you're career is over, too. In this lively guide to surviving the pitfalls of the modern corporate environment, Tom Markert, a senior executive at information giant ACNielsen, presents 56 practical rules that every employee, manager, and executive must follow in order to find corporate success. With rules such as "Work hard and smart" and "Find a good boss" Markert addresses some of the most important questions facing corporate executives today. Here, in colorful and inspiring language, he offers practical advice on how to impress and make your boss look good, how to position yourself for success, and how to address work and social situations that every employee must conquer. And, most important, Markert covers the number one question in any employee's mind: How do I work with my boss? Here, this book becomes an indispensable guide to corporate life. Markert draws on his experience to illustrate these rules with telling, and

These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers. Goal-focused, commonsense techniques for stimulating greater productivity in the workplace and fostering true commitment.

So many blogs, so little time. Is it too late to start, now that the blogging craze has reached critical mass? Absolutely not! Picture a focus group, a viral marketing campaign, and your own news station all rolled up into one. Now wrap that into a low-cost, easy-to-use, always-on Web site. That is what effective corporate blogging is. At first, business blogging was ideal for free agents and entrepreneurs who needed a cheap way to get their message out. Now, the big guys are tapping the amazing power of a great blog. But the key word is great. A corporate blog that’s boring or deceptive is worse than none at all. In this indispensable guide, online marketing consultant Debbie Weil explores all aspects of corporate blogging, answering important questions such as: How much time will it take? What about the legal risks? Who in my company should blog? What are the best corporate blogs out there? In an informal, provocative style and without technical j

Now, let the record show that Amazon.com is not, in fact, for dummies. It's good to see that Amazon.com for Dummies has finally arrived on our virtual shelves. This book will introduce even experienced Amazon.com customers to some of the less obvious features of the online emporium, such as corporate accounts, travel services, and the super-fun Friends & Favorites area. Read and learn from Mara Friedman how Amazon.com can provide you with information and (through zShops and the Associates program) make you money. Friedman briefly covers Amazon's collection of Web Services, which are utilities available to programmers who want to embed Amazon.com functionality (like book searches and popularity monitoring) in their own applications. What's here is clear and stylish (and sometimes funny), and will certainly make you aware of features you don't know about yet. Amazon.com is unusual as a business in that it rewards exploration and study. This book acts as your guide through the electronic aisles. --David Wal

Business demands many types of writing skills-from creating proposals and presentations to compiling reports and briefings。This one-stop，no-nonsense guide shows you how to improve your writing at work，including how to discover your strengths and weakness，how to identify your audience，and how to develop your argument and keep information flowing while avoiding overused jargon。It shows you how to make the most of the language you use and make your writing effevtive and influential。

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE A BANKER? WHAT CAREER PATHS ARE THERE? HOW DO YOU GET YOUR FIRST JOB? CLUELESS IN BANKING AND FINANCE IS THE FIRST BOOK WITH ALL THE ANSWERS FOR STUDENTS AND JOBSEEKERS. YOU'LL DISCOVER HOW INVESTMEHT AND COMMERCIAL BAHKS WORK. YOU'LL GO BEHIND THE SCENES TO SEE HOW FUNDS ARE RAISED IN CAPITAL MARKETS, HOW CORPORATE FIHANCE IS STRUCTURED, HOW SECURITIES ARE VALUED AND RISKS ASSESSED, AND MORE. PICK UP TIPS OH HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR JOB INTERVIEW, WHAT YOU HEED TO SAY AMD KNOW, AND HOW HEADHUNTERS CAN HELP YOUR CAREER TAKE OFF.

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to: Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations Plan projects as well as get them unstuck Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed Feel fine about what you're not doing From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.

Who Do You Think You Are? Times are changing fast. Traditional working practices and the concept of a conventional job are increasingly becoming things of the past as we make sense of a new marketplace where the only limit to success is our own imagination. What Does it take to Survive in This New Scrambled Up World of Work? * Attitude - to get started * Enterprise - to succeed * Success - at maximising opportunities * Worklife - in the right balance The challenges - and the opportunities - for the 'entrepreneur-within' the huge. For micro-businesses, home-workers, freelancers, it's all for the taking. That is the essence of LEAP! A stimulus for taking the plunge to go it alone and set yourself free... and for making it up as you go along! "Ian Sanders connects brilliantly wit the mindset and needs of talented professionals in their migration away from corporate mediocrity. LEAP! is a personal guidebook to both the practicality and emotion of making work m

One of your most sensitive duties as a manager is conducting performance appraisals. How do you objectively evaluate another person's performance? What guidelines are there for talking to your direct reports about both their strengths and their weaknesses? How can you address a weakness to help an employee develop into a stronger member of your team? This book teaches you how to prepare for, conduct, and follow up on performance evaluations in ways that link employee performance to your company's and group's goals. You'll learn how to: Document employee development right from the start Set the appropriate tone in a performance review Address a performance problem Follow up on next steps with your employee

The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. It is here that people feel most themselves, inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels. In this ground-breaking book, world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business: whether it's a child bored in class, a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving. Through stories of people - like Vidal Sassoon, Ariana Huffington and Matt Groening - who have recognized their unique talents and been able to make a successful living doing what they love, Robinson argues that age and occupation are no barrier and explains how it is possible for each one of us to reach our element. With a wry sense of humour, Ken Robinson inspires us, above all, to reconnect with our true self - it could just change everything.

In today's hypercompetitive business climate, managers who help employees achieve their individual potential stand to get—and stay—ahead. Managing People, a comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, shows you how. Learn to: Delegate the right work to the right employee Motivate people to outperform the competition Establish and empower effective teams Manage multiple projects and stay on track Inspire trust and lead in times of change The Collins Best Practices guides offer new and seasoned managers the essential information they need to achieve more, both personally and professionally. Designed to provide tried-and-true advice from the world's most influential business minds, they feature practical strategies and tips to help you get ahead.

In the One Thing You Need to Know,bestselling author Marcus Buckingham reveals the central qualities that lie at the core of great managing,great leadership and great careers. Drawing on a wide body of research,including extensive in-depth interviews with prominent flgures shch as Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy and former chief inspectior of Prisons Lord Ramsbootham,Buckingham reveals that at the heart of each quality lies a controlling insight.Lose sight of this on thing and all of your best efforts at managing,individual achievement will be diminshed. In every way a groundbreaking work.The One Thing You Need to Know offers crucial performance and career lessons for business people at every level.

Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the central myth of radical political，economic and cultural thinking.The idea of a counterculture-that is，a world outside of the sonsumer dominated one that encompasses us-pervades everything from the anti-globalisation movement to feminism and environmentalism.And the idea that mocking the system，or trying to‘jam ’it so it will collapse，they argue，is not only counterproductive but has helped to create the very consumer society that radicals oppose.Heath and Potter offer a startlingly clear picture of what a concern for the countercultural obsession with being different.

The ability to craft an employee review that is meaningful andchange-driven is what separates average supervisors from greatmanagers. How often, though, have you struggled to find the mostappropriate words for your needs? This completely revised and updated second edition of PerfectPhrases for Performance Reviews provides hundreds of ready-madephrases you can use to clearly communicate any employee'sperformance in 74 different skill areas.

Start with a monkey. It comes from your subordinates shifting their responsibility to you -- until you're working for them! How does the successful manager keep monkeys off his back? In this lively, provocative seminar, two of today's foremost consultants show you: ·How to recognize monkeys before they land on your back ·How to stop your subordinates from imposing unnecessary time demands on you ·Why "an honest day's work for a fair day's pay" does not apply to managers ·The real answer to the Manager's Lament: "where does all the time go?" ·Why you should be on the golf course on Saturday instead of at the office

Three and one half years ago, on an unseasonably warm October afternoon, Harvard University swore in its 27th president, Lawrence Henry Summers, 46 years old, previously secretary of the Treasury in the last months of Bill Clinton's presidency, an economist by training and temperament, a Jew in the highest office at Harvard, which not so many years before had restricted its Jewish enrollment to a measly quota. He had been chosen by the members of the elite, secretive Harvard Corporation, Richard Bradley writes, after a long search: "Rebuilding undergraduate education, pumping up the sciences, developing [a new campus across the Charles River at] Allston, and globalizing the university -- those were the official tasks for Harvard's twenty-seventh president. Perhaps equally telling were the subjects that the Corporation did not consider priorities -- the effect of the university's great wealth on its self-image, its mission, and its integrity. The fellows of the Corporation were not particularly in

Itas an all too common scenario: A great company breaks from thepack; the analysts are in love, the smiling CEO appears on thecover of "BusinessWeek" and "Fortune," the stock soars. Two yearslater, the company is in flames, the CEO is under attack, and thestock has tanked. Why does this sort of thing keep happening atrespectable companies like Motorola, Quaker, and Sony, all of whichhave very smart, hard-working senior executives? And how can youtell if itas about to happen at your own company? "Why SmartExecutives Fail" answers these and many more crucial questions.Sydney Finkelstein, a distinguished professor at Dartmouthas TuckSchool of Business, carried out a six-year study of leadershipfailure, the largest of its kind. After hundreds of interviews withinsiders at top companies that got into major troubleasuch as GM,Mattel, and RiteAidaFinkelstein figured out the common causesbehind failures in wildly different types of companies. He explainsathe seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful peoplea that dr

"Managing for the Short Term is about flexibility within a sustained strategy. Chuck Martin has developed a framework that turns this into a skill for every executive." “His blueprint for aligning urgent action with a constant focus on strategy will help spur organizations to faster and higher levels of achievement.” "A must read for any business leader who wants to maximize their effectiveness in today's business environment." "Martin's book is packed with helpful insights to do the right things to get you through today, to stay alive for a prosperous tomorrow." "A much needed strategic plan for our increasingly chaotic business landscape." "An instructive guide to creating an intense focus and alignment throughout your organization." "Managing for the Short Term is about flexibility within a sustained strategy. Chuck Martin has developed a framework that turns this into a skill for every executive." His blueprint for aligning urgent action with a constant focus on strategy

An essential collection of savvy counsel and practical techniques from Benjamin Franklin, Dale Carnegie, Billy Graham, and dozens of other luminaries. Selling a product or an idea is an art as much as a science. With the help and advice of the dynamic wisdom collected here, anyone can become more adept at the art of selling, while learning valuable principles that will help them achieve great success, both in business and in life. With the words of such dynamic, persuasive sales experts as Joe Girard, Tom Hopkins, and Og Mandino, and legendary figures like Arthur Ashe, Mark Twain, and Benjamin Franklin, THE 100 GREATEST SALES TIPS OF ALL TIME manages to educate and inspire, while providing concrete and practical advice that anyone can use.