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""This timely book reminds us that innovation is agnostic about where it's created." -Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from the outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha and Ismail Amla are here to tell you that "big equals slow and stodgy" is a myth. Based on decades of experience working...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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2007.
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Adam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest, most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments, convinced of the need to calculate "the one right answer." After an unexpected experience in South Africa during the transition away from apartheid, he got involved in facilitating a series of extraordinary high-conflict, high-stakes problem-solving efforts: in Colombia during the civil...
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Harper
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[2013]
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English
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"In Focus , Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset....
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So you're not a numbers person? No worries! You say that you can't understand how to read, let alone implement, these complex software programs that crunch all the data and spit out . . . more data? Not a problem either! There is a costly misconception in business today--that the only data that matters is BIG data, and that elaborate tools and data scientists are required to extract any practical information. But actually, nothing could be further...
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Perform various data analysis using statistical functions, filters and histograms! Learn all about pivot tables and pivot charts! Use the Solver and Goal Seek to find optimum results! Perform sales forecasting and various predictions using Excel's built-in functions!
Most of you probably know how to use Excel. How many can handle the above functions and features mentioned? This is the book for you if you want to learn the advanced Excel functions.
This...
7) How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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2002.
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English
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Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient. In How to Make Collaboration Work, David Straus, a pioneer in the field of group problem solving, introduces five principles of collaboration that have been proven successful time and again in nearly every conceivable setting. Straus draws on his thirty years of personal and professional experience to show how these...
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One of the world's premier business consultants and personal success experts, Brian Tracy has devoted more than 25 years to studying the most powerful time management practices used by the most successful people in every arena. Now, in Time Power, Brian reveals his comprehensive system designed to help readers increase their productivity and income exponentially -- in just weeks! Filled with hundreds of powerful, proven tools and techniques, this...
9) How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions
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Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient. In How to Make Collaboration Work, David Straus, a pioneer in the field of group problem solving, introduces five principles of collaboration that have been proven successful time and again in nearly every conceivable setting. Straus draws on his thirty years of personal and professional experience to show how these...
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HarperCollins
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"A marvelous book… thought provoking and highly entertaining." --Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think "Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser." --George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics "Revolutionary." -- New York Times Book Review Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal...
11) Little Ms. Monda
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Within the innermost part of Little Ms. Monda's well-being, feelings of doubt and failure set in. But the stakes are raised when Little Ms. Monda is forced to choose between self-love and loyalty to her family and friends, and pursuing her life with self-worth and value, and recognizing the hurts and issues of other people's opinions.
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In my job as substitute teacher and teacher of after-school, I help the children with their homework's. One of the most difficult homeworks for first, second, and third graders is to write short stories using high-frequency words.
The teachers give them the words, and they must write the stories using that words. This book is a collection of some of these short stories. It will also a pleasure to read of benefit for the young students and teachers....
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The reason for this book
After reading this book, my desire is that someone finds a viable reason to live. I hope that my thoughts can prompt another person to abandon thoughts of suicide. Furthermore, the principles I have inspired to share with the world are not just a prescription for preventing suicide. I strongly hope that those who read it will be inspired enough to then find ways in which to bring meaning into the lives of other people around...
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During the process of writing this book I realized a question must be answered before I proceeded. Why would anyone need this book? The answers were developed as I organized my material.#1.If anyone was thinking about a career in education they would be enriched with the information this book.#2.If someone was currently involved in education and required some clarity about their role in the profession they would want this book.#3.If a professional...
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Make Learning Fun! Activities to Develop Creativity is a compilation of problems used in the Odyssey of the Mind creative problem-solving competitions. It includes 11 long-term problems and 48 spontaneous problems. It also includes an introductory chapter by problem writer and program founder Dr. Sam Micklus on the problem-development process, and a brief history on how the program began back in 1978. This book is also a great classroom resource and...
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John J. Hammerlink is a young boy, who is constantly getting into trouble because he does not think. He decides to learn about this thing called thinking by seeking help from his family members. When an elderly neighbor is, robbed, he puts his family's advice into action. He not only saves his neighbor, but he becomes a hero.
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The role of the school principal has become more complexed and demanding in recent years. Where once, the site administrator was viewed as no more than a building manager, the numerous tasks of the principal can now range from monitoring daily attendance of the students and staff, to mediating and advocating for at-risk students and their families. Few would disagree, for example, that at least part of the reason administrative vacancies are growing...
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The author, a former school superintendent, state administrator, school administrator and classroom teacher, asserts that the academic achievement gap does not have to persist. Fortune links his research on high-performing, high minority schools with other studies of traditional and charter schools cited in his book, that reach the same conclusion--African American can achieve. Fortune was co-author of Leadership on Purpose, author of Bridging the...
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THINK! You do this every day!
Watching FOX news, they inform the public what is going on in America. By telling the truth,
they investigated this story.
The outrageous price of college tuition versus knowledge. The students have learned when it
comes to reciting history knowledge. Plus what they know. The end result is, they are LACKING
KNOWLEDGE. The military now has to educate the new recruits because this knowledge should have
been taught in high...
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Three Strikes, I'm In. I believe anyone has the opportunity to make their passion or desires a reality. The choice is yours, and the decision is totally up to you. If you want something bad enough, your passion can become a burning desire, and you should make an attempt to go after it. If you never try, then you may sit there wondering what it would have been like if you would have taken that opportunity. I am blessed to say that I am a disabled vet...
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