Devora Zack: Managing For People Who Hate Managing - Blog Business Success Radio

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk RadioCEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc. and author of the entertaining and very results oriented book Managing for People Who Hate Managing: Be a Success By Being Yourself, Devora Zack describes why the manager's personality may not fit what they thought they knew about managing. Devora Zack shares her techniques for personal self assessment so managers can determine whether they are feelers or thinkers. With...

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Managing for People Who Hate Managing by Devora Zack - Book review

Managing for People Who Hate ManagingBe a Success By Being YourselfBy: Devora ZackPublished: August 27, 2012Format: Paperback, 192 pagesISBN-10: 1609945735ISBN-13: 978-1609945732Publisher Berrett-Koeler Publishers, Inc."Learning techniques to reverse your secret hatred of managing ban have a colossal impact on your work life - to infinity and beyond", writes award winning entrepreneur, CEO of Only Connect Consulting, and author of the entertaining...

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Paul Heagen: The Leader's Climb - Blog Business Success Radio

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk RadioExecutive coach, president and founder of Defining Moments Consulting, and co-author of the engaging and insightful business fable The Leader's Climb: A Business Tale of Rising to the New Leadership Challenge, Paul Heagen describes the reasons that CEOs become stuck and and are unable to stay at the top of their companies, Paul Heagen provides insights into how CEOs and other top leaders find they are overwhelmed...

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The Leader's Climb by Bob Parsanko & Paul Heagen - Book review

The Leader's ClimbA Business Tale of Rising to the New Leadership ChallengeBy: Bob Parsanko, Paul HeagenPublished: September 18, 2012Format: Hardcover, 188 pagesISBN-10: 1937134210ISBN-13: 978-1937134211Publisher: Bibliomotion"Today in companies big and small, local and global, public and private, leaders at all levels say the same thing: business has become faster, more complicated, more uncertain, more disruptive, and more competitive", write personal...

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Remembrance Day - Lest We Forget

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Exam Schools by Chester E. Finn, Jr. & Jessica A. Hockett - Book review

Exam SchoolsInside America's Most Selective Public High SchoolsBy: Chester E. Finn, Jr., Jessica A. HockettPublished: September 16, 2012Format: Hardcover, 264 pagesISBN-10: 0691156670ISBN-13: 978-0691156675Publisher: Princeton University Press"Selective public high schools that serve motivated kids and high achievers, many of them also very smart, have been a tiny but important part of the U.S. secondary-education landscape for generations", write...

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Mike Weinberg: New Sales. Simplified. - Blog Business Success Radio

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk RadioSales executive, founder and President of The New Sales Coach, and author of the straight talking and results oriented book New Sales. Simplified. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development, Mike Weinberg describes how to become more successful at acquiring new customers. Mike Weinberg shares his simple and effective process for developing new customers through a straightforward...

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New Sales. Simplified. by Mike Weinberg - Book review

New Sales. Simplified. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business DevelopmentBy: Mike WeinbergPublished: September 4, 2012Format: Paperback, 220 pagesISBN-10: 0814431771ISBN-13: 978-0814431771Publisher: AMACOM"There is an oversupply of account managers and customers-service people filling sales roles, but precious few true sales hunters that can be counted on to consistently deliver new business. You can bring tremendous value to your...

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Gini Dietrich & Geoff Livingston: Marketing In The Round - Blog Business Success Radio

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk RadioMarketing and public relations consultant, founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, Gini Dietrich; and marketing and social media strategist, and bestselling author Geoff Livingston, co-authors of the comprehensive and groundbreaking book Marketing in the Round: How to Develop an Integrated Marketing Campaign in the Digital Era, describe developing and implementing an integrated marketing strategy for your brand....

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Marketing in the Round by Gini Dietrich & Geoff Livingston - Book review

Marketing in the Round: How to Develop an Integrated Marketing Campaign in the Digital EraBy: Gini Dietrich, Geoff LivingstonPublished: April 23, 2012Format: Hardcover, 224 pagesISBN-10: 0789749173ISBN-13: 978-0789749178Publisher: Que Publishing"Companies and agencies have struggled to integrate traditional and social media and to measure results beyond increased awareness and positive sentiment", write marketing and public relations consultant,...

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The Connected Company by Dave Gray with Thomas Vander Wal - Book review

The Connected CompanyBy: Dave Gray, Thomas Vander WalPublished: September 18, 2012Format: Hardcover, 304 pagesISBN-10: 144931905XISBN-13: 978-1449319052Publisher: O'Reilly Media"Customers are connecting, forming networked communities that allow them to rapidly share information and self-organize into powerful interest groups. Companies will have to be more responsive to customer needs and demands if they want to survive", write SVP Strategy, Dachis...

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Improving Profitiability Through Green Manufacturing by David R. Hills & J. Barry DuVall - Book review

Improving Profitability Through Green ManufacturingCreating a Profitable and Environmentally Compliant Manufacturing FacilityBy: David R. Hillis, Ph.D., J. Barry DuVall, Ph.D.Published: September 19, 2012Format: Hardcover, 248 pagesISBN-10: 1118111257ISBN-10: 1118111257Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc."Now many believe that manufacturing in the United States is too cost both in dollars and harm to the environment. This is not true. There are...

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National Geographic Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond by James Trefil - Book review

Space AtlasMapping the Universe and BeyondBy: James Trefil, Ph.D.Published: November 6, 2012Format: Hardcover, 336 pagesISBN-10: 1426209711ISBN-13: 978-1426209710Publisher: National Geographic Books"Space Atlas is a visual guide to the universe,starting with our own solar system and reaching out to the farthest galaxies and the mysteries of multiple universes", writes Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, James Trefil, Ph.D.,...

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Importance of Facebook to Businesses

The planet involves Facebook these days. It's everywhere, from households to businesses. Launched the government financial aid 2004, it's got amassed a staggering one billion users. It offers affected the self confidence and activity of individuals in several ways; it allows users to constantly keep active in its availability on many mobile phones.But it really should also be noted that Facebook has become an important medium for businesses to showcase their products. Firms have no idea of where their prospective clients and customers are. Most...

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Willie Green Deal Increase Fuel Poverty?

Green Deal may be the new system from your UK Government which is caused by start soon. It is going to focus on getting visitors to take away credit that is certainly related to their apartment so as to regain credit for undertaking an array of approved energy improvements towards property.You will find there's security feature known as the Golden Rule that states that repayments should be taught in savings accrued from the improvement works. So in principle the scheme seems great. Your property effectively borrows money against the savings that...

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Coalition Against Insurance Fraud

Not a soul should be put off from setting up a justified accidental injuries claim, but unfortunately many individuals are deterred because of talk of a number of people taking advantage of the machine.Insurance and claim fraud has developed into a recognised problem there are steps being come to combat the challenge, nevertheless it should not deter people with genuine claims from talking with a legitimate expert and finding out about being financially compensated because of their injuries.The truth is that creating a personal injury claim for...

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Street Freak: A Memoir of Money and Madness by Jared Dillian - Book review

Street FreakA Memoir of Money and MadnessBy Jared DillianPublished: September 11, 2012Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pagesISBN-10: 1439181276ISBN-13: 978-1439181270Publisher: Touchstone"If you're a trader, it is important to exercise the illusion of control,because the reality is that you're not in control of anything", writes former trader for Lehman Brothers, and founder of the daily market report The Daily Dirtmap, Jared Dillian in his eye opening...

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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll wins the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012

New York, November 1, 2012: Steve Coll today won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012 for Private Epmire: ExxonMobil and American Power, published by The Penguin Press, Allen Lane. The book is a hard-hitting investigation of the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closing with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The...

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