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Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes
Brian Cole Miller
AMACOM, 2003
Inspiration and Magic
a) This book delivers what it advertises: Quick team building activities. There's a surprising amount of variety and thought behind the book. It's organized and clear. The goals and methods are obvious.
b) As with everything in life, the success of the ...
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The First-Time Manager
Loren B. Belker, Gary S. Topchik
AMACOM, 2005
Good Thoughts
I bought this for my son who is a first time manager at a fast food chain of restaurants. He says it has helped him learn a lot and is putting the things in the book to good use with his team. He feels that he has learned a lot and will definately use what he has ...
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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results
Paul Falcone
AMACOM, 2005
2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews
Excellent tool for assisting managers with written comments on the performance reviews they are required to do on their employees. It especially helps managers with new phrases for employees they have been reviewing for years.
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The Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice: A Proven System for Becoming a Top Producer
David J. Mullen Jr.
AMACOM, 2007
This is a great getting started manual for new financial advisors
Just recently licensed, I was searching for a book to help me get started, since I will be working as an independent financial adviser. Ordered this book because of the high reviews and I have to say this book did not let me down. It was better than I expected. This ...
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HR Answer Book, The: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals
Shawn Smith, Rebecca Mazin
AMACOM, 2004
An Essential Desktop Reference
MBaumann, Cosmetics Executive, March 14, 2006,
An Essential Desktop Reference
A smart,informative, entertaining guide to a serious subject...filled with FAQs that you sometimes didn't even know you needed to ask! Quickly became an everyday reference that I turn to ...
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Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires
Scott Fox
AMACOM, 2006
A great crash course
Scott Fox covers everything in this how-to book on starting your own internet business. Parts 1 and 2 start with brainstorming business ideas and researching them to be sure they're viable and moves on to explain different business models and how these relate to the ...
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Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
AMACOM, 2007
Encouragement and resource referral guide for freethinking parents
I found this collection of short chapters by various humanist writers on how to instill morality and ethics in children without religion to be a real joy. The authors (including the editor) are clever, humorous, and kind-hearted. Despite their obvious intelligence, ...
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Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do
Shoya Zichy, Ann Bidou
AMACOM, 2007
Excellent reference
Great resource for people who is interest in finding out who they are and what they should be doing.
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Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook
James Stroman, Kevin Wilson, ...
AMACOM, 2008
Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook (Second Edition)
This book is spectacular. It is up to date on everything. It defined exactly what my role will be in a job, the methods of being a savvy assistant and the explanations of duties is detailed and easy to follow. I have vowed to have this book in my desk at every ...
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Persuasion IQ: The 10 Skills You Need to Get Exactly What You Want
Kurt Mortensen
AMACOM, 2008
Fantastic Book
When it comes to the science of persuasion, both personal and professional this is not only the best, but also the most important book out there.
Kurt Mortensen talks about how the inability to command influence is a universal personal and professional dilemma. He ...
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Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-how for Business And Career Success
Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon
AMACOM, 2007
Networking Bible
In "Make Your Contacts Count," Lynne Waymon and Anne Baber have created a networking bible for today's professionals - in any profession or life stage. Reading chapter after chapter, I was able to identify both short and long term strategies to build and nurture my ...
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Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You -- A Project Manager's ...
Tom Kendrick
AMACOM, 2006
a readable project management book?
While I have a few project management reference books, it's rare to find a book on the topic that you can actually enjoy reading from cover to cover.
Results Without Authority covers a lot of ground, and there's something for every level of project manager. The ...
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The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate System for Finding a Great Job Now! (Job Search Solution)
Tony Beshara
AMACOM, 2006
Job Sarch Solution
This book is GREAT - I am currently employeed and looking for a job. This book is taking the what if out of the equation. Then breaks it down so looking for a job is pretty easy.
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Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy Every Time
Maria Veloso
AMACOM, 2004
Like Nothing I've Ever Read...
Although I've been selling online for years now, I honestly cannot understand how much I've been missing out on.
I picked up "Web Copy That Sells" thinking I might get 1 or 2 good ideas and make it worth the money.
Boy was I wrong!
I literally got over a dozen ...
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The Power of Charm: How to Win Anyone Over in Any Situation
Brian Tracy, Ron Arden
AMACOM, 2006
Refreshing, insightful & entertaining read!
"The Power of Charm" shows you how to create "extraordinary rapport" that makes other people feel exceptional. Authors Brian Tracy and Ron Arden contend that "the most valuable commodity in the world isn't gold or diamonds-- it's charm."
The authors suggest that ...
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