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Edge Strategy

A New Mindset for Profitable Growth

By: Alan Lewis,Dan McKone

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Edge Strategy

A New Mindset for Profitable Growth

By: Alan Lewis,Dan McKone

Are you missing opportunities for growth that are right in front of you? In today’s volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocus on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy can cause you to miss the substantial opportunities for growth that are often hidden in plain sight, at the edge of the core business. In this insightful yet practical book, strategy experts Alan Lewis and Dan McKone articulate a mindset that helps leaders recognize and capitalize on these opportunities. The Edge Strategy framework challenges how the boundaries of your existing products and services map to your customers’ views of the world and then provides three different lenses through which you can see and leverage value: • Product edge. How to capture incremental profits and other benefits by slightly altering the elements and composition of a core offering • Journey edge. How to create and capture extra value by adjusting your role in supporting the customer’s journey to and through your offering • Enterprise edge. How to unlock additional value from resources and capabilities that support your core offering by applying them in a different context, for a different offering or different set of customers With engaging examples across many industries, Lewis and McKone coach you on how to identify and assess each of the different “edges” and then provide concrete insights and advice on applying edge strategy and tactics to use in specific business contexts. The book concludes with a ten-step process to help executives and managers find and leverage the edges in their own companies. Edge Strategy is the concise, hands-on guide for growing your business by getting more yield from assets already in place, relationships already established, and investments already made.

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Harvard Business Review Press

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1633690164

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9781633690165

The Learning Edge

What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children

By: Alan Bain,Mark E. Weston

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The Learning Edge

What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children

By: Alan Bain,Mark E. Weston

After billions of dollars, thousands of studies, and immeasurable effort by educators at all levels, why is the performance of students and teachers so unaffected by technology? Moreover, what should be done to extract genuine benefit from the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution? In this groundbreaking book, technology and education experts Alan Bain and Mark Weston provide research-based evidence for how the widespread application of ICT can provide powerful learning opportunities that lead to lasting gains and achievement. They show how the integrated use of technology at all levels of the educational system can greatly expand collaborative learning opportunities by giving all educational stakeholders powerful problem-solving tools and solutions. The approaches presented here are grounded in over twenty years of experience working with classroom teachers, school leaders, association members, and policymakers.

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Teachers College Press

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0807770892

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9780807770894

The Influence Edge

How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals

By: Alan Vengel

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The Influence Edge

How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals

By: Alan Vengel

OLD-SCHOOL top-down organizational behavior won't cut it anymore. Direct chain-of-command hierarchies are obsolete, fast giving way to networked, team-oriented organizations. To be successful, the ability to influence others-especially others over whom you have no direct control-is a must. You have to build alliances and persuade people, not boss them around. The ability to influence people isn't something you're born with, it's a skill anyone can acquire. In his new book, The Influence Edge, experienced organizational consultant Alan Vengel teaches the influence skills needed to enlist the cooperation of others, inside and outside the organization, to achieve your professional goals. Drawing on case studies and illustrative anecdotes from his consulting practice, Vengel introduces a powerful system of influence initiatives and strategic thinking that anyone can apply to almost any work situation. The Influence Edge details specific influence tactics that can lead to workplace success. It provides a nuts and bolts guide for planning for a real influence situation, and shows exactly how to map out a strategy. And The Influence Edge goes deeper into the influence realm to show how to build better long-term rapport, even with really difficult people. An interactive self-study guide, The Influence Edge offers immediate hands-on applications. Its heavily tested, practical insights are embodied in a variety of exercises that help readers evaluate their progress, reflect deeply on what they've read, and build a personal strategy for increasing their influence edge. Vengel equips readers to influence without authority, sell ideas, and build relationships. The Influence Edge is designed to be used again and again. It provides a complete toolkit for turning the often disorderly and seemingly impossible task of getting someone else to help you achieve your goal into an entirely viable process of analysis, preparation, and action.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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160509255X

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The Champion Edge

Skill Sets That Fire Up Your Business and Life

By: Alan R. Zimmerman

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The Champion Edge

Skill Sets That Fire Up Your Business and Life

By: Alan R. Zimmerman

This book gives specific skills and step-by-step strategies that will empower the reader to clarify their purpose, align their life and career with that purpose, build a more positive attitude, remain persistent, make decisions guided by character, achieve goals through the use of affirmations, communicate more effectively, and listen to what is said and left unsaid. Without question, some people accomplish so much more than others in their careers and their lives. And they do it so much more quickly. Surprisingly, there is nothing in the research that adequately accounts for this difference in success, except one thing. The most successful people invariably practice three skill sets that give them a distinct, get-ahead, accelerated edge at work and at home. It’s called The Champion Edge and is comprised of Purpose, Passion, and Process, all of which can be learned, adopted and mastered by the reader. This book gives specific skills and step-by-step strategies that will empower the reader to clarify their purpose, align their life and career with that purpose, build a more positive attitude, remain persistent, make decisions guided by character, achieve goals through the use of affirmations, communicate more effectively, and listen to what is said and left unsaid.

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Business Expert Press

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1953349838

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9781953349835

The Influence Edge

How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals

By: Alan A. Vengel

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The Influence Edge

How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals

By: Alan A. Vengel

An interactive self-study guide, The Influence Edge offers immediate hands-on applications. Its heavily tested, practical insights are embodied in a variety of exercises that help readers evaluate their progress, reflect deeply on what they've read, and build a personal strategy for increasing their influence edge. Vengel equips readers to influence without authority, sell ideas, and build relationships. The Influence Edge is designed to be used again and again. It provides a complete toolkit for turning the often disorderly and seemingly impossible task of getting someone else to help you achieve your goal into an entirely viable process of analysis, preparation, and action.

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142

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458767086

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9781458767080

Stories at the Edge of Time

By: Alan Robbins

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Stories at the Edge of Time

By: Alan Robbins

A family on the last starship finds that stories themselves may very well save a dying world. In one of those stories, a man dies of radio while another finds a new lease on life in an ancient dingus. A phone that can be used to call a few minutes into the future leads to unexpected turmoil. An anthroid on trial for a murder may be the victim of a faulty linguistic circuit. A retired astronaut who cannot get his footing, the last librarian on earth, tales of a future ghetto where surprise is still a possibility, and a mathematician whose brilliant insight continually slips his mind. These are few of the themes to be found in this collection of mystery science fiction tales in the speculative tradition of the satires of Kurt Vonnegut and the ironies of Jorge Luis Borges from the author of A Small Box of Chaos and the award-winning An Interlude in Dreamland.

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iUniverse

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0595913881

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9780595913886

Your Best Poker Friend: Increase Your Mental Edge and Maximize Your Profits

By: Alan N. Schoonmaker

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Your Best Poker Friend: Increase Your Mental Edge and Maximize Your Profits

By: Alan N. Schoonmaker

In Your Worst Poker Enemy, Schoonmaker educates us on the game that goes beyond the table; the psychological game. In Your Best Poker Friend Schoonmaker takes the program to the next level. Beyond tricks, beyond strategy, this book delves deeper into the the mind of the player and helps them to understand that their best poker friend is actually themselves! Written in an informatve and accessible way so every player will be on their way to a royal flush.

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Lyle Stuart

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0818407212

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9780818407215

Handbook of Image and Video Processing

By: Alan C. Bovik

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Handbook of Image and Video Processing

By: Alan C. Bovik

55% new material in the latest edition of this "must-have for students and practitioners of image & video processing!This Handbook is intended to serve as the basic reference point on image and video processing, in the field, in the research laboratory, and in the classroom. Each chapter has been written by carefully selected, distinguished experts specializing in that topic and carefully reviewed by the Editor, Al Bovik, ensuring that the greatest depth of understanding be communicated to the reader. Coverage includes introductory, intermediate and advanced topics and as such, this book serves equally well as classroom textbook as reference resource. • Provides practicing engineers and students with a highly accessible resource for learning and using image/video processing theory and algorithms • Includes a new chapter on image processing education, which should prove invaluable for those developing or modifying their curricula • Covers the various image and video processing standards that exist and are emerging, driving today's explosive industry • Offers an understanding of what images are, how they are modeled, and gives an introduction to how they are perceived • Introduces the necessary, practical background to allow engineering students to acquire and process their own digital image or video data • Culminates with a diverse set of applications chapters, covered in sufficient depth to serve as extensible models to the reader's own potential applications About the Editor... Al Bovik is the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He has published over 400 technical articles in the general area of image and video processing and holds two U.S. patents. Dr. Bovik was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000), received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), and twice was a two-time Honorable Mention winner of the international Pattern Recognition Society Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was Editor-in-Chief, of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-2002), has served on and continues to serve on many other professional boards and panels, and was the Founding General Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing which was held in Austin, Texas in 1994.* No other resource for image and video processing contains the same breadth of up-to-date coverage* Each chapter written by one or several of the top experts working in that area* Includes all essential mathematics, techniques, and algorithms for every type of image and video processing used by electrical engineers, computer scientists, internet developers, bioengineers, and scientists in various, image-intensive disciplines

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Academic Press

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0080533612

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9780080533612

Algorithmic Graph Theory

By: Alan Gibbons

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Algorithmic Graph Theory

By: Alan Gibbons

An introduction to pure and applied graph theory with an emphasis on algorithms and their complexity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521288819

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9780521288811

Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge

By: Alan F. Dutka

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Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge

By: Alan F. Dutka

Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge unlocks the secrets to competitive intelligence - the process of collecting, analyzing, and acting upon information about your competitors and the competitive environment. This book shows you how to improve the effectiveness of your marketing efforts by understanding what your competitors are really up to and then making that knowledge work to your (and your company's) advantage. Apply, Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge offers professional marketers, researchers, and account managers a detailed introduction to the professional practice of competitive intelligence and provides numerous examples of competitive. Plus, author Alan Dutka gives insight into the most effective data-gathering, analysis, and storage techniques; research strategies; and the latest tools available to business professionals for competitive intelligence pursuits.

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NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

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0658000594

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9780658000591

Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response

By: D. Alan Veasey,Lisa Craft McCormick,Barbara M. Hilyer,Kenneth W. Oldfield,Sam Hansen,Theodore H. Krayer

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Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response

By: D. Alan Veasey,Lisa Craft McCormick,Barbara M. Hilyer,Kenneth W. Oldfield,Sam Hansen,Theodore H. Krayer

EVERY SECOND COUNTS WHEN YOU'RE RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCYINVOLVINGCONFINED SPACE-HERE'S THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PERFORMINGFLAWLESS RESCUES! Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response utilizes a realistic,scenario-based approach to teach you-and your staff-the right wayto respond to an incident involving a confined space. The authorsprovide intensive, step-by-step guidance through the challengingmaze of training regulations, equipment needs, and procedures tokeep your response team finely tuned and ready to go under anyconditions. You'll find expert, detailed coverage of complex-and oftenconfusing-topics such as: * The basic components of rescue * OSHA's regulations for confined space entry and rescue * Confined space entry permitting * Assessing confined space hazards * Hazardous atmospheres and how to protect entrants from them * Air monitoring in confined spaces * Selection and use of personal protective equipment * The use of ropes and rigging The CD-ROM includes the Instructor's Guide along with lesson plansand useful practice tools such as worksheets, exercise handouts,performance checklists, diagrams and equipment lists for fieldexercises, instructions for building field training simulators, andguidelines for identifying rescue trainers and evaluating theircompetency as well as that of outside rescue teams. Everything you need to effectively train those working in aconfined space can truly be found within these pages and on theCD-ROM.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471787655

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9780471787655

At the Edge of the Universe

By: Alan Wright,Hilary Wright

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At the Edge of the Universe

By: Alan Wright,Hilary Wright

This study, which outlines the present search for distant objects in the observable universe, discusses search techniques and presents results which aim to update understanding of the universe's structure and evolution.

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256

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0130506265

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9780130506269

ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge

By: Alan Mendonca,Matt Symonds

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ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge

By: Alan Mendonca,Matt Symonds

Getting into MBA programs is more and more competitive. This over 600 page book will improve your chances of admission to the schools of your choice. This version of The Edge, aimed at US applicants, features an in-depth analysis of applying to each schoo

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MBA site

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0971482209

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9780971482203

The Art of Structural Engineering

The Work of Jörg Schlaich and His Team

By: Alan Holgate

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The Art of Structural Engineering

The Work of Jörg Schlaich and His Team

By: Alan Holgate

Cable-nets, membrane roofs, and unique bridges are among the structures designed by Schlaich and his partners.

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Edition Axel Menges

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3930698676

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9783930698677

Production for Graphic Designers

By: Alan Pipes

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Production for Graphic Designers

By: Alan Pipes

Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. This revised fourth edition embraces all the new and emerging technologies in graphics and print production, comprehensibly explaining the prepress and printing processes from traditional letterpress to the latest on-press CtP (computer-to-plate) digital offset and on-demand colour printing. It also covers new workflows and spells out the many acronyms encountered by today's designers. As well as covering print, it provides an authoritative guide to working in digital media, particularly the internet. There are also additional feature spreads on key graphic designers Bruce Mau, Paul Rand, Chris Ware and Pentagram.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1856694585

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9781856694582

Applied Combinatorics

By: Alan Tucker

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Applied Combinatorics

By: Alan Tucker

The new 6th edition of Applied Combinatorics builds on the previous editions with more in depth analysis of computer systems in order to help develop proficiency in basic discrete math problem solving. As one of the most widely used books in combinatorial problems, this edition explains how to reason and model combinatorically while stressing the systematic analysis of different possibilities, exploration of the logical structure of a problem, and ingenuity. Although important uses of combinatorics in computer science, operations research, and finite probability are mentioned, these applications are often used solely for motivation. Numerical examples involving the same concepts use more interesting settings such as poker probabilities or logical games.

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Wiley Global Education

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1118210115

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9781118210116

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Edge Strategy

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The Champion Edge

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Stories at the Edge of Time

Stories at the Edge of Time

Your Best Poker Friend: Increase Your Mental Edge and Maximize Your Profits

Your Best Poker Friend: Increase Your Mental Edge and Maximize Your Profits

Handbook of Image and Video Processing

Handbook of Image and Video Processing

Algorithmic Graph Theory

Algorithmic Graph Theory

Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge

Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge

Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response

Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response

At the Edge of the Universe

At the Edge of the Universe

ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge

ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge

The Art of Structural Engineering

The Art of Structural Engineering

Production for Graphic Designers

Production for Graphic Designers

Applied Combinatorics

Applied Combinatorics

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