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eXtreme Project Management

Using Leadership, Principles, and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility

By: Douglas DeCarlo

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eXtreme Project Management

Using Leadership, Principles, and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility

By: Douglas DeCarlo

Today’s new breed, eXtreme projects are different. They feature high speed, high change, high complexity, high risk, and high stress. While traditional projects follow the classic model of ready, aim, fire, eXtreme project managers succeed by shooting the gun and then redirecting the bullet while not loosing sight of their moving target. eXtreme Project Management provides a practical guide for leaders working under high risk and high pressure while producing the desired bottom-line results. Based on Doug DeCarlo’s extensive experience in working with more than 250 project teams, his eXtreme project management model is built around an integrated set of principles, values, skills, tools, and practices proven to consistently work under conditions of rapid change and uncertainty. eXtreme project management is based on the premise that you don’t manage the unknown the same way you manage the known. It’s a people-centric approach to high performance that makes quality of life a fundamental part of the project venture.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470573678

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Detection Theory

A User's Guide

By: Michael J. Hautus,Neil A. Macmillan,C. Douglas Creelman

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Detection Theory

A User's Guide

By: Michael J. Hautus,Neil A. Macmillan,C. Douglas Creelman

Detection Theory: A User’s Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect. In these cases, detection theory can transform judgments about subjective experiences, such as perceptions and memories, into quantitative data ready for analysis and modeling. For beginners, the first three chapters introduce measuring detection and discrimination, evaluating decision criteria, and the utility of receiver operating characteristics. Later chapters cover more advanced research paradigms, including: complete tools for application, including flowcharts, tables, and software; student-friendly language; complete coverage of content area, including both one-dimensional and multidimensional models; integrated treatment of threshold and nonparametric approaches; an organized, tutorial level introduction to multidimensional detection theory; and popular discrimination paradigms presented as applications of multidimensional detection theory. This modern summary of signal detection theory is both a self-contained reference work for users and a readable text for graduate students and researchers learning the material either in courses or on their own.

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Routledge

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100044032X

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Detection Theory

A User's Guide

By: Neil A. Macmillan,C. Douglas Creelman

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Detection Theory

A User's Guide

By: Neil A. Macmillan,C. Douglas Creelman

Detection Theory is an introduction to one of the most important tools for analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect. Originally developed for evaluation of electronic detection, detection theory was adopted by psychologists as a way to understand sensory decision making, then embraced by students of human memory. It has since been utilized in areas as diverse as animal behavior and X-ray diagnosis. This book covers the basic principles of detection theory, with separate initial chapters on measuring detection and evaluating decision criteria. Some other features include: *complete tools for application, including flowcharts, tables, pointers, and software; *student-friendly language; *complete coverage of content area, including both one-dimensional and multidimensional models; *separate, systematic coverage of sensitivity and response bias measurement; *integrated treatment of threshold and nonparametric approaches; *an organized, tutorial level introduction to multidimensional detection theory; *popular discrimination paradigms presented as applications of multidimensional detection theory; and *a new chapter on ideal observers and an updated chapter on adaptive threshold measurement. This up-to-date summary of signal detection theory is both a self-contained reference work for users and a readable text for graduate students and other researchers learning the material either in courses or on their own.

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Psychology Press

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1135634564

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9781135634568

Wiley Pathways Selling

By: Tom Hopkins,Douglas J. Dalrymple,William L. Cron,Thomas E. DeCarlo

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Wiley Pathways Selling

By: Tom Hopkins,Douglas J. Dalrymple,William L. Cron,Thomas E. DeCarlo

Salesmanship is an essential skill that carries over into many industries. In Selling, the latest text from the Business series in the Wiley Pathways imprint, students learn up-to-date information and techniques on prospecting, planning sales calls, making great presentations, and closing the sale.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470111259

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9780470111253

Finding Sand Creek

History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site

By: Jerome A. Greene,Douglas D. Scott

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Finding Sand Creek

History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site

By: Jerome A. Greene,Douglas D. Scott

The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its location is more than academic; it is intensely personal and spiritual. In 1998 the National Park Service, under congressional direction, began a research program to verify the location of the Sand Creek site. The team consisted of tribal members, Park Service staff and volunteers, and local landowners. In Finding Sand Creek, the project’s leading historian, Jerome A. Greene, and its leading archeologist, Douglas D. Scott, tell the story of how this dedicated group of people used a variety of methods to pinpoint the site. Drawing on oral histories, written records, and archeological fieldwork, Greene and Scott present a wealth of evidence to verify their conclusions. Greene and Scott’s team study led to legislation in the year 2000 that established the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806150092

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9780806150093

Achieving a Strategic Sales Focus

Contemporary Issues and Future Challenges

By: Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh,Tony Douglas

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Achieving a Strategic Sales Focus

Contemporary Issues and Future Challenges

By: Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh,Tony Douglas

The main aim of this book is to consider how the sales function informs business strategy. Although there are a number of books available that address how to manage the sales team tactically, this text addresses how sales can help organizations to become more customer oriented. Many organizations are facing escalating costs and a growth in customer power, which makes it necessary to allocate resources more strategically. The sales function can provide critical customer and market knowledge to help inform both innovation and marketing. Sales are responsible for building customer knowledge, networking both internally and externally to help create additional customer value, as well as the more traditional role of managing customer relationships and selling. The text considers how sales organizations are responding to increasing competition, more demanding customers and a more complex selling environment. We identify many of the challenges facing organisations today and offers discussions of some of the possible solutions. This book considers the changing nature of sales and how activities can be aligned within the organization, as well as marketing sensing, creating customer focus and the role of sales leadership. The text will include illustrations (short case studies) provided by a range of successful organizations operating in a number of industries. Sales and senior management play an important role in ensuring that the sales teams' activities are aligned to business strategy and in creating an environment to allow salespeople to be more successful in developing new business opportunities and building long-term profitable business relationships. One of the objectives of this book is to consider how conventional thinking has changed in the last five years and integrate it with examples from sales practice to provide a more complete picture of the role of sales within the modern organization.

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Oxford University Press

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0191016748

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9780191016745

Wheeled Mobile Robot Control

Theory, Simulation, and Experimentation

By: Nardênio Almeida Martins,Douglas Wildgrube Bertol

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Wheeled Mobile Robot Control

Theory, Simulation, and Experimentation

By: Nardênio Almeida Martins,Douglas Wildgrube Bertol

This book focuses on the development and methodologies of trajectory control of differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robots. The methodologies are based on kinematic models (posture and configuration) and dynamic models, both subject to uncertainties and/or disturbances. The control designs are developed in rectangular coordinates obtained from the first-order sliding mode control in combination with the use of soft computing techniques, such as fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. Control laws, as well as online learning and adaptation laws, are obtained using the stability analysis for both the developed kinematic and dynamic controllers, based on Lyapunov’s stability theory. An extension to the formation control with multiple differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robots in trajectory tracking tasks is also provided. Results of simulations and experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies for trajectory tracking situations, considering the parameters of an industrial and a research differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robot, the PowerBot. Supplementary materials such as source codes and scripts for simulation and visualization of results are made available with the book.

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Springer Nature

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3030779122

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9783030779122

Virtual Virgin

Delilah Street: Paranormal Investigator

By: Carole Nelson Douglas

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Virtual Virgin

Delilah Street: Paranormal Investigator

By: Carole Nelson Douglas

For a red-blooded male, Las Vegas offers a virtual smorgasbord of temptation: sexy showgirls, vampy vampires, zombie starlets, you name it. But paranormal investigator Delilah Street isn't worried about losing her man to these vixens. Especially when the one woman with a soft spot for the guy also has a hard-shelled exterior ..."--Page 4 of cover.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439167796

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Reimagining Healthcare

How clinicians and administrators reduce risk, waste and disjointed services

By: Douglas Fahlbusch

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Reimagining Healthcare

How clinicians and administrators reduce risk, waste and disjointed services

By: Douglas Fahlbusch

Reimagining Healthcare shows you how facilities create an enviable healthcare reputation and become preferred health care providers and employers. This book examines: · Current issues and trends facing healthcare; · Why First World healthcare has come to cost so much; · Why the existing healthcare model is unsustainable; · The human side of these pressures; · How improving the care experience – for patients, care-givers and administrators – reduces risk and cost; and · Ways to help your team make their work enjoyable, efficient and higher quality.

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DoctorZed Publishing

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0648211800

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9780648211808

Religious Liberty, Volume 4

Federal Legislation after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with More on the Culture Wars

By: Douglas Laycock

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Religious Liberty, Volume 4

Federal Legislation after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with More on the Culture Wars

By: Douglas Laycock

One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious-liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. This fourth volume presents a documentary history of the effort to replace the Religious Freedom Restoration Act with the Religious Liberty Protection Act, an effort that failed but led to narrower legislation protecting churches from hostile zoning and protecting the religious rights of prisoners. Documenting culture-war battles over religious liberty and abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage, this volume includes journal articles, testimony to Congress, shorter popular writings, and letters to such political figures as Congressman Bobby Scott and President Barack Obama.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467451363

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9781467451369

Understanding Police Interrogation

Confessions and Consequences

By: William Douglas Woody,Krista D. Forrest

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Understanding Police Interrogation

Confessions and Consequences

By: William Douglas Woody,Krista D. Forrest

Uses techniques from psychological science and legal theory to explore police interrogation in the United States Understanding Police Interrogation provides a single comprehensive source for understanding issues relating to police interrogation and confession. It sheds light on the range of factors that may influence the outcome of the interrogation of a suspect, which ones make it more likely that a person will confess, and which may also inadvertently lead to false confessions. There is a significant psychological component to police interrogations, as interrogators may try to build rapport with the suspect, or trick them into thinking there is evidence against them that does not exist. Also important is the extent to which the interrogator is convinced of the suspect’s guilt, a factor that has clear ramifications for today’s debates over treatment of black suspects and other people of color in the criminal justice system. The volume employs a totality of the circumstances approach, arguing that a number of integrated factors, such as the characteristics of the suspect, the characteristics of the interrogators, interrogation techniques and location, community perceptions of law enforcement, and expectations for jurors and judges, all contribute to the nature of interrogations and the outcomes and perceptions of the criminal justice system. The authors argue that by drawing on this approach we can better explain the likelihood of interrogation outcomes, including true and false confessions, and provide both scholars and practitioners with a greater understanding of best practices going forward.

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NYU Press

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1479816574

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9781479816576

Person-Centered Memory and Communication Interventions for Dementia

A Case Study Approach

By: Ellen M. Hickey,Natalie F. Douglas

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Person-Centered Memory and Communication Interventions for Dementia

A Case Study Approach

By: Ellen M. Hickey,Natalie F. Douglas

Person-Centered Memory and Communication Interventions for Dementia: A Case Study Approach is the third volume in the “Medical Speech-Language Pathology” book series. It is a practical, peer-reviewed resource for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with people with dementia. In this unique text, the authors cover a variety of evidence-based clinical procedures for the memory, communication, and behavioral challenges of people with dementia. The aim is to empower SLPs and other clinicians to implement practices that elevate the personhood of people living with various dementia syndromes. Throughout this clinician-friendly text, the authors cover three main areas of focus: elevating personhood, the “how tos” of clinical procedures, and the organizational-level barriers and facilitators to implementation. After an introductory chapter, the next eight chapters describe a detailed case study that explains specific person-centered assessment and treatment methods. The cases depict a diverse group of people providing insights into the range of concerns and joys involved in supporting memory and communication in a manner that is culturally responsive and equitable. Key Features: * The only dementia text that incorporates a culturally responsive approach to cases that reflect the increasing diversity of the aging population * Specific examples of the “how tos” of person-centered, evidence-based care * Detailed personal, assessment, and treatment histories for each case, with a table of goals and intervention procedures, as well as illustrations of memory and communication strategies * Each chapter starts with an “At-A-Glance” section to highlight the person and ends with a summary of key points of the treatment and implementation factors * Uses a highly readable writing style with boxes, tables, and figures to support the text

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Plural Publishing

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1635503043

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9781635503043

Glaucoma

By: Douglas J. Rhee

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Glaucoma

By: Douglas J. Rhee

Developed at Philadelphia’s world-renowned Wills Eye Hospital, the Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology series covers the most clinically relevant aspects of ophthalmology in a highly visual, easy-to-use format. Vibrant, full-color photos and a consistent outline structure present a succinct, high-yield approach to the seven topics covered by this popular series: Cornea, Retina, Glaucoma, Oculoplastics, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, and Uveitis. This in-depth, focused approach makes each volume an excellent companion to the larger Wills Eye Manual as well as a practical stand-alone reference for students, residents, and practitioners in every area of ophthalmology.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197521482X

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9781975214821

The Last Male Bastion

Gender and the CEO Suite in America’s Public Companies

By: Douglas M. Branson

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The Last Male Bastion

Gender and the CEO Suite in America’s Public Companies

By: Douglas M. Branson

Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity, women made significant strides in politics (as senators, cabinet secretaries and governors), in not-for-profit spheres (as CEOs of health care and hospital organizations or of United Way chapters, with budgets of billions of dollars), and at colleges and universities (23 % have female presidents or chancellors). Currently, 3%, or 15, of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. After examining in detail the educations, career progressions, pronouncements and observations, as well as family lives, of the 19 women who have risen to the top (sitting and former CEOs), this book asks, and attempts to answer, two questions: Why haven’t more women reached the CEO suite?How might women in business better position themselves to ascend to the pinnacle?

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Routledge

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113523437X

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9781135234379

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein

By: Carol J. Adams,Douglas Buchanan,Kelly Gesch

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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein

By: Carol J. Adams,Douglas Buchanan,Kelly Gesch

A bolt-necked monster opens his eyes, lifts himself from his laboratory table, then lurches and stumbles toward his creator. Do we know this image because we are movie-watchers? When we imagine Frankenstein's monster, do we draw upon Mary Shelley's description? Or Boris Karloff's iconic look from the 1931 film by James Whale? Whether as cliche or icon, the monster clearly not only escaped from Victor Frankenstein's laboratory, but also from the pages of Shelley's book to roam unimpeded through our cultural psyche. New in the acclaimed Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair series, this guide provides the interested and curious, the serious and the ghoulish, with a new and unimaginable understanding of the Frankenstein legend. Written by an acclaimed social critic, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein takes us from Mary Shelley's creation to the latest film adaptations and comic-book re-creations. The book includes 200 images, many seldom seen, along with maps, puzzles, and brain-teashers--whether your brain was misplaced in a scientist's lab or not!

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Bloomsbury Academic

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0826418236

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9780826418234

The MGM Story

The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years

By: John Douglas Eames

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The MGM Story

The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years

By: John Douglas Eames

Brief descriptions of over 1700 MGM films.

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Conran Octopus

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0904230147

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9780904230147

Doug Pratt's DVD-Video Guide

By: Douglas Pratt

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Doug Pratt's DVD-Video Guide

By: Douglas Pratt

out of print. replaced by Doug Pratt's DVD

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0966974441

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eXtreme Project Management

Using Leadership, Principles, and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility

By: Douglas DeCarlo

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eXtreme Project Management

Using Leadership, Principles, and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility

By: Douglas DeCarlo

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470573678

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Journals and Reminiscences of James Douglas, M.D

By: James Douglas

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Journals and Reminiscences of James Douglas, M.D

By: James Douglas

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0469370041

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9780469370043

Sales Management

Concepts and Cases

By: Douglas J. Dalrymple,William L. Cron,Thomas E. DeCarlo

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Sales Management

Concepts and Cases

By: Douglas J. Dalrymple,William L. Cron,Thomas E. DeCarlo

Through six editions, Sales Management has provided readers with a comprehensive, practical approach to sales management. Now the authors continue that tradition in a new edition that places special emphasis on current issues of managing strategic account relationships, team development, diversity in the work force, sales force automation, and ethical issues.

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