Contains over 300 money-making and socially sensible concepts woven into illustrative stories showing how they have worked or what would be needed to implement them. Each of the ideas is designed to improve a situation, correct a problem, create a product, or provide a service. The book details the best of the commercial, social, cultural, political, and personal projects undertaken or developed by the author over his 40-year career as a college instructor, Army intelligence officer, US diplomat, management specialist in the President's Executive office, and as a private sector advisor to governments, non-profit groups, and businesses.
While corruption is most noticeable in government agencies and among business entities, it also occurs in religious organizations, nonprofit groups, sports teams, and individual families. Because corrupt behavior is not restricted to illegal activities alone, it can impact the fair and efficient operation of society whenever rules are broken, boundaries are trespassed, and standards are lowered. Although it is unlikely that any society will ever be successful in totally preventing corruption, there are steps that can be taken to control its impact and restrict its spreadand more checkpoints, additional guards, and increased openness are not among them.
This book explores the topic of how grandparents can become more substantively involved with their grandchildren without interfering in the traditional interaction between parents and children. It looks at the subject from the perspective of a public policy specialist, someone professionally interested in creating better communities through political activity. It leaves to other professionals -- doctors, psychologists, teachers, counsellors, mentors, priests and the like -- the issues of how to make better children for those communities.
This kit provides those who are the first line of defence in preserving and protecting the artefacts of cultural heritage with 10 specialised and reproducible forms to categorize, compare, describe, display, inventory, safeguard, and value all the elements of a private collection to assist appraisers, auctioneers, competitors, curators, governmental authorities, heirs, insurance companies, and others in understanding and appreciating the elements of a particular collection.
Discusses and illustrates why three crucial aspects of Leonardo da Vinci's life -- his illegitimate birth, his left-handedness, and his homosexuality -- drove an ordinary man to make extraordinary contributions in art, science, engineering, design, and philosophy. The author shows how many of his 15th century contributions still have relevance to the 21st century and why Leonardo's abiding belief that "every difficulty can be overcome by effort" is a lesson we need to instil in students of today. As one reviewer noted: "You have made me a believer (and so will) just about anyone else who reads what you have written...
We call it "The essential tool for uncovering what politicians want to hide." Here are what some readers have already said about it: GH "This is a fun book to read. Easy to pick up and set down when you have only a few minutes to spare. I particularly liked the background speculation on how each euphemism arose." MH: "I am so impressed with the invitation to give appropriate credit and a free book to anyone contributing a favoUrite political euphemism for the next edition." MD: "If euphemisms mask straightforward words that are too harsh, too hurtful, too blunt, too embarrassing, too direct, too open or too private, then this book is the opposite. It pulls no punches.
After Grandparenting and Corruption, this is the third in a trilogy of books on how to make better communities in which business and citizens alike can prosper. It deals with techniques for achieving a greater degree of respect and trust among strangers in public settings.
Eleven easy-to-use, freely reproducible forms and simple instructions -- developed by a professional planner and the expert staff of a packing/shipping/freight forwarding firm -- to prepare for every activity, keep track of every detail, visualise every moment, and plan every detail of a successful move -- on time, without stress, and within budget.
The book provides a basic understanding and history of ivory along with a discussion and photographs of its many uses. It argues that ivory collected from elephants that die of natural causes, are culled from authorised hunts, that come from archeological sites and are recycled should be allowed to move in international trade with the proceeds going to programs to end poaching.
This guide offers new ways to decide on individual charitable contributions to encourage fairness and balance for the work of Americas nonprofits. Helps anyone decide on what to give to any cause in amounts that reflect both the organisation's needs and the individuals available funds.
Practical ways to achieve weight control by developing new habits, new techniques, and a new outlook involving food intake that recognises the difficulties of counting calories or calculating carbohydrate consumption, that shows how adopting simple lifestyle changes can help control weight and improve health, and that accounts for the imperatives of personal taste and the inevitable changes wrought by ageing, all the while advocating a relaxed, more casual approach to dieting to achieve the best results for the most people over the longest period of time.
Word of mouth advertising, the oldest, least expensive, and most effective form of market promotion, has recently added e-mails, websites, and an array of social networks to the way information about products, services, events, and ideas are disseminated. Harris reviews the impact of these new techniques against the background of a major case study of 25 word of mouth programs used as the primary marketing tool to promote a museum exhibit. This is the 8th book by the author on various aspects of word of mouth advertising. Previous titles have examined how to stimulate word of mouth advertising, how to use it effectively in various industries, how to use it on the Internet, the role of body language in word of mouth advertising, and how to design word of mouth programs.
This book has been written to help everyone remember everything they like to have with them on any trip away from home. It also helps you make sure that what goes with you on a trip ends up being delivered to the right person in the right place and that nothing you intend to bring home with you gets left behind.
Managing caregiving in the home or at an outside facility involves selecting the best company or person to provide the care needed. Deciding how the care is to be given. Guiding the caregivers in offering the type of care wanted. Adjusting the caregiving to the constant changes encountered. Assessing the efficacy of the care on a regular basis. This Guide gives you all of this and much more.
Eleven easy-to-use, freely reproducible forms and simple instructions -- developed by a professional planner -- to find a suitable gift for every occasion, keep track of every detail, and plan every aspect of presenting a gift -- on goal, without stress and within budget.
Eleven easy-to-use, freely reproducible forms and simple instructions -- developed by a professional planner and a board certified family physician -- to keep track of every detail, and plan every aspect of a successful eating program -- on goal, without stress and within budget.
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