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Fair, Square & Legal

Safe Hiring, Managing & Firing Practices to Keep You & Your Company Out of Court

By: Donald H. Weiss

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Fair, Square & Legal

Safe Hiring, Managing & Firing Practices to Keep You & Your Company Out of Court

By: Donald H. Weiss

Fair, Square & Legal has long been the essential resource for organizations seeking to stay within the law and avoid violating the rights of their employees. This new, extensively updated edition reflects the latest regulations and court decisions, while retaining all the indispensable information readers have depended on for more than a decade. Readers will find information on a wide variety of legal issues including: * recruitment and hiring * sexual harassment * violation of privacy * evaluations and promotions * affirmative action issues * discipline and firing The book covers the latest discrimination and EEOC guidelines, employee verification, and technology issues. It also updates topics including management best practices and recruitment. Comprehensive and up-to-date, Fair, Square & Legal is still the very best guide to keeping an organization out of hot water.

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Amacom Books

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0814408133

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9780814408131

Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence

By: Daniel H. Weiss

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Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence

By: Daniel H. Weiss

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009221663

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9781009221665

How To Build High-Performance Teams

EBook Edition

By: Donald H. WEISS

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How To Build High-Performance Teams

EBook Edition

By: Donald H. WEISS

Here’s a step-by-step process to recruit, empower and lead teams. How to Build High-Performance Teams focuses on the how-to keys of team-building—from recruiting the right team members to truly empowering them with authority and responsibility for their decisions and performance. You’ll understand how to build trust, confidence, and group work skills, balancing and fine-tuning the team process as you go. You'll learn how to: • Build and manage teams that live up to their promise of higher productivity and greater problem-solving ability • Maximize team productivity by encouraging group discussion and problem-solving • Overcome organizational, management and employee barriers to teamwork • Manage interpersonal conflicts among team members. This is an ebook version of the AMA Self-Study course. If you want to take the course for credit you need to either purchase a hard copy of the course through amaselfstudy.org or purchase an online version of the course through www.flexstudy.com.

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AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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0761215352

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9780761215356

The Elements of International English Style

A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents, and Internet Pages for a Global Audience

By: Edmond H. Weiss

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The Elements of International English Style

A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents, and Internet Pages for a Global Audience

By: Edmond H. Weiss

This easy-to-use handbook is an essential resource for anyone who needs to write English correspondence for an international business audience. In an engaging, accessible style it integrates the theory and controversies of intercultural communication with the practical skills of writing and editing English for those who read it as a second language. The book emphasizes principles of simplicity and clarity, proper etiquette, cultural sensitivity, appropriate layout and typography, and more to increase the chances that a text prepared by a native English speaker will be better understood by a non-native speaker. It also updates traditional advice with new insights into "e-mail culture." Equally useful for students and professionals in business communication, marketing communication, and international business, The Elements of International English Style is filled with realistic examples, problems, and projects, including: 57 specific tactics to internationalize one's English; hundreds of before-and-after comparisons showing the effects of editing for an international audience; models of international correspondence; practical discussion questions and work projects; useful resources for further study, including books, articles, and websites.

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Routledge

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1317457226

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9781317457220

Paradox and the Prophets

Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion

By: Daniel H. Weiss

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Paradox and the Prophets

Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion

By: Daniel H. Weiss

Weiss examines the style and method of Hermann Cohen's magnum opus, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism. Through philosophical and scriptural analyses, Weiss argues for a new reading of this long-misunderstood book, demonstrating Cohen's continuing significance for Jewish thought and for philosophy of religion more broadly.

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Oxford University Press

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0199895902

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9780199895908

The Elements of International English Style

A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents Internet Pages For a Global Audience

By: Edmond H. Weiss

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The Elements of International English Style

A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents Internet Pages For a Global Audience

By: Edmond H. Weiss

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765628309

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9780765628305

An Introduction to Discrete-Valued Time Series

By: Christian H. Weiss

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An Introduction to Discrete-Valued Time Series

By: Christian H. Weiss

A much-needed introduction to the field of discrete-valued time series, with a focus on count-data time series Time series analysis is an essential tool in a wide array of fields, including business, economics, computer science, epidemiology, finance, manufacturing and meteorology, to name just a few. Despite growing interest in discrete-valued time series—especially those arising from counting specific objects or events at specified times—most books on time series give short shrift to that increasingly important subject area. This book seeks to rectify that state of affairs by providing a much needed introduction to discrete-valued time series, with particular focus on count-data time series. The main focus of this book is on modeling. Throughout numerous examples are provided illustrating models currently used in discrete-valued time series applications. Statistical process control, including various control charts (such as cumulative sum control charts), and performance evaluation are treated at length. Classic approaches like ARMA models and the Box-Jenkins program are also featured with the basics of these approaches summarized in an Appendix. In addition, data examples, with all relevant R code, are available on a companion website. Provides a balanced presentation of theory and practice, exploring both categorical and integer-valued series Covers common models for time series of counts as well as for categorical time series, and works out their most important stochastic properties Addresses statistical approaches for analyzing discrete-valued time series and illustrates their implementation with numerous data examples Covers classical approaches such as ARMA models, Box-Jenkins program and how to generate functions Includes dataset examples with all necessary R code provided on a companion website An Introduction to Discrete-Valued Time Series is a valuable working resource for researchers and practitioners in a broad range of fields, including statistics, data science, machine learning, and engineering. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students in statistics, mathematics and economics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119096960

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9781119096962

Why Didn't I Say That?!

What to Say and how to Say it in Tough Situations on the Job

By: Donald H. Weiss

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Why Didn't I Say That?!

What to Say and how to Say it in Tough Situations on the Job

By: Donald H. Weiss

This guide teaches managers how to communicate effectively when dealing with awkward or difficult situations in the workplace. The book is especially useful as an aid to avoiding the "open mouth, insert foot" syndrome

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Amacom Books

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0814479375

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9780814479377

Just Give Them a Hug . . . and the Rest Will Be Easy

How One Person Can Make the World a Better Place, One Child at a Time

By: Brett H. Weiss

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Just Give Them a Hug . . . and the Rest Will Be Easy

How One Person Can Make the World a Better Place, One Child at a Time

By: Brett H. Weiss

In 2009, Brett Weiss decides he wants to volunteer in Kenya. A teacher in high school economics, US history, and international relations, he has a particular interest in experiencing immersion in a community where he will learn firsthand about the difficulties of the aftermath of colonialism. Determined to ask questions and listen, he makes his first trip to Dago, a small village in Western Kenya. As a teacher, his curiosity is riveted on the children and the education system. What he learns in Dago shakes his world and opens his eyes to the void that is eroding the potential success of the next generation. Brett returns to the US quite moved by his experience in Kenya, realizing that many of the children he met would never be able to get an education and escape abject poverty. This is the impetus for him to start the Bernard and Elsie Weiss Dago Scholarship Fund, named after his parents. His goal is to sponsor as many young people as he can through high school, and he sets out with the passion and sincerity that have made his program so successful. Brett’s book implores readers to support this mission in whatever way possible. The need is enormous; the smallest token of interest or help can bring about the grandest results. He also encourages readers to take their own personal journey, asking: Is it your time to start this journey? For more information visit: www.hopefordago.org. As I started to leave the classroom, the teacher came up to me and thanked me for giving the student the pen. When I asked him why the student began crying when the pen ran out of ink, the teacher explained that it was hard for these children to get pens, and the boy was worried he might never get another one. He was wondering how he would be able to continue going to school. Quote from the book – Brett Weiss

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iUniverse

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1532019629

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9781532019623

In That Time

Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam

By: Daniel H. Weiss

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In That Time

Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam

By: Daniel H. Weiss

Through the story of the brief, brave life of a promising poet, the president and CEO of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art evokes the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era. In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O'Donnell, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter pilot. O'Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force, and his best-known poem is among the most beloved of the war. In 1970, during an attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire, O'Donnell's helicopter was shot down in the jungles of Cambodia. He remained missing in action for almost three decades. Although he never fired a shot in Vietnam, O'Donnell served in one of the most dangerous roles of the war, all the while using poetry to express his inner feelings and to reflect on the tragedy that was unfolding around him. O'Donnell's life is both a powerful, personal story and a compelling, universal one about how America lost its way in the 1960s, but also how hope can flower in the margins of even the darkest chapters of the American story.

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PublicAffairs

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1541773896

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9781541773899

Uses of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine

By: Nicholas P Farrell

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Uses of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine

By: Nicholas P Farrell

Metal-based drugs are a commercially important sector of the pharmaceutical business, yet most bioinorganic textbooks lack the space to cover comprehensively the subject of metals in medicine. Uses of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine approaches an understanding of the topic in a didactic and systematic manner. The field of inorganic chemistry in medicine may usefully be divided into two main categories - drugs which target metal ions in some form, whether free or protein-bound, and secondly, metal-based drugs where the central metal ion is usually the key feature of the mechanism of action. This latter category can further be subdivided into pharmacodynamic and chemotherapeutic applications, as well as those of imaging. The book summarises the chemical and biological studies on clinically used agents of lithium, gold and platinum, as well as highlighting the research on prospective new drugs, including those based on vanadium and manganese. The coverage allows a clear distinction between pharmacodynamic and therapeutic properties of metal-based drugs and focuses not only on those clinical agents in current use, but also on new drugs and uses. This book serves to fill an important niche, bridging bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry and will undoubtedly be of use to senior undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as being an invaluable asset for teachers and researchers in the discipline.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1847552242

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9781847552242

Making Arguments

Reason in Context

By: Edmond H. Weiss

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Making Arguments

Reason in Context

By: Edmond H. Weiss

Making Arguments: Reason in Context offers a new approach to the teaching of argumentation and debate. Nearly all argumentation courses and textbooks tilt toward one of two extremes: * Critical thinking/informal logic, in which the "laws" of reasoning are universal and not affected by audience or context * Public speaking, in which adaptation to the audience and winning assent trumps logic and reasoning At the first extreme are texts that stress flaws in arguments and how to discern them. Their focus tends to be on the logic (making deductive inferences and avoiding deductive mistakes or other errors of inference) and/or the recognition of fallacies (deficient or fake arguments). They also deal with the messy ambiguities of language. Generally, this approach omits the concept of an audience. And it does not explain how spotting the flaws in reasoning, or improving one's reasoning, translates into the ability to make an effective argument. Further, it is not clear how to address audiences whose grasp of logic is shaky. At the other extreme are books (especially public speaking textbooks) that err in the opposite direction. They are fixated on audience. As a result, their advice about how to argue is grounded in audience adaptation. In fact, the process of reasoning is nearly subordinated to such secondary considerations as style, delivery, and organization. And again, the connection between critical thinking/logic and audience is rarely examined. In Making Arguments, we propose to consider argument at the nexus of invention and judgment, the two endpoints from which logic and public speaking examine argumentation, respectively. By looking at the "stuff" that comes between an argument's design and its delivery, we hope to enrich the understanding and the study of argument, as both a theoretical and applied discipline. In particular, we want to answer some questions that are seldom addressed in print: * What is the starting point for augmentation? When do we even need to argue? * When should one embrace, and when should one avoid, arguing? * Why does the same argument work in one place and fail in another? * Are most audiences capable of understanding a complex argument? * With what authority can one make an argument--absent expertise in the field in which the argument takes place? * Are there substantive differences between oral and written argument? * What does it mean to "present" an argument? * Can someone control the argumentative situation/context to the benefit of his/her position? * How can argument educate and improve the arguer? * Can we learn the "truth" by arguing? This book addresses the whole advocacy process as a series of concatenated intellectual decisions affecting how arguments are created, ordered, rendered, and produced--with judgment as the over-arching concern.

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eBookIt.com

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1456608592

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Philosophical Logic

By: Robert L. Arrington,Peter M. Burkholder,Shannon Dubose,James W. Dye,James K. Feibleman,Bertrand P. Helm,Max Hocutt,Harold N. Lee,Louise N. Roberts,John C. Sallis,Donald H. Weiss

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Philosophical Logic

By: Robert L. Arrington,Peter M. Burkholder,Shannon Dubose,James W. Dye,James K. Feibleman,Bertrand P. Helm,Max Hocutt,Harold N. Lee,Louise N. Roberts,John C. Sallis,Donald H. Weiss

With this issue we initiate the policy of expanding the scope of Tulane Studies in Philosophy to include, in addition to the work of members of the department, contributions from philosophers who have earned advanced degrees from Tulane and who are now teaching in other colleges and universities. The Editor THE LOGIC OF OUR LANGUAGE ROBERT L. ARRINGTON Wittgenstein wrote in the Tractatus that "logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. " 1 In line with his suggestion that a proposition is a 'picture', Wittgenstein argued that propositions 'show' the logical structure of the real. He was insistent, however, that "the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one. " 2 As a result of this we can misunderstand the structure of fact. Philosophical problems arise just when "the logic of our language is mis understood. " 3 It is common knowledge that much of this view of logic was rejected by Wittgenstein himself in the Philosophical Investi gations. There we are told that language has no ideal or sublime 4 logic which mirrors the structure of the extra-linguistic world. Consequently, inferences from the structure of language to the structure of that extra-linguistic world are invalid. Reality can be 'cut up' in any of a number of ways by language. Wittgenstein adopted a view of philosophy which would render that discipline a non-explanatory, non-critical study of the multiple ways in which language can be used.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401034974

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9789401034975

Why the Museum Matters

By: Daniel H. Weiss

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Why the Museum Matters

By: Daniel H. Weiss

A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this thoughtful and often personal volume, Daniel H. Weiss contemplates the idea of the universal art museum alongside broad considerations about the role of art in society and what defines a cultural experience. The future of art museums is far from secure, and Weiss reflects on many of the difficulties these institutions face, from their financial health to their collecting practices to the audiences they engage to ensuring freedom of expression on the part of artists and curators. In grappling with these challenges, Weiss sees a solution in shared governance. His tone is one of optimism as he looks to a future where the museum will serve a greater public while continuing to be a steward of culture and a place of discovery, discourse, inspiration, and pleasure. This poignant questioning and affirmation of the museum explores our enduring values while embracing the need for change in a rapidly evolving world.

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Yale University Press

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0300269358

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9780300269352

Fair, Square, and Legal

Safe Hiring, Managing & Firing Practices to Keep You & Your Company Out of Court

By: Donald H. Weiss

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Fair, Square, and Legal

Safe Hiring, Managing & Firing Practices to Keep You & Your Company Out of Court

By: Donald H. Weiss

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AMACOM/American Management Association

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0814459765

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9780814459768

Structure and Application of Galvanomagnetic Devices

International Series of Monographs on Semiconductors

By: H. Weiss

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Structure and Application of Galvanomagnetic Devices

International Series of Monographs on Semiconductors

By: H. Weiss

International Series of Monographs on Semiconductors, Volume 8: Structure and Application of Galvanomagnetic Devices focuses on the composition, reactions, transformations, and applications of galvanomagnetic devices. The book first ponders on basic physical concepts, design and fabrication of galvanomagnetic devices, and properties of galvanomagnetic devices. Discussions focus on changes in electrical properties on irradiation with high-energy particles, magnetoresistor field-plate, Hall generator, preparation of semiconductor films by vacuum deposition, structure of field-plate magnetoresistors, growth of semiconductors from the melt, and galvanomagnetic materials and effects. The text then elaborates on the applications of the Hall effect and the magnetoresistance effect. Topics include contactless control, connecting the field-plate to other semiconductor devices, non-contacting variable resistance and potentiometer, measurement of magnetic fields and quantities proportional to magnetic fields, and measurement of quantities representable by a magnetic induction. The manuscript underscores other possibilities for controlling the electrical properties of semiconductors by means of a magnetic field. The publication is a vital source of data for researchers wanting to explore the structure and applications of galvanomagnetic devices.

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Elsevier

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1483186210

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9781483186214

The Self-management Workshop

Helping People Take Control of Their Lives and Their Work : a Trainer's Guide

By: Donald H. Weiss

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The Self-management Workshop

Helping People Take Control of Their Lives and Their Work : a Trainer's Guide

By: Donald H. Weiss

This valuable new series gives training professionals everything they need to design and deliver workshops on some of the hottest topics in training. Each tool kit is ready to use as is or to adapt to meet specific needs.

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Amacom Books

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0814404537

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9780814404539

How to Get the Best Out of People

By: Donald H. Weiss

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How to Get the Best Out of People

By: Donald H. Weiss

Offers advice on motivating employees, tells how to communicate self-confidence, and explains the importance of recognizing employee needs

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0814477011

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9780814477014

Secrets of the Wild Goose

The Self-management Way to Increase Your Personal Power and Inspire Productive Teamwork

By: Donald H. Weiss

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Secrets of the Wild Goose

The Self-management Way to Increase Your Personal Power and Inspire Productive Teamwork

By: Donald H. Weiss

The secret of wild geese is that they fly in formation, not solo, giving them the "lifting power" to cover hundreds of miles in a single stretch. This dynamic, inspiring guide unlocks the door to personal and organizational success by showing managers how to achieve focus, discipline, superior leadership skills, and more through the art of self-management.

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AMACOM/American Management Association

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0814404316

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9780814404317

How to Deal with Difficult People

By: Donald H. Weiss

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How to Deal with Difficult People

By: Donald H. Weiss

Explains why some individuals have difficulty working with each other, describes a variety of difficult character types and stresses the importance of behavioral feedback

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