Best friends like Susan and Carolyn always trade stuff back and forth. Sometimes Susan lends Carolyn her green earrings and orange Frisbee, or Carolyn lets Susan borrow her felt hat or a favorite book. But when they get into a fight, they have to return everything they've borrowed. Soon they realize that it wasn't the felt hat or green earrings they were missing; it was each other. This easy reader is just the right length for children making the transition from picture books to chater books. The realistic story, enlivened by jazzy, energetic illustrations, is sure to strike a chord with little girls--and their best friends!
Once upon a time, a Ph.D. went to work at Mickey D's... And what he found was illuminating. Jerry Newman, a college professor who has taught business courses for nearly 30 years, went undercover as a bottom-rung worker for the biggest names in fast food, including McDonald's and Burger King. Newman found that fast-food chains were the perfect petri dishes for covert research: High-pressure, high-volume businesses with high-employee turnover. The pecking order was also crystal clear, from fry cook all the way up to store manager. Of the seven restaurants where Newman worked, some were high-morale, high-productivity machines. Others were miserable, misplaced circles of hell. Yet one common trait stuck out from them all: Each restaurant's respective manager determined the climate of the work environment. Go behind the fast food counter with Newman and see what happens on an average day on the “McJob”... how the restaurants are run (for better or worse) how managers reward good employees when raises are impossible (believe it or not, bosses give 'em more hours-and it works!) how morale and motivation spring directly from the manager's office and how a few simple adjustments to your own management style-the “Supersized Management Principles” in this book-can transform and invigorate your workplace
As a novelist, Jerry Newman has long enjoyed a distinguished reputation for his wide-ranging characterizations of individuals caught in social and political webs. Now in Sudden Proclamations, his first collection of poetry, Newman situates the reader within the shadowy, mind-lit inner world. Daring to show that human savagery knows no bottom line, Newman also affirms that love permits no upper limit. These poems depict the heart as it calls out to its children, its lovers, itself.
Learn how to achieve more breakthrough solutions for your career and personal life. The techniques in Creativity Gateway are based on a sound set of principles distilled from the generally unknown science of creativity. Misconceptions about creativity hinder us from the greater application of this uniquely human capacity. The ability to generate, test, and execute truly imaginative solutions is one of the most valuable skills an individual can develop. Creativity Gateway provides techniques based on sound principles designed to help you discover and apply inventive solutions. These tactics can help you generate and apply more ingenious ideas for business, science, engineering, the arts, and your personal life. These building blocks and techniques will push you beyond the mere generation of ideas toward the implementation of innovative solutions. Supercharging your energy is the first building block or fundamental element for achieving your creative potential. The second is applying a structured process with your whole brain. The next fundamental element is expanding your knowledge base. The final building block for enrichment is boosting your networking competency. Creativity Gateway supplies tips to help you do all these things. These techniques, based on the science of creativity and models from prototypes of imaginative achievement, provide the framework for a personalized development plan suited to your strengths and needs.
Play Grounds - How Vision Is Learned by Children" is an insightful book of photographs that examines the effect of acculturation on the development of Vision.
Compensation, 11th Edition, by Milkovich, Newman and Gerhart is the market-leading text in this course area. It offers instructors current research material, in depth discussion of topics, integration of Internet coverage, excellent pedagogy, and a truly engaging writing style. The authors consult with leading businesses, have won teaching awards, and publish in the leading journals. This text examines the strategic choices in managing total compensation. The total compensation model introduced in chapter one serves as an integrating framework throughout the book. The authors discuss major compensation issues in the context of current theory, research, and real-business practices. Milkovich, Newman and Gerhart strive to differentiate between beliefs and opinions from facts and scholarly research. They showcase practices that illustrate new developments in compensation practices as well as established approaches to compensation decisions. Time after time, adopters relay stories of students getting job offers based on the knowledge they learned from this book.
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