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Stress and the Manager

By: Karl Albrecht

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Ours is a fast paced world. The need to help ourselves and other professional people manage stress has never been greater. This book pioneered the wave of business interest in stress management, based on Karl Albrecht's original work with stress management training. Use Stress and the Manager as your own personal guide to managing stress, and as a resource for your managers in training programs on personal effectiveness and stress management. It covers the basic definition of stress, how it effects the body, knowing when stress is harmful and when it is not, and how to manage your life, work, and activities to keep stress within your comfort zone. Also covers techniques for managing that can help others control their stress levels. Dr. Hans Selye, father of the medical theory of stress, says, ”I would not hesitate to support this book and will give it a place of prominence in the library of our International Institute of Stress, for all those concerned with management.” Provide a copy of Stress and the Manager to every one of your managers and team leaders.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451602693

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The Only Thing That Matters

Bringing the Power of the Customer into the Center of Your Business

By: Karl Albrecht

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The Only Thing That Matters

Bringing the Power of the Customer into the Center of Your Business

By: Karl Albrecht

Total Commitment to the Customer: The Only Way to Succeed in the Supercompetitive 1990sIn The Only Thing That Matters Karl Albrecht challenges American business to a commitment that will transform it to its very core. Albrecht's plan goes beyond lip service and simple cosmetic approaches to show the way to a radical bottom-up, top-down, total company commitment to the customer. His blueprint for success encompasses and explains the five critical challenges facing every business: Finding the "Invisible Truth" about your customer Creating new, long-term rules for the Game Winning the hearts, minds, and hands of your people Making all systems, policies, and procedures customer-friendly Keeping score and leading the way

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HarperBusiness

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088730639X

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9780887306396

Practical Intelligence

The Art and Science of Common Sense

By: Karl Albrecht

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Practical Intelligence

The Art and Science of Common Sense

By: Karl Albrecht

Karl Albrecht’s bestselling book Social Intelligence showed us how dealing with people and social situations can determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes the next step and explains how practical intelligence (PI) qualifies as one of the key life skills and offers a conceptual structure for defining and describing common sense. Throughout Practical Intelligence, Albrecht explains that people with practical intelligence can employ language skills, make better decisions, think in terms of options and possibilities, embrace ambiguity and complexity, articulate problems clearly and work through to solutions, have original ideas, and influence the ideas of others. Albrecht shows that everyone’s PI skills can be improved with proper education and training and challenges all of us—from parents and teachers to executives and managers—to upgrade our own skills and help others develop their own PI abilities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787997056

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9780787997052

Social Intelligence

The New Science of Success

By: Karl Albrecht

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Social Intelligence

The New Science of Success

By: Karl Albrecht

Conceived by management consultant, futurist, speaker, and author Karl Albrecht, Social Intelligence goes beyond IQ and EI (Emotional Intelligence) to show how generosity, consideration, and other practical skills are key to success at work and in life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787979384

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9780787979386

At America's Service

How Your Company Can Join the Customer Service Revolution

By: Karl Albrecht

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At America's Service

How Your Company Can Join the Customer Service Revolution

By: Karl Albrecht

From the coauthor of the business bestseller Service America! comes an essential, comprehensive, practical manual for implementing service management strategies that work. Albrecht focuses on issues and problems such as building a service culture, how to get managers to think in new ways, common mistakes and more.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446393169

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9780446393164

Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills

By: Karl Albrecht

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Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills

By: Karl Albrecht

Do you want to expand your mental power? Think more clearly, logically, and creatively? Improve your memory? Solve problems and make decisions more effectively? Brain Power introduces the six functional thinking abilities you need to become an adaptive, innovative thinker. As you develop your ability to think on your feet, to isolate and arrange facts, and to avoid logical pitfalls you will see how to use creative problem solving strategies, both in business and in private life. With practical exercises to improve your full range of mental capabilities from concentration to intuition, management consultant Karl Albrecht answers all your questions on becoming a more efficient and effective thinking. Offering a gold mine of ideas and techniques to use in most any situation, Brain Power provides fascinating illustrations, games, and puzzles that will stimulate and expand your brain power.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439188645

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9781439188644

The Northbound Train

Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization

By: Karl Albrecht

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The Northbound Train

Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization

By: Karl Albrecht

Albrecht argues there is an identity crisis epidemic in the business world. Pressured by changes in customers, in technology, in business structures, and in global trade, organisations are struggling to sift through the factors, define themselves, and make a profit in the process.

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AMACOM/American Management Association

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081440233X

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9780814402337

The Power of Minds at Work

Organizational Intelligence in Action

By: Karl Albrecht

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The Power of Minds at Work

Organizational Intelligence in Action

By: Karl Albrecht

Albrecht, a noted management consultant, speaker, and author, draws on his experiences working with organizations around the world to define what organizational intelligence is and how it can be developed. Taking a critical look at organizations that have and have not achieved organizational intelligence, including Disney, Apple, Ford, and NASA, he defines seven components of organizational intelligence and uses them to analyze situations and identify the kinds of conditions necessary to nurture organizational intelligence. He also identifies 17 dysfunctional syndromes that keep companies from mobilizing their collective brain power. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0814407374

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9780814407370

Practical Intelligence

The Art and Science of Common Sense

By: Karl Albrecht

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Practical Intelligence

The Art and Science of Common Sense

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787995657

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9780787995652

Corporate Radar

Tracking the Forces that are Shaping Your Business

By: Karl Albrecht

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Corporate Radar

Tracking the Forces that are Shaping Your Business

By: Karl Albrecht

Discusses how companies can safeguard their competitive positions by analyzing events, trends, and forces that could alter their business future

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Amacom Books

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0814405045

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9780814405048

The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870

By: Karl Koldewey

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The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870

By: Karl Koldewey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368236652

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9783368236656

A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects

How Long Will Your Project Take?

By: Karl Cox

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A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects

How Long Will Your Project Take?

By: Karl Cox

Effort estimation is a core practice in software projects to help project managers work out the duration and cost of their project. This book compares different industry approaches to effort estimation and explains how to use each in a straightforward way with a real-life case study example so the reader can learn to apply it immediately. The approaches covered here range from more traditional function points to agile story points and Kanban estimation techniques. The reader will also learn how to answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?” with earned value analysis. There are exercises for the reader to apply the approaches with answers and explanations provided. This highly readable book is a valuable, go-to resource for software project managers, teachers of software project management, and students of computer science, information systems and software engineering who will become the project managers of the future.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527502074

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The Last Frontier

Imagining Other Worlds from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction

By: Karl S. Guthke

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The Last Frontier

Imagining Other Worlds from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction

By: Karl S. Guthke

The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.

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Cornell University Press

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1501745875

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9781501745874

The History of the Theory of Structures

Searching for Equilibrium

By: Karl-Eugen Kurrer

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The History of the Theory of Structures

Searching for Equilibrium

By: Karl-Eugen Kurrer

Zehn Jahre nach der 1. Auflage in englischer Sprache legt der Autor sein Buch The History of the Theory of Structures in wesentlich erweiterter Form vor, nunmehr mit dem Untertitel Searching for Equilibrium. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch lädt der Verfasser seine Leser zur Suche nach dem Gleichgewicht von Tragwerken auf Zeitreisen ein. Die Zeitreisen setzen mit der Entstehung der Statik und Festigkeitslehre eines Leonardo und Galilei ein und erreichen ihren ersten Höhepunkt mit den baustatischen Theorien über den Balken, Erddruck und das Gewölbe von Coulomb am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Im folgenden Jahrhundert formiert sich die Baustatik mit Navier, Culmann, Maxwell, Rankine, Mohr, Castigliano und Müller-Breslau zu einer technikwissenschaftlichen Grundlagendisziplin, die im 20. Jahrhundert in Gestalt der modernen Strukturmechanik bei der Herausbildung der konstruktiven Sprache des Stahl-, Stahlbeton-, Flugzeug-, Automobil- und des Schiffbaus eine tragende Rolle spielt. Dabei setzt der Autor den inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt auf die Formierung und Entwicklung moderner numerischer Ingenieurmethoden wie der Finite-Elemente-Methode und beschreibt ihre disziplinäre Integration in der Computational Mechanics. Kurze, durch historische Skizzen unterstützte Einblicke in gängige Berechnungsverfahren erleichtern den Zugang zur Geschichte der Strukturmechanik und Erddrucktheorie vom heutigen Stand der Ingenieurpraxis und stellen einen auch einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Ingenieurpädagogik dar. Dem Autor gelingt es, die Unterschiedlichkeit der Akteure hinsichtlich ihres technisch-wissenschaftlichen Profils und ihrer Persönlichkeit plastisch zu schildern und das Verständnis für den gesellschaftlichen Kontext zu erzeugen. So werden in 260 Kurzbiografien die subjektive Dimension der Baustatik und der Strukturmechanik von der frühen Neuzeit bis heute entfaltet. Dabei werden die wesentlichen Beiträge der Protagonisten der Baustatik besprochen und in die nachfolgende Bibliografie integriert. Berücksichtigt wurden nicht nur Bauingenieure und Architekten, sondern auch Mathematiker, Physiker, Maschinenbauer sowie Flugzeug- und Schiffbauer. Neben den bekannten Persönlichkeiten der Baustatik, wie Coulomb, Culmann, Maxwell, Mohr, Müller-Breslau, Navier, Rankine, Saint-Venant, Timoshenko und Westergaard, wurden u. a. auch G. Green, A. N. Krylov, G. Li, A. J. S. Pippard, W. Prager, H. A. Schade, A. W. Skempton, C. A. Truesdell, J. A. L. Waddell und H. Wagner berücksichtigt. Den Wegbereitern der Moderne in der Baustatik J. H. Argyris, R. W. Clough, Th. v. Kármán, M. J. Turner und O. C. Zienkiewicz wurden umfangreiche Biografien gewidmet. Eine ca. 4500 Titel umfassende Bibliografie rundet das Werk ab. Neue Inhalte der 2. Auflage sind: Erddrucktheorie, Traglastverfahren, historische Lehrbuchanalyse, Stahlbrückenbau, Leichtbau, Platten- und Schalentheorie, Greensche Funktion, Computerstatik, FEM, Computergestützte Graphostatik und Historische Technikwissenschaft. Gegenüber der 1., englischen Ausgabe wurde der Seitenumfang um 50 % auf nunmehr etwas über 1200 Druckseiten gesteigert. Das vorliegende Buch ist die erste zusammenfassende historische Gesamtdarstellung der Baustatik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis heute. Über die Reihe edition Bautechnikgeschichte: Mit erstaunlicher Dynamik hat sich die Bautechnikgeschichte in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zu einer höchst lebendigen, international vernetzten und viel beachteten eigenständigen Disziplin entwickelt. Auch wenn die nationalen Forschungszugänge unterschiedliche Akzente setzen, eint sie doch das Bewusstsein, dass gerade die inhaltliche und methodische Vielfalt und das damit verbundene synthetische Potenzial die Stärke des neuen Forschungsfeldes ausmachen. Bautechnikgeschichte erschließt neue Formen des Verstehens von Bauen zwischen Ingenieurwesen und Architektur, zwischen Bau- und Kunst-, Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Mit der edition Bautechnikgeschichte erhält die neue Disziplin erstmals einen Ort für die Publikation wichtiger Arbeiten auf angemessenem Niveau in hochwertiger Gestaltung. Die Bücher erscheinen in deutscher oder englischer Sprache. Beide Hauptrichtungen der Bautechnikgeschichte, der eher konstruktionsgeschichtlich und der eher theoriegeschichtlich geleitete Zugang, finden Berücksichtigung; das Spektrum der Bände reicht von Überblickswerken über Monographien zu Einzelaspekten oder -bauten bis hin zu Biographien bedeutender Ingenieurpersönlichkeiten. Ein international besetzter Wissenschaftlicher Beirat unterstützt die Herausgeber in der Umsetzung des Konzepts.

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3433609144

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The Divorce of Lothar II

Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World

By: Karl Heidecker

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The Divorce of Lothar II

Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World

By: Karl Heidecker

She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. 'Before God and his angels' she bares her heart and confesses to them 'every secret relating to the rumor that had arisen.' The 'rumor'--as will become apparent--concerns her sexual relations with her brother. True, the 'inner wound' which she 'confesses' to God and the bishops was not dealt her of her own volition but under duress, but it is in any event so terrible that she no longer feels herself worthy to share a royal or a marital bed or to marry anyone at all. The bishops and abbots allow her, as she had supposedly requested, to enter a convent."--from The Divorce of Lothar II The Divorce of Lothar II illuminates the origin and development of Western notions of marriage and divorce and the separation of church and state in the context of a notorious royal divorce in late Carolingian Europe. In 857, Lothar II, king of Lotharingia, decided to divorce Theutberga--either because she had allegedly engaged in an incestuous liaison with her brother or simply because Lothar had wished to marry his concubine Waldrada. Karl Heidecker's dramatic and engaging narrative untangles the chaos that resulted: two popes, a host of often quarreling bishops, and Lothar's conniving uncles soon became involved in an epic struggle that did not end even with the death of Lothar.The extraordinary series of events sheds light on the fact that the laws on marriage and divorce were still uncertain. The Church itself was hardly unified in its approach, and its efforts to formulate and impose rules repeatedly foundered against the political machinations characteristic of the Carolingian world. In The Divorce of Lothar II, Heidecker not only discusses the legal aspects of the case but also pays much attention to the often heavy-handed ways in which the players of the story achieved their goals.This ninth-century scandal becomes a study of family dynamics, changing values, and the tenuous relationships between kings, nobles, and bishops around the topic of royal marriage. Though the drama ended with no clear resolution of the Church's position, Lothar's quest is revealed as an early chapter in the emergence of the belief that marriage rests on the personal will of the partners, is monogamous, and should not be dissolved.

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Cornell University Press

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0801439299

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9780801439292

Progress in Botany

By: Karl Esser

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Progress in Botany

By: Karl Esser

With one new volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of botany. The present volume includes reviews on structural botany, plant taxonomy, physiology, genetics and geobotany.

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3642604587

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Stress and the Manager

Stress and the Manager

The Only Thing That Matters

The Only Thing That Matters

Practical Intelligence

Practical Intelligence

Social Intelligence

Social Intelligence

At America's Service

At America's Service

Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills

Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills

The Northbound Train

The Northbound Train

The Power of Minds at Work

The Power of Minds at Work

Practical Intelligence

Practical Intelligence

Corporate Radar

Corporate Radar

The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870

The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870

A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects

A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

The History of the Theory of Structures

The History of the Theory of Structures

The Divorce of Lothar II

The Divorce of Lothar II

Progress in Botany

Progress in Botany

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