Develop more productive habits in dealing with your manager. As a professional in the business world, you care about doing your job the right way. The quality of your work matters to you, both as a professional and as a person. The company you work for cares about making money and your boss is evaluated on that basis. Sometimes those goals overlap, but the different priorities mean conflict is inevitable. Take concrete steps to build a relationship with your manager that helps both sides succeed. Guide your manager to treat you as a vital member of the team who should be kept as happy and productive as possible. When your manager insists on a course of action you don't like, most employees feel they have only two options: you can swallow your objections, or you can leave. Neither option gets you what you want, which is for your manager to consider your interests when making decisions. Challenging your boss directly is risky, but if you understand what really matters to your manager, you can build a balanced relationship that works for both sides. Provide timely "good enough" answers that satisfy the immediate need of the boss to move forward. Use a productive solution to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma to structure your interactions with management, going along when necessary and pushing back where appropriate, without threatening the loyalty relationship. Send the two most important messages to your boss: "I got this" and "I got your back," to prove your value to the boss and the organization. Analyze your manager's communication preferences so you can express your arguments in a way most likely to be heard and understood. Avoid key traps, like thinking of the boss as your friend or violating the chain of command unnecessarily.
How to Kill Your Company is a short and wonderful romp of a book. Ken Kirsh provides us with fastest way Ive ever seen to help every leader become more self-aware, and in turn, build companies that thrive rather than fail. Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of the New York Times bestsellers Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule Ken Kirshs book, How to Kill Your Company, is an intellectual shot in the brain. If you buy it, read it, study it, and put it into action, it will prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot and in the wallet. Jeffrey Gitomer, author of Little Red Book of Selling Never have I seen so many good, actionable thoughts in so few pages. Peter Ricchiuti, Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University For small businesses or big, Kirsh delivers 50 punchy and powerful dont dos that apply to CEOs, clerks and every employee in between. Chris Altizer, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Pfizer Unapologetic and in your face, How to Kill Your Company exposes 50 of the most common and detrimental behaviors that people, including you, unwittingly exhibit on a daily basisand theyre killing your company.
Be the leader of a fresh, bold, enduring vision of education for your district or school. The future of learning has arrived, and it requires bold educational leadership and a dramatic redefinition of what it means to be a successful student today. Redefining Student Success invites you to lead this transformation with audacity. It engages leaders with the concepts and actions needed to reimagine schools, address inequities, and help today’s students develop the skills they need for personal, economic, and civic success. This vital guide supports transformative leadership with Concrete guidance on how to create a Portrait of a Graduate and Portrait of an Educator which will help ensure teachers have a unified vision for professional growth and student success. Reflection prompts that help you recognize your strengths, spark discussion among stakeholders, and identify next steps for inspired action. Compelling examples of students already engaged in creative, self-directed problem-solving around issues that matter to them and their communities, together with stories that illustrate how districts and schools have arrived at their own vision of what education must become. Companion guides to 21st century learning for parents and students available online. The time is now to reset educational outcomes, sync schools with the demands of 21st century society, and meet the needs of every learner, in every community.
Included in this rare collection of business insights are business notables, including former NBA player George Tinsley, "Undercover Boss" TV star Steve Greenbaum, Expert Branding & PR consultant Nick Powills, Ken Yancey CEO of SCORE, one of the largest advisory groups in the USA, and Rocco Fiorentino, CEO, of one the nation’s most successful business funding organizations. This book is also loaded with expert insights from selected business consultants specializing in helping people become their own boss. They want to help do the same for you. These business men and women know all about success. In life and in business. In this book you'll learn: • What it takes to become satisfied in business and in life. • How the "Disney principle" can set you head and shoulders above the competition • What personality traits you must exhibit to conquer the new economy • How to impact your community through business • How diversity can be a niche you dominate • Why millennials are the future of franchising • The competitive edge you have as a woman business owner • Why experience isn't necessary to become your own boss • How to find success where you least expect it If you feel stuck in the corporate world just going through the motions or if you've ever thought about becoming your own boss, this book is for you. You won't be the same after reading it.
Maine is known for lobster. Memphis is known for barbecue. So why would you go to Maine looking for tasty ribs? That's a question business consultant and author Ken Tanner belatedly asked himself as he tucked into a burnt, tasteless slab of barbecue in Ogunquit, Maine, one summer evening. Every region of the country has its unique signature foods. Likewise, each of us has a "sweet spot"-a signature skill or talent that can fuel your career and raise your paycheck. In Never Order Barbecue in Maine, Ken shares entertaining and wise anecdotes from his own varied career paths-as well as insight from noted professionals who have been there, done that-to help you find your sweet spot and turn your job into a deeply satisfying, well-paying career. You'll discover ways to: Find and build upon your sweet spot Get promoted Develop career-enhancing relationships Turn downsizing into a career-building event Why should you settle for a one-size-fits-all guide to the summit? Never Order Barbecue in Maine contains priceless, practical wisdom for your unique journey to a job that brings you maximum satisfaction.
Answers to FAQs about business English based on questions sent to "Dear Ken," a popular column in Spotlight magazine. Many of the questions are from German-speaking learners (and teachers) but the topics they raise and the answers given are of relevance to anyone who is working in English.
Beginning at birth where he "must have been born with a mustache because everyone said that Mother was tickled to death" to enduring his youthful years through grade school and high school at which point he begins to recognize the differences in people, this author takes you through a story of recognizing those born with a "silver spoon" and being the recipients of great rewards. Unlike he, who worked hard and always seemed to experience the blue-collar jobs and working for those "privileged few". This author takes you through his life experiences as a youth and dating, dreams of growing up, where he comes from, and where he wants to be. He eventually enters the corporate world and learns to deal with the unfair situations of "preferential treatment", something he recognized in his early years of grade school. Overcoming these obstacles, primarily "people", he rises to the top of his profession only to be shot back to "Ground Zero". He continues to dream of success and wealth as he ponders away the days in humorous attempts to just get through the day. At the end, he retires only to find the stock market drop 90%! Success just wasn't his to be had, but as he reflects back through his life he recognizes what he did wrong and translates that information to those reading this book to ensure their success and wealth in life.
KEN GARBER has worked as a reporter and advertising professional in the newspaper industry in the Baltimore-Washington area for the past 15 years. He has a love/hate relationship with e-mails. He loves the ones that made it into this book and hates all the ones that he has read thoroughly only to find out he never needed the info contained within. The rest fall somewhere in between. Despite the book title (I did check with HR to make sure the company has a sense of humor), he does work pretty hard for The Herald-Mail Newspaper Company in Hagerstown, Maryland, one of the finest community newspapers on the planet. When not at work, he lives in the same town with his beautiful and brilliant wife Kelli and handsome son Chase.
Boss of Me" is the story of a young boy who discovers what it means to become a successful entrepreneur. Author Ken Brown tells the story of 4th grader Joey, who, with the help of his father, schoolmates, and neighborhood friends, discovers how to overcome uncertainty about himself and his future. In the process, Joey learns the ins and outs of running a business and what success really means. One school day, Joey is assigned a presentation for Career Day. While all the other students seem to already know what they want to be, Joey has no idea what he wants to be when he grows up. He looks for guidance from his father, who owns his own business, to help him understand his potential. Joey's journey takes him from confusion and self-doubt to clarity and his own measure of success, all the while learning about important business terms and processes.Brown includes an innovative "Bossary", a glossary for bosses. "Boss of Me" is a story that will take its young readers on a relatable adventure of personal and professional growth. Its readers will gain new knowledge of business processes, and they will also learn what it means to create a plan and work hard to achieve a goal.
“He may have an MBA, but he’s got no common sense.” Assessments like that by a boss can stop a career dead in its tracks. Unfortunately, many believe that common sense is a trait you are either born with or you are not. This book dispels that myth. Through the pages of Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace readers will learn not only what common sense is, but how to acquire it and use it to enhance their careers, increase their confidence, and take better advantage of business opportunities. Common Sense explores the use—and non-use—of common sense in the workplace and the world around us. It shows how you can become a person of great wisdom and good judgment by simply learning about all the ways people stumble in the thought process. Author Ken Tanner, a seasoned manager, consultant, and former regional vice president for two major U.S. restaurant chains, shows readers how to make better decisions, how to spot and avoid fallacious thinking, how to better assess ambiguous situations, and how to become a mature thinker with a knack for making the right move at just the right time. Best of all, Common Sense shows how to teach this trait to others, especially subordinates and co-workers who can and will do nonsensical things unless you help them learn to reason through their decisions and actions quickly and confidently. The payoff? Your staff will make you look good, greasing the way for greater responsibility and opportunity. This book: Takes you through an understanding of the term "common sense"—what it means and what it doesn’t mean. Shows how fallacies create barriers to using common sense. Provides dozens of examples of the application (as well as rejection) of common sense in the business world and elsewhere. Shows how to teach common sense to others.
Transform your thinking of bosses.Based on an Internet dialogue between colleagues and their coach, this engaging story and accompanying exercises will catapult you into a recognizable work environment where tensions are strained, emotions are heightened and lessons are learned: - Hire the boss you want- Understand what it really means to be a leader and how to become one- Develop your personal Be-Do-Have- Redefine failure- Live in Abundance/Concentrate on Priorities
With The One Minute Manager Ken Blanchard and coauthor Spencer Johnson forever changed the way we approach management by introducing their Three Secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands. The book became an international bestseller and remains a timeless classic. Blanchard, along with coauthor Margret McBride, presents the 4th Secret, a concept that, when implemented properly, is one of the most powerful actions for improving company and employee morale. This is a book that can extend well beyond the business realm and repair relationships that we thought were broken forever. Using Blanchard's signature breezy style, The 4th Secret of the One Minute Manager tells the story of a bright young man, Matt Hawkins, who wants to help his mentor, the company president, face and deal with some crucial mistakes. For advice, Matt turns to family friend Jack Peterson, known by everyone as the One Minute Manager. What begins as a beautiful country weekend turns into an enlightening few days when Matt discovers how to take action effectively when we have done something wrong. Through this engaging parable, Blanchard and McBride teach readers step-by-step how to accept responsibility for their errors and deal with the cause of the damage while maintaining a genuine sense of integrity. Destined to join Ken Blanchard's other groundbreaking classics, The 4th Secret of the One Minute Manager offers businesspeople—and just about anyone else—a cogent and clearheaded way of approaching one of life's most perplexing dilemmas: how to accept that we have made a wrong decision and how to correct it by making a meaningful apology. The techniques described in this simple but profound story will have significant results at work and at home.
This authoritative guide helps Baby Boomers navigate their way through a host of issues that typically affect careers from the midpoint onward toward retirement. If you are a Boomer and want to make sure you a) follow the right path to reach the pinnacle of your career; b) prepare yourself for common pitfalls and dead ends that can derail a midlife career; and c) get where you want to go the way you want to get there, this invaluable, can-do guide is the resource of your dreams. The Boomers' Career Survival Guide: Achieving Success and Contentment from Middle Age through Retirement is designed to help the nation's largest, wealthiest, and most successful generation make the "back nine" of their working lives an extraordinary, enriching experience. With page after page of real stories about real people, it offers expert insights on how much the working world has changed in the Boomer years, and on the common workplace issues Boomers face, including second careers, age discrimination, stalled careers, and anxieties over finding your true talents and snagging opportunities. A final section provides realistic, workable advice on those ultimate Boomer dreams: starting your own business and retiring in style.
In this updated and revised edition of Jerks at Work, popular syndicated columnist Ken Lloyd returns to grapple once again with one of America's most popular (or unpopular) workplace topics, and presents his practical, upbeat, and professionally sound as an antidote. Drawing on e-mails and letters from employees and employers across America, Dr. Lloyd presents numerous examples of some of the most outrageous classic and current workplace (mis)behaviors—past and present—along with the most powerful strategies that readers can use today to deal effectively with them. There is no single, simple strategy that works on every Jerk. They come in many assorted flavors: your Jerk could be your boss, a coworker, your subordinate, a vendor, even customers. Just when you think you have read about the ultimate jerk at work, up pops another. Fortunately, a tailor-made strategy pops up alongside. Jerks at Work provides a wide array of strategies to deal with all the Jerks you come across. There are the time-tested, classical methods for the retro-jerks—the screamers, impractical jokers, egomaniacs, complainers, and non-stop talkers. Then there are new, state-of-the-art strategies to deal with a generation of cyber-jerks that includes bullies, jerks on cellphones, and jerks online. Additionally, a new section, exclusive to this revised edition, covers some of the most outrageous workplace behaviors that one could ever encounter. Inside, you'll also find these other helpful tips: Getting insight into the causes of Jerk-like behavior Step-by-step programs to deal with Jerks of every persuasion Coping with the most outrageous Jerk behaviors ever documented The best ways to avoid becoming a Jerk yourself And much, much more!
BradyGames-Donkey Kong 64: Official Strategy Guide Features. COMPLETE WALKTHROUGH - Every level, every character, every golden banana, and MORE! EXPERT BOSS STRATEGY - Defeat every boss, all the way up to K. Rool! DETAILED LEVEL MAPS - Pinpoint everything you need to find and collect! PLUS - Secrets, Bonus Features, Hidden Mini-Games, Exclusive Poster, and MORE!
Question prevailing wisdom, author Ken Lizotte says, whenever your own experiences and instincts suggest otherwise. In Beyond Reason, he shows how such counter-wisdom can not only turn out for the best but will often be fully supported by scientific evidence. Citing studies, surveys and other investigations, he plows through sacred cows and popular notions, concluding again and again that going beyond reason may offer the surest path to wished-for results, common sense and peace of mind. Your assumptions about life will never be the same.
The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career will help you buck the odds. Just think for a moment about how much of your career is left to chance. It can depend on who happens to be your boss when you get promoted, for example, and how popular and influential he or she is. The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career includes advice and tips from fifteen chairmen and directors of some of the UK's largest companies. It will help you build a strategy for managing the elements of your career that you can control (and some you thought you couldn't). Ken Langdon shows how you can. Just some of the ideas Ken Langdon reveals are: The 8 greatest ideas for winning at company politics The 6 greatest ideas for spending cleverly The 8 greatest ideas for standing out in the crowd The 4 greatest ideas for standing out in the more senior crowd ?and 74 other fantastic ideas, tips and tricks that will take you to the very top! 100 Greatest books will enable you to take control of your life and your career. Packed with 100 simple but wonderfully effective ideas, these books are fun to use and easy to put into practice, giving you instant results.
Point names, the traditional means of identifying acupoints, have meanings that are hard to grasp. This text promotes understanding of each point's use in acupuncture practice by considering the meaning, context and significance of each. The 363 points covered are listed according to the system currently in use in China.
This is the fourth published work by KEN BUMPUS PHCM, USN (Ret.) His first two were fact/fiction novels depicting the adventures and light-hearted antics of a group of Navy Combat Photographer/Journalists in Vietnam. the third is the author's autobiography describing his youth in the Black Hills of South Dakota where he grew up absorbing the legends of 'Wild Bill' Hickock, Calamity Jane, Gen. George Custer, etc. At 17 he enlisted in the Navy and subsequently spent 25 years service in WW II, Korea and Vietnam. In 1963 he was picked as one of the Navy's top documentary photographers to participate in a Navy sponsored course in photojournalism at Syracuse University. He served as a Navy Combat Photojounalist in Korea during the Inchon Invasion, the evacuations of Hungnam and Iwon (North Korea), as well as the UN troops' final withdrawal from Inchon. This was followed by three tours in Vietnam. His photos and stories of the Navy and Marine actions received world-wide distribution and earned him the Navy Combat Action Ribbon, the Navy Achievement Medal, the Navy Unit Commendation Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, among numerous other campaign service medals. His final three years of Navy service were as Staff Photojournalist for the United States Naval Academy, where he retired as a Master Chief Photographer/Photojournalist in 1973. He now resides in Longwood, Florida spending his retirement writing and photographing for pleasure. He can presently be contacted at: kbumpus@cfl.rr.comkbumpus@cfl.rr.com
Takemichi è riuscito a incontrare Mikey nel futuro, ma l’ex boss della Toman non è più quello di un tempo. Dopo avergli stretto la mano, il nostro eroe compie un nuovo salto nel passato per salvare l’amico. Ha inizio la saga finale di “Tokyo Revengers”.
A practical handbook for job seekers, both recent graduates or experienced workers looking for a new professional direction, offers more than fifty fresh and effective ideas and suggestions for climbing the workplace ladder to find success in one's chosen profession. Original.
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