You never get a second chance to make a first impression – but it’s amazing how many so-called professionals play fast and loose with their reputations. It’s no longer down to word-of-mouth – the worldwide web spreads information round the world in seconds. If you’re in business you need take the steps that will protect your reputation – as well as taking advantage of the means to enhance it. If you have staff, clients and suppliers, you’ll also want to be aware of what they are saying about you – and educate them to be effective marketers for your business. This book will give you lots of practical things you can do to plan, promote and protect your reputation. What the reviewers said: “Reputation! “What a fragile intangible this is. “And yet, so important for our success, our clients and our peace of mind. “I once interviewed Julian Richer, the boss of Richer Sounds, and his thoughts on this amused me and made the point so well. “Reputation is like toothpaste. Every easy to squeeze out - extremely difficult to put back. “In The Reputation Gap, Lesley and Peter in their usual engaging style, get to the heart of the matter, providing clear insights and step-by-step guidance on what to do to create, build and maintain the reputation you want (and need). “Dive in! “You’ll be so pleased you did.” Peter Thomson “The UK’s Most Prolific Information Product Creator” www.peterthomson.com “How often do you really think about your reputation? “In business there are so many other things to consider, but in The Reputation Gap Peter and Lesley guide you through the importance of reputation. They give you practical and actionable ways to enhance your reputation in any size of business. An essential read if you are looking to tap into the power of your reputation.” David James Life and Personal Coach Mentor International Speaker “In business your reputation will have a great impact on whether you’ll have a profitable business… or not. “I found the book fascinating, insightful and thought provoking. “There’s plenty of practical tips and tools to not only help you plan, promote and protect your reputation but also how to enhance it.” John Hotowka Personal resilience speaker “A must-read book for anyone interested in developing their brand and reputation. Full of practical exercises and on point examples it’ll be a book you refer back to time and time again.” Neil Lloyd MD FBCMB, CEO FBC Manby Bowdler “This book is ideal if you're quite new to business, or if you've not been in marketing for many years. It's packed full of pragmatic advice and ideas that you can put into practice, right away. If you've never thought about the importance of your reputation when it comes to promoting your business, this book is for you. Even if you think you know everything there is to know about building a strong reputation, in this book, Peter and Lesley ask a number of questions that you might not have been asked before.” Chantal Cornelius Author of Magnetic Marketing www.Appletreeuk.com "Never has there been a better time for Peter and Lesley to rewrite, update and re-release this key book. “So many people think that the world is just transactional, our relationships and running a business. “It just isn't true. Reputation matters in this ever-changing world." Lee Jackson International speaker, past President of the Professional Speaking Association and author of Get Good at Life. “Reputation is the invisible aura that envelops your business. This is a book of straight-forward, easy-to-implement actions to create, manage, enhance and protect what people say about you. Essential reading for anyone in business.” Kevin Wright Ninja Investor creator and author of Buy, Refurb, Refinance.
Coach George Abbott's football teams at Longstreet High School were unbeatable but he couldn't stop cancer from taking his beloved wife. It's 1970 and George is trying to rebuild his life despite his everyday disgust with a changing America. The tear gas and violence of anti-war protests. Kent State. My Lai. Psychedelic drugs. Woodstock. Afraid of becoming a recluse, George agrees to return to coaching but only Longstreet's freshman team. Once again walking the sidelines, he finds himself confronting the true costs of Vietnam through a young war widow and her son.--Back cover.
Reference materials play an important role in analytical chemistry, where they are used by analysts for a variety of purposes, including: checking and calibrating instruments; validating methods and estimating the uncertainty of analytical measurements; checking laboratory and analyst performance; and internal quality control. This book provides guidance and information for the users of certified reference materials (CRMs), explaining how they can best be used to achieve valid analytical measurements and improve quality in the analytical laboratory. General information on CRMs and how they are produced sets the scene for readers. The statistics relating to CRM use are then explained in an easy-to-understand manner, and this is followed by sections covering the main uses of CRMs. Detailed worked examples are used throughout. Structured and comprehensive in coverage, this book will be welcomed by all users of certified reference materials.
This is a light-hearted coming-of-age story about Bobby Masters and his young rock and roll band in the summer of 1964. They want to live the life of the Beatles so much they are willing to hit the road, pretending to be The Romeos, a successful rock and roll band with a hit record. After all, who is going to catch them? Well, there is Theresa Garcia, the ferocious older sister of the bass player who torments Bobby mile by mile, cowboys who hate rock and roll, a police chief determined that no band is playing that dirty song "Louie Louie" in his town. And there are the real Romeos as well. And Bobby and the boys aren't ready to meet hip-shaking Susie Mitchell, a go-go dancer who won a darkest-tan contest in Daytona and is out to teach them it may not be a man's world after all. The Romeo Boys: A Rock n Roll Odyssey is a romp through a time when rock and roll was more innocent.
Well-considered answers to the many questions raised by the situation in Iraq, past and present, are rare. This first comprehensive, thematically organised, bibliography devoted to Iraq is based on the full Index Islamicus database and is drawn from a wide variety of European-language journals and books. Featuring an extensive introduction to the subject and its literature by Peter Sluglett, this bibliography will help readers to find their way through the massive secondary literature now available. Following the pattern established by the Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included, as well as important internet resources. The editors have taken care to add much new material to bring its coverage up to date, and supplement the previously published volumes, while the most important and/or influential publications are conveniently highlighted in the introduction. An indispensable gateway for all those with a more than superficial interest in what is, and what has been, happening in this nation so much the focus of attention today.
...and death came third! The definitive guide to networking and speaking in public. Do you dread going to networking events? Do you hide at the back of the room when you have the opportunity to present your business? In 1984 a New York Times Survey on Social Anxiety placed death third in the list of people's biggest fears. The top two responses were walking into a room full of strangers and speaking in public. Facing these two fears head on, '...and death came third!' rocketed straight to Number Two on the Amazon UK bestseller lists on publication of its First Edition in 2006. Since then thousands of people have turned to its pages to help them network and present with much more confidence. In this updated second edition you can discover how to: Walk into a networking event and approach people with CONFIDENCE, STRUCTURE a talk so that you can get your key message across POWERFULLY, ENGAGE people in conversation and get them interested in YOU, FOCUS on the results you want from networking and achieve them EASILY, STAND and speak with CONVICTION and AUTHORITY and much, much more. Brought to you by Andy Lopata, Business Networking Strategist and Peter Roper, The Natural Presenter.
It's the autumn of 1968 and America is coming apart - the Vietnam war, racial unrest and political upheaval are sending tremors through the country. While thousands of young men are desperately avoiding the draft, Rob Masters has just finished four years of unwanted military service and wants nothing more than to find his place in the rock 'n roll heaven of Los Angeles music clubs and record companies. His grandfather's sudden death forces a return to his family home in southern Colorado. That's where Rob's mother is anxiously waiting for his father to finish a year leading a U.S. fighter squadron over Vietnam. It's also where Rob can revive his treasured old friendships with his 1964 band, whose adventures are chronicled in "The Romeo Boys: A Rock 'N Roll Odyssey," author Peter S. Roper's first novel.But this is 1968. Teen-age love songs have been drowned out by psychedelic music. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy have been murdered. Anti-war and civil-rights protesters battle with police. Rob's old friends have been through their own trials - wounded by war and taunted by discrimination. And Theresa Garcia, the young woman he loved and dreamed of, has changed most of all."Start of the World" is the story of whether Rob can rekindle those friendships and love in a nation staggered by war and social change.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression - but it's amazing how many so-called professionals play Russian roulette with their reputations. It's no longer down to word-of-mouth - the world wide web spreads information round the world in seconds. If you're in business you need to take the steps that will protect your reputation - as well as taking advantage of the means of enhancing it. If you have staff, clients and suppliers you'll also want to be aware of what they are saying about you - and educate them to be effective marketers for your business. This book will give you the ammunition you need to... take control of what is said about your business; effectively use the tools that will influence your reputation; plan, protect and promote your reputation on an ongoing basis; harness the power of your staff to enhance your reputation; raise your profile and stand out from the crowd; ensure you are playing the reputation game by the new rules. Can you afford NOT to read it?
This book explores the conscience and motivation of one of the most admired persons in history: St. Thomas More. Most people know that Thomas More wrote a book called Utopia about a perfect society and got his head chopped off by King Henry VIII. But there was much more to the man. More not only occupied England’s most powerful position under the king as Lord Chancellor, but was also a devoted family man, a Renaissance figure of renown throughout Europe, and the author of works of apologetics as well as poetry, fiction and plays. Even while awaiting execution in the Tower of London, his multi-volume "Tower writings" poured out, evidence of his deep faith and life of prayer. In Gulliver’s Travels, Protestant author Jonathan Swift named More among the six greatest defenders of liberty of all time, “to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.” Erasmus praised him as one “born, created for friendship.” After his death, a popular tune sang the praises of his “gentle heart”: When More some time had Chancellor been, No more suits did remain; The like will never more be seen Till More be there again. Peter Berglar, who has written ten biographies including one of St. Peter, and one of the earliest studies of Opus Dei and its founder, St. Josemaría Escrivá, deals in this new translation of the original German with the ultimate question: for what is life not worth living? When must it be purchased at a price that could devalue and perhaps destroy it? “It has been repeated in every generation. There will never be a lack of idols and dictators who demand this sacrifice.”
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England and immigrating to Queensland in 1883, he established a reputation as a rider, polo player and poet who submitted ballads to The Bulletin and counted Banjo Paterson as a friend. Travelling on his wits and the goodwill of others, Morant was quick to act when appeals were made for horsemen to serve in the war in South Africa. He joined up, first with the South Australian Mounted Rifles and then with a South African irregular unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers. The adventure would not go as Breaker planned. In October 1901 Lieutenant Harry Morant and two other Australians, Lieutenants Peter Handcock and George Witton, were arrested for the murder of Boer prisoners. Morant and Handcock were court-martialled and executed in February 1902 as the Boer War was in its closing stages, but the debate over their convictions continues to this day. With his masterful command of story, Peter FitzSimons takes us to the harsh landscape of southern Africa and into the bloody action of war against an unpredictable force using modern commando tactics. The truths FitzSimons uncovers about 'the Breaker' and the part he played in the Boer War are astonishing - and finally we will know if the Breaker was a hero, a cad, a scapegoat or a criminal.
After providing a history of the development of the juvenile court, this book explores some of the most important current controversies in juvenile justice. Original essays review major theories of juvenile delinquency, explore psychological and biological factors that may explain delinquent behavior, and examine the nexus between substance abuse and delinquency. A final chapter provides a comparative analysis.
Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share. During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls Imzadi.
In this groundbreaking book, which reads like a riveting detective story, Ada Petrova and Peter Watson provide the answers to these two questions. Given access to the Russians' hitherto unseen Hitler Archive - File I-G-23, the so-called Operation Myth File - they reveal not only the truth of what went on in Berlin in May 1945 after the Russians captured the bunker in which Hitler, Eva Braun, and their entourage spent their last days, but also why the Soviet regime felt the details of the Fuhrer's death had to be kept secret for so long. Further, they explain how and why his body and those of Braun, Josef and Magda Goebbels, and the Goebbels' six children were secretly buried in Magdeburg, East Germany, and finally disinterred and cremated in 1970 by order of the then KGB chief Yuri Andropov.
The Star Trek: Signature Edition series continues with this thrilling adventure featuring Commander Spock, Captain Kirk, and the U.S.S. Enterprise. Imzadi: to the people of the planet Betazed, including Counselor Deanna Troi of the Starship Enterprise,™ it means "beloved" and denotes that which can never be truly broken. Yet to whom does Deanna's heart truly belong? Commander William Riker was the first Deanna called Imzadi. Long before they served together on board the Enterprise, they shared a tempestuous love affair back on Betazed. And even now, many years later, Riker will embark on a desperate journey across time and space to save Deanna's life. But Riker is not the only Starfleet officer to capture Deanna's heart. Lieutenant Commander Worf, the fierce Klingon warrior, is also drawn to Deanna's gentle and caring nature. Brought together by fate, he and Deanna share an unexpected passion that tests the bonds between Troi and Riker—even as a deadly Romulan conspiracy threatens them all!
Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi- a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share. During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls Imzadi.
This textbook is an introduction to the study of New Zealand politics. This second edition is designed to incorporate the major changes that have occurred to the New Zealand political system with the advent of MMP.
“Revealing and well-written. . . . A significant book.”—Houston Chronicle It is one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century: how, exactly, Adolf Hitler died and what happened to his remains. With access to the Russians' Hitler Archive, this book reveals not only what happened after the Russians captured Hitler's bunker but also why the Soviets felt the details of his death had to be suppressed.
This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional legal approach and propose fresh perspectives, including a unique critique of the abolition sector. Written by a range of leading experts with diverse geographical, methodological and conceptual approaches, the essays in this volume challenge received wisdom and embrace a holistic understanding of capital punishment based on practical experience and empirical data. This collection is indispensable reading for anyone seeking a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the complexity of the death penalty discourse.
They call him "America's Mayor." But to blacks that title sugarcoats Rudy Giuliani's real reputation as one of the most racially divisive leaders in the nation. Peter Noel's book puts Giuliani's often-ignored record of oppressing the "other New York" front and center in the 2008 presidential race. Noel was a witness to "Giuliani time" in New York. As the race beat journalist for The Village Voice, he reported exclusively on the police brutality that rained down on blacks, and the denigration of black leadership by Giuliani. In this collection of his exposés, Noel provides stunning insights into the most notorious events of Giuliani's tenure, including the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima. Both men-like many black victims of Giuliani's stop-and-frisk policing-were innocent of any wrongdoing. This brutality sparked a new black activist movement. Scores, including Jesse Jackson, were arrested-and Peter Noel was there to cover it. No journalist was more insightful about the rise of Al Sharpton, Khallid Muhammad's "Million Youth March," and Giuliani's demonization of David Dinkins, the city's first black mayor. There are interviews with major political players, inside accounts of the shifting alliances and violent conflicts between ethnic groups, and a stinging critique of the white-dominated media. And then there is Peter Noel's interview with Giuliani, which took the form of a street fight in Harlem. In these eloquent, often searing pieces, written in an outraged and authentic voice, Peter Noel spoke truth to the power of an "Afriphobic" mayor. In this revealing book, he still does.
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