Innovation is necessary for your survival and your organizations. But the process is fraught with obstacles. How can you keep yourself and your team moving forward? You start with this how-to guide to innovation written specifically for todays busy manager. This quick-read is full of practical, easy-to-implement techniques that will help you avoid the unending details and stops and starts, distractions that cause your focus to shift, false starts and market shifts that lead you down the wrong path and steep learning curves that slow the process down.
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Social Media offers managers a solid look at the world of social media, spelled out in clear and simple English. If you want to get started with social media and look at ways it can be used to improve internal and external communication, sell products and services and boost your productivity and effectiveness as a manager, this pocket guide is for you.
Innovation is necessary for your survival and your organizations. But the process is fraught with obstacles. How can you keep yourself and your team moving forward? You start with this how-to guide to innovation written specifically for todays busy manager. This quick-read is full of practical, easy-to-implement techniques that will help you avoid the unending details and stops and starts, distractions that cause your focus to shift, false starts and market shifts that lead you down the wrong path and steep learning curves that slow the process down.
People are prone to making poor decisions. They make decision errors every day-decision errors that jeopardize their well-being and the well being of those around them. Our assumption in developing; these exercises is that awareness and understanding will lead to better decision-making practice, i.e., individual, team, organization, and societal change.
Why do gamblers continue to gamble when they know they will lose? Why will "what we know" hurt us more than "what we don't know?" Why do you remember your summer vacation of 1985 differently than your brother? The Manager's Pocket Guide to Behavioral Economics answers these questions and more while examining flaws in our thinking, our decision-making, and how thinking illusions deceive us.
These 50 exercises are the perfect way to get employees excited about the concept of innovation, develop their innovation skills, build an ongoing capacity for innovation and introduce an easy-to-use innovation process. Participants will learn how to do visioning, seek innovations in a certain industry, feel comfortable challenging the norm, generate a large number of new ideas in a short amount of time - and that's just the beginning. As they work through the exercises, they'll have fun, learn to think better and be motivated to apply what they learned back on the job.
This pocket guide is about creating your own success in the new economy. If offers best practices that come directly from real strategies of real people who are succeeding on their own terms/ Tjese best practices are amony the most important findings of the ongoing workplace-inte\rview research conducted by RainmakerThinking, Inc. -- from back cover.
This pocket guide is about creating your own success in the new economy. If offers best practices that come directly from real strategies of real people who are succeeding on their own terms/ Tjese best practices are amony the most important findings of the ongoing workplace-inte\rview research conducted by RainmakerThinking, Inc. -- from back cover.
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Social Media offers managers a solid look at the world of social media, spelled out in clear and simple English. If you want to get started with social media and look at ways it can be used to improve internal and external communication, sell products and services and boost your productivity and effectiveness as a manager, this pocket guide is for you.
This is a book about visual literacy. It both advocates and equips the scholarly use of visual images as visual evidence. The visual is not mere illustration, it is the text. Enabling a rediscovery of the visual skills of the past facilitates the investigation of history and the understanding of the present. Chapters by international authorities have been specially commissioned on the use of visual evidence from painting to political prints, photographs, documentary, feature films, television, news and advertising.
Careful review of microfilmed German operational records led the author to solve a World War II mystery involving Field Marshall Albert Kesselring and the Italian campaign he directed. Facts about two events in March 1944, the Ardeatine Cave Massacre and the failed GINNY II mission, were manipulated. Kesselring's 1947 defense was accepted without challenge until 1997, when Dr. Raiber found irrefutable evidence that Kesselring had misled the court in order to hide his involvement in the murder of fifteen U.S. soldiers who had been captured in uniform behind enemy lines. Kesselring claimed he was present in his Monte Soratee headquarters north of Rome on 23 March 1944 when he received and passed on Hitler's 10-for-1 retaliatory order against the Via Rasella partisan, resulting in the massacre at the Ardeatine Cave. A day earlier, on the Ligurian coast, members of an OSS operational group, GINNY II, landed north of La Spezia. Captured behind German lines, these U.S. soldiers were interrogated, and summarily shot on 26 March. Thereafter Kesselring ordered the destruction of all records bearing on GINNY II to conceal his presence in La Spezia and his confirmation of the execution order but surviving documents clearly place him there at noon on 24 March. - Publisher.
Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts more than 100 books to date, featuring communities from Barrow to Ketchikan, animals from bears to dinosaurs, history from the Russian explorers to today, and natural phenomena from the aurora to glaciers. Written by leading experts in their fields, these books are illustrated throughout with world-class photography and include colorful maps for reference.
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