Award winning author Richard Hart has produced an outstanding book in the domain of sales and selling. This book is well-written and easy to read. It contains ideas and practices found in few other places. Whether a person is new to sales or is a seasoned professional, putting into practice the tips and techniques found in this book, all but guarantees total success. Welcome to The Zen of Sales.
Many individuals take risks in life such as mountain climbers, magicians, farmers, and gamblers. But do we ever include preachers in that category? Preachers have opportunities to be some of the greatest risk takers. In Preacher as Risk Taker, Richard Hart, O.F.M. Cap., challenges preachers to be on the cutting edge by taking risks resulting in better preaching. How many preachers are willing to submit their homilies to an editor or have their homilies taped? Are poetic preachers ready to preach in a changing Church? How often do preachers discuss social sin, the environment, ageing, the reign of God, or Paul's epistles? Do today's preachers realize how important it is to preach through healing or Jesus as a wisdom figure? Finally, do preachers know the true difference between a eulogy and a homily? Hart offers insight to each of these questions for preachers interested in improving their homilies. Preachers might not be asked to scale a mountain or act as a magician. But preachers are asked to take similar risks when preaching on challenging topics. In Preacher as Risk Taker, Father Hart provides answers for those interested in becoming spirited preachers.
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious if distracted fifth-grader starts to daydream about baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo is one of America’s finest writers, and here, truthfully and with compassion, he unwinds the slow disillusionment of childhood. A selection from Russo’s tenderhearted collection of short stories, The Whore’s Child. An ebook short. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.
This book contains all the guidelines needed to help you write an advertisement resume that will get you interviews and a job. It promotes writing results work statements rather than task and responsibility statements. Key features include how to write 1. your heading in relation to space available, 2. targeted objectives, 3. work statements that use key words and still describe how good you are, 4. skill sections that show your level of ability, and 5. activities that show your chemistry. Make Your Resume Talk is written in sections to help you build or re-write your resume and help you tailor your resume to specific jobs. Many "before and after" resumes with individual critiques on different occupations are included to show how to write statements that get attention of potential employers. Helpful tips are provided throughout the book to highlight critical information for writing a resume that will talk for you. Chapters are provided to cover all aspects of the resume plus special chapters on electronic resumes, help for high school/college students, and the physical attributes of resumes. Effective cover letter guidelines with examples are provided as a bonus. Personal testimonials are scattered through the book to show you how the guidelines helped other users. The success of his approach is shown by this quote from a Senior Corporate Recruiter from Red Hat which stated, "As a corporate recruiter, I view hundreds of resumes daily filed with buzz words, tasks and objectives that don't meet the candidate's background. These resumes are quickly eliminated. The resumes that follow the guidelines outlined in Dick Hart's book that show the depth of the candidate's ability and how well the buzz words apply to their accomplishments are the ones we seriously consider. Diligent applicants need to follow his advice and list solid achievements from past/current performance.
Alternating between past and present, love and tragedy, I'll Bring You Back is a portrait of hope in the face of hopelessness. An emotionally powerful story with universal themes that will stay with the reader long after the last page.
Experts outline a plan to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system for accelerated, large-scale adoption of reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy technologies. Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be radically overhauled. Unlocking Energy Innovation outlines an up-to-the-minute plan for remaking America's energy innovation system by tapping the country's entrepreneurial strengths and regional diversity in both the public and private spheres. “Business as usual” will not fill the energy innovation gap. Only the kind of systemic, transformative changes to our energy innovation system described in this provocative book will help us avert the most dire scenarios and achieve a sustainable and secure energy future.
Is your resume an advertisement or an obituary? Give your resume CPR! You can make your resume TALK! Mr. Hart's suggestions can help make your resume educate the potential employer.
The first edition, published in 1973, has become a classicreference in the field. Now with the second edition, readers willfind information on key new topics such as neural networks andstatistical pattern recognition, the theory of machine learning,and the theory of invariances. Also included are worked examples,comparisons between different methods, extensive graphics, expandedexercises and computer project topics. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all theproblems in the book is available from the Wiley editorialdepartment.
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