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The Ultimate Management Book gives you everything you need to be a better manager. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible. If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From managing and motivating people and teams to performance management and appraisals, The Ultimate Management Book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques and strategies for success.

The world isn’t coming to an end, contrary to what you may have heard. But the media’s near-exclusive focus on conflict and disaster means that the progress and everyday acts of brilliance taking place across the globe go unnoticed. Jurriaan Kamp shows that optimism - intelligent optimism, not a rose-colored-glasses brand of wishful thinking - is good for not only your mind but your body too. He details a whole host of health problems that can actually be linked to pessimism.

Amber "AJ" Johnson is a freelance writer who has her heart set on becoming a full-time sports reporter at her paper. She has one chance to prove herself: capture an interview with the very private goalie of Baltimore's hockey team, Alec Kolchak. But he's the one man who tries her patience, even as he brings to life a quiet passion she doesn't want to admit exists. Alec has no desire to be interviewed - he never has, never will. But he finds himself a reluctant admirer of AJ's determination to get what she wants...and he certainly never counted on his attraction to her.

This program is dedicated to the stuck, the clueless, the workless, the helpless, and the directionless. Over 90 percent of the world's workforce is in the wrong job. They quest for self-expression and meaning, yet most fail to find it. This extraordinary program provides a blueprint that will enable you to find and sustain a meaningful career and life path - over the long haul. It seeks to help you determine the answer to the question that each of us pose to ourselves at some point in our lives, "Why am I here?"

Whether you are conducting a formal interview or holding one to ones with your staff you will want to get the best out of each situation. This programme will help you to set the right tone for an interview, ask the right questions and manage the process so you get the results you want.

Do you spend hours of your precious time in boring, ineffective meetings? In this programme you will learn how to prepare for meetings in a way that helps to make them more focused and effective. We will also look at ways of keeping meetings on track so everyone benefits and feels that meetings are no longer a waste of time.

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has for so long been unjustly accused of sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her 16th birthday. The Lady Melicia never denied that she played a key part in this unhappy affair but, in her defense, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies? In this retelling of a classic fairy tale 12 fairies confer miraculous gifts as proof of God’s existence. Things go wrong when one of the 12 turns unbeliever and declares that fairy gifts are nonsense.  

Denken sie nicht auch jedes Jahr an Silvester das gleiche...Oh Ja gleich nächste Woche melde ich mich im Fitnessstudio an und mache regelmäßig Sport und werde bis zum Sommer etwas durchtrainierter? Um dann kurz vor dem Sommer festzustellen: […] wenn sie vor dem Spiegel stehen...Ich habe ja noch immer keine Mitgliedschaft oder treibe regelmäßig Sport und habe auch nur kein Gramm Muskeln mehr! Wenn sie diese Probleme jetzt ändern möchten dann ist genau dieses Hörbuch ihre letzte Hilfe, denn damit schaffen sie es noch bis zum Sommer in Top-Form zu kommen.

Denna fängslande historiska roman utspelar sig år 1535 i Varberg som på den tiden tillhörde Danmark. Det var uppslitande tider och det blodiga inbördeskriget Grevefejden härjade landet. Marcus Meyer från Lübeck tar över Varberg slott och får handskas med den unga slottsfrun, svensk-norskan Grövel Fadersdotter Sparre. Meyer har storslagna planer och spinner ett intrikat nät omkring sig. Men med tiden ska han själv fastna däri.

Lenne blir engagerad i Kongokrisen, och tar värvning som FN-soldat. Kvar i Sverige blir hans systrar Prudence och Yvonne. Prudence säker tröst hos sin farfar, men Yvonne far illa i livet. Många år senare återvänder Lenne, men då är inget som förr. Krigets brutalitet har vänt upp och ner på hans världsbild. Ingrid Kampås är utbildad sjuksköterska och en lovordad författare. Hon skriver både kriminalromaner, historiska romaner och noveller. Hon har bland annat belönats med pris för bästa nordiska följetongsroman.

What happened to transform American tastes from Wonder Bread and Shake 'N Bake to sushi and balsamic vinegar? How did Epicureanism evolve from an elitist pursuit to an everyday practice and mind-set of the masses? David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula: How we Became a Gourmet Nation, is joined by a panel of connoisseurs to explain the American food revolution. Mario Batali is the star of the Food Network's Molto Mario and one of the Iron Chefs on Iron Chef America.

As managers, we have to make decisions all the time and it is always a concern that you might not make the right decision. In this programme we will consider how you can ensure that you have prepared well to enrich your decision making and be confident that your decision, when implemented, will work.

All managers have a responsibility for getting their message across effectively, whether it be in a formal or informal setting. In this programme you will find out how to ensure that you present information in such a way that you get your message across perfectly by preparing both your delivery and yourself, to bring your audience with you.

Restructuring, new responsibilities, updated systems – just a few examples that require us to view change positively and treat it as an opportunity, as opposed to a disruption. You will also learn how to help others to deal more positively with change so that you can all approach it far more constructively. You will be encouraged to not just manage change but to actively promote it as a more satisfying way of life.

Do you ever wish there were more hours in a day and wonder how you are going to fit everything in? In this programme we will explore how better planning can save you time. How being ready for whatever you have to do allows you to use your time more effectively and how to make time management techniques fit your personal preferences. We also deal with the problem of time-wasters and offer strategies for reducing their effect so that you have control of your time.

As a manager you are a role model to your staff – so what sort of example are you setting? In this programme you will find out what being a role model really means and how to consciously set a good example in behaviour and attitudes. We will also consider how you can use role models yourself to improve the example you set for others.

Do you ever find that you have no energy or no enthusiasm for what you have to do next? In this programme you will discover the importance of managing yourself well and how to take control of your own physical and mental state, no longer needing to depend on external circumstances. Just as athletes prepare for a sporting event you will learn how to prepare yourself for situations at work so that you perform at your best more easily.

Why do some people seem to achieve so much more than others? In this programme you will learn how to use long term goals to give direction to your life, professionally and personally. You will be offered ways of setting short-term and interim goals to fit into the content of your long-term goals. Specific techniques will be introduced to assist you in working towards your goals and realistically achieving them.

Every manager has to influence others more, as we change from command and control management to a more empowered work force. In this programme you will explore the preparation and techniques which enable you to be a powerful and ethical influencer. You will add to that, the skills for handling negotiations so that both sides feel they have gained and come to win…win.

In any job it is important to know how to motivate yourself and, of course, other people. In this programme we will look at some of the general patterns of motivation which apply to all of us. We will examine your personal motivating factors and how to use them, then apply the same principles to motivating others. A guide to better management is a collection of twelve titles based on neuro linguistic programming.