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Got carrotphobia? Do you think that recognizing your employees will distract you and your team from more serious business, create jealousy, or make you look soft? Think again.The Carrot Principle reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. With independent research from The Jackson Organization and analysis by bestselling leadership experts Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, this breakthrough study of 200,000 people over ten years found dramatically greater business results when managers offered constructive praise and meaningful rewards in ways that powerfully motivated employees to excel.

Drawing on case studies from leading companies including Disney, DHL, KPMG, and Pepsi Bottling Group, bestselling authors Gostick and Elton show how the transformative power of purpose-based recognition produces astonishing increases in operating results--whether measured by return on equity, return on assets, or operating margin. And they show how great managers lead with carrots, not sticks, and in doing so achieve higher

* Productivity
* Engagement
* Retention
* Customer satisfaction

The Carrot Principle illustrates that the relationship between recognition and improved business results is highly predictable--it's proven to work. But it's not the employee recognition some of us have been using for years. It is recognition done right, recognition combined with four other core traits of effective leadership.

Gostick and Elton explain the remarkably simple but powerful methods great managers use to provide their employees with effective recognition, which all managers can easily learn and begin practicing for immediate results. Great recognition doesn't take time--it can be done in a matter of moments--and it doesn't take budget-busting amounts of money. This exceptional book presents the simple steps to becoming a Carrot Principle manager and to building a recognition culture in your organization; it offers a wealth of specific examples, culled from real-life cases, of the ways to do recognition right. Following these simple steps will make you a high-performance leader and take your team to a new level of achievement.

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"The Carrot Principle: How Great Managers Use Employee Recognition"
An Essay by Adam Gostick and Chester Elton
For organizations that do it right, it's a bit like discovering gold in your backyard. Employee recognition, long considered a benefit that costs money, can actually be a management tool that makes money. At first blush, the idea is counter-intuitive. As leaders, we've become accustomed to viewing recognition programs as a cost of doing business. But employee recognition is evolving. A groundbreaking research study of 200,000 employees, unveiled in our new book The Carrot Principle, presents a new paradigm: Applying employee recognition techniques within a context of goal-setting, open communication, trust and accountability, (what we have come to call the Basic Four) accelerates the impact of all of these critical management skills.

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"This is a practical, highly engaging book about how to be a highly engaging teacher. In today's world of on-demand entertainment and fast-paced action, the strategies in this book help teachers offer what students need in order to learn."
—Renee Peoples, Fourth-Grade Teacher and Swain County Math Coach
West Elementary School, Bryson City, NC

Brain-based strategies to give your students the green light for learning success!

How can today's teachers develop lessons that will inspire students and ignite the desire to learn? Moving away from the traditional lecture-based method of teaching, this teacher-friendly guide introduces a variety of innovative teaching techniques that will motivate, excite, and increase the learning potential of every student.

Using contributions from teachers with experience in a variety of classroom-tested techniques, the author provides nine proven strategies for creating new memory pathways, making content relevant for students, and increasing their learning. Teachers will learn techniques that tap into students emotions and be able to increase participation in group discussions and activities. Practical features include:

• Sample lesson plans for different grade levels in each chapter
• A variety of practical, brain-compatible teaching strategies
• Building blocks for effective instruction, illustrated through descriptions, analogies, and metaphors

Offering key principles of effective teaching that can be applied across grade levels and in any content area, this book shows how it is possible to increase student enthusiasm and impact learning.

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A comprehensive lifestyle resource, whole foods cookbook, and step-by-step retreat guide, A FRESH START is sure to appeal to anyone who is serious about slimming down, firming up, and taking years off both their looks and their outlook Dr Jones has already made outstanding contributions in the fields of health, education, fitness, and longevity as a teacher, a consultant, a motivational speaker, and the author of ten books and hundreds of articles. Her definitive volume, A FRESH START, is the culmination of more than thirty years of teaching at UCLA, ongoing research, and personal experience..
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****Includes CD of Forms, Letters, and More****

From identifying a target and calculating a price, to negotiating terms and just about every other aspect of an M&A transaction through the post closing transition period, this book leads the small company owner or executive through the entire acquisition procedure. A company with annual sales of $2 to $100 million can use Let's Buy a Company to dramatically increase revenues, profits, and its enterprise value. After all, why be a target when you can use the techniques of billion dollar companies to expand yours?

The short, easy-to-read chapters in this book, provide a complete, thorough, and comprehensive guide to using one or a series of acquisitions to build your company as well as the compensation and equity value it can offer you. Each chapter also includes pertinent examples from the author's work with a wide variety of small companies with large company growth objectives. For example, on occasion, Rust has helped sell smaller companies as a means of converting their enterprise value into a cash return for their owners.

In addition to the hints, guides and walkthroughs, Let's Buy a Company also includes a Workbook on a CD-ROM that gives you actual examples of letters, proposals, forms, and financial spreadsheets used in each step of the acquisition process. These real-life examples can be accessed in Microsoft Word™ or Excel™, modified by you, and used in your own acquisition search, evaluation, pricing, negotiation, and closing. All of the Excel™ spreadsheets include not just the numbers but the underlying formulas used by the author and his clients for their acquisitions, mergers, and company sales.

Now that you've got all these tools at your fingertips, Let's Buy a Company!

H. Lee Rust has been a corporate finance consultant for the past 27 years helping small companies accelerate their growth with acquisitions and mergers and developing strategic plans to target and control that growth. Mr. Rust directs his entire corporate finance practice to those small companies who aren't usually of interest to large investment banks, but uses big bank acquisition techniques tailored to his client base and their individual situations. He lives with his wife in Apopka, an Orlando, Florida suburb..
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Used by more than 300 colleges, this book contains exercises, questions, tips, and self-tests that will help a reader develop a good attitude toward studying .
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The Psychology of Achievement was developed to help you find answers as to what goes on inside the minds of the people you admire most - those who have reached breathtaking levels of achievement Do they have special mental talents that average people could never hope to emulate? Most overachievers simply have a persistent ability to come out on top. The Psychology of Achievement is an inside look at the thinking that leads to great achievement. It provides answers and techniques that can help you transform the way you think and act for higher success and achievement. You'll learn: 1) A 4-step formula for eliminating worry. 2) 6 points of truly effective time management. 3) How to sharpen your natural intuition. 4) How to increase your brain power. 5) 6 Basic requirements for true success. 6) 3 ways to accelerate personal development. 7) 4 techniques for rapid mental re-programming. 8) How to change thoughts from negative to positive. 9) 7 questions to ask before setting goals. 10) How to break bad habits quickly and painlessly..
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The right new products program can produce exponential growth..if all the pieces are in place. And that's what this all-new edition of Tom Kuczmarski's landmark book does. It broadens and deepens the message of previous editions with the introduction of a new approach whose greatest strengths are its simplicity, effectiveness, and proven results.

Called the MAP System, it provides a detailed guide to the secrets of developing a consistent stream of winners--sometimes even the kind of breakthrough product innovation that creates an entire new business unit or industry. It outlines the disciplined approach to creativity and newness that begins by determining customers' needs and wants and by developing the internal culture that encourages the creative decision-making needed to make real innovation happen.

The MAP is a way of organizing for new product innovation by looking differently at the skills and tools that are already in every organization--but too often under-used or not used at all.

Key elements include:

M - for Measure, Manage, and Motivate
A - for Attitude, specifically for developing and Attitude or Culture of Intelligent Risk-Taking
P - for Plan, Process, and People

Arming yourself with the best market information, developing a risk-embracing culture, and organizing around a plan that reflects both: these are the essential elements of new product success.

In this all-new edition, the author shows how to marshal a company's assets for greater growth and profitability. From conducting diagnostic audits to structuring new product blueprints and strategies through successful product launches to measuring and motivating team performance, this book will give you the tools for managing new product risk more creatively, improving your new product hit rates, and managing your programs more effectively..
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