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All day, every day, we negotiate: with our friends, spouses, children, boss, customers, and co-workers A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating builds on women’s innate skills in professional and personal situations. Drawing upon their considerable experience, as a top corporate negotiator and as an investment banker, Lee and Jessica Miller have developed proven strategies, tactics, and techniques that tap into women's abilities to convince, collaborate and create. The authors feature innovative strategies for negotiating with aggressive men and competitive women. The authors also explore the ten common mistakes women make during negotiations and how to avoid making them. In addition, the book will teach you 3 keys to successful negotiating. Whether negotiating for a raise or where to go to dinner with your boyfriend, this book shows you how to get what you want.

What others are saying about A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating:

"Breakthrough perspective. Every woman can benefit from this indispensable guide to getting what you want."--Cathleen Black, President, Hearst Magazines

"No matter what the situation, this book provides you with the negotiating techniques and the overall confidence to deal with the issue."--Rose Marie Bravo, Chief Executive Officer, Burberry Ltd.

"Whether you are in the boardroom or at home with your kids, this book shows you how to get what you want and do it with style."--Lisa Hall, Chief Operating Officer, Oxygen Media

"Lots of practical advice on how to win with a woman's touch."--Jan Hopkins, Anchor, CNN Street Sweep

"A useful book for women on the art of negotiating . . . in business, in personal relationships, in every area of life."--Donna Lagani, Publishing Director, Cosmopolitan Group, publisher of Cosmoplitan magazine and CosmoGirl

"An invaluable source of wisdom for woman, young and old, who want to take their place in the world."--Christine Baranski, Emmy and Tony Award Winning Actress

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Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate On-Line

Computing as you know it has changed No longer are you tied to using expensive programs stored on your computer No longer will you be able to only access your data from one computer No longer will you be tied to doing work only from your work computer or playing only from your personal computer.

Enter cloud computing–an exciting new way to work with programs and data, collaborate with friends and family, share ideas with coworkers and friends, and most of all, be more productive! The “cloud” consists of thousands of computers and servers, all linked and accessible to you via the Internet.

With cloud computing, everything you do is now web-based instead of being desktop-based; you can access all your programs and documents from any computer that’s connected to the Internet. Whether you want to share photographs with your family, coordinate volunteers for a community organization, or manage a multi-faceted project in a large organization, cloud computing can help you do it more easily than ever before. Trust us. If you need to collaborate, cloud computing is the way to do it.

• Learn what cloud computing is, how it works, who should use it, and why it’s the wave of the future.

• Explore the practical benefits of cloud computing, from saving money on expensive programs to accessing your documents ANYWHERE.

• See just how easy it is to manage work and personal schedules, share documents with coworkers and friends, edit digital photos, and much more!

• Learn how to use web-based applications to collaborate on reports and presentations, share online calendars and to-do lists, manage large projects, and edit and store digital photographs.

Michael Miller is known for his casual, easy-to-read writing style and his ability to explain a wide variety of complex topics to an everyday audience. Mr. Miller has written more than 80 nonfiction books over the past two decades, with more than a million copies in print. His books for Que include Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Computer Basics, Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, and Is It Safe?: Protecting Your Computer, Your Business, and Yourself Online. His website is located at www.molehillgroup.com.

Covers the most popular cloud-based applications, including the following:

• Adobe Photoshop Express

• Apple MobileMe

• Glide OS

• Google Docs

• Microsoft Office Live Workspace

• Zoho Office

CATEGORY: Web Applications

COVERS: Cloud Computing

USER LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate

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Price: $19.79 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "[T]hose who are designing, building, or managing the development of technology should teach their products to follow the same basic rules of cooperation that people use with each other."

In the first section, they show lots of good and bad UI examples from different devices (PC, PDA, photocopier, even a dashboard). Bad examples include confusing pop-ups, crowded menus, and hilarious error messages like this one from Yahoo! Messenger: "You are not currently connected. Please click on Login and then Login to login again."

The book gives succinct design principles like, "Treat clicks as sacred." A violation of this would be those dreaded "Do you really mean it?" pop-ups. Using a butler as an analogy, they point out that he'd soon be out of a job if he questioned, "Madam, are you sure you want me to answer the door?" A design guideline says, "If you have an Undo feature, there is no need to break the users' flow to ask them whether they really want the program to do what they just asked it to do." Design guidelines like this appear in the margins throughout the book for easy reference and are gathered in a handy appendix.

The second section goes into detail on the creation of the authors' own project, Hubbub, a multidevice instant-messaging application. Whenever a step in the process reflects the application of a design principle, it's called out in purple in the text. Thus, the book itself is an example of a cooperative UI that helps readers keep ideas organized as they read along.

Even if you're not developing user interfaces, you'll enjoy this book. There are many moments of recognition when you see just how flawed your favorite, or most hated, everyday application/operating system/Web site is, and how easily it could have been improved. And you may even find the principles of Cooperative Technology informing nontechnological areas of your life. The authors make politeness and the anticipation of the needs of others seem logical, feasible, and elegant. --Angelynn Grant.
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Learn how you can take advantage of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to enhance collaboration, fuel team productivity, and improve your business processes.   Many business tools and processes focus on improving the productivity of the individual an approach that's increasingly out of step with the collaborative, team-based work needed for shared project goals and business results. Learn Michael Sampson s Seven Pillars of Team Productivity and put them into practice using the powerful collaboration capabilities in SharePoint Products and Technologies. Discover how you can set up SharePoint Products and Technologies effectively for your team, including providing access to team data, enabling group collaboration in a virtual environment, using Microsoft Office LiveMeeting, setting up team calendaring and action points, and building social networks with blogs, search, and SharePoint MySite. Find out how other organizations are using SharePoint to their advantage. And learn exactly how your team can benefit by collaborating on documents and presentations, holding group discussions, and coordinating events and team meetings.  

Key Book Benefits

Shares real-world productivity strategies from collaboration and teamwork expert Michael Sampson Describes how to use SharePoint Products and Technologies to achieve business objectives and improve team processes Goes beyond the fundamentals of setting up and managing SharePoint sites, describing how to use them to drive real business results.
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Although doctors, nurses, and administrators differ widely in their training and outlook, they share the same patients and the goal of providing safe and effective care. This book provides novel strategies for fostering collaboration among these diverse professionals. Each approach is illustrated by a case example and supported with practical tips for implementation. These strategies will help healthcare teams leverage their unique talents, improve patient care, and reconnect with the ideals that attracted them to a career in healthcare. This book describes how to use constructive conflict to open the lines of communication, maintain the loyalty of outpatient physicians, optimize the contributions of hospitalists, use crew resource management techniques to improve communication and collaboration, encourage physicians to reach consensus on clinical priorities, use clinical teams to reduce malpractice risk and improve outcomes, adopt disease-based approaches to patient care, use blogs to create virtual communities among professionals, and apply techniques from the Toyota Production System to empower frontline staff.
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Put your sales process on steroids with Power Selling!

Drive your sales results to the next level by embracing the proven methods and tools within Power Selling

Power Selling is a sales tool that inspires and equips its readers to:

Set appointments with top-level decision makers
Position themselves as expert resources
Ask better, more intriguing questions
Professionalize their proposals
Close with confidence
Conduct effective account reviews
Gain referrals from enthusiastic customers.
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Knowledge has become the new source of wealth, and the co-creation and sharing of knowledge through collaboration, the key to the success of today's organization. Collaboration is everyone's business and every business's concern. Unfortunately, the mindset of most business people is not one of cooperation, but of competition.

Collaborate to Compete, offers a practical, applied approach to fostering a spirit of cooperation not just within an organization, but also with suppliers, customers, and even competitors to gain a competitive advantage.

Many knowledge management initiatives and approaches have failed in their attempt to harness and share the knowledge resident in organizations because they focus on technology, systems, and the valuation of intellectual property, but often neglect the human side. Collaborate to Compete goes beyond the traditional technological approaches of knowledge management systems to address the human challenges, as well as the psychological, cultural, and organizational barriers to employees, suppliers, and customers actually using these systems.

Collaborate to Compete:

• Shows how to create an atmosphere of trust, teamwork and collaboration and the promotion of emotional intelligence.
• Offers practical tools, processes and exercises that are helpful in developing a culture of collaboration.
• Introduces a unique assessment instrument, the Collaboration Quotient, that measures the readiness of individuals and of their organization to collaborate. It is also used to monitor the organization's progress in developing collaboration.
• Provides a detailed design for a practical and effective Internet-based knowledge network that facilitates knowledge sharing and co-creation.
• Includes comprehensive coverage on: how to transform a command-and-control organization into a collaborative one; how to measure, maintain, and increase collaboration; how to identify and eliminate the systems and processes that hinder collaboration; how to reward and encourage collaboration; and much more.
• Features examples and case studies that provide a blueprint for implementation, including organizations such as Documentum, Hill & Knowlton, Intel, Northrop Grumman, Open Text, Siemens, Turner Construction, Vignette and others.

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Collaboration between organizations on different continents can address issues such as economic development, health, the environment, risk sharing, supply chain efficiency and human resource management. It is an activity that touches almost every aspect of business and social life.

The authors of Managing to Collaborate combine rigorous theory with practical examples to create a one-stop resource for students, academics and managers studying or working in collaboration.

The key features of the book include:
* Theory drawn directly from practice
* Rich theory explicated in simple language so it talks to everyone interested in collaboration
* A coherently developed understanding of the challenges in collaboration based on careful research.
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