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A provocative exposŽ of the negative effects of sugars and simple carbs-and how to break the addiction

Most readers already know that succumbing to sweets too often can lead to obesity and diabetes. What many don't know, however, is that too many "quickie carbs" can bring on a host of other maladies-such as "brain fog," fatigue, mood swings, heart disease, and even cancer-from which millions may be suffering because of their sugar or carbohydrate habits. Once besieged by 44 seemingly unconnected symptoms, former "sugar addict" Connie Bennett, an experienced journalist, managed to kick sweets and simple carbs in 1998. She improved her health-and uncovered extensive medical research that substantiated her theory: people who eat too many low-caliber culprit carbs could be in sugar shock. Based on the insights of thousands of physicians, nutritionists, researchers, and "sugar sufferers" worldwide, SUGAR SHOCK!(tm) not only addresses how badly sugar affects the body, it demonstrates how everyone can kick the sugar habit..
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If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail, David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo describe the most common characteristics of derailed top executives and how you can avoid them:

• Arrogance—you think that you're right, and everyone else is wrong.
• Melodrama—you need to be the center of attention.
• Volatility—you're subject to mood swings.
• Excessive Caution—you're afraid to make decisions.
• Habitual Distrust—you focus on the negatives.
• Aloofness —you're disengaged and disconnected.
• Mischievousness—you believe that rules are made to be broken.
• Eccentricity—you try to be different just for the sake of it.
• Passive Resistance—what you say is not what you really believe.
• Perfectionism—you get the little things right and the big things wrong.
• Eagerness to Please—you try to win the popularity contest.

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This unique self-improvement program by a dynamic corporate consultant and coach offers advice to help successful people stay successful in an age of corporate downsizing and career anxiety..
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Don't wait until tomorrow--live your life today You've spent a lifetime dreaming about your future, but as the future becomes the present, are you living your dream? Many people feel their dreams are just too impossible to reach, so they spend their lifetime stuck in a place that's easy. But living out your dream is easy if you know how to get there. You just need to anticipate what challenges will come your way and how to overcome them--whether it's fear, the need for control, having enough money, understanding how your dream fits into God's will, or six other common obstacles. Don't wait until the pieces fall together to live the life you desperately long for. Make intentional decisions to live with purpose. Twentysomethings Shannon and Michael Primicerio reveal how they got unstuck: by deliberately living their lives now. Now is the time to get from where you are to where you want to go. We're all running out of time. Live your life now. "Shannon and Michael understand their generation and the significant challenges facing so many in their age group. Life. Now. is a wonderfully practical book that will be of enormous help to many young people. It is also a great tool for premarital counseling." --Howard Dayton, CEO, Crown Financial Ministries.
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This book was designed for:

• Senior level executives and business owners – whether you’re looking for ways to widen the gap over your competitors or struggling to return to earlier levels of profitability, The Uniqueness Myth will help you determine where you need to focus your attention.

• Emerging business leaders – at some point you’ll find yourself facing new responsibilities for which you have little, if any, background or experience, The Uniqueness Myth will help you fill in those gaps.

• Professionals who want to become strategic partners with senior management - this transition requires a holistic view of business that many professionals don’t possess. The Uniqueness Myth will not only help you expand the breadth of your business background, it offers business improvement ideas that you can use to get recognized as a business partner.

The Uniqueness Myth:

• Identifies the core concept for each of ten aspects of business: strategy, marketing, sales, customer service, pricing, production, organizational structure, work environment, finance and administration.

Example: The core concept for "Strategy" is to provide something the market wants or needs that it isn’t getting.

• Highlights the most frequently made mistakes in each of these areas.

• Strengthens leaders’ business background by providing the wisdom of some of the world’s best business minds.

• Serves as a ready reference for leaders whose business is struggling..
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Proven tools for solving today's most persistent entrepreneurial headaches--and keeping the focus on business growth

Operating a small business presents entrepreneurs with a continuing series of problems that need to be solved--and, usually, the smaller the business, the bigger the problems. Small Business Solutions focuses on 13 crises that crop up again and again in most small businesses, and details how entrepreneurs have identified and successfully solved them. As a longtime consultant to start-up businesses, Robert Hisrich has seen these solutions work in scores of small businesses, both in the United States and abroad. He divides Small Business Solutions into three categories--marketing, finance, and overall management--and provides market-proven solutions to problem areas in each:

• Sales & Marketing--Turning sales into profits, focusing a business
• Finance--Raising capital, monitoring and managing cash flow, valuing a business
• Management--Choosing the right partner, changing style as a business grows, and more

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The "rule of law" has become a shibboleth of American democracy, but the emphasis on procedural and abstract rather than substantive justice that is embedded both in the workings of our judicial system and in the writings of our leading philosophers of law, John Anderson argues, had led to much real injustice. This book draws inspiration from Aristotle's notion of "natural justice" found in communities based on ties of friendship to point the way toward a more humane practice of law.Starting with concrete examples of injustice produced in our legal system, the author examines the distorting effects of legal argumentation and strategy on affirmative action, overzealous prosecutions, abusive enforcement of the tax code, sexual harassment litigation, and many other issues troubling our society. The jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin, with his notion of a "community of principle," is identified as best articulating the justification for our current system and is subjected to a thorough critique from an Aristotelian perspective. Kant's "kingdom of ends" is located at the root of rights-based notions of justice and is also argued to be inadequate because it lacks the flexibility allowed by the classical understanding of epieikeia (equity).What issues from this investigation of the faults of our present legal regime is a set of proposals for reform that include abolition of the legal profession and term limits for judges as well as politicians..
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This digital document is an article from SAM Advanced Management Journal, published by Society for the Advancement of Management on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 3889 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The employee training process is an important tool that can prevent breakdowns in TQM implementation. Training programs should go beyond instilling basic terminology and must place great emphasize towards realizing objectives. In the 1950s, Benjamin S. Bloom designed a curriculum that is still considered an important tool in organizational training programs. The technique, more popularly known as Bloom's taxonomy, establishes a framework for creating a TQM training program. The taxonomy consists of six levels of learning objectives: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. By properly considering these levels, training facilitators can then devise the necessary modules to meet the needs of participants.

Citation Details
Title: Don't let your training process derail your journey to total quality management.
Author: Brian P. Niehoff
Publication:SAM Advanced Management Journal (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1995
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Management
Volume: v60 Issue: n1 Page: p39(7)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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