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Get More Money on Your Next Job: 25 Proven Strategies for Getting More Money, Better Benefits & Greater Job Security, by employment attorney and human resource executive Lee Miller, is a compilation of tactics that anyone can use to negotiate optimum deals when changing jobs. Outlining overall principles along with specific techniques, the book details how employment candidates can boost their cause by properly responding to questions--and in turn asking the right ones--during the interview process. Get More Money on Your Next Job also offers advice especially for women and the unemployed, and information on using headhunters and other professionals in a job search..
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Visionary business leader Alfred P. Sloan (1875-1965) revolutionized the world of the American corporation like no one else ever had done before him--or would ever do again. From his groundbreaking approaches for leadership by consensus, encouraging dissent, employing facts and data, and managing consumers, Sloan not only created the General Motors powerhouse during his thirty-year tenure--his brilliance as CEO there is legendary--but he also influenced the strategic vision, leadership style, and operational discipline of today's most successful companies.

In The Leadership Genius of Alfred P. Sloan, Allyn Freeman explains why Sloan's principles have stood the test of time, remaining the basic building blocks of effective managerial leadership in organizations large or small. He demonstrates how these innovative principles are playing out in business today, taking you through their successful application at GM and distilling lessons that all managers can use as guideposts in their business.

Freeman also provides instructive case studies from top companies across a wide range of industries--from Coca Cola, Marian Labs, and Nike to the Smithsonian, Heinz, and Hallmark--to demonstrate how they are effectively implementing Sloan's concepts. You'll learn how to duplicate Sloan's methods and reap the benefits of:

• Implementing and controlling dissent and disagreement within your organization
• Offering customers the right amount of choices
• The importance of using only facts and statistics for decision-making
• Selecting the right people for a brilliant, enterprising staff
• Starting or acquiring ancillary or complementary businesses
• Developing a strong corporate image through smart, memorable promotion
• Capitalizing on doing business internationally

Delivering proven advice that contunues to shape the way business works, The Leadership Genius of Alfred P. Sloan is the ultimate rulebook for companies who want to achieve high levels of success.

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Hi-early cement. Aiguille Darby. You're in the middle of a home improvement project and suddenly you're confronted with words you've never seen before. You don't know what these things are, how to use them or how you're supposed to even recognize them at the hardware store. Help is here for every homeowner or do-it-yourselfer who's ever stumbled over strange terminology, misleading instructions or inadequate explanations. Now, with this unique, fully illustrated dictionary, you'll have the one tool every successful do-it-yourselfer needs—a complete understanding of your next home improvement project. This comprehensive dictionary features:

• Straightforward, plain-English explanations covering 4,000 building tools, terms, materials, and techniques—850 of which are shown in practical, helpful, cross-referenced illustrations
• Complete coverage of building, plumbing, electrical wiring, solar heating, hardware, architecture, heating, air conditioning, and more—including everything from archaic and slang expressions to the latest technical information
• Dozens of useful charts, tables, and illustrated guides to common abbreviations, lumber, and plywood grades, hardware specifications, construction measurements and formulas—a wealth of reference information
• Full cross-referencing and grouping of related terms under a single heading to keep all the information you need accessible and ready to put to work

Tackle your next project with this do-it-yourselfer's reference power tool and feel the self-assurance that comes from knowing every professional term, technique, and tool—no matter how obscure. .
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program..
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In an effort to provide a blueprint or map for parents and/or educators working with our youth, Coach Ivan C. Thomas offers a collection of empowering insights and motivational quotes for parents who have dared to discover what their child's natural gift or talent. Coach Thomas believes that the success of our future generation goes hand-in-hand with the ability of educators and parents to communicate with our youth. If you are a father, mother, an educator or counselor working with youth, you have asked yourself, what will this child do with his life? You probably wondered how you can begin to shape and mold a child's future. As parents and educators, you may be struggling with issues of an unmotivated child or a child with an educational difficulty-or wondering how to begin to discover your child's natural talent. Now, with inspirational quotes and forty-five tips and advice, Coach Ivan Thomas shares his own insights that he has used working with his own team and student-athletes, counselees, and children at home. Coach Ivan Thomas offers a powerful message to parents and educators on how to begin to structure a plan for discovering the natural talent of our children. Coach Thomas leads you through a specific and detailed plan about how to take charge and get started on discovering their gift. In addition, he offers insight into how to get your child to embrace the journey of discovering a talent and how to use it to improve not only your life but the lives of others around you. He highlights the same qualities he uses to form and discover the natural talent or play of his team from year to year. You can affect the outcome of your child's life through education, tough love, self-control, patience and goal-setting. Coach Thomas stresses how to develop a plan to ensure the success of not only helping your child discover his or her talent, but also how to use it to improve your overall relationship with the child. 45 Tips for Discovering Your Child's Talents is a necessary handbook for parents and teachers who have been afforded the blessing of working with our youth and desire a resource that will help them come up with a blueprint to discover a child's gift. Once a child knows what he or she is good at in life, the child has a better sense of purpose and feels like he or she belongs. I can think of no better gift to give a child than the gift of discovering one's own natural talent that leads to a more defined sense of purpose..
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