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Shades of Life
Brief summary
Shellsea Kego has had everything going for her. She has known nothing less than a Royal upbringing. Fancy schools, expensive holidays and all that vast wealth can buy have been the summary of the life of this young girl. Snobbish and with a keen sense of class, she mingles with the high and mighty, in whose league her rich mother luxuriates.
Her fairy-tale kind of life comes tumbling down like a pack of cards when her mother drives her to what strikes her as a godforsaken ghost of a school in the middle of nowhere. "You can't leave me in this terrible place! I cannot survive this! I will be miserable and end up failing!" Shellsea protests. "It's for your own good." her mother insists, as if to rub salt into her wound.
ISBN:9780195736106
Author:Pasomi Mucha
Coaching and Mentoring
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Coaching has long become mainstream. Thousands of people paid GBP2,000 each to attend a three-day seminar in 2008 in London's Excel center to listen to Tony Robbins - the man credited with 'turning around' Bill Clinton in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky affair - and discover how to 'unleash the power within'. But the big business has been in executive coaching.
A top coach in America can earn over $15,000 a day - well beyond the normal fees charged by most consultants and occupational psychologists - and, according to Harvard Business Review, US companies are spending more than $1 billion a year on this 'must-have' activity.
A similar trend is being witnessed in Britain, where it's estimated that 100,000 managers a year now undergo coaching. This guide explains what coaching, and it’s cheaper and simpler alternative, mentoring are, outlining the different types of coaching and their cost. Crucially, it assesses the effectiveness of coaching and mentoring, and it gives advice based on the lessons learned by those interviewed for the book on making coaching work successfully and avoiding mistakes that lead to disappointment or even harm.
ISBN:9781846681899
Author:Jane Renton
Guide To Analyzing Companies
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All these important questions as well as many more are answered in the completely updated and revised fifth edition of this clear and comprehensive guide aimed at anyone who wants to make sense and practical use of a company's annual report measure a business against its competitors judge the creditworthiness of a customer or client assess the investment potential of a company put a value on a company.
1. How do you tell how well a company run is and how well it is doing?
2. Which ratios and benchmarks should you use to assess performance?
3. What can be done to massage company results?
4. How do you recognize danger signs on the corporate horizon?
5. How do you compare companies operating in different sectors or even different countries?
ISBN:9781846681219
Author:The Economist and Bob Vause
The Economist Guide to Business Model...
Brief summary
All organizations face more and more complex decision-making while the risks dependent on their decisions require increasingly explicit understanding of potential outcomes. The current edition of this widely acclaimed guide is full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible and easy-to-use business models for analyzing the upside or potential downside of any business project, however small or large. Key features include:
1. Fully Excel 2010 aligned with enhanced Excel and business content
2. More model evaluation techniques to help with business decision-making
3. Helpful key point summaries
4. Website from which model examples given in the book can be downloaded
For anyone who wants to get ahead in business and especially for those with bottom-line responsibilities, this is an invaluable guide to how to build spreadsheet models for assessing business risks and opportunities.
ISBN:9781846683831
Author:John Tennent and Graham Friend
The Economist: Business Strategy
Brief summary
The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were ill-conceived, poorly organized and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decision-making - from vision, forecasting, and resource allocation, through to implementation and innovation.
Strategy is about understanding where you are now, where you are heading and how you will get there. There is no room for timidity or confusion. Although the CEO and the board decide a company's overall direction, it is the managers at all levels of the organization that will determine how the vision can be transformed into action. In short, everyone is involved in strategy.
But getting it right involves difficult choices: which customers to target, what products to offer and the best way to keep costs low and service high. And constantly changing business conditions inevitably bring risks. Even after business strategy has been developed, a company must remain nimble and alert to change, and view strategy as an ongoing and evolving process.
The message of this guide is simple: strategy matters, and getting it right is fundamental to business success - this book will show you how.
ISBN:9781781252314
Author:Jeremy Kourdi
Who Will Cry When You Die by Robin Sh...
Brief summary
This self-help and motivating book, in simple language draws out 101 ways by which we all could live a more carefree life and not sacrifice our today for a worried tomorrow.
The hundred plus solutions confront the reader with some of the most complex and dire situations they might face in life. They teach about how to handle stress with a smile, overcome the problems and lead a healthy lifestyle.
The book has separate sections on Start Your Day Well, Honor Your Past, Discover Your Calling and See Troubles as Blessings. Each section containing parables and amusing anecdotes, not just make 'Who Will Cry When You Die' a compelling read but impart great life lessons that are very inspirational.
They also make us realize about some of the simplest pleasures that we ignore in our stressful and busy lives. Most readers would be able easily relate to the book.
Written in simple, lucid language, some of the text does turn into quotations that a reader will remember for a long time. Sharma urges the reader, never to quit trying and look for fulfilment and a purpose in whatever one does.
From his earlier books and this present one, it is obvious that Robin Sharma has the talent to invigorate his readers with his superior diction. His books almost always contain inspiring quotes from famous celebrities from all over the world. The book is highly recommended for those who want to improve their interpersonal skills and lift their lifestyle.
I will go the Distance
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I will go the Distance: The story of a "lost" Sudanese boy of the sixties
The story of a "lost" Sudanese boy of the sixties with a Forward by Dr Francis Mading Deng.Before the "Lost Boys" of the 1990s there were the refugee children from Southern Sudan in the 1960s.
Jacob Akol was one of them, and he writes of his experiences, uprooted by war, separated from his family, wandering with his companions through Africa… to Ireland.
ISBN:9789966080615
Author:Jacob J. Akol
The Art of Real Happiness
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Would you like to know how to be happy? Norman Vincent Peale, in collaboration with outstanding psychiatrist Smiley Blanton, shares his wisdom and years of professional experience in this empowering and easy-to-read book.
In an anxious, fast-paced and increasingly uncertain world, more and more people are battling with a sense of emptiness in their lives, a lack of real purpose or even full-blown depression. Drawing on ancient truths, spiritual wisdom and discoveries of modern psychology, The Art of Real Happiness offers a clear blueprint to help you find peace of mind, contentment and real personal happiness.
A classic bestseller that has already helped thousands of people around the world change their lives for the better and can now help you too.
ISBN:9780091851910
Author:Norman Vincent Peale
Beyond White Mischief
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Beyond White Mischief: Memoirs of a Tea Planter's Wife
When Sheila Ward went off to RADA to train as an actress in the early 1950s, she had no idea of the stormy path her life would take. After a short career as an actress in rep, with all the joys of juggling different roles and the comic possibilities of living in grim digs on very little money, she met and married a tea planter, and went off to live in Africa.
Through Sheila's diaries, life in Africa springs into sharp relief as she learns to live with snakes, bugs and recalcitrant servants. Sheila and her husband have four children and gradually adapt to a very different way of life. She meets the author Gerald Durrell, and Joy and George Adamson of Elsa the lioness fame, entertains fellow ex-pats and learns to love the unique terrain of Kenya’s hills.
But this seemingly charmed life is marred by a dreadful family tragedy, and a growing mistrust between Sheila and her husband. Family life begins to break down, and Sheila has to face the loneliness and heartbreak of living in a foreign country in an empty marriage.
With devastating honesty Sheila Ward's diaries document these difficult years, and her determination to build a new life for herself and face the future with impressive optimism.
ISBN:9781846246166
Author:Sheila Ward
The Economist:Successful Strategy Exe...
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The Economist: Successful Strategy Execution: How to keep your business goals on target
Strategy-to-performance gaps foster a culture of under-performance Unrealistic plans create the expectation throughout the organization that plans simply will not be fulfilled. This book shows how to overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively. Common failings include:
Companies rarely track their performance against long-term plans - less than 15% of companies make it a regular practice to go back and compare the business' results with the performance forecast for each business unit in its prior years' strategic results rarely meet projections - when companies do track performance, it rarely matches the prior years' projection.
The consequence is year-after-year of under-performance relative to the original plan A lot of value is lost in translation - a combination of poor communications, misapplied resources, limited accountability and lack of information creates an in-built strategy-to-performance gap.
This new title in The Economist series shows how businesses can overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively, using facts and anecdotal evidence from the real experiences of firms.
ISBN:9781846686054
Author:Michel Syrett
What Women Want Men to Know
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What Women Want Men to Know: The Ultimate Book about Love, Sex, and Relationships for You and the Man You Love
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., reveals everything women want men to know about loving and understanding the women in their life. This is the book women have always hoped someone would write--one that women will read to understand themselves better, and can give to their mate, confident that it will explain everything women feel about love, communication, sex, and intimacy that they've always wished men would know. WOMEN AND MEN WILL DISCOVER:
The Three Secret Needs Every Woman Has Seven Myths Men Believe About Women and Why They Are Absolutely Wrong How to Avoid Turning a Perfectly Sane Woman into a Raving Maniac Women's Top Twenty Sexual Turn-offs--and Turn-ons The Ten Male Communication Habits that Drive Women Crazy Sexual Secrets About Women Men Need to Know How to Turn Power Struggles into Cooperation Techniques for Being the Perfect Lover In and Out of Bed and much more.
IF YOU'RE A MAN: Read this book to learn what you can do to be a woman's dream come true. IF YOU'RE A WOMAN: Read this book to learn why you are the way you are, and give it to the man you love so you can have the relationship you've always wanted. Ever since Barbara De Angelis wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know, her readers have been begging her to write its counterparts book for both sexes that explains what women want men to know about understanding and loving the woman in their life.
Delivered in her signature frank, provocative and down-to-earth style, this new book does just that, and is an insightful guide that women will read to learn more about themselves, and that they will be excited to give to the man they love. HELPING MEN TO UNDERSTAND WOMEN
Have you ever wondered why it's so hard for your mate to figure out what you need when your female friends understand you perfectly? Learn about The Three Secret Needs Every Woman Has, and how to communicate them in a way men can really hear. Have you ever felt misunderstood, and wished you could explain to your partner how you really are? Read about The Seven Myths Men Believe About Women and Why They Are Absolutely Wrong.
Barbara includes groundbreaking information on the nature of women that will make you feel better about yourself than ever before, and will help men understand the real you.
ISBN:9780786866953
Author:Barbara De Angelis
The Reality Test
Brief summary
How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast' strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.
More helpful are these practical questions that can help you plan what to do when your business comes into contact with reality. From learning the lessons of the past (rather than fixating on the future) to finding out what your business is really about, he explains the real-life factors that lead to success or failure. Including many new examples from the front line, from all around the world, The Reality Test will help you establish yourself as more effective and distinctive than your competitors, who follow the same rigid theoretical avenues.
Whether you ask 'Are you making enough of your weaknesses?' or 'Are you 100% productive 100% of the time?', it's time to stop living in strategy La-La Land and face reality.
ISBN:9781847659187
Author:Robert Rowland Smith
The Guns at Last Light
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The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II
It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all—the titanic battle for Western Europe.
D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson’s riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters.
Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory.
With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson’s accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West.
ISBN:9780805062908
Author:Rick Atkinson
Emotional Intelligence Why it Can Matter
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Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More Than IQ
The groundbreaking bestseller that redefines intelligence and success Does IQ define our destiny? Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that our emotions play major role in thought, decision making and individual success.
Self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, motivation, empathy and social deftness are all qualities that mark people who excel: whose relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace.
With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us.
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ISBN:9780747528302
Author:Daniel Goleman
Inside Coca Cola
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Inside Coca-Cola: A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand
This first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells an extraordinary personal and professional worldwide story.
Isdell helped put out huge public relations fires (India and Turkey), opened markets (Russia, Eastern Europe, Philippines, and Africa), championed Muhtar Kent, the current Turkish-American CEO, all while living the ideal of corporate responsibility.
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ISBN:9781250013712
Author:Neville Isdell
In the Jaws of the Dragon
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In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Dominance
In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing?that the Communist Party's grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values.
That popular wisdom was wrong. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, the culmination of twenty years of research and study, instead of America changing China?i.e. making China more democratic?China is changing America.
While the Chinese people's rising affluence is, of course, an occasion for wholehearted rejoicing, Uncle Sam should give the Chinese power system a wide berth?lest he catch his coattails in the jaws of a dragon.
ISBN:9780312561628
Author:Eamonn Fingleton
In Borrowed Light
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Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect their wildlife and land from poachers and corrupt officials—but the developing relationship between their daughter and a young African boy with a terrifying legacy tests the strength of their family.
Sarah Singh, wildlife researcher and renowned photographer, is married to an Indian journalist, however, their inability to have children puts Sarah's relationship with her husband and his family under increasing pressure.
Camilla Broughton Smith, international model and fashion designer, has given up a dazzling career to work with the charismatic safari guide Anthony Chapman, who has been disabled in a tragic accident—yet his bitterness and fear of commitment threaten to shatter her dreams. Set in the magnificent but unpredictable wilds of Kenya, this is a story of courage and fortitude, of loyalty and murderous deceit, of friendship and betrayal, and redeeming sacrifice.
ISBN:9780099520634
Author:Barbara Keating and Stephanie Keating
The HR Scorecard
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The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance.
Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's overall strategy--what the authors describe as an HR Scorecard--and measuring its activities in terms that line managers and CEOs will find compelling.
Analyzing how each element of the HR system can be designed to enhance firm performance and maximize the overall quality of human capital, this important book heralds the emergence of HR as a strategic powerhouse in today's organizations.
ISBN:9781578511365
Author:Dave Ulrich, Mark A. Huselid and Brian E. Becker
How to Instantly Connect
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How to Instantly Connect With anyone: 96 All-new little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Some people, regardless of money, education, looks or personality, make an impression wherever they go - they are master communicators, and everyone enjoys talking to them. How to instantly connect with anyone shows you how to be one of those lucky few.
Communication guru Leil Lowndes arms you with 96 all-new, cutting-edge communication techniques to break through the invisible barrier that keeps people down, both personally and professionally. Her tips and tricks will help you:
1. Meet new people and speak with confidence
2. Be credible and charismatic in every social and business situation
3. Make friends and important contacts wherever you go
4. Command the respect of everyone you meet
Using these deceptively simple methods you can improve your communication skills and achieve greater success in all your relationships.
ISBN:9780091935443
Author:Leil Lowndes
How to Get to the Top
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How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table
Do you want to get to the top? Do you want to know how to rise above the crowd and become a leader in your field? In How to Get to the Top, bestselling author Jeffrey J Fox combines his own experience as an extremely successful entrepreneur with lessons learned at the family dinner table by business leaders such as Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks and George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees.
This compelling book contains hard-hitting advice on independence and self-reliance, management dynamics and problem solving, including:
1. Tip as if you were the tippee
2. Act like you own the place
3. You have to know the rules to break them
4. Never be late
5. Spend the company's money as you would your own
This is the essential guide on how to get to the top - and stay there.
ISBN:9780091935429
Author:Jeffrey J. Fox
