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Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to...
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Summary of The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss | Includes Analysis Preview: The 4-Hour Body is a detailed self-help book that outlines a plan for both men and women to optimize or reinvent their bodies through unconventional and often minimalist methods. Achieving the ultimate body does not require endless hours in a gym or excessively restrictive diets. The fundamental aspect of the 4-Hour Body plan is to use the minimum effective dose of something,...
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¿Te encuentras a menudo perdiendo el tiempo en cosas que no importan?
¿Sabes lo que deberías estar haciendo pero de alguna manera eres incapaz de hacerlo?
¿Te esfuerzas constantemente por alcanzar la perfección y nunca termina nada?
¿Eres incapaz de concentrarte?
Si respondiste afirmativamente a alguna de estas preguntas, esta guía puede ayudarte a transformar tu vida.
¿Te gustaría poder completar las tareas con la mente despejada? Durante...
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Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics.
You'll learn to:
• Assess how you spend your time now
• Prioritize your tasks
• Plan the right time to work on each one
• Avoid procrastination and interruptions
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills...
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Improve Your Business Results Through Organizational Project ManagementOrganizational project management (OPM) aligns project deliverables with strategy. Understanding this emerging process is essential for all stakeholders, from the corporate sponsor to project team members. OPM is a valuable new tool that can enhance your organization's successful execution of projects in alignment with strategic priorities.Under the editorship of Rosemary Hossenlopp,...
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Combat the Deadly Sins of Project Management!Project management is a tough business. Not only must project managers contend with schedules, budgets, and a host of stakeholder demands, but they must also deal with sometimes vexing human behaviors, such as whining, indecision, opposition, inflexibility, complacency, and tunnel vision, to name a few. Projects can be negatively impacted by common "sins" that hinder, stall, or throw the project off track.In...
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You've been asked to manage a key project--or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics, including:
Drawing up a realistic schedule and project plan
Monitoring key tasks and benchmarks
Communicating with stakeholders
Bringing the project to a close
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential...
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You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:
Establishing a productive environment
Assigning the right work to the right people
Conducting an effective hand-off meeting
Monitoring without micromanaging
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills...
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Pain relief is an ongoing need for hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world who have been injured or are suffering from painful medical conditions. Many rely on their family doctor for opiate based pain pills, while others seek help from pain clinics. Unfortunately, both of these options often run their course, and for many there becomes a need to find the next chapter in their struggle for pain relief. As we now know, individuals who...
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Se former en continu, dès à présent
Encadrer et coacher des collaborateurs en vue d'atteindre ensemble un objectif précis n'est jamais une mince affaire. La fonction managériale laisse peu de place à l'improvisation et requiert un certain nombre de compétences pour pouvoir gérer efficacement tous les facteurs de production, ressources financières, matérielles et humaines.
Les concepts élémentaires de gestion interne
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Today's competitive workplace demands that managers evaluate employee performance, and provide coaching. Performance Management will help managers prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan to increase employee productivity.
The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business....
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Im Gegensatz zu klassischen Fonds, die auf Aktien oder Anleihen setzen, investieren offene Immobilienfonds das Geld in Immobilien. Die offenen Immobilienfonds eignen sich vor allem für Sparer und Anleger, die mit ihrer Geldanlage von einer breiten Streuung des Risikos am Immobilienmarkt profitieren möchten. Gleichzeitig bestehen bei Immobilien häufig langfristige Mietverträge, die auf Jahre hinaus regelmäßige Renditen versprechen. Solche Investitionen...
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Every day begins with the same challenge: too many tasks on your to-do list and not enough time to accomplish them. Perhaps you tell yourself to just buckle down and get it all done-skip lunch, work a longer day. Maybe you throw your hands up, recognize you can't do it all, and just begin fighting the biggest fire or greasing the squeakiest wheel.
And yet you know how good it feels on those days when you're working at peak productivity, taking care...
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Organisation et gestion du temps
Une bonne organisation est la clé pour devenir maître de son temps et de ses priorités. Cependant, planifier ses tâches et orchestrer ses journées au regard des aléas du quotidien et autres changements de dernière minute n'est pas toujours chose aisée. Osez la performance au travail vous propose un coaching professionnel pour vous permettre d'optimiser votre emploi du temps et de revoir vos habitudes.
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This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence, frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how families successfully implement entrepreneurship across generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are authorities...
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Take the stress out of giving feedback.
To help your employees meet their goals and fulfill their potential, you need to provide them with regular feedback. But the prospect of sharing potentially negative news can be overwhelming. How do you construct your message so that it's not only well received but also expressed in a way that encourages change?
Whether you're commending exemplary work or addressing problem behavior, the HBR Guide to Delivering...
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Edited by Harvard Business School professor Jay W. Lorsch, the preeminent authority on corporate boards, this book gathers the leading voices from business and academia to address the challenges of governance in the 21st century.
We are at a crucial juncture in the evolution of business and the economy. We must now reshape the structures and practices of business leadership to avoid going down the same path again. To a large extent this is a question...
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If you need the best practices and ideas for launching new ventures-but don't have time to find them-this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.
This collection of HBR articles will help you:
• Zero in on your most promising prospects
• Set a clear direction for your start-up
• Test and revise your assumptions along the way
• Tackle risks that could sabotage your efforts
• Carve out opportunities...
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The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.
Managing...
20) Summary, Analysis & Review of Ken Blanchard's & Spencer Johnson's The New One Minute Manager by Inst
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ken Blanchard's & Spencer Johnson's The New One Minute Manager by Instaread Preview: The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson is a business parable that portrays a young businessman learning about the strategies of one very effective manager who uses techniques described as the New One Minute Manager methods. The employee searches far and wide for the perfect management strategy but does not find...
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