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McGraw Hill LLC
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Revised and updated for today's job market, the bestselling handbook for the ahead-of-the-curve job seeker
"Is there anything you'd like to ask us?" This question can paralyze even the most seasoned job applicants. But with 301 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview at your side, you'll be ready with a response that demonstrates your confidence and ability to see the whole picture and think on your feet.
This second edition of the
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English
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"Merchants of Doubt " tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Brand values -- the core attributes and beliefs of a company -- are the heart and soul of any professional services firm. Professional services firm that consistently deliver on their brand values, such as ad agency R/GA and consultancy Accenture, achieve spectacular growth. But all it takes is one misstep, and a services firm can collapse overnight as Arthur Andersen did. How to Manage a Values-Based Professional Services Firm shows leaders of professional...
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English
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"Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all are attacks on the mind. If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these all-important battles. In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and minister shows readers how to transform their lives by changing their minds. Readers will learn to deal with thousands of thoughts they may think every day and...
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Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A just culture protects people's honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest? It is too simple to assert that there should be consequences for those who 'cross the line'. Lines don't just exist out there, ready to be crossed or obeyed. We - people - construct those lines; and we draw them differently all the time, depending on the language we use to describe the mistake,...
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Publisher
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning?."
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB's labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors zwere an abomination ... if you're selling a sport and the players don't care about winning, that's not a sport. That's a fraud ... an exhibition masquerading as a contest.y Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishing
On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero — or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief?
Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story — an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth...
Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story — an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth...
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author details his incredible journey as a forensic accountant and how he faced death threats, retaliation and family hardships during various fraud investigations. He was tested on numerous occasions but never deviated from professional standards. Over the years, he has collected countless stories representative of the common tendencies that hinder practitioner's ability to detect, deter, and prevent fraud and misconduct, many of which could...
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Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A survey of 1,100 full-time U.S. employees found that people spend an average of 3.2 hours per workday collaborating with others. But despite the importance of workplace collaboration, most organizations devote little time to educating their workers on how to build healthy and productive collaborative relationships. The author discusses the survey results' implications and offers six suggestions for helping individuals, teams, and organizations develop...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that the best way to create customer loyalty is with service so good, so over the top, that it surprises and delights. But what if everyone is wrong? In their acclaimed bestseller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they've turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject-customer loyalty-with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on...
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Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Being a professional baseball player is no walk in the park-it's a physically and mentally demanding job. When you're on the field, millions of people are expecting you to record base hits as a batter or strikeouts as a pitcher. And the work continues beyond game time; you need to practice, work out, and scout your competition. Aches and pains are a given. And on top of everything else, you must perform amidst constant travel, media attention, and...
16) Managing people
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Publisher
O'Reilly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Part of your focus throughout this period of adjustment to management is to figure out your own management style. Many of you will be learning how to manage individuals while simultaneously being responsible for running a team. In the lesson, we'll talk about the challenges of dealing with the team as a whole, as well as how the technical side of your role might be changing, but it's important to start by considering the individuals. After all, your...
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For a professional player, basketball isn't just a fun game-it's a job. Millions of people are watching your every move, expecting you to make every shot and block your competitors'. You have to give your all for every game, and when you're not playing, you're sharpening skills, working on plays, and studying your opponents. Dedication extends beyond the season. You must follow strict diets and workout plans to stay in shape throughout the year....
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American Library Association
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Reviews are an important resource for readers' advisory and collection development. They are also a helpful promotional tool, introducing patrons to what is new on the shelf. This resource includes: tips for writing strong, relevant reviews; different ways reviews can be used to promote your library; and, a chapter by Joyce Saricks covering the how-tos of reviewing audiobooks. Whether the ultimate goal is writing for a library website, book club,...
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Gain a a basic foundation of essential personal finance issues and strategies, specifically geared towards tech professionals. The book will build on the concepts, such as going from the basics of investments to more advanced topics like alternative investments and tax strategies. In the U.S., about 6 million tech startup employees have stock options. The result is that this can often be the biggest source of wealth, sometimes reaching into the millions....
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