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	Unleash Employee Engagement: 7 Initial Conditions for Outstanding Results	by Wally Hauck Jan. 16, 2012	$2.99	10450 words	Sample 20%
	Employee engagement is the emotional “energy” employees feel for their organization or their team such they are willing to exert extra voluntary effort to achieve success for all. Employee engagement is the new competitive advantage. This book provides leaders with 7 conditions leaders can create that create an environment where engagement can naturally emerge.
	How to Recruit Skilled Employees	by Dr Jim Porter Jan. 12, 2012	$2.99	3384 words	Sample 20%
	Behind every successful business there is the time and effort of highly skilled and equipped employees. For any start up business, investing in the right employees at the very beginning can yield fruitful results. In 30 minutes, learn how to: (a) Decide who you need, (b) Find the right candidates, (c) Short-list and interview, (d) Select the right recruits and (e) Welcome a new employee
	Chi è Franco?	by Claudio Manca Dec. 28, 2011	$2.99	7639 words	Sample 20%
	CHI E’ FRANCO? Che cosa succede in una azienda quando questa domanda viene fatta troppo tardi.. Quando i Manager non comprendono il valore delle persone, seguendo i freddi numeri, possono creare un grosso danno all’azienda per cui lavorano. Questo racconto vuole rammentare che sono gli uomini a formare le aziende e che sono gli uomini che ne determinano il successo o il fallimento.
	Work and Labour - From the books of the Bible	by Richard J. McQueen Dec. 02, 2011	$4.00	31321 words	Sample 10%
	The subject of Work and Labour, based on thematic studies conducted by Fernando D’Amico and Jacques Wisman, is proposed in this book as a themed walk through the passages of scripture from the Old and New Testament. The work, deeply inherent to the human condition, is not only an existential needs, but also the most powerful mean of expression of the human vitality.
	Succeed as a Manager in your Organisation - Building a Winning Team	by Claire Marie Murray Nov. 24, 2011	$7.97	3411 words	Sample 25%
	SUCCEED AS A MANAGER - Building a Winning Team Boost Your Management Performance with this High-Value eBook containing effective Management Coaching Tools, Techniques and Insights into People Management and Development. You"ll Get Big Benefits, Including: Incredible Learning - Boost Your Management Knowledge and Skills Ten Powerful Scenarios Coach your people towards success.
	Journey to My Heart	by Keerti Garg Nov. 19, 2011	Free!	5310 words	Read a sample
	'Journey to My Heart' is my collection of poems written during the course 'Creativity and Leadership' I took in the fall quarter of 2010 at Stanford University. This course taught the tools of creativity and encouraged the students to practice each one in the form of live-withs, one every week. I shared my experiences with each of the tools in the form of poems.
	How Cognitive Interviewing Can Assist with Disciplinary & Grievance Investigations - an article	by Richard Payne Nov. 07, 2011	$0.99	1567 words	Sample 15%
	This article discusses how the cognitive interviewing technique can be adapted for internal disciplinary and grievance investigative interviews.
	Visiting, Living in, or Doing Business in Costa Rica or Another Frontier Market or a Country Foreign to You	by Anon Mouse July 20, 2011	$8.99	56333 words	Sample 15%
	Information about traveling in, living in, doing business or investing in, Costa Rica, other frontier markets, or a country foreign to you. Things managers, investors, tourists, and those planning on moving to foreign countries should know.
	E-HRM Human Resources & Events, Functions Planning	by Oscar St.James July 10, 2011	$7.99	10990 words	Sample 11%
	Be an acting Human Resource manager, build events, and learn an interactive approach to be used with the direction or general workforce for individualized results. Create an event schedule and gather information to structure your company’s formal function. Gain a better understanding on what makes a proactive HR department.
	How Humans Fight the Laws of Nature -- and Lose -- Discover How to Thrive in Life and Business	by William E. Caswell June 05, 2011	$9.95	66238 words	Sample 20%
	All too often, in our efforts to be ambitious and succeed in life, we fight against nature's laws and fail. What would happen if we could understand some of the basic natural principals and apply them effectively? As well, if things aren't going quite right, could a new perspective on nature provide us insights to help us recover and move forward?
	The PERCEVD Principles - Preparing Employers to Reintegrate Combat Exposed Veterans with Disabilities	by Edward Crenshaw April 26, 2011	$9.99	36616 words	Sample 20%
	The Goal of "The PERCEVD Principles" is to establish disability and combat-related aspects of diversity awareness for veterans as a moral imperative. It serves a major injustice to our veterans to have them suffer in silence and/or increase their chances of failure by subjecting them to insensitive and harmful workplaces and collegiate environments. PERCEVD supports the business case.
	Dealing with Difficult Situations at Work and at Home	by Roberta Cava April 09, 2011	$9.99	88910 words	Sample 15%
	Have you started your day feeling happy with the world but find it going rapidly downhill because of the difficult situations you face? Do you ever feel you're not in control during these episodes? Do you let other people manipulate your day? If so, this book is for you. Difficult situations arise for everyone at work and at home. Handle them professionally and effectively.
	Dealing with Difficult People	by Roberta Cava April 09, 2011	$9.99	73077 words	Sample 15%
	Nasty Customers? Boss on the Rampage? Uncooperative Colleagues? Upset Secretary? This international best-seller will help you deal with them. At one time or another, everyone has to deal with irate, rude, impatient emotional or aggressive people in the workplace. This is the book for learning how to handle these stressful situations and how to defuse tensions calmly and with professionalism.
	The Superstar Staff Solution	by Hollie Gomez March 29, 2011	Free!	29420 words	Read a sample
	Revere excellence in your business by bringing out the natural superstars in your staff. Whatever your business position or title, no matter whether you are responsible for one or a hundred staff, there is imperative information, strategies and method revealed in this book to help you find, recruit, train, nurture and bring out the Superstar performance from your employees.
	The Corporation - Policy Design & Stress Releif	by Oscar St.James March 26, 2011	$12.99	5097 words	Sample 4%
	Designs for implementation of corporate structuring, this book includes key concepts and considerations for creating a central business organizational guide; including a formal ethics design. Topics discussed include contract design, behavior organization, motivational, upgrading appeal and stress management.
	Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Right Person!	by Jackie Wells Smith Jan. 30, 2011	$9.99	49286 words
	How do you find the best candidate for any job? Know what questions to ask. The most important contribution a manager can make to a company is to hire the right talent — and it’s crucial to learn if a candidate will be a team player, a great leader or expensive deadweight. To get the answers you need as a manager, you have to ask the right questions.
	Employment Rage: What you’ve lost and how to get it back	by Howard Adamsky Jan. 22, 2011	$7.99	55565 words	Sample 20%
	If you’re struggling with employment issues, you can’t afford to wait years to improve your situation. You need answers NOW. In Employment Rage, corporate recruiter and author Howard Adamsky maps out new and effective strategies to help you reclaim what you’ve lost: self-respect, ego, employment, and a sense of purpose.
	Leaving Neverland (Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations)	by Daniel Prokop Jan. 19, 2011	$9.99	88632 words	Sample 25%
	Mankind has become Pankind and never growing up today seems more the norm than the exception. In our desperate attempt to try to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth. A delightful skewering of perpetual boys in positions of power, a call to leave Neverland and the timely solution of contemporary Rites of Passage as a way out. Clever, funny writing.
	Value Your Month to Value Your Life	by Rosa Say Jan. 11, 2011	$4.99	7479 words	Sample 30%
	Value Your Month to Value Your Life presents a self-coaching process aimed at value alignment: We call it value-mapping in the Managing with Aloha sensibility for worthwhile work. Value mapping strengthens you. You can practice it immediately to improve the daily quality of your life, boosting your confidence by building better values-based habits.
	Feedback For The Faint-hearted	by Nancy Slessenger Nov. 29, 2010	$12.99	4139 words	Sample 30%
	How to Give and Get Feedback That Improves Work Performance. Without feedback there is no learning. It’s really the only way we ever improve our skill. This booklet will enable you to be focused when you give feedback and help you to improve your own results and those of your team drastically. Full of easy and effective ways to say what you need to say with plenty of examples.
	managing employees, professionals and teams	by manoj verma Nov. 15, 2010	$1.99	4543 words	Sample 50%
	Active listening allows one to both grow and communicate effectively. Learn the techniques of active listening and communicating to more effectively manage your team of employees.
	WINNING THE RÉSUMÉ BATTLE	by Timothy Y Aboh, Ph.D Nov. 01, 2010	$9.99	22743 words	Sample 20%
	Standards in résumés and cover letters have changed dramatically. Everyday, employers read all of the standard résumés—they are required to go through each and every one! But, which one will catch their eye? Acceptable formatting for résumés and cover letters has expanded, too.
	Who Do You See in the Mirror?	by Joseph Williams Oct. 28, 2010	$5.99	43561 words	Sample 20%
	The central theme of Who Do You See in the Mirror? is the trend toward irresponsible behavior in the workplace and what can be done to reverse it. All organizations need responsible members, on every rung of the ladder, to ensure success. The author’s innovative Human CABLE System™ (HCS) is a model for changing irresponsible behavior into responsible behavior.
	The "Art" of Counseling Staff	by Manager Development Services Sep. 28, 2010	$4.99	37491 words	Sample 20%
	Counseling is just one of the many roles a manager performs in his or her daily duties. Like it or not, the manager is a counselor and counseling is an “art.” Learn the objectives of counseling and develop effective techniques to uncover what is really going on in your department. This book examines ten counseling sessions for developing a staff that is willing to go to war for you.
	The Manager's Toolbox	by Manager Development Services Sep. 02, 2010	$4.99	29943 words	Sample 20%
	This book explains 99 tools described in the book, "Managing from the Heart." These tools are designed to assist managers in the day-to-day "art" of managing their most important asset - their people. Most managers are promoted to that position because they're good at what they do, but are never trained in how to develop a staff that is willing to go to war for their manager.
	Frazzled	by Peter Johansen Aug. 23, 2010	$2.95	26162 words	Sample 25%
	GAP analysis methods endeavor toward developing visionary solutions to complex problems by bifurcating or simplifying the problem into measurable steps. The combined thesis ‘Economic Perils of the Middle-Aged American Worker’ and ‘The Forgotten Graveyard Worker’ attempts toward accomplishing solutions toward a complex problem.
	2008 STATE OF THE FUTURE	by Frank Catanzaro March 29, 2010	You set the price!	4596 words	Sample 10%
	The State of the Future is the result of a continuing dialog between Futurists and other experts regarding the problems and opportunities that we face in the present and the possible courses or action needing to maximize the opportunities and avoid or surmount the many possible problems confronting humanity. This is the executive summary of that document.
	El Zen del Kaizen	by Jose Berengueres Dec. 26, 2009	You set the price!	7383 words	Sample 50%
	¿Cúal es el la cultura detrás del éxito de Toyota? ¿En que consite su famoso sitema de producción? ¿Porqué falla fuera de Japón? A través de su experiencia personal Jose Berengueres explica de primera mano cómo Toyota hace Kaizen. Esta mini guía de bolsillo explica siete maneras para iniciar actividades de mejora contínua en su empresa.
	America's Greatest Challenge: Succession and Continuity	by Joseph S. Bayana Dec. 03, 2009	$7.99	155921 words	Sample 25%
	Tackling significant issues facing an America-led civilization, it reminds us how each and every generation must ensure the hand-over processes take place or risk the vaunted start of the breakdown. It's about the responsibilities and leadership of each and every American, explaining how and why our decisions can make or break history’s most successful experiment in democracy and capitalism.
	How to be a Porno Producer	by Nick Shoveen Oct. 08, 2009	$9.99	25389 words	Sample 10%
	The perfect book for any person with creative talent who wants to explore the possibility of getting into the very profitable business of producting Porno DVDs. Sections cover Casting, Location scouting, Budgeting, Post Production, Model Releases, Resources, and much more.
	Best of Dr. Clue	by brianblum May 11, 2008	You set the price!	37384 words	Sample 60%
	This book presents the Best of Dr. Clue, the leading team building treasure hunt provider in the U.S.