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The meetings secrets that experts and top professionals use.

The perfect start to your crafting career. Thousands of artists and writers have relied on us to develop their careers and navigate the changing landscape of their fields using our sister publications, Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market and Writer's Market. For the first time, that same resource is available for crafters!

The MENA region is strategically placed at the hub between East and West. Cases in this fourth volume include regional leaders at various stages of growth who are beginning to dominate global markets, and international companies that are making inroads into local markets.

Divided into five sections, each dealing with a different facet of business leadership, this book offers key advice for those who want to hone their leadership skills, and make a real impact on their business. It covers leadership, performance management, team management, strategic planning, and 'making things happen'.

Enables the readers to: understand the difference between management and leadership; learn, from practical research, all the actions required to an effective manager and leader; clarify how you prefer to manage change and can become more effective; and, get the best from your staff in terms of performance and change management.

This guide aims to break down client-designer dialogue into something that everyone can understand. Starting with suggestions of how visual and non-visual people can best work together, a "word section" follows, progressing from design components to actual examples of style.

With The Everything Guide to Customer Engagement, you can learn the highly successful strategies that have been working for business all over the world. It doesn't matter if your business is large, medium, or small. With this guide, you'll learn the tips and techniques to make your customers and their priorities your number one focus.

Iraq, with its educated, sophisticated and relatively wealthy population, has been effectively off limits to most outsiders for the past 30 years. However, with the scaling down of violent activity and the establishment of a new, albeit fragile government, many multinational companies are giving serious ...

Trend-Driven Innovation Beat accelerating customer expectations. Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem? The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong.

Publishing Your Nonfiction Book In Publish Your Nonfiction Book, successful literary agent Sharlene Martin and noted novelist and nonfiction author Anthony Flacco draw on their years of experience to provide you with an in-depth understanding of what the publishing industry is really like and how to ...

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations publishes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting pedagogy. All articles explain how teaching methods or curricula/programs can be improved.

In this thought-provoking analysis, the author takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil, India, and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making.

Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches, focus is drawn to the role of history, social networks and how relationships ...

Australian competition law has just emerged from a significant period of reform which has seen controversial changes to the legal test to distinguish between normal competitive conduct and conduct that should be condemned. The controversy continues, arguably because the traditional legal conception of ...

A witty, practical guide to succeeding in a culturally illiterate age

We tend to view institutions cynically, but they are essential to human flourishing and thriving communities. Focusing on the nonprofit sector, Gordon Smith unpacks the core of institutional intelligence, showing team leaders, directors, executives, board members, and employees how to work effectively within the institutional character of their organizations.

The key to bridging your global innovation gap In today's global economy, it would be short-sighted to rely solely on local resources for new-product innovations. Instead, knowledge and activity critical to innovation most likely lie outside your company's home territories--sometimes far outside. And ...

Grit & Grace is a collection of quotes, thoughts, and advice from female pioneers to inspire young girls and women who want to lead. With powerful words from powerful female forerunners, Louisa May Alcott and Susan B. Anthony have inspired girls and women for generations, there are now more women leading ...

A dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies that will help you communicate more effectively by studying the language you use and your perceptions and values.

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