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Career Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, publishes general non-fiction that addresses real, practical human needs. Our useful, accessible, how-to books reach a broad market of average Americans — people grappling with universal issues relating to job -hunting, career management, education, money, personal goals, HR & workplace issues, management, marketing/sales, negotiation, small business/entrepreneurship, and motivation/self-help.

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5 Minutes To Stress Relief : How to Release Fear, Worry, and Doubt…Instantly

Stress has three main fuels: worry, fear and doubt. They act like little serpents that crawl into the lap of your life and wreak havoc emotionally, spiritually and physically.But you have the ability to identify and dismiss these serpents that are trying to hinder your ability to maintain inner calm, clarity of focus and a motivated response to all of life.5 MINUTES TO STRESS RELIEF will give you

Office idiots - what to do when your workplace is a jerkplace

Most books that deal with ridiculous behaviour in the workplace are premised largely on conjecture, anecdotes and limited data, but that's not the case with OFFICE IDIOTS. Written by Ken Lloyd, one of the foremost experts on jerks at work, this book relies on data from actual workplaces across America to present a sweeping and frighteningly accurate snapshot of the antics of office idiots. Based o

Winning Manager's Playbook : 6 Practices Every Manager Needs to Succeed

THE WINNING MANAGER'S PLAYBOOK gives business owners and managers what they so desperately need: a clear, focused, laser-sharp tactical manual of what they need to know right now to make their organisation a success.The authors' presentation of their six commonsense practices creates a systematic framework useful to managers, entrepreneurs and executives alike, providing them with:· Clear, hard-hi

Superstar Customer Service : A 31-Day Plan to Improve Client Relations, Lock in New Customers, and Keep the Best Ones Coming Back for More

Are you having a tough time finding new customers for your product or service? SUPERSTAR CUSTOMER SERVICE follows Superstar Leadership and Superstar Sales, three titles aimed straight at achieving the highest levels of performance in these three essential areas. Customer service may be one of the most demanding and difficult jobs you'll ever have...but it has the potential to make you a Superstar!

Office Politics Handbook : Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work

THE OFFICE POLITICS HANDBOOK is for business executives, managers, consultants, lawyers, agents, editors and anyone who wants to become more politically astute, more powerful and more successful. This is not a book on political game playing; it is for people who hate power games but who know that politics takes place in every organisation and want to make sure they wind up on top of the heap - not

Body Language Of Liars : From Little White Lies to Pathological Deception - How to See through the Fibs, Frauds, and Falsehoods People Tell You Every Day

Being fooled or conned can happen to anyone. It doesn't matter how intelligent, old, rich or famous you are. Whether you have been scammed in business, swindled out of money, betrayed by a friend, relative or colleague or cheated on by a spouse, rest assured you are not alone. The world is full of these most toxic people - liars.You can never be sure if people are lying until you analyse their bod

Business War Games

In a global, complex and competitive world, developing a plan without testing it against market reaction is like walking blind into a minefield. War gaming is a company's metal detector. Yet war games run by the large consulting firms are kept secret and cost millions. For the first time, this book makes them accessible to every product and brand manager, every project leader, every marketing prof

Essential job interview handbook - a quick and handy resource for every job

THE ESSENTIAL JOB INTERVIEW HANDBOOK will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews. A unique feature of this book is the multiple answers it provides for each question, rated good, better and best. You'll learn what makes a winning answer and understand the strategy behind it. "The Essential Job Int

Trust, Inc. : How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and Innovation

This is a difficult time to be a leader. The majority of employees are disengaged, their discretionary efforts tamed, passions for work fleeting and ideas tethered. None of this needs to stop you. You can create a workplace where engagement, passion and great work thrives. If you're someone's boss, whatever your level or role, you can use these trust essentials to:· Create your own Trust, Inc, a t

Small Business For Big Thinkers : Unconventional Strategies to Connect With and Win Big Business

A small business is not just a scaled-down version of a big one. In fact, some of the strategies that work well for larger companies may actually be completely irrelevant for smaller firms. SMALL BUSINESS FOR BIG THINKERS offers unconventional but, proven, strategies to run a better small business. It, also, provides a roadmap for owners looking to expand their small businesses by doing more busin

Practical Negotiator : How to Argue Your Point, Plead Your Case, and Prevail in Any Situation

John F. Kennedy famously said, 'Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate'. Everyone needs to reach agreement with others, but many people are overly fearful of what they think is a complex process. In THE PRACTICAL NEGOTIATOR, Cohen demystifies negotiation, offering common-sense approaches anyone can use no matter what the issue. In more than two decades as a negotiat

Essential Digital Interview Handbook : Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GoToMeeting, and More

In today's increasingly interconnected world, virtual meetings have become a staple of business practice. Unsurprisingly, so has the digital interview. Physical distance between potential employers and job-seekers is no longer the impediment it once was for face-to-face engagement. In the past year alone, the number of people who use Skype for this purpose has risen from about 300 million to more

Emote : Using Emotions to Make Your Message Memorable

Many people fear public speaking more than death. Most wish they could do it better or at least avoid the sweating, stuttering jitters that plague them before any presentation or speech. Vikas Jhingran has been there. He was so poor at speaking in public that his supervisor wouldn't let him make presentations to clients - even when he had done all the work. Surprisingly, few professional speakers

Start Me Up! : The No-Business-Plan Business Plan

There are four major pitfalls that business owners experience that inevitably lead to failure. START ME UP! provides strategies to avoid those pitfalls and gives you the powerful ideas you need to build your thriving business. This is the perfect time to start a small business using your existing skills. Although far too many small businesses fail in their first year, many such failures are absolu

Catching the catfishers - disarm the online pretenders, predators and perpe

Your online identity is quickly becoming more crucial to your personal and professional success than in-person communications.But most of us don't understand this digital Wild West and the dangers that lurk around every corner. Most of us are unaware of the digital bread crumbs that we leave behind with every post and how easy it is for a person with malicious intent to harm us.CATCHING THE CATFIS

Next Gen Leader : Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to Be

While today's global economy is experiencing a significant cycle of outsourcing across industries, leadership cannot be outsourced; it must be organically transformed. THE NEXT GEN LEADER will show you how to discard outworn traditions and become the next-generation leader you were born to be! It is a system designed to help you maximise individual, team and organisational leadership potential, re

Sell Local Think Global : 50 Innovative Ways to Make a Chunk of Change and Grow Your Business

After years of sharing her small-business tips and marketing tricks with readers of her popular blog, ChunkOfChange.com, and column in the Long Beach Post, Olga Mizrahi has taken her message to the streets, urging business owners to focus in while reaching out. You'll be excited and motivated to clearly state your difference to the world and your neighbourhood - while confidently selling yourself

Moms Mean Business : A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur

There are millions of women-owned businesses; they account for trillions in revenue and employ nearly 8 million people. Women are starting businesses at a rate twice that of men. Most of these women are, also, mums. What does it take to be successful as both a mum and as an entrepreneur? MOMS MEAN BUSINESS gives existing and potential mum business owners the encouragement, advice and healthy dose

Your Self Sabotage Survival Guide : How to Go From Why Me? to Why Not?

Do you feel like everyone around you is getting ahead while you're stuck in the same old rut? And do you blame everyone and everything for your situation - except yourself? Many of us walk around engaging in negative behaviour and mindsets, and don't even realise we're doing it. Every day, people work harder and harder to get - nowhere. It's time to stop being second-rate; it's time to be great! W

Nothing But The Truth : Secrets from Top Intelligence Experts to Control Conversations and Get the Information You Need

To get the truth from someone, you need two sets of skills. The first are the interpersonal skills necessary to get the facts. But the second group of skills is equally if not more important: they enable you to assess whether the facts actually fit together - whether they are true - and identify the emotions that shaped them. In NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, top intelligence experts from the worlds of es