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Fireproof: A Five-Step Model to Take Your Law Firm from Unpredictable to Wildly Profitable By : Mike Morse ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Skilled lawyers who open their own firms can quickly find their dream career turning into a nightmare. When the firm doesn't grow as fast as you expected, the money doesn't come like you'd hoped despite working long hours, and your less-capable peers are passing you by, it can be demoralizing and deeply frustrating.Mike Morse has been there. The change he made that transformed both his personal life and his professional future was running his law firm like a business.Now, along with John Nachazel, Mike has written the book he wishes he had twenty years ago. In Fireproof, the duo lay out a roadmap of business principles to help you sort out what's missing from your firm. By running your firm like a business, you are free to work in your sweet spot, doing what you love to d

The Corporate Culture Survival Guide By : Edgar H. Schein ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Effective, sustainable cultural change requires evolution, not disruption The Corporate Culture Survival Guide is the essential primer and practical guide every organization needs. Corporate culture pioneer Edgar H. Schein breaks the concept of 'culture' down into real terms, delving into the behaviors, values, and shared assumptions that define it, and explains why culture is the central factor in an organization's success--or failure. This new third edition is designed specifically for practitioners needing to apply these practices in real-world settings, and has been updated with new coverage of globalization, technology, and managerial competencies. You'll learn how to get past subconscious bias to assess whether or not your existing culture truly serves your organization, and how to introduce change and manage the c

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results By : Roger Connors ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : A fully revised and updated installment from the bestselling author of The Oz Principle Series. Two-time New York Times bestselling authors Roger Connors and Tom Smith show how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their greatest asset-their people. Change the Culture, Change the Game joins their classic book, The Oz Principle, and their recent bestseller, How Did That Happen?, to complete the most comprehensive series ever written on workplace accountability. Based on an earlier book, Journey to the Emerald City, this fully revised installment captures what the authors have learned while working with the hundreds of thousands of people on using organiz

Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business Today By : Susan Scott ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : From the author of the acclaimed book Fierce Conversations comes the antidote to some of the most wrongheaded practices of business today.? ?Provide anonymous feedback.?? ?Hire smart people.? ? ?Hold people accountable.? These are all sound, business practices, right? Not so fast, says leadership visionary and bestselling author Susan Scott. In fact, these mantras ? despite being long-accepted and adopted by business leaders everywhere ? are completely wrongheaded. Worse, they are costing companies billions of dollars, driving away valuable employees and profitable customers, limiting performance, and stalling careers. Yet they are so deeply ingrained in organizational cultures that no one has questioned them. Until now. In Fierce Leadership, Scott teaches us how to spot the worst ?

Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook By : James Stroman ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : From managing the phones, coordinating meetings, and preparing presentations to planning events, crafting clear business communications, and deciphering legal documents, administrative assistants need to be everything to everyone, all the time. Long the gold standard for office professionals seeking to improve their performance and enhance their value to employers, this comprehensive guidebook is the definitive source of information on topics including: Creating graphics, charts, and presentations ? Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Publisher ? Web conferencing ? Electronic and paper filing systems ? Recordkeeping ? Research skills ? Travel arrangements ? Meeting planning and management ? Business math ? Computer and software troubleshooting ? And much more Extensively updated, the fifth edition of the "Admin

The Book of Personality Tests: 25 Easy to Score Tests that Reveal the Real You By : Haulwen Nicholas ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : From the complex, traditional personality tests that are built on Jung's?original theories, such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, to the fun quizzes in glossy magazines telling us what type of sandwich we are, we have an endless fascination with uncovering who we are and what makes us tick. This comprehensive collection brings together 25 tests, both traditional and contemporary, with detailed results and interpretations at the back. The author provides her own version and wording for each established model and credits the original creator (Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, NASA,?etc.) in the short introduction that accompanies each test. After a brief synopsis of the origin of each test as well as detailed analyses and interpretations of the results, this comprehensive?collection provides a serious

The Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave By : Lisa Guerin ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : The purpose of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is to help employees balance the demands of work and family. But the law can be hard for employers to apply in the real world. Questions about eligibility, coverage, notice and certification requirements, administering leave, continuing benefits, and reinstatement can challenge even the most experienced managers. This book has the plain-English answers to all of your tough questions about the FMLA. It provides detailed information, real-life examples, sample forms, and other tools to help you meet your legal obligations. The 6th edition covers all the latest updates to the FMLA, including changes due to COVID-19, rules for same-sex couples, new cases explaining the application of the FMLA, state paid family leave laws, and more. Book Detail : Author : Lisa Guerin

Alpha Teach Yourself Bookkeeping in 24 Hours By : Carol Costa ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : One day to bookkeeping success.Since many small businesses leave the all-important job of bookkeeping to someone on the staff with no training, there is a demand for this easy, authoritative how-to on the subject. Readers will find principles and procedures adapted to suit the needs of various types of business operations-from retail to entertainment to financial institutions. Book Detail : Author : Carol Costa Pages : 368 pages Publisher : Alpha Language : ISBN-10 : 1592576958 ISBN-13 : 9781592576951   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Cutting Through: Your Company's High Performance Management System By : Bernie Haffey ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey?s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!SUCCESS BEGINS WITH A SYSTEM! Doctors, mechanics, pilots?. What do all of these professionals have in common? Simple: each operates within the framework of an established set of principles that guides all they do. Just as you wouldn?t build a house by first tacking on a roof, you can?t expect your business to flourish without understanding the underlying mechanisms that drive it.? You need a foundation, an order, a system. Cutting Through?is the blueprint to discovering and optimizing that system. The ideological quicksand of leadership trial-by-fire is gone. The best businesses of

Remote: Office Not Required By : David Heinemeier Hansson ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : The ?work from home? phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits.? Most important, they show why ? with a few controversial exceptions such as Yahoo -- more businesses will want to promote this new model of getting things done.The Industrial Revolution's "under one roof" model of conducting work is steadily declining owing to technology that is rapidly creating virtual workspaces and allowing workers to provide their vital contribution without physically clustering together.? Today, the new paradigm is "move work to the workers, rather than workers to the workplace."? According to Reuters, one in five global

Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice By : Gjoko Muratovski ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : "Today, designers design services, processes and organizations; craft skills no longer suffice. We need to discover, define and solve problems based upon evidence. We need to demonstrate the validity of our claims. We need a guide to design research that can educate students and be a reference for professionals. And here it is: a masterful book for 21st century designers." --Don Norman, Professor and Director of Design Lab, University of California San Diego, and former Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Apple Design is everywhere: it influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave. In order for designers to design for the real world, defining strategies rather than just implementing them, they need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate, and often unexpected problems. This

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America By : Daniel J. Boorstin ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of ?pseudo-events??events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported?and the contemporary definition of celebrity as ?a person who is known for his well-knownness.? Since then Daniel J. Boorstin?s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.Cover design by Matt Dorfman. Book Detail : Author : Daniel J. Boorstin Pages : 336 pages Publisher : Vintage Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0679741801 ISBN-13 : 9780679741800   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone,

All You Need to Know About the Music Business By : Donald S. Passman ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : "The industry bible" (Los Angeles Times), now updated, essential for anyone in the music busines?musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers?trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.For more than twenty years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been universally regarded as the definitive guide to the music industry. Now in its ninth edition, this latest edition leads novices and experts alike through the crucial, up-to-the-minute information on the industry's major changes in response to today's rapid technological advances and uncertain economy.Whether you are?or aspire to be?a performer, writer, or executive, veteran music lawyer Donald Passman's comprehensive guide is an indispensable tool. He offers timely, authoritative information from how to select

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-to Guide from the First Family of Podcasting By : Justin McElroy ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : From the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast?and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy made their names as ?advice giving brothers who have no business giving advice? (New York Times) on the hit podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me. But while they may not have the best relationship or workplace advice, they certainly make you laugh, and they do know a thing or two about podcasting.In fact, the McElroy Brothers have spent the last decade making podcasts, including My Brother, My Brother and Me; The Adventure Zone; Sawbones; and more. From their sta

Sport Marketing By : Windy Dees ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : "This book helps students prepare for careers in the fast-paced world of sport marketing, as well as provides a resource for practitioners looking for the latest information in the field. The book offers abundant examples of the latest issues in the competitive marketplace"-- Book Detail : Author : Windy Dees Pages : 488 pages Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers Language : ISBN-10 : 1718201583 ISBN-13 : 9781718201583   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads By : Tim Wu ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : One of the Best Books of the Year The San Francisco Chronicle * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Vox * The Globe and Mail (Toronto) From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning?The Master Switch?( a?New Yorker?and?Fortune?Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality??a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time.? ??????????? Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. ??????????? This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industri

Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling By : Eric Nuzum ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : ?An interestingly idiosyncratic and personal vision of how to make podcasts.??Ira Glass Veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career?s worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help podcasters ?make noise??to stand out in this fastest of fastest-growing media universes. ? Nuzum identifies core principles, including what he considers the key to successful audio storytelling: learning to think the way your audience listens. He delivers essential how-tos, from conducting an effective interview to marketing your podcast, developing your audience, and managing a creative team. He also taps into his deep network to offer advice from audio stars like Ira Glass, Terry Gross, and Anna Sale. ? The book?s insights and guidance will help readers successfully

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads By : Tim Wu ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term -net neutrality---a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media, and other efforts to harvest our attention. Few moments or spaces of our day remain uncultivated by the -attention merchants, - contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century'

Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator By : Ryan Holiday ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don't know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like me.I'm a media manipulator. In a world where blogs control and distort the news, my job is to control blogs--as much as any one person can. In today's culture...1) Blogs like "Gawker," "Buzzfeed" and the "Huffington Post" drive the media agenda.2) Bloggers are slaves to money, technology, and deadlines.3) Manipulators wield these levers to shape everything you read, see and watch--online and off.Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I'm tired of a wor

Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story By : Miri Rodriguez ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Sales and Marketing category WINNER: The Stevie Awards 2020 - 'Book of the Year' Silver award, Women in Business category Written by the award-winning storyteller Miri Rodriguez at Microsoft, this actionable guide goes beyond content strategy and, instead, demonstrates how to leverage brand storytelling in the marketing mix to strengthen brand engagement and achieve long-term growth, with advice from brands like Expedia, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Adobe and Google. Despite understanding essential storytelling techniques, brands continue to explain how their product or service can help the customer, rather than showcasing how the customer's life has changed as a result of them. Brand Storytelling gets back to the heart of brand loyalty, consumer behaviour and enga

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences By : Cherstin M Lyon ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational textbook for public history. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies. This book is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms with future public historians, teachers, and consumers of history in mind. The authors are practicing public historians who teach history and public history to a mix of undergraduate and graduate students at universities across the United States and in international contexts. This book is based on original research and the authors' first-hand experiences, offering a fresh perspective on the dynamic field of public history based

Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present By : Steven D. Lubar ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors' interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies move through displays, how our eyes grasp objects, how we learn and how we feel. Inside the Lost Museum documents the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors.Woven throughout Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum at Brown University, a nineteenth-century display of natural history, anth

Collection Care: An Illustrated Handbook for the Care and Handling of Cultural Objects By : Brent Powell ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Collection Care: An Illustrated Handbook for the Care and Handling of Cultural Objects provides a solid overview of basic collection care procedures and policies. The topics covered address the decision making criteria and risk assessment solutions involved in the best practices for handling art and artifacts. Technical subjects will cover proven techniques, materials, equipment and address problem solving assessment and current solutions. The comprehensive overview of staff responsibilities, relationships and training will bring the book to a conclusion of addressing the unison of all professionals responsible for proper handling and caring for collections. Highlights include: -This book provides both visual and narrative descriptions of current best practices for caring for collection objects. -Emphasis is placed on r

Understanding and Implementing Inclusion in Museums By : Laura-Edythe Coleman ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Do museums need to be inclusive? How do we define inclusion? Understanding and Implementing Inclusion in Museums is the pioneer text to focus solely on the notion of inclusion for museums. This book is intended to demystify the much-debated idea of inclusion for museum professionals, theorists, professors, and researchers. The chapters within this book are intended to function as a guide for understanding, implementing, and evaluating inclusion in your museum. This insightful examination of inclusion in museums features: ?An introductory definition of inclusion for museums. ?Guidelines for creating inclusion in your museum through partnerships with people and community organizations. ?Strategies for driving social change through inclusive museum practice. ?Tools for implementing inclusion in your museum. ?Mechanisms

The Participatory Museum By : Nina Simon ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Visitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, libraries and cultural organizations. How can your institution do it and do it well? The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places. Museum consultant and exhibit designer Nina Simon weaves together innovative design techniques and case studies to make a powerful case for participatory practice. "Nina Simon's new book is essential for museum directors interested in experimenting with audience participation on the one hand and cautious about upending the tradition museum model on the other. In concentrating on the practical, this book makes implementation possible in most museums. More importantly, in describing the philosoph

Facilities Management: Journal Notes Checklist Questions Observations Evidence Log By : Just Visualize It ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Track Action Items, Meeting Project Notes, with Checklists and TimingRecord Your Wins and AccomplishmentsGreat for Yearly Reviews and Tracking Actions Completed for Goals 2 Page layout for each day or eventPriority Task or Project ListAction Checklist with Timing TargetsDot Pattern 'Sketch or Note ' AreaLined Note paperTable for data recordingPage Dimensions: 8.5" x 11," 120 pages cover stamped with "FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Journal ... Notes, Ideas, Actions, Checklists, Log"Scroll to the top of the pageReview, 'Look Inside'and Buy Now Thanks! Book Detail : Author : Just Visualize It Pages : 122 pages Publisher : Independently Published Language : ISBN-10 : 179281285X ISBN-13 : 9781792812859   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TX

Riches, Rivals, and Radicals: A History of Museums in the United States (Third edition) By : Marjorie Schwarzer ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Since it was first published in 2006, Riches, Rivals and Radicals has been the go-to text for introductory museum studies courses. It is also of great value to professionals as well as museum lovers who want to learn the stories behind how and why these institutions have evolved since the day the first mastodon bones, royal portraits and botanical specimens entered their halls. For this third edition, Marjorie Schwarzer has mined new resources, previously unavailable archives and contemporary trends to provide a fresh look at the challenges and innovations that have shaped museums in the United States. Schwarzer argues that museums are fundamentally optimistic institutions. They build and preserve some of the nation's most extraordinary architecture. They showcase the beauty and

Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging: Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Cultural Objects By : Paul Bourcier ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging is an updated and expanded edition of Robert G. Chenhall's system for classifying human-made objects, originally published in 1978. The Chenhall system is the standard cataloging tool for thousands of museums and historical organizations across the United States and Canada. For this fourth edition, hundreds of new terms have been added, and every category, class, sub-class, and object term has been reviewed and revised as needed by a professional task force appointed by the American Association for State and Local History. This new edition features crucial revisions including: - A revised and updated users' guide with new tips and advice - An expanded controlled vocabulary featuring nearly 950 new preferred terms - 475 more n

Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites By : Kristin L. Gallas ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites aims to move the field forward in its collective conversation about the interpretation of slavery-acknowledging the criticism of the past and acting in the present to develop an inclusive interpretation of slavery. Presenting the history of slavery in a comprehensive and conscientious manner is difficult and requires diligence and compassion-for the history itself, for those telling the story, and for those hearing the stories-but it's a necessary part of our collective narrative about our past, present, and future. This book features best practices for: -Interpreting slavery across the country and for many people. The history of slavery, while traditionally interpreted primarily on southern plantations, is increasingly recognized as relevant at historic sites across

Learning from Museums, Second Edition By : John H Falk ==>> READ BOOK NOW<<==   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW<<==   Book Synopsis : This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking's ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further investigate the extension of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums increasingly play in the 21st century with respect to the publics they serve (and those they would like to serve). This new edition offers an updated and synthesized version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as the latest advances in free-choice learning research, theory and practice, in order to provide readers a highly readable and informative understanding of the personal, sociocultural and physical dimensions of the museum experience. Falk and Dierking also fill in gaps in