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Everyone who reads this book will learn the power of persuasion, how to believe in themselves, how to understand the principles of getting your way, how to get ready to get your way, how to speak or present to get your way, how to write to get your way, how to turn a presentation into a performance, how to be the most persuasive salesperson in the universe, how to persist until you win, and how to add a measure of eloquence to the entire process. This book will teach you to harmonize, not manipulate. It will teach you the power of engagement. It will show you how to inject humor into the persuasive process. It will teach you to tell a story in a compelling and passionate manner. It will teach you the elements of style and voice in the words you write. And it will teach you how to be the winner you have always wanted to be.

Who are the most influential living management thinkers? Based on the first global ranking of business gurus, The Thinkers 50 provides the answers. The 50 thinkers provide a refreshingly original flow of new ideas that redefine what managers should be doing, how they sould be doing it and, cricially, what their performance is evaluated against. Today's theory is tomorrow's task. In recent years the flow of ideas has become a torrent. The Thinkers 50 makes life easier by exploring the ideas and thinkers who are significant among the thousands that have emerged. Everyone from Dilbert to Michael Porter by way of Henry Mintzberg and Peter Senge. Some of the names are new, while others have been around in one form or another for years. No apologies. Good ideas last long after the fads have evaporated into hot air.

In this book Dr Edward de Bono, who is well known world-wide for his origination of lateral thinking, puts forward a direct challenge to what he calls the rock logic of Western thinking. Rock logic is based on rigid categories, absolutes, argument and adversarial point scoring. Edward de Bono believes that this thinking cannot provide the constructive energies that we are going to need in order to solve problems and create a better future. Instead of rock logic he proposes the water logic of perception. Drawing on our understanding of the brain as a self-organizing information system, Dr de Bono shows that perception is the key to more constructive thinking and the serious creativity of design. Edward de Bono expects his ideas to outrage conventional thinkers, yet time has been on his side, and the ideas that he first put forward twenty years ago in his book The Mechanism of Mind are now accepted mainstream thinking. Here, in this brilliantly argued assault on outmoded thought patterns, he calls for nothing less than a New Renaissance.

In his book, Charles Handy shows how dramatic changes are transforming business, education and nature of work. We need new kinds of organisations, new approaches to work and new types of schools, and new ideas about the nature of our society.

"The empty raincoat is to me, the symbol of our most pressing paradox. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. The challange must be to show how paradox can be managed." - from The Empty Raincoat

"Charles Handy has done it again: The Hungry Spirit is the distillation of a lifetime's experience, a personal recipe for what we have to do to survive in a capitalist society. Handy's anecdotal style is highly readable, his erudition evident on every page... This is an important book." PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

Gábor Bojár, Chairman, co-founded Graphisoft in 1982. Under his management, Graphisoft became not just the most successful multinational software firm based in Eastern Europe, but also one of the largest architectural CAD companies in the world on personal computers. It all started with a pocket calculator and what he calls „the Hungarian tradition of substituting missing computing power with software brain power". The three-dimensional modeling program he created by exploiting the power of a calculator became the core technology for Graphisoft's flagship product, ArchiCAD, now used by more than 140.000 architects and builders worldwide, and distributed in 80 countries and languages.

As a frontline manager, there's a lot to remember and even more to do. Sometimes you want a quick and easy reminder of the essentials on a particular topic, so you know you've covered all the bases. Then you can be sure you're doing the right thing, at the right time and being effective and efficient. The Manager's Book of Checklists is that essential quick reference. It will help you to be more systematic, to consider all angles of the situation and to be a better, smarter manager. New to this edition are checklists on coaching and performance management. These join all the lists in classic areas such as finance, customer service, people and operations.

"Any consultant aiming to survive and succeed in a competitive world needs to have a clear and concise change model to hand; one that can guarentee delivery of a wide range of change projects.Based around the author's 7C's model - client, clarify, create, change, confirm, continue, close - this book offers both budding and experienced consultants a solid framework to enable them to manage any consultancy assignment. With the help of the crib notes on the pull-out back pocket guide, the 7 C's model will show you how to improve your professionalism, and deliver clear and demonstrable results to clients, bringing them back for more."