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| The home
team: How couples can make a life and a
living by working at home |
| by Scott Gregory,
Shirley Siluk Gregory |
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Packed
with solid advice and written with an easy
and informal expertise, The Home Team is
highly recommended reading for any couple
running full or part-time businesses from
their home, as well as anyone who works
a traditional job and desires a better life. |
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| The young
entrepreneur´s edge: Using your ambition,
independence and youth to launch a successful
business |
| by Jennifer
Kushell, Steve Mariotti, Jennifer Kushell |
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A
daring young risk-taker herself, no one
is more qualified than Jennifer Kushell
to show you how to tranform your big idea
into a thriving business, with thoughtful
and thorough advice for every challenge
you'll face, from raising funds and writing
a business plan to opening an office, building
partnerships, and much more. |
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| How to
be a star at work: Nine breakthrough stategies
you need to succeed |
| by Robert E.
Kelley |
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Stars
are made, not born. Dr. Kelly has given
an excellent blueprint for managers and
employees to use as a road map to success.
The concepts are easy to understand and
easy to apply to the everyday business world. |
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| The Assertiveness
Workbook |
| by Randy J.
Paterson Ph.D. |
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This
self-directed program teaches readers to
speak up and say what they mean at work
and at home. Written supportively, it uses
proven cognitive behavioral techniques to
help individuals build self-confidence,
set boundaries, and determine appropriate
responses. |
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| Did
You Say Something, Susan?: How Any Woman
Can Gain Confidence With Assertive Communication |
| by Paulette
Dale |
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This
196-page book has no index, but it does
have a list of references and multiple useful
appendices. It covers the following topics:
(1) how to be unappealing to users and abusers;
(2) using assertive speech and body language;
(3) preparing for confrontation; (4) learning
how to say no; (5) buying time before responding
in a difficult situation; (6) speaking up
for yourself and telling someone when their
behavior is not acceptable to you; (7) refusing
to put up with put downs; (8) speaking up
on the job; (9) raising assertive children. |
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| The Silicon
Boys and Their Valley of Dreams |
| by David A.
Kaplan |
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Pop
quiz: Where are American kids taught the
nuances of being millionaires as part of
their junior high curriculum? Where do guests
at a posh outdoor party grouse about the
defects of high-end flushable Porta-Johns?
Where does a school auction rake in $439,000?
The answer: Silicon Valley, of course. David
A. Kaplan captures all that excess and more
in The Silicon Boys. |
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| Silicon
Gold Rush : The Next Generation of High-Tech
Stars Rewrites the Rules of Business |
| by Karen Southwick |
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The
fortunes generated by America's technology
companies--from Hewlett Packard to PeopleSoft--have
created tremendous pressure to generate
more fortunes. These financial windfalls
have resulted from efforts to identify markets
that haven't yet been served, create products
for those markets, build a dominant position,
and then maintain that market share by continually
improving the original product while also
pursuing new avenues of enrichment. |
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| Why?
Should Someone Do Business With You : Rather
Than Someone Else |
| by Sam Geist |
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Over
540 questions help business owners learn
by example and action, pinpointing the reasons
why customers deal with one business over
another. Why Should Someone Do Business
With You? holds wide applications for various
types of businesses; from small retail shops
to manufacturers and other types of business
pursuits. The bottom line: customer satisfaction
and how to achieve it. |
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| Form
Your Own Limited Liability Company |
|
by Anthony Mancuso
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If
your looking to start a business, and are
confused on the legal structure in which
you might setup buy this book to help clear
up the differences.
Excellent manual on the general laws that
surround in setting up and operating an
LLC. Mancuso also gives you a comparison
of how an LLC stacks up with traditional
methods of structure and gives you it's
advantages and disadvantages towards each
of your choices! Outstanding in content
for general knowledge about LLC's! |
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| Organize
Your Books In 6 Easy Steps: A Workbook for
the Sole Proprietor Service-Oriented Business |
|
by Donna
M. Murphy
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"Organize
Your Books in 6 Easy Steps" is great!
It is just what the novice entrepreneur
needs. In our 13 years in business, we have
been through many trials and errors. We
overcame a lot of the administrative headaches
during startup. This book would have eased
those pains. |
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| Nice
Job! The guide to cool, odd, risky and gruesome
ways to make a livning |
| by Jake Brooks
(Editor), Nicholas Corman, Chuck Kapelke,
Sara Smith, Sullivan, Jamie Rosen (Contributor) |
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Ten
Speed Press: So what are you going to do
with your life? The options seem limited:
entry-level administrative work, minimum-wage
retail, fast food, law school.
Is there no alternative? Actually, there
are over 80 alternatives as identified by
the team from Lookout Media in their new
book Nice Job! Going where no career book
has gone before, Nice Job! tackles the world
of work with the philosophy that work should
be fun, and where there is a happy, passionate
person, there is a nice job. |
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| Job
hunting on the internet |
| by Richard Nelson
Bolles |
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This
guide from the author of the bestselling
"What Color is Your Parachute?"
has quickly established its usefulness for
anyone who's taking the next logical step
of job-hunting on the Internet. |
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| Stay
Out of Court and in Business |
|
by Steven
C. Brandt (Contributor), Stafford
Frey Cooper
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In
today's litigation-mad society, business
owners and operators can't afford to ignore
the always imminent threat of an unexpected
legal skirmish, whether warranted or not.
Stay Out of Court and In Business, by Stanford
University Graduate School of Business professor
Steven C. Brandt in conjunction with the
Seattle law firm Stafford Frey Cooper, offers
an antidote for those who don't have a legal
staff of their own. Major problem areas,
including harassment and discrimination,
are addressed along with managing risk and
using attorneys. |
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| Zero-resistance
selling |
| by Dan S. Kennedy,
Maxwell, Md. Maltz, Matt Oechsli (Contributor),
Pamela Yellen (Contributor) |
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What's
the single biggest obstacle salespeople
face? Resistance.
In Zero-Resistance Selling, five of the
most respected sales authorities in America
have joined together to prepare the first
and only customized application of Psycho-Cybernetics
to overcome all types of sales resistance.
Any sales representative or sales management
professional can use Maxwell Maltz's high-powered
battery of mental training exercises to
enhance selling ability and get immediate
results. |
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| The
power to get in |
| by Michael A.
Boylan, David McNally |
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A
step-by-step guide using the Circle of Leverage
System explains how anyone with something
to present, in the office or everyday life,
can identify who needs to get the message
or information and how to get past personnel,
executive secretaries, or other bureaucratic
devices in the way. |
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