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In a tough market, it pays to understand the hidden truths known only to recruitment specialists. This book reveals how the job market really works, and how to break the rules to find a great job. It offers deep insights, smart advice and pulls apart the dull, textbook advice that lets so many candidates down.

Leadership isnt complicated keep it simple and make it count. This new edition of Steve Radcliffes uniquely powerful, successful and practical framework will show you how to develop faster as a more confident and capable leader. This compact, instantly-applicable guide to developing leadership skills contains practical insights, straightforward actions and plain guidelines to accelerate your growth as a leader. The framework is derived from expert coach Steve Radcliffes work with real leaders in real leadership situations. It shows you how to: - Be guided by the Future you want and stay focused on your vision- Engage others in productive and stimulating working relationships that make things happen.- Deliver the results you need to really move your business forward.

The tools and ideas to help you lead with confidence and achieve better results through your team. This book provides all the tools and skills to help you be more effective in leading your team and achieving higher levels of performance. It focuses on three key elements: you as the leader, the principles of team working and team building, and getting individuals to contribute and perform. As well as identifying obstacles and pitfalls, it assists you in improving your skills and coaches you to work out what you could be doing better.

Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisations resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement Lean, showing you how to apply Lean practices fully into your organisation or company. This book offers a comprehensive and objective look at lean strategy and how it can be tailored for different companies.

Genius shows you how to channel the life-changing principles of creativity to help you achieve more, succeed and become instantly smarter. This book delivers a fantastic array of simple, powerful techniques to help anybody be instantly ingenious and increasingly mentally skilful. You will learn to creatively solve problems, generate brilliantly original ideas, use clever tactics to persuade and influence and look for once in a lifetime opportunities to shine, succeed and really stand out.

The new edition of this bestselling book for entrepreneurs has been fully updated to offer the most extensive start-up toolkit of invaluable advice and expert guidance. Relevant to entrepreneurs of any experience, it covers absolutely every aspect of starting a business from bullet-proof plans to the best way to structure a business for a successful sell-on later. It includes information on brand management, customer service, marketing, financials and staffing, so you are fully prepared to set sail on your business journey.

The ultimate all-in-one guide to job hunting success. Getting an edge in the hunt for work is vital and this book offers the edge that millions are missing. This no-nonsense, highly practical and outcome focussed guide to the whole process of job hunting takes you right from the planning stages through writing your CV, flying through aptitude tests, being interviewed on the phone and online, to what to do and say when you finally get the offer youve been hoping for. With essential guidance on maximising modern job-hunting tools such as social media and networking websites, as well as special help for those who are new to work, the recently redundant, the long-term unemployed, ex-offenders and graduates, its one of the most up to date and all-encompassing job hunting books on the market today.

There are two kinds of luck the luck that happens when things are completely outside your control and the luck that happens as a result of spotting opportunities and your own positive actions. However, its always you and the way you think and act that determines how lucky you are. Its all about how we analyse the events in our lives, how we respond to them, and how pre-emptive and pro-active thinking can create the kind of life experiences we want. Using an easy-to-read, non-academic writing style and featuring interviews with top performers in the world of sport, music and business, speaker and writer Douglas Miller presents 20 key Luck Factors patterns of thinking and behaviour which you can apply in all aspects of your life. .

All the expertise and proven benefits of one-to-one time with a professional career coach, but for a fraction of the price. Take control of your career, improve your employability, identify your unique brand and skill set and fast track your career to the next level. Includes a full, detailed career analysis using the latest career management techniques, together with expert guidance and advice, this will allow you to pinpoint your personal strengths, develop your abilities and take control so you can build a plan that will make your career aspirations a reality. This practical, friendly and accessible guide includes assessments, assignments, planning exercises and fascinating case-studies.

Everybody wants to change something, whether it is work, life, yourself or someone else. Based on evidence-based psychological principles, including those drawn from CBT, this book demonstrates how you can bring about positive change in your life. Bursting with powerful tips, tricks, advice and guidance taken from interviews with some of the most positive and productive people in the world, from Mohammed Ali and Richard Branson to Alex Ferguson and Tiger Woods.

Your inspirational guide to relationship success, providing all the essential tools to ensure you have happy and healthy relationships. From establishing positive personal beliefs and expectations right through to creating and sustaining healthy and happy relationships, you will discover how to attract the perfect partner and feel completely fulfilled in your relationships. BRILLIANT OUTCOMES:- Improve or transform existing relationships- Find out how to attract the perfect partner- Understand why we repeat negative patterns and change these for good.

This engaging introduction shows how quantitative techniques can be used to analyse the internal and external environments in which businesses and organisations operate, with a contemporary focus on business start-up, enterprise and entrepreneurial skills. Each chapter: Applies a range of quantitative techniques to business decisions at all stages of the product life cycle Focuses upon a particular business sector or sectors, including IT, retail sales, financial services, tourism, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, leisure, entertainment and other sectors of a modern economy Explores numerous real world applications, providing many opportunities for student interaction with the topic Quantitative Methods for Business and Management is perfect for any business and management undergraduate taking a first course in quantitative methods or its equivalent. It will also be ideal for those seeking to develop quantitative skills in a range of taught masters degrees. Stuart Wall is Professor of Business and Economics at the Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School and teaches quantitative methods on a wide range of undergraduate, professional and postgraduate courses. He has extensive experience in applying these techniques, having acted as a consultant to local, regional and multinational companies, and having run his own business for many years. Chris Mitchell has taught quantitative methods to a wide range of students atundergraduate level, both in Business and in Science and Technology faculties. He is himself an entrepreneur, having launched his own successful sound-recognition software company, winning a business fellowship with Cisco Systems in the UK to develop his ideas further. Please note that the product you are purchasing does not include MyMathLab. MyMathLab Join over 11 million students benefiting from Pearson MyLabs.This title can be supported by MyMathLab, an online homework and tutorial system designed to test and build your understanding. Would you like to use the power of MyMathLab to accelerate your learning? You need both an access card and a course ID to access MyMathLab. These are the steps you need to take:1. Make sure that your lecturer is already using the system Ask your lecturer before purchasing a MyLab product as you will need a course ID from them before you can gain access to the system.2. Check whether an access card has been included with the book at a reduced cost If it has, it will be on the inside back cover of the book.3. If you have a course ID but no access code, you can benefit from MyMathLab at a reduced price by purchasing a pack containing a copy of the book and an access code for MyMathLab (ISBN:9781292064369)4. If your lecturer is using the MyLab and you would like to purchase the product...Go to www.mymathlab.com to buy access to this interactive study programme. For educator access, contact your Pearson representative. To find out who your Pearson representative is, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator

Being assertive means that you are self-assured know what you want from life, are happy to stand up for yourself and have the respect of those around you. Do you want to be like this? This book will show you how!Practical and easy to read, it looks at what it means to be assertive in todays world. As well as containing plenty of exercises and case studies, it also includes a personal plan which can be adapted by you to suit the issues you are facing.

Whether you are writing a proposal, a report, a presentation or an email, this book will show you how to write to persuade staff, colleagues, board directors and customers. The Financial Times Essential Guide to Business Writing demonstrates how your choice of language can influence your reader. It gives you clear examples to show you the dos and don'ts of successful business writing and essential tips that are proven to make your writing more effective.It shows you how to write for different audiences and in different media using style, structure and the psychology of language to your advantage. It also gives you the writing secrets used by the world's best advertising writers, which you can use to great effect in your own business writing.

Theres a simple way of thinking, acting and doing that, once learned, will make sure you get the very best out of everything.This book challenges you to get curious about how you interpret and handle every situation. It liberates you from the beliefs that have been holding you back and gives you powerfully simple ways to switch your thinking and change your actions so that you can get the very best from whatever life sends your way. With the new, revised edition of this bestselling book, youll discover how to make sure you never have a bad day ever again.

In 26 weekly steps, this unique and cleverly structured book will walk any budding entrepreneur through everything you need to know and do, in the exact order you need to do it, to get your new business up and running. Each step contains a to-do list, an explanation of what needs to be done, useful hints and shortcuts and the contact information you need. Written by an experienced entrepreneur and updated for a new global economy, this book contains the most up to date, fresh thinking and ideas, so you can overcome the challenges of a new business start-up and turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality.

Do you want to live life to the full? To know in years to come that you really gave it your all and got the most out of it? The simplest way to a brilliant life is by making sure youre paying attention to the stuff that matters, in every area of your life, and by making positive and lasting change where its needed, when its needed. Although thats not rocket science, its so very easy to just get swept along by the flow and then wonder what happened. We all need a bit of help to make sure were living our best possible life. And thats where this book comes in. Taking each area of your life by the horns, youll quickly start to see whats working well and where attention is needed. One small action at a time, youll move towards your own Brilliant Life. STOP LIVING AN ORDINARY LIFE START LIVING A BRILLIANT ONE

Since the first edition of The Financial Times Guide to ETFs was published in 2009, the number of ETFs in issue has doubled and ETFs are now common both on investor platforms and increasingly amongst financial advisors. This massive increase in demand has highlighted an urgent debate just how dangerous are ETFs and how much do investors and advisers understand about the structure of the index tracker? The second edition of this book attempts to answer this debate and is the indispensable bible on trackers for professional advisers and serious private investors. This new edition also features a chapter based around the theme of Due Diligence and a new chapter on How to use ETFs and Index Funds for theLong-term, as well as a new Jargon busting section and a-new appendix looking at new ideas beginning to emerge.

Gain the knowledge and confidence you need to build and manage budgets and forecast financial information. This book demystifies budgets and forecasts, providing simple explanations and clear examples. It includes integrated checklists, goals and milestones, to ensure you are on target to achieve the best results.Part of The Financial Times Essential Guides series: Task-focused and results-orientated, the essential guides are for every manager who wants to move their skills beyond the ordinary to the best.

Do you feel that theres room for a bit more happiness in your life?A lot more even?Then heres the good news: you have much more control over your happiness than you probably think. And in this book, youll discover the often simple, but easily overlooked, steps you can take to reclaim more of those good feelings.Whats more, every single suggested action in this book has been scientifically proven to have a positive and lasting effect on happiness. Theres no hype here, just plenty of real hope. Better still, theres no need for radical life change and no complicated programme to follow. Instead youll find a raft of small and simple steps that will, over time, add up to a life with more pleasure and meaning - and with fewer negative emotions dragging you down.Nobody else can make you happy. But you can. Heres all the help you need.Daniel Freeman is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Oxford University.Jason Freeman is a writer and editor.

The new edition of this brilliant bestseller gives full support through every step of the way of starting a business, making the whole process easier, so you remain inspired and on the road to success.Author Caspian Woods is a renowned entrepreneur and this book includes his vast experience of starting businesses, coaching new start-ups and interviewing hundreds of successful entrepreneurs from Bob Geldof to Phillip Green. You will learn how to: feel positive, energised and enthused be clear about the start-up process be able to tailor it to suit their individual needs know which parts to focus on for success where to go for further reading/support.This new edition features new material on using social media to reach new markets, improve customer service and recruit staff. It also features new information that accommodates recent changes in the economy.

This comprehensive book will ensure your business plan is robust enough to start, run or revitalise any business enterprise.Whether your goal is raising start-up finance for a new business, requesting venture funding from a corporate parent or directing operational management, The Definitive Business Plan will help you deliver the information the decision-makers are really looking for. Accessible to the newcomer and detailed enough for the experienced planner, the third edition of this international bestseller explains how to tailor a plan for specific readerships and meet specific objectives, helping you to focus your attention on strategic planning as well as on operational controls.This new edition has been completely updated throughout.

Packed full of anecdotes from the most accomplished presenters around, this book contains all the tools, tips and encouragement you need to make a sensational presentation. It covers every aspect of presenting, from preparation and planning right through to dealing with nerves and mastering the art of presentation performance. Brilliant outcomes:- Learn the top ten tips of presentation mastery- Discover how to make presentations powerful, colourful and memorable- Always feel confident and inspired to give it your very best shot- Deliver an inspiring presentation, even with no visual aids.

Written by the UKs most well-respected expert, this is THE definitive guide to job interviews, covering absolutely everything youll ever need to know about the whole process from planning and preparing to delivering a winning performance - in one, easy to- read and easy-to-access guide to success. For over 25 years, author John Lees has been at the forefront of careers advice and has spent all of his career training recruiters, interviewers, HR professionals and interviewees. He knows exactly what makes a great interview and offers his vast insider knowledge here.

Inspirational managers earn more respect, suffer less stress and produce better results than other managers. Want to be one? This book tells you how.Drawing on the experiences of real inspirational managers, facing real challenges and managing real people, Inspirational Manager, now in its second edition, gives you the tools and techniques to ensure that people notice you and say now theres a great manager!.

Make a powerful, positive and lasting impact and become the person everyone remembers, as you discover how Charisma can take YOU to a whole new level. Learn how to unlock the secrets of being a success with everyone you meet by gaining their agreement, confidence, commitment and admiration. Packed full of strategies for increasing charisma, you will learn how to stand out from the crowd, communicate with confidence, establish lasting meaningful and life-changing relationships with people on every level, revolutionise your confidence and self-esteem and become more assertive so you can get what you want, when you want it. This new edition now includes new chapters covering key topics such as leadership and body language.

Economics for Business and Managementoffers an exciting introduction to the principles and applications of microeconomics and macroeconomics to the global business problems faced by todays decision makers: What are the characteristics for successful entry into new international markets? How can sustainability affect decision making within businesses? Why are todays global investors so concerned about national debt issues? In what ways does an awareness of cultural differences improve decision making by international marketing and human resource strategists? What strategies can companies such as BP use to repair damaged global reputations? It is an ideal text for introductory courses in economics with a business and management focus and more general business environment courses with an economic underpinning. Visit the fantastic website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/griffithswall to find extra practice questions, interactive activities, quizzes and exam style practice questions with instant feedback, as well as podcasts, news articles, animated professional power points slides and a testbank of questions.

Shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2011, Practical Manager CategoryA Leaders Guide to Influence will show you how to step up your people skills and improve working relationships so you can get the business results you want.Combing the hugely popular areas of influence and leadership, this book will show you how to step up your interpersonal effectiveness by learning how to work more successfully with those around you, be they people you manage, colleagues, client or business partners. Through a combination of practical exercises, case studies and no-nonsense advice, this book shows you how to:- Increase your confidence and impact.- Communicate more effectively.- Learn different tools, techniques and approaches when working with different types of people.- Listen and question effectively.- Develop rapport and empathy.- Give better feedback.- Deal with difficult situations and cope with conflict.

Whether running a company or working for an organisation, Brilliant Workshops will equip you with all the practical tools and effective techniques you need to run your workshop effectively. This book challenges the myths about delivering effective workshops and will give you all the essential information you need to deliver brilliant workshops to any audience.

Do you want to feel more confident about your investment decisions? Do you need to have a better understanding of how the stock markets value a business? Do you want to know what the key ratios are that drive share price performance? The Financial Times Guide to Making the Right Investment Decisions is the insiders guide to how the market examines companies and values shares. It helps you understand the factors that drive long term wealth creation as well as highlighting the key risks that lead to value being destroyed. Originally published as Analysing Companies and Valuing Shares, this new edition has been fully revised and includes a new and easy to follow framework for understanding valuation. Perfect for investors at all levels, it guides you through the investment maze, and highlights the key issues you need to consider to invest successfully. The Financial Times Guide to Making the Right Investment Decisions: Gives you an easy to follow framework to guide your decision-making Explains clearly and concisely key financial concepts and how they drive valuation Shows you the key ratios to monitor and how they affect share prices Illustrates the key risks and warning signals that will help you avoid losses Identifies the qualities of company management and governance that differentiates winners from losers Brings the issues and numbers to life with real examples and case studies In a challenging economic and stock market environment, the need to take better informed decisions is vital. This clear, common sense guide provides a comprehensive and accessible framework for understanding the valuation of a business and what drives its share price. Knowing the key numbers, ratios and techniques that professional investors use will help you to reduce your risk and invest more profitably.