March 23rd, 2010 § § permalink
The business leaders and trainers from Dale Carnegie Training have discovered that applying appropriate assertiveness to all your interactions is the most effective approach to creating a successful career. The 5 Essential People Skills will help you be the most positively commanding, prosperous, and inspired professional you can be. You will learn how to:
1. Relate to the seven major personality types
2. Live up to your fullest potential while achieving personal success
3. Create a cutting-edge business environment that delivers innovation and results
4. Use Carnegie’s powerhouse five-part template for articulate communications that grow business
5. Resolve any conflict or misunderstanding by applying a handful of proven principles
Once you master these powerful skills, you will be well on your way to a new level of professional and personal achievement.
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March 22nd, 2010 § § permalink
What is it really like to be a CEO? This is the first book to bring together 150 top global CEOs on the record. Some of the world’s best CEOs share their secrets on running a global business, coping with the capital crunch and the other key trends shaping the business world sustainability, the web and the world war for talent. Leaders reveal how they really lead in practice and share their advice for getting to the top and, once there, how to be a successful leader and still have a happy life. The book also shares a radical view from the CEOs of how best to lead into the future. The Secrets of CEOs reveals frank insights about their lives with some of the West s most influential CEOs, such as Tesco’s Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP Group, former BP chief executive Lord Browne, Mick Davis of Xstrata and Ben Verwaayen, formerly of BT. It also incorporates radical and thought-provoking comments from the heads of new corporate champions of India like Infosys, Tata and Wipro, leading Chinese and Russian companies such as Lenovo and Severstal, and US corporate giants including Google, Dell and News Corporation. More detail including list of interviewees, detailed synopsis and exclusive CEO videos available at www.thesecretsofceos.com
About the Author
Steve Tappin is a Managing Partner in the Global CEO & Board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, a leading executive search firm. A recognized international authority on the CEO agenda, and himself a former CEO, Steve has over 20 years experience of acting as an adviser, coach and talent partner to Global 500 companies. A sought-after speaker and commentator on the CEO agenda, he spent the early part of his career with ICI and as a partner at PA Consulting and KPMG. Andrew Cave is a financial journalist who has written for the Daily Telegraph since 1996, including three years in New York as US Business Correspondent and five years as Associate City Editor. He writes the weekly business profile in The Sunday Telegraph as well as other regular features for the Daily Telegraph.
March 20th, 2010 § § permalink
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o’clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, he becomes sharply aware: one by one, she ticks off every bulletpoint on his list. So begins the new heartstopping new thriller starring today’s most admired action hero, the gallant and enigmatic loner Jack Reacher.
March 19th, 2010 § § permalink
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
Victoria -a chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes and ordinary looks – has always felt out of place in her family. When her younger sister Gracie is born, their parents make no secret of the fact that she is the perfect one. While they can eat as much as they like and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch every mouthful, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her appearance and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods offer only temporary comfort. The one thing she knows is that she has to get as far away from home as possible and, after college in Chicago she moves to New York City.
There, Victoria finds joy and excitement as a high school teacher while waging war on her weight among the sleek and slinky at Manhattan’s fitness clubs. Her lifeline to her family is through Gracie – though they can’t be more different in looks, style, or social lives, the two sisters love each other unconditionally.Victoria knows that she has been a disappointment to her parents all her life and no matter what she does, she can never win their approval. A chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point in the lives of Victoria and Gracie. Behind Victoria is all the hurt, neglect, and loss she has tried to forget – ahead is a new life of sisterhood, confidence and fulfillment.
March 18th, 2010 § § permalink
There was “muchness’ in terms of the number of entries for Contest #8 – a mad, mad surprise as we scrolled through everyone’s answers!!
Just a few were disqualified (sorry, but we have to fair to those who got the answers right, even precisely to the point of putting an apostrophe appropriately).
Here are a list of some of the books written by the Brazilian author, Paulo Coelho:
Paulo Coelho
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O Dom Supremo: The Greatest Gift
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Maktub
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Love Letters from a Prophet
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Manual of the Warrior of Light
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Eleven Minutes
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The Genie and the Roses
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Fathers, Sons and Grandsons
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Revived Paths
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Essential Words
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Life: Selected Quotations
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Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature
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Brazilian biographer Fernando Morais wrote about Paulo Coelho in 2008 . The book was translated into the English language in 2009. Here’s a short excerpt:
“The incredible story of Paulo Coelho, the boy who was born dead, flirted with suicide, suffered at mental asylums, dove into drugs, tried several varieties of sex, met the devil, was arrested during the dictatorship, helped revolutionize Brazilian rock, rediscovered his faith and became one of the most-widely read writers in the world. Paulo Coelho de Souza was born in the rainy wee hours of August 24th in…”
There are several covers for the translated biography, so we accepted any of the following answers:
May I recommend Paulo Coelho’s official website. Impressively located here: http://www.paulocoelho.com/
And… Oh, the 3 winners (picked from a mini lucky draw) are as follows:
1. William
2. Malini
3. Leong
Winners will be notified through email by tomorrow
(The books are sponsored, courtesy of MPH Distributors Sdn Bhd.)
Thank you for all your entries. Contest # 9 be will dawning next week ….
March 18th, 2010 § § permalink
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- Office Viewer – TXT, PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS & HWP
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- Voice Recording – MP3
- Text Editor/Diary Included
March 17th, 2010 § § permalink
Christopher Howard
Christopher Howard
CHRISTOPHER HOWARD is an internationally acclaimed expert in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Leadership and President of Christopher Howard International, a business that specializes in helping clients build personal and professional influence. He conducts dynamic seminars for individuals and organizations that want to accelerate their performance and produce breakthrough results. He has personally led, managed, launched, and turned around numerous organizations and businesses. He is a also a frequent guest on popular radio and television shows.
Popular Books
Turning Passions Into Profits: Three Steps to Wealth and Power
Turning Passions into Profits by Christopher Howard
In Turning Passions into Profits, Howard explains the system of techniques he calls Creation Technologies to produce a successful and profitable business and help readers achieve personal goals. He describes Neurological Repatterning, a set of tools that can change perspectives about the world and that combine with Cognitive Reimprinting, which is studying the methods of role models and applying them. The last section outlines how the system serves to enhance communication and leadership and concludes with a section on applying the techniques of great leaders.
Instant Wealth Wake Up Rich!: Discover The Secret of The New Entrepreneurial Mind
Instant Wealth Wake Up Rich! by Christopher Howard
The power to create great wealth is already within you. But monetizing that raw energy doesn’t happen by itself. As Howard shows, building great wealth is a dual process. It begins by identifying your passion—the things you truly and deeply care about, whatever they may be. Next, passion needs to be endowed with purpose: a clearly defined vision of the future you intend to create.
Once this happens, money is simply the natural reward. When you bring the value of passion and purpose to the marketplace, financial prosperity is the instant result. It’s like awakening to a new reality—not just for yourself, but for everyone who shares in your success. And make no mistake: sharing is a key element in the success of Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, and the other billionaire entrepreneurs
Howard introduces in these pages. Instant Wealth Wake Up Rich! proves that ultimate success is by no means a matter of selling out principles in order to become rich. On the contrary, it’s becoming rich in order to bring that riches to the world.
March 16th, 2010 § § permalink
Mr. Midnight is a children’s horrors series written by Jim Aitchison under the pseudonym of James Lee. The series is published by Angsana Books. There are currently 57 “episodes” of this book being distributed with more being written and released around every two to four months. It has been translated into Burmese, Malay, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese.
James Lee (Aitchison) resides in Singapore and is also the author of The Seriously Funny Anti-Stress Book, Sarong Party Girl and the national songs such as “One People, One Nation, One Singapore” and “My Singapore Story” and even a children’s mystery-fiction series called Mr. Mystery. A new series has been released with books 55, 56 and 57 called ‘The Young Immortals’.
Another new book called ‘Howl’ is released with Books 58,59 and special edition 1.
Each book in the series contains two stories. The first book was titled “Madman’s Mansion” and “The Monster in Mahima’s Mirror”.
Jim Aitchison’s books are very popular among young children and preteens and has been regarded as “Asia’s answer to Harry Potter”.
A movie titled Mr. Midnight the Movie: My Haunted Holiday was planned and used to be in production but was canceled as the producers thought the movie would not suit the books style.
Mr. Midnight Series by James Lee
James Lee
Aitchison is a Singapore Permanent Resident, and the Australian has been living in Singapore since 1983. Before he became a full-time writer, Aitchison was a voice actor, and creative director of an advertising agency. He has also published books on business and advertising.
Under the pseudonym of James Lee, Aitchison’s Mr. Midnight series has captivated young readers since 1998, with over 1.5 million copies of Mr. Midnight books sold. The books are horror fiction stories with different characters featured. Readers are invited to send in their stories, which Aitchison then fleshes out in his books. His publisher, Flame Of The Forest, came up with the idea of publishing an Asian series of horror and suspense stories for children, using Asian names and backdrops. It wanted to provide children in the region with reads that they could identify with, a change from books from the West that centred on white children. The Mr. Midnight series was sold to other Asian countries such as Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam
In March 2006, Aitchison launched the Mr. Mystery series, books catering to the same demographic group, with murder mystery stories solved by a group of characters.
In June 2009, Aitchison launched a new series called The Young Immortals, centering Three kids- Train Tang, Jeffry Hunter and Tamaryn.
Aitchison’s other works include the Sarong Party Girl series (1994, 1995, 1996), The Seriously Funny Anti-Stress Book (1995), and Terror In Bali: An Eyewitness Account (2003). He also wrote the national songs “One People, One Nation, One Singapore” and “My Singapore Story” for the National Day Parades.
March 16th, 2010 § § permalink
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