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How Gen y Employees Can Save You Money and Grow Your Business

In today's economy, maximizing the performance of every employee is critical to business survival and growth. Gen Y--sometimes called Millennials--provides an enticing opportunity for employers to increase their short-term profitability and create a long-term competitive advantage. Almost 80 million strong, Gen Y is the fastest growing segment in the US workforce--and now comprises the entire 18 to 32 demographic. Along with their ever-present cell phone and occasional backpack, Gen Y brings tremendous potential and timely skills to the workplace (just ask, they'll tell you). However, Gen Y can be notoriously difficult to attract, retain, motivate, and develop. Gen Y's new approach to work makes them a growing challenge or strategic opportunity--depending entirely on how you choose to employ them.

In Y-Size Your Business, Jason Ryan Dorsey, The Gen Y Guy, presents a step-by-step methodology for best employing Gen Y without investing a lot of time or money. A member of Gen Y himself he delivers an insider's view of his generation as well as more than fifty cost-effective, ready-to-use strategies that deliver immediate measurable results. Dorsey collected these creative strategies from the frontlines of business during his work with executives, managers, and entrepreneurs in businesses large and small around the world.  He shows you exactly how to attract the best Gen Y employees, quickly develop their workplace skills, and then unlock their performance, motivation, and loyalty.

 * Reveals creative ways to attract, retain, motivate, and develop Gen Y employees without paying them more money (or meeting their Mom)
 * Includes a behind-the-scenes view of Gen Y from someone in Gen Y (including why they text message without vowels)
 * Explains the primary workplace differences between the four generations and how to leverage their strengths
 * Features funny, outrageous, and candid stories that expose the generation gap in the office (Is that a tattoo?)
 * Helps you view the Gen Y employee life cycle and key business operations in a new way--one you can use to your business and career advantage

Companies that wisely choose to embrace Gen Y today will be well positioned to navigate the global economy tomorrow. Not only will these companies benefit from the talents and ambitions of Gen Y--they'll also benefit from Gen Y's increasing economic influence as well as their massive social networks. Based on Dorsey's work with business leaders at companies around the world, as a keynote speaker, consultant, and generational expert, Y-Size Your Business presents precisely the solutions you need to make the most of an increasingly important generation that is ready to make an impact from their first day at work (and then blog about it!).

Y-Size Your Business

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How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life

Many of the greatest accomplishments can only be reached by two people working together. Tenzing and Hillary were first to scale Everest. Malone and Stockton were the key to each other's success on the basketball court. Eisner was never as effective at Disney without Wells. But while some partnerships reach great heights, others fall short. Why do some people click while others clash? What do great pairs have in common? And what can be learned from the most powerful partnerships to strengthen collaboration in work and life? Based on Gallup's groundbreaking research,Power of 2 details the eight elements that prepare partners to succeed in their most important endeavors. Rodd Wagner and Gallup World Poll leader Dr. Gale Muller share the science and the secrets of successful collaboration. Mixing key insights about human nature, field-tested discoveries, and the inspiring stories of partnerships that reached the pinnacle,Power of 2 will change the way readers think about working with someone else.

Power Of 2

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A collection of tales about modern African children in crisis includes "An Ex-Mas Feast," in which an eight-year-old child shares in his family's sacrifices to obtain enough food and enable his education.

Say You're One of Them

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Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

Women and Money

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The Rules for Getting It Right for Yourself and Your Organization

In a straightforward, common-sense guide to business success, a corporate consultant shares six time-tested principles that help readers satisfy customers, accomplish goals and objectives, communicate clearly, and develop strong business relationships.

The Six Fundamentals of Success

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Your Key to Enlightened Wealth

The authors of The One Minute Millionaire get more specific about making money fast in this new work. Showcasing real-life stories of men and women who have capitalized on their own million-dollar ideas, this book is the ultimate tool for unleashing the inner entrepreneur.

Cracking the Millionaire Code

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Dealing with Difficult People--Common Problems and Uncommon Solutions

For those who feel like they are expending too much energy either engaging in conflict or desperately trying to avoid it, this refreshing, realistic guide provides accessible solutions. Readers will learn why dealing with a difficult person doesn't have to ruin their day, the habits that cause conflict, and the techniques that can turn things around. It also gives readers insight into their own power in shaping relationships, and specific advice for handling different personality types. There really is a better way!

Since Strangling Isn't an Option

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A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting Relationship

Will I Ever Find My Soul Mate? Whether you are recently separated, divorced, or you have been in the singles scene for longer than you want, this insightful guide will help you navigate the dating maze and find that special person you've been waiting for. By discussing the differences between men and women, Mars and Venus on a Date provides singles with: A thorough understanding of the five stages of dating -- attraction, uncertainty, exclusivity, intimacy, and engagement How to know what kind of person is right for you Answers to burning questions such as why don't men call, or why do some women stay single? The best places to meet your soul mate And advice on creating a loving and mutually fulfilling relationship Filled with practical guidelines, inventive techniques, and witty insight, Mars and Venus on a Date will help single men and women explore the world of dating, understand how to make good choices, and discover the secret to finding a soul mate.

Mars and Venus on a Date

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

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Create the Perfect Resume for the Best Top-Level Positions

With more than 20 years as a Certified Professional Resume Writer and more than 100,000 career books sold worldwide, Steven Provenzano shows you how to create a high-impact resume that develops and markets your skills and abilities to shorten your executive career search. This one-of-a-kind book reveals the secrets used by expert resume writers worldwide. You'll learn how Mr. Provenzano has helped thousands of clients identify, develop and market their abilities to the fullest extent and quickly increase their income. Packed with more than 150 pages of real-life resume examples, each with documented results, you'll learn all the essential points of persuasive, keyword resume writing, cover letter writing, design and format. The author includes the latest tips and strategies on networking, interview techniques and leveraging your LinkedIn page. There are before-and-after resume examples, a military conversion resume, and newly written articles from experts related to self-motivation, networking and how to answer some of the toughest interview questions. In today's job market, competition for the best, top-paying positions is intense, and the need for an excellent resume has never been greater. It's essential to create a high-impact resume that markets your skills - your personal brand - with impact and precision to stand above the crowd. You can't get the position you want without an interview, and you can't get an interview without a great resume. This is the only resume book that includes a free resume review by the author.

Top Secret Executive Resumes

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Planning Now for the Life You Want

For more than 35 years, What Color Is Your Parachute? Has guided millions of job-hunters to find satisfying careers. Now, Parachute for Retirement will help people plan for the next stage of life. Going way beyond financial planning, Richard N. Bolles and retirement expert John E. Nelson use all the latest research from economics, medicine and psychology to provide a complete essential guide for planning this important and inevitable stage of anyone's career. It aims to inspire readers to take charge of their retired life and get the most possible out of their retirement, emotionally, financially and physically.

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The Professional's Pursuit of a Meaningful Life

A Road Map for a More Meaningful Life Randy Hain's third book offers a much needed guide for any business professional seeking more from life than work alone. In Something More: The Professional's Pursuit of a Meaningful Life, Hain captures the best of what he has learned and observed about how to create a meaningful life, during more than two decades of experience working with business professionals. The book also includes interviews Hain conducted with more than a dozen professional men and women from around the country, all of whom are actively pursuing their own meaningful lives. Their combined and eclectic experiences greatly enrich Something More and offer the reader an authentic guidebook filled with practical wisdom with which readers will connect. After exploring our motivations for the choices we make and the obstacles that get in the way, Hain addresses work/life balance, recalibration of our thinking, serving others, job satisfaction, using our gifts, authenticity, the role of crisis, courage, and the role of faith from a broad ecumenical perspective. This multi-faceted approach will help readers navigate their paths to more meaningful lives, armed with the tools they need for the journey. The thought-provoking discussion questions at the end of each chapter will challenge readers' current perceptions and encourage a different way of thinking about their lives. Something More is ideal for any business or professional person, from new college graduate to retiree. The book is accessible, practical, authentic, and filled with wisdom. Anyone seeking more out of life than a career will find the book helpful, engaging, and inspirational.

Something More

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How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The Tipping Point

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Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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The Fine Print to Becoming a Great Leader, Revised and Updated

A comprehensive blueprint for the enlightened leader  

The Leadership Contract is the modern leader's handbook for organizational renewal. Leaders are no longer "rulers," nor are they accidental--in today's business climate, leadership is both a trait and a specific set of skills. It's about trust, commitment, communication, and drive. This book shows you how to become the leader your organization needs. You'll go beyond adopting the habits and practices of an effective leader and actually put it in writing to establish a leadership contract that ensures the success of your company.  This revised and updated edition includes new coverage of accountability, personal and organizational levels of the leadership contract, new Gut Check summary questions after each chapter, and additional opening and closing remarks to provide key insight into what the leadership role entails.

Recent studies show that only 7 percent of employees have trust and confidence in their senior leaders. How can organizations succeed without the support of their employees? This book aims to build better leaders and establish a true leadership culture that inspires the entire organization.

 * Learn why a leadership contract is needed and what it entails
 * Discover the real impact of your decisions and work ethic
 * Motivate and inspire by making the right connections
 * Facilitate a vibrant, positive culture that innovates and thrives

Exceptional leadership is the heart of a successful organization. Employees need to be able to trust in the skills, strategy, judgment, and motivation of those steering the ship. The Leadership Contract provides a blueprint for today's leaders, and guides you toward becoming the leader your employees deserve.

The Leadership Contract

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Closing the Ring

War and Management

Sun Tzu's Art of War an ancient Chinese philosopher-warrior's rules for successes in battle, is considered required reading at business schools in Japan, and increasingly throughout the world. Now, three Asian scholars and consultants have made explicit how the concerns of war--the terrain, deception, the moral influence of the leader--play out in the boardroom.

Sun Tzu

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Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The Facebook chief operating officer and Fortune top-ranked businesswoman shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women that urges them to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately.

Lean In

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Jack Ryan is presented with yet another deadly mission in the latest thriller by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy's last and most successful collaborator

Tom Clancy Commander in Chief

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Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation

Traces the story of a champion equine jumper and the Dutch farmer who rescued him from the slaughterhouse, recounting how the farmer discovered Snowman's jumping talents and trained him to compete against the world's thoroughbreds.

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