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The Smart Selling Book
Virtually everyone sells in some capacity today, and we can become better at selling by becoming smarter at it. In today s highly competitive marketplace, creating an advantage through sales is imperative. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are twenty tips, advice and techniques to help anyone to improve their sales capability. It provides insights and tools to develop a more considered, smarter approach to overcoming any sales-related problem and situation. Each piece of advice is accompanied by graphic aids to aid understanding.
Author: Mark Edwards
Publisher: LID Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-911498-31-5
FORMAT: 180 x 120mm
Bookbinding: Hardback
Number of pages: 128 pp
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Ren Zhengfei and Huawei: A Biography of One of China’s Greatest Entrepreneurs
China’s economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times.
A driving force behind this expansion has been the private entrepreneurs and companies of China, some of which have literally redefined the economic and business landscape, both inside and outside of China.
Ren Zhengfei is one such entrepreneur, who has become one of China’s most revered and inspiring business leaders. His company Huawei Technologies, which was founded in 1987, is today a world-leading supplier of telecommunications equipment and mobile phones that employs over 150,000 people around the world. Low profile and known for his down-to-earth nature, Ren
is hugely popular in China. This book tells the story of how he turned Huawei into one of the world’s most recognized business brands and the much admired management philosophy behind
its success.
Author: Li Hongwen
Publisher: LID Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-911498-29-2
FORMAT: 198 x 129mm
Bookbinding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256 pp
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The Crisis Book
It seems everyday we encounter a "crisis" or difficult issue of some sort that affects our work. Such difficulties can come from within work (eg, a difficult client or boss, missing a target or deadline, rejection of a proposal or plan, feeling undervalued) or outside of it (eg, personal issues such as family, relationships, debt, alcohol). All have the potential to trigger stress, anxiety...and lead to crisis mode.This practical book offers strategies and guidance to coping with and surviving a range of crisis moments and issues that affect our ability to perform at work. Written by expert coaches, the book helps anyone to develop a series of competencies in order to help us manage crisis points and improve our personal resilience.
Author: Rick Hughes, Andrew Kinder, Cary Cooper
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Publisher: LID Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-910649-31-2
FORMAT: 180 x 120mm
Bookbinding: Hardback
Number of pages: 160 pp
Chapters:
Work Stressors
- Work-load
- Control
- Targets & Deadlines
- Bullying
- Working Hours
- Difficult Boss or Colleagues
- Managing Conflict
- Difficult Customers
- Job Satisfaction
- Delegation
- Not Knowing
- Career Development
- Promotion
- Planning & Prioritising
- Organisational Change
- Political & Economic Uncertainty
- Emotional Intelligence
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Anger Management
- Panic Attacks
- Managing Emotions
- Negative Thinking
- How To Be Happy
- Enjoy What We Have
- Frustration
- Public Speaking Anxiety
- Empathy
- Life Cycle Losses
- Redundancy
- New Job
- Retirement
- Children Leaving Home
- Ageing
- Relationship Break-Up
- Pregnancy & Birth
- Empty Nest Syndrome
- Parenting 0-11
- Parenting 12-18
- Bereavement
- Mid-Life Crisis
- Bereavement Through Suicide
- Traumatic Events
- Miscarriage
- Preparing for Dying
- Time-Management
- Resilience
- Assertiveness
- Constructive Criticism
- Exam Pressure
- Dealing with Rejection
- Developing Purpose
- Confidence
- Working within a Matrix culture
- Social Media
- Email Etiquette
- Learning from Mistakes
- Politically Astute
- Remote & Home Working
- Stress
- Asking for Help
- Debt
- Therapy
- Sleeping
- Exercise
- Addiction-Management
- Weight-Management
- Acute & Chronic Pain
- Work-Life Balance
- The Future - Be Your Own Therapist
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The Keep It Simple Book
Leading business coach Simon Tyler has spent many years successfully helping hundreds of individuals to overcome the complexity of their business and personal lives, and instead, focus on what is essential and productive. This compact book contains 50 practical tips and techniques to inspire and provoke you to review your life, change old habits and enhance your life by "keeping it simple". Each tip also contains a lesson or exercise that will challenge consensus thinking, break through barriers and redefine connections through the power of attitude. This is a book that will simplify your life and help you achieve your goals.
Author: Simon Tyler
Book Details
Publisher: LID Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-911498-11-7
FORMAT: 180 x 120mm
Bookbinding: Hardback
Number of pages: 144 pp
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The Diagrams Book
People find it difficult to express ideas and solve problems purely with words. They find it much easier to use diagrams. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 50 of the most useful diagrams, which are used by consultants, academics, MBA students and smart managers globally to aid their problem-solving and thinking. Triangle and pyramids, grids and axes, timelines, flows and concepts, circles - the 50 diagrams are each visually presented and then explained in an accessible manner, including tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations.
Author: Kevin Duncan
Book Details
- Publisher: LID Publishing
- ISBN: 978-1907794292
- FORMAT: 180 x 120mm
- Bookbinding: Hardback
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The Feedback Book
Maintaining performance today is no longer simply about having an annual appraisal and telling employees “you must try harder”. Research demonstrates that regular discussions about performance and providing feedback to the people you manage is a more effective way to motivate them and keep them on track.Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 50 tips, advice and techniques to help any manager become quickly skilled at regularly discussing performance, setting goals and objectives and providing the necessary feedback to ensure individuals and teams thrive in the company. Structured into five key parts, each of the 50 concise chapters also contains a practical exercise to help the reader understand and implement the concepts and ideas of this book.
Author: Dawn Sillett
Book DetailsPublisher: LID Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-910649-57-2
FORMAT: 180 x 120mm
Bookbinding: Hardback
Number of pages: 128pp
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The Business Bullshit Book
If you work in business, the chances are you have fallen under the poisonous spell of business bullshit and jargon. Very few of us seem able to avoid “reaching out”, or “walk the talk”, or “shifting paradigms”, or “think outside the box”. No longer solely the province of management consultants, investors and MBA types, business gobbledygook has mesmerized the rank and file around the globe.
Help is at hand with this The Business Bullshit Book, aptly described as “the world’s most comprehensive collection” of the top 2,000 business terms and jargon that have infected us all. Stay sane (and keep your colleagues and customers from suffocating you) from the business bullshit madness by having this dictionary by your side. Based on his wide and extensive experience with business bullshit, Kevin Duncan deciphers the terms and language of modern-day business speak.
Author: Kevin Duncan
Book Details
- Publisher: LID Publishing
- ISBN: 978-1-910649-85-5
- FORMAT: 180 x 120mm
- Bookbinding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 288
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The Brain Book
Your brain is your most valuable asset, and yet we are taught so little about it. The one thing that’s involved in all your feelings, thoughts, and actions, and you’re never given the manual. Consequently few of us realise our potential.
Recent developments in neuroscience demonstrate that your brain is like a muscle; you can increase your brain power, and even change and develop your brain over time.
Grounded in scientific research, this book gives you 50 ways to get more from your brain. You’ll gain an understanding of how your brain works and how you can boost your mental performance. You’ll discover how to improve your focus and memory, and how you can enhance your problem solving skills. You’ll even learn how you can program your brain and keep it younger for longer.
Author: Phil Dobson
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The Meeting Book
Across the world businesses are searching for ways to work leaner and smarter. Working virtually across countries, time zones, and regions is, in theory, a good way to stay connected and keep travel and accommodation costs down. Businesses must be competent at working virtually in order to thrive and, meeting virtually is today’s reality.
Technology companies are getting better and better at supporting meaningful virtual meetings and communication media is galloping ahead with people actively staying connected through social media and yet, at the same time virtual business meetings are hitting a glass ceiling. This book suggests that the human behaviour needed to make the most of these meetings is struggling to keep up.
In this book you will learn how to make meetings work for you, how to be present and how to be understood, why you suck at meetings today and what to do about it for tomorrow.
Author: Helen Chapman
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The Mindfulness Book
Research has told us that to be successful in our personal and professional lives we need emotional intelligence; mindfulness is one practise to harness this ability and build your emotional capital. Mindfulness is an ancient Buddhist practice, which is very relevant for life today. Mindfulness is an integrative, mind-body based approach that helps people to manage their thoughts and feelings by paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally. This increases awareness, clarity and acceptance of our present-moment reality.
This book reveals the seven dynamic emotions that create success, and provides a step-by-step guide for building emotional wealth and wellbeing.
Author: Martyn Newman
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The Success Book
Success is often measured by financial successes and business acheivements. The intention of this book is to help entrepreneurs, leaders and individuals to reflect and re-evaluate their current level of success, to see whether it is serving them or the people around them. Where their notions of what it is to be successful have come from, and whether they now feel appropriate to them.Authentic Success is by its very nature a personal journey of exploration and there are no rights or wrongs to each journey. What matters is whether it resonates with you.
This book enables you to create a life path for yourself that is more harmonious for you to enjoy and experience, which in turn is more harmonious and satisfying for those around you. In that way we all could achieve more with less effort and less strife, which ultimately will help the world, become a slightly better place to live in.
Author: Tim Johnson
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The Financial Wellbeing Book
One of the biggest enemies of our general wellbeing is stress; and one of the biggest causes of stress is concern about money. This book provides a simple and practical guide to planning your daily and long-term finances by understanding your objectives and motivations. In doing so, it offers respite from the anxiety and stress caused by money problems. The author, an experienced financial adviser, argues that the key to financial wellbeing is to “know thyself” in order to allow decisions to be made, and to ensure those decisions are the rights ones for you. This is underpinned by having control of your daily finances, the ability to cope with a financial shock, to be able to have options in life, to have identifiable goals and a clear path to achieve them, and to ensure clarity and security for those we leave behind.
Author: Chris Budd
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