Power Sales Words: How to Write It, Say It And Sell It With Sizzle
Published: 2006
Pages: 282
Power Sales Words is a valuable resource for professional and non-professional writers alike. Packed with useful synonyms and antonyms, creative phrases, do's and don'ts, instructive essays and more, Power Sales Words puts the words you need right at your fingertips. Whether you're brainstorming for ideas, searching for the perfect adjective or trying to punch up that closing paragraph, Power Sales Words can help.
Conflict 101: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Problems So Everyone Can Get Back to Work
Published: 2011
Pages: 272
We all know conflict is unavoidable, especially in the workplace. Whether it's a fight over resources, a disagreement about how to get things done, or an argument stemming from perceived differences in identities or values, it's a manager's role to navigate relationships, and build compromises and collaborations. "Conflict 101" gives readers the tools they need to ensure not only that employees get back on track, but that disagreements breed positive results. Readers will learn how to: build trust; harness negative emotions; encourage apologies and forgiveness; use a solution-seeking approach; and, say what needs to be said.
Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure of mainstream economics. In Getting It Wrong, leading economist William Barnett argues instead that there was too little use of the relevant economics, especially from the literature on economic measurement. Barnett contends that as financial instruments became more complex, the simple-sum monetary aggregation formulas used by central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, became obsolete.