Careers for Persuasive Types & Others who Won't Take No for an Answer,2 Edition
Put your power of persuasion to work! Do you consider yourself a good problem solver? Can you always see both sides of a dilemma? Are you the kind of person who enjoys leading a team? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are a persuasive type--now all you need is an occupation that puts your unique talent to use.
How to Write Reports and Proposals, Second Edition
Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business. How to Write Reports and Proposals offers pointers for anyone who needs to impress, convince, or persuade their colleagues or clients. Using checklists, exercises and examples, it explains how to plan what to write, how to transfer ideas onto paper, and how to edit them to achieve the best results. There is also valuable information on the power of language, persuasive writing, and presentation.
The Series Writing the Critical Essay provides model essays on a current controversial issue guiding students in writing a five-paragraph essay, including persuasive, descriptive, expository and cause-and-effect essays. Includes guided reading and discussion questions to help students understand the essays themselves and target persuasive techniques authors use to compose convincing arguments. This volume covers the issue of euthanasia.
More companies are shifting from command-and-control hierarchies to flat management structures. To get work done through others under these conditions (your central job as a manager), you need to excel at persuading others -- including those over whom you have no formal authority.
In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this happen? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It makes an ideal topic for Strauss, a writer with an exceptional ability to animate art's philosophical dimensions in a clear, persuasive manner.
