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Opening and Closing: How to Present a Case
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Opening and Closing: How to Present a Case
Roger Haydock , and John Sonsteng
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Describes everything you need to know about conducting highly effective opening presentations and closing summations. Descriptions and examples of organization structure, storytelling, persuasive approaches, improper approaches, and methods of delivery are provided. Describes effective ways to prepare and present a motion.

On Advocacy - Five Books on Essential Skills for Court Trials, Administrative Cases, Arbitrations, and Jury Trials: Opening and Closing - how to Present a Case

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On Advocacy - Five Books on Essential Skills for Court Trials, Administrative Cases, Arbitrations, and Jury Trials: Opening and Closing - how to Present a Case
Roger S. Haydock
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The Book of Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want
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Comprehensible concepts from an expert in the field

Finally, a practical book for the real world

From the author of "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill"

It's all about the agreements

The Book of Agreement: An Inspiring Gift!

The Book of Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want
Stewart Levine
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Book Description

For many people, negotiating an agreement is an adversarial process. But in this book, conflict resolution expert Stewart Levine shows how to design agreements collaboratively to reflect a clear joint vision of the desired outcome and produce results.

The Book of Agreement provides ten powerful tools for creating successful agreements together. These tools help both parties clarify expectations, establish standards, and build partnership. Also included are more than 25 agreement templates that cover all areas of life. Professional templates include financial planners, realtors, therapists, consultants, and engineers; personal templates include spouses and domestic partners, children, and parents.

Customer Reviews:

Comprehensible concepts from an expert in the field.......2006-06-26

We all know of stories where businesses, families and communities went down the drain because the involved parties were locked into years of conflict. In this book, Stewart Levine provides an insightful framework and applications for resolutions that can be put to practice immediately; sort of a 15-Minute Gourmet Resolutions recipe book.

A must read for anyone trying to get the most out of relationships.

Finally, a practical book for the real world.......2003-04-17

The Book of Agreement is the first practical book on how to realize the potential of really working together in the world, at the office, or in the home. Stewart Levine outlines the amazingly simple, and yet so powerful, 10 elements that actually produce"agreements for results". Following this by example after example of people who actually made this work. I found this book to not only be worth my time, but such a time saver that I got copies for everyone in th office. I even sent copies out to my family.

From the author of "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill".......2003-04-12

Add this book to your shelf of most important references--like your dictionary and your "Windows for Idiots" guide--and consult it often. Your life, relationships, and career will improve immeasurably.

Stuart Levine's first book "Getting to Resolution" is the best I've read on resolving conflict. I think I know a thing or two about agreements. So I read the review copy of this new book, supplied by his publicist, with mixed emotion. I know and love Stewart, we have the same publisher, I'm thrilled his great second book is out, and he taught me good stuff about resolving conflict (we also shared an excellent glass of Merlot last year in Santa Fe, but that's a story for another day). But, just what can Levine teach this veteran partnering consultant about making and keeping agreements?

A thing or two, it turns out.

Let's start with what's critical to learn if you don't already know it.

Consider Levine's Principle #2, "We work and live in a 'sea' (context) of agreements." Do you realize all relationship behavior is governed by implicit or explicit agreements? Someone can't even push your hot-buttons unless you and they have established by implicit agreement that "those" buttons are indeed hot and that you will explode if they are tweaked in a certain way. And you know "Shhh, don't tell a soul"
implicitly means "keep this to yourself as well as I'm keeping it to myself." Even a chain of command is full of implicit agreements about norms like who can and can't tell whom what to do, who can and can't evaluate another's performance, who can and can't make decisions, etc. If you've worked in one hierarchy, you pretty much can move from organization to organization and quickly grasp the nuances of the culture. Why? Because you understand, experientially, the sea of implicit agreements.

You buy into, if not invent, these implicit agreements, and then live by them whether you like it or not. It's your own doing. So you might then consider Levine's Principle #3, "We never learned the essential elements of an effective agreement." I believe people clamor for control because they lack the learned power of agreement-making. It's much easier to just boss folks around. But it's far more powerful and rewarding to make what Levine calls "agreements for results." That's a lot of what TeamWisdom (a term from my work) is about.

So what do you do? You learn the essential elements of an effective agreement, then put them to use. Repeat. Improve. Repeat. Improve. Levine shows you how.

Just as he did in his first book, Levine gives us the foundation first and the practice second. He starts with the Basic Law of Agreement ("Collaboration is established in language by making implicit and explicit agreements"), then offers ten principles, and then ten elements of effective agreements. Elements include things like roles, time and value, measures of satisfaction, etc. Later in the book, he uses these ten elements to fashion templates and illustrate agreements for different situations (like employment agreements, sales agreements, performance appraisal agreements, feedback agreements, and many more).

The strength of this book is in combining his original concepts with his applications. For instance Levine identifies the difference between agreements for protecting your interests and agreements for results. The first is what you hire lawyers to do in writing contracts; he knows,
Levine practiced law for years. He shows you how to make agreements for results and protect your interests. Levine also provides application after application after application. More than half the book is devoted to templates for agreements for results in organizations, associations, communities, families, cultures, marriages, and more. Be sure to practice the new Levine U MBA -- managing by agreement. You'll also want to read his section on training your lawyer how to make agreements for results.

The Book of Agreement makes a terrific companion to "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility"

It's all about the agreements.......2003-03-31

As a conflict mediator, I have found The Book of Agreement by Stewart Levine to be extremely insightful for me personally and particularly helpful in working with my clients. His book will help us all create effective relationships in our lives. A must read.

The Book of Agreement: An Inspiring Gift!.......2003-03-26

The Book of Agreement is profoundly simple yet extremely useful in its application to many varieties of situations/relationships requiring dependable and reliable solutions toward fullfilling significant goals.
Stewart Levine's capacity to provide a means by which conflicts can be resolved, not only allows the reader the ability to do so for him/herself, but it also provides great insight into understanding (which is a wonderful gift).

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This pioneering work presents planning as a process involved in all human activity. The author demonstrates that the condition and prospects of people depend on it more than any other of their endeavors. The book covers, in clear and plain language, the major considerations to be taken into account in successful planning: its historical roots, development over time, procedural characteristics, context, the various kinds of planning, its different forms under different conditions, its institutionalization, successes and failures, potential contributions. The book emphasizes that there is a core of knowledge concerning means and methods that is fundamental to effective planning, and should be understood by those concerned with any one of its many applications. To the extent this basic knowledge is shared among planners, it promotes a mutually beneficial interchange of information and techniques. Planning is improved in practice and advanced as an intellectual discipline. This book should be of interest to practitioners in the different types of planning engaged in by civil governments, businesses, and the military services. It is academically important, an excellent text or reference for educational purposes. It is also interesting and stimulating to read.

UNIVERSAL PACKAGING SELECTS ADONIX X3 PROCESS ERP.(Company overview): An article from: Productivity Software

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UNIVERSAL PACKAGING SELECTS ADONIX X3 PROCESS ERP.(Company overview): An article from: Productivity Software
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This digital document is an article from Productivity Software, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 578 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A Classic.......2006-01-08

The "Three R's", as we students used to call it, was the standard text on this period of German history throughout the world during the '50s and '70s. I know of no other book that has replaced it.

My only complaint is that it's light on military matters.

German History Par Excellent.......2005-05-23

I did not think I would like this book - but it turned out to be surprisingly excellent. It is an excellent history of the politics and social movements for the period. Anyone one who considers them self to be a student of Prussian or German history should read this book. It is a scholarly work - not a popular history. If you take the time to read it you will learn some things.

RESTORATION, REVOLUTION, AND REACTION: ECONOMICS AND POLITICS IN GERMANY, 1815-1871

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RESTORATION, REVOLUTION, AND REACTION: ECONOMICS AND POLITICS IN GERMANY, 1815-1871
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Restoration, Revolution, Reaction Economics and Politics In Germany, 1815-1871

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RESTORATION, REVOLUTION, REACTION: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871

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Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871.
Theodore S. Hamerow
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In The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, the first full analysis of the origins of American commercial banking since Bray Hammond's monumental study forty-five years ago, Robert E. Wright skillfully examines the political and economic forces that contributed to the origins and rise of banks in cities such as Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, as well as in smaller towns servicing rural America.

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This is it!.......2001-12-22

Finally a book that brings clarity and understanding to the debate on early economic growth by highlighting banks and banking as the major catalyst in the early republic. This is a book that will be enjoyed by everyone – undergraduates and graduates, economists and historians, or just about anyone with an interest in US history or the early republic. I really enjoyed the fresh perspective that the author brings to a field that has been hotly debated by the historical community. (...)

10 Steps to Sales Success: The Proven System That Can Shorten the Selling Cycle, Double Your Close Ratio
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A must read for any level of sales professional.

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Selling is a complex process. In order to succeed, sales professionals need to have not only a healthy self-esteem, but also a precise, proven system to get them confidently through each sales call. In Ten Steps to Sales Success, sales expert Tim Breithaupt both teaches and inspires -- providing a treasure-trove of practical tools and techniques designed to cover the entire selling process from A to Z. The book presents a complete methodology based on the author's "Ten-Step Model of Sequential Selling," comprising:

* Attitudes of Success * Time Management * Prospecting * Building Rapport and Trust * Probing and Listening * Value-Added Solutions * Closing * Creative Negotiation * Action Plans * and Follow-Up.

Perfect for both sales novices and veterans, the book includes humorous illustrations to support key points, and provides numerous "how-to" examples. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to move beyond sales survival to sales excellence.

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A must read for any level of sales professional........1999-05-01

Our company has made this book required reading for all salespeople within the organization. If you're a SR sales person or new to the business Tim's book will be entertaining and helpful. His motivational techniques and situational selling principles will be an asset to any level of sales person.

The Plan of Record: Producing Successful Computer Products Worldwide
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Now knowing what I needed!

The Plan of Record: Producing Successful Computer Products Worldwide
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Learn about PC history, The major players, What happened to the tech industry? ( right or wrong ), What is the Plan of Record (POR)? Does the POR care about me... the customer? Come on... do customers really have input into computer PC design? Its the PORcore feature...and today is working in the global Enterprise Class products and services as well.

Project management takes care of all that stuff right? ...Well

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Now knowing what I needed!.......2004-06-03

The Plan of Record with PORI and CSI is superb in terms of helping me with my customers and running my business, especially with international concerns. I have the Plan of Record shown to all at the corporation, and highly recommned it to businesses local and international as well as customers who want to know that customer loyalty is king!

Going Without Health Insurance: Nearly One in Three Non-Elderly Americans
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This book concerns the most important relationship most people have outside the family: the relationship between an employer and an employee. That relationship is crisscrossed by a complex web of laws and regulations. This book describes those laws in a direct, straightforward fashion.

The Tennessee Employer's Guide provides the "lay of the land" of personnel law and regulations and integrates the state and federal law that is relevant to an employer. Each section of the book attempts to include both the underlying concept and a simple, straightforward rule.

This book is written in small, self-contained sections. The reader does not need to refer to the rest of the chapter, much less the rest of the book, to find information about a topic. Although this method of writing causes some duplication, it more than repays the reader in the efficiency of its use.

The Tennessee Employer's Guide is supplemented at least yearly, and more often if major legislation or court cases require. In order to incorporate updated pages easily, the book is published in a three-ring notebook. The Tennessee Employer's Guide is, and will continue to be, one of the most current employment law books available anywhere in the nation.

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Tough-Minded Management: A Guide for Managers Who Are Too Nice for Their Own Good
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Practical, quick management tips in an accessible format.

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Gareth Gardiner
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Practical, quick management tips in an accessible format........1998-10-14

Although I was initially put off by the sub-title of this book, I am glad I looked further and made the purchase. This was 4 years and many management situations ago! This book is a mainstay in my management arsenal that I frequently recommend.

It is written in a very accessible style -- no high brow management language -- with strategies that reinforce a manager's integrity. The tactics are easy to implement. The results are a strong management style, that respects and supports staff while providing results for senior management. This book helped me in a particularly difficult situation where I "inherited" an underperforming employee from my boss. Although the situation ended in a termination action, I feel I was able to treat this person with respect and dignity.

Since that time, I have found this book to be a great resource for ongoing managment crisis'. Highly recommended, even if you aren't "too nice for your own good!"

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Eat Smart for a Healthy Heart Cookbook

Eat Smart for a Healthy Heart Cookbook
Denton A., M.D. Cooley , and Carolyn E. Moore
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Eat Smart for a Healthy Heart Cookbook.......2002-03-20

I have had this book for many years, but did not actually ever use it until this year, and it is fabulous! The recipes are easy, the ingredients are mutiple use (so you don't buy an ingredient and only use once) and everything tastes fabulous. My husband is very picky about food and he just raves about the items that I have cooked from this book. It really helps to have the combos for meal planning and grocery shopping as well. And the desserts, well, they are outstanding!!

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EAT SMART FOR A HEALTHY HEART COOKBOOK
COOLEY / MOORE
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This is a strictly no-nonsense text for professional futures and options traders. The book presents a framework that emphasizes the probabilistic nature of decision-making for trading and hedging programs. Equally, the text strives to quantify criteria that in many organizations are assessed qualitatively for actual trading situations. It details various analytical approaches by offering applications-oriented techniques. While the book distinguishes between historical results and expected values, it also demonstrates the critical interdependence between the two. Eschewing the simplistic and folksy wisdom of many investment books, A Handbook for Professional Futures and Options Traders is an astute and sophisticated guide for the serious trader.

Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen
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closer than life.

A thorough review of decision making principles

Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen
James G. March
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Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life. March draws on research from all the disciplines of social and behavioral science to show decision making in its broadest context. By emphasizing how decisions are actually made -- as opposed to how they should be made -- he enables those involved in the process to understand it both as observers and as participants.

March sheds new light on the decision-making process by delineating four deep issues that persistently divide students of decision making: Are decisions based on rational choices involving preferences and expected consequences, or on rules that are appropriate to the identity of the decision maker and the situation? Is decision making a consistent, clear process or one characterized by ambiguity and inconsistency? Is decision making significant primarily for its outcomes, or for the individual and social meanings it creates and sustains? And finally, are the outcomes of decision processes attributable solely to the actions of individuals, or to the combined influence of interacting individuals, organizations, and societies? March's observations on how intelligence is -- or is not -- achieved through decision making, and possibilities for enhancing decision intelligence, are also provided.

March explains key concepts of vital importance to students of decision making and decision makers, such as limited rationality, history-dependent rules, and ambiguity, and weaves these ideas into a full depiction of decision making.

He includes a discussion of the modern aspects of several classic issues underlying these concepts, such as the relation between reason and ignorance, intentionality and fate, and meaning and interpretation.

This valuable textbook by one of the seminal figures in the history of organizational decision making will be required reading for a new generation of scholars, managers, and other decision makers.

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closer than life........1999-10-01

a book which should be a part of our daily educatio

A thorough review of decision making principles.......1999-09-06

This well written book presents a comprehensive and unbiased review of decision making concepts. It contrasts methods that select decisions on the basis of the anticipated consequences and rule based methods. It covers the topic of ambiguity quite well. However, I wished it covered more extensively decision making under risk. It is written at a high level and is somewhat difficult to read. However, it provides excellent insights in the decision making process.

A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen

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A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen
James G. / Heath, Chip (CON) March
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Binding: Paperback
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Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen
James G. March
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The Action Learning Guidebook: A Real-Time Strategy for Problem Solving Training Design, and Employee Development (Book & Diskette)
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An invaluable guidebook !

The Action Learning Guidebook: A Real-Time Strategy for Problem Solving Training Design, and Employee Development (Book & Diskette)
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Make training more REAL than ever before!

You've got groups, facilitated by managers or team members, conducting project planning and problem solving. You've got relatively few formal trainers and instructors. In this modern, team-based environment, how can you ensure that groups develop the skills and knowledge they require?

You want training solutions that are problem-oriented, goal-based, and work-related? You need The Action Learning Guidebook. With action learning, no one ever loses sight of the job. The responsibility for learning falls upon the shoulders of the learners, who feel more invested--and interested--in the development process than ever before.

Create their own learning experiences
Plan projects and implement solutions
Discover new problem-solving techniques . . . and much more!

"Two reasons to buy this book, read it from cover to cover, and apply the concepts immediately: (1) Rothwell is one of the best authors in the performance-improvement business; and (2) action learning is one of the most powerful performance-improvement strategies."--Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi; editor, Thiagi GameLetter

"The Action Learning Guidebook is clearly written and the content is excellent. The chapter on partnering with clients to determine real training needs is a gem!"--Dale M. Brethower, professor of psychology, Western Michigan University; president, International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)

Rothwell, a legAnd in instructional design, gives your employees the tips and techniques they need to conduct reality-based action learning sessions. Teach groups to teach themselves!

Customer Reviews:

An invaluable guidebook !.......1999-12-02

"This book", writes W.Rothwell in his Introduction, "is a primer that serves a three-fold purpose. The first purpose is to show how Action Learning can be used as a real-time strategy for problem finding or problem solving. It can be valuable tool by which to tackle business problems and meet business needs. The second purpose is to show how Action Learning can be applied to training design. It is intended to stimulate the thinking of instructional designers about a new way to analyze needs, design and develop training, deliver training, and evaluate results. The third purpose is to show how Action Learning can be maximized to build intellectual capital and enhance human talent. In this sense, the book shows how team or group work can be become a means for developing people in its own right."

In this context, W.Rothwell :

* defines Action Learning, lists barriers that may prevent its application, and introduces a model of the Action Learning process.

* reviews occasions when applying Action Learning is and is not appropriate.

* focuses on who decides when Action Learning is appropriate, how decision makers recognize situations suitable for the use of Action Learning, and when a problem or improvement opportunity should be handed over to an Action Learning team.

* focuses on issues associated with recruiting, selecting, and orienting members of an Action Learning team.

* examines the team facilitator's role.

* focuses on the application of Action Learning as a means for identifying and solving problems or addressing other organizational issues.

* describes the application of Action Learning to training design.

* explains advantages and disadvantages of using an Action Learning team to design training.

* focuses on evaluating Action Learning efforts and on debriefing Action Learning teams and individuals who participated on those teams.

I highly recommend this invaluable study to all line managers, trainers and HR professionals.

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The Action Learning Guidebook - A Real-Time Strategy for Problem Solving, Training Design & Employee Development D3
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Rothwell
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In this warm adventure of the mind and soul, Bach approaches eternal questions. It is a diary that combines childhood memories and reflections about how to search for meaning in life.

Blurb in Spanish:
"Si hoy el niño que alguna vez fuimos nos preguntara qué es lo más importante que hemos aprendido a lo largo de nuestras vida, ¿qué le responderíamos?"

En esta tierna aventura de la mente y el corazón, Richard Bach aborda asombrosas ideas acerca de preguntas milenarias como: ¿quiénes somos? ¿Qué queremos hacer con nuestra vida y por qué no lo estamos haciendo? ¿Es indispensable que seamos víctimas de las circunstancias, y no sus amos? ¿Cómo aprender a amar?

"Alas para vivir" es una suerte de diario en el que se combinan recuerdos de infancia y pensamientos sobre cómo encontrar un sentido a la vida?

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