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Shows educators and administrators how they can fill their classrooms with students who are eager for success and motivated to learn. The learner-centered approach focuses on designing instruction that is sensitive to the individual students needs, abilities, and interests rather than rigidly tied to the subject matter.

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A must read book for elementary school teachers.......2000-11-13

For teacher's planning a learner-center lesson plan this book is a great guide. For my group of students, the strategies were very effective. This book also points out many reasons for a learner-centered classroom. The points are useful as well as practical. There are several examples also that will get you charged up, you will want to implement them in your own classroom as soon as possible.

The Learner-Centered Classroom and School: Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Achievement (Jossey Bass Education Series)

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The Learner-Centered Classroom and School: Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Achievement (Jossey Bass Education Series)
Barbara L. McCombs; Jo Sue Whisler
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QYBASQ

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Disappointing

Body Language in Negotiations and Sales

Body Language in Negotiations and Sales

Body Language in Negotiations & Sales

Body Language in Negotiations and Sales
Jacqueline A. Rankin
Manufacturer: Rankin File
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Communications | Skills | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Negotiating | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1887711007

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If you have ever attempted to persuade someone to a belief, or tried to sell an item, Body Language in Negotiations and Sales is for you.

Every nonverbal aspect of a negotiation is revealed, from the actual setting, the negotiator, the ten major channels of Body Language to study constantly during the negotiation, the client himself, the agenda of the actual negotiation, to the closure. (Incidentally, never close.)

The book is not only a reference manual but a workbook as well with questions and explanations.If your life depends on your skills as a negotiator or seller, you will use this book constantly.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2001-07-02

Could be me, could be the book, but I didn't find much here of use. I like jumping right in when reading technical stuff and the first chapter which is really just a hard sell for the book itself immediately put me on the wrong track. Apart from that, lots of stuff Rankin says is saying the obvious and the connection with negotiations is strained to say the least. I also find lots of the theory dubious. For example, just because 65% of communication is non-verbal (what communication? - chatting? news at 9? parent child? etc), it does not follow that, a) 65% is non-verbal in negotiations, and b) that even if it is, it makes a 65% difference in negotiation outcome. This needs to be demonstrated. Ranking also seems to be confusing sales with negotiations by talking confusedly about `sales negotiation' throughout, now switching to sales mode, now to negotiation mode. Finally, for a book published in 2000, one can really expect the author to be aware that the win/win, win/lose idea of negotiations is dated to say the least. Anyway, as I said, it could me, it could be the book. Positive point - lots of nice quotes from various famous people speckled all over.

Body Language in Negotiations and Sales.......2001-02-23

An excellent source and a must read for salesmen. Highly recommended!!

Body Language in Negotiations and Sales.......2001-02-23

An excellent source and a must read for salesmen. Highly recommended!!

Body Language in Negotiations & Sales.......2001-02-17

This is definitely a good read for anyone who has just got into sales and also an eye-opener for those who already are.

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Managing for Short term fell short...

Right On The Money

Book far better than the title

Like talking directly to the C-Suite

A Great Practical Guide For Success In Business

Managing for the Short Term: The New Rules for Running a Business in a Day-to-Day World
Chuck Martin
Manufacturer: Currency
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Management | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Systems & Planning | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0385504357
Release Date: 2002-05-21

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As managers, senior executives, and CEOs all over have painfully discovered, if you don’t manage for the short term, you won’t be around for the long term. Bestselling business author Chuck Martin found that nothing consumes business managers more than how to manage a company in the weeks and months immediately ahead.
As founder of NFI Research, an executive think tank made up of some 3,000 high-level executives at over 1,400 companies, Chuck Martin has interviewed and gathered the results of thousands of management specialists the world over to discover how companies are successfully zeroing in on improving short-term performance, while still balancing these efforts with long-term strategic goals. By looking to managers and executives at companies like IBM, SAP, Deloitte & Touche, Kraft, AT&T, Dow Chemical, and hundreds of others, Martin has uncovered the “best practices” that help propel short-term performance. Among them:

•Bridging the enormous disconnect between management’s strategic goals and the ability of front-line managers and employees to implement these goals

•Moving even the biggest projects forward incrementally, delivering tangible results at each step along the way

•Putting together time-based and events-based teams that can focus specifically on essential short-term decisions and goals

•Creating incentives to reward short-term results

What Chuck Martin has found is that companies that adopt practices designed to achieve short-term results are usually better positioned to achieve their long-term strategies as well.

A critically important management book that addresses one of the overriding concerns of businesses today, Managing for the Short Term is an essential addition to any manager’s toolkit.

"Managing for the short term is not simply about moving faster. It is about moving smarter. It is about effective implementation and operation within the context of mission and vision. Strategy is implemented through a series of small steps and rapid, short-term decisions within that long-term view. It forces managers to become more effective at achieving the measurable results required by today's climate."
From Managing For the Short Term

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Managing for Short term fell short..........2006-01-01

Topic is a worthy one yet I struggled mightily in getting through this book and it disappointed me. It vacillates at 40,000 feet and above and then comes to ground level and back up again. Tough to get a rhythm. I was looking for more concrete action steps on managing for the short term and after completing this book I was "wanting" for much more.

Right On The Money.......2002-11-20

This guy has obviously been there and done what he's talking about. Which is a refreshing change to so many books written by authors who can write but don't do it. (Like being a marriage consellor without having ever actually been married - if you get my drift) Chuck Martin has experinced what it's like out there, managing in the current marketplace and what must be done to succeed. Read it and follow. You might get accused of having an attidude problem by your less action oriented colleagues as you cut though the clutter and focus on results - but who wants to hang out with those guys anyway. They're part of a bygone era of corporate politics.

Book far better than the title.......2002-06-21

I almost didn't read this book because of the title, but being a big fan of Martin's previous books, I gave it a try anyway. Good move, as it turns out. The title can be deceiving because the book is REALLY about tying the short and the long term together. It shows how to make what sometimes seem to some of us like meaningless day-to-day activities at the office fit within an organization's strategy.

It really brings home for me the major disconnect inside organizations, from what executives pronounce vs. what managers hear. It shows how to close those gaps by getting execs to spend more time inside the company, with the managers!

You can't get more practical than this. There must be a hundred managers quoted about how they run their departments and their companies (as well as themselves).

It's great to get a book that rather than being filled with ponderous theories, is filled with practical insight from executives and managers on the front lines - these are the guys who are really doing it and makes it a great read.

Like talking directly to the C-Suite.......2002-06-16

I once had the pleasure of being seated next to one of the nation's best known pollsters on a long flight. It was a wonderful conversation, like talking to "America." Reading Chuck Martin's new book is like that too. He has surveyed and visited with so many senior executives while researching this book, and presents the results with a killer reporter's writing skills. You feel like you are talking directly to the global C-suite, getting their very personal perspectives on managing for the short term.

The outcome is a book that is perceptive and practical, and completely real-world. I found the communications chapters alone worth the price of the book. The same could be said about the section on self-management, and other sections as well.

What is this book really all about? You'll know when you get to Martin's Law of Expanding Immediacy. If you're feeling busier today than you were yesterday, this is why.

A Great Practical Guide For Success In Business.......2002-06-15

Chuck Martin's book is a "must read" for experienced managers
as well as those who have just gotten their first managerial
position. This book truly lives up to its title and presents
a very cohesive set of guidelines for achieving long term
goals and success by focusing on the "short term" .. The formula
and recipe for leadership and winning in business presented by the author is well documented. Creativity is exhibited throughout. I strongly recommend that anyone in a large or small
organization who wants to make a difference read this book and
that's why I have given it the highest rating 5 stars! Buy
your copy today and change your business success patern
exponentially!!!

Managing for the Short Term: The New Rules for Running a Business in a Day-to-Day World

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Managing for the Short Term: The New Rules for Running a Business in a Day-to-Day World

Manufacturer: Diane Pub.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0756767547

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Martin has found that nothing consumes bus. managers more than how to manage a co. in the weeks & months immediately ahead. If you don't manage for the short term, you won't be around for the long term. As founder of the Net Future Inst., an exec. think tank made up of some 3,000 high-level exec. at over 1,400 co's., Martin has interviewed & gathered the insights of thousands of mgmt. specialists to discover how co's. are successfully zeroing in on improving short-term performance, while still balancing these efforts with long-term strategic goals. By looking to managers & exec. at co's. like IBM, Deloitte & Touche, Kraft, AT&T, & Dow Chemical, Martin has uncovered the "best practices" that help propel short-term performance

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Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism has received little serious attention from historians and other scholars.

This welcome volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date. The first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the present, and the first to propose theoretical frameworks, the volume brings consumer society to the center of American history. Indeed, its authors demonstrate the many ways their research enhances knowledge of a broad range of historical topics, such as politics, labor ideology, immigrant life, and race, gender, and class relations. By including types of consumer studies which are seldom linked, this volume offers both a basis for historical synthesis and a springboard for further inquiry.

With contributions by Raymond Williams, Jean Baudrillard, Juliet B. Schor, Kim Moody, Jean-Christophe Agnew, and many others, plus the most comprehensive bibliographical essay ever produced on the historiography of American consumption, Consumer Society in American History will take its place as the definitive sourcebook for this emerging field.

Contributors Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles James Axtell, College of William and Mary Jean Baudrillard, Paris Wendell Berry, Kentucky T. H. Breen, Northwestern University Colin Campbell, University of York Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University Alan Durning, Northwest Environment Watch, Seattle John Elkington, London James Fallows, Washington, D.C. Lawrence B. Glickman, University of South Carolina Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College, Hartford Julia Hailes, London Andrew Heinze, University of San Francisco Joel Makower, Washington, D.C. Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota Kim Moody, Detroit, MI H. F. Moorhouse, University of Glasgow George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California Juliet B. Schor, Harvard University Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego Mark A. Swiencicki, University of Connecticut Steven Waldman, Washington, D.C. Robert E. Weems, Jr., University of Missouri, Columbia Raymond Williams (19211988), Cambridge University

Customer Reviews:

Uh, ok. Sure........2003-08-11

I think "a California reader" should just go back to reading Hustler and leave the design books to the "idiots".

A BOOK FOR IDIOTS!.......2001-05-02

What a terrible disappoinment it was to read this book. The secrets of sex as a tool in advertising and design are talked about in this so-called exploration of erotic and exotic media. The want to be interviews with what they call leading figures in mainstream marketing tries to focus on sex and innuendo, but from a very bad point of view. They bring in pornography of Calvin Klein ads, graphic and advertising design from music, art, film, packaging, and publishing. SO WHAT! What are they really trying to get across, only an idiot will know. I thought this book was stupid, shallow and totally senseless. I DO NOT recommend it to anyone.

When Sex Sells It Sells Very Well!.......2000-09-02

Heller has done a superb job exploring the emergence of super-sexy figures and the ultra-erotic images used in modern advertising.

The average grocery store-sold magazine of today has more sex in it than any male magazine sold during the 1960s or 1970s. Why? Because people love sex and they love sexual images.

The allure or sexual advertising has become a fixture in the weaving of personal and societal fantasy. And this is one of the reasons why sex is such an effective selling and marketing tool. Heller illuminates the forces behind the drive and explores the mystery behind why sex sells so well.

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This modern, applied introduction to the most useful quantitative tools in business emphasizes optimization, simulation and decision analysis. The text introduces real, practical applications in finance, management, and marketing throughout and covers the entire modeling process with the use of spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel instructions are included in each chapter. Hundreds of real problems and case studies are used throughout the text and provide students with valuable exposure to the power of analytical modeling.

Customer Reviews:

Very Satisfied.......2007-10-01

I was very happy with my purchase. The book was in perfect condition, shipped quickly, and cost much less than my university's bookstore.

Do not use!.......2006-08-21

It is full of errors. The explanations are difficult to follow. There are few highlights in the text which makes scanning for a quick review impossible. There is no chapter summary. The book presumes a thourough knowledge of Excel which many students do not have. Stay away!

Not as described.......2006-05-09

Previous reviews inspired me for the purchase. This book is NOT MBA material. I would rate it at Business 101 book. Most spreadsheet models are basically the same using the SOLVER function in excel. There are better tutorials online.

Management Science made understandable.......2006-03-10

By incorporating Microsoft Excel spreadsheet examples of the problems, the authors have managed to make self-study management science possible. I'm absolutely convinced this is the best way to learn MS.
Anyone that has responsibility for making business decisions should keep a copy of this text nearby.

Good book but focus is more on how to get to answer fast than process.......2005-12-19

Used this book in B-school and loved modeling using @Risk (@Risk is the modelling software that comes with the book - pretty much self intuitive). My only complain with this book is that it was very focused on getting to the answer fast than really exaplaining the process and modeling techniques. After doing few examples you start to develop the intuition ... but I feel that the author could have done a better work in explaing the process behing modeling.

Casual Mapping for Research in Information Technology

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Casual Mapping for Research in Information Technology

Manufacturer: IGI Global
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Decision-Making & Problem Solving | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Programming | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

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Modeling & Simulation | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1591403979

Book Description

Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology provides an introduction to causal mapping for IS researchers and practitioners and goes further to provide IS researchers and practitioners everything they need to use causal mapping for both research and application.

Decision Technology: Modeling, Software, and Applications

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Table of Contents

Decision Technology: Modeling, Software, and Applications
Matthew Liberatore , and Robert Nydick
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0471417122

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Appropriate for a one semester Soph/Jr/Sr/MBA level course in Management Science, Quantitative Methods for Business, or Operations Research. Appropriate for courses/approaches where professors want to use full-strength, specific commercial software. The authors use spreadsheets for simple modeling of each concept, but then move quickly into Lingo, Expert Choice, and Extend.

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Table of Contents.......2006-12-23

The "Search inside this book" feature was not available when this review was posted. For me it was a nice surprise to see the Analytic Hierarchy Process featured in this book, since it is not included in the vast majority of Management Science/Decision Making books I have read. See whether the topics below are what you are looking for.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction.
PART ONE: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING.
2. Introduction to Mathematical Programming.
3. Mathematical Programming Sensitivity Analysis.
4. Mathematical Programming Using the LINGO Modeling Language.
5. Transportation and Distribution Planning Using the LINGO Modeling Language.
6. Scheduling, Finance, and Marketing Applications Using the LINGO Modeling Language.
7. Transportation and Distribution Planning Using LINGO's Standard Algebraic Approach.
8. Scheduling, Finance, and Marketing Applications Using LINGO's Standard Algebraic Approach.
PART TWO: DECISION MAKING AND THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS.
9. Introduction to Decision Making.
10. The Analytic Hierarchy Process Using Expert Choice.
11. Extensions of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Using Expert Choice.
PART THREE: COMPUTER SIMULATION.
12. Introduction to Computer Simulation.
13. Introduction to Process Simulation Using Extend.
14. Process Simulation Extensions Using Extend.
15. Process Redesign Using Extend.
16. Financial Simulation Using Extend.
PART FOUR: PROJECT ANALYSIS.
17. Project Scheduling Using Microsoft Project 2000.
18. Project Resource and Cost Analysis Using Microsoft Project 2000.
Appendix A: Statistical Concepts.
Appendix B: A Summary Description of All Extend Blocks Used.

Note - Make sure you are interested in LINGO, Expert Choice, and Extend before you buy this book. The author spends a lot of time on those topics.

Enterprise and parametric modeling: decision support for strategic planning of corporate real estate. : An article from: Real Estate Issues

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Enterprise and parametric modeling: decision support for strategic planning of corporate real estate. : An article from: Real Estate Issues
Charles A. Shapiro
Manufacturer: The Counselors of Real Estate
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Issues, published by The Counselors of Real Estate on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 3429 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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Title: Enterprise and parametric modeling: decision support for strategic planning of corporate real estate.
Author: Charles A. Shapiro
Publication: Real Estate Issues (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: The Counselors of Real Estate
Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Page: 15(9)

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Privacy basics contain an overview of the privacy rule, TPO uses and diclosures, the notice of privacy practices, minimum necessary disclosure, and reasonable safeguards.

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