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Strategic planning can help you be a truly effective principal. Get off on the right foot in July and set your course for a successful school year with this month-by-month planning tool developed by veteran administrators. Developed for both new and experienced principals, this book lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help you plan strategically for the academic year.

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Effective Negotiations

A "must" for serious-minded job seekers

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Surprisingly useful book amongst morass of career aides

Win-Win Career Negotiations: Proven Strategies for Getting What You Want from Your Employer
Peter J. Goodman
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Description: Win-Win Career Negotiations is a comprehensive—yet practical—guide to negotiating your employment agreement or offer letter. Learn the strategies that work, time after time.

Win-Win Career Negotiations shows you how to:

- Apply proven negotiations tactics (from the best-selling book, Getting to YES) to all aspects of the hiring and career development process.

- Navigate your way through the negotiation maze, including the initial interview, salary, stock options, bonus, benefits, relocation, severance, annual reviews and everyday on-the-job negotiations with co-workers.

- Learn negotiating strategies through the real-life experiences of successful executives in leading corporations.

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Effective Negotiations.......2006-12-21

There are many books out there on negotiating that are quite good and useful on the general topic of effective negotiation, but "Win-Win Negotiations: Proven Strategies for Getting What You Want from Your Employer" is unique in its focus on career negotiation. This is useful for those that need to focus their skills on this area without being distracted by other unrelated issues. This enabled the author to go into detail on this important subject area on negotiating employment by covering such issues as stock options, benefits, relocations, salary reviews, termination of employment, etc.

The author illustrates his arguments, proposals and solutions with practical examples which make the book very useful to the reader. His writing style is easy to follow and understand so that any reader with a basic understanding of English can easily follow.

Among the aspects that I liked about the book include the author's detailed analysis and discussion of a sample employment agreement. He also provides advice on effective negotiation through active listening, communicating effectively and the need for emotional stability.

Based on expert knowledge on the subject and true business wisdom, the author produced an excellent book for anyone who wants or needs to undertake employment negotiations like a proven winner.

A "must" for serious-minded job seekers.......2002-05-11

Peter Goodman's Win Win Career Negotiations: All You Need To Know About Negotiating Your Employment Agreement is a dynamic and extremely practical guide to understanding and applying useful negotiation tactics when seeking employment regardless of the size or nature of the business or corporation being approached. Individual chapters address basic negotiation skills, interviews, settling issues about salary, stock options, benefits, severance packages, annual reviews and more. Offering the real-life experiences of successful executives as positive examples, Win Win Career Negotiations is a "must" for serious-minded job seekers determined to get the most out of their career opportunities!

This Book is Amazing!.......2001-11-25

I loved this book! I found it to be an incredibly useful resource for anyone involved in the employment negotiation process. I was particularly impressed with the format of Win-Win Career Negotiations. The book starts with a primer on the negotiation process that was instructive and fascinating. Win-Win then walks you through the nuances of negotiating an employment agreement. The final section includes perspectives from real-world negotiators.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

Surprisingly useful book amongst morass of career aides.......2001-11-25

I was happily surprised by this book. Often I will pick up a book and browse through it in the Business Books section of a store, and chuckle at how simple and useless the advice can be. However, Goodman has some very useful examples and tips. Of course, a lot of it is common sense, but for many people, this book will really get the juices flowing. In fact, a lot of books focus on getting a job, but Goodman has selected a very good segment to focus on: once you get a job, how do you negotiate the best possible compensation? The author gets a great concept across: that everything should be part of the negotiation, and think creatively in doing so. This book will help me when I re-negotiate my present contract, no doubt about it. I also found the case studies with real (and notable people) very effective edification of the principles he espouses.

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Peter J. Goodman
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This easy-to-use book gives future managers, engineers, technologists and technicians both the tools and know-how to guide an organization to world-class quality and competitiveness. Straightforward in approach, it helps readers understand both the “big picture” behind Total Quality Management as well as its individual elements, and readily applies theories and principles to the real world today. Organized into two part: quality management's philosophy and concepts; and tools and techniques. Examines global integration and Asian economic trends; the future of quality management; revolutionary thinking in strategic planning; beliefs vs. behavior and why they are often different; global partnering and education/business partnerships; value perception and customer loyalty; problem-solving in a total-quality setting, and much more. For anyone interested in learning more about quality management.

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Quality Management: Introduction to Total Quality Management for Production, Processing, and Services (4th Edition).......2005-09-20

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Highly recommended -- excellent training resource.......2000-04-18

Excellent text book and reference material for anyone in manufacturing. Straight forward, useful implementation roadmap.

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Practical Guidebook for serious TQM implementor.......1998-03-01

The second edition of this book is very readable. It includes a chapter on Internal Politics which is hardly mentioned in other books and yet embeded in every organizations. Thank you David and Stanley

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Since the 1970s, Robert Barro's academic research has significantly influenced macroeconomic theory. For more than a decade, his writing has also enlivened the pages of publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In Nothing Is Sacred, Barro applies his well-honed free market arguments to a remarkably diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug legalization, the economics of beauty, and the relationship between abortion rights and crime reduction.

The book opens with a series of essays on famous economists, past and present, and other prominent figures whose work has economic implications, including Joe DiMaggio and Bono. In the book's second part, Barro discusses the economics of social issues. In the third part, he considers democracy, growth, and international policy, and in the final part he examines fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the macroeconomy. Throughout, he shows that even the most widely held beliefs are not sacred truths but are open to analysis.

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social gossip and poorly integrated.......2006-01-22

Vanity, Napoleon said, caused the French Revolution. Vanity also prompted Barro to write this small book. Its self-absorbed nature monopolizes the first 70 pages of 168 though those of us who love gossip and insights into the discussions and habits of those influencing economic policy will find exposure of Gary Becker's tennis playing and Robert Lucas' addiction to smoking and sharing of his Nobel prize with his wife intriguing. Barro exposes a lot of personal anecdotes with these and others like Friedman, Galbraith, Mundell and Stigler.

The subtitle is "Economic Ideas for the New Millennium" and the question immediately arises how such personal anecdotes presented in a haphazard and disjointed way can serve or are even remotely connected to serving as economic ideas for this century, not to speak at all of an arrogant and unscholarly time span a "millennium". They serve to satisfy high-faluting gossip but not economic policy formulation.
Once he does enter serious economic discussion of various nations, he continues the disjointed and poorly integrated analysis. His observations range from Africa, Latin America to the problems of German unification and then finally zero in on fiscal and monetary issues of the U.S. But even then, he commits serious conceptual errors when he cites a study correlating the Presidents with the performance of the economy. As all famous scholars have done so far, he, too, anthropomorphizes the economy into the Presidents, forgetting in the process that the Presidents merely propose but Congress disposes. Congress can accept, reject, modify and initiate economic policy and, therefore, whatever impacts on the economy comes from Congress and not the Presidents and, for this reason, should be termed "Congressnomics" rather than the widespread use of meaningless terms such as Nixonomics, Reaganomics, Clintonomics, etc. though Barro does not use them. To anthropomorphize the economy is to succumb to a primitive form of atavistic pseudoanalysis.

In spite of this, Barro has some original observations and suggestions. He belongs to the conservative elements of Friedman, Becker, Lucas, et al. but, as is the case with almost all of our more prominent economists, he misses the single most important element in contemporary economic analysis of the U.S. and that is the continuing impoverization of the masses of the U.S. in spite of a growing GDP. This is due to the fact that the GDP measures only 40 percent of what transpires in the economy and this wealth is primarily benefiting bureaucracies which have for decades massively accumulated wealth and shifted it from benefiting families and individuals to themselves, be they political, military, educational, medical, etc. bureaucracies.

Barro also missed the massive institutionalized theft on Wall Street that took hundreds of billions of dollars from millions of Americans---amazing how economists cannot grasp this enormous and unparalleled economic fact that is one of several elements denying Americans a living standard commensurate with vast resources. It is as if scholars like Barro never examine and compare the run down squalor of thousands of towns and cities in the U.S. and the ever increasing number of gated and securitized communities into which the wealthy retreat (while making money from products that do not necessarily benefit that much the masses) in a strong vote of no confidence in the overall economic development while most towns and cities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, etc. are noticeably wealthier and more attractive with substantially well-maintained infrastructures while ours are in the advanced stages of decay and strongly resembling much less developed economies.

Barro, like all major economists, also misses the enormous collectivism-socialism in the presumed capitalistic private sector of the U.S. economy which ranges from the dreary collectivism of chain motels, chain fast food, chain stores, etc. to "free" medical services and the collectivism-socialism inherent in mandatory insurance. This private sector collectivism-socialism is not nearly as extensive in the EU economies and thus we have the never admitted fact that those economies, in spite of public sector collectivism-socialism, are actually far less collectivistic-socialistic than ours and this also shows up in the fact that they channel vast resources into maintaining beautiful homes in sharp contrast to the ever growing squalor of America's giant tragedy of trailer homes, hovels, shacks and other forms of slums and the general run-down state of human habitation from coast to coast. So, back to the drawing board for Barro.

Well-Written, interesting, but also a bit narcissistic.......2004-08-29

Barro writes well, Barro has a lot of interesting things to say, but before you get to the interesting part, which consists of Barro's enlightened and reasonable views on various economic topics, you must hack through the self-serving, and in some cases embarrassingly self-serving, first third of the book.

In the first third of the book, Barro shares his personal experiences with several eminent economists, along with a couple of not-so-eminent economists, such as Bono and Joe DiMaggio. We learn, for example, that no one except Bob Lucas is allowed to smoke in Barro's university office. And we learn that Lucas' ex-wife was able to collect half his Nobel winnings.

Interesting, perhaps, but not welcome in a book sub-titled "Economic Ideas for the New Millennium", especially when such 'insights' take up many, many pages of the book.

Some of Lucas' stories unintentionally (I think!) characterize their subjects as selfish and conceited. In another story about Bob Lucas, we learn that the famed economist had promised to speak at one of Barro's seminars but then called him the night before to say he couldn't make it because all of the smoking seats in the coach section of the plane were taken. Lucas agreed to come only when Barro gave him more money to ride first-class. It's ironic that Lucas was quoted earlier in the book as saying "a deal's a deal" - unless it's not, I guess.

Consider all these stories and reminiscences in the first third of the book as your rite of passage to the far superior remainder of the book, where Barro writes about various social and fiscal issues through the lens of his free-market economic theory. These 100 or so pages somewhat make up for the vapidness of the previous 70 pages.

I'm glad I bought the book and read it, but it's really not worth the cover price for just 100 pages of good stuff.

Worth enduring the smoke. (Book Reviews).(Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium)(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Finance & Development

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Worth enduring the smoke. (Book Reviews).(Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium)(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Finance & Development
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Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices. He demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system. Index.

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AIMED AT MONETARY ECONOMISTS, NOT A GENERALIST BOOK.......2005-02-09

Many of Milton Friedman's previous books, especially "Free to Choose" are aimed at a popular audience, supporting the cause for freedom in many different aspects of society. With it, this book shares the brilliance and throughness of thought employed by Friedman, perhaps the most well known (if not the best) economist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.

In "Money Mischief" Friedman enters the realm of monetary economics, briefly telling a history of the different systems that have been employed through history for value conservation. Aside from perhpas the first 100 pages, the rest of the book relies on some notion of monetary economics and international trade and finance. Most of the book is devoted to the study of the old metallic or bimetallic standards and the early days of the fiat money system (the one most used today). An experienced economist will recognize the brilliance of the arguments linkings seemingly unrelated events such as the US elections in 1892 and the fall of the Chiang Kai-shek government in China (believe me, Friedman convinced me they were directly linked).

For a non-economist, the first one hundred pages may tell a brief history of money, so if that is your interest, stop there. Experienced economists will definitely enjoy the suddle linkages of events, such as deflations and the California gold rush and the development of the cyanide process for extracting gold. The book is aimed at a more knowledgeable crowd; with such an aim, it achieves its objective brilliantly.

The Power of Monetary Thinking.......2004-03-11

In his best selling study, Robert L. Heilbroner calls Economists 'The worldly philosophers'. That description certainly captures what Milton Friedman does in this book - he takes the seemingly simple concept of money, the unit of exchange we use daily and rarely reflect upon, and demonstrates how complicated the issues regarding it are.

(As an interesting aside, Heilbroner's original title for his book was 'the money philosophers' - a definition that fits Friedman in this book even better then his chosen title, even if it is too narrow to account for all of economics).

More then half of this collection of essays is about the so-called 'Crime of 1873' - America's decision, following the issuance of fiat money (that is, money irredeemable in specie) during the Civil War, to peg the dollar not to both silver and gold, but to gold alone. This seemingly arcane and academic topic was a major political issue in the 1880s and 90s, climaxing with the nomination of the silver Democrat, William Jennings Bryan to the presidency of the United States in 1896.

As the Unites States, along with most other 19th century nations such as Germany and France, followed Great Britain in adopting the gold standard, the price of gold rose in terms of other resources, so prices went down. Therefore there was a severe deflation causing much unrest and discontent.

The cure to the deflation came not through political or monetary means, however, but because of an invention of a method to extract gold from low grade ore. This increased the supply of gold, lowered its prices. Hence stopping the deflation, and killing the presidential ambitions of William Jennings Bryan.

The rest of the book describes various issues, from FDR's decision to 'help silver' which helped Communism in China instead (by increasing the cost of silver, overvaluing the Chinese currency and thus hurting Chinese exports and undermining the Chinese economy), to the policy of pegging a currency to the dollar (not a good idea as it subjects the country to the whims of the world economy. The policy was a grave failure to Chile and a great success to Israel, due entirely to external changes in the value of the dollar).

The theme of the later parts of the book is undoubtedly inflation. Friedman demonstrates his claim that inflation is "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" (p.104). Inflation is caused by government increasing the money supply, although one time price increases may be caused by unfortunate outside events (like Arabs reduction of the exportation of oil in the early 1979s).

Although Friedman is well known as an economic right winger, there is nothing in this account that should be displeasing to anyone from the left - Friedman's case is against mismanagement, not for small or big governments. Nor is there any argument about whether government spending should go to the military, to welfare, or to any other cause. Although Friedman's book is filled with stories of the political economy, its moral is politically neutral. Indeed, Friedman clearly discusses how inflation is often used by governments because direct taxation is unpopular (p.205) - can you say "read my lips, no new taxes"?

Furthermore, the economic analysis of some reviewers in Amazon is shaky. Friedman writes "all these adjustments [the negative effects of inflation] are set in motion by changes in the rates of monetary growth and inflation. If monetary growth was high but steady... the economy would adjust to it. ... Such an inflation would do no great harm " (p.222).

Although Friedman does not like inflation, he actually makes a case for it, at least at a low single digit level. Since people are usually sellers of few things and purchasers of many, they are more aware of the increase in the price of the commodity they sell then they are of the increase of general prices, especially when those changes are low. People like to see their income go up, as they feel it is a just reward for their efforts (p. 70).

'Money Mischief' is an interesting, challenging book. Its chapters vary from the extremely technical and difficult, (notably chapter 4, a counter-factual exercise estimating the effect of continuing bimetallism after 1873), to 'pop economics' chapters which are no less enlightening and easier to read.

The book ends with a discussion of the new experiment started in the 1970s - currency which is entirely unredeemable by any kind of good. Earlier economists thought that this was impossible, and would necessarily lead to high inflation, but Friedman is optimistic - he believes that aware and well informed public and decision makers can pressure the government against unduly increasing the money supply. Thus, widespread understanding of economics is the real cure for inflation.

A great introdcution to the importance of monetary policy.......2002-12-09

I must confess of my unbounded admiration for Milton Friedman. He has contributed so much to our understanding of the effects of monetary policy and has been such a tireless advocate for freedom that I must admit I am not impartial in any way, so readers beware.

This book examines 10 different episodes in world history in which seemingly trivial policy choices towards money had profound, unexpected, and unforeseen consequences (usually very bad). They make enjoyable reading and are most educational.

The discussions are not all that technical and, to me, sparkle with wit and insight. This book can serve as a great introduction to how gold and silver money was abused, the effect that minting rights can have, how technology changes in mining precious metals caused a crisis of devaluation, what the heck bimetallism is and what the issues around it were (are), and most important, the risks of the kind of money we have (fiat money - because it is not tied explicitly to some kind of commodity and is therefore at the risk of somebody running the printing press too much). This is all great stuff. Enjoy!

There are several useful graphs and tables. Also, a reference list in the back can act as a bibliography for further reading.

Friedmanýs Case Against the Government Is Crystal Clear.......2002-06-13

Imagine a grand winning case that is laid before the Supreme Court to change the course of modern life around the world. Friedman starts at the very beginnings of money and traces its evolution in copious detail. As proceedings finally reach the summation which is the final chapter: "Monetary Policy in a Fiat World." I see the court in a unanimous wonderment over the masterful job that has been done by Friedman. Well, the court required is public opinion--- a bit more cumbersome.

In any nation at any point in modern history, inflation comes from only one source the national government, not by some physical event, war or deficit spending. He details how the cause of inflation is growing the money supply faster than the output of goods and services. In his fabulous review of money he chronicles the centuries of price stability that came to an end with the creation of paper money. This fiat money is not backed by a precious metal and it has spread becoming the only remaining currency in the world. He does not argue for the return to a precious metal standard as some have misrepresented.

He provides details in country after country of how governments hallucinate that the citizens will not blame the government. Inflation directly benefits the government at the expense of the citizens. In addition to the impact on your liquid assets, the government debt is paid back or refinanced with far less valuable inflated dollars. He shows how tax cuts only giving back the tax increases that come from bracket creep in an inflationary environment. Finally. People and the financial markets quickly learn that interest rates have to compensate for inflation plus a real above inflation.

In current times this means government ten year bond rates of six to eight percent or more. The last ten years was the most ideal time in a century to control inflation. However, inflation was still three to five percent per year. The only logical assumption is that in the next ten years inflation is more likely to be near five percent or more. The historical real return required on government bonds is viewed as about three percent hence the total yield of six to eight percent. Currently, it is slightly below the range. Home mortgages will tend to be a couple percent higher than the government bond. In the simplest terms, had the Federal Reserve controlled inflation to zero, mortgage rates would be half what they are today. Since Greenspan went into the job committed to zero inflation like no other Fed Chairman, there will be no realistic basis for trusting in any potential Federal Reserve policy to eliminate inflation. It would take many years of proof before bond markets would believe any such policy. Because of money mischief we are stuck with high interest rates for a very long time. Thanks to our Federal Government and no one else. The blame could not be more clear.

Many governments have fallen including democracies over the matter of inflation. As USA citizens learn about inflation, it follows that political views will change. One of Friedman's most valuable contributions is the mathematical proof and imperial evidence collection that a little inflation does not help reduce unemployment. It worsens employment. Specifically, while 3% inflation is a smaller crime against the people than 10% inflation, it is still a crime with no redeeming virtue. This is not a matter of theory or political philosophy. Thanks largely to Friedman, the proof is in and the public debate should draw to a close.

The crowning moment of the book is when he details the observations that fiat money as a global money system is only a few decades old and it remains to be seen if governments can be harnessed by citizens to stop inflation. Friedman causes us to appreciate that there is only one place to draw the line. That is at zero inflation. The wreckage of inflation is not just in the aggregate economy, the low income and the retired. The mismanagement of money in the case of the USA by the Federal Reserve eventually reeks havoc in the securities markets. While Friedman is the Federal Reserves most articulate and worthy critic, his goal is to strengthen the spine of the Federal Reserve by educating the public and the government. After reading this book you are likely to see the senators that rant that "only they care about the unemployed and the Federal Reserve must now and always pump up the money supply" as at best badly misinformed.

To label Friedman a conservative or a libertarian economist as some reviewers do is to suggest that you can dismiss the authors views as not mainstream and suspect. This convention has clearly crossed over from the liberal major market media of modern times. It is truly dastardly to degrade the standing of Milton Friedman. His great works should command everyone's study and one should allow your views to be challenged simply on the merits of Friedman's work. A Nobel Prize is not awarded as the result of some game. Friedman's contributions to the modern world are profound.

Interesting.......2001-11-28

As always , concise writing which make you able to understand the hardest part of monetory policy

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Money Mischief
Milton Friedman
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7 Titles in Spenser Series - Thin Air - Chance - Small Vices - Sudden Mischief - Hush Money - Back Story - School Days

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Robert B. Parker
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The mischiefs and iniquity of paper-money,: And of the present system of banking and funding. In three letters

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Money Mischief : Episodes in Monetary History

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Milton Friedman
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Phrases That Sell : The Ultimate Phrase Finder to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas

Getting the Message Across: Writing for the Mass Media

The Copywriter's Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

ASIN: 0471507032

Book Description

You don't have to be especially "creative." And you can forget about writer's block. Because now, even if you've never written advertising before, there's a simple proven way to Write *ADS* Great copywriters aren't born. They're made! That's because writing isn't a talent you're born with—it's a skill as learnable as driving a car or typing. Write Great Ads takes the mystery out of copywriting and shows how to write effective advertising copy for print ads, direct mail packages, radio spots, and television commercials. Write Great Ads takes you, step-by-step, through every aspect of the process. You'll learn:

How to zero in on the key features and benefits of your ad
How to write a headline that really sells
How to come up with an original, effective selling concept
How to put all the facts together and craft an irresistible call to action—guaranteed to pull in sales!

This one-of-a-kind workbook breaks advertising down into simple steps that anyone—no matter what your level of experience—can master and enjoy. Write Great Ads is also packed with fill-in exercises and self-tests so you can practice each step immediately. "This is a practical, straightforward, and instructive book with heavy emphasis on fundamentals—all in good, clear, no-nonsense English—and an overall good reference for anyone interested in better communications."

Customer Reviews:

Finally!.......2007-05-19

One thing I've learned in the copywriting business, you can read a ton of books and find out what others recommend. You can learn how someone achieved their level of success. You can even learn a few tricks along the way to improve your copy. But very few books on copywriting actually walk you through the process of writing ads.

WRITE GREAT ADS by Erica Levy Klein is an exception. This book is packed with exercises that will not only show you how it's done, but is a tremendous confidence builder. The way the book is structured, if you have any doubt in your ability to be a good copywriter, this book will soon have you saying, "Hey, I'm pretty good at this!"

I believe even veteran writers will learn a lot here. Another great book that belongs on every copywriter's bookshelf.

Great little gem of a book!.......2003-04-07

As a copywriter I have had the privilege of reading many books on copywriting and I can say with all candor that this book (with a forward by Bob Bly himself) is a short course in copywriting.

It steps the reader through the process of creating a great ad, warning, counseling, and coaching all along the way.

An easy read, it is a great addition to your copywriting bookshelf!

Customer Reviews:

The best available book on wellness programs.......1997-09-09

In "Wellness Programs in Taft Hartley Funds" Handel and Langbert question the cliches that wellness consultants present to fund managers. Yes, they argue, wellness programs judiciously applied can work. But wellness programs need to take the special characteristics of Taft Hartley funds into account. This book targets fund managers and other professionals involved in the day-to-day operation of Taft-Hartley funds. Such funds have lagged corporate plan sponsors in adopting wellness programs. One reason might be class bias inherent in wellness programs: Rank-and-file employees are typically less interested in health imagery than are managers and executives. It is incumbent upon Taft Hartley funds to help employees to better health free of class bias. Exercise programs, for example, serve little purpose for hard working longshoremen, who burn 10,000 calories a day.Over all, "Wellness Programs in Taft Hartley Funds" offers a balanced perspective on wellness programs for union workers. I highly recommend it to fund managers

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