The International Dictionary of Derivatives

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The International Dictionary of Derivatives is designed to assist all those involved, or hoping to become involved, with these complex financial instruments. Featuring a complete list of clear definitions, from Accrual Notes to Zero Gain Collar, this is an indispensable reference for both professionals and novices.

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Best book on business communication.......2006-10-24

This book covers it all -- speaking, writing, email, briefing and web pages. Best book I've seen on these subjects. Bailey walks the talk. His book is easy to read, and the principles are illustrated clearly. What I like best are the examples.

Almost perfect.......2000-03-13

Edward Bailey commands the field of "plain English" applied to business writing. This is a complete, modern--and highly readable--summary of everything you need to know about writing memo's letters and resumes and doing oral presentations. It lacks a section on e-mail. The resume and cover letter sections use examples which may not match for all industries, and the letter format (showing "Writer/typist") is outdated in the Internet Age.

The communication doctor.......1999-12-03

Want to improve your writing? Want to improve your presentation skills? There's not a better book on the shelves! A must if your serious about your career. In only hours, your writing will improve -- colleagues will notice.

Quintillian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio oratoria (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)

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Quintillian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio oratoria (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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ASIN: 0809313782

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Quintilian’s method is based on the interrelationship between speaking, reading, and writing. Murphy lists and defines the main elements that appear in the Institutio oratorio. Each of these elements—Precept, Imitation, Composition Exercises, Declamation, and Sequencing—is further subdivided according to goals and exercises.

The first two books of the Institutio oratorio concern the early education of the orator, with the focus on the interplay between seen-language and heard-language. Book Ten is an adult’s commentary on the instruction of rhetoric. It involves itself primarily with facilitas, the readiness to use language in any situation.

CATegorically Speaking: A Reference Work And Study Guide for Realtime Writing

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I LOVE this book!

CATegorically Speaking: A Reference Work And Study Guide for Realtime Writing
Laurie Boucke
Manufacturer: White-Boucke Publishing
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ASIN: 1888580356

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I LOVE this book!.......1998-09-06

Although there are many sections of "CATegorically Speaking" that I frequent, none is more dog-eared than "A Lexicon of Word Associations" where so many writing issues can be easily resolved -- homonyms, antonyms, word pairs and families, rhyming words, etc. Since examples speak volumes, here are a few selected at random:

BAOUS = abuse KHAOUS = child abuse SWAOUS = sexual abuse SPAOUS = spousal abuse KROTD = carotid PROTD = parotid ARM = arm DARM = disarm Y-LT = yellow light GR-LT = green light R-LT = red light SHAIRB = certiorari WRAIRB = writ of certiorari

Elsewhere in this book you will find sections on speaker identification, multiple alphabets, multiple numbering systems (decimals and fractions, ordinals and Roman numerals, US currency, time formats), prefixes and suffixes, superlatives, etc.

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"Finally, a true and insightful history of the romance novel. This book establishes the historical legitimacy of an important literary genre." --Jayne Ann Krentz "Regis sets out to analyse the formal features and literary history of this much-maligned genre. . . . A Natural History of the Romance Novel is a thorough, sensible, and partisan book, arguing for romantic fiction as a genre that celebrates freedom of choice." --Times Literary Supplement

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It didn't add much...........2007-06-04

As a long-time fan of this genre, I expected more from this book. However, it was too academic, spent too long on only a few authors and didn't add anything to my understanding. The author spent quite a bit of time reviewing plot details and I admit that I enjoyed her analysis of Nora Roberts and Jayne Krentz books that I had read, but there was too much detail and repetition.
There must be better books out there....and I'd love to read any suggestions.

No pride, no prejudice.......2003-09-20

A landmark. Professor Regis has finished the job Jane Tompkins began with _Sensational Designs_ and Janice Radway continued in _Reading the Romance_. Couldn't be an easier read, balanced but sympathetic, and interesting even if you haven't read the book she's discussing. Not the last word by any means, but there'll be no getting the genie back into the bottle now.

61 Cooperative Learning Activities: Thinking, Writing, and Speaking Skills

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61 Cooperative Learning Activities: Thinking, Writing, and Speaking Skills
Ann Bourman
Manufacturer: Walch Pub.
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A Straightforward Guide to Speech Writing and Presentation (Straightforward Guides)

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A Straightforward Guide to Speech Writing and Presentation (Straightforward Guides)
R. Watson
Manufacturer: Straightforward Publishing
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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Lawrence Frank
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 1403911398

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Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology, archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction skeptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.

Plain English at Work: A Guide to Writing and Speaking

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Its all in simplicity
Essential reference for today's written business English
Essential reference for today's written business English

Plain English at Work: A Guide to Writing and Speaking
Edward P. Bailey
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Everyday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought. Likewise, we give presentations, both formal and informal. Often this writing and speaking gets criticized for being jargon-ridden, obscure, or long-winded--in short, for not being in "plain English." But what is plain English, and how do we go about writing and speaking it? In Plain English at Work, Edward Bailey gives the answer, with down-to-earth tips and practical advice. Bailey, an expert in business communication, gives us a simple model for writing: BL Style: write more the way you talk. BL Organization: make your point easy to find. BL Layout: use headings, lists, and other white space so readers can see the structure of your writing. Psycholinguists, Bailey points out, have proven that the techniques of plain English writing are far easier on your readers; experience has proven that writing in plain English is easier on you--the writer, too. Bailey also gives you a wealth of practical advice for presentations including: BL How to remember your talk. BL How to design visual aids. BL How to design computer presentations. BL How to set up the room you'll be speaking in. BL How to develop a successful delivery style. Perhaps most impressive are the many detailed tips he gives here. For instance, when using a pointer, hold it in the hand closer to the screen (otherwise, you turn your back on the audience, making it harder to hear you). When designing a visual aid, use at least 28-point type, and seldom use all capital letters (which are harder to read). And when presenting a bar chart during a computer presentation, build it--a bar at a time--to focus your audience's attention. Drawing on two earlier and popular books, The Plain English Approach to Business Writing and A Practical Guide for Business Speaking, this new volume has been significantly updated. It includes up-to-the-minute information on using computers, computer graphics, and typography for your writing, and on using the same technology for designing your presentations. The result is an authoritative and comprehensive single volume that will be the essential guide for everyone wishing to communicate more easily and effectively at work.

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Its all in simplicity.......2001-05-24

'Write the way you talk' is the main idea behind this book. Bailey identifies the common problems in written english:People just don't write the way they speak. The book is all about writing and speaking in plain english. You don't need *impressive* words all the time to be effective.

The book is divided into two parts: Writing clearly and easily and Speaking clearly and easily.

The first part starts off with comparison between spoken and written english (In speech if you use the word 'help', you tend to use 'assist' in writing.)

Then the writer moves on to common pitfalls in written style such as excessive use of passive voice and lack of punctuation.

Later chapters are about organization and the layout of written work and that includes selection of typefaces, use of heading, bullets, graphics etc.

In lot of places, the writer disagrees with the common myths of writing, for example: * Never begin a sentence with 'and' or 'but'. * Never end a sentence with a preposition * Never use first and second person pronouns

Now you can begin a sentence with 'and' and 'but' and still can be professional speaker/writer.

The second part is on speaking that covers: selection and design of visual aids, organization of presentation, speech style, rehearsing, setting up the room and handling the audience.

In all the chapters, for clarity purpose, a specific point is explained using examples and illustrations.

A good book for those who wants to improve good writing and speaking skills. And in my opinion a valuable resource if you are a techie and can only speak in jargon or just go blank when it comes to public speaking (well...that was the case with me)

Essential reference for today's written business English.......2000-06-26

This book's simply the very best reference there is on the subject of using plain and simple English to communicate effectively in writing.

Bailey's suggestions are so simple, straight forward and full of common sense that you find yourself thinking, "Of course I should write this way! Everybody should write like this!" The world would be a better place--and be so much more productive--if everyone followed Bailey's suggestions.

Some of Bailey's suggestions include:

* Write like you speak

* Don't be afraid to use contractions * Avoid the passive voice

* Forget jargon and "business-ese"

* Use lists

Essential reference for today's written business English.......2000-06-26

This book's simply the very best reference there is on the subject of using plain and simple English to communicate effectively in writing.

Some of Bailey's suggestions include:

* Write like you speak

* Don't be afraid to use contractions * Avoid the passive voice

* Forget jargon and "business-ese"

* Use lists

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The Communication Handbook for School-to-Work is full of practical tips and techniques for a wide variety of everyday situations, both inside and outside the classroom: developing and presenting written assignments for school or work, conveying technical information, applying conventions of grammar and style, making speeches and oral presentations, working in groups, studying, writing exams, and more.

Language unlimited: Hundreds of reproducible activities to help students sharpen reading, writing, speaking and listening skills (Instructor big book series)

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Language unlimited: Hundreds of reproducible activities to help students sharpen reading, writing, speaking and listening skills (Instructor big book series)
Diane Hellriegel
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This collection addresses the nature of trade, and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy, and challenges the received notion of the unsophisticated nature of early trade. The book explores a variety of aspects of ancient trade, a study of archaic central Italy which stresses the role of the artisan in social development, and a discussion of the complex issue of the exchange of grain between Athens and the Black Sea in the fifth and fourth centuries. A comprehensive and well-researched book, this volume employs the most current archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to offer innovative and stimulating analyses of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.

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Amazingly simple common sense!

Great advice for the small and medium sized retailer

Wake-up call for the small business owner

If you're not weak of heart-This will work.

Not too hot - Not too cold - Just RIGHT ON!

You Can Compete: Double Sales Without Discounting (Second Edition)
Bob Phibbs
Manufacturer: Retail Doctor Publishing
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Guerrilla Retailing: Unconventional Ways to Make Big Profits from Your Retail Business (Guerrilla Marketing Series)

Small Store Survival: Success Strategies for Retailers (National Retail Federation)

Retail Success!

Marketing Your Retail Store in the Internet Age

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ASIN: 0970998414

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The book seminar participants have asked for is about to be released! You Can Compete describes how I work and gives the independent businessperson concrete advice from someone who's worked in retail stores 50+ hours a week, has known what to do when their back is against the wall and has a proven track record of success. It is aimed at independent business owners, many of which are being challenged by chain stores. Think of the movie You've Got Mail only in my book, the independent succeeds.

As the "Retail Doctor", I have been giving a message of hope that you can compete - as long as you are creative and willing to change. From nurseries to coffeehouses, from bookstores to hardware stores the message to the small businessperson is clear: you are in a hopeless situation. If the independents are not encouraged and challenged to fight, we will all be the worse for it. This book does that for a wide audience of readers.

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Amazingly simple common sense!.......2006-11-02

You Can Compete!

This is a great straightforward read. It offers practical and simple to implement, small tactics to differentiate yourself from the big boxes. Instead of modeling them--cutting down on services and stock piling merchandise and heavy couponing--hire and train people full of product information and teach people to be sales people, not cashiers.

Many of his beliefs align with techniques I use in my sales training and consulting, those are what I'll highlight.

Phibbs has an easy repeatable 5 step approach to approaching a customer - and goes beyond the overused "are you doing ok"? I was in a big box after reading this and counted 8 times this was chanted to me, and I was in the store less than ½ hour. I agree with the author, this becomes distracting--can't I just look? (Geez, I was standing in front of envelopes!). I left without a purchase--I couldn't think.

He gives a step by step approach to training - and why the first 30 days is the best you'll get from a new hire--unless you build a process and "inspect what you expect".

Discounting doesn't work--in fact I train how it works against you. I know which stores provide a coupon and there are multiple times I have pulled in front of the store, discovered I don't have the coupon, and drive away without coming in for my purchase!

I also have a story illustrating his examples of how signage can create a "sales prevention" department. Signs that say "don't' touch"--displays are meant to be touched! My favorite hates are those saying "no soliciting, no change, no bathrooms". I was recently in a big box with a sign on a copier (that you pay self serve per copy) "15 minute limit". The retailer went to the expense of putting in a copier, hoping it's a profit center, and now tells you not to use it.

This book is not only how to compete, how and what to change and how to differentiate. There are plenty of reasons to choose an independent vs a big box--if yours is just to "support the little guy", stop and buy this book before you close your doors, content its their fault. You have a lot to offer, read this and get energized.

Great advice for the small and medium sized retailer.......2006-07-05

This is a quick read, but contains a lot of great advice. It is oriented toward the smaller mom-and-pop retailers who have to compete with the big-box stores. However, even a retailer such as the one I work for with hundreds of stores can get a lot out of Phibbs' ideas. This book has many great concepts that center around employee training and customers relations.

Wake-up call for the small business owner.......2004-06-17

Bob Phibbs takes running a small business seriously and he takes customer service VERY seriously. Best of all, he explains his principles well, without being condescending or preachy. This concise, well-organized book lays out the basics of "killer" marketing and customer service that can make your business stand out above the competition. YCC will light a fire under the complacent or discouraged business owner, as it provides a much needed motivational wake-up call for every independent business trying to stay afloat in corporate America.

If you're not weak of heart-This will work........2004-05-27

I'm a consultant in the jewelry industry and this book tells it like it is and is like having lunch with a mentor once a week. Bob tells you exactly what to do in sales training, hiring, pricing, maarketing and just plain out how to compete against whomever your competition happens to be. Many thoughts are one or two pages on what to do. Some of it it's the number head on. Soemtimes it's a pep talk.

Example: Bob talks about if an employee doesn't work out in a short time or constantly comes in late to FIRE THEM.

This is a correct way to handle your business, it's just that many a store woner are WIMPS. "We're all family here". yeah, right. When it comes down to "who doesn't get a pay check this pay period-cash flow sucks" see who volunteers. YOU.

If this book doesn't nothing else than to make you a STRONGER manager it will be worth a 100 times more.

I give seminars to jewelers on pricing and sales commissions. I felt so strongly about the value of this book that I ordered 50 copies to give out to my attendees this June in Vegas.

Bob talks about commissions and marketing. There aren't as many extra books on commissions out there (Bob spends one to three pages on one" but there a few excelent books on advertising you should read, expecially if you're retail:

" The 33 ruthless rules of local advertising" by Michael Corbett.

Also 2 excellent books (Bob talks about branding-buy these 2 from anexpert) on advertising and marketing:

"The end of marketing as we know it"
"The end of advertising as we know it"

Both by Sergio Zyman. He used to be in charge of marketing at Coca Cola.

David Geller
www.JewelerProfit.com

Not too hot - Not too cold - Just RIGHT ON!.......2001-05-11

As a former owner of a retail/service business and continuing entrepreneur, I read Bob Phibbs' book with great interest. There is simply not enough I can say about this book. It is an easy read that is not bogged down with anecdote after anecdote trying to make the same point over and over again as so many self-help books are. Phibbs make his points with short, concise, relevant vignettes that more often than not pack an A-ha! punch. Any independent business person with a lick of sense who hopes to compete with the big box retail vampires will have Phibbs' book - not on their bookshelves, but in hand. Personally, I've always believed the little guy could compete, but how? Phibbs tells you exactly how. Interestingly enough, I happen to live in a community where Phibbs cites success stories and was surprised that I am a customer of one of them. I remember when Starbucks moved in a few doors down from Polly's with the sole intention of putting Polly's out of business (there's another Starbucks just a few blocks away). I didn't think Polly's would last a month, but Polly's began to change and began a campaign to beat the giant. Now, at least two years later they're still here... and thriving... and better than ever with Phibbs' expert guidance. You Can Compete is filled with his expertise in an organized, personable package that would almost make you feel as if Phibbs was your own personal consultant. I would recommend this book to anyone who is in the retail business or thinking about going into it - don't wait for the giants to come barging into your backyard. You could not ask for a better guide for success than You Can Compete.

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Good Book, but certainly dated.......2007-03-05

I picked up Interactive Marketing from Amazon. I am trying to get my arms around marketing for technology, and I thought it would be wise to read something that was at the dawn of the confluence of traditional marketing, and the growing need for a new type of marketing for the world of the internet.

I will say that there is a lot of useful information in Richard Mizerski's book, but having been published in 1996, it is certainly outdated. As a point of reference for where the industry was ten years ago, it's an excellent primer. For where we are today, not so much. Among the interesting comments is by one particular author who says all the predictions about the internet have not come to pass. Among the examples he cites in online commerce, which only does about $300 million a year. Well, fast forward 10 years, and much of what they claim were lifty predictions, have indeed come to pass.

As mentioned, the book is an excellent study on the convergence of traditional marketing, and online marketing. In 1996, by reading Interactive Marketing, it is clear that the benefits of one v. another, or how the two could work in a holisitic manner, were no yet figured out. In some respects, Mizerski assembled a group of thought leaders who were trying to figure out how the world of marketing would integrate with the world of the internet.

If you are looking for something more current, this is certainly not it. As I stated, it is very dated, but still worth the read. If you are looking to understand where the marketing world was at 10 years ago, and how it began it's evolution, this is a good place to start. For that reason alone, I would recommend this book.

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"All South Africans must now unite and join hands and say we are one country, one nation, one people, marching together into the future" Nelson Mandela
Human resource development is a high priority if South Africa is to improve teaching and education management to meet present and future needs. Many teachers have only limited training and most principals and senior staff have received no specific preparation for their management roles. This series, Managing Schools in South Africa, seeks to fill that gap. It aims to develop material directly relevant to school management. It integrates the best of theory, research and practice drawn from the most appropriate international sources which is directly applicable to a wide range of South African schools

This book is underpinned by the philosophy that effective management of all staff in schools is essential if the challenges of educating South Africa's youth are to be met. Good managers must be able to recruit, select, motivate and monitor teachers and other staff. The purpose of "Managing Human Resources in South Africa" is to provide guidelines for professional development and competence in managing staff effectively. Case examples are provided throughout.

Minorities and Girls in School: Effects on Achievement and Performance (Leaders in Psychology series)

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Although this country has a stake in educating its citizens well, for much of our history, we have not known in any scientific way what helps and what hinders the academic success of girls and minority group members. This book gives voice to four psychologists (Schofield, Slaughter-Defoe, Eccles, and Betz) who use scientific inquiry to understand what helps and what hinders the academic and life performance of minority students and girls. These are scientists who approach their subject matter with technical skill and personal passion to ask such questions as: What has desegregation accomplished? Can beneficial parent-child interactions be facilitated so as to improve school-related performance? Why are we seeing such low levels of achievement for girls and minorities in math and science? What stops women and minorities from choosing and completing majors in science and engineering? Each chapter represents an effort to communicate a vital area of scientific investigation to those in political life who could use that knowledge to formulate effective public policy. Near the end of each chapter are the questions that each of the authors was asked following the original briefing. These interchanges will show how policy makers begin to think about the use of scientific information in a political context.

The Psychology of Management in African Organizations:

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The Psychology of Management in African Organizations:
Denis Chima E. Ugwuegbu
Manufacturer: Quorum Books
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ASIN: 1567204007

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Few managers of African organizations are trained in managing people. They may be technically proficient in their jobs, but there is a prevailing certainty that because they have lived among other people, they know instinctively how to manage them. Not true, says psychologist and organizational behavior specialist Ugwuegbu. Moreover, not only do the new African states suffer severe shortages of managers of any kind, they also lack resources to give those they do have the skills in human behavior management they need. Dr. Ugwuegbu's book seeks to improve management effectiveness and efficiency by providing a better, more comprehensive understanding of African work systems and the behavior of Africans at work. His book, the first of its kind, introduces the science of human behavior into the management of African organizations. It challenges the reign of colonial management practices and blames them for the failure of African managers to adopt modern management techniques. Although it absolves African cultures of the responsibility for the poor performance of African workers, it holds management rigorously responsible, and agrees with existing opinion that not only should leadership effectiveness be measurable, but it should be measured. Human relations, as practiced in African firms, is only one aspect of human resource planning, and in fact, African organizations should learn from human conflict, not try to fight it--all of which makes his book essential for professionals in African organizations and for those elsewhere who want to do business with them, as well as for scholars and graduate students in various fields of the social, behavioral, and administrative sciences. Dr. Ugwuegbu sets out to broaden the African manager's concept of the organization as both a pyschological and physical entity, and to do this he integrates knowledge of human behavior from psychological perspectives into the management of African organizations. He also shows that African governments are responding positively to calls from the international financial community for the commercialization and privatization of government-owned African companies. In nine chapters he covers such topics as the colonial management legacy; the psychological problems of African organizations; problems of motivation, leadership, and power; decision making; conflict and conflict management; and performance evaluation and training and development. The chapters are unified by one common objective: to explore the dynamics of the African workplace and to help African professionals make use of it, and then to enhance the understanding of Africa's management problems among managers and executives in other countries worldwide.

The Circle of Courage: restorative approaches in South African schools.(reclaiming worldwide) : An article from: Reclaiming Children and Youth

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The Circle of Courage: restorative approaches in South African schools.(reclaiming worldwide) : An article from: Reclaiming Children and Youth
Charles Coetzee
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Reclaiming Children and Youth, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1864 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: The Circle of Courage: restorative approaches in South African schools.(reclaiming worldwide)
Author: Charles Coetzee
Publication: Reclaiming Children and Youth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Page: 184(4)

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Business intelligence has always been considered an essential ingredient for success. However, it is not until recently that the technology has enabled organizations to generate and deploy intelligence for global competition. These technologies can be leveraged to create the intelligent enterprises of the 21st century that will not only provide excellent and customized services to their customers, but will also create business efficiency for building relationships with suppliers and other business partners on a long term basis. Creating such intelligent enterprises requires the understanding and integration of diverse enterprise components into cohesive intelligent systems. Anticipating that future enterprises need to become intelligent, Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century brings together the experiences and knowledge from many parts of the world to provide a compendium of high quality theoretical and applied concepts, methodologies, and techniques that help diffuse knowledge and skills required to create and manage intelligent enterprises of the 21st century for gaining sustainable competitive advantage in a global environment. This book is a comprehensive compilation of the state of the art vision and thought processes needed to design and manage globally competitive business organizations.

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