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  Skyrocket Your Sales

  Raymond A. Slesinski

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  Don't let opportunities pass you by! Learn to listen and your world will open up, offering you a lot more fulfilling career and personal life. Poor listening can create misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and frustration that could be avoided; effective listening means enhanced professionalism, greater job satisfaction, and improved personal relations.The listening chapters in Skyrocket Your Sales cover obstacles to listening, benefits from improved listening, and 14 valuable ways to become an outstanding listener. Sections on nonverbal communication teach how to analyze body language signals and make them work for you. The information on questioning includes discussions of benefits of asking questions during the sales cycle, major categories of questions to use, and how to make questioning more effective. Some of the benefits that readers of Skyrocket Your Sales will receive are:Improved performance at job interviews Greater effectiveness as managers or administrators Better resolution of conflicts Reduction of misunderstandings, false expectations, and disappointments Improved negotiating capabilities The ability to absorb new information faster and retain it longerSalespeople will be rewarded with greater, easier, and cleaner sales. Improve your listening-the "people skill" most often neglected-and you'll notice a change for the better in your professional and personal life.Author Ray Slesinski has been a senior level trainer in the sales training department for Digital Equipment Corporation. He has given more than 800 presentations throughout the U.S. and abroad on effective speaking techniques, finance, sales skills, and motivational topics. He is president of his own training and consulting firm, and is the author of several other business books. A member of the National Speakers Association and Sales and Marketing Executives International, Slesinski holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in economics.

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  How to Resist Amazon and Why -...

  Danny Caine

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  When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, compiled this zine about his commitment to fighting Amazon. Includes: the open letter he wrote to Jeff Bezos, examples of successful social media activism, links to other resources, and some sobering words about boycotting.

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  Shikake - The Japanese Art of...

  Naohiro Matsumura

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  We are living in a time when behavioral change is necessary for our health and survival. Yet we find it exceedingly difficult to transform our own habits, let alone those of other people. Enter Naohiro Matsumura, whose powerful new design method is as astonishingly simple in its logic as it is sophisticated in its psychology. It allows any of us to address challenges in our homes, our public spaces, and our social interactions.As Matsumura shows, a shikake—or "device" in Japanese—is a design that exerts influence on us through subtle nudging, rather than direct command; it encourages a particular behavior without telling its (often unwitting) user the primary purpose of that behavior. For example: footprints in a store guide shoppers and keep them socially distant; a basketball hoop placed over a trash can entices children to tidy up their rooms; a symbol of a shrine in a public square encourages respectfulness; and a staircase painted to look like piano keys prompts exercise through play.Combining traditional Japanese aesthetics with the lessons of behavioral economics, Matsumura reveals how to identify the hidden design cues that already shape our world, and how shikakes can help us confront some of the most pressing challenges of our era, from pandemics to declining civic engagement to climate change and beyond.

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  Limitless Mind - Learn Lead and...

  Jo Boaler

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  In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings. 
  From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skillsets (i.e. that we don’t have “a math brain” or that we aren’t “the creative type”). These damaging—and as new science has revealed, false—assumptions have influenced all of us at some time, affecting our confidence and willingness to try new things and limiting our choices, and, ultimately, our futures.  
  Stanford University professor, bestselling author, and acclaimed educator Jo Boaler has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education. In Limitless Mind, she explodes these myths and reveals the six keys to unlocking our boundless learning potential. Her research proves that those who achieve at the highest levels do not do so because of a genetic inclination toward any one skill but because of the keys that she reveals in the book. Our brains are not “fixed,” but entirely capable of change, growth, adaptability, and rewiring. Want to be fluent in mathematics? Learn a foreign language? Play the guitar? Write a book? The truth is not only that anyone at any age can learn anything, but the act of learning itself fundamentally changes who we are, and as Boaler argues so elegantly in the pages of this book, what we go on to achieve.

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  The Lazy Person's Guide To...

  Paul B. Farrell

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  Popular CBS Marketwatch columnist Farrell provides a thoroughly enjoyable and straightforward look at what he sees as "the future of investing"-"simple lazy portfolios that'll work for anyone and are easy to understand." He provides three different model portfolios based on one simple formula: "rock-solid, easy-to-understand asset allocation using no-load index funds." Farrell is a huge proponent of no-load funds such as the Vanguard 500 Index, which tracks the Standard & Poor 500 listing of America's largest companies, and the Vanguard Total Bond Market Fund Index, which matches the performance of the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index. Farrell persuasively argues that the strong long-term performance of these funds, even during hard market times-along with the strong performance of other Vanguard index funds such as those for large-cap and small-cap value-proves that "the only rational strategy" for the vast majority of America's 94 million mutual fund investors is "a simple buy 'n' hold strategy" that diversifies portfolio assets across multiple categories of assets. Packed with clear examples of how regular people can easily handle their own investments, Farrell's guide also takes on other sacred cows, such as Wall Street's belief that brokers know more than you do, and provides an exciting and illuminating section on no-load stocks, or DRIPs, which he calls "Wall Street's best-kept secret."

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  Get shit done! For Kick-Ass...

  Camilla Kristiansen

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  This book is for you that want shit done fast and have success now. You are a kick-ass women that know you can make it if you only get your shit together. This book will motivate you to take daily action toward your dreams and make them happen fast.

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