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  Coaching My Way

  Sabine Asgodom

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  25 Surprising Impulses Which Pave the Road to Success
  
  Sabine Asgodam is one of the most acclaimed management coaches in Germany. This book, which is finally available in English, offers practical insights and recommendations as to how to successfully coach: What problems need to be solved? How can you come up with new ideas? How can you define worthwhile goals? What strategies should you consider? How can conflicts with others be resolved? 
  
  In "Coaching My Way" Sabine Asgodom describes her SOFTCo method (Solution Oriented Fast Tip Coaching). In this book you'll find 25 practical, individually adaptable coaching impulses which are effective in both private and professional surroundings. Each and every one of these are essential building blocks in Sabine Asgodoms method for coaching clients. Concrete examples are offered to show how you can quickly initiate step-by-step development. Valuable advice is given to prepare you for the ins and outs of both coaching others and self-coaching.
  
  A self-assessment test is included that allows you to see if you could be a good coach for friends, relatives and colleagues.

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  Nuns and Nunneries in...

  Sharon T. Strocchia

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  An analysis of Renaissance Florentine convents and their influence on the city’s social, economic, and political history. 
   
  The 15th century was a time of dramatic and decisive change for nuns and nunneries in Florence. That century saw the city’s convents evolve from small, semiautonomous communities to large civic institutions. By 1552, roughly one in eight Florentine women lived in a religious community. Historian Sharon T. Strocchia analyzes this stunning growth of female monasticism, revealing the important roles these women and institutions played in the social, economic, and political history of Renaissance Florence. 
   
  It became common practice during this time for unmarried women in elite society to enter convents. This unprecedented concentration of highly educated and well-connected women transformed convents into sites of great patronage and social and political influence. As their economic influence also grew, convents found new ways of supporting themselves; they established schools, produced manuscripts, and manufactured textiles. 
   
  Using previously untapped archival materials, Strocchia shows how convents shaped one of the principal cities of Renaissance Europe. She demonstrates the importance of nuns and nunneries to the booming Florentine textile industry and shows the contributions that ordinary nuns made to Florentine life in their roles as scribes, stewards, artisans, teachers, and community leaders. In doing so, Strocchia argues that the ideals and institutions that defined Florence were influenced in great part by the city’s powerful female monastics. 
   
  Winner, Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association 
   
  “Strocchia examines the complex interrelationships between Florentine nuns and the laity, the secular government, and the religious hierarchy. The author skillfully analyzes extensive archival and printed sources.” —Choice

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  Small Business - Learn More...

  Tom Hendrix, Nathan Sides,...

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  This is a book combo with the following titles in it: 
  Book 1: When it comes to considering your finances, many decisions are involved. The numbers count! 
    
  So, in order to understand those numbers, some terms have to be understood first. The words that are used in the financial world, can be daunting at times. But fear no longer, my good friend. Help is on the way! 
    
  Book 2: A lot of business owners and managers get many things right, but there are also things they can do better. Take communication skills for example: Are you really effective enough at communicating. Are you good at delegating responsibilities? 
    
  Book 3: Some elements of negotiating are often neglected when people discuss the art of such an important event. Negotiation skills involve many different aspects, such as reading the other person’s intentions and boundaries, mediation skills, decision-making, preparation, clarifying information to communicate better, etc.

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  Keeping the Barbarians Out: How...

  Dr. Jim Anderson

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  There are a lot of bad guys out there. For some odd reason, a lot of them seem to want to break into your company's networks and applications. As the CIO, it's your job to make sure that this does not happen. Got any thoughts on how to go about doing that? 
  
   
  What You'll Find Inside: 
  
  CIO’S NEED TO LEARN HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST THE INSIDER THREAT
  WHY BYOD SPELLS DOOM FOR CIOS
  DO WE REALLY NEED TO ENCRYPT OUR CUSTOMER DATA? 
  3 WAYS TO GET YOUR COMPANY TO TAKE DIGITAL SECURITY SERIOUSLY
  
  
   
  As much as we like to spend our time looking outwards in order to detect the next threat that our company may be facing, perhaps we're looking in the wrong direction. Just as big of a deal may be the insider threat that lurks within the company.  No matter where it comes from, cybercrime is your problem to deal with. 
  
   
  CIOs have to deal with trends as they come and go. Right now the Bring Your Own Device To Work (BYOD) phase is in full swing and if you aren't careful could cause a lot of problems for the IT department. At the same time, it's the code that your teams create that will secure your applications. Do you know if they are writing secure code or are they leaving doors wide open? 
  
   
  In order to measure where the threats are coming from and how big of deal they are, CIOs need to become comfortable with measuring the level of risk that they are dealing with. A big part of measuring risk is getting information about threats from other CIOs. This can be difficult to do because CIOs really don't like to share information like this. 
  
   
  Since we can't always be certain that we can keep the bad guys out, we need to make sure that we've taken the needed steps to secure our networks. Should they happen to get inside of the company, we need to take extra steps to make sure that they can't get what they came for. This brings up the interesting question of whether or not we should go to the effort and expense of encrypting our customer data. 
  
   
  No matter what our final decision on encrypting the company's digital assets is, we still have a responsibly as CIO to make sure that the company understands the threats that it is facing and that it starts to take digital security seriously.

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  Enthusiasm and Motivation -...

  Tom Hopkins

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  Would you like to know the attitudes that all successful people practice every day? Would you like to have winner’s attitude towards failure? Well “Builder of Sales Champions” Tom Hopkins is here to show you how by guiding you through these key principles:1. I never see failure as failure, but only as a learning experience.2. I never see failure as failure, but only as the negative feedback.3. I never see failure as failure, but only as an opportunity to develop my sense of humor. 4. I never see failure as failure, but only as an opportunity to practice my techniques and perfect my performance. 5. I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win!Over 2 million people around the world have attended this program and tens of thousands of salespeople listen to Tom Hopkins every day to become the backbone of their organizations, Sales Professionals. Tom Hopkins is the author of, How to Master the Art of Selling, which is the largest selling book ever written on the subject of how to sell. Over 25,000 students have graduated from his famous 3 day high intensity selling boot camp, and have gone on to become leaders in the sales industry. Join North Americas #1 sales trainer today and become a Sales Champion.

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  The Baker Chocolate Company - A...

  Anthony M. Sammarco

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  Discover the true story behind America’s first chocolate company, formed in pre-Revolutionary New England.   In 1765, the story goes, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester, Massachusetts, stumbled upon a penniless Irish immigrant named John Hannon, who was crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon possessed the rare skills required to create chocolate—a delicacy exclusive to Europe—but had no way of putting this knowledge to use. Baker, with pockets bursting, wished to make a name for himself—and the two men would become America’s first manufacturers of this rich treat, using a mill powered by the same river upon which they met.   Local historian Anthony Sammarco details the delicious saga of Massachusetts’s Baker Chocolate Company, from Hannon’s mysterious disappearance and the famed La Belle Chocolatiere advertising campaign to cacao bean smuggling sparked by Revolutionary War blockades. Both bitter and sweet, this tale is sure to tickle your taste buds.

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