DK Essential Managers: Improving Your Memory


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Learn how to train your memory, enhance your mental abilities, and keep your mind agile and alert. This book’s expert tips, clear text, and informative illustrations will show you how to improve your concentration, organize your thoughts, and retain and recall information quickly and accurately to make your memory work for you both in personal and professional situations. The Essential Manager guides have sold more than two million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.




Stress The Psychology of Managing Pressure


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Covering sources of stress in every area of life: work, exams, relationships, social pressure, money, and more, this practical guide combines infographics and self-analysis questionnaires to make information easy to access and apply. This dynamic infographic program, founded on cutting-edge psychological research, enables you to deconstruct and deal with stress head-on. Stress: The Psychology of Managing Pressure helps you identify external and internal sources of stress in your life and reframe unhelpful patterns of thought into powerful psychological solutions that you can apply every day. Underpinned by psychological theory, with relevant findings from psychologists, doctors, and teachers, this book will help you smash the shadow of stress in any area of your life and emerge happier, healthier, and more productive.




Improving Your Memory


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Train your mind, enhance your mental abilities, sharpen your memory and be more successful following expert tips, techniques and checklists. Now in ePub format Make forgetting a thing of the past and discover how to improve your concentration, retain and recall accurate information and organize your thoughts effectively. Explore different mind-improving options and put them into action with the aid of helpful flow charts and illustrations. Follow as a complete course, or dip in and out of topics for quick reference. Life-enhancing tips - take it wherever life takes you!




The Essential Manager's Handbook


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Are you looking to take the next step in your career? Can you manage yourself with ease, but need more confidence when managing others? Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset, and The Essential Manager’s Handbook provides easy-to-follow and engaging advice on the 6 key areas. Nurture your confidence with managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, effective communication, presenting, and negotiating. With key quotes, bright visuals, and breakdowns by subject, this book is accessible and easy-to-use. Interactive tips and checklists will encourage you to note down your thoughts, examining past and present workplace experiences that you can learn from. Expert insights from management professionals and step-by-step instructions will help you understand how to deal with challenges and gain valuable management skills for life. This accessible and clear guide is packed with practical, no-nonsense information covering everything you need to know about acquiring and developing management skills. Pick up The Essential Manager’s Handbook for quick reference when you’re in need of guidance or work through each section at your own pace to become the best manager you can be. Series Overview: DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style, covering a range of essential topics, from managing, coaching, and mentoring teams and individuals to time management, communication, leadership, and strategic thinking. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and infographics.




Moonwalking with Einstein


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The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.




DK Essential Managers: Communicate Clearly


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Learn all you need to know about successful communication, from interpreting body language to writing letters, optimizing meetings, and speaking on the telephone. Communicate Clearly shows you how to hold an audience when making presentations and how to take notes or compile reports, and it also provides practical techniques for you to try in different settings. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop the first-class communication skills that are the key to a productive and informed workplace. The author practices what he preaches, communicating the clear communication skills with refreshing clarity. The DK Essential Managers series has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.




DK Essential Managers: Manage Your Time


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The most finite resource any manager has is time. This handbook teaches readers how to save and preserve their time by first understanding its limitations, and then showing them how to guard it. Practical guidance includes ways of limiting interaction with subordinates (e.g. "Don't sit down if you are followed into your office" and "Place your chair out of view if your door is open"), the benefits of keeping a time log, and how to spot (and avoid) a time-wasting trap. The book also takes full advantage of modern technology by explaining how to maximize e-mail, voicemail, and other tools available to save precious time. The book is clear, concise and efficient, ensuring that none of the time you spend reading it is wasted. DK Essential Managers: Manage Your Time is part of the bestselling DK Essential Managers series. Packed with essential tips for today's competitive business world, these efficient guidebooks are ideal for anyone interested in improving their business skills. Concise treatment of dozens of techniques, skills, and methods make Essential Managers the most accessible guide to business available.




Eat Pretty


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Nutrition is the fastest-rising beauty trend around the world. Eat Pretty simplifies the latest science and presents a userfriendly program for gorgeous looks, at any age, that last a lifetime. Buzzwords like antioxidants, biotin, and omega-3s are explained alongside more than 85 everyday foods, each paired with their specific beauty-boosting benefit: walnuts for supple skin, radishes for strong nails. But healthful ingredients are just one aspect of beauty nutrition. Eat Pretty offers a full lifestyle makeover, exploring stress management, hormonal balance, and mindful living. Charts and lists, plus nearly 20 recipes, make for a delicious and infinitely useful ebook—in the kitchen, at the grocer, and on the go.




Essential Managers Achieving High Performance


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The practical guide that gives you the tools to succeed in a business environment. Discover how to improve your performance and boost productivity by prioritizing tasks and managing your time effectively. You'll learn how to improve your skills, develop drive, and lead effectively. In a slim, portable format, Essential Managers: Achieving High Performance gives you a practical how-to approach with step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and ”ask yourself” features showing you how to build your confidence, develop your brand, and make an impact. If you are interested in improving your performance as a manager and achieving business success, this is the guide for you.




DK Essential Managers: Project Management


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Whether you are taking your first steps in project management or looking to brush up your skills to be a more effective manager, this practical guide is the perfect business companion. Project Management is systematically divided into theoretical and practical knowledge. Start your journey by going over what is a project, its different elements, and how to set up a project. Learn practical management skills such as delegation, communication, and evaluation. All this is supported with statistics, brief case studies, and colorful graphics and charts that make learning even more interesting. This indispensable volume is part of DK's Essential Managers series that offers the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style. In a slim, portable format, Project Management gives you a practical "how-to" approach with step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists and "ask yourself" features that show you how to focus your energy, manage change, and make an impact.