How To Get On In The World A Ladder To Practical Success


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Are you having trouble making your way in the world? Have you encountered difficulty deciding which path you should take in life? If so, you might benefit from A.R. Calhoun's ‘How to Get On in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success’. Regarded as a classic in the self-help genre, this book offers up plenty of straightforward, no-nonsense advice that will help you define success on your terms -- and achieve it.




How to Get on in the World, Or a Ladder to Practical Success


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The old saying, "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," will never lose its force. Worse than the man whose selfishness keeps him a bachelor till death, is the young man, who, under an impulse he imagines to be an undying love, marries a girl as poor, weak, and selfish as himself.-from "Chapter VII: As to Marriage"Subtitled A Ladder to Practical Success, this little book is chock full of handy advice for a young man looking to make his way in the world... or at least in the world of 1895, when it was first published. Calhoun's guidance encompasses: .the importance of correct habits.the value of experience.selecting a calling.some of labor's compensations.patience and perseverance.and more.While some of its core counsel is timeless, this quaint work is a charming look back at a society that no longer exists.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Calhoun's Business Hints for Men and Women.American artist and writer ALFRED ROCHEFORT CALHOUN contributed photography, sketches, and articles to publications including Harper's Weekly and the Philadelphia Press.




Healthful Sports for Boys


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"Healthful Sports for Boys" is a guide book on the different games that boys can engage in. It features a wide assortment of games arranged along the themes of the four seasons and what games to play in each season. Author Alfred Rochefort promises one thing at the very least, "This book of out-door games for boys will make better boys, and they'll get a lot more joy out of life and be the better men in time, for having read it and carried out its rules as to wholesome, honest sport."




Business Hints for Men and Women


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This is a brief overview of all aspects of business. There are chapters describing many types of documents with which a successful business person should be familiar, such as Wills, Deeds, and Mortgages. Although some of the information is dated it is still an excellent basic guide.




12 Ladders to World Class Performance


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Is YOUR organization World Class? Most managers strive for world class status, but few know how to achieve it. This book describes the practical ideas and techniques that have helped companies around the world to elevate themselves from the ordinary to be the world class performers they are today. Each of the 12 key benchmarks of world class practice is presented as an ascending ladder, separated into five steps. Drennan and Pennington will guide your organization on its journey from Level 1, representing ordinary performance, to Level 5 -- world class. Full of examples of the world's leading corporations, this inspirational book will show you how to adapt their route to success to meet the needs of your own organization. This journey to world class status is accessible to large and small companies alike. It is a question of learning a new mindset and adopting key practices that everybody in the company can do something about every day. Whether you're a chief executive, a manager or a team leader this book is full of sound advice and practical methods that you can put into action today; ideas which will take your team or your organization to levels of performance it has never reached before. Take your organization to the pinnacle of world class performance. Within each of these 12 ladders, Drennan and Pennington clearly reveal strategies for getting to the top: They cover: Aligning Management Objectives, Customer Focus, Cleaning and Organizing, Visible Measurement Systems, Managing for Quality, Eliminating Waste, Best Operating Practices, Teamwork, Staff Empowerment and Involvement, Rewards and Recognition, Purposeful Communication, Continuous Learning. Includes World Class Audit --find out where your organization stands now on the ladders to world class performance.




How to Get on in the World


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Reproduction of the original: How to Get on in the World by A.R. Calhoon




7 Steps of Your Career Ladder


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Many professionals do not have a solid career plan in place, moving from one unplanned job to the next. You should not let this happen to you.7 Steps of Your Career Ladder helps you take full control of your career success by showing you how to define your objectives, leverage your strengths, latch onto unexpected opportunities, and determine your own North Star career goal. This is the career guidance book you need to jump-start your career, no matter where you are at the moment job wise. Full of career building tips and tools, 7 Steps of Your Career Ladder is a practical career guide book to help you define a career pathway that enhances your odds of landing that dream job that¿s in the back of your mind. Each chapter introduces a reflective exercise and finishes with specific action steps designed to help you determine your career path. 7 Steps of Your Career Ladder is written by Rodrigo S. Martineli, a successful international executive in a Fortune 50 company where he ran a multi-billion dollar business and the founder of the Career Ladder Institute. He has been coaching mid-level leaders, individual contributors, and senior executives on strategic career planning for over 10 years.




The Magic Ladder to Success


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A renowned self-help guru distills the 17 factors that constitute his famous Law of Success philosophy. These key principles define the ethics and actions that empower individuals to assume leadership.




Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 2


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The social world is a big place, and the information can feel overwhelming at first. This two-set collection of 26 core practical frameworks (13 frameworks per set) is a powerhouse of visual teaching tools that includes the most important conceptual and treatment frameworks within the Social Thinking Methodology. Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 2 contains 13 of our most popular treatment frameworks to promote social emotional learning. Each provides visually scaffolded information to introduce core social thinking concepts, such as perspective taking and social communication, while illuminating different types of friendships and executive function. Treatment frameworks are for direct use with social learners as they develop and expand their understanding of how the complex social world works and how to navigate to self-regulate within it. In a ready-to-display format, each set of 13 frameworks presents—in both graphics and words—a variety of concepts, their purpose, instructions for use, recommendations for related books, trainings, free articles and webinars, and connections to other frameworks. Set 2 contains the following 13 frameworks: · 3 Part of Play/Activity · Boring Moments · I Don’t Care Scale · 5 Steps of Being with Others · 6 Levels of the Friendship Pyramid · 4 Steps of Face-to-Face Communication · Ask a Question, Add a Thought · Solving Problems · Learning How to Be Comfortable with Discomfort · Ladder of Success · The Spiral of Social Failure · The Spiral of Social Success · Independence Mountain The majority of frameworks were first presented in print products published by Think Social Publishing, Inc., and/or in webinars, articles, On Demand courses, and conference/livestream events that can be found on the Social Thinking website. We strongly urge interventionists to explore these source products for deeper instruction, examples, and learning for using the frameworks in practice.