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Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide is just what the name implies: a hands-on, detailed description of facilitating Open Space Technology (OST). OST is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 2,000 participants that has been used in thousands of organizations in 134 countries and just keeps growing in popularity. Written by the originator of the method, this is the most authoritative book on the rationale, procedures, and requirements of OST.

Are you always running out of money - or worried that you will? Does your salary or income never seem to stretch far enough? You can change that, right now. You can begin bringing more money into your life immediately with this clear and effective program from Jerrold Mundis, bestselling author of How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously. This program works, and it is a total approach to your life.

In just 20 minutes a day, you can significantly improve your health, relationships, financial security...everything about your life. The secret lies in personalized self-hypnosis tapes that you make yourself to program your subconscious. Their effect is nothing short of astounding. They can build self-confidence, improve memory, cure insomnia, enhance your sex life, help break such bad habits as smoking and overeating, and much more.

As the first book of its kind, Artificial Intelligence in Business and Technology guides listeners on an expansive journey through the transformative world of AI, offering a thorough dissection of this game-changing technology that promises to redefine our future.

The hardest part of a manager’s job isn’t staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It’s dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they’ve always been done and too afraid to do things differently. Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.

World-renowned business strategist and best-selling author ( The Experience Economy, 140,00 copies sold), Joe Pine teams up with Kim Korn to take the next step after The Experience Economy. They offer a revolutionary new model to help businesses understand and develop a strategy for harnessing the limitless potential of digital technology to create memorable, enriching customer experiences.

Listening deeply is the foundation of all effective organizational management, research, and consulting. This audioook explores the many aspects of attentive listening through storytelling and includes examples of organizational case studies. This new edition of Listening Deeply updates historical context, theory, method, and organizational stories. His lessons are useful to the manager in any kind of organization, as well as practitioners of psychology, sociology, business management, medicine, and education.

In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion, Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America, and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing.

Contrary to popular discourse warning about the dangers of populism, Critchlow argues that grassroots activism is essential to party renewal within a democratic system. In Defense of Populism examines movements that influenced Republican, Democratic, and third-party politics - from the Progressives and their influence on Teddy Roosevelt, to New Dealers and FDR, to the civil rights, feminist, and environmental movements and their impact on the Democratic Party, to the Reagan Revolution and the Tea Party.

In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring’s book is a rich, in-depth attempt to separate fact from fiction in one local area, while also contributing to a scholarly discussion of the Underground Railroad by placing Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the national context.

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from "sleep debt", or what Horne calls "societal insomnia" - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease. It presents evidence which suggests that sleep debt has not in fact worsened to any marked extent over the last hundred or so years, by looking back at some historical writings on sleeplessness and integrating the findings with, evidence-based research that he has undertaken over the last decade.

After reading countless articles and sought expert advices and have read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists you finally decide to have one of your own. Then it happens: you think you have known everything there is to know about opt-in lists and have followed their advices to the T and you still weren't able to make a profit. So what could have gone wrong? Why have others succeeded where you have failed? This audiobook will help you find success.

In dealing with this most important issue, you will be exposed to why exercise is a good thing. Then an introduction into the principles of exercise will be done. Did you know that even though emphasis is place on regular exercise, you will notice that a rest day is equally important? Learn why finding a routine is so vital and why planning goals for exercise routine is extremely important. How will motivation help you stay the course?

Now that your cover letter has got you the interview, all you have to do is to hit a home run and get that job. You’ll find in this book some killer interview tips and techniques that will seal the deal. First off, I want you to know that for you to even make it this far means that they’re very interested in you. The job is close enough to taste and basically has your name on it. Read more to get the info you need.

If you're overweight, you are not a bad person. You're simply overweight. But it's important to lose the extra pounds so you'll look good, feel healthier, and develop a sense of pride and self-esteem. Once you've lost the fat, you'll need to maintain your weight. In this booklet, you'll discover how to lose 10 pounds a month - a nice, safe loss of about two or two-and-a-half pounds a week - painlessly. You'll feel satisfied and more energetic than in the past without feeling deprived.

Best-selling authors Chip Bell and John Patterson here describe the new rules for coping with demanding customers in a wired, want-it-now world. Bell and Patterson provide a tested formula for restoring balance to the customer relationship by establishing what they call “Service Calm”. The three steps to Service Calm sound simple, but they draw on sophisticated psychological principles and are profound in application.

Virtually all job hunting experts agree that networking is the best way to find a great job. But most people don't have connections to the decision makers who do the hiring. And "networking" books, which are mostly written by and for salespeople, suggest aggressive tactics, often confusing these with real networking. They focus on building a powerful network over the course of a lifetime. But when you need a new job, you don't have time to build a huge, powerful network. You've got to use the network you already have.

You'll learn how to generate and test business ideas, and pick the one that's best for you... select the right entry strategy... name and locate your business... raise capital... build your team and get expert advice... protect your business secrets and intellectual property... effectively brand your business and market its offerings... handle pricing, distribution, and sales... manage your finances to specific objectives... prepare for growth... and even maintain your work/life balance as an entrepreneur.

how can you discover the answers to your specific questions among so much information? The danger is in reading Scripture out of context, which is one of the greatest threats to biblical literacy today. This multi-volume series will help you overcome both the challenge and the danger. Each passage of Scripture presented in Topical Bible Studies is considered in its historical and scriptural context before asking how it applies to the question at hand.