How to succeed in work and life

Duncan contands the last thing we need amid life's inherent ibbalance is another attempt at a how-to formula for perfect balance--equal parts work and life. In fact, he argues that such a holy grail does not exist. Instead, he has issued a more pragmatic formula he calls purposeful imbalance: the process of purposefully learning toward work without sacrificing life and purposefully learning life without damaging your career.

GREEN ENERGY

Green Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact defines the future of the world’s electricity supply system, exploring the key issues associated with global warming and which energy systems are best suited to reducing it. This book is answering key questions, such as

• How can renewables be exploited to contribute the greatest energy input?
• Should coal be used for clean fuel and chemical production rather than for power generation?
• How quickly can we start to build the Green Energy system?

This book details how current technologies particularly nuclear, combined cycle and hydro can be applied to satisfy the growing energy demands in the future.

THE ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORK FIELDBOOK

In this book, the authors draw on their network-building activities in organizations such as ConocoPhillips, 3M, and the United States Department of Defense in order to provide a compilation of highly practical approaches to help leaders shift their focus from formal organizational structures to a better understanding of flexible networks.

LEADERSHIP FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

As the first book in the field of leadership studies to approach sustainability as a multi-faceted leadership challenge, Leadership for Environmental Sustainability will help to set the terms of the discussion on this topic among students, scholars, and practitioners of leadership for years to come. It explores the connection between leadership and sustainability from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, history, psychology, business, literature, communication, and the arts. With short chapters edited for readability, the book is aimed at scholars, practitioners, students, and educated lay readers interested in cutting-edge research and thinking on this topic.

The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership

"The primary work of leadership involves managing meaning through framing. Fairhurst shows that the way leaders use language to frame people, situations, and events has important consequences for the way individuals make sense of the world and their actions. The Power of Framing is an accessible and inspirational read for leaders who want to shape their organizations in ethically responsible ways." 
—J. KEVIN BARGE, professor, Texas A&M University

"An ideal book for MBA students and business professionals who are interested in specific tools for constructing leadership in their professional worlds. By focusing on the language toolbox of leadership, the book empowers anyone to construct leadership through talk and interaction." 
—JOLANTA ARITZ, associate professor, Center for Management Communication, USC Marshall School of Business

"Building on her earlier acclaimed work, and written in a highly accessible style, Fairhurst's thoughtful study provides us with a practical and highly relevant analysis of the power of framing language from a leadership perspective. This is a must-have book." 
—DAVID GRANT, professor of organizational studies, University of Sydney

"Communication is the most important element of leadership, and framing of the subject and situation is one of the most powerful tools available to leaders. Gail Fairhurst has created the handbook to help leaders do this right. A must-read for anyone in a leadership capacity." 
—RICH KILEY, venture capitalist, and retired Procter & Gamble marketing and HR executive

"To be an effective global manager, there is nothing more critical than understanding how to frame an issue so that you are effectively communicating and motivating in a culturally sensitive manner. This book will tune you into these issues and show you how to make certain your communication is properly interpreted by your audience." 
—OLGA JACOB, general sales manager (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg), American Airlines

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANTS

Seawater desalination is a coastal-based industry. The growing number of desalination plants worldwide and the increasing size of single facilities emphasis the need for greener desalination technologies and more sustainable desalination projects. Two complementing approaches are the development and implementation of best available technology (BAT) standards and practice guidelines for environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies. While BAT is a technology-based approach, which favours state of the art technologies that reduce resource consumption and waste emissions, EIA aims at minimizing impacts at a site and project-specific level through environmental monitoring, evaluation of impacts and mitigation where necessary. This book contains a comprehensive evaluation and synthesis of the potential environmental impacts of desalination plants, with emphasis on the marine environment and aspects of energy use, followed by the development of strategies for impact mitigation. A concept for BAT for seawater desalination technologies is proposed, in combination with a methodological approach for the EIA of desalination projects. The scope of the EIA studies are outlined, including environmental monitoring, toxicity and hydrodynamic modeling studies and the usefulness of multi-criteria analysis as a decision support tool for EIAs is explored and used to compare different intake and pretreatment options for seawater reverse osmosis plants.

REWIRE YOUR BRAIN

Rewire Your Brain guides you through this breakthrough process, revealing how to minimize your anxiety and enhance your brain's longevity in order to live a vibrant life free of self-imposed limitations. Written by Dr. John Arden, a leader in the field of brain-based therapy, this accessible guide addresses the recent advances in neuroscience and explains exactly how to apply them to specific areas of your daily life. You'll discover how to:

• Develop mental connections that promote good habits and shut off those that support bad habits
• Quiet your brain, conquer fear, and approach life courageously
• Become calm, energized and focused by making new connections between your neurons
• Improve and expand your relationships

THE LEADER'S GUIDE TO INFLUENCE

Creating effective working relationships is one of the most powerful ways to get things done at work. People skills are often described as 'soft skills', but there's nothing soft about the impact they can have on your business performance. As a manager or leader, using your influence positively, working with others and getting things done through other people is critical to delivering your business objectives. This book shows you how to step up your people skills to get the results you want.

IT'S OKAY TO MANAGE YOUR BOSS

Get what you need from your boss

In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan argues that as managers demand more and more from their employees, they are also providing them with less guidance than ever before. Since the number one factor in employee success is the relationship between employees and their immediate managers, employees need to take greater responsibility for getting the most out of that relationship. Drawing on years of experience training managers and employees, Tulgan reveals the four essential things employees should get from their bosses to guarantee success at work.

• Shows employees how to ask for what they need to succeed in their high-pressure jobs
• Shatters previously held beliefs about how employees should manage up
• Outlines what employees must get from their managers: clear expectations; the skills needed to perform their jobs; honest feedback, recognition or rewards

A novel approach to managing up, It's Okay to Manage Your Boss is an invaluable resource for employees who want to work more effectively with their managers.

MASTERING THE 7 ESSENTIALS OF HIGH-GROWTH COMPANIES

This practical, actionable book:

• Explains the basics of The 7 Essentials and how applying them will propel your business or unit into the realm of high growth.
• Provides in-depth interviews with CEOs who used The 7 Essentials to achieve high growth.
• Features a case study of India's HCL Technologies highlighting how this global leader applied The 7 Essentials to achieve exceptional growth.
• Proves that The 7 Essentials can be applied to any business, regardless of industry, country, or economic cycle.
• Offers access to online scoring tools to help teams apply The 7 Essentials, create an actionable road map, and measure success with a scorecard.

This book provides you with a time-tested blueprint to grow your business.

THE 2020 WORKPLACE

In The 2020 Workplace, Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd share impressive research findings, tell compelling stories and offer thought-provoking ideas that will become the basis for preparing to live in a global, technological, changing and connected future.

PANDUAN PENGUCAPAN AWAM (EDISI KEDUA)

Buku edisi kedua ini diterbitkan khusus untuk melatih dan membina keyakinan serta mendapatkan kemahiran untuk bercakap dan berucap di khalayak ramai. Beberapa panduan dan teknik telah ditambah dari buku edisi pertama bagi pembaca dan pengucap berucap dengan lebih berkesan.

DISCOVERIES OF THE CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE

This book explains the rationale behind the Census and highlights some of its most important and dramatic findings, illustrated with full-color photographs throughout. It explores how new technologies and partnerships have contributed to greater knowledge of marine life, from unknown species and habitats, to migration routes and distribution patterns, and to a better appreciation of how the oceans are changing. Looking to the future, it identifies what needs to be done to close the remaining gaps in our knowledge, and provides information that will enable us to manage resources more effectively, conserve diversity, reverse habitat losses and respond to global climate change.

THE WORLD OF ICT

With this collection of articles the editor hope to introduce dynamic and exciting topics to the readers as a foundation for new developments in the digital world.  It acts as a supplementary text to courses such as special topics in computers, computer concepts, and computer applications and also communication courses for IT students and other students in general. It can be used as a reference to the general public in familiarizing with advances in ICT technology.

ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN A NUTSHELL

The information in Organizational Performance In A Nutshell provides a comprehensive framework for understanding questions like why does one organization thrive while another struggles for survival even though both are operating in the same industry, or how can some of the largest global organizations such as GM, FORD, Chrysler, Home Depot, Sears, Kmart, Airbus, Citigroup, Gateway and Dell perform so poorly after being such colossal leaders in their industry? A new way of thinking about organizational effectiveness will emerge from the information contained in this book. In sum, organizational performance in a nutshell will be revealed.

SERVICE SCIENCE

This book aims to change the situation by addressing the following questions: What is the big story about service? What are the main research problems in service? What does “ a connected world” mean? Does service require a different kind of design science? What will be the next waves of the Web? How to support universal value co-creation? How to unite Cyberspace wilt physical space? Is it feasible to connect information resources everywhere? To answer these questions, the book presents and substantiates a digital connections scaling (DCS) model, complete with a population-oriented design paradigm and a new class of microeconomic production functions to explain the paths of transformation into the future one of the most original results today. Next the book analyzes new business designs on the Web and characterizes a service-led revolution for the Knowledge Economy. Thirdly, it develops systems planning and design methods to help implement the DCS model at the level of Information and Database Systems, Business Strategy and Digitization Engineering, thereby enhancing these fields. Finally, certain intriguing new applications, especially “smart highways” and information supply chains, are discussed.

PEOPLE SKILLS THIRD EDITION

The book is divided into three parts. Part I stresses the importance of personal effectiveness skills, while Part II concentrates on the skills involved in personal interactions. Part III has as its focus the skills of intervention agreeing what needs to be done and taking the necessary steps to make it happen. A central feature of the book is its emphasis on the need for issues of equality and diversity to be integrated into all aspects of practice. This thoroughly revised edition includes six entirely new chapters on:

• Being creative
• Being realistic
• Leadership
• Multidisciplinary working
• Risk assessment
• Responding to trauma

It is essential reading for everyone working, or training to work, with people and their problems and will be invaluable in such diverse fields as health care; social work and social care; community and youth work; criminal justice; counselling, pastoral care and advice work; as well as management, supervision and human resources.

LEADERSHIP TEAMS

Leadership Teams identifies six critical stages to developing high-performing teams. The actions of effective leaders turning dysfunctional groups into world class teams are clearly identified. Being innovative, being decisive, managing conflict effectively are all necessary attributes to having teams and individuals fully engaged to realizing the vision of the organization. The research behind Leadership Teamsis extensive and is captured as a serialized case study. Based on a true-life transformational experience, the case of the Traditional Turbine Company is interwoven into each chapter to outline the challenges and steps to take to convert a group into a high-performing team. The wisdom underlying this book is of great benefit for managers who are stretched by the scale and complexity of their organization but who are equally tasked to succeed, irrespective of their circumstances. Leadership Teams spells out what it takes to release the immense power from shared ways of working.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY REFORM

This state of the art study argues that reforms to intellectual property (IP) should be based on the ways IP is interacting with new technologies, business models, work patterns and social mores. It identifies emerging IP reform proposals and experiments, indicating first how more rigor and independence can be built into the granting of IP rights so that genuine innovations are recognized. The original contributions illustrate how IP rights can be utilized, through open source licensing systems and private transfers, to disseminate knowledge. Reforms are recommended. The discussion takes in patents, copyright, trade secrets and relational obligations, considering the design of legislative directives, default principles, administrative practices, contractual terms and license specifications. Providing contemporary empirical studies and covering public administration, collective and open approaches and regulation of private transactions, this book will prove a stimulating read for academics and students of law, business and management and development studies, government policymakers and regulators as well as IP managers and advocates.

MALAYSIA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT

This book provides a practical and concise overview of the essential aspects of copyright law in Malaysia. Written in an easy to understand manner, readers will be able to understand and obtain a good grasp of what is meant by "originality" in works, the doctrine of "fair use", rights of copyright owners, defences and remedies in copyright infringement and the penalties for infringement. Reference is widely made to the Copyright Act 1987 as well as case law in Malaysia, Australia and the UK.

SOLVING EVERYDAY PROBLEMS WITH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, travelling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems when no information is available for the present problem situation, how to increase our chances of success by redefining a problem, and how to extrapolate our capabilities by seing relationship among herefore unrelated concepts.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT BASICS

Knowledge Management Basics presents a five step process that will enable you, the learning professional, to define your role in a knowledge management initiative and prepare to lead that effort:

• Determine your organization’s needs
• Locate knowledge sources
• Choose systems to gather and house information that make sense for your organization’s culture
• Compile, confirm and circulate knowledge
• Maintain the knowledge system

PEOPLE STYLES AT WORK

People Styles at Work And Beyond reveals the strengths and weaknesses of each style, includes a self-assessment for determining which style you are, and presents a proven approach you can use to:             

• Identify the best ways to work with others based on their body language and behavior
• Recognize how you come across to co workers
• Make small adjustments that will dramatically increase the quality and productivity of your interactions
• Find common ground with different people
• Relate less defensively and more effectively no matters how others act

Now including all new material on personal relationships, parenting and more, this is the ultimate guide that has helped hundreds of thousands of people make their most difficult relationships much more productive and pleasant.

Driving Innovation: Intellectual Property Strategies for a Dynamic World

Driving Innovation reveals the dynamics of intellectual property (IP) as it drives the innovation cycle and shapes global society. The book presents fundamental IP concepts and practical legal and business strategies that apply broadly to all innovation communities, including industry, nonprofit institutions, and developing countries. Topics include biotechnology, information technology, and entertainment. The book gives general readers and practitioners a global perspective on how the IP system balances exclusivity and public access to innovations, how it changes over time, and how it encourages, channels, and sometimes stifles innovation.

Daripada Baik kepada Hebat: 30 Cara Berfikir untuk Menjadi Eksekutif Cemerlang

Penulis mengulas dan memberikan tips dan cadangan dalam membina jati diri bagi menjadi seorang yang hebat.

Biotechnology Valuation: An Introductory Guide

Looks at the various companies which make up the biotech industry (therapeutic; life sciences; and the medical technology company) and gives tools for the investor to properly evaluate them

100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE OTHERS (REVISED EDITION)

100 Ways To Motivate Others is the culmination of many years of successful leadership coaching and training by best-selling author Steve Chandler and attorney Scott Richardson and the natural follow-up to Chandler’s two previous best-sellers 100 ways to motivate yourself and reinventing yourself. This vital, user friendly, inspirational guide is for executives, managers, and professionals as well as those aspiring to reach their level. This book inspires extremely tough-minded leadership that gives the gift of clarity and vision to every person following the leader.

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE IN PRACTICE

Management Science In Practice takes a fundamental look at what management science is and how it can be practiced in today’s management environment. In doing so, Terry Williams:

• provides an underlying philosophy of how organizations operate and how analysts interact with organizations
• describes the analysis toolbox used by management science professionals
• covers multi-methodology, problem structuring techniques and analysis techniques.
• Offers guidance about the practicalities of real-life consulting and focuses on the key practical skills needed.

Management Science in Practice is a valuable resource for management Science and Operational Research students. It is also intended for practitioners who seek to make analytical interventions in business management or those undertaking continuous professional development.

5 MINDS FOR THE FUTURE

We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that’s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?

In 5 Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how we will each need to master "five minds" that the fast-paced future will demand:
 

• The disciplined mind, to learn at least one profession, as well as the major thinking (science, math, history, etc.) behind it
   
• The synthesizing mind, to organized the massive amounts of information and communicate effectively to others
   
• The creating mind, to revel in unasked questions and uncover new phenomena and insightful apt answers
   
• The respectful mind, to appreciate the differences between human beings and understand and work with all persons
   
• The ethical mind, to fulfill one's responsibilities as both a worker and a citizen

Without these "minds," we risk being overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace, and incapable of the judgement needed to thrive both personally and professionally. Complete with a substantial new introduction, Five Minds for the Future provides valuable tools for those looking ahead to the next generation of leaders - and for all of us striving to excel in a complex world. Howard Gardner cited by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the one hundred most influential public intellectuals in the world, and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

CONFIDENT PRESENTING

This book gives all you need know to make winning presentations¿ fearlessly and painlessly. It also includes;

• The truth about preparing quickly, efficiently and well
• The truth about managing anxiety and handling hostile audiences
• The truth about nonverbal signals, Powerpoint, microphones and more