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Product Description: Communication seems so simple, yet breakdowns in communication abound and serious misunderstandings can have you losing your temper, face or credibility and failing to achieve what you want. But both written and presentational business communication are career skills – affecting your current job and future prospects – in which you simply must excel...read more

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Product Description: By the end of this book you will have be ready to lead at a higher level Discover your writing strengths and weaknesses Understand the key types of business writing Develop your skills Get the details right Make a positive impact on your business Other books help you talk the talk...read more

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Product Description: La perfecta gestión del tiempo le ofrece una serie de consejos prácticos que sirven como orientación para ayudarle a convertirse en campeona y campeón en la buena organización de su tiempo. El libro incluye una gran cantidad de instrucciones y técnicas probadas que permiten a cualquiera revisar y juzgar los hábitos de la p...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive and accessible book covering all key marketing matters, with an emphasis on practicality and why marketing is important in engineering. Aimed primarily at non-marketing people wanting clarification of marketing's purpose, role and methods.

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One of the major tasks facing any manager is the challenge of maximizing staff performance. This practical guide looks at a range of factors associated with this issue, such as motivation and development, assessing competencies, delegation, training and career implications.

Clear and distinctive written communications help project a favorable personal and corporate personality. Effective Business Writing will help readers formulate a systematic approach to writing that makes it easier and quicker to get the right words down, avoiding the dangers of bland and formulaic approaches. It is important to adopt the right style, create a clear and appropriate structure, and select the method - letter, fax or email - that suits one's purpose. Effective Business Writing teaches how to do this.  It covers the advantages and disadvantages of email and how to make it productive, as well as the approach to take when writing longer documents such as reports and proposals. Every executive or manager who has to “put pen to paper,” whether their communications are external or internal, and who wants to be understood and make their messages count will find Effective Business Writing valuable.

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