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How a Little Planning Beats a Lot of Firefighting: Use Simple Planning Skills to Transform Your Productivity
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Product Description: If you?ve ever been told that you `have to do more with less? or `work smarter not harder? and wondered what these things are supposed to mean, this book gives you the answer. It shows how a little planning - normally thought of as being the preserve of large undertakings, great construction projects or huge sporting events or military offensives ? will indeed enable you to get more done with less effort...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781472119063 | Constable & Robinson Ltd, May 31, 2016, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: If you?

Leadership Lessons from the Race to the South Pole: Why Amundsen Lived and Scott Died
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Discusses the intense relationships which can exist between humans and animals, and tells of such 'animal people' as Cleveland Amory, Sylvia Earle, John Lilly, and Joan Embery
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781440835001 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2015, cover price $37.00

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9780395348383, titled "Animal People" | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | also contains Animal People | About this edition: Discusses the intense relationships which can exist between humans and animals, and tells of such 'animal people' as Cleveland Amory, Sylvia Earle, John Lilly, and Joan Embery

Stuff I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working
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Product Description: Don't learn the hard way—get work advice from some of the world's most successful people, all in one place! Work is a tricky business—the politics, the workload, the career ladder. It can take years and years of battling away and learning through mistakes to fully get to grips with the dos and don'ts...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780857085702 | Capstone Ltd, January 12, 2015, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Don't learn the hard way—get work advice from some of the world's most successful people, all in one place!

El poder de hacer menos / The Power of Doing Less
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Product Description: Todos vivimos muy ocupados y probablemente te acuestas exhausto pensando que has hecho muchas cosas, y tal vez sea asi, pero son cosas que realmente importan? E s hora de ser mas astutos. Nunca podras hacer todas las cosas que pretendes, hay cosas que no pueden ser dejadas para mas adelante, simplemente las tienes que abandonar...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9788492921003 | Urano, August 30, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Todos vivimos muy ocupados y probablemente te acuestas exhausto pensando que has hecho muchas cosas, y tal vez sea asi, pero son cosas que realmente importan?

Tightening Your Wasteline in Business
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Product Description: Has your management ever said any of the following to you: "That's the way we've always done it." "I don't want to hear anybody saying the word can't." "You'll have to make do with less." "You're not being a team player." "You're lucky to have a job...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781499358506 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 6, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Has your management ever said any of the following to you: "That's the way we've always done it.

Moonlight
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Product Description: Summer, 1914. Clara, a passionate young London wife and the mother of two small girls, is married to Henry, a manager at an insurance company, but the marriage is not in good shape. Both of them have, in their own ways, given up on it...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780857280954 | Anthem Pr, September 15, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Summer, 1914.

The Power of Doing Less: Why Time Management Courses Don't Work and How to Spend Your Precious Life on the Things That Really Matter
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Product Description: Overloaded? I’ll bet you are. We all lead busy lives. You fall into bed exhausted at the end of the day, feeling that you’ve got a lot done. Perhaps you are getting lots done. But is it stuff that really matters? Or is it just stuff?  It’s time to wise up...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780857084217 | Capstone Ltd, September 16, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Overloaded?

Candlelight
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781783082018 | Anthem Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $18.95

Simply Brilliant: The Common-sense Guide to Success at Work
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Product Description: Head banging against a brick wall? Nagging problem you just can’t solve? You’re not the only one. An astonishing number of intelligent people struggle to find solutions to some of the complex, varied and often frustrating problems we face in our day-to-day work...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780273768081 | 4th edition (Financial Times Management, February 23, 2012), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Head banging against a brick wall?

Zero Waste in Business
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Product Description: "Zero Waste is a goal, a process, a way of thinking that profoundlychanges our approach to resources and production. This is a practical,how to book with examples, templates and checklists. The processdescribed is a simple, straightforward, step by step, proven to work onewhich can be easily measured and can lead to substantial results...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781907756382 | Innovative Logistics Llc, April 30, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: "Zero Waste is a goal, a process, a way of thinking that profoundlychanges our approach to resources and production.

What You Need to Know About Project Management
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By Fergus O'Connell
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9780857081315 | Capstone Ltd, February 22, 2011, cover price $25.00

Earn More, Stress Less: How to Attract Wealth Using the Secret Science of Getting Rich Your Practical Guide to Living the Law of Attraction
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780857080264 | Capstone, November 23, 2010, cover price $19.95

Earn More, Stress Less: How to Attract Wealth Using the Secret Science of Getting Rich
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Product Description: If you heard there was a way to attract all the money you want, would you try it? It doesn't matter what's happened to you in the past or what your current situation is - you can live the life you want and never worry about money again...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781907293047 | Capstone Ltd, May 24, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: If you heard there was a way to attract all the money you want, would you try it?

Simply Brilliant: The Competitive Advantage of Common Sense.
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Product Description: 1. Many things in life are incredibly simple. 2. There are a lot of smart people in the world (you're probably one of them). So why is it that so many truly daft things get done? Simply Brilliant is the smart person's guide to the incredibly straightforward stuff that may have been overlooked in the search for a complex answer...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780273720775, titled "Simply Brilliant: The Competitive Advantage of Common Sense" | 3 edition (Prentice Hall, November 21, 2008), cover price $36.50 | About this edition: 1.

Fast Projects: Project Management When Time Is Short
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780273712336 | Financial Times Management, September 30, 2007, cover price $29.99

How to Do a Great Job…& Go Home on Time
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Product Description: Forget work life balance - discover how to be great at your job AND have a life. By the author of best selling Simply Brilliant. Hot topic: articles are printed daily about how we are spending more and more time at work and under stress...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780273704553, titled "How to Do a Great Job…& Go Home on Time" | Pearson P T R, November 30, 2005, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Forget work life balance - discover how to be great at your job AND have a life.

Simply Brilliant: The Competative Advantage Of Common Sense
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Product Description: Life is complicated enough. Yet many people go out of their way to create hoops to jump through, wrestling with tough problems and calling on the latest management fad to find that elusive solution to a problem. But it doesn't have to be that way...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780273694458 | 2 edition (Financial Times Management, July 1, 2004), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Life is complicated enough.

The Competitive Advantage of Common Sense: Using the Power You Already Have
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Product Description: Author identifies seven 'common sense' principles for becoming dramatically more effective. He shows how those sometimes surprising solutions flow naturally from simple common sense. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780131411432 | Financial Times Management, February 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Author identifies seven 'common sense' principles for becoming dramatically more effective.

Call the Swallow
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Product Description: This first novel is the powerful story of Ariela Steinbaum, a nineteen-year-old Jewish girl in Poland who leaves home to study music in Warsaw. It is 1938, the eve of the Holocaust in Germany, and Nazi power is at its zenith. By 1945 Hitler will have erased European Jews and their culture from the map...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9781903464168 | Collins Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This first novel is the powerful story of Ariela Steinbaum, a nineteen-year-old Jewish girl in Poland who leaves home to study music in Warsaw.

How to Run Successful Projects III: The Silver Bullet
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Product Description: Many project managers -- especially in software -- go their entire professional lives in ignorance of the factors behind the success or failure of their projects. Permanently, in a state of agitation and worry they just can't explain why some projects work out and others don't...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780201748062 | Addison-Wesley, September 1, 2001, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Many project managers -- especially in software -- go their entire professional lives in ignorance of the factors behind the success or failure of their projects.

How to Run Successful Projects in Web Time
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Product Description: The author compares the movie industry and high-tech industries with regard to project management. He believes that the way to shorten projects is to find the critical path and often project management software doesn't provide such crucial information. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781580531658 | Artech House, November 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The author compares the movie industry and high-tech industries with regard to project management.

How to Run Successful High-Tech Project-Bases Organizations
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Product Description: This volume offers practical steps to creating a Structured Project Management (SPM) system in your organization. Based on the ten steps in Fergus O'Connell's previous book, How To Run Successful Projects, it expands on that concept to offer a solution to keeping today's high-tech companies competitive, on budget, and on schedule...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781580530101 | Artech House, October 1, 1999, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This volume offers practical steps to creating a Structured Project Management (SPM) system in your organization.

How to Run Successful Projects II: The Silver Bullet
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Product Description: This text is based on the concept that the "ten step method" explained in the first edition is the solution to the software industry's biggest problem: projects arriving late, over budget or not delivering what was needed. The ten steps come in two sections: planning the project and excuting the plan...read more
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780132398565 | 2 sub edition (Prentice Hall, October 1, 1996), cover price $57.32 | About this edition: This text is based on the concept that the "ten step method" explained in the first edition is the solution to the software industry's biggest problem: projects arriving late, over budget or not delivering what was needed.

How to Run Successful Projects
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Product Description: An attempt to demystify project management, the objective of this text is to bring order and rigour to the process and to guide the manager towards the successful conclusion of the project in hand. It discusses dealing with people and provides built-in self-checking mechanisms.
By Fergus O'Connell
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9780131387935 | Prentice Hall, April 1, 1994, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: An attempt to demystify project management, the objective of this text is to bring order and rigour to the process and to guide the manager towards the successful conclusion of the project in hand.

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