Books in the Business Books series

Offers advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results. This title helps you to develop an understanding of the skills for holding a REAL conversation, including both the said and the unsai...d elements present in any conversation.
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Value investing isn't for everyone. From the time-tested Graham-and-Dodd fundamentals introduced in the 1930s to the contemporary lessons of Japan's lost decades, the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the rapid globalization of the investment arena, this book offers a modern take... on a classic approach to a timeless discipline.
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Featuring tactics based on the author's personal research, this guide helps readers defend their prices and protect their margins by preparing themselves to sell in a price-sensitive environment, gaining preemptive selling advantage, avoiding price resistance, and responding effe...ctively when price becomes an issue.
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The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn. --Zhu Yongxin One of today's leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education... is a collection of interviews with Professor Zhu on a wide array of important education issues. These are truly dialogues. The interviewers are either highly qualified journalists or education experts. The result is more dynamic and informative than anything a typical question/answer format could provide. Dialogues on the New Education provides a level of insight into the subject you will find nowhere else. The 55 interviews in this book cover such topics as: The Educational Ideals of an Official and Scholar Being a Teacher as a Life-Long Identity The Foundational Ideas of the New Education Experiment Moral Education During Times of Social Transition The Importance of Education Research Promoting Humanism and a Reading-Focused Society The Critical Role of Parents in a Child's Education Why Education Policymakers Should Listen to the Public Education should cultivate not only innovative talents and scientists but also applied skilled workers, Yongxin writes. But what's more critical is to turn our students into qualified citizens.
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The balance of power in the global economy is shifting. In this Good to Great-style guide to assessing the competitive threat of emerging-market rivals, a team of renowned experts in international business practices helps corporate leaders develop a strategy for maintaining marke...t dominance.
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