April 2008 |
 |
Awards
CEO REFRESHER THE BEST BOOKS OF 2007
WHOEVER TELLS THE BEST STORY WINS: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact
ONE FOOT OUT THE DOOR: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That's Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business
SOMETHING REALLY NEW: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products
GETTING YOUR WAY EVERY DAY: Mastering the Lost Art of Pure Persuasion
MORE HARM THAN GOOD: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Common Treatments and Procedures
By Alan Zelicoff, M.D., and Michael Bellomo
ISBN#978-08144-00272 $24.00
Offers a compelling look at medical care today and arms you with the facts and questions you need to better discuss options with your doctors, and examine the way doctors select treatments in the first place. Unlike other books on our health care system, this is not a dry policy discussion, nor is it an alarmist book meant to instill fear. Instead, it provides individuals with the means to engage in meaningful dialogue with their physicians and engage in shared decision-making for treatments that help balance benefits with risks and costs.
Should you be skeptical of new medical breakthroughs?
Preview the Contents
MANAGING ONLINE FORUMS: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion BoardsBy Patrick O'Keefe
ISBN#978-08144-01972 $24.00
Running an online community can be satisfying, fun, and exciting, especially if you're in charge of a popular site where people come to discuss their favorite hobbies, movies, music, and news. But there's a flip side to being the gatekeeper of a discussion board. Difficult users, legal constraints, spammers, and technical issues can turn the excitement of running an online community into total chaos. With the right guidance, however, running forums can be a pleasure. Patrick O'Keefe has spent years developing and managing online communities. Now, he shows you how to make the right decisions about every aspect of your site.
See how to start a community off right!
Preview the Contents
UNDERCOVER: How I Went from Company Man to FBI Spy-and Exposed the Worst Healthcare Fraud in U.S. HistoryBy: John W. Schilling
ISBN#978-08144-74501 $24.00
John Schilling recounts his nine-year journey from loyal employee to federal informant and top witness for the Justice Department's case against Columbia/HCA-the biggest and most formidable conglomerate in the healthcare business. It began in April 1994 with a pointed question from a government auditor about a cost report for one of Columbia's facilities. When his boss's boss urged diverting attention away from a mistake worth $3.5 million, Schilling faced a choice: Go along to get along or speak out and risk being fired, blackballed, and reviled. His courageous decision brought him more excitement, stress, turmoil, and money than he could have imagined.
Read how it started.
Preview the Contents
Completely Updated THIRD EDITION!
THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT'S AND SECRETARY'S HANDBOOK
By James Stroman, Kevin Wilson, and Jennifer Wauson
ISBN#978-08144-09138 $34.95
The most thorough, trusted career guide for administrative professionals, completely updated and written in a down-to-earth style. This all-new third edition provides an overview for new administrative assistants, and offers information on everything from record keeping and telephone usage to office machines, business letters, and computer software skills. Included in the book are a glossary of computer terms and special business and financial information for the small business secretary.
See why Administrative Assistants are still important
Preview the Contents
NOW IN PAPERBACK!
INTERNET RICHES: The Simple Money-Making Secrets of Online Millionaires
By Scott Fox
ISBN#978-08144-09954 $17.95
Top e-business consultant Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple strategies that he and other entrepreneurs have used to start and build their million-dollar enterprises. Packed with interviews, action plans, and a nuts-and-bolts overview of everything you need to know to design and market your e-business. Gives you clear insights into the most promising e-business opportunities out there (including instant e-businesses that require almost NO start-up capital); powerful action plans for brainstorming new business ideas, plus guidelines on pre-testing them before investing a single penny; and inspiring examples of innovative companies that grew out of a single great idea. This is the most powerful guide ever to finding financial freedom online!
See how YOU can profit from the Internet Gold Rush!
Preview the Contents
THE JOY OF RETIREMENT: Finding Happiness, Freedom, and the Life You've Always Wanted
By David C. Borchard with Patricia A. Donohoe
ISBN#978-08144-80564 $16.95
Shows you how to reinvent yourself and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning in your life that you have always dreamed of. Now you can start crafting your future and discovering your passions with advice on topics such as * finding new interests that make the most of your unique talents * planning your lifestyle at 50+ * assessing what transitions you are ready and willing to make * defining priorities and goals * establishing your criteria for success * mastering the seven steps to maintaining vitality. Revealing and hopeful, this is the book that shows you that life after work can be fulfilling, fun, and exhilarating.
See how to start reinventing your life
Preview the Contents
HOW TO BECOME A BETTER NEGOTIATOR
Second Edition
By Richard A. Luecke and James G. Patterson
ISBN#978-08144-00470 $12.00
Learning how to negotiate for what you want is a critical skill if you want to get ahead. Whether it's at home or at work, this indispensable guide, updated with completely new tactics and strategies, shows you how to negotiate like a pro. This new edition lets you in on the common characteristics shared by great negotiators; different tactics for handling conflict (and when to use each one); how to plan and carry out a successful negotiation strategy; and proven methods for counteracting the tactics of others. The book covers important topics such as listening, assertiveness, and how to deal with hostile opponents.
What's the difference between Win-Lose and Win-Win?
Preview the Contents
By Susan B. Wilson and Michael S. Dobson
ISBN#978-08144-01699 $12.00
Some people consistently seem to get more done than others – because they know how to set specific, achievable goals for themselves...and then follow through on them. This revised and updated edition of GOAL SETTING features worksheets, quizzes, and other practical tools, providing powerful techniques you can use to set a goal, make a plan, and acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve your objective.
Stumped? See how to start setting goals.
Preview the Contents
IN THE LAND OF DIFFICULT PEOPLE: 24 Timeless Tales Reveal How to Tame Beasts at Work
By Terrence L. Gargiulo and Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.
ISBN#978-08144-00296 $19.95
Presents dozens of timeless folk tales from around the world, then applies the lessons we can learn from them to present-day work situations, showing how you can best maneuver around the equally challenging personalities found in your own workplace. You'll meet the eight major types of difficult people (animals!) – and learn how to handle scary, insecure bosses, self-interested coworkers, and other figures so perfectly mirrored in these delightful and enlightening tales. The stories collected here show how using classic street smarts and some not-so-common sense, you can win the day against snakelike gossipmongers, kingly tyrants, backstabbing tricksters-and all other workplace "beasts."
See why folk tales can be both fun and enlightening.
Preview the Contents
Jim Remley author SELL YOUR HOME IN ANY MARKEThas been in much demand by the media. In the past few weeks he has been interviewed by CNN?s Issue #1 and Open House, over 20 national and regional radio shows, and he did an online chat with washingtonpost.com. Read More
David Reed, continues to promote his newest real estate book THE REAL ESTATE INVESTOR'S GUIDE TO FINANCING with numerous radio interviews, and we have extended his national radio morning drive-time campaign through to April.Read More
LIBRARY JOURNAL selects WELCOME TO BIOTECH NATION: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas by Moira A. Gunn as one of their BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2007 in their 3/1/08 issue.
LJ said in part: "Ex-NASA engineer and NPR journalist Gunn didn't know quite what she was getting into when she began hosting a weekly radio show on biotechnology. Now, she vividly writes about its visionary frontiers and quirky personalities."
MYSELF AND OTHER MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS by Charles Handy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "MYSELF AND OTHER MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS is a charming autobiography, recounting Mr. Handy's life in genial prose. Like the best Oxford tutorials, it is much more substantial than it first appears. It is not only an excellent introduction to Mr. Handy's thinking; it is a valuable account of how British attitudes to business have changed over the past 50 years....Mr. Handy's crystal-clear prose in MYSELF AND OTHER MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS is proof that you can write about business without butchering the English language. And his predilection for finding management wisdom in the classics is a reminder that people were thinking about how to run organizations long before the Harvard Business School was founded. Now that Peter Drucker has died, it is hard to think of another management guru who could write such an idiosyncratic and engaging book."
LIVE FROM JORDAN by Benjamin Orbach
DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY: "LIVE FROM JORDAN... is the thoughtful, illuminating, and highly entertaining book debut by Pittsburgh native Benjamin Orbach....an elegantly written, and often hilarious account of Orbach's prolonged stay in Jordan and Egypt....an intelligent, balanced, and insightful book debut."
A division of American Management Association International
1601
Broadway New York, NY 10019 | Phone: 212.586.8100 | Fax: 212.903.8168
| Customer Service: 1.800.262.9699
E-MAIL AND PRIVACY POLICY
To view our privacy policy, click here.
We invite your feedback at: bookblast@amanet.org
AMACOM Books
A division of American Management Association International
1601 Broadway
New York, NY 10019