Passion, Persistence, and Patience : Key Skills for Achieving Project Success

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The aim of this book is to inspire and encourage project practitioners, executives, and beginners in the project management field to develop passion, persistence, and patience. The author tells his personal stories and experiences managing projects in organizations by practicing his three Ps–passion, persistence, and patience. Several examples and some tools are included at every chapter. The reader will discover how to assess his/her passion, persistence, and patience and will discover suggestions and methods to prepare an improvement plan. This book is the fruit of several years of different author experiences lived as a project manager and as a professional worldwide. Cultivating his passion, persistence, and patience over the years, he has achieved many of his professional goals. Read this book carefully and reflect upon your personal behaviors, then you will achieve your excellence as a professional.

From Behind The Desk to the Front of the Stage: How to Enhance Your Presentation Skills

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From Behind the Desk to the Front of the Stage discusses all aspects of public speaking with particular emphasis on the skills people need to be successful in their business careers. It covers a wide range of different presentation challenges, including making an impact in the boardroom, conference speaking, using multi-media, and bringing complex subjects to life. There are many practical hints, tips, and exercises to help people improve their presentation style, as well as detailed advice on how to create and structure content to make maximum impact.
This book has a business focus and is aimed at people who need to be good on their feet in order to progress in their careers. It also covers other challenging events such as awards ceremonies, formal, and informal social occasions. Its USPs are that it takes people on their journey from behind their desk to the front of the stage in a sympathetic and insightful way, helping them to build on their strengths and gain confidence as they go along.

Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Traders

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If you are a beginner to the world of options, Mastering Options— Effective and Profitable Strategies for Traders is essential for learning the basics of option strategies that will enable you to start making consistently handsome earnings. This book gives the novice a comprehensive understanding of using option investment and hedging strategies successfully.
The content is aimed primarily at the undergraduate whose ambition is to become either a trader in a financial organization or an online investor through a financial broker’s trading platform. It also provides seasoned investors and traders with new insights into using options as an investment tool. The key trading tools available on online trading platforms are explained in enough detail that beginners will be able to understand as well as learn how to invest effectively in the financial markets using options.
Chapter by chapter, this book builds a complete understanding of the basic building blocks of investing in options, including common.

Co-Design, Volume I: Practical Ideas for Learning Across Complex Systems

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Learning is fundamental to living and organizing in complex systems. This book provides a guide to co-designing learn- ing environments and relationships. The authors begin by revisiting what learning means in living systems. Their experiences with business organizations and formal education systems have led to the conclusion that learning has been lost from view in many complex systems.
The authors briefly trace the history of ideas about learning to give new energy and focus for co-designing learning places. The 12 thematic chapters in this book focus on practical ideas. Each chapter centers on a theme that is explored through a collection of short pieces—presented as ideas, theories, stories, approaches, and methods. This book will benefit a multitude of people and professionals who are interested in new ways to think about learning, both individually and collectively-it was written with a diverse readership in mind.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 3: Tears

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 2 : Sweat

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume I: Blood

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Strategic Engagement: Practical Tools to Raise Morale and Increase Results, Volume II: System-Wide Activities

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This book is a great ‘pocket book’—a leader’s best friend—saturated with a roadmap that puts theory into action. An organization is a ‘net- work of relationships’. Crosby highlights the many ways this network can fumble while providing clear steps to upgrade the entire system. Too many books give glamour to theory while missing the link of how theory is implemented.”—Timothy Weber, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
“Chris has provided us with a virtual outline for a graduate-level program in OD! Amazing work!”—Dr. John J. Scherer, Co-Director, Scherer Leadership Center
“I have an extensive collection of business books, and this is a real gem. I started my last two CEO positions with transition sessions as outlined in this collection, led by Chris. In this book are activities that I have used to reach record results.”—Brian Bauerbach, President & CEO, Mold Rite Plastics
“An immensely practical book that will help people create organizations that get results. Chris has organized this into an easy-to-understand guide. Executives should read it with no less reverence than they would read their company’s financial report.”—Ethan Schutz, President & CEO, The Schutz Company
Gallup’s State of the American Workplace showed that workplaces that are actively engaged outperform workplaces that are disengaged in every measure. Crosby’s two-volume set contains eight activities that create an engaged workplace and improve results. Volume Two, System-wide Activities, starts with a chapter on implementation competency, then follows with chapters on group-to-group conflict, goal alignment, process improvement, and project planning. Finally, the appendices contain the materials required for each activity.

Co-Design, Volume II: Practical Ideas for Designing Across Complex Systems

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Design is everywhere in our lives—but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meaningful as they are used and experienced by people.
This book is about understanding the nature of design and organization in complex living systems. It looks at design as a way of thinking and acting. Design becomes an open- ended conversation with the world around us. The text is also about the shifting social relations of design—moving from an emphasis on individual engineers and designers toward the participatory process of making sense of tools to improve our lives: we call this process co-design.