Business : Business Communication

A provocative look at the extraordinary annual Burning Man festival—held each year before Labor Day, and drawing thousands of people from all walks of life to the forbidding Black Rock Desert in Nevada—spotlights the radically self-reliant and vibrantly creative community that gathers for a week-long stay that culminates in the burning of a symbolic wooden man. The glamorous and anarchic aspects of the makeshift city—ideas that are at once ingenious and unimaginable in normal society—include a three-story temple composed of discarded dinosaur puzzle pieces, a giant flame-spewing metal-lotus flower, and a glowing white whale sailing over the starry desert sky. The magnificent spirit of a festival where money and spectators are not allowed is captured here, bringing a piece of the whimsical, strange, and enlightened energy to those who've never participated as well as to veterans wishing to reminisce. more...

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One of the most frustrating things that can happen in sales is to run into a person you simply cannot get to make a decision and sign an agreement. If you’ve been selling your expertise long enough, you know how it goes. The fact is that many professionals work a lot harder than they need to, because they accept those answers at face value and back off. Some even count those promises as sales, and start planning all the ways they’re going to spend the money they’re going to make—once the deal comes through. But, more often than not, they’re in for a rude awakening. When a prospective clients balks at approving an agreement, it poses several big problems. There are plenty of excellent reasons for any professional to become good at pinning down evasive clients. In this eReport, I want to highlight some powerful tactics for turning those prospects who balk into paying clients. more...

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Despite 250 years of land reform all over the World, important land inequalities remain, especially in Latin America and Southern Africa.While in these countries, there is near consensus on the need for redistribution, much controversy persists around how to redistribute land peacefully and legally, often blocking progress on implementation.This book focuses on the "how" of land redistribution in order to forge greater consensus among land reform practitioners and enable them to make better choices on the mechanisms of land reform. Reviews and case studies describe and analyze the alternative implementation options. more...

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This book concentrates on ensuring that the 'corporate message' is communicated to stakeholders in a way that maximises the value of the annual report and outlines how this might best be achieved. It explains the importance not only of the quantitative (a more...

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Find out what you need to know EVERY time with The Art of Asking Questions eReport. Every so often, there comes along a taciturn coworker, a stalwart boss, or an indecisive client. With each, there is one obstacle blocking your plan, your raise, or your ability to close a sale: Communication. What can you do to crumble the walls that are blocking your lines of communication with these people, and, for that matter, anyone else? The answer lies in the Art of Asking Questions! What do you think about this project? Can you support this decision? What can I do to help you? How would you deal with this problem? What’s your objective? How do you feel about this? The world is full of questions: good questions, silly questions, important questions, offensive questions. Questions can build rapport and trust, or foster suspicion and discord. Questions can open up a conversation, or slam it closed. Questions can generate information, or send the conversation shooting off on a tangent. Questions are the heart of communication. They pump fresh life into conversations. Asking good questions = Getting the right answers. Asking good questions is particularly important in organizations where working together to achieve a common purpose is dependant upon the members of the group, and their ability to understand one another clearly. Asking questions about how things are done, why they’re done, who’s responsible for doing them, and when they’re due, form the basis of organizational effectiveness. Imagine launching a new product, putting together a budget, improving a process, implementing a new policy, or reviewing employee performance without asking questions. The Information Age could not exist without questions. The Art of Asking Questions eReport will help you understand how to use questions to improve your communication, what types of questions to use, when to use them, and the strategies and techniques of artful questioning. I, Dr. Tony Alessandra, have decades more...

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