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Although there have been military, social, and labor histories
examining sailors, this book employs the methods of cultural
history to systematically integrate Jack Tar, the common seaman,
into larger narratives about British national identity. If, as it
has been argued, "Britishness" was defined in terms of one's
contribution to military efforts, why did sailors experience so
much difficulty winning acceptance as Britons? Why was that
acceptance delayed until the mid-nineteenth century? In pursuit of
this aim, Land develops a new approach to sailors that moves beyond
earlier historical work on maritime culture.
A panel of internationally recognized research scientists and
clinical investigators brings together a diverse collection of
readily reproducible methods for identifying and quantifying a
large number of specific genetic abnormalities associated with the
broad spectrum of myeloid malignancies. Highlights include
techniques for the detection of BCR-ABL mutations and resistance to
imatinib mesylate, detection of the FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion in
idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome and chronic eosinophilic
leukemia, classification of AML by DNA-oligonucleotide microarrays,
and detection of the V617F JAK2 mutation in myeloproliferative
disorders. In addition to gene rearrangments, other prognostically
relevant molecular lesions such as FLT3 mutations and WT-1
overexpression are covered.
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the
definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to
include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the
"war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify
often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom
fighters, and reformers.
The revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book
Asperger's and Girls describes the unique challenges of females on
the autism spectrum. In it, you'll follow the lives of women with
autism through childhood, the social and academic challenges of the
education system, and into the career and dating worlds. You'll
also hear from top experts on crucial and often under-discussed
subjects, including: Diagnosing girls with ASD Navigating the
neurotypical social world Puberty, sexual health, and personal
safety Independence, relationships, and marriage The importance of
the right career And so much more. This book is a necessity for
women with autism and those who love and support them. Direct
advice from leading professionals and candid stories written by the
indomitable women who have lived them send an important message: we
are women with autism. Give us the right tools and we can change
the world. First edition was winner of the Gold Award, Foreword
Book of the Year.
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the
definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to
include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the
"war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify
often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom
fighters, and reformers.
This extremely comprehensive book goes step-by-step through the
symptoms, definitions, assessments, and diagnoses of autism
spectrum disorders (ASDs). The authors describe ASDs in terms of
the parents, teachers, the school system, medical professionals,
adult service providers, and private agencies involved. In addition
to revealing what parents and professional can expect, this book
also provides practical strategies to improve the assessment
process and help the child or adult deal with the stress of the
evaluations. Finally, they tackle the controversial issues
surrounding the causes of ASD and available treatment options.
This book is for those who want to know the nuances of managing the
fundamentals of business administration. If this is what your
concern that keeps you worrying, I am sure this bookwill help you
understand and give you insights to add to your professional
skills. To sustain an establishment be it a corporate company or an
Non-Profit organization, it is not enough to have professionally
skilled employees, but it is the professional management that
ensures the long life of the business. Most of the time, the
theories a management student gets from his/her university
classrooms needs to be supplemented and substituted by practical
knowledge of managing a business and this bookgives you the insight
that you need of. Controlling incorporates the effective and
efficient use of organizational resources to achieve the
organizational goals. Controlling measures the difference between
the actual performance from standard performance and it determines
why the actual performance deviated from the standard performance
and this bookwill show you the reason for this deviation and also
help you to reign the business within your managerial control. This
bookvividly explains the characteristics of an effective leader
that any business is in need of. This bookhas been divided into
various chapters so that the reader can understand the bookmuch
clearly, as he/she reads through. You can always come back and read
the chapters or you can straight go to the chapter that you wish to
read through if you look for any immediate insights from this
ebook. This is not the ultimate bookon controlling basics in
management, but it has got more than what you need to understand
the skills of managing basic business administration. Each chapter
is carefully crafted, so that readers can have maximum benefit from
this ebook. This wonderful bookcontains important ideas that are
necessary to make a top-level or mid-level or lower level manager
become self-trained professional. This bookhelps you understand
primarily what is business management and the nature of it; gives
you insights on risk management; trains you in the management of
employees and the insights on primary skills of leading your
business from the front. Most of the time, and most of the business
units have become dull or been disappeared over the years for want
of strategic planning skills. Yes, you can have this bookto
understand this important managerial skill and you will surely find
this booksatisfactory to you. Please don't rush through this bookas
you read, because, you might miss important insights otherwise
which will be of very much helpful to you. Given to the sporadic
market situation as the world goes through, this bookwill help you
understand market analysis. It leads you into acquiring the skill
without much difficulty. The Market Analysis highlights
management's working knowledge of the industry, market, research
findings and conclusions. This bookalso helps you in attracting and
maintaining the customer basis over a long period. We know, after
reading this ebook, you are going to say, Yes, this is the kind of
bookI was look for- and here we are to make it possible.
Technically speaking, a business plan is a documentation that would
reflect the mission and vision of a business venture. Chalking out
an effective business plan involves a regimented approach through
an advanced process of preparation, delegation and most
importantly, refinement as and when demanded by the changing
situation of the business and the market. This is to ensure that
the plan forces those at the helm of an organization into a
disciplined and meticulous process of thinking to ensure an
intellectually candid business. Chalking a business plan is never
an easy process. If you are looking to write the plan down in a
single attempt, good luck to you. Remember, it is a continuous
process that never comes to an end. So long you are continuing with
your business, you need to make run-time changes to your plan in
order to keep your business afloat and relevant. A business plan is
nothing but a set of living documents which changes from time to
time as and when the situation of the market changes. The rate of
change may be weekly as well as monthly depending upon the nature
of business and its volatility and the scenario prevailing in the
market. However, these are surely not drastic changes but certain
modifications and alterations here and there as and when needed by
the business.
Every day, whether or not you notice it, you are engaged in
negotiating and reading other people's body language. When done in
a casual setting with family or friends, it's usually a quick,
easy, and enjoyable process. However, when you engage in
negotiating and reading other people's body language in the work
place, it can be a completely different situation because these
situations usually have higher stakes. In the workplace, not being
able to negotiate efficiently or not being able to read other
people's body language will, can, and does have adverse
consequences. At best, it may lead to disruption in the workplace.
At worst, it could lead to you losing your benefits, your rank, or
your job altogether. Being a good negotiator as well as a good body
language reader will enable you become a more efficient, more
pleasant, and altogether, more productive employee, co-worker, or
boss. In this book, you will be able to discover and understand the
art of negotiations, as well as how you can benefit from being able
to conduct a proper negotiation. You will also know what qualities
a good negotiator should possess, as well as how to properly
prepare for a negotiation so that you can put yourself in the
position to get the best outcome possible. Also, you will discover
what to avoid doing and saying in order to avoid negotiations gone
bad, and if worse comes to worst, how to be able to salvage a
negotiation that has gone sour. Most importantly, you will learn
what it takes to be able to close a negotiation on your own terms.
In relation to the aforementioned topic, you will also learn the
importance of being able to read, understand, and adapt to body
language in the workplace and in negotiations. You will learn the
importance of body language in everyday communication, and how to
read positive and negative indicators in other people's body
language. You will also discover what to look out for when it comes
to body language to be able to gauge how well (or bad) a
negotiation is going. By understanding these two things separately
and in relation to one another, you will be able to place yourself
in a situation wherein you can become a successful negotiator as
well as an adapt reader of body language, and thus, be able to come
out on top when it comes to your relationships in your personal and
business life.
Self-Management can simply be described as a set of skills,
strategies and tactics that can be used to achieve the desired
personal and professional outcomes. This book provides an approach
for self-management that can well be summarized as a
'Focus-Analyze-Alter'. In order to achieve any desired outcome, you
must set the right objectives and keep focus on them. Once you know
your destination, it's time to find the right path to your
destination. You can find this path by analyzing Goal setting and
identifying objectives, personal or professional, is central to our
existence. However, fulfillment of the same often remains
questionable. Self-management is a set of strategies that can be
highly instrumental in helping you set the right goals and work in
an organized and decisive manner towards fulfilling the same.
Organization, in this context, includes several facets like
management of time and resources to facilitate a smooth and focused
path to success. It cannot make your path to success shorter, but
it can surely make it easier. Decision making and choosing the
right options is integral to effective management. This facet can
certainly shorten your path to success. With decision-making comes
inevitable stress, which can lead you to uncertainty and
indecisiveness. This makes it essential to manage this stress,
frustration and anger, which may arise as an outcome of the
aforementioned. Therefore, self-management has been identified as a
smart balance of resource management, time management and personal
management. This book gives you an insight on the three main
aspects of self-management namely, time management, life management
and personal management. Self-Understanding the criticality of time
management in our daily lives, a task-based approach for the
effective administration has been provided. Besides this, the
different facets of life personal management, like self-confidence,
anger and stress have been considered. Environmental factors also
have a significant role in self-management. The approach for
self-management that has been followed, described and prescribed in
this book is based on the thought "You are your biggest help " The
book suggests strategies and techniques that can be implemented at
a personal level without interference or intervention of a third
party. This helps you in more than one way. This works towards
building a positive attitude and energy in your life. This
positivity will motivate you to change yourself for better. Once
you are able to observe positive outcomes, you will be encouraged,
and this is a key motivator. Secondly, the human psyche is such
that we tend not to do things that we are asked to do. This book
works on a two phase basis, preparation phase and implementation
phase. The chapters on 'Building Self-Confidence and Courage' and
'Developing a Positive Attitude' work towards building a belief in
you that you can break this chain and become a pioneer of change in
your life. This is a preparation phase, which mentally prepares you
for a change. The rest of the chapters suggest real life
implementations that can bring about the required change. The
chapter on 'Plan and Organize' suggests techniques that can help
you in organizing your resources while the chapters on 'Time
management' and 'Anger and Stress Management' provides suggestions
for management of time and personality respectively. Any
'do-it-yourself' approach is incomplete without discussing the
pitfalls that you may face in your path to successful
implementation. Although, every human is different, and so are
their responses. We have a knack of making unique mistakes and
falling into the same trap in unique different ways. The chapter on
'Common Mistakes' warns you of the traps to ensure speedy
implementation of the suggested techniques. This book provides a
comprehensive approach towards overall management and improvement.
So, what gets you up in the morning? What keeps you going? Why do
you keep on going? These are just some of the questions that may
pop in your head as you think about motivation. Every person on the
planet has their own motivation in life, enabling everyone to go
through the different life areas and phases and get the most out of
it. It is also sad to say that there are people who don't have any.
It has been said that the difference between a person who is
constantly developing and growing and the person who does not, is
motivation. Motivation plays a key role in a person's outlook in
life, achievements, and level of satisfaction and happiness. On the
same note, motivation is a very important factor of success. A
person who lacks motivation has no enthusiasm, ambition, and zest,
and is generally unhappy and unsatisfied. Because of that, he gets
no results, or when he does, he only gets mediocre ones. On the
other hand, a motivated person is very energetic, successful and
happy, as he achieves his goals and gets great results in his
endeavors. Certainly, nobody wants to do something for nothing.
There is always that something we hopefully want in return for an
effort and sacrifice. The life and blood of motivation is reward.
It is that thing that inspires us and entices us to take necessary
action. The reward can come in different kinds, such as material
rewards, recognition, and personal satisfaction or gratification.
The reward is regarded as the end of every means. Motivation in
itself is fueled by ambition and desire. The strength of motivation
largely relies on the clearness of the mental picture of the goal
or the reward, as well as the intensity of the desire to achieve
it. No matter how great, attractive, beneficial or enticing a
certain reward may be, if the person has no ambition or no desire
to have it, motivation will also be absent. There may also be
instances where you may have the desire to take action or to
achieve something, but if that desire is not strong enough, no work
will ever get done and achievement will only be just a wish on a
star.
With workdays becoming hectic and several tasks from different
sections of life looming around, managing time efficiently has
become a priority. There are many benefits of managing time. It
enhances the quality of work done, gives your workday schedule
clarity, avoids unnecessary rush, increases productivity, is a
great stress buster and also makes one feel self satisfied.
Therefore, putting together an effective time management plan
should be a priority. To create a workable time management plan,
one has to define goals clearly and then outline all executable
jobs to get to these goals. Then, all activities and tasks should
be defined, listed, prioritized and scheduled. But, several hiccups
and challenges arise even after a sound time management plan has
been sketched. Things aren't always smooth sailing and finishing
jobs on time is a tough task. This is where time management
techniques, tips and tricks come into play. There are so many
things that you can do to save time and manage it proficiently.
Moreover, assessing your personality and understanding how you
respond to time bound challenges also helps with time management.
One of the most fundamental ways to manage time is to create a
schedule or a planner in which you chart out timelines. Creating a
to-do list also helps tremendously. Self management and increasing
personal productivity will also help you manage time effectively.
Keep a track of your energy level, manage your emotions, improvise
decision making strategies, stay motivated and maintain an
enthusiastic attitude towards work. Additionally, learn skills that
will enhance your productivity like typing and reading quickly and
get acquainted with computer based shortcuts and macros. In fact,
there is a lot you can do if you are not very good at time
management. Changing habits and transforming personal organization
style makes one better at time management. You can wake up earlier,
learn effective decision making techniques, avoid over committing
to tasks and go slow while making changes. Additionally, you can
also implement tips and tricks that will help you save time. Some
of these are multi-tasking, making a daily work routine, automating
tasks, bunching similar work together and keeping your workspace
organized. Inculcating habits that will help with time management
is also a good idea. Track progress of tasks and keep tab on the
time passing by. Take breaks and develop a technique to work around
challenging tasks. Learn to handle interruptions and emergency
situations and always include buffer time slots as well as spare
time in your schedule. Additionally, apply some time tested
techniques to get through the workday. Such as pomodoro, pickle
jar, 80-20 rule, time boxing, backward planning and try to apply
the urgent-important matrix in everyday life. But one thing that
will help the most is preparing your mind for time management.
Loads of robust time management techniques like these have been
discussed in this book. Rad through them and give time management a
shot. iland business publishing specialises in the area of
reference guides for readers seeking practical information to
improve themselves in careers, finance, and other related core
business topics.We bring our readers the information they need to
stay in step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are
experts in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow,
yet comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.
If you look for a book dealing with soft skills with a difference,
here it is Yes, you are at the right place for the right material.
This special book deals with not only the importance of soft
skills, also the use of it both at your workplace and at your
homes. The concern is that you are going to make a difference not
only in your workplace also in your family. As the book emphasizes
the importance of soft skills for making your professional career
highly on demand, it also shows ways to make your family life more
pleasant and happy - A search for a 'homely relationship' with your
wife, and children. Soft skills are interpersonal and
intra-personal skills and they objectively refer to a term relating
to a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient). This is a
'package' of skills related to personality development that
including social skills, communication and language skills,
interpersonal habits, assertiveness, friendliness and optimism that
demonstrate the relationship with the other. Soft skills remain
essential to any person who wants to demonstrate the maturity of
thinking and responding to the people and situations. Soft skills
are personal skills, which make a person more polished and more
successful. Soft skills are part of interpersonal and
intra-personal skills that play a crucial role in demonstrating the
characterized relationship with the other. Soft skills
differentiate a person from the other based on his/her
interpersonal relationship within the group or outside of it.
Behavioral experts say that there are many soft skills, which need
to make our interaction with people or the environment friendly and
productive. Another reason for training ourselves in soft skills is
that they are not taught in schools or colleges to an extent
comparable to the regular academic studies. Soft Skills make you
assertive in your approach to your peers or customers.
Assertiveness can be defined as the ability to express yourself
without being rude or aggressive. The fine-tuning of character is
done with the soft skills. Soft skills enable the employee to focus
on real time problems and challenges that he/she faces ordinarily
at the work place. Soft skills are not those, which are in demand
only in work places or with colleagues, or with bosses. It is not
that as an employee with a dream to go up on your professional
ladder, you should not be demonstrating your soft skills
professionally in your workplace or with your peers and superiors.
Recognizing the individuality of the other and valuing their
perspectives are important qualities of interpersonal relationship.
However, it is also important to distinguish the difference between
being assertively friendliness and submissive. It means, you should
not permit the other to trample over you and crush your dignity.
Strong interpersonal skills imply the ability to interact with
confidence and soft skills make this possible for you in your life.
This book is written keeping in mind the contemporary trend on soft
skills and their importance in today's world. iland business
publishing specialises in the area of reference guides for readers
seeking practical information to improve themselves in careers,
finance, and other related core business topics.We bring our
readers the information they need to stay in step with required
skills and techniques. Our authors are experts in their fields and
deliver well-written, easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive books that
inform, advise, and educate.
It is no doubt that the presence or the absence of our
self-confidence can run our lives and attract our future
circumstances. Unleash Your Confidence, Turn Your Life Around is
going to help you conquer your inner fears, guide you in your
journey towards realization of your potential, and ultimately help
you win your life's victories. In this book, you will know the
roots of your poor self-confidence, the binding chains that prevent
you from getting what you want and prevent you from receiving what
you are worth. You will get tips on how you can master your
thoughts, improve your self-confidence in surprisingly very simple
ways, as well as tips on how you can build self-confidence in key
areas of your life - communication, relationships, and finances,
all of which are major sources of conflict and dilemma. Building
self-confidence is the key to getting anything you want and
anything you want to achieve in life. Let this book accompany you
in your quest to uncover everything life has in store for you.
iland business publishing specialises in the area of reference
guides for readers seeking practical information to improve
themselves in careers, finance, and other related core business
topics.We bring our readers the information they need to stay in
step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are experts
in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow, yet
comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.
Have you ever had those moments when you complain you have so many
things to do, but have so little time? Are you tired of having to
do your work in a rush just to meet deadlines, because you are
running on a very tight schedule? Are you frustrated about having
very few accomplishments and advancements? Do you wish you had more
than 24 hours in your day? On another note, do you wonder how some
people are able to accomplish a lot of things? Are you wondering
how great leaders are able to run an organization or a company of
more than a thousand subordinates under them and nailing all their
goals successfully while still having time for their passion and
leisure? What is their secret? There is actually no secret at all.
Delegation is the key that makes achieving anything possible. Yes,
you may only have 2 pairs of arms, 2 pairs of feet, 1 brain, and
only a maximum of 24 hours a day, but you can multiply yourself and
your time, intelligence, skills, and ingenuity through delegation.
That is the technique to get a lot of things done quickly and
expertly. But if delegation has long been known to make miracles,
how come a lot of people are not taking advantage of it? You might
be having the same sentiment. In this book, you will know what
delegation is all about, why its importance, why you may be holding
back from it while your subordinates resist it, as well as the who,
what, when factors of delegation, and most of all, how you can do
it easily in a step by step approach. You will also know about the
pitfalls of delegation, and how you can get over them. Lastly, you
will hear of a great story that will inspire you to harness the
power of delegation. iland business publishing specialises in the
area of reference guides for readers seeking practical information
to improve themselves in careers, finance, and other related core
business topics.We bring our readers the information they need to
stay in step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are
experts in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow,
yet comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.
Before we talk about Change Management, let us try this simple
exercise: clasp your fingers together; now if you observe your
clasped hands, you will notice that you have instinctively placed
your right hand or left hand in the dominant position. Now
consciously try doing it with the other hand in the dominant
position. Don't you feel a little uncomfortable? That is why change
is hard. We all know how difficult it is to effect change in an
organization. Statistics indicate that 70% of all organizational
changes fail. If we ponder the reason why it is such a difficult
task to bring about change, and sustain it successfully, we will
realize that we, the people are the reason. We people, by nature,
tend to be resistant to change. The term Change Management refers
to managing change successfully in any and all spheres of our
lives, not just at work. Wherever the change happens, it is not
easy to handle. Most often, the change that happens tends to
complicate matters rather than simplifying them. Frequently, when
we talk about change, it is in the organizational context, though
there are personal and social changes that can be just as hard or
even more difficult to handle. Like Gandhi said, "We should try to
be the change we want to see."
"Leadership is defined by results not attributes" - Peter Druker.
We all play the role of a leader in life at some point of time.
Being a leader is something that drains out your energy and
sometime leaving you with ostensibly an indispensable stress on
your life. It is true, many who play the role of a team leader or a
manager in a concern often look for ways to improve their
inadequate skills with an aim to become a good team leader or
manager. This book that you hold in your hand is not going to tell
you what all about leadership, but it is surely a book that gives
you what makes a good leader to be. It will show you how to be a
good leader and cultivate those professional skills that you look
for that become part of your professional life. If you frantically
search for a guide / or a book to show you step by step and makes
you understand what exactly leading a team means as a team leader
or an individual, your search ends here. You will find this book
full of information that meets the needs of any team leader or a
manager to understand the group psychology and how to relate the
each different individual uniqueness for a greater good of the
company. This book will show how leaders develop entrepreneurial
staff and create a corporate climate that encourages rule-breakers
and outside-the-box thinkers. Experimentation by definition is a
trial-and-error process, but experimentation is also the key to
discovery. Every organization/establishment looks for talented and
professional team members who are vital for the organizational
success. A leader's capability is tested against his/her team
members leading their own team when the situation demands in
his/her absence.
This book hopefully, will help you achieve the very challenging
goal of perfect work-life balance. Agreed, many tips and advices
given here are easier to say than done; but none are impossible.
Make up your mind that you will work towards achieving this goal,
break it up into smaller bite-sized goals and go for it. Look up
the SMART goals principle; use this method to achieve work-life
balance. Do not be hard on yourself. It will be hard. This is an
uphill task and you do not expect that that it will be easy. It
will take time for you to manage your time as you want best. It
will lots of effort; expect burnouts, frustration, and tough spots
before you reach your goal. But stay on the path and it will
happen. The rewards of finding that perfect work-life balance are
huge; and worth every bit the effort you are putting in. Remember -
where there is a will, there is always a way. Look for it and you
will find it. If you find a way, great; if not, make one. Either
way, you get to achieve your goal. When you do, you will find peace
of mind for you will be able to enjoy the best of both worlds.
Don't think you need personal organization? You prefer your sloppy
ways to keeping things spick and span? Are you sure? There is a lot
that personal organization can do for you. Wondering what it can
help you with. Actually, it can ease out a whole bunch of issues in
your life. Such as better time management, boosting productivity
and pepping up your energy levels. Moreover, it can also lower your
stress and anxiety levels helping you maintain a relaxed state of
mind. Personal organization involves budgeting time, spending your
day wisely and incorporating habits that will impact your life
positively. This type of self discipline will help you become more
effective. You will be able to give each day your best shot if you
stay organized. Most bigwigs swear by personal organization and
take things in their work and personal life very seriously. One
mistake people make is to think that self organization is limited
only to office hours. But this is a false notion and it can also
backfire. Staying organized at home also helps to save time and
will help you to stay on top of things in office too. When you
manage things and tasks at home, you will have more leisure time
and therefore will be better equipped to handle the various jobs
life throws at you.
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