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Did you know that Hewlett/Packard, Disney, Hyatt, MTV, CNN, Microsoft, Burger King, and GE all started during periods of economic recession? Periods of uncertainty fuel tremendous opportunity, but the deck gets reshuffled and the rules of the game get changed. Exploiting Chaos is the ultimate business survival guide for all those looking to change the world. Topics include: Sparking a revolution, trend hunting, adaptive innovation and infectious messaging.

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Getting More: How to Negotiate To Achieve Your Goals In The Real World

This new model of human interaction has been chosen by Google to train the entire company worldwide (30,000 employees), is the #1 book for your career chosen by The Wall Street Journal’s website, and is labeled “phenomenal” by Lawyers’ Weekly and “brilliant” by Liza Oz of the Oprah network.

Based on more than 20 years of research and practice among 30,000 people in 45 countries, Getting More concludes that finding and valuing the other party’s emotions and perceptions creates far more value than the conventional wisdom of power and logic. It is intended to provide better agreements for everyone no matter what they negotiate – from jobs to kids to billion dollar deals to shopping.

The book, a New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal business best seller, is based on Professor Stuart Diamond’s award-winning course at the Wharton Business School, where the course has been the most popular over 13 years. It challenges the conventional wisdom on every page, from “win-win” to BATNA to rationality to the use of power. Companies have made billions of dollars so far using his new model and parents have gotten their 4-year-olds to willingly brush their teeth and go to bed.

Prof. Diamond draws from his experience as a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The New York Times, Harvard-trained attorney, Wharton MBA, U.N. Consultant in many countries and manager and executive in many sectors, including technology, agriculture, medical services, finance, energy and aviation. “The ROI from reading Getting More will make it the best investment you make this year,” says Rhys Dekle, the business development head of the Microsoft Games division, which produces X-Box. He added that the book was his team’s best investment of the year too. The model was also used to quickly solve the 2008 Hollywood Writer’s Strike.

The advice is addressed through the insightful stories of more than 400 people who have used Prof. Diamond’s tools with great success: A 20% savings on an item already on sale. An extra $300 million profit in a business. A woman from India getting out of her own arranged marriage. Better relationships with the family, including teenagers. Raises at work. Better jobs. Dealing with emotional situations. Meeting one’s goals. Finding better things to trade. Solving cultural and political problems, sports conflicts, and ordinary arguments.

The book is intended to be used in any situation. The most common response is “life changing”, beginning on page one. “The most inspirational book I have read this year” said David Simon, an attorney in San Francisco, CA. “This book can change the world,” says Craig Silverman, Investment Advisor, Long Island, NY

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Guide To Sustainable Living

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From the environmental activist Newsweek called the "star of climate change" comes the ultimate guide to living green for those ready to take their eco-efforts up a notch.

Ed Begley, Jr.’s Guide to Sustainable Living lays out a detailed road map culled from Ed’s thirty-nine years of green living. For the first time ever, a comprehensive plan is provided, from effective conservation techniques to producing your own energy.

Starting with the energy audit, Ed shows us how to create a game plan for resource conservation in the home. Then, once an adequate baseline of resource use is achieved, he leads us into more in-depth eco-matters, such as the production of alternative energy, and how to use solar and wind energy and a geothermal pump. As Ed’s guide continues, the focus then turns to sustainable lifestyle management choices, such as home gardening, and guidelines on creating a green nursery for your children. This book covers it all–small to large–in plain language and in a progression from resource conservation to energy production and lifestyle management that makes both environmental and fiscal sense.

There’s something here for everyone–new and experienced environmentalists alike–and Ed walks you through every step of the way with helpful sidebars that outline costs and paybacks, as well as essays detailing his experiences of completing these eco-projects on his own home.

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Imagine

Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative "types," Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It's a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively...

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Making It Happen: Turning Good Ideas Into Great Results

The world is not short of ideas, but it is short of people who know how to carry them out. "Making It Happen" unravels the process of taking a good idea and turning it into a successful venture. Author Peter Sheahan guides the reader through the five competencies that will enable you to understand and utilize the forces that drive buyers’ behavior, break through mental barriers and effectively position your offer in the market. Whether you are looking to start a business, get promoted or launch a social movement, this book will streamline your thinking so you can finally turn your good ideas into great results.

Peter Sheahan has a reputation for making it happen fast. By 30, he had established two international multimillion-dollar consulting practices and authored five books, including the bestsellers “Generation Y” and “Fl!p.” Let him share with you the strategies that make Google, BMW and Goldman Sachs his clients.

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Meeting and Business Event Competency Standards

This detailed catalogue of the skills needed to be a meeting professional informs the Convention Industry Council’s 2012 CMP certification. The digest contains 12 major categories (strategic planning, event design, site management) and 33 individual skills (develop mission and goals, engage speakers, design site layout)—which are, in turn, informed by sub-skills. The entirety defines the core of the meeting industry—and finally give professionals across the globe a shared set of career standards.

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MPI's Planning Guide: A Source for Meetings and Conventions

One of MPI's Top 10 Best Sellers.
MPI has completed an update of our comprehensive book Meeting and Conventions: A Planning Guide to include the industry's first-ever standardized meeting planning final templates from the APEX initiative of the Convention Industry Council (CIC)! As well we updated our chapter on tradeshow booth/exhibit standards.

This resource is one of the best resources in the industry and now it is even better! It offers meeting planners a comprehensive, global guide/toolkit and reference for producing meetings internationally. But it also has another critical, valuable use and that is as a teaching tool now being used in many colleges and universities!

Originally published in 1997, the book was radically revised in 2003 and updated 2006 to include an interactive CD with 33 MPI checklists and templates that planners to suit any meeting, convention or event. All these tools have been kept and the CD has even been updated with the APEX templates as well as offering the 33 MPI tools.

For Planners: Find everything from identifying a client's meeting objectives to budgeting; from negotiating to contracting; from program development to evaluating and everything in between!

For Faculty: The book offers novice to intermediate comprehensive meeting planning skills, a self-test at the end of each chapter and a conference journal related to the topic discussed in the chapters. (A unique feature of the book for the learner, this is an account of a Meeting Professional as she plans a Conference and Tradeshow. A teaching moment - and reality check!)

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Net Smart

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building.

Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.

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People Hire People- Not Resumes

That's what Career Networking Pro is all about. If you are in the job market, you know online job boards aren't going to do anything for you. Fewer than 10% of all new hires come from job boards like Monster and CareerBuilder, with most of those being for low-paying or entry-level positions.

If you are putting your hopes in the hands of a recruiter, you have even more of a rude awakening coming. Recruiters almost never place unemployed people, they just like to have your information in their database.

What about outplacement? It can help, but most likely only if it's centered around networking and it still falls on your shoulders, you have to put in the heavy lifting. More than 70% of all positions this year will be filled through 'word of mouth.'

Commitment to networking with industry contacts and hiring authorities gives you the best odds of getting the job you want. If you aren't speaking with contacts who have hiring authority, you're missing out. The question becomes, how do you go about networking effectively?

The Career Networking Pro System is proven to help job seekers proactively communicate with decision makers and industry contacts who can offer the position that they really want.

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Planner Pet Peeves

The sales process is different these days. The way suppliers build relationships with planners has changed. Planners are a finicky bunch, and you may not even know what you're doing wrong that leads to lost business. Why? Because planners rarely share that information with you - they simply change suppliers.

What if you could get a glimpse into what makes planners tick? What if we told you exactly how to court us and win our business? That would be a game changer.

For the first time, you finally have access to the insights that will change everything about how you communicate, connect, conduct site visits, write proposals, negotiate, and more, directly from the mouths of senior-level planners across North America.

Suppliers will learn:

- The three questions you should always ask before writing a proposal (if you want to win the business, that is)
- How to stop spinning your wheels on cold calls
- How to write emails that get responses
- What planners prefer as their #1 communication tool (hint: it's not email or phone)
- What you might be doing wrong, without even knowing it
- What your competition is doing to lose business every day, and how you can win it from them

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