Managers who use their time well can double their effectiveness. Managers who also have the facility of an agile memory coupled up to their time saving can be streets ahead of the average executive. PART ONE outlines how to use correct time management not only to achieve more but to become a motivated leader who inspires "followers" – as opposed to incorrect time management that results in stress and loss of self-esteem as well as a loss of the respect of subordinates. Time is the only fin...

A two-part volume addressing vital communication issues confronting managers.People Problems – this part will teach you to deal with subordinates who "will not" or "can not" do what you require of them, who have issues that need to be resolved and who are sometimes, or even always, difficult, uncooperative and unmotivated. Learn how to shift into a different gear and so bring subordinates back to being enthused and productive whilst following you as their leader. Contents: Principl...

Today we have a myriad of electronic technologies for the business of communication. But when it comes to the manager standing on his own two feet, standing up and communicating personally, eye-ball to eye-ball and making his, or her, point verbally and with the correct body language? Leadership in management is all about communication as an interpersonal skill– effectively getting the message across personally so that delegated tasks are properly done. But also in such a way as the manage...

This short book is packed with advice, guidance and how-to's in two of the most important skills required of managers today. Assertiveness deals with the subject of human behaviour, with different personality types and how to recognise them. It deals with the subject of poor communication and how to influence changes in behaviour in such a way as to score advantages for our business when we are dealing with confrontational problems. You'll learn about the different "ego states" of the Chil...

This book is for anyone, anywhere, in any position in business. It will help you think things through creatively, quickly get the right solution and get you the recognition you deserve for your role as an innovative leader.You'll learn really useful techniques for generating ideas, a simple but effective method for the Evaluation of your Ideas - and when you have the Big Idea you can apply the "six-phases of decision-making" to make sure you have the right one.Anybody in an...

A two-part book packed with practical "how-to" advice on two vitally important management skills. Part One will teach you how to mould groups of individuals into a team, so that not only you, as leader, have a sense of direction and purpose but your followers also have a "collective" sense of direction and purpose. Part Two teaches how to vest in yourself the power of effectively and persuasively presenting your vision, your plan, your ideas to any assembly of listeners from your team, or ...

Phil Sinclair has a long career in writing and developing media for personal growth and self-development in the field of management. He is publications director for Leader's-Edge (South Africa) a business which has produced self-improvement and training modules for individuals and small to medium enterprises since 1984.Phil's audio seminars on human resources development topics have been heard by more than 100,000 business managers and his work has won international recognition in t...

A modern classic. Intrigue and betrayal hung in the air at the Last Supper. After Jesus was arrested in Gethsemane, a kangaroo court was convened in the middle f the night. It was an illegal farce. Why did the enemies of Jesus bother with atrial? Why not hire a hitman, or arrange a secret poisoning? His enemies had no power to take his life. He gave it willingly, or there could be no gospel. 'From time to time a publication appears — of modest size and author — its value greater than a who...

Drunk ... Scoundrel ... Thief ... Vagabond ... Fool ...Reelum Hangs has been called many things, and at one time or other has resembled them all. Reelum, however, knows a dark and terrible secret - one that delves right to the heart of Kraven City!Sharrock is a grisly veteran from the harsh lands north of the Riven Expanse - a brutish man with a hard temper and herder reputation. When a business opportunity presents the seemingly simple task of locating Reelum Hangs and pro...

**Winner of the 2025 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Silver Medal for Cookbooks**This book brings together more than 100 unique recipes from and inspired by America’s first true “farm-to-table” restaurant with the story of its creation.Working together, founders Ron Zimmerman and Carrie Van Dyck turned a farm garage into a restaurant like no other. In their pre-opening manifesto, they vowed to use only local ingredients to reunite ...

NOVELSThe House of the Missing, by Sinclair GluckWhen Margaret disappears during a routine shopping trip, her brother sets off on a relentless quest to find her.New Amazonia, by Elizabeth Burgoyne CorbettThis pioneering feminist utopian novel transports a Victorian-era woman into a future Ireland governed by women.NOVELET“Horsesense...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Most previous accounts of color film have concentrated on early 20th century color processes and Technicolor. Far less is known about the introduction and application of color technologies in the period from the mid-1940s to the 1980s, when photochemical, “monopack” color stocks came to dom...