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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy
We often (or even usually) know what we should be doing in both personal and professional life. We also know why we should be doing it and (often) how to do it. Figuring all that out is not too difficult What is very hard is actually doing what you know to be good for you in the long-run, in spite of short-run temptations. The same is true for organizations. What is noteworthy is how similar (if not identical) most firms' strategies really are: provide outstanding client service, act like team players, provide a good place to work, invest in your future. No sensible firm (or person) would enunciate a strategy that advocated anything else. However, just because something is obvious does not make it easy. Real strategy lies not in figuring out what to do, but in devising ways to ensure that, compared to others, we actually do more of what everybody knows they should do. This simple insight, if accepted, has profound implications for 1. how organizations should think about strategy 2. how they should think about clients, marketing and selling and 3. how they should think about management. In 18 chapters, Maister explores the fat smoker syndrome and how individuals, managers and organizations can overcome the temptations of the short-term and actually do what they already know is good for them..
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every person charged with the design and development of Web-based software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty. These principles include building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity. Designing the Obvious does not offer a one-size-fits-all development process--in fact, it lets you use whatever process you like. Instead, it offers practical advice about how to achieve the qualities of great Web-based applications and consistently and successfully reproduce them. .
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How to Position Yourself As the Obvious Expert: Turbocharge Your Consulting or Coaching Business Now!
How To Position Yourself As The Obvious Expert! Finally, the Insider's Proven Plan to Help You Turn Your Income Into Six-Figures or More! In today's world, creating and managing your business visibility is vital to maximizing your career and earning potential. How To Position Yourself As The Obvious Expert will supercharge your business to ultrasuccess! Whether you are a consultant, coach or freelancer, you are always under the gun to attract more clients. Thanks to the proven strategies outlined in this book,, now you really can: Get qualified clients to call you, instead of you pursuing them. Be recognized as an expert in your field even before the first call is made. Earn the income you have always known you deserve with this proven plan to more clients and more money!.
Price: $24.95
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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming fully aware of one's real and abiding nature. Douglas Harding, the highly respected mystic-philosopher, describes his first experience of headlessness in "On Having No Head," the classic work first published in 1961. In this book, he conveys the immediacy, simplicity, and practicality of the "headless way," placing it within a Zen context, while also drawing parallels to practices in other spiritual traditions.If you wish to experience the freedom and clarity that results from firsthand experience of true Being, then this book will serve as a practical guide to the rediscovery of what has always been present. .
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The Elusive Obvious or Basic Feldenkrais
The Elusive Obvious deals with simple, fundamental notions of our daily life that through habit become elusive Time is money is obviously a good attitude to have in business or work. It is not at all obvious that in love the same attitude is the cause of so much unhappiness. We often make mistakes. We carry over from one activity to another attitudes of mind that do not make life what it could be. romance is obviously a fine thing. Romantic love is enchanting, but not so good if one partner is money-minded and the other is romantic. In time, they will finish at the psychiatrist's or in court. Many troubled relationships come from inadvertently carrying over seemingly good habits of thought to where they do not apply. Somehow we behave as if good habits are always good. We think or rather feel that we need not bother about behaving otherwise. It is not so obvious that good habits can make us unhappy. It is an elusive truth. Yet habitual lack of free choice is often, nay, usually, disastrous. If you come across something obviously new to you, in its form at least, please stop for a moment and look inward. Working out new alternatives assists us to grow stronger and wiser. My editor tells me that I should free readers from having to think and look inward. I believe she knows what the average reader likes. I myself do not like predigested food. For you, the reader, I have added to the beginning and end of each chapter a short introduction and summary to facilitate your digestion so that you will find it easier to make what is elusive more obvious..
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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources. .
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Becoming the Obvious Choice
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It'S Obvious You Won'T Survive By Your Wits Alone
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Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man
Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1916, is a classic story of a business man in the field of advertising and his journey to business success. It is a story which has lead individuals with business ideas to garner great success in the world of business and in their professions. This Robert Updegraff classic is often used in business schools and by individuals studying entrepreneurship, advertising, and business..
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