Why do some managers shine during a high-level crisis while others stumble? Those who have an action plan in place are the ones who can react quickly, manage rumors, and respond to victims and stakeholders sincerely and adequately while keeping their organization afloat. Leading crisis management expert Laurence Barton has spent more than two decades consulting with top companies on how to anticipate and respond to workplace threats and tragedies. In Crisis Leadership Now he offers concrete solutions for managing disruptive events-from industrial accidents and acts of violence to embezzlement, product recalls, and terrorism. Barton takes you through his journey of advising senior executives on crisis events and examines: <ul>
<li>The characteristics that define a true crisis </li>
<li>Proven strategies to help you understand and respond to early warning signals </li>
<li>Ways to mitigate threatening situations </li>
<li>How to effectively communicate your decisions in a timely manner to employees, shareholders, customers, and other constituencies </li>
</ul>
In this forward-looking guide, Barton applies his corporate insider's insight to numerous case studies, demonstrating how such catastrophes happen to real companies and real people every day. These studies form a framework for building crisis management thinking into your company's strategic toolbox. Anticipating all forms of trouble, advising senior management and boards of directors about potential events, and devising a business recovery plan will allow your organization to rebound should tragedy strike. Barton has also created an indispensable sample crisis management plan, and includes detailed templates for addressing a wide spectrum of incidents and threats. Arming you with an arsenal of strategies, tools, and know-how, Crisis Leadership Now ensures that your company's leaders will demonstrate confidence and implement solutions in the midst of chaos.

Crisis Leadership Now: A Real-World Guide to Preparing for Threats, Disaster, Sabotage, and Scandal

Business & Money

BARTON

Insurance

McGraw=Hill

This text focuses on the partnership/relationship theme in selling. It places emphasis on diversity, includes international selling perspectives and learning aids include role-play exercises, Internet exercises, case studies, sales rep profiles and different selling scenarios.

Selling: Building Partnerships (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Marketing)

Castleberry, Stephen B.

Tanner

Management & Leadership

Are you asleep, Rabbit?

Donald has trouble getting to sleep at bedtime because he needs to keep checking on the rabbit he has brought in from outside

Are You Asleep, Rabbit?

CAMPBELL

Children's Books

Puffin Books

I WANT TO BE ASTRONAUT

Harpercollins

Most people today know their 'star-sign', but few know much of the system of thought which relates human destiny to the stars. Fewer still have any idea of its origins. This book reveals the importance of astrology in ancient thought, morals, politics and daily life. Tamsyn Barton first traces the history of the subject chronologically. She untangles the Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek threads which come together in Greco-Roman astrology, discussing the astrological literature of each period. The book examines intellectual and popular reactions to astrology. It also reveals its political role in the Roman Empire - astrologers could set emperors on the throne or depose them. Astrology's battle with the early church and its eventual decline after the fifth century are also examined. The remainder of the book looks at ancient astrology from a synchronic perspective. Dr Barton explains the principles of ancient astrology and brings the theory to life by interpreting the horoscope of Prince Charles according to the instructions of ancient treatises. The final section brings together a variety of evidence on the uses made of astrology in everyday life and discusses areas of knowledge related to astrology, from medicine and magic to Mithraic cult.

ANCIENT ASTROLOGY CL (Sciences of Antiquity)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Other

Biblical World Vol1

Routledge

The Widow

Fiona

A young child thinks about what it would be like to be an astronaut and go out on a mission into space.

Brookland

Emily

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Paul Gallico's the Small Miracle

Bob Barton

Literature & Fiction

Tundra Books (NY)

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