Ambition, charisma, and an innovative approach are valuable qualities, but they don't guarantee that a person will deliver great leadership in a business environment. To make a mark and move ahead, today's managers need hard team-building skills on top of abstract individual leadership traits. The goal is not only to be respected by your employees, but to cut to the chase in how you evaluate new talent, cultivate it, motivate it, and then assemble a complementary team of people that together more than achieve your quarterly goals. That's leadership that delivers. The goal is to Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It! This book is unlike any business leadership guide on the market. It reveals the four key responsibilities that every manager must embrace to assemble a high-performance team in today's globally competitive marketplace, operating 24/7 at lightning speed: <ul>
<li>Deliver consistent leadership role modeling </li>
<li>Create a work structure geared towards success </li>
<li>Develop the right plan to reach your team's goals </li>
<li>Find the right people to make it all happen </li>
</ul>
This groundbreaking volume teaches the leadership skills that ambitious subordinates will respond to as build communities of satisfied customers, bosses and shareholders. Just as important, it shows you how to address negative behaviors that can hurt both businesses and careers. Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It! will help you and all your employees reach their highest work potential-both in productivity and personal fulfillment. “An enjoyable and practical book…anyone in a management role who wants validation of current techniques or who wants to learn a few new ones will find the reading time well spent.”-George Haran, Investment Executive

Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It!: Manage, Motivate, and Get Results from Every Employee

Business & Money

Blacklock,Jean

Jacks,Evelyn

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Cupcake lovers rejoice! With more than 50 recipes for any and every cupcake occasion, as well as the secrets for the most decadent, delicious cupcakes imaginable, cupcake lovers and bakers everywhere will fall in love with this beautiful, easy-to-use book from the famous Prairie Girl Bakery. Known for having the best cupcakes in Toronto, Prairie Girl Bakery takes fans and readers behind its kitchen doors to share recipes, tips and techniques in the pages of this must-have book. Whether you’re looking for classic, gluten-free or vegan recipes, The Prairie Girl Cupcake Cookbook has everything you need to treat yourself and your loved ones, one cupcake at a time. Included inside are: · The Prairie Girl Classics—nostalgic recipes for the treats of your childhood, from Golden Buttermilk Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing, to Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing, to the bakery’s bestselling Red Velvet. · Treats of the Week—whether it’s Fruity, Decadent, Adults-Only, Seasonal, or For the Kid at Heart, there are recipes to inspire every day of the week. · Gluten-Free and Vegan Love—now everyone can enjoy a delicious cupcake, regardless of lifestyle or diet. · Tips for Celebrating with Cupcakes—expert advice on how to wrap, package, display and decorate your sweet treats, Prairie Girl-style. Everyone loves a cupcake, and, with the help of Prairie Girl Bakery, you can make the perfect cupcake with all that prairie love and goodness.

The Prairie Girl Cupcake Cookbook: Living Life One Cupcake at a Time

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

Appetite by Random House

Stepping Lightly Around the Pitfalls of Estate Planning... Estate planning is one of those unpleasant but really important tasks. Unfortunately, the process is not only hard to get started, it is then easy to make mistakes. Even the most careful and well-intentioned person can slip up along the way. Avoid the pitfalls! The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes outlines the major mistakes and their consequences in an entertaining way-and then proceeds to tell you exactly how to avoid these mistakes. Delivering practical and helpful information in a light tone, the authors help to make these sometimes difficult conversations a little easier. The book's fifty concise chapters are filled with real-life examples, organized under four key areas of mistakes: <ul>
<li>The biggest mistake of not planning at all</li> <li>Failing to plan for the possibility of mental incompetency</li> <li>Mistakes made during the estate planning process itself</li> <li>And common mistakes made by executors</li> </ul>
Written by personal finance and estate planning experts, Jean Blacklock and Sarah Kruger, The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes and How To Avoid Them is an essential guide for Canadians interested in planning their estates effectively, with minimal stress on their loved ones.

The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes...and How to Avoid Them

Kruger, Sarah

Personal Finance

wiley

Writing a will and taking care of other aspects of estate planning can be intimidating and complicated. But putting off dealing with these issues, or avoiding them altogether, is not the solution. Food for Thought takes you by the hand and allows you to listen in on a group of people coming to terms with the kind of estate planning questions we all face. And while the characters may be fictional, the issues are only too real. 
Food for Thought follows a dinner club — seven friends at various ages and stages of life — through the course of a year. Each chapter revolves around a dinner party where the friends and neighbours gather to share fun and good food (recipes included!), but also their experiences with some of life's major events and tougher situations, all related to estate planning. As the characters work their way through experiences with aging parents, sudden death in their circle of friends, planning for the welfare of their children, and more, readers will learn how to deal with these legal and financial issues as well. Each chapter is in three parts. First the lively conversation and bon temps of the dinner party, which touches on one or two estate planning subjects. Part tow follows with an informative discussion of the legal and financial issues, in the tone of an experienced but friendlier estate lawyer. And part three features the dinner party menu, complete with seasonal recipes and advice on preparation and serving. Food for Thought makes the subject of estate planning more palatable by presenting it in the context of the finer and more pleasurable things in life — friends, family, good conversation, and delicious recipes.

Food for Thought: Bringing Estate Planning to Life

Murphy, Susan

Miyashiro, Judy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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