For far too long, emotions have been concealed behind closed doors and ignored in favor of rationality and efficiency. But as businesses are forced to forge emotional connections in this age of commoditization, emotions are now front-and-center. Emotionomics opens this long locked door and shows the importance of leveraging emotions in business.

Emotionomics: Winning Hearts and Minds

Business & Money

Dan Hill

Skills

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Eric needs a leadership coach and, believe it or not, so do you. If you think being a leader is tough now, just wait. Leading others is going to get even more difficult in the years ahead. 
Customer demands, technological advances, investor expectations, social norms, competitor tactics, globalization, regulatory scrutiny, and information overload are dramatically increasing the complexity and volatility of the leader's job and the cost of mistakes. Between these pages, you'll meet some great leaders as well as some really bad ones. Use these stories to develop the skills you need to be a truly effective leader. Think of this book as your coach who will help you grow and give you the leadership insights you need to succeed today. Along the way, challenge yourself to become more aware of your values and what you want to achieve in your career and become a ''Higher-order Leader.''

The Best and Worst of Leadership: Essential Learning for Emerging Leaders

Harry Martin

Dennis Lekan

Management & Leadership

Winner of the 2011 JPX Media Group award in the International Book Business: Reference category Building Performance-Based 360-Degree Assessments has been honored as an Award-Winner in the Business: Reference category of the Best Books 2010 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.
 Building 360 is a comprehensive guide and resource for designing, developing, deploying, and delivering performance-based 360-assessments through web-based software. Building 360 focuses on feedback as an on-going developmental process and how it can be integrated throughout business, industry, government, and educational organizations. 
Building 360 is a must read for anyone involved in the 360 feedback process. Building 360 is a structured step-by-step format that will provide you with the solid knowledge and insights you need to create more job-relevant assessments. 
Building 360 provides decision-makers, project leaders, and developers with the key issues to consider when identifying which competencies and behaviors to measure for current and future performance effectiveness. 
''As the individual becomes more effective, the organization becomes more effective.'' 
Building 360 guides you through every step of the process for creating and delivering dynamic assessments for any target population. Building 360 includes more than 500 ready-to-use examples of competencies, definitions, rating response scales, skill-building exercises, quantitative and qualitative items, and thought provoking questions to help you create and administer more relevant assessments designed to help people maximize their performance and effectiveness. 
Building 360 is the first book that connects the critical elements for individual and organizational development--performance-based feedback; action planning with accountability; training and coaching; and follow-up post assessments to drive measurable performance improvement.

Building Performance-Based 360 Degree Assessments: From Design to Delivery

Lawrence J. Cipolla

Processes & Infrastructure

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