books about: high-stakes     books:     High-stakes      Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, ... McGraw-Hill, 2002 Common sense isn't really all that common I like this book a lot. Developed for business communication it has applications for many areas of life. I found it clear, instructive, insightful and relatively free of new-age doublespeak. I work in an ER and I communicate with angry people (sometimes including ...             Winning in Tough Hold 'em Games: Short-Handed and High-Stakes Concepts and Theory for Limit Hold 'em Nick "Stoxtrader" Grudzien, Geoff "Zobags" Herzog Two Plus Two Publishing LLC, 2007 Outstanding. This is a great book by one of the greatest and most successful online cash game players in the world- Nick "Stoxtrader" Grudzien (and of course his collaborator Geoff "Zobags" Herzog). If there is one person in the poker world that you could make a case for accepting ...             Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft Simon Houpt Sterling, 2006 Absorbing Overview I work for a global insurance broker with an international art practice that insures many of the world's great museums. I am also an avid art collector. Unlike Christian and Doomjesse, I found this book very useful for the opposite reasons. Personally, I found the ...             Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate James A. Randel McGraw-Hill, 2005 Kick Start Your Brain If you are looking for a step by step buy a house, rehab it, and get rich, please find another book. If you are looking for a dull textbook type presentation you should also pass. If you are looking for clear explanations of concepts and illustrated with some small ...             Gunn Sights: Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes Industry of International Aerospace (Blue Jacket Bks) Thomas Gunn Naval Institute Press, 2008 Tom Gunn had a life-altering career change in 1975 when he went from an eight-year stint as staff lawyer with the U.S. Senate to a job in aerospace sales and marketing at McDonnell Douglas. He knew a lot about military appropriations and classified developments, but almost nothing about marketing. Over the next twenty-two years, however, Gunn and ...             Mr. Lucky: A Novel of High Stakes (Tony Valentine Novels) James Swain Ballantine Books, 2007 My first Swain book - really enjoyed it Only just recently heard of James Swain and his Tony Valentine books. Glad I did. This story is a really good read. I liked it a lot. Steady, engaging pace. Complicated enough story, but not so much as to tie itself in knots. A few leaps of faith here and there, ...             Exceptional Selling: How the Best Connect and Win in High Stakes Sales Jeff Thull Wiley, 2006 Recommended Reading for All Loan Officers It's one of the best sales books I have read in years. What you will learn from it: As one who is an advisor, you realize that not every client is a perfect fit for you. This book focuses on the language and mindsets you use with clients. With the right mindset ...             Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools Sharon L. Nichols; David C. Berliner, 2007 A must read This is perhaps the most important book to date on the perverse effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its mandates for high-stakes testing. The authors provide irrefutable evidence of the problems of a school accountability system which relies on a single ...             Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High! Jeff Thull Wiley, 2003 Helpful to Any Leader in Government, UN, or Anywhere Else I found this gem in a West Coast airport. I bought it partly because I have spent 20 years "selling" governments on the idea of doing more with unclassified sources and less with expensive secrets that capture only 4% of the relevant information, and partly because ...             Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips: The Fate Of Public Education In America (PB) Gene V Glass IAP - Information Age Publishing, 2008 You'll Learn Things You Didn't Know About Schooling The analyses and projections Glass presents are spot on in my view. That the US will become older and browner is evident from US Census data. But Occam's razor could well be applied to "fertilizers, pills, and magnetic strips." These are metonyms for technologies that ...             The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan Bantam, 1998 The perfect true crime book I can't say enough how much I enjoyed this book. I came across a mention of the Hoyt family and this book while reading Michael Kelleher's "Murder Most Rare" (another really good read), and decided to order it. From page one, I was hooked. It starts with a case of ...             High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty Jessica Cattelino Duke University Press, 2008 In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in Native North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has translated into tangible benefits for tribal ...             Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings: Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High Stakes Environment Michael St. Pierre, Gesine Hofinger, ... Springer, 2007 The book we've been waiting for! This is the book we've been waiting for. I am a human factors specialist and an educator with more than 30 years experience, of which more than 20 have been in the field of high performance, hight stakes teams in aviation and medicine. Currently I am the Director of ...             Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in '08 and Beyond Martha Burk BookSurge Publishing, 2008 Your Money and Your Life is a manifesto for the woman voter - and for male voters who care about the women in their lives. Martha Burk empowers the reader to cut through the double-talk, irrelevancies, and false promises, and focus directly on what's at stake for women in the '08 election, and in the years beyond. Where women stand, what women ...             After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition Price Pritchett McGraw-Hill, 2007 Highly Reccomended! Despite the breathless headlines about the latest billion-dollar merger, most mergers don't work. In fact, more than half of all mergers fail, derailed by a common set of pitfalls. Companies merge without considering how they'll integrate after the deal; they don't ...          products you might be interested in search for books authoritative, conversations, entrepreneur, exceptional, international, short-handed      toavi.com    web randomly chosen kitchen: Norpro Giant Muffin Cups, White