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Organizing A Murder contains twelve different mysteries to solve with your friends. It's a downloadable ebook, so you can get it straight away - ideal for those last minute parties - and it makes a great resource because you can print off elements like answer sheets and clues straight from the 118 page ebook to set the scene for your crime. Read more... |
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"Murder mystery party games are great. But they cost as much as two or three books, and once you've played them once they're useless." |
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Instant Creativity (with Paul Birch) | ||
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Instant Creativity provides an easy-to-use action kit bursting with exercises that will help everyone to make the most of his or her creativity. Full of simple, proven techniques that will help you find fresh ideas and solutions, the book offers over 70 approaches to creative thinking. Read more...
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"The only way to succeed nowadays is to throw away the rule book. Change is the name of the game, but innovation doesn't come easily. This is bad news when creativity is a survival skill." |
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Imagination Engineering (with Paul Birch) | ||
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With an innovative format, marginalia, surprising ways to kick-start your creative thinking and a strong linking metaphor to help with the business of innovation stimulation, Imagination Engineering provides a roadmap from here to there for those times when you don't know where there is. Read more...
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"Imagination Engineering sets out to survey the new frontiers and find adventurous routes across otherwise hostile terrain. It is recommended reading for those in enterprises of every kind." Lord Marshall, Chairman, British Airways |
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This is not a book about techniques, though they are mentioned, but about the management issues - changing the culture, mechanisms for bring culture into an organization and how to manage differently for innovation. Read more...
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"A most readable and engaging overview which will appeal particularly to senior managers looking to stimulate creativity in their organizations." Keith Milner, MBA Director, Ashridge Management College |
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Good ideas are essential for any student who wants to do well (or teacher who wants to keep on top!) - this invaluable guide empowers you with the tools you need to work creatively, and shows that creativity isn't just about getting good results. It's fun and gives you a real buzz. Read more...
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"Are you stuck in a rut? Short of inspiration? Looking for a study guide that's a break from the norm?" |
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Knowing how to get the best out of the web doesn’t just make it easier and quicker to find the right information. It can also transform your school work into something original and outstanding. Anyone can type a few keywords into a search engine and slavishly copy out the results. But that’s no way to get good results. With Studying Using the Web you can find the right material, check its authenticity, transform it into your own original work and keep updated on essential topics. Read more...
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“Everyone uses the internet in their schoolwork - but if you aren't careful you can end up plodding around the information fast track. It's time to change up to something more powerful.” |
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This comprehensive guide offers advice for staying healthy in the air including what to do to minimize the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis, what's wrong with airline food (and how to make the best selection of what's available), flying with children, which are the safest seats to sit in, how to reduce jet lag and tips for avoiding air rage. Read more...
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"You'll be taking off to a better flying experience... Clegg has some fascinating information to impart about the way airlines operate and how to get the best out of them... But it is Clegg's eye-openers about the industry that make the best reading." North Star |
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We all realize how important customers are. We all know what will help build a good relationship with our customers. Yet so often it is done badly. Capturing Customers' Hearts analyzes companies where the product or the company itself generate a special reaction in the customer, something much more than brand loyalty - true affection. Read more...
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"Essential reading - every page presents fresh insights and facts that are now crucial to differentiation and success." Adrian Lucas, CEO Imerge |
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Faced with a world of frantic business change, threatened by the disappearance of job security, what do you do? Survival certainly has to be a consideration, but it shouldn't be enough. We all have dreams, goals, things we desperately want to do in a short life. It's time to take a different viewpoint. Read more...
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"There are no certainties in this - but then, the only certainty in a conventional job these days is that it isn't going to last for life." |
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DisOrganization (with Paul Birch) | ||
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Traditional organizational structures are failing in a world of frantic change, instant communication and information overload. DisOrganization offers an original solution. Go for both extremes at once. Have inspirational leadership, and manage the detail. React to your customers and innovate wildly. Break up your business into small units and have mechanisms in place to provide superb centralized communication. Read more...
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"Clegg and Birch present a radical alternative to the 'middle way' adopted by so many companies today - focused extremism in every area of your business." Mark Ralf, Group Purchasing and Property Director, BUPA |
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An increasing number of companies are providing service to invisible customers via the Web and call centres. But the new demands are failing to be met. Giving great customer service this way is an opportunity few companies of taken up. This book shows how it is possible. Read more...
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"The Invisible Customer is essential reading for managers, but it also provides an invaluable tool for front-line call centre and Internet-based service staff." |
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The methods and techniques of training are well established. So well established that some tricks of the trade have become hackneyed and tired. Training Plus will help you break out of a rut and develop new ways of getting the message across, whether you are a professional trainer or a manager wanting to develop your staff. Read more...
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"Brian Clegg's infectious enthusiasm, along with his examples, exercises and expert knowledge of the power of new technology will transform the way you develop your staff in the future." |
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Crash Course in Creativity (with Paul Birch) | ||
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A structured course with 30 units of 5 exercises and guided reading to build your expertise in business and personal creativity. Read more...
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"Creativity is a business skill – or rather a life skill – that cannot be simply learned. The only way to enhance your creativity is through practice." |
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Crash Course in Managing People (with Paul Birch) | ||
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After exploring the key elements that make for effective management, the course itself consists of a programme of 150 exercises and techniques to help you to develop your managerial skills. Read more...
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"Alongside pure leadership, you will see themes developing around motivation, coaching and interviewing." |
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After exploring the key elements that make for effective time management, negotiation and stress reduction the course itself consists of a programme of 150 exercises and techniques to help you to decide what you want from life – and get it! Read more...
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"This book might just as easily (though more clumsily) have been titled 'making the best of your life' or 'getting things the way you want them to be'" |
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Instant Brainpower is an easy to use action kit, bursting with exercises that will help you to make the most of a unique asset: your brain. Full of simple, proven techniques that will help you find fresh ideas and solutions, the book offers over 70 ways to stretch your mind whether you want to enhance your personal creativity, improve your memory and stretch your knowledge management. Read more...
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"The old adage is wrong. It's not who you know but what you know that matters. Knowledge and its creative use are the keys to success in the frantically changing modern world." |
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Interviewing is an essential part of any manager's job, but often there is little time given to training. When the interview comes along, it's something extra on top of the manager's normal responsibilities. Here is an ideal candidate for the Instant approach, improving interview skills, providing proven tips and 100 effective questions to cover a wide range of requirements. Read more...
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"Far from being a natural ability, successful interviewing is a skill that has to be learned and honed, whether you want to get the best candidate for a job or to make the most of an internal interview." |
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Helps you bring out the best in people, fast! Whether you are trying to inspire and individual, a team or an entire company, the proven techniques in this practical book will help you give others a boost. When you need to motivate, there's often urgency - hence the value of the instant approach. Read more...
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"You know that your staff and colleagues, your boss, your friends and family could all achieve more. Yet they don't. It's not that they lack the skills, simply the motivation." |
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Negotiation has never been a pure science, but it's blend of logic and gut feel can be learned. This creative book packed with proven tips and advice includes a comprehensive range of over 70 self-development exercises that will help you to improve your skills in negotiation whether you are buying, selling or searching for common ground. Read more...
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"It's hard to imagine business - or even life - without negotiation. Practically every business interaction from the largest corporate merger to a meeting to decide the site of a new bicycle shed depends on negotiation. " |
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Stress can kill - but it needn't. Stress is not all bad news once you start to understand which things stretch you to breaking point and which aspects of stress you like, and need, to keep your adrenalin pumping and your enthusiasm levels high. With Instant Stress Management, you can take greater control of your life - now! Read more...
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"Stress is something everyone needs to be able to manage for a better life." |
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Instant Teamwork (with Paul Birch) | ||
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We have a potentially powerful resource in a team. Like most powerful resources it needs tuning. Hence Instant Teamwork. This book provides the answers for three requirements: ice-breakers to break down barriers between people, warmups to increase energy and timeouts to change the direction of thinking are the basis of this book. Read more...
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"Perhaps your team, your group, your course is perfect. Maybe. But if so, you are unique." |
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The trouble with most approaches to time management is that they take up too much time! This toolkit of short exercises can be used as a course to build to time management excellence, or as individual, bite-sized improvements as and when time is available. Read more...
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"The biggest problem with Time Management is finding the time to do it." |
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The Internet may be the biggest library in existence, and it's certainly the most readily accessible, but just finding something out there can be a challenge. This readable book introduces you to the techniques you need to find the right information on the Web and to use other Internet resources like e-mail and newsgroups to get to the information you need. New second edition. Read more...
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"The web is a vast, confusing mix of incredibly useful information and garbage. The good news about using the Internet for research is that almost anything you want to know is probably out there. The bad news is that it is like searching for a particular item on a noticeboard, planted with millions of other boards in a field the size of Texas." |
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Before writing science books, Brian wrote a range of business books, plus the popular murder mystery party ebook Organizing a Murder. Details are below.
