Poised for Success
Poised for Success

Author: Jacqueline Whitmore

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1429989769

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Secrets to mastering the details that will get you ahead at work, from international etiquette expert and author of BUSINESS CLASS, Jacqueline Whitmore. In the past, the business world favored the aggressive "Type A" personality. But in these unsettled times, being courteous and thoughtful has proven to be a more effective way to win clients and customers and influence others. The competitive advantage depends on your ability to use your emotional intelligence and social graces to take your career to the next level. In POISED FOR SUCCESS, Jacqueline Whitmore states that good business etiquette is important, but she also knows that there is more to becoming invaluable at work than simply mastering good behavior. In order to be poised for success, you must cultivate what Jacqueline calls the four "P" qualities: Presence, Polish, Professionalism, and Passion. These include how to: -Package yourself for success by refining your personal brand -Nurture professional relationships with flair -Master the five ways to make yourself more memorable -Learn the seven unwritten rules of workplace etiquette Whitmore, using her 15 years of experience as a protocol and etiquette expert, will arm you with the skills to become more self-aware, more confident and comfortable in your own skin, and better able to communicate with others in a credible, authentic manner.

Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic
Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic

Author: Jennifer L. Scott

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1501118730

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"The New York Times bestselling author of Lessons from Madame Chic and At Home with Madame Chic reminds us about a quality that is scarce in our fast-paced, wired world: poise, it's power, and how to cultivate it"--

Manners to Go
Manners to Go

Author: Lisa Richey

Publisher:

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780974321004

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Manners To Go is a kit to build confidence. Includes: thank you notes with instructions, stickers, placemats and material on first impressions, telephone etiquette, and dining skills

POISED for Results
POISED for Results

Author: Mark Wrightsman

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2023-02-07

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1631959646

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POISED® for Results offers a comprehensive, effective, and efficient model for organizational leadership and individual and team growth and development. Navigating through each element of the POISED® process, with examples and stories from experience, and relatable historical stories and specific recommendations, POISED® for Results is designed to engage the reader and to provide an imminently usable structure for successful team engagement, strategy development and execution, and continuous growth. Dr. Scott’s expertise in leading, training, and guiding teams provides a seasoned educator’s perspective, and combines with Mark’s global business and organizational leadership experience to reach readers of all backgrounds and experiences. Newer leaders seeking a direction and seasoned leaders eager to finetune their skills of engaging teams with a proven and efficient process and model, will appreciate and be able to take away tools and processes and stimulate thinking for immediate application. The results of the POISED® model as explained in POISED® for Results will accrue in multiple dimensions: individual growth as a leader, a significant increase in team-member engagement by driving “optimal stress” for success and, ultimately, results that come from maximizing organization effectiveness in an efficient manner with focused leadership.

Poised for Excellence
Poised for Excellence

Author: Karima Mariama-Arthur

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 3319645749

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This book is an exceptional resource for leaders at every level across industries. An insightful guidebook comprised of 40 illuminating principles showcasing the fundamental competencies that impact performance in the boardroom and beyond, each chapter includes the following core components: 1) a robust, but succinct discussion introducing each principle; 2) key strategies providing straightforward guidance on how to master each principle; 3) a selection of thoughtful journal questions that allow for meaningful introspection, and finally, 4) a leadership challenge—a stretch goal—that brings each principle into immediate, scalable focus. Whether a seasoned or emerging leader, each reader will discover useful perspectives contained within each chapter designed to firmly orient their thinking and behavior towards leadership excellence. An enduring resource for circumstances in which every leader will inevitably find him or herself confronting, it will also serve as the “go to” professional development resource for elevating leadership brands and facilitating the necessary trench work required to develop competent and confident leaders regardless of industry or expertise. Different from traditional books that provide a one-dimensional view of what leadership is and do little more than categorize existing traits, Poised for Excellence breaks the mold. It creates the context for understanding leadership development as a holistic process: By focusing on the mastery of fundamental principles structured to develop the whole person through service to self and others, it ignites an evolutionary process that cultivates 360 degrees of effective leadership. It directs readers to stake a bold claim to their success and transform the way they show up in the boardroom and beyond. Poised for Excellence was written to nurture the leadership potential in business leaders who desire to operate in excellence and believe that learning and practice are non-negotiable aspects of leadership success.

Poised to Kill
Poised to Kill

Author: Brian Lutterman

Publisher: Salvo Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1930486499

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Extortionists present corporate executive Hal Dwyer with a nightmarish dilemma: turn over top secret anti-missile software from his defense contractor employer, or forfeit the life of his twelve-year-old daughter. To thwart the kidnappers, Dwyer sets out on a quest for answers that takes him from the boardrooms of southern California to the wilds of northern Minnesota. As he seeks to unravel the plot that threatens to destroy his family and his country, Dwyer confronts a ruthless foreign tycoon, a treacherous corporate CEO, and a new, deadlier breed of terrorists, who are determined to turn America's defenses and freedoms against itself.

What He's Poised to Do
What He's Poised to Do

Author: Ben Greenman

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780061987403

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Ben Greenman is a writer of virtuosic range and uncanny emotional insight. As Darin Strauss has noted, "Like Bruno Schulz, George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and no one else I can think of, Greenman has the power to be whimsical without resorting to whimsy." The stories in this new collection, What He's Poised to Do, showcase his wide range, yet are united by a shared sense of yearning, a concern with connections missed and lost, and a poignant attention to how we try to preserve and maintain those connections through the written word. From a portrait of an unfaithful man contemplating his own free will to the saga of a young Cuban man's quixotic devotion to a woman he may never have met; and from a nineteenth-century weapons inventor's letter to his young daughter to an aging man's wistful memory of a summer love affair in a law office—each of these stories demonstrates Greenman's maturity as a chronicler of romantic angst both contemporary and timeless, and as an explorer of the ways our yearning for connection informs our selves and our souls.

Consciousness, Color, and Content
Consciousness, Color, and Content

Author: Michael Tye

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780262700887

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A further development of Tye's theory of phenomenal consciousness along with replies to common objections.

Build Beyond Zero
Build Beyond Zero

Author: Bruce King

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 164283212X

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“Net Zero” has been an effective rallying cry for the green building movement, signaling a goal of having every building generate at least as much energy as it uses. Enormous strides have been made in improving the performance of every type of new building, and even more importantly, renovating the vast and energy-inefficient collection of existing buildings in every country. If we can get every building to net-zero energy use in the next few decades, it will be a huge success, but it will not be enough. In Build Beyond Zero, carbon pioneers Bruce King and Chris Magwood re-envision buildings as one of our most practical and affordable climate solutions instead of leading drivers of climate change. They provide a snapshot of a beginning and map towards a carbon-smart built environment that acts as a CO2 filter. Professional engineers, designers, and developers are invited to imagine the very real potential for our built environment to be a site of net carbon storage, a massive drawdown pool that could help to heal our climate. The authors, with the help of other industry experts, show the importance of examining what components of an efficient building (from windows to solar photovoltaics) are made with, and how the supply chains deliver all those products and materials to a jobsite. Build Beyond Zero looks at the good and the bad of how we track carbon (Life Cycle Assessment), then takes a deep dive into materials (with a focus on steel and concrete) and biological architecture, and wraps up with education, policy and governance, circular economy, and where we go in the next three decades. In Build Beyond Zero, King and Magwood show how buildings are culprits but stand poised to act as climate healers. They offer an exciting vision of climate-friendly architecture, along with practical advice for professionals working to address the carbon footprint of our built environment.

Medieval Things
Medieval Things

Author: Bettina Bildhauer

Publisher: Interventions: New Studies Med

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780814214251

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Investigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.