Introduction to Financial and Management Accounting: A User Perspective

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You're no idiot, of course. You get your work done in a timely fashion and recognize the importance of delegating responsibility. But when it comes to getting your employees to go that extra mile, you feel like you're coaching the Bad News Bears in Little League. Don't kick the water cooler yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivating People can help you get the best performance out of your team--and even help them enjoy the experience. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

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Motiving people by fear and intimidation?.......2004-07-15

While the techniques mentioned in this book would doubtless work, I am a bit uncertain about the ethicacy of using them. I had been expecting something about finding what people want, and learning how to motivate them based on that, but the author suggests solving even the most trivial problem by leaving a severed horse head in the person's bed.

Frankly, I don't even know where to get a horse head, and if I were to put one in my house-keeper's bed, I expect that she would quit and I'd have to clean the sheets. But, the author really should give some tips on where to get a horse head.

And that entire chapter on inciting mobs was kind of disturbing.

Save your money........2003-05-06

30 minutes of reading, and I was motivated only to throw the book away. Too disgusted even to return it to my local bookstore.

A Great Resource for Motivating People for Everyone.......2002-04-04

"But mostly...I want to be inspired." - Dorothy to Jerry in the movie "Jerry Maguire"

Being a good motivator with the ability to inspire is a full-time job, but it is one well worth investing time and effort to master. "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Motivating People" proves a valuable tool for anyone in a position of leadership looking to rally the troops and seismically shift mindsets.
Does this apply to you? The authors assert that "The ability to motivate is as vital for the first-grade teacher in a rural school as it is for the supervisor in a downtown office building." This book prescribes proven methods to motivate to maximum effect.
In Chapter 1 we learn that "Bosses should be more like coaches, who don't demand work from their teams, but work with their teams." This vital connection between motivators and their workers is repeated throughout, because without a genuine bond communication breaks down and attempts to motivate are doomed to fail. As the Reverend Jesse Jackson puts it, "The greatness of teachers is not measured by how much they know, but by how much they share." One of the book's Defining Moments sections states that "to orchestrate means to arrange or put something together. The best orchestra conductor never needs to touch the instruments. They touch the hearts of their musicians."
Dispensing these motivational tidbits is effective, but "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Motivating People" really succeeds when it drives home its points with true to life accounts. Take the story of Sue, a customer service department leader with a crew that's beleaguered, bickering, and overworked. The book tells us that a psychological environment is harder to change than a physical one, so Sue has an uphill battle to get her department on track.
After wracking her brain to try to turn the ship around, Sue adopts a simple, straightforward course of action. She announces that she's coming in a half hour early on Thursday morning. She's not forcing anyone to come in early and can't pay overtime, but anyone who wants to show up is welcome."Those of us who show up will start looking for better ways to get things done," she tells the group. "I'll buy donuts."
Initially, only a few workers turned up, then as the numbers grew the company president and key managers turned their attention to the meetings. Eventually, they held Sue up as an example and people started working together to reverse the slide and resolve issues. The point of the story is that little things can go a long way when it comes to motivation. By giving her workers a voice, Sue was able to motivate them and establish a productive team working together at peak efficiency.
"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Motivating People" hammers home the message that camaraderie is key, and bringing a sense of family to the workplace has power. Strong leaders are people who interact with employees at every level. There's a story of cosmetics queen Estee Lauder's personalized selling technique and her breezing into Saks on a Saturday to help the salespeople improve their selling techniques Ñ similar to AppleOne Employment Services president Bernie Howroyd continually visiting offices and making himself visible and available to team members.
The book instructs leaders to recognize that team members are essentially like customers with a "What's in it for me?" attitude. By being fair and honest with workers and involving them, it's possible to motivate them to do almost anything. Once you've taught your team what you want them to do, and motivated them to do it, you've got to trust them with the ball. Hand it over to them and let them run with it.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivating People
Michael with Susan Shelly Ramundo
Manufacturer: Alpha
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Covering wetlands soils from Florida to Alaska, Wetland Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification provides information on all types of hydric soils. With contributions from soil scientists who have extensive field experience, the book focuses on the soil morphology of the wet soils that cover most wetlands from the subtropics northward. No previous book has been devoted solely to the subject of hydric soils and their landscapes. The book is well organized and divided into three parts. Part I examines the basic concepts, processes, and properties of aspects of hydric soils that pertain to virtually any hydric soil. It provides a general overview and important terms and concepts. Part II covers the soils in specific kinds of wetlands and the different functions they perform. Part III emphasizes special wetlands conditions such as soils composed of sand, organic soils in northern North America, prairie wetlands, wetlands in saline situations, dry climates, and wetlands with modified hydrology. Whether you are an expert in soil science, or just need a crash course, this reference prepares you to work with real wetlands-outdoors. Written for scientists without a background in soil science and comprehensive in scope, Wetlands Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification provides basic and advanced coverage, explaining the fundamentals of hydric soils in terms even a non-soil scientist can understand.

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Recent advances in both experimental techniques and theoretical methodologies have meant that increasingly sophisticated studies concerning the formation, structures, energetics, and reaction dynamics of state- or energy-selected molecular ions can now be performed. In order to better serve the ion chemistry and physics community, each volume of this series will be dedicated to reviewing a specific topic, emphasizing new experimental and theoretical developments in the study of ions. The Wiley Series in Ion Chemistry and Physics will help stimulate new research directions and point to future opportunities in the field of ion chemistry and physics. This fourth volume is devoted to developments associated with the high resolution study of molecular photoionization, presented from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints. This field has been revolutionized in recent years through the rapid development of zero kinetic energy (ZEKE) photoelectron spectroscopy, which is featured prominently within this volume. These advances have expanded the researcher' s ability to probe not just structural features, but also the detailed dynamics of a system, resulting in the interest and applicability of the technique being broadened to areas of chemical physics extending beyond the traditional study of photoionization per se. Each of the twelve chapters making up this volume is written by leading researchers in their respective fields.

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Laser Photoionization Spectroscopy
V. S. Letokhov
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State-selected and state-to-state photoionization-photoelectron spectroscopy using two-color infrared and vacuum ultraviolet lasers : (Dissertation)

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State-selected and state-to-state photoionization-photoelectron spectroscopy using two-color infrared and vacuum ultraviolet lasers : (Dissertation)
Peng Wang
Manufacturer: ProQuest Information and Learning
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Most students of the American Civil War know the name George Gordon Meade, but few can tell you about the man. With this addition to Potomac’s Military Profiles series, historian Richard Sauers examines the life of one of the Union Army’s most notable generals. Rising from the Union officer corps to lead the previously ill-fated Army of the Potomac, Meade took command only hours before his forces stumbled upon Robert E. Lee’s Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863. He led his men to victory in one of the most famous battles in history, but Meade was soon embroiled in political battles with fellow generals and Washington politicians. Despite detractors’ efforts to question Meade’s judgment and smear his reputation—efforts often exacerbated by the general’s own volatile temper and undiplomatic behavior—he continued to put duty to his country and his men first. When Ulysses S. Grant was named lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces, Grant made his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac and soon overshadowed Meade. Sauers chronicles the tense relationship that developed between the two men and the effect it had on the crucial last days of the war. Sauers’s concise but authoritative biography sheds new light on one of the Civil War’s most significant leaders. His book, the only new biography of Meade to appear in over thirty years, should spark renewed study of this brave but overlooked general.

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A concise and compelling portrait of a Civil War general.......2006-01-14

"Meade: Victor of Gettysburg," by Richard A. Sauers, is a short (121 plus xv pages) biography of the man described on the book's dust jacket as "one of the Civil War's most underrated leaders." The book features three maps, a chronology of Meade's life, black-and-white photographs, endnotes citing Sauers' sources, and a short bibliographic essay that covers biographies of Meade and original source material about him. The book covers the whole span of Meade's life, including his early military career, work as a civil engineer, reentry into the Army, Mexican War service, work on lighthouses as a military engineer, and family life.

The book focuses on Meade's role in the Civil War. Sauers covers his command technique, his planning and preparation for the pivotal battle at Gettysburg, his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant, and his relationships with the officers who served under his command. Particularly interesting are the accounts of controversy and conflict among Meade and the other Union generals, as well as of the stormy relations between Meade and the press. We also get a look at Meade's hot temper. Also significant are the many personal trials Meade endured during the Civil War--injury, illness, and a critical family crisis.

Although at times the text is a bit dry, Sauers includes some elements that give nice human touches to the story, such as a brief account of Meade's reunion with Robert E. Lee after Lee's historic surrender. Sauers also discusses Meade's problematic relationship with history, and takes issue with other historians for their reliance on original sources that were hostile to Meade. Ultimately Sauers' own portrait of George Gordon Meade is that of a remarkable soldier and leader. This is a thought-provoking work of military biography.

Meet General George Gordon Meade, victor of Gettysburg: A fictional but historically accurate interview with the winner of the greatest battle ever fought on American soil

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Meet General George Gordon Meade, victor of Gettysburg: A fictional but historically accurate interview with the winner of the greatest battle ever fought on American soil
John J Hollister
Manufacturer: Battlefield Guide Publishers
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A Profile of General Meade and the Four Military Installations Named for the Victor at Gettysburg
B. C. Corrigan
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ASIN: 0961295619

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Women have always been healers; they have helped each other through the birthing process, nursed the sick and wounded, and sought cures for illnesses and injuries. This book summarizes the lives of 240 significant or representative women who have engaged in the "core" professions of mid-wifery, nursing, and medicine (exclusive of psychiatry), and whose careers were primarily spent in the United States and Canada, from colonial times to the present. For the high school or college student, it will serve as an introduction to the lives of these healers; some students may be inspired to do further research on them or may be inspired to become healers themselves. Women's Studies scholars, biographers, and historians of science, medicine, or nursing, will find the biographies useful starting points for more in-depth research. Each biography provides references for further reading and study.

American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, V. 368, etc.)

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American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, V. 368, etc.)

Manufacturer: Springer Publishing Company
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From the frontier to the university, here is an exciting collection that traces the development of the nursing profession through the biographies of the individual nurses since 1925 that helped create its unique history.

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Following an introduction that outlines the history and projects the future of gerontology, the authors offer insightful profiles of roughly 300 researchers, teachers, and practitioners in aging. North Americans are heavily represented, though gerontologists from Great Britain and the Continent are included as well. The dictionary can be read for an overview of the field, while cross-listings and a complete name and subject index make it an ideal reference. Each entry contains a professional and academic biography, along with citations and succinct descriptions of the individual's important contributions to the study of the elderly and aging.

Biographical Dictionary of German Speaking Physicians

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Biographical Dictionary of German Speaking Physicians

Manufacturer: K G Saur Verlag
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A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789 (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary Medicine and Public Hea)

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A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789 (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary Medicine and Public Hea)
Edward C. Papenfuse
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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