Attitudes And Skills

Attitudes And Skills: The Magic Bullet, 2/e Allan R. Baylis ISBN    9788130930558   2015   184pp  PB  6 x9" Original publisher   Global Professional Publishing Ltd. Reprinted in India by Viva Books List price        Rs. 395.00 Price after 20% discount= Rs316.00 BOOK PREVIEW ORDER ONLINE

Description:

Attitudes and Skills: The Magic Bullet is a 21-day action plan that will improve all areas in your life. Have you ever wondered why so few take action with their ideas only to see others pass them by? Attitudes and Skills: The Magic Bullet will show you how to be one of the 5% who put thoughts into action. This action-oriented book focuses on implementation. Since implementation happens through daily application, Allan Baylis has designed an action plan that the reader must commit to for 21 consecutive days. The first part of the book delineates ten important attitudes and an MDA (method of daily application) for the user. Baylis argues that there has been an overemphasis on drilling for relevant skills and little emphasis on developing a positive learning attitude.The author believes that the 10 attitudes presented in the book, implemented on a daily basis, will have a positive effect on attitudinal growth. When you change an attitude you change everything. After exploring the 10 attitudes, Baylis presents people skills, the most important skill of all. Different personalities process information in different ways. When you learn how other personalities process information, you become more flexible. The skills section shows the reader how to read and adjust to other personalities to improve communication skills. An improved attitude coupled with improved people skills is what Attitudes and Skills: The Magic Bullet is all about.

Contents:

Acknowledgments • Preface • Introduction • Welcome to the Magic Bullet • The Magic Bullet! • Attitude isn’t everything but it’s the best place to start! • Use it or lose it! • Change is an Inside Job! • When you see it you will believe it! • A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out! • The pursuit of happiness! • The most important conversation you’ll ever have! • You help me feel good! • Do your actions match your values? • Staying in Balance! • Are we there yet? • The most important lesson you will ever learn! • Who are you? • It all adds up! • It begins with understanding • Will you adjust? • Applying the Platinum Rule!
About the Author:

Allan Baylis is a world class Speaker. When people hear him speak they recognize that they are hearing something special. High energy, entertaining, funny, and filled with real life solutions based on thirty years of experience.Time seems to fly by at an Allan Baylis presentation. Allan has presented over 5,000 presentations in the US, Canada and Europe. His programs focus on management, sales, leadership, customer service and personal growth. In addition to his speaking engagements Allan has written a number of programs and has presented a video program as well. The information Allan packs into each presentation is based on real life and business experiences. Allan wrote and implemented service programs for 600 retail stores in North America and Europe. He knows what he’s talking about and he makes it easy to understand and fun to attend.That is why he is continually brought back for return engagements. Allan’s book Attitudes and Skills: The Magic Bullet is a culmination of his experiences. Finally you have an approach to personal growth that you can use on a daily basis. This is how real change will happen. Allan’s book, like his presentations, has been and will be the catalyst for many successes

Brilliant Manoeuvres: How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles Richard Martin 9788130930541   HB  2015  292 pp   6 x9"   Original publisher   Global Professional Publishing Ltd. Published in India by          Viva Books List price        Rs. 995.00 Price after 20% discount= Rs796.00 BOOK PREVIEW ORDER  ONLINE

 Reviews:

Rich Martin, an acclaimed military officer and brilliant consultant, has distilled the best of military maneuvers into business brilliance.

- >From the Foreword by Alan Weiss, PhD, Author, Million Dollar Consulting and The Consulting Bible

Richard explains the reasons behind the military concepts, backing them up with diagrams and historical and personal examples. He then shows how to apply them in a business context. I highly recommend Brilliant Manoeuvres to beginners and advanced users alike.

- Pierre Bergevin, President & CEO, Cushman & Wakefield Canada

With Brilliant Manoeuvres, Richard Marlin has produced a guidebook that gets back to the basics of strategy, management, and leadership.

- Louis Gabanna, President, Colas Canada

Brilliant Manoeuvres taught me that military wisdom and strategy have universal applicability specially in business, where there is the same dynamic interplay of competition and energies as war and battle. Richard Martin has created a set of tools that every business leader and executive needs in their toolbox.
- Jordan Peytchev, CFO, Sparky Group, Berlin, Germany

There are quite a few books about parallels between military strategy and corporate strategy. Rich Martin’s Brilliant Manoeuvres makes a difference by not only focusing on the conceptual but also on the operational side of the equation. This book is a hands-on guide to a brilliant corporate strategy.
- Prof. Dr Guido Quelle, Managing Partner, Mandat Consulting Group, Dortmund, Germany
“Brilliant Manoeuvres is Sun Tzu’s Art of War combined with Drucker’s The Effective Executive”
- Alan Weiss, PhD, Author of the bestselling Million Dollar Consulting

Description:

Business executives and entrepreneurs see themselves as modern day warriors, fighting off competitors and conquering new markets. They talk about attacking competitors, defending turf, firing warning shots, establishing beachheads, bypassing the competition, and so on.
Brilliant Manoeuvres – How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles is for those executives and entrepreneurs who are looking to create and sustain competitive advantage and to lead their teams in the face of determined competition and rivalry.

Based on the author’s experience as a soldier, business consultant and entrepreneur, it explains how and why military leaders and planners actually think and operate. It translates this into terms that business people can readily apply to their own reality so they can survive and thrive. It is a practical guidebook, and not just another set of exhortations to “lead from the front” or to ‘win without fighting’. It even demonstrates how some military methods cannot be applied in management.

The structure and thematic presentation of the topics will be valuable to people operating at all levels of an organization, with principles and concepts that can be applied to strategic, operational, tactical, organizational, technical and leadership situations. It will guide managers and entrepreneurs who must manage risks and exploit change in competitive and increasingly unpredictable environments.

Do you want to know how military leaders really think and operate?

Do you want to use that expertise to win your own business battles?

This book, based on the author’s 25 years of military experience, plus years as a business consultant and an entrepreneur, explains how and why military leaders and planners lead and succeed. It will appeal to a wide readership of managers and entrepreneurs who must manage risks and exploit change in competitive and increasingly unpredictable environments.
Contents: 

Acknowledgments • Foreword by Alan Weiss • Preface • Chapter 1: How Can Military Wisdom Apply to Business? • How Business Concepts Helped Me Achieve A Military Mission • How Military Thought Influences Business Practice • How I Came to Realize the Usefulness of Military Parallels for Business • Of Levels and Planes • How This Book Is Organized • Chapter 2: Offence: Seizing and Maintaining the Initiative • Seize and Maintain the Initiative • Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t: Manoeuvre for Advantage • Avoid Enemy Strengths: Use the Indirect Approach • The Path of Least Resistance: Probe for Gaps and Reinforce Successful Incursions • Summary • Chapter 3: Defence: Securing Position and Regaining the Initiative • Effective Positioning and Preparation • Depth • All Around Defence • Mutual Support • Active Defence • Summary • Chapter 4: Selection and Maintenance of the Aim: The Principle of the Objective • The Master Principle of War (and Business) • The Art of Saying No • Developing Strategic Objectives: Ends, Ways, and Means • Translating Objectives Into Action: Nested Hierarchical Planning • Determining Your Role: Mission Analysis • Mission Command Is Focused Initiative • Summary • Chapter 5: You Can’t Be Everywhere at Once: Exploiting Limited Resources • Recognize Your Own and Your • Competitors’ Centres of Gravity • Designate Your Main Effort • Economy and Mass • Speed and Agility • Flexibility through Multiple Roles • Summary • Chapter 6: No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy • Planning, Friction, and the Fog of War • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Assumptions • Scenarios • Options • Simplicity • Opportunism • Summary • Chapter 7: Is Military Intelligence Really an Oxymoron? • Adopt a Wide Area of Interest • Seek Comprehensive Understanding • Intelligence Is Everyone’s Business • Turning Information into Intelligence • Reconnaissance • Summary • Chapter 8: Bucks, Bullets and Bully Beef: Logistics and the Sinews of War • Eggheads and Bean Counters: Rational Analysis • Marshal Forces to Maximize the Chances of Success • Establish a Bridgehead to Expand into Hostile Territory • Develop and Maintain Robust Lines of Communication • Summary • Chapter 9: “The Moral is to the Physical as Three is to One”: Morale, Cohesion and the Motivation to Perform • The Real Test of Morale Is Adversity • Morale is Different from Mood—It’s Built on Unity and Cohesion • Faith in the Mission and Vision • We All Need to Belong to Something Bigger than Ourselves • True Motivation and Discipline Come from Within • Summary • Chapter 10: Follow Me: The Art of Leadership • Competence Is the Heart of Leadership • Transformational Leadership Leads to Exceptional Performance • Leadership Must Be Ethical • Ten Principles of Military Leadership that Everyone Can Use • Summary • Conclusion • Index
About the Author:

Richard Martin, is founder and president of Alcera Consulting Inc. Prior to launching his consulting business, Richard attended the prestigious College militaire royal de Saint-Jean as an officer cadet and then served for 21 years as an infantry officer in the Canadian Army. His proudest moment in the military was successfully commanding a peacekeeping.

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