The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life. Whether simple or complex, private or public, decisions are an essential part of life, affecting individual lives for good or ill, as well as friends, families, and communities. Decision-making is a skill--one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. When the necessary components of a smart decision are understood, mistakes can be sidestepped. When...

Atlanta-based trainer Bienvenu offers instruction and practical tools to develop and lead training sessions on presentation skills. Using her strategic communication model, she walks through all the phases of preparing a course, including class size, time requirements, selling the workshop to management, room setup, and other aspects. She includes worksheets, exercises, planning steps, scripts, lecture notes, overheads, and handouts.

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Annotation Chart your path in the consulting jungle!Finding Your Way in the Consulting Jungle--a book in The Practicing Organization Development series--offers OD consultants the information and guidance they need to understand their place in the consulting network, differentiate themselves from other types of consultants, and work with both clients and colleagues to make sure everyone's needs and expectations are met. Finding Your Way in the Consulting...

The media are a vivid example of technical-institutional interdependencies: in the course of the market dynamics driven by technical innovations, traditional institutional arrangements become obsolete, which creates new regulatory challenges. But if the media form a "fourth estate," then the rapid process of change cannot be answered with "laisser faire." The regulatory challenge is therefore particularly great for the media and requires careful scientific...

"You're no idiot, of course. You keep track of your family finances, help your kids with their school projects, and even find time to plant a vegetable garden in the backyard. But when it comes to running a project at work, you feel like you'd rather clean out your septic tank." "Don't give up yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management gives you the special tools you need to seize a leadership role, demonstrate your organizational skills,...

"In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez's family...

Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion, and magical thinking. "In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest observers, Kurt Andersen, demonstrates that what's happening in our country today--this strange, post-truth,...