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Books - Brian Clegg's non-science titles
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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." |
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. Also available as a
downloadable ebook.
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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." |
Imagination Engineering (with Paul Birch)
| 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.
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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 |
Creativity and Innovation for Managers
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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.
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"A most readable
and engaging overview which will appeal particularly to senior managers who
are looking for ways to stimulate creativity and innovation in their
organizations." Keith Milner, MBA Director, Ashridge Management College |
| 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.
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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.” |
| 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.
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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 |
| 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.
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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 |
| 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.
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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." |
Disorganization (with Paul Birch)
| 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.
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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 |
| 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.
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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." |
| 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." |
Crash Course in Creativity (with Paul Birch)
| A structured course with 30 units of 5 exercises and guided
reading to build your expertise in business and personal creativity.
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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." |
Crash Course in Managing People (with Paul Birch)
| 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." |
Crash Course in Personal Development
| 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!
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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'" |
| 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.
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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. Also available as
a downloadable ebook. 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." |
| 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.
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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." |
| 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! Also a downloadable ebook.
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"Stress is something everyone needs to be able to manage for a better life." |
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. Also a downloadable ebook. Read more...
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"Perhaps your team, your group, your course is perfect. Maybe. But if so, you are unique." |
| 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." |
The Professional's Guide to Mining the Internet
| 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.
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"The Internet, and particularly the World Wide 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 somewhere. The bad news is that it is like searching for a particular item on a noticeboard, which is planted with millions of other noticeboards in a field the size of Texas." |
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