A guide for using body language to lead more effectivelyAspiring and seasoned leaders have been trained to manage their leadership communication in many important ways. And yet, all their efforts to communicate effectively can be derailed by even the smallest nonverbal gestures such as the way they sit in a business meeting, or stand at the podium at a speaking engagement. In The Silent Language of Leaders, Goman explains that personal space, physical gestures, posture, facial expressions, and eye contact communicate louder than words and, thus, can be used strategically to help leaders manage, motivate, lead global teams, and communicate clearly in the digital age.Draws on compelling psychological and neuroscience research to show leaders how to adjust their body language for maximum effect.Stands out as the only book to address specifically how leaders can use body language to increase their effectivenessGoman, a respected management coach, is widely considered as the expert in body language issues in the workplaceThe Silent Language of Leaders will show readers how to take advantage of the most underused skills in the leadership toolkitânonverbal skillsâto improve their credibility and stay ahead of the curve.
"101 Great Tips for Building Relationships and Opportunities in the Age of the Network" is designed to help you become successful no matter what the economy is doing, but it is even more powerful in tough times. Weâre sure you will benefit from the 101 strategies here that represent years of research and development. Theyâre practical; theyâre easy; they can be implemented quickly, and best of all, they work!
Guest Reviewer: Jon Lee Anderson on The Unconquered In an age when there is little left in the world that can be said to be still "virgin," contemporary travel literature has come to seem increasingly derivative, even farcical. The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes is a rare exception, an original that works on several levels. Scott Wallace has sensitively documented the immensity, history, the terror, and the beauty of one of the world's last true wildernesses and the people who live within it. This is a wonderful book: deeply moving, riveting by turns, laced with finely wrought passages. On the one hand, The Unconquered is the account of a nightmarish three-month expedition into the Amazon jungle in 2002 led by the irascible Brazilian wilderness explorer Sydney Possuelo, a legendary defender of the region's last uncontacted Indians. Rife through with moments of danger, loneliness, and hunger, as well as the testosterone-fuelled dramas that seem peculiar to groups of men undergoing hard times together, The Unconquered makes a spellbinding tale of real-life high-adventure. This is also the account of an equally fascinating inward journey taken by its author, the American journalist Scott Wallace, who originally joined Possuelo on his trek in order to write about his journey for National Geographic. In this book, Wallace, who renders memorable portraits of his fellow expeditionaries (the cook, Mauro, haunted by nightmares about monkeys who castrate him; Soldado the backwoods scout, who refuses to return home and see his aging mother) is also brutally honest about himself. Recently divorced, Wallace sets off into the jungle just shy of his forty-eighth birthday; he is out-of-shape, guilt-ridden for not having said goodbye to his three young sons, and fretful about the implications of a prolonged separation with his new girlfriend. The main character of The Unconquered, however, is Sydney Possuelo, a larger-than-life figure who emerges as a kind of Indian Jones- meets latter-day Bartolome de las Casas. Some years before Wallace met him, Possuelo, Brazil's best-known sertanista, or "agent of contact" with the Amazon's isolated indigenous people, had undergone a crisis of conscience about the destruction wrought by his life's work. He had become instead the main proponent of a no-contact policy for the Amazon's remaining "uncontacted" tribes. He had lobbied for and secured the designation of a vast Maine-sized tract of Amazonian wilderness called the Javari Valley Indigenous Land, to be closed off to all outsiders in perpetuity. It was the refuge of several uncontacted tribes hostile to outsiders, including the implacable flecheiros, the Arrow People, whose territory Possuelo planned to explore. The motives behind Possuelo's 2002 expedition seemed nonetheless obscure, even contradictory. As Possuelo explained it to Wallace, he wished to gather vital information about the flecheiros and to ascertain their wellbeing, but could only do so by penetrating their sanctuary on foot and by dugout canoe with a band of armed men, while at the same time seeking to avoid contact with them. During the journey itself, the inescapable Catch-22 of Possuelo's logic became more and more apparent until the moment, retold dramatically by Wallace, when the expeditionaries blundered inevitably through a flecheiro settlement, spreading panic as they went. In the end, The Unconquered is the unforgettable story of a troubled journey through a doomed landscape, its charactersâthe outsiders and the Indiansâlocked together in an ever-tightening fatal embrace by their respective needs and compulsions. At one point in the book, Possuelo points to a path they have slashed out of the jungle with their machetes and tells Wallace: "Five years from now, you will never know we were here." But Wallace is unconvinced, and notes ruefully: "It was doubtful the Arrow People would forget us so easily." Jon Lee Anderson is a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His books include: “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life,” “The Fall of Baghdad,” and “The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan.” Anderson began his reporting career in 1979, in Peru. In 2009, he won an Overseas Press Club Award for his reporting on Rio de Janeiro’s gangland.
Developed and perfected over fifteen years, Carole Maggio's revolutionary program combats the signs of aging-by diminishing the appearance of fine lines and improving muscle tone-naturally. Filled with dramatic before-and-after photos that illustrate the effectiveness of Facercise, this easy-to-follow book will help anyone achieve visible results-in less than a week. Diminish puffiness around the eyes Shorten and narrow the nose Smooth the chin, neck, and jawline Improve skin color and tone Lift eyebrows Recontour the cheeks Make lips fuller and more firm
A full-color, value-packed reference for the newest version of PhotoshopPhotoshop is the worldâs most popular image editing software, with more than four million users worldwide. Professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as photo hobbyists are eager to learn the newest features of the latest version, Photoshop CS5. This complete reference makes it easy, with nine self-contained minibooks covering each aspect of Photoshop.Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced toolsThis full-color guide includes nine self-contained minibooks: Photoshop Fundamentals; Image Essentials; Selections; Painting, Drawing, and Typing; Working with Layers; Channels and Masks; Filters and Distortions; Retouching and Restoration; and Photoshop and PrintIncludes all the basics for beginners as well as how to manage color, modify and transform selections and paths, make corrections with filters, use the liquefy command, prepare graphics for print or the Web, create contact sheets and picture packages, and moreWith bonus information on the companion Web site and coverage for both Windows and Mac, Photoshop CS5 All-in-One For Dummies is an all-purpose reference.
The Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose. Best-selling author Os Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has
In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.
It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic.
An Address Book speaks for itself. This is a Kindle book and all data entered is done the Kindle way. We suggest that you use the Kindle for PC or Mac app to input your data with your fast keyboard. Once done, it will automatically transfer to the same book on your Kindle if your WiFi is turned on. You still can enter data with your Kindle and make edits or even create new records and it will sync with your desktop. Either way you only enter data once and can have it displayed on up to six different electronic devices with the Kindle apps. The display of the static pages while you enter your data will assist you in entering the information required for a full record.Download the sample and see how you like it. Use of entering "tags" separated by spaces will help in a search for perhaps all persons with "tennis" or all persons with "poker", etc. You may even wish to enter âXmasâ to make sure that all such persons receive a Christmas card. All words in your records may be searched. We suggest that you enter all data for the record under one note, utilizing the record's unique identifier number.There are numerous benefits in creating a utility book for the Kindle. One gets to use all the features that the Kindle has to offer in the design of the book, which are familiar to all Kindle users; and whenever the Kindle has a software update, the new features are automatically passed on to the Kindle created book. One wonderful advantage for users, however, is the ability to sync automatically single input across all registered devices if WiFi is turned on.Please see Cynthia Marr's author page for forum notes and postings, as well as information on her other books. You are invited to participate.
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