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When key employees and executives move on -- whether expectedly or unexpectedly -- organizations had better have a good succession plan in place. The most comprehensive and authoritative book on the subject, Effective Succession Planning has helped countless companies develop strong succession programs and avoid major disruptions.

Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest trends and best practices, the book presents strategies for identifying competencies, clarifying values, assessing current and future needs, and creating a complete, systematic succession planning program. The third edition also features all-new material reflecting the author's surveys on:

* whole system transformation
* software support packages
* tapping retirees to manage succession crises
* the growing activism of boards in succession planning
* and more

The book includes a new diagnostic tool to assess specific succession needs, illuminating case studies, and a CD-ROM with worksheets, assessment tools, and training guides..
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Here's the powerful idea behind The Writing Menu: Tailor a results-based writing program to fit your students' unique learning styles, cultures, interests, and attention spans, and you integrate writing with science, social studies and math into a writing workshop.

A cafeteria-style menu of expository and narrative prompts allows students to pick and choose among a wide variety of writing choices. Grade-appropriate target-skill lists for K - 8th grades ensure accountability with state standards..
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Kiyosaki shows you how to reverse the effects of negative programming received in school and replace it with new habits that will set you and your children up for financial and emotional success. International Best Seller..
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Unparalleled advice for parents of young athletes, from father and beloved future Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken.

Few athletes embody sportsmanship and class as perfectly as Cal Ripken, Jr. Since he retired from baseball in 2001, Ripken has devoted his time to coaching kids, including his own two children. His daughter, Rachel, plays basketball; his son, Ryan, plays baseball. The Babe Ruth League even changed the name of its largest division (more than 700,000 five-to-twelveyear-olds) from Bambino Baseball to Cal Ripken Baseball in 1991. But Ripken is troubled by what he sees in youth sports: a competitive intensity that removes the element of fun from playing. Drawing from his experiences as a father, a player, and a coach to his charges at Ripken Baseball, the legend offers his insights and advice in Parenting Young Baseball Players the Ripken Way, including:
• How an overemphasis on winning can harm your child’s game
• Why it’s counterproductive to correct your child’s technique during a game
• Mistakes well-meaning parents can make
• A complete guide to the structure of youth baseball leagues
• How Ripken’s techniques can be applied to other sports
• And much more

Showcasing his proven philosophy (keep it simple, explain the “why,” celebrate the individual, and make it fun!), Cal Ripken has created a plan that will delight baseball lovers for generations to come..
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Inside the Minds: The Insurance Business is an authoritative, insider’s perspective on the ins and outs of this dynamic industry and the future of the business, on a global scale. Featuring Chairmen, Presidents, and CEOs, representing some of the top insurance companies across the nation, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the current state and future shape of the industry. Discussing the inner workings of the business and the key factors that differentiate insurance companies from each other, as well as identifying the biggest risks companies face and ways to hedge these risks, these authors offer practical and adaptable strategies for generating revenues and profiting year after year. From the processes involved in determining a premium for a new customer, processing a claim, and investing the cash from policies, hitting on the essentiality of building a strong brand identity and achieving credibility, to overall tactics around marketing! and customer relations, these authorities articulate the finer points around the business now, and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great innovative minds of today, as experts explore in detail what it takes to secure long-term success in this ever-evolving industry.

This book is by:

Martin D. Feinstein, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Farmers Group, Inc. - "The Business of Managing Risks"; Constantine "Dinos" Iordanou, President & Chief Executive Officer, Arch Capital Group Ltd. - "Property/Casualty Insurance: A Business of Risk & Reward"; William G. Star, Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer, Kingsway Financial Services Inc. - "The Road to Success in the Insurance Industry"; Mark E. Watson, President & Chief Executive Officer, Argonaut Group, Inc. - "The Business of Insuring Business"; James J. Maguire, Chairman & Founder, Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. - "A Glimpse Behind the Scenes"; John W. Hayden, Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer, American Modern Insurance Group - "Master the Basics"; Robert V. James, President & COO, Balboa Insurance Group - "A People Business.".
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The books in this series from the editors of the "Food Service Professional" are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast -to-read, easy to understand and will take the mystery out of the subject. The information is "boiled down" to the essence. They are filled to the brim with up-to-date and pertinent information. The books cover all the bases, providing clear explanations and helpful, specific information. All titles in the series include the phone numbers and web sites of all companies discussed. What you won't find are wordy explanations, tales of how someone did it better, or a scholarly lecture on the "theory". Every paragraph in each of the books is comprehensive, well researched, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read, yet are packed with interesting ideas..
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Peak Performance for Smart Kids provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids achieve to their highest potential. Even the most talented child will not succeed if he or she has not developed the mental, psychological, and emotional skills to face the heavy demands of high performance. Maureen Neihart, a psychologist and leading authority on talent development in children, examines seven mental habits of successful kids, providing practical approaches for developing them in talented children of all ages in this easy-to-read guide for parents and teachers.

By working with parents to complete the activities included in this book, high-ability kids will learn to manage stress and anxiety, set and achieve goals, use mental rehearsal to improve performance, manage their moods and emotions, practice optimistic thinking, and resolve their frustrations of needing to belong while needing to achieve. With its research-based strategies and unique approach to maximizing potential, this is a book from which every parent of smart kids can benefit!.
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A straightforward guide to welcoming a new dog home.

This book establishes a solid timeline for all the key decisions a new dog owner must make, whether adopting a puppy, an adult dog or a rescued dog.

Dr. Bruce Fogle provides his time-tested 20 Essential Tips for a Well-Behaved Dog and offers guidance on the 30 most popular breeds (including purebreds, crossbreeds and problem breeds). Careful attention is given to various concerns, such as allergies and urban, suburban and apartment living.

New Dog is packed with accurate, up-to-date information and wise counsel on a range of such topics as:

• Where to find the right dog
• Known inherited conditions
• Temperament testing and good canine citizenship
• Common problems: inappropriate chewing, aggression, boredom
• Effective communication
• Routine health care and choosing a vet
• Expert training sequences to follow and practice
• Traveling with dogs and choosing a kennel and a doggy daycare.

More than 300 commissioned color photographs, dozens of useful tips, and recent breakthroughs in veterinary science all make this the ideal guidebook for new dog owners.

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