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Screw business as usual (Your coach in a box)
Par Richard Branson. 2013
Branson argues it's time organizations end their rabid devotion to profit and start doing good. Instead of wrecking the planet…
with pollution while creating an ever-poorer lower class, businesses have an opportunity to create a more prosperous world for everyone. Using step-by-step examples and instructions, Branson shows how this new world is possible. 2013.Toister breaks new ground, not by offering another set of tired tactics, but by getting at the root of why…
employees aren't delivering the service they should. With this knowledge - and Toister's corrective actions - businesses can reap immediate rewards. 2013.Sell yourself first: the most critical element in every sales effort (Your coach in a box)
Par Thomas A Freese. 2010
Shoptimism: why the American consumer will keep on buying no matter what
Par Lee Eisenberg. 2009
Shorty, an aviation pioneer: the story of Victor John Hatton
Par James Glassco Henderson. 2004
Having survived the First World War in the trenches, Shorty Hatton started his aviation career in a near-fatal crash of…
an Avro 504K and ended it with another Avro aircraft, the Arrow. In the intervening years he was a military, bush, and test pilot, he taught fledgling aviators at Camp Borden, he was the first to fly new air mail routes in an open cockpit plane, and he tested newly-built Hawker Hurricanes before they joined the Battle of Britain. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Shine: using brain science to get the best from your people (Your coach in a box)
Par Edward M Hallowell. 2011
Hallowell outlines a five-step process any manager can use to get the best out of his or her employees. By…
utilizing principles discovered through intense brain research, managers will be able to assign jobs to the right people, strengthen team bonds, cultivate imaginations, relieve and overcome stress, and stimulate loyalty and a desire to excel through rewards. This is an indispensable volume for leaders in any professional field. 2011.Shifting time: social policy and the future of work
Par Armine Yalnizyan, Ran Ide, Arthur J Cordell. 1994
This text presents two essays: "Securing society: creating Canadian social policy;" and, "The new tools: implications for the future of…
work." The essays discuss the decline of work and its meaning, while considering the new realities of work. The job search is obstructed by "technological progress", a situation which results in loss of tax revenue, fewer people in standard employment, and sociological and moral consequences. The proposed solutions for these problems include suggestions ranging from an equitable distribution of wealth to a national strategy for child care. c1994.Self-serve: how Petrocan pumped Canadians dry
Par Peter Foster. 1992
Petro-Canada was meant to increase Canada's energy securities, but this Crown corporation turned into a financial disaster with a reputation…
for extravagance. Foster fingers chairman Bill Hopper as the man responsible for the company's debt of $14 billion although it is only worth $2 billion. 1992.Seven summits
Par Dick Bass, Frank Wells, Rick Ridgeway. 1986
Seraffyn's Mediterranean adventure
Par Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. 1981
Account of the authors' journey along the south coast of Spain and Malta, crossing over to Tunisia, then moving on…
to Italy and Yugoslavia. Intersperses tales of unwitting smuggling, military arrests, a collision and a hurricane. 1981.Secret ingredients: the brave new world of industrial farming
Par Stuart Laidlaw. 2003
A vivid portrait of what modern industrial farming is, what it is doing to the environment, to farmers, to the…
plants and livestock we eat, and to us as consumers and as citizens. The author takes us from the dairy farms of Pennsylvania to Canada's prairie wheatfields, from the tomato greenhouses of southern Ontario to the potato fields of P.E.I. All along the way, he shows us food's secret ingredient - its hidden costs. 2003.SEND: the essential guide to email for office and home
Par David Shipley, Will Schwalbe. 2007
When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? What is the crucial - and…
most often overlooked - line in an email? What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell? This guide shows how to write the perfect email, and also points out the numerous times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water (or even jail!). 2007.Search for the Maya: the story of Stephens and Catherwood
Par Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen. 1973
Scott of the Antarctic: A Life Of Courage And Tragedy In The Extreme South
Par David Crane. 2006
Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions died from hunger and cold in 1912; they had reached the South Pole…
on January 18, only to discover that the Norwegian Amundsen had beaten them there a month earlier. The confirmation of Scott's death was met by an outpouring of public grief in Britain for the man quickly elevated to martyr status. In subsequent decades, biographers painted Scott as a self-absorbed, rash blunderer whose hubris led to the needless death of himself and his men, but Crane strives to present both the heroic and less-admirable aspects of Scott's career. 2006.Sauvage par nature: 3 ans de marche extrême en solitaire de Sibérie en Australie
Par Sarah Marquis. 2014
" Ne vous fiez pas aux apparences, Sarah Marquis est une vraie guerrière capable d'échapper aux attaques des cavaliers mongols…
et aux trafiquants de drogue dans la jungle laotienne. À l'approche du danger, elle se cache, glisse dans la nuit et se déguise en homme pour survivre. Les animaux sauvages et la nature sont sa famille. Elle s'endort comme un bébé aux cotés des serpents, des loups, des chevaux sauvages, des kangourous. Dépouillée de tout confort et de superflu mais pourvue de l'essentiel, cette jeune femme s'est adaptée aux conditions les plus extrêmes, pour mieux comprendre ce qui nous lie à la Terre et au " tout ". Sarah Marquis nous livre le récit - tantôt drôle, tantôt poignant - de son odyssée de 1 000 jours et 1 000 nuits. La force de ses pas vous inspirera le respect. Sa philosophie de vie vous donnera le goût de l'aventure et vous emmènera au-delà de ces terres inconnues. " -- 4e de couv.During the pioneering years of the Canadian West, Mountie Sam Steele took an active role in virtually every significant historical…
event. Steele kept the peace in the Yukon during the Gold rush, quelled rebellions, stood down violent strikers, faced Cree, Blackfoot, and Kootenay warriors, and also fought in the Boer War and the First World War. 2003.Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
Par Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.Samurai William: the adventurer who unlocked Japan
Par Giles Milton. 2002
In the spring of 1611, London's merchants received an intriguing and wholly unexpected letter. Written by a marooned English mariner…
named William Adams, it revealed that he had been living in the unknown land of Japan for more than a decade. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams. It was believed he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden land. 2002.Réussir: programmer son succès
Par Charles Albert Poissant. 2007
Réinventer le Québec: [douze chantiers à entreprendre]
Par Marcel Boyer, Nathalie Elgrably. 2014
" Un plaidoyer pour la liberté économique qui remet en question les vaches sacrées du modèle québécois, déboulonne plusieurs mythes…
et propose des réformes pour bâtir un Québec social-démocrate efficace et prospère. " -- 4e de couv.