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Your projects, programs, and career turn on the difference between "no" and "yes". Yet selling ideas, especially the kinds of ideas that make organizations work, is a skill shrouded in mystery. Part emotional intelligence, part politics, part rhetoric, and part psychology, selling ideas is not like tricking someone out of his money. It's about helping others to see things your way: engaging their minds and imaginations.

As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. His systematic, step-by-step approach comes to life in this book, which is available in over ten foreign editions and combines lively storytelling, proven tactics, and reliable insights gleaned from the latest negotiation research.

Everyone knows that you are supposed to "follow your dream". But where is the road map to help you discover what that dream is? You have just found it. In Springboard, award-winning author and teacher G. Richard Shell helps you find your future. His advice: Take an honest look inside and then answer two questions: What, for me, is success? How will I achieve it? You will begin by assessing your current beliefs about success, including the hidden influences of family, media, and culture. These are where the pressures to live "someone else's life" come from.

If you want a broken girl, then break me... Keller Darke is Hollywood royalty who can make or break a career with a phone call, and when Selma Thorne walks into his office, desperate and hungry, he knows he should leave her alone. She's not his type, too green, too innocent, she thinks she knows the score, but she really has no idea. Something about her, though, is unforgettable, and those two little words, break me, ring in his ears like a challenge. She has no idea what he's getting into, has no idea how dark and brutal the world can really be, but maybe, if it's what she really wants, he...

Calling all Warriors and Wings of Fire fans I am Crystalstar or Shell and this is the Warriors and Wings of Fire Podcast! In this podcast I will be talking about Warriors and Wings of Fire. I am a very very very big fan of Warriors and Wings of Fire, but I have read Warriors first, but even though I read Warriors first I love Wings of Fire just as much as Warriors. I will try to record at least one episode each weekend, but sometimes I won’t have time or I’m out of town, but I won’t not post for more than 2 weeks without warning.So, I hope you like my episodes. (Art from Playground AI) ...

In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts, to a father of three in Appalachia finding purpose and meaning working in a convenience-store chain, to an unemployed autoworker retraining in "advanced manufacturing", Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological well-being - and how so many of the avenues to well-paid and meaningful work will be challenged in the years ahead.

In her first book, Finding My Sacred, debut author Shell Silversmith delivers an inspirational spiritual piece of literature that details her life journey. Silversmith's debut is a work of art that has a flowing storyline which will ignite the listener to reflect upon their own spiritual path.

Tired of her mundane existence, Kelly Dawson decides to leave her long-term relationship in search of excitement and the elusive "big O" that her friends rave about. But her plans for a wild new life don't go as smoothly as she had hoped. Work becomes all-consuming, and finding a suitable partner proves to be more difficult than she thought.

First published at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic thirty years ago, Ray Shell’s “powerhouse” (Maya Angelou) of a novel is as timely and relevant today as it was in 1994. It is the story of Cornelius Washington, a young upper-middle-class Black man blessed with burning talent and ambition, who enjoys experimenting with drugs—a dangerous pastime that gradually becomes a destructive addiction. Now a middle-aged crackhead, Cornelius ponders his life and the choices that have led him here.

Surveys show that more than 40 percent of employees report seeing ethical misconduct at work, and most fail to report it - killing office morale and allowing the wrong people to set the example. Collegiate professor G. Richard Shell has heard work misconduct stories from his MBA students which inspired him to create this helpful guide for navigating these nuances.

From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time---the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.

High in the mountainous rain forests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures.

Young Lilly Riverpool, one of the Wild Folk, comes of age in this mystical adventure through The Deep Forest. The Raising of the Amethyst Stone is a prequel to the fantasy novel trilogy, Leaflings. On her journey, she encounters colorful characters and many dangers in her quest to journey away from her woodland home and into the streets of the big city of Cobblestone.

As you’re about to go under the knife, Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is the morphine you need. This new volume holds 13 tales of bone-chilling terror. More than enough to send a shock though your system. Goosebumps, nightmares, shivers running down your spine... The physiological symptoms of fear infest your body. Just relax as your demonic nurse tightens the straps on the operating table.

In the competitive high-stakes game of big business, it is no secret that companies work the legislative and legal systems to gain advantage in the marketplace. It's called competitive legal strategy, by which some companies make the rules and others are forced to operate within restrictive boundaries that add cost and inconvenience to entering a given market. Rather than pass judgment on these tactics, Shell exposes these realities in order to give business owners and managers the legal knowledge to make better, more profitable strategic decisions. Citing numerous real-world cases, he ...

When Mabel’s lover turns her over to the King, she’s thrown in jail for being a witch. Fully expecting her love to come save her, she languishes for months in prison. After all, if he sold her out for riches and came back to rescue her, that would be rather amusing. But actual betrayal, there’s no amusement in that.

Fifteen years ago, Elijah Langley's world came to an abrupt halt with the death of his high school boyfriend. He keeps his past - and his sexual orientation - hidden until he attends a fundraiser for The Center for HOPE, an LGBT youth center, where he meets Adam Lancaster, HOPE's infuriatingly stubborn and sexy founder. A survivor of a turbulent childhood, Adam understands better than most the challenges his youth face. He's drawn to Elijah's baby blues and devilish smile but refuses to compromise his values.

BeYOUnique podcast was formed due to me always feeling like an outcast until I realized that being unique was my greatest strength! And now my mission is to help others realize the power in their uniqueness and originality.This is not just any podcast.This podcast is about helping you start or continue your journey of self-discovery, self-reflection, and self-confidence, and loving and embracing your flaws! Then, turning those flaws into your superpower!Not only will I focus on the core values and principles I just mentioned, but we will also be learning about:Healing, Heartbreak & Self ...

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Quale sarà il finale della principessa e del cavaliere oscuro? Dopo l'ultimo attacco di Player 2511, Neil è sempre più sotto pressione ed è costretto a cogliere anche il più piccolo indizio del vendicatore mascherato che minaccia la sua famiglia e Selene, con la quale ha una relazione altalenante: da un lato, infatti, il ragazzo si rende conto che con lei sta nascendo un legame unico e indissolubile; dall'altro, teme che il suo passato doloroso possa impedirle di vivere una vita piena e soddisfacente.