A collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles, and extract information from the data.

This volume contains laws that you can count on when it comes to getting people to work together, but it tells them in such a way that you can start applying them to your own life.

Effective Teambuilding shows how productive working groups can be forged by selecting the right people, working together, sustaining group morale and raising standards of performance.

Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was cancerous. This is the story of Diamond's life with, and without, a lump.

Filled with illustrative examples, this book contains techniques for starting meetings on the right foot and ending them positively and decisively. It also offers practical methods for handling emotions when they arise in a group and offers a diagnostic approach for identifying and solving problems that can undermine the group process.

Presents more than 200 valuable tools and skills suitable for facilitators, consultants and any one who works with groups.