Tells a story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in your life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organization you work for in, or the family or community you live in.

Few of us are armed with the powerful negotiation skills that prevent stubborn haggling and ensure mutual problem-solving. This title presents a few easily remembered principles that will guide readers to success, no matter what the other side does or whatever dirty tricks they resort to.

Creativity Now ensures creative stimulation never runs dry. Itself creative in both content and design, it's a book that entrepreneurs, writers, managers, marketers, and anybody else who needs a practical path to innovation can turn to and instantly find a way generate new ideas. It's divided into four key segments of the creative process: DREAMING consists of 25 ideas for about how to get ...

This is a pocket bible for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. Top advertising guru Paul Arden offers his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, and making mistakes.

Mireille Guiliano serves up a wonderfully refreshing and alluring guide for the working woman, filled with inspiring woman-to-woman advice (and recipes!).

Teaches you: how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for per hour and do whatever you want; and how blue chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs. Thsi book also shows how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist.

Redesigned and refreshed for 2010, Careers provides a fully updated list of over hundreds of jobs across a spectrum of sectors. Each profile contains information on starting salary and salary progression, the qualifications needed to enter the career, an overview of the industry and its future and a typical working day.

Achieve your business dreams - wake up and change your life with Duncan Bannatyne's formula for launching a successful venture and making a fortune.

The bestselling Yearbook for writers and artists - a comprehensive, up-to-date directory of media contacts and a wealth of practical advice and information. Includes hundreds of new contacts and updated listings as well as articles by writers such as Joanna Trollope, Terry Pratchett and many others.

Explains that introverts need not battle against their natural tendencies in order to raise their career visibility. This title shows readers how to leverage their quiet skills and talk about themselves and their businesses, ideas, and accomplishments confidently and with minimal stress to get the recognition they deserve.

Is your workload overwhelming? This volume aims to teach you how to keep a clear head, relax and organize your thoughts while implementing the organizational methods taught in the book, which include planning and progressing projects, reassessing goals, and overcoming feelings of anxiety.

If you are going to make your mark on the world, you have to start thinking differently. To think differently, you have to think illogically. This work looks at life the wrong way in a bid to explain the benefits of making wrong decisions.

Confidence is having faith in one's own abilities. Someone who is confident can achieve more, stand up for what they believe in and have the courage to risk embarrassment. However, for some, confidence does not come easily. Almost every day we are subjected to situations where our confidence is tested and there are even instances where lack of confidence can hinder our progress in life. ...

Offers information for the job market. This book helps people find a new direction, change careers, and move on with life. It also teaches ways to find jobs when supposedly there are no jobs, and provides a step-by-step plan (called the Flower Exercise) for job-hunters.

Competition is intense, talent is rife and jobs are never secure. Whether you're going after your first job, dream job or want to rise to the dizzy heights of success with your current or future employer, learn how you can be the most wanted employee around. Based on a life-time of experience working in the best companies around, David Freemantle gives you 50 ways to become the person everyone ..

Full title 'How to Build a Great Business in Tough Times,' A great 'from the kitchen table to supermarket shelf' story. Entrepreneur Will King hand-filled the first 10,000 botlles of his original King of Shaves shaving oil at his kitchen sink, even getting his ironing lady to pitch in. From such humble beginnings , Will has grown his business to 61m in just fifteen years.

Offers preparation for assessment events and gives advice on the key issues such as: how the assessments are conducted, how to behave and how to prepare for the different forms of assessment. This title looks at each of these different assessments, from group exercises and psychometric tests to panel interviews and role play exercises.

A celebration of the joys - and benefits - of being nice.

Talent. Everybody has it, but just how good are you at using it? Talented people don't believe in reaching their peak they live a life that crests on any number of new and different waves. Some of these peaks may be higher than others, some offer totally different challenges and rewards, but whatever stage of life they're at they see no reason why they can't fulfil their potential to reach a new .

NLP has a simple premise: take someone who's good at something, model how they do it and learn from them. This way it is possible to understand the thought processes common to excellence in any field and weed out negative or habitual thinking.