Best Office Automation Skills
You will discover everything you need to know about social media marketing This expanded 3rd edition has Outstanding New Content to make building your online presence even more powerful than before! Doubling Your Instagram Followers Understanding Facebook Ad marketing Top Strategies For Growth Monetizing Your Social Media.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As someone who has used social media to support multilple activities this book is just so helpful. There are so many social media formats out there now and this book helps break them down and what their application for different use would be."
"If you really are completely new to social media or struggling to keep up it’s a quick read that will tell you the strategies of each of the major social media sites and a step by step how to set up each."
"It provided a bit of an education to me about the platforms that I am not currently using, which allowed me to take a step back and envision ways that I could use each site to promote my business interests."
"Many social media platforms are explained and each section has a few suggestions on utilizing it efficiently."
"I have a facebook page and even a website but short of paying all the time to boost my posts, I was wondering what I could do to advertise and get more people interested in my brand."
"He tells how to recognize your brand, your key audience- customers, and even points out a few social media sites I hadn't heard of before and was interested in checking out."
Inside this book you will discover: •How to become an effective leader and a productivity powerhouse. •The building blocks to create a healthy organizational culture. •How to get others to understand your vision and share your passion. •The secret formula to recruiting, developing, and unleashing your clone in just 90 days. •The financial and personal rewards of running a self-reliant business. Jim Molinelli, PhD - Architect, Remodeling Expert & Best-Selling Author "Clone Yourself is the best coaching tool I've ever used! "The concepts in Clone Yourself are so simple and easy to implement, and yet they've totally changed my perspective on how to run my business." I wrote this book for every entrepreneur who feels helplessly tethered down and bears the weight of bottleneck leadership; for those struggling to grow their business and bring their vision to life, and for anyone whose passion has been overshadowed by frustration and despair.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's all down-to-earth, practical information, delivered in a friendly style. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to become a leader or be a better one."
"I agree with Jeff, We all want time freedom and financial freedom, but sometimes we make it harder to get from point A to point B.... Jeff shares his experience and knowledge and teachable outline."
"This is a helpful step-by-step guide for setting goals for your business and then using them to create your perfect team!"
"As an entrepreneur, one reaches a point when one is spending 80% of one's time stuck with necessary, routine work that was not one's original strength and reason to start one's venture in the first place."
"The section on learning how to say no in different ways has been huge for me in order to better utilize and manage my time."
"And it's full of wonderful tips on how you, as a business leader, can get more done, work ON your business rather than IN it, and empower your whole organization to align with your vision."
"This book packs a punch in the area of leadership and entrepreneurship."
"This is a great resource for leaders bogged down with too many everyday tasks that prevent them from focusing on bigger picture issues, including long-term goals, vision, and mission."
Written by a team of business and technology expert practitioners—who also authored Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business —this book provides a clear path to the future of your work. Next, the authors detail a clear-cut business model to help leaders take part in this coming boom; the AHEAD model outlines five strategic initiatives—Automate, Halos, Enhance, Abundance, and Discovery—that are central to competing in the next phase of global business by driving new levels of efficiency, customer intimacy and innovation. Business leaders today have two options: be swallowed up by the ongoing technological evolution, or ride the crest of the wave to new profits and better business. The book’s practical advice not only explains how to apply machine-driven solutions at all levels of an organization, it also reveals the skills your employees need to ensure your business stays competitive in this coming age. – Theo Priestley, Global Evangelist, SAP " What To Do When Machines Do Everything is an essential guidebook for business executives aiming to understand the incredible Impact AI is having - and will continue to have - on business processes and customer engagement strategies.While much of the prior AI literature can ascribed to "the sky is falling" category, What To Do When Machines Do Everything dynamically breaks that mold by offering balanced, insightful and pragmatic advice on how to do AI right.For business executives who believe AI is the "story of our time", What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a must read."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This makes the first section choppy as you are not sure what this book is about as it ranges from lag between technology and business growth, luddism, technology supremacy, etc. Chapter 5 on data is rather weak and limited, particularly in light of the rest of the book that demonstrates that the authors have thought through other issues. Digital Business Models was rather standard. Ideas about automation, making things smart, enhancing human beings, digital abundance and discovering innovation opportunities is rather generic even with a chapter devoted to each model. Developing these model in the idea of Systems of Intelligence would have been really nice and pulled the book together."
"The examples used were super interesting and applicable to my business and also life -- who knew that AI is already better at identifying some cancers than doctors!"
""What to Do When Machines Do Everything" is a field book for individuals and companies about to be hit by the digital tsunami that is moving from Silicon Valley to every industry in every geography."
Best Automation Engineering
Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes. One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015 What are the jobs of the future? A careful and courageous examination of automation and its possible impact on society.” Kirkus Reviews In Rise of the Robots , Ford coolly and clearly considers what work is under threat from automation.” New Scientist. Compelling and well-written In his conception, the answer is a combination of short-term policies and longer-term initiatives, one of which is a radical idea that may gain some purchase among gloomier techno-profits: a guaranteed income for all citizens. The book is both lucid and bold, and certainly a starting point for robust debate about the future of all workers in an age of advancing robotics and looming artificial intelligence systems.” ZDNet. Ford's analysis, in a somewhat crowded field of similar books, offers a sobering assessment of how technology (robotics, machine learning, AI, etc.). is reshaping labor markets, the composition of growth, and the distribution of income and wealth, and calls for enlightened political and policy leadership to address coming, accelerating disruptions and dislocations.” Bloomberg Business , Timothy Adams. Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots captures why these shifts are related and what challenges this might pose to our conventional economic and social infrastructures.” Bloomberg Business , Andy Haldane. Few captured the mood as well as Martin Ford in The Rise of the Robots , the winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which painted a bleak picture of the upheavals that would come as ever-greater numbers of even highly skilled workers were displaced by machines.” Financial Times. Lucid, comprehensive and unafraid to grapple fairly with those who dispute Ford's basic thesis, Rise of the Robots is an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument.” Los Angeles Times. Ford lucidly sets out myriad examples of how focused applications of versatile machines (coupled with human helpers where necessary) could displace or de-skill many jobs His answer to a sharp decline in employment is a guaranteed basic income, a safety net that he suggests would both cushion the effect on the newly unemployable and encourage entrepreneurship among those creative enough to make a new way for themselves. Martin Ford has thrust himself into the center of the debate over AI, big data, and the future of the economy with a shrewd look at the forces shaping our lives and work. Rise of the Robots goes far beyond the usual fear-mongering punditry to suggest an action plan for a better future.” Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Director, The Futures Initiative, The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I realized that, as the technology of AI advanced, a point would be reached in which intelligent software and general-purpose robots could perform all tasks (both mental and physical) that are currently achievable only by highly educated humans. At one time I toyed with writing a book about my concerns regarding intelligent automation and its future effect on political and economic systems but Martin Ford has a done a 100-times better job that I could have ever done. I only have two complaints about Ford's book: (a) the title sounds a bit too much like a title for a pulp-fiction work and so I fear that not enough people will read it and (b) the first 75 pages consist of a standard summary of current economic facts and principles and so I fear that some readers may quit reading his book before they get to the really interesting parts, which in my opinion, start after page 75."
"I can't finish most books because it so long winded."
"Amazing Economics book."
"Mr. Ford clearly expands on a evolving threat of technology changing how supply and demand define society."
"The author brings to the table the realities and inevitable rise of technology replacing manual labor force."
"The job, the life style, the socialization type- everything is changing and I never thought to connect automatization of everyday life with robots."
"Good book."
"This is a very comprehensive account of the advances being made in the field of robotics."
Best Business Communication Skills
-Six ways to make people like you. -Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking. -Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The realization that my marriage was being effected by my nearly empty toolbox of social skills promoted me to take personal responsibility and shoulder the blame myself for once instead of blaming everyone around me for everything. I grew up with a hypercritical Mother so I think I had promised myself that I would never be criticized again, even if that meant writing people off the instant I felt like I had made myself vulnerable enough to be hurt by them. The strategies are applicable to and helpful in all aspects of my life so far, from my marriage to my job, and even to the way I interact with clerks in gas stations."
"I did think several of the principles explained in the book are common sense, but I found that it could be easy for a person to react quickly to conflicts. The first principle emphasizes the importance of avoiding criticism and he describes working with people as: working with people of logic. With this principle, he describes the importance of self-expression and connects it to the importance of thinking in terms of the other person, so that they come up with your ideas on their own, which they will like more. Dale then describes the importance to recall a person's name in the third principle. He further explains this point in principle five: Talk in terms of the other person's interests. Dale describes in the third part of the book the steps to have a person think in terms of your own thoughts. He then explains the importance of agreement and having the person say "yes," at least twice. If all else fails, he explains the importance of competition and how it drives people to feel important and empowered to work efficiently and effectively. He then explains the importance of asking questions that direct the person you’re speaking to, to obtain your idea on their own. He emphasizes the importance of having the person be saved from embarrassment, and then explains the importance of praise again, even if it is small."
"Yes, there is nothing new here but I would say that much like the basket ball star who practices relentlessly the same foul shot over & over again so that when its crunch time, the ball hits the hoop to win the game no matter how much pressure is on."
"I'm happy to have read this--it flows well and many truths to it albeit they're of scientifically argued for."
"Enjoyed the stories."
"This got to be the book that provided me with the most principles on how to win friends and influence people."
Best Office Management
More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point. * Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating email, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than £5 a meal. * How lifestyle design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times. * The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either. -- Dr. Stewart D. Friedman, Adviser to Jack Welch and Former Vice President Al Gore on Work/Family Issues, Director of the Work/Life Integration Project, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "Stunning and amazing. -- Phil Town, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of "Rule #1 "The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Don't get me wrong, Ferriss makes some excellent points and he's got some really great tips and tricks in here, I'm just not sure how universal they really are. I thought he was just talking about ways to spend less time working, but that "The 4-Hour" just sounded good (since he now has a whole line of books with titles that start that way). I never did understand the point of retirement, so Ferriss's plan sounds much more appealing to me. Granted, that would make my job a whole lot more portable, but I could never get away with only working four hours per week (at least not until after I sell that bestselling novel, which is such a realistic plan!). I, too, thought I could get another job within a few months, but that did not turn out to be the case. So, if I go spend all my money on a mini-retirement now, and then come back only to find that I can't get a job for another year, I'll be screwed. I love them, but they have enough to deal with right now, and the last thing I want to do is burden the people around me because I decided to go globe-trotting for a few months."
"A term coined by Ferriss to describe this emerging subgroup of individuals who would rather create automated business models that would allow them to travel the world and seek adventure, while making a significant income, then sit in an office from 9-5."
"A great read."
"Seriously, he begins by admitting he first made his fortune selling (allegedly) nutritional supplements that cost almost nothing to make and weren't based on science, but were then hyped to the point the uninformed public was paying through the nose to get it. This gave him ideas on how to further hype his message to an even larger audience, without bothering to sell anything tangible. He then gives advice about "paraphrasing and combining points from several books," borrowing from the public domain, and/or compensating some other "expert." Apparently, not knowing a damn thing is a virtue he calls "Cultivating Selective Ignorance." If having an educated and well-informed populace is fundamental to having a flourishing democracy, this is how we'll end up with a plutocracy where the stupidest few prey on the desperate and stupid masses, while outsourcing all the jobs they might create. Outsource everything -- including your brain -- to a 3rd World Country: He hires virtual assistants in various 3rd World Countries, especially India, who are then given fabulous access to all of his personal information to the point they can pretend to be him and make all of his personal and business decisions. Hey, what could possibly go wrong by hiring complete strangers and giving them all information about you in order to think for you, do your work and run your errands? Just tell him you're too busy and further kill morale by then asking those other suckers - aka, co-workers - for a quick breakdown of what happened."
"Truly a waste of time and just another "fluff how to" book that really says nothing with substance."
Best Business Writing Skills
Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. His 17 books include Writing to Learn; Mitchell & Ruff; Spring Training; American Places; Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs ; and most recently Writing About Your Life .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"For instance, if you skip the travel writing chapter, or if you read it thinking that it only applies to travel writing, then you will miss two golden and persuasive arguments that ought to apply to *any* writer: 1) The things that come to the writer easiest -- cliché, excessive detail, syrupy and vague language -- are the things that keep the reader bored/detached/passive. It's excruciatingly hard to do, but once you realize that that's the goal, and once you realize that the parts that come easiest are what's getting in the way of that goal, then you can start writing well."
"This book is one of the finest books ever written on the subject of nonfiction writing. And more than anything else, I learned to trust myself and the concept that, in the end, people don't love a book because they are in love with the subject, they love a book (and stick with it regardless of topic) because they like the author."
"I am a non-fiction writer and this is the best book I have read regarding what I hope to accomplish."
"This book is NOT a how-to write recipe book, rather one on fundamentals and principles. The third section discusses the different forms of writing (Nonfiction as Literature, The Interview, The Travel Article, The Memoir, Science and Technology, Business Writing, Sports, Writing About the Arts, and Humor). Finally the fourth and last section is on attitudes (The Sound of Your Voice, Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence, The Tyranny of the Final Product, A Writer's Decision, Write as Well as You Can). Overall, a very insightful book on the topic of writing non-fiction. On the critical side, given the breadth inherent in such a topic (writing), the book did not have a lot of depth in the areas presented. Below are some excerpts from the book that I found particularly insightful: 1-On email: "Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.""
"There's something so intimate in reading a book when you know its author pored over ever single verb, article and comma dozens of times to make the gestalt as cohesive as possible."
Best Running Meetings & Presentations
-Six ways to make people like you. -Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking. -Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The realization that my marriage was being effected by my nearly empty toolbox of social skills promoted me to take personal responsibility and shoulder the blame myself for once instead of blaming everyone around me for everything. I grew up with a hypercritical Mother so I think I had promised myself that I would never be criticized again, even if that meant writing people off the instant I felt like I had made myself vulnerable enough to be hurt by them. The strategies are applicable to and helpful in all aspects of my life so far, from my marriage to my job, and even to the way I interact with clerks in gas stations."
"I did think several of the principles explained in the book are common sense, but I found that it could be easy for a person to react quickly to conflicts. The first principle emphasizes the importance of avoiding criticism and he describes working with people as: working with people of logic. With this principle, he describes the importance of self-expression and connects it to the importance of thinking in terms of the other person, so that they come up with your ideas on their own, which they will like more. Dale then describes the importance to recall a person's name in the third principle. He further explains this point in principle five: Talk in terms of the other person's interests. Dale describes in the third part of the book the steps to have a person think in terms of your own thoughts. He then explains the importance of agreement and having the person say "yes," at least twice. If all else fails, he explains the importance of competition and how it drives people to feel important and empowered to work efficiently and effectively. He then explains the importance of asking questions that direct the person you’re speaking to, to obtain your idea on their own. He emphasizes the importance of having the person be saved from embarrassment, and then explains the importance of praise again, even if it is small."
"I don't get why people think this is so amazing, this is basically a guide book to being a psychopath, at one point just tells you to force yourself to smile to others."
Best Secretarial Aids & Training
Ebook Edition release date March, 2012. Foreword by Olympia Dukakis. Real life tools and advice for every professional assistant and their high-powered employers. Enlightening and entertaining, this book is filled with true stories and lessons from author Bonnie Low-Kramen's 25+ years working with Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. The first is that this work is frequently misunderstood and has been subject to warped misconceptions by the media. I decided that I was in a unique position to set the record straight and tell it the way it really is to those who actually want to know the truth of it! --Hope Rippere, former CEO Communications Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company --Hope Rippere. Be the Ultimate Assistant is a must-read for assistants and employers alike! An employer myself, this invaluable guide provided me with the perfect blueprint to follow in my search for a personal assistant. As a former NY personal assistant and current certified Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor supporting assistants, my specific interest in reading the book was to learn more about the technology challenges professional assistants face. Ms. Low-Kramen is a passionate spokesperson on issues concerning professional assistants and enjoys setting the record straight. Ms. Low-Kramen's work with Olympia Dukakis has included close involvement with the Academy Award win for Moonstruck, the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis, travel around the world to places such as Sydney, London, Alaska and Prague and numerous awards shows and benefits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"After having read it, it is clearly not for me as you essentially don't have a life of your own."
"As Estate Managers working with high net worth and celebrities, we are frequently placed in "assistant” roles and in actuality, we have to be a "jack-of-all-trades"."
"I have recently transitioned into the role of personal assistant and was excited to come across this book in my search for professional development materials."
"As a former executive assistant and newer recipient of administrative assistance, I found this book immensely helpful."
"Thank you Bonnie for sharing your life experiences and your willingness to share how to be successful in this busy world of being "The Ultimate Assistant"."
"As an Office Manager and Personal Assistant to the Principals of my company, I don't have to do some of the things Ms Low-Kramen has to."