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On dirige comme on est / by Lapierre, Laurent, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Transmettre""; ""LE STORYTELLING""; ""Lâ€?ART DE FORMER SANS PROFESSER""; ""GAGNER""; ""LA MÃ?…”
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Say not to say new perspectives on miscommunication /

Table of Contents: “…The Meaning of Expression: Views from Art and Other Sources, -- J.-M. Fernndez-Dols, P. …”
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Managing knock your socks off service by Bell, Chip R.

Table of Contents: “…Find and retain quality people -- Recruit creatively and hire carefully -- Paying attention to employee retention -- Keeping your best and brightest -- Know your customers intimately -- "Emotionalizing" the yardstick : why customer satisfaction isn't enough -- Listening is a contact sport -- A complaining customer is your best friend -- The binding power of customer trust -- Little things mean a lot -- Build a service vision -- The power of purpose -- Getting your vision down on paper -- A service vision statement sampler -- Standards and norms : delivering on the service promise -- Make your service delivery system ETDBW (easy to do business with) -- Bad systems undermine good people -- Fix the system, not the people -- Measure and manage from the customer's point of view -- Add magic : creating the unpredictable and unique -- Make recovery a point of pride ... and a focal part of your system -- Reinventing your service system -- Train and coach -- Start on day one (when their hearts and minds are malleable) -- Training creates competence, confidence, and commitment to customers -- Making training stick -- Thinking and acting like a coach -- Involve and empower -- Fostering "responsible freedom" on the front lines -- Removing the barriers to empowerment -- Recognize, reward, and celebrate -- Recognition and reward : fueling the fires of service success -- Feedback : breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions -- The art of interpersonal feedback -- Celebrate success -- Your most important management mission : set the tone and lead the way -- Manager-employee trust : ground zero for service quality -- Observation is more powerful than conversation -- Great service leadership in action.…”
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On dirige comme on est / by Lapierre, Laurent, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Transmettre""; ""LE STORYTELLING""; ""Lâ€?ART DE FORMER SANS PROFESSER""; ""GAGNER""; ""LA MÃ?…”
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The Restless Compendium Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites /

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Social Control in Europe : Volume 1, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Early modern discipline and the visual arts / Michael Scholz-Hänsel -- 7. Early modern architecture : conditioning, disciplining, and social control / Bernd Roeck -- Part two: communities : perspectives from below -- 8. …”
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive /

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The Restless Compendium Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites /

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Social Control in Europe : Volume 1, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Early modern discipline and the visual arts / Michael Scholz-Hänsel -- 7. Early modern architecture : conditioning, disciplining, and social control / Bernd Roeck -- Part two: communities : perspectives from below -- 8. …”
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive /

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Ethics in public management

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Richard K. Ghere -- State of the art of empirical research on ethics and integrity in governance / Donald C. …”
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Delivering knock your socks off service

Table of Contents: “…-- Service recovery expectations -- Service recovery and the Internet -- Fix the person -- Fair-fax the problem -- Customers from hell are customers too -- Customers from hell hall of shame -- Knock your socks off service fitness: taking care of you -- Master the art of calm -- Keep it professional -- The competence principle: always be learning -- Party hearty.…”
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Current issues in human rights and international relations papers from the Clemens Nathan Research Centre /

Table of Contents: “…/ Patrick Watt -- Ashanti development in Ghana / Penny David -- The European Union in Africa / Niagalé Bagayoko -- The changing face of western colonialism in Africa / Antoine Roger Lokongo -- The art of prevention of conflict / Rolf Ekéus -- Leslie Prince memorial lecture of the Anglo-Jewish Association / Rupert Smith.…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Acculturated

Table of Contents: “…Last -- Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Why Pro Athletes Aren't Heroes / Joe Queenan -- Performance Art: The Faux Creativity of Lady Gaga / Emily Esfahani Smith -- Project Runway: The Surprising Virtues of Style / Herb London and Stacy London -- Back to Betty Crocker: Why Everyday Cooking Matters / Megan McArdle -- In Search of the Next Great American Songbook / Wilfred M. …”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gabriel Sheffer -- Cultural pluralism as an American Zionist option for solidarity its relevance for today's European Jewry / Ofer Schiff -- European Jewish experiences -- Between Eurasia and Europe : Jewish community and identities in contemporary Russia and Ukraine / Vladimir Zeev Khanin -- A dual, divided modernization : reflections on 200 years of the Jewish reform movement in Germany / Micha Brumlik -- Ghosts of the past, challenges of the present : new and old "others" in contemporary Spain / Raanan Rein and Martina Weisz -- The dialectics of the diaspora : on the art of being Jewish in the Swedish minority / Lars Dencik -- Does European Jewry need a new ethnic spiritual umbrella? …”
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Contemporary curtain wall architecture by Murray, Scott (Scott Charles), 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Clinton Presidential Center / Polshek Partnership Architects -- Green-Wood Mausoleum / Platt Byard Dovell White -- LVMH Osaka / Kengo Kuma and Associates -- Seattle Public Library / Office for Metropolitan Architecture and LMN Architects -- Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research / architectsAlliance and Behnisch Architekten -- Torre Agbar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- Torre Cube / Estudio Carme Pinós -- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / Neutelings Riedijk Architects -- Skirkanich Hall / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects -- Trutec Building / Barkow Leibinger Architekten -- Biomedical Science Research Building / Polshek Partnership Architects -- ATLAS Building / Rafael Viñoly Architects -- Blue Tower / Bernard Tschumi Architects -- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Steven Holl Architects -- The New York Times Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects -- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies / Krueck + Sexton Architects -- United States Federal Building / Morphosis -- Yale Sculpture Building / KieranTimberlake Associates -- The Cathedral of Christ the Light / Skidmore, Owings and Merrill -- 100 Eleventh Avenue / Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- 166 Perry Street / Asymptote.…”
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Current issues in human rights and international relations papers from the Clemens Nathan Research Centre /

Table of Contents: “…/ Patrick Watt -- Ashanti development in Ghana / Penny David -- The European Union in Africa / Niagalé Bagayoko -- The changing face of western colonialism in Africa / Antoine Roger Lokongo -- The art of prevention of conflict / Rolf Ekéus -- Leslie Prince memorial lecture of the Anglo-Jewish Association / Rupert Smith.…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Acculturated

Table of Contents: “…Last -- Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Why Pro Athletes Aren't Heroes / Joe Queenan -- Performance Art: The Faux Creativity of Lady Gaga / Emily Esfahani Smith -- Project Runway: The Surprising Virtues of Style / Herb London and Stacy London -- Back to Betty Crocker: Why Everyday Cooking Matters / Megan McArdle -- In Search of the Next Great American Songbook / Wilfred M. …”
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