Authors: Martin J. Pring, Joe D. Turner, Tom J. Kopas
ISBN: 9780071797443
©2012 | 1^st Edition | 224 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: JUN-12
Price: US$ 30.00

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How to survive 10 more years of down markets

As bestselling finance author Martin J. Pring, Joe D. Turner, and Tom J. Kopas argue in Investing in the Second Lost Decade, based on previous market cycles, it is not difficult to conclude that the current secular bear market has further to run in duration and valuation. In fact, they believe that the current bear market is only halfway over in terms of years and recessions, and price-to-earnings ratios will have to return to bargain levels before the secular bear market bottom is within reach. But while the authors certainly have a pessimistic market outlook for the upcoming six to ten years–a time period they have dubbed the “Second Lost Decade,” thanks to its similarities to Japan’s Lost Decade–Pring, Turner, and Kopas emphasize that if investors are willing to discard the buy-and-hold, indexing, and passive asset allocation strategies that have bolstered them in past secular bull markets and instead start following the proven investing strategies outlined in Investing in the Second Lost Decade, they will be able to build their wealth–even as the market is contracting.

Why should investors step away from the investing strategies they trust the most as they try to navigate their way through the Second Lost Decade. As the authors explain in Investing in the Second Lost Decade, while buy-and-hold investors will be hobbled by their tendency to clutch onto their assets, cross their fingers, and hope that the economy improves, those who follow the authors’ flexible, market-tested investment strategy will be able to actively adjust their portfolio asset allocation to take advantage of emerging profit opportunities as new economic developments unfold. Readers of Investing in the Second Lost Decade will learn:

• The rationale behind the authors’ pessimistic economic forecast, including why concurrent secular bull markets in interest rates and commodities in combination with a secular bear market in equities spells out six to ten more years of contracted markets;
• Simple techniques for pinpointing and profiting from key economic events through the use of moving averages and leading economic indicators;
• All about the various sectors within individual industry groups, including how these sectors are represented by ETF families, what stage of the economic cycle each sector should be owned or avoided, and how to successfully rotate specific sectors into and out of a portfolio;
• And how the Dow Jones Pring Turner Tactical Asset Index can contribute to overall investment success during the Second Lost Decade.

About the Author

Martin J. Pring entered the financial markets in 1969 and has grown to become a leader in the global investment community. In 1981 he founded Pring Research and began providing research for financial institutions and individual investors around the world. Since 1984, he has published the “Intermarket Review”, a monthly market review offering a long-term synopsis of the world’s major financial markets. Martin pioneered the introduction of videos as an educational tool for technical analysis in 1987, and was the first to introduce educational, interactive CDs in this field.

Demanded as a speaker worldwide, he is the author of several outstanding books including, Introduction to Technical Analysis, Martin Pring on Market Momentum, and Technical Analysis Explained, now in its fourth edition. In 2002, McGraw-Hill released six new Pring titles, including Technician’s Guide to Day and Swing Trading, Breaking the Black Box, Introduction on Candlestick Charting, How to Select Stocks, and the two-volume set, Momentum Explained.

Joe D. Turner is principal of Pring Turner Capital Group and has been serving investors since 1968. He has been providing fee-only investment management since 1977. Joe is known for his economic and business cycle research and has lectured extensively around the country on these subjects.

Tom J. Kopas began his career in the investment industry in 1981 and spent more than twenty years as a financial consultant with major Wall Street brokerage firms, and joined the Pring Turner team in 2002.

The New Emerging Market Multinationals

Authors: Rajeev Batra, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Aysegul Ozsomer
ISBN: 9780071782890
©2012 | 1^st Edition | 320 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: JUN-12
Price: US$ 35.00

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Breakthrough strategies Western business leaders can use to compete with their newest and toughest threat: innovative and expansionist companies in emerging-market nations

• Western organizations are quickly losing market share and profits to emerging-market multinationals, as evidenced by such developments as Tata Motors’s acquisitions of Land Rover and Jaguar and Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s ThinkPad business
• The book outlines the disruptive ‘compete from below’ strategies deployed by emerging-market multinationals, then explains how to gain a competitive edge by using these same strategies

About the Author

The authors bring significant knowledge of brand building from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Amitava Chattopadhyay is the L’Oreal Chaired Professor of Marketing-Innovation and Creativity at INSEAD. He has written on the topic of branding over the last 25 years. He has consulted for firms in theAmericas, Asia, Africa, andEurope on the topic of branding and has also taught senior executives from leading marketing firms.

Rajeev Batra is the S.S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business at theUniversity ofMichigan. He has researched, taught about, and consulted on matters concerning brand-building and management, global branding, emerging markets, and advertising and marketing communications, for almost 30 years.

Aysegul Ozsomer is Associate professor of Marketing atKoçUniversity,Istanbul,Turkey. Her research focuses on global marketing strategy with a particular emphasis on standardization-adaptation issues and performance implications, market orientation, and global brand management.

The Transformative CEO

Authors: Jeffrey J. Fox, Robert Reiss
ISBN: 9780071794985
©2012 | 1^st Edition | 196 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: JUN-12
Price: US$ 22.00

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Best Leadership Practices from the Best Leaders in Business

Bestselling author Jeffrey Fox literally wrote the book on “How to Become a CEO,” and radio talk show host Robert Reiss has interviewed several of the world’s top CEOs. In The Successful CEO Mind, they have boiled down the characteristics it takes to become a transformative CEO—the kind that takes problems and transforms them into opportunities for growth and profit. With research based on first-hand interviews with superstar CEOs, this book provides valuable strategies that any manager, business owner, or executive can use.

About the Author

Jeffrey Fox is the bestselling business author of numerous books, including New York Times bestseller HOW TO BECOME A CEO and Audie Award winner RAIN. Founder of Fox and Company, Fox works with Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Office Depot, among others.

Robert Reiss is the host of The CEO Show, syndicated to more than 600,000 listeners. In addition to publishing The CEO Forum, a quarterly magazine whose subscription base is exclusively 10,000 top CEOs, Reiss writes a monthly column for Forbes and is a popular keynote speaker.

The Employee Engagement Mindset

Authors: Tim Clark
ISBN: 9780071788298
©2012 | 1^st Edition | 272 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: JUN-12
Price: US$ 26.00

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The Employee Engagement Mindset shifts the paradigm of engagement from an employer-centered model to an employee-centered view. By putting an emphasis on shared manager and personal responsibility coupled with intrinsic motivation in order to increase engagement, companies can reach the levels of engagement necessary to outperform their competitors.

Based on years of research and based on a popular seminar with the same name, The Employee Engagement Mindset outlines a simple six-part shared manager/employee model for increasing engagement: Shaping, Connecting, Learning, Stretching, Achieving, and Contributing. The authors present research proving that companies with employee-engagement programs enjoy measurably greater profits, growth, productivity, and retention than those without.

About the Author

Timothy R. Clark is founder and CEO of TRClark Partners, a consultancy that provides advisory services in strategy, large-scale change and transformation, and executive development. He writes the syndicated column, “On Leadership” for the Salt Lake Deseret News, which holds the largest circulation in the state. He is a leading authority in the field of change leadership and organizational transformation. He is the author of the critically claimed book, Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass), The Leadership Test: Will You Pass (2009). Some of his clients include Accenture, American Express, Chevron, Disney, Dow Chemical, Microsoft, NASA, and Wells Fargo Bank.

Authors: Bob Aubrey
ISBN: 9780071327732
© 2012 | 1st Edition | 224 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: April -12
Price: US$ 22.00

This book is for leaders who want to be on the solution side rather than the problem side of today’s aspirational workforce.

Leaders have always had the job of developing people at work, but today’s workers demand that their identities and aspirations be valued and developed along with their skills. In this book, author Bob Aubrey, explains how the aspirational movement, covered by the media in the streets from Cairo to New York, is also a force for change in the factories, stores and offices of companies large and small. The message is that companies must make work more aspirational or risk losing their talented workers. The lesson for leaders is that they must be capable in developing employee aspirations or they won’t be leading for long.

Starting with the story of an aspirational leadership disaster in the world’s largest factory, Bob Aubrey takes the reader through a process of building an aspirational organisation, developing leadership wisdom, using new tools for aspirational development and mastering new dimensions of employee motivation. This book is full of illustrations and stories of leaders who have improved business results while developing people potential to achieve the status of a great company for people development.

Whether you are leading a global organisation, running a small business or managing a team of employees, this book will help you develop the right leadership to create a competitive workforce advantage.

About the Author

Bob Aubrey is also the author of Managing Your Aspirations, recently published by McGraw-Hill, and six other books relating to human development, the future of work, the future of education and leadership wisdom.

Bob is a leading contributor to the new field of individual development in companies. He is credited with developing the first certification programmes in personal development for business schools and the first executive mentor certification for companies.As Professor of Personal Development, Bob has set up and taught programmes for leading business schools in China, France, Singapore and Australia. His consulting work has taken him to more than 30 countries to develop talent programmes, corporate universities and learning methods to cultivate global leaders.

He leads the People Development Consulting practice at Mazars, a global audit and advisory group with 13,000 professionals operating in 61 countries. Specializing in audit, accounting, tax and advisory services, Mazars has recently developed consulting services in areas such as strategy, operations, finance, information technology, governance and risk management, and sustainable development, including human rights and people development.

Table of Contents

Introduction
About the Author
Key words
Part One: a New Kind of Leadership
Chapter 1: The Power of Aspirations
Chapter 2: Building an Asipirational Company
Chapter 3: Becoming an Aspirational Leaders
Part Two: Tools For Aspirational Leaders
Chapter 4: Aspirational Work Contracts
Chapter 5: Making the Employee Review Aspirational
Chapter 6: Mastering a New Tool: the Personal Enterprise Plan
Part Three: New Leadership Practices
Chapter 7: Developing Identity
Chapter 8: Developing Dreams
Chapter 9: Balancing Aspiration Portfolios
Chapter 10: The Future of Aspirations
Appendix One : The Competencies of Aspirational Leadership
Appendix Two:  What Leaders Need to Know about Dreams
Appendix Three: Don’t Dumb People Down!

Boundless Potential

Authors: Mark Walton
ISBN: 9780071787857
© 2012 | 1st Edition | 224 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: Feb -12
Price: US$ 25.00

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The breakthrough career-reinvention guide, based on the latest discoveries in neuroscience

• Empowers midlife professionals with the knowledge, inspiration, and tools to kick-start a new career by identifying and tapping into their hidden potential
• Presents neuroscientific evidence that a person’s brain develops extraordinary new creative powers in the second half of life’providing hope grounded in science to millions of Baby Boomers
• Walton is a Peabody award-winning journalist, former CNN senior correspondent and anchorman, and lecturer at the Kenan-Flagler Graduate Business School at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

About the Author

Mark S. Walton is chairman of the Center for Leadership Communication, a global leadership development enterprise. He has been a Professor of Leadership for the United States Navy and a Senior Lecturer at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Earlier in his career, he was chief White House correspondent at CNN.

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Official Guide to the TOEFL Test With CD-ROM

Authors: Educational Testing Service
ISBN: 9780071766586 / 0071766588
© 2012 | 4^th Edition | Softback with CD
Pub Date: May-12
Price: US$ 36.00

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The one and only bestselling official guide to the TOEFL, from the makers of the test! Now expanded with a third actual TOEFL exam

This Official Guide to the TOEFL Test is the best, most reliable guide to the test that is used around the world to assess foreign applicants to US and Canadian universities for English proficiency. It includes real TOEFL questions for practice, as well as explanations of every section of the test and information on what is expected of students for every speaking and writing task. Students learn how to construct a good answer and how to integrate speaking, listening, and writing skills to demonstrate college-level English proficiency. The accompanying CD-ROM provides three authentic TOEFL iBT practice tests just like the one students will encounter on test day.

About the Author

Educational Testing Service (ETS), based inLawrenceville,NJ, is the creator and grader of the TOEFL. ETS is recognized worldwide as a leader in standardized testing. ETS also creates the SAT (under contract with the College Board), the GRE, the Praxis series of teacher licensing exams, and numerous other exams used by many different organizations throughout theUnited Statesand the world.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the TOEFL iBT
2. TOEFL iBT Reading
3. TOEFL iBT Listening
4. TOEFL iBT Speaking
5. TOEFL iBT Writing
6. Authentic TOEFL Practice Test 1
7. Authentic TOEFL Practice Test 2

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Leading Through Turbulence

How a Values-Based Culture Can Build Profits and Leave the World a Better Place
Authors: Alan Lewis, Harriet Lewis
ISBN: 9780071777100 / 0071777105
© 2012 | 1^st Edition | 256 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: May-12
Price: US$ 26.00

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Management secrets behind Grand Circle Corporation’s 20% annual growth for two decades’and counting’that any business leader can use

Rising Above Turbulence presents a business model that integrates values and philanthropic mission into overall strategy to create and maintain growth, even during the most severe economic and social crises.

The authors provide an inside look at Grand Circle’s successes and failures throughout the years. They highlight the most important business choices and strategies they made as owners, including their creation of a values-based, people-focused, social-good-centered culture. It was this approach that propelled the company through difficult times, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the rise of online competitors Travelocity and Expedia, and the recent global economic meltdown. The book offers a compelling case for how leaders within any industry can make their businesses more profitable by making it more generous.

About the Author

Alan Lewis is Chairman of Grand Circle Corporation, and shapes the company’s vision and direction. Lewis established Grand Circle’s Pinnacle Leadership Centerin Kensington, New Hampshirein 1992.

Harriet Lewis is Grand Circle Corporation’s Vice Chair. She helps drive Grand Circle’s mission to help change the lives of its age 50-plus travelers, its global workforce, and the communities to which it travels. In her role as chair of the Grand Circle Foundation, the company’s nonprofit, charitable organization, she extends that mission to the communities Grand Circle touches at home and abroad.

Authors: Bob Johansen
ISBN: 9781609944872 / 1609944879
© 2012 | 2nd Edition | 264 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: May-12
Price: US$ 29.95

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We are in a time of disruptive leadership change. In a VUCA world – one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity – traditional leadership skills won’t be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues. Drawing on the latest ten-year forecast from the Institute for the Future – the only futures think tank ever to outlive its forecasts – this powerful book explores the external forces that are shaking the foundations of leadership and unveils ten critical new skills that will be required in the future, skills that you can learn.

In this second edition Johansen is joined by the prestigious Centre for Creative Leadership. CCL’s contributions help readers understand the new leadership skills by linking them to existing skills, and they provide analytics and exercises to help readers develop them. This edition has been updated throughout, with a new ten-year forecast and new examples, and incorporates the lessons Johansen has leaned about applying the new leadership skills in the three years since the first edition appeared. In addition, Johansen deals with two new forces that are shaping the future. The first is the “digital natives,” or people 15 years and younger who have grown up in a completely digital world. The second is cloud-based computing, which will enable new forms of connection, collaboration and commerce and will greatly facilitate reciprocity-based innovation – giving away to get more – which Johansen sees as the biggest innovation opportunity in history.

About the Author

Bob Johansen consults with senior executives- CEOs, presidents, directors on innovation, and others across a wide range of industries He was president and CEO of the Institute for the Future from 1996 to 2004 and remains on its Board and Leadership Team. The Institute for the Future (IFTF), spun off from the Rand Corporation in 1968, is an independent non-profit think tank inSilicon Valleythat has been doing ten-year forecasting for more than 30 years.

Job interviews aren’t discussions; they’re oral exams — and the candidate with all the right answers gets the job. The revised and expanded edition of Boost Your Interview IQ helps you prepare for that big test with interview skill-building exercises, an in-depth Interview IQ test, and other interview aptitude-boosting tools to show how to craft winning answers to the most commonly asked interview questions.

You’ll learn how to shape your experiences into compelling narratives that showcase your unique skills, knowledge, and personality — and you’ll learn how to answer tricky “behavioral” questions like a pro. In today’s tough job market, the most prepared, best presented candidate wins — and with the worst economy in decades poised for a turnaround in 2012, you’ll need to set yourself apart from the pack. Boost Your Interview IQ is the book that delivers the right tools to do the job of GETTING the job.

The all-new edition of one of the “Top 10 Career Books”

Delivers strategies for management/executive-level job seekers, new graduates, and career changers

Includes answers to the “100 Key Questions Interviewers Ask”
  
About the Author

Carole Martin is America’s best-known interview coach. An acknowledged expert in the use of behavioral interviewing techniques, she has made interviewing her specialty. Carole teaches her tips and techniques to job searchers and employers through one-on-one sessions, phone coaching, and group workshops.She has been certified by The Human Resources Ceritification Institute as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).