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Clear Thoughts - Pragmatic Gems of Better Business Thinking by Ann Latham
Clear Thoughts - Pragmatic Gems of Better Business Thinking, contains thirty-two concise articles that will provoke, motivate, and provide immediately applicable advice for getting better results.
Learn how you can:
- Accelerate progress
- Boost productivity, and
- Capitalize on talent
Readers will come back to these thoughts and tips again and again. Each is a quick read. Each provides great value.
Read the Book Review by the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Some of the articles you will find in the book:
- Keep Your Mission to Yourself!
- No Geeks? No Geniuses? No Problem!
- The Stop-Doing List
- Lazy? Incompetent? Clueless?
- Multi-tasking Can Kill Productivity, Quality, and People
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