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BL
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1048096
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b802466
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Furnham, Adrian.
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| Title & Author
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Dim sum for managers : : advice and ideas for the hungry mind /\ Adrian Furnham.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Cyan Books,, 2008.
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1 online resource (vii, 290 pages)
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| ISBN
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9789814312103
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: 981431210X
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1904879942
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9781904879947
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| Contents
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COVER -- Contents -- Introduction -- Absence makes you wonder -- Accentuate the positive -- Advice for young managers -- Business alumni -- Business placebo -- Business self-help -- Chronic email disorder -- Compulsive buying -- Consumer profiling -- Control at work -- Cults and mind control -- Deluded dimwits, demure dunces -- Demons, drivers, and defenses -- Depressive realism -- Devising new courses -- Dysfunctional consumer behavior -- Ethics committees -- Evaluation -- Executive teams -- Fantastic futures -- Generations at work
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Going into salesGuru-busting -- Happiness myths -- Hidden persuaders -- Hitting targets -- How to become a guru -- Humor at work -- Idealists and ideologies -- Impulsivity -- Just do it! -- Management desiderata -- Marketing maladies -- Meeting mumbo-jumbo -- Meta-perception -- Methods of payment -- Morning prayers and evening vespers -- Muzak while you spend -- Non-executive directors -- Organizational amnesia -- Organizational death -- Personal risk assessment -- Personality and income -- Pester power -- Pluralistic ignorance
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Prioritizing the PrioryProactive people and sales performance -- Psychogrammar -- Rugged individualists -- Sales ethics -- Schadenfreude -- Scientist in residence -- Selling events -- Selling to oldies -- Sentence completion -- Service with a snarl -- Seven selling secrets -- Sex at work -- Shop �til you drop -- Stress and strain -- Super sales staff -- The advertising surround -- The anatomy of derailment -- The business beauty parade -- The F-word -- The joy of shopping -- The narcissism business -- The office party -- The package
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The paradox of new productsThe psychology of gossip and the grapevine -- The psychology of red tape -- The sales manager -- The trouble with targets -- The unlearning organization -- Three of the worst -- Trainer-mania -- Typical and maximal performance -- Uncertainty avoidance -- Undercover marketing -- Volunteering -- Work and longevity -- Work bribes and incentives -- Work is good for you -- About the author
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Management.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Corporate Governance.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Leadership.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Organizational Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Workplace Culture.
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Management.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.4
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HD31.F87 2008eb
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