New and startling findings highlight the importance of Focus when it comes to performing at our best. One global study of the management abilities of more than 4,000 top level executives reveals that this mental skill-Focus-is the key to all the rest. Other research from professional sports and the performing arts also shows how Focus distinguishes stars from average performers. The cluster of competencies that form Focus range from staying calm under pressure and the discipline and drive to continually improve, to empathy, persuasion, and conflict management. Focus predicts who will be an outstanding leader, team member, ... |
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In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation - each of these can be understood only by ... |
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From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly recorded by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last ... |
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Illustrated by John Dillow and Peter Harper. ... "I knew that I was hundreds of miles from the places merchant ships went. I was sure that I was going to die on this lonely island, completely alone. When I thought about this the tears ran down my face. I felt sorry that I had been born." From the Book The young Robinson Crusoe ignores his father's advice and decides to become a sailor. But Crusoe is soon caught up in violent storms and finds himself shipwrecked on a remote island. He will have to live on this island for the next twenty-eight years. This book is in British English. Here you can find: ... |
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Defoes schon damals weltbekannten Roman nannte Goethe "das Entzücken und das Evangelium der Kinder". Doch der Bericht des erfolgreichen und abenteuerlustigen Bürgers Crusoe, der nach gefahrvollen Reisen allein auf einer einsamen Insel strandet und 28 Jahre seines Lebens dort verbringt, ist weitaus mehr als ein Kinderbuch und zieht auch heute noch Leser jeden Alters in seinen Bann. "Robinson Crusoe", 1719 erstmals erschienen, gilt mit seiner ausgewogenen Komposition und präzisen Sprache als Markstein der modernen europäischen Literatur. ... |
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Акварелната боя от Daniel Smith е направена с висококачествени пигменти. Тя е с висока светлоустоичивост, чистота и наситен цвят. Боята е идеална за скициране, смесени техники, развиване на цветови стойности и изграждане на изразителни белези. Тя е част от богата гама от над 240 цвята, с които може да се развихрите и да създадете уникални произведения на изкуството. Боята се предлага в тубичка от 15 ml. ... |
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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation, and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs ... |
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Акварелната боя от Daniel Smith е под формата на стик и предлага висока интензивност. Всеки стик съдържа чист пигмент и гума Арабика, призната за най-доброто растително лепило за приготвяне на художествени бои на водна основа. Акварелната пръчица създава жив и наситен цвят, когато е мокра, и изгражда текстура, когато е суха. Тя е силно реагираща с вода и освобождава плътен цвят. Боята е идеална за скициране, смесени техники, развиване на цветови стойности и изграждане на изразителни белези. ... |
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Комплектът акварелни бои Essentials от Daniel Smith се състои от 6 основни цвята - 3 студени (Hansa Yellow Light, Quinacridone Rose и Phthalo Blue) и 3 топли (New Gamboge, Pyrrol Scarlet и French Ultramarine). Боите са предназначени за прилагане върху традиционните повърхности, използвани в изобразителното изкуство като хартия, картон и други. Те може да се смесват помежду си, за да се открие богата гама от други цветове. Боите се предлагат в тубички по 5 ml. ... |
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Transform your classroom into a collaborative learning environment with Harmonize. Students learn more than language as they complete projects on topics that matter to them. Harmonize: collaborate - transform your classroom into a collaborative learning environment; create - spark students' creativity as they research, develop and deliver their projects; learn - bring learning in sync with the world outside the classroom with meaningful topics, tasks, and videos; for the teacher - Harmonize gives you everything you need to support your students, in one place. Harmonize makes English immediately useful and ... |
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Master of the sublime: The essential Impressionist. ... No other artist, apart from J.M.W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the ... |
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In the modern, dynamic world of new technology and new scientific fields, the reflection of all innovative processes in the economic activity is very important. It is very difficult to analyze and describe all the interactions in one manual. That is why, the purpose of the book is to segment and distinguish different impacts of the Intellectual products and their place in the contemporary economic study. The Intellectual product, as a generator of new consumer needs and one of the main tools for products and services differentiation, is the main subject of the presented manual. ... |
