Author: Sue Brown (Gay fiction writer)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781640806498
Category : Bartenders
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Blue-collar bartender Dan has a brutal crush on his straight, alpha boss, Gideon... until Gideon's daughter arranges a gay speed-dating event that leads to the revelation that Gideon is bisexual. But could he really be interested in Dan?
Speed Dating the Boss
Author: Sue Brown (Gay fiction writer)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781640806498
Category : Bartenders
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Blue-collar bartender Dan has a brutal crush on his straight, alpha boss, Gideon... until Gideon's daughter arranges a gay speed-dating event that leads to the revelation that Gideon is bisexual. But could he really be interested in Dan?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781640806498
Category : Bartenders
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Blue-collar bartender Dan has a brutal crush on his straight, alpha boss, Gideon... until Gideon's daughter arranges a gay speed-dating event that leads to the revelation that Gideon is bisexual. But could he really be interested in Dan?
Speed Dating
Author: Shi Hui
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9390414571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
From the thrilling ride of going through multiple stages of dating to being proposed after barely a week. Join Shi Hui as she brings you through a series of modern-day dating. Meet Noah, the crazy emotional train wreck; Caleb, the charismatic hunk; Derek, the overly-possessive part-time boyfriend and more. Inspired by the stories of my earlier dating adventures, Speed Dating The story of dating 10 guys in 3 months, is a collection of failed dates throughout her lifetime or in this situation, 3 months, I was a late bloomer but I learned quickly. This book is a collection of the insane stories that you’d share with your friends at the bar and then you laugh about it and move on. Yes… the stories of me. With a touch of humour, I bring to you – Speed Dating The story of dating 10 guys in 3 months.
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9390414571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
From the thrilling ride of going through multiple stages of dating to being proposed after barely a week. Join Shi Hui as she brings you through a series of modern-day dating. Meet Noah, the crazy emotional train wreck; Caleb, the charismatic hunk; Derek, the overly-possessive part-time boyfriend and more. Inspired by the stories of my earlier dating adventures, Speed Dating The story of dating 10 guys in 3 months, is a collection of failed dates throughout her lifetime or in this situation, 3 months, I was a late bloomer but I learned quickly. This book is a collection of the insane stories that you’d share with your friends at the bar and then you laugh about it and move on. Yes… the stories of me. With a touch of humour, I bring to you – Speed Dating The story of dating 10 guys in 3 months.
Baby, I'm the Boss of Me
Author: Ruth Yunker
Publisher: Diamond Publishing House
ISBN: 9781736882207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
". . . humorous and wisdom-filled life lessons; invaluable to anyone hurtling toward that third trimester of life." - IndieReader With one entertaining and thought-provoking story after the other, Ruth Yunker describes her own road traveled to middle age. Now growing old is in sight. Rather than panicking, Yunker realizes this newest phase of her life is going to be an extraordinary journey, if she chooses to embrace it. Yunker has lived a multi-faceted and well-traveled life. She was a perennial New Kid at school. To her horror, she was the very last girl in her class to get a bra. She compares her infant's heads just after birth lying quietly on her chest, to her mother's head, moments after her death, lolling oh so heavily in the same place. She writes of nervously informing her grown daughter she is getting a facelift. She writes about her eyebrows turning white, about the deaths of President Kennedy and John Lennon, about eating with one's hands, and the sudden need for this thing called Spanx. She mourns losing her power in the grocery store check out line, and triumphs in getting it back. Ruth Yunker has found the way to tackle the coming of old age that promises to be a fabulous continuation of the joy-filled life she's living now. She plans to use optimism, power and humor, to carry her through. Her newest book "Baby, I'm the Boss of Me" tells you how you can too.
Publisher: Diamond Publishing House
ISBN: 9781736882207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
". . . humorous and wisdom-filled life lessons; invaluable to anyone hurtling toward that third trimester of life." - IndieReader With one entertaining and thought-provoking story after the other, Ruth Yunker describes her own road traveled to middle age. Now growing old is in sight. Rather than panicking, Yunker realizes this newest phase of her life is going to be an extraordinary journey, if she chooses to embrace it. Yunker has lived a multi-faceted and well-traveled life. She was a perennial New Kid at school. To her horror, she was the very last girl in her class to get a bra. She compares her infant's heads just after birth lying quietly on her chest, to her mother's head, moments after her death, lolling oh so heavily in the same place. She writes of nervously informing her grown daughter she is getting a facelift. She writes about her eyebrows turning white, about the deaths of President Kennedy and John Lennon, about eating with one's hands, and the sudden need for this thing called Spanx. She mourns losing her power in the grocery store check out line, and triumphs in getting it back. Ruth Yunker has found the way to tackle the coming of old age that promises to be a fabulous continuation of the joy-filled life she's living now. She plans to use optimism, power and humor, to carry her through. Her newest book "Baby, I'm the Boss of Me" tells you how you can too.
Bringing Up the Boss
Author: Rachel Pacheco
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1953295401
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD SILVER MEDALIST — HUMAN RESCOURCES / EMPLOYEE TRAINING Managing is hard. Managing for the first time is even harder. First-timers want to quickly learn what it takes to be a successful manager—like they learned how to code, how to design, how to sell—and put those learnings into practice. But what does it mean to manage, and how do you teach someone to be a good manager? Enter Rachel Pacheco, an expert at helping start-ups solve their management and culture challenges. Pacheco, a former chief people officer and founding team executive at multiple start-ups, conducts research on management and works with CEOs and their managers to build the skills necessary to navigate a rapidly scaling organization. In Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, you’ll learn how to give effective feedback, how to motivate your team members, and how to hire and fire well, among many other critical management skills. You’ll also learn what it means to manage yourself in this new role, and how to navigate the often awkward and sometimes challenging situations that arise in this new position. Pacheco shares what makes a manager great, along with anecdotes, research, tools, and how-to's that help overwhelmed employees become expert managers fast.
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1953295401
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD SILVER MEDALIST — HUMAN RESCOURCES / EMPLOYEE TRAINING Managing is hard. Managing for the first time is even harder. First-timers want to quickly learn what it takes to be a successful manager—like they learned how to code, how to design, how to sell—and put those learnings into practice. But what does it mean to manage, and how do you teach someone to be a good manager? Enter Rachel Pacheco, an expert at helping start-ups solve their management and culture challenges. Pacheco, a former chief people officer and founding team executive at multiple start-ups, conducts research on management and works with CEOs and their managers to build the skills necessary to navigate a rapidly scaling organization. In Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, you’ll learn how to give effective feedback, how to motivate your team members, and how to hire and fire well, among many other critical management skills. You’ll also learn what it means to manage yourself in this new role, and how to navigate the often awkward and sometimes challenging situations that arise in this new position. Pacheco shares what makes a manager great, along with anecdotes, research, tools, and how-to's that help overwhelmed employees become expert managers fast.
Ask a Manager
Author: Alison Green
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0399181822
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0399181822
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Leading When You're Not the Boss
Author: Roger Strathausen
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1484217489
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Answer the questions that arise when managers and workers need to adjust to unfamiliar leadership roles and rules in flattened organizational forms. Leading When You’re Not the Boss provides a conceptual framework that you can apply when assessing your own organizations and work. The book discusses the underlying ideas necessary for a shift from a culture of hierarchies to one of relationships and the establishment of intrapreneurial and holistic work environments. This book supports the trend in many corporations toward flattening parts of their traditional top–down hierarchical management systems into more egalitarian, democratized, and distributed organizational forms. It analyzes the weaknesses of "management" culture at a time of ever more rapid change and complexity in the business world and illustrates how flattened organizational units increase agility, innovation, and efficacy. Moreover, it discusses how individuals can exercise effective leadership despite lacking the command-and-control authority of conventional bosses and ways for organizations to cultivate effective "post-management" cultures. Especially in the technology sector, large projects have become too complex to be mastered by any single leader. Drawing on his experience as a senior manager and executive consultant for a number of Fortune Global 500 companies, Roger Strathausen analyzes the situations and benefits that motivate companies to adopt flattened organizational forms. He shows that empowering a multi-talented group to manage itself by horizontal cooperation can deliver products with more speed, efficiency, innovation, and nimbleness than a solo boss could, while yielding higher employee productivity and retention rates. With an entertaining mix of real-world examples and an episodic HBR-style fictitious case study, the author illustrates throughout the book how his leadership lessons can be serviceable only when intelligently tailored to the dynamic complexities of specific situations, including the personalities and competencies of the people involved. What You'll Learn How to tailor the techniques of shared leadership to specific business situations rather than treating them as iron rules How to flourish in nonhierarchical and ambiguously-hierarchical organizational contexts that encourage individual initiative for the joint benefit of the enterprise and personal professional growth How success and fulfillment at work are enhanced by organizational forms in which participants assess the situational relevance of their respective talents and actively apply them to group objectives in lateral cooperation with peers, as opposed to passively receiving orders from appointed bosses Who This Book Is For The primary readerships for this book are business leaders and managers at all levels in corporations and non-managerial professionals who work in self-directed teams. The secondary readerships are practitioners, consultants, and academics interested in the topics of human resources, organizational design, and the future of work.
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1484217489
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Answer the questions that arise when managers and workers need to adjust to unfamiliar leadership roles and rules in flattened organizational forms. Leading When You’re Not the Boss provides a conceptual framework that you can apply when assessing your own organizations and work. The book discusses the underlying ideas necessary for a shift from a culture of hierarchies to one of relationships and the establishment of intrapreneurial and holistic work environments. This book supports the trend in many corporations toward flattening parts of their traditional top–down hierarchical management systems into more egalitarian, democratized, and distributed organizational forms. It analyzes the weaknesses of "management" culture at a time of ever more rapid change and complexity in the business world and illustrates how flattened organizational units increase agility, innovation, and efficacy. Moreover, it discusses how individuals can exercise effective leadership despite lacking the command-and-control authority of conventional bosses and ways for organizations to cultivate effective "post-management" cultures. Especially in the technology sector, large projects have become too complex to be mastered by any single leader. Drawing on his experience as a senior manager and executive consultant for a number of Fortune Global 500 companies, Roger Strathausen analyzes the situations and benefits that motivate companies to adopt flattened organizational forms. He shows that empowering a multi-talented group to manage itself by horizontal cooperation can deliver products with more speed, efficiency, innovation, and nimbleness than a solo boss could, while yielding higher employee productivity and retention rates. With an entertaining mix of real-world examples and an episodic HBR-style fictitious case study, the author illustrates throughout the book how his leadership lessons can be serviceable only when intelligently tailored to the dynamic complexities of specific situations, including the personalities and competencies of the people involved. What You'll Learn How to tailor the techniques of shared leadership to specific business situations rather than treating them as iron rules How to flourish in nonhierarchical and ambiguously-hierarchical organizational contexts that encourage individual initiative for the joint benefit of the enterprise and personal professional growth How success and fulfillment at work are enhanced by organizational forms in which participants assess the situational relevance of their respective talents and actively apply them to group objectives in lateral cooperation with peers, as opposed to passively receiving orders from appointed bosses Who This Book Is For The primary readerships for this book are business leaders and managers at all levels in corporations and non-managerial professionals who work in self-directed teams. The secondary readerships are practitioners, consultants, and academics interested in the topics of human resources, organizational design, and the future of work.
Culture Works
Author: Kris Boesch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998671123
Category : Corporate culture
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"What would it feel like to have an extraordinary workplace culture that generates both joy and remarkable financial results? Many leaders and managers find culture to be abstract, intangible and elusive. Perhaps you've noticed people walking on eggshells or avoiding conversation landmines. Is your team's performance waning due to gossip, silos or apathy? Culture Works helps you navigate around and through these kinds of obstacles. In this book you will learn how to create an extraordinary workplace culture. Not with rainbows and unicorns, but with concrete innovative concepts, enlightening stories and tangible tools. After reading this book, you will be ready to take action with doable, down-to-earth steps to energize your team and yield real deal results"--Amazon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998671123
Category : Corporate culture
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"What would it feel like to have an extraordinary workplace culture that generates both joy and remarkable financial results? Many leaders and managers find culture to be abstract, intangible and elusive. Perhaps you've noticed people walking on eggshells or avoiding conversation landmines. Is your team's performance waning due to gossip, silos or apathy? Culture Works helps you navigate around and through these kinds of obstacles. In this book you will learn how to create an extraordinary workplace culture. Not with rainbows and unicorns, but with concrete innovative concepts, enlightening stories and tangible tools. After reading this book, you will be ready to take action with doable, down-to-earth steps to energize your team and yield real deal results"--Amazon.
Angelkin
Author: Jane Stein
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684560284
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In a world of vampires and shifters, angels and demons are a myth. Anthea Black is one of those myths, an angel. For Anthea Black, it's business as usual, friends setting her up for blind dates, working in her adoptive family's business and with the paranormal community as a silent witness to what happens in the shadows of the city. Then the vampire Arkin Kane arrives to secure his power base and clean up the mess his predecessor made. Both have secrets, hers the fact that she is an angel, and sparks fly as they try to keep it business as usual. Until a self–proclaimed psychic declares that a darkness is coming for Anthea. Arkin wants to keep her safe, she wants to keep her secret, but that is easier than it sounds. For Anthea is about to find out just what it means to be an angel and meet the other half of the myth, a demon.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684560284
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In a world of vampires and shifters, angels and demons are a myth. Anthea Black is one of those myths, an angel. For Anthea Black, it's business as usual, friends setting her up for blind dates, working in her adoptive family's business and with the paranormal community as a silent witness to what happens in the shadows of the city. Then the vampire Arkin Kane arrives to secure his power base and clean up the mess his predecessor made. Both have secrets, hers the fact that she is an angel, and sparks fly as they try to keep it business as usual. Until a self–proclaimed psychic declares that a darkness is coming for Anthea. Arkin wants to keep her safe, she wants to keep her secret, but that is easier than it sounds. For Anthea is about to find out just what it means to be an angel and meet the other half of the myth, a demon.
What to Do when You Become the Boss
Author: Bob Selden
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459616391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Congratulations. You got the promotion - you're finally THE boss. You've been rewarded for knowing your stuff BUT as a first-time manager, you may not know how to be a good manager. Where do you start? How do you get things done? Bob Selden's always practical book offers seasoned advice to help you make a success of your new role. It is the complete How to for managing and leading. Learn how to best manage your boss, your people and yourself. Packed with handy tips and case studies you'll find yourself referring to this book again and again for practical suggestions on everything, including motivating, delegating, influencing, coaching, managing time, performance appraisals, hiring and firing.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459616391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Congratulations. You got the promotion - you're finally THE boss. You've been rewarded for knowing your stuff BUT as a first-time manager, you may not know how to be a good manager. Where do you start? How do you get things done? Bob Selden's always practical book offers seasoned advice to help you make a success of your new role. It is the complete How to for managing and leading. Learn how to best manage your boss, your people and yourself. Packed with handy tips and case studies you'll find yourself referring to this book again and again for practical suggestions on everything, including motivating, delegating, influencing, coaching, managing time, performance appraisals, hiring and firing.
Not Just the Boss's Plaything
Author: Caitlin Crews
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373132026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Not Just the Boss's Plaything A very personal performance plan From the moment Alicia Teller tripped and fell into Nikolai Korovin's arms, her iron-clad control started to slip! While Alicia's tantalizing curves might drive Nikolai to distraction, business and pleasure are not two things this legendary tycoon has ever mixed...until now. A Devil in Disguise Playing with fire! Drusilla Bennett's job from hell will soon be over. Ready to take her life back, she plucks up the courage to say "I quit!" But nothing and no one has ever taken Cayo Vila by surprise, and he's not going to let Dru go quite so easily...!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373132026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Not Just the Boss's Plaything A very personal performance plan From the moment Alicia Teller tripped and fell into Nikolai Korovin's arms, her iron-clad control started to slip! While Alicia's tantalizing curves might drive Nikolai to distraction, business and pleasure are not two things this legendary tycoon has ever mixed...until now. A Devil in Disguise Playing with fire! Drusilla Bennett's job from hell will soon be over. Ready to take her life back, she plucks up the courage to say "I quit!" But nothing and no one has ever taken Cayo Vila by surprise, and he's not going to let Dru go quite so easily...!