Authors:Miriam Carver, Bill Charney,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: board, governance, build, stronger, series, carver, decisions, solve, member, playbook, using, policy, problems
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-01-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0787968404
ISBN-13: 9780787968403

The Board Member’s Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver’s revolutionary Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations. Step by step, the authors walk readers through a proven problem-solving sequence that allows them to find solutions consistent with the values and policies of their organizations. Designed to be flexible, the book’s problem-solving methods are applicable to any challenge boards may face.

Author: Cy Charney
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: sales, accelerate, success, techniques, tips, pro, instant
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-24
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0814472141
ISBN-13: 9780814472149

For the sales professional with more energy than experience and more ambition than knowledge, the fast lane to success can be riddled with potholes. But the last thing these go-getters want to do is get bogged down with some huge book of sales techniques. The Instant Sales Pro offers instead a quick yet comprehensive guide to the basics of successful selling: prospecting, getting on the customer’s wavelength, dealing with objections, negotiation, closing the sale, and more. Readers will learn every step of the sales process, starting with sales letters and cold calls, as well as how to s

Author: Leo Charney
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: drift, modernity, cinema, moments, empty
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822320908
ISBN-13: 9780822320906

In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as “drift”—the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture’s preoccupation with the reproduction of the present. Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylist

Author: Cy Charney
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: tackling, job, problems, tips, practical, tool, kit, manager
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1995-03-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0814478816
ISBN-13: 9780814478813

This handbook provides numerous practical hints for tackling many management situations, for example absenteeism and workshops.

Author: William Charney
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: second, safety, hospital, modern, handbook
Number of Pages: 1226
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 142004785X
ISBN-13: 9781420047851

It is ironic that those whose job it is to save lives often find themselves injured in the course of performing their duties. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare workers have higher injury rates than agriculture workers, miners, and construction workers. The Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition covers exposure paradigms and offers solutions and models of protection for these individuals, presenting the latest science and intervention strategies that have proven successful in the scientific community.Extensively revised, this second edition explores a

Author: Maurice Charney
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: fictions, hamlet
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 0415007038
ISBN-13: 9780415007030

This text emphasizes Hamlet’s fantasies and imaginations rather than ethical criteria and the depiction of "Hamlet" as a revenge play.

Author: Maurice Charney
Publisher: Praeger Publisher
Keywords: guide, historical, geographic, comedy
Number of Pages: 663
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313327149
ISBN-13: 9780313327148