- Coming to America: The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Dec 23, 2004
- The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb, unfolds as he and his parents experience America in the 1880s.
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- Communicating with Other LinkedIn Members
- May 4, 2012
- In this lesson, you learn about the LinkedIn network and the many ways to communicate with other LinkedIn members.
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- Create a Personally, Professionally, and Financially Rewarding Career Doing What You Love
- Mar 24, 2010
- With the downturn in the economy, the elimination of jobs, and the increased desire for work-life balance, people are looking for more stability, greater fulfillment, and increased satisfaction from work. Are you?
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- Creative Intelligence, Leadership, and the Challenge of the Future
- May 28, 2004
- It is creative leaders and employees who introduce positive change and make quantum leaps forward in creating new products and processes. Alan Rowe explains how and why creativity should be encouraged within organizations.
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- Focusing Your Effort for Wider Work Success
- Jul 18, 2012
- Is your focus stretched in multiple directions right now? Probably. We're all busily connecting to everyone else by multiple technological means, but does all that communication translate to accomplishing productive work? Doubtful. Pat Brans details how to concentrate your attention to set yourself up for success.
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- From Great to Lasting—Redefining Success
- Aug 31, 2007
- Learn to build a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which you live.
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- Handling Tough Questions: Agility Versus Force
- Sep 2, 2005
- At some point in your life, you're going to be faced with the task of answering a question that makes you squirm. This chapter introduces by anecdote the skills necessary to answer tough questions with poise, skill, and charisma.
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- Handling Tough Questions: The Critical Dynamics of Q&A
- Sep 9, 2005
- This chapter demonstrates exactly how not to respond when faced with difficult questions. A Defensive, evasive, or contentious response can actually damage your cause even more than an upopular but honest one. This chapter outlines each of these improper responses, and provides an illustration of each which demonstrates how they can be harmful.
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- How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure: If You Do Have Goals, Don't Put Them in Writing, and If You Do, Don't Think Too Big
- Apr 11, 2008
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- How to Build and Maintain a Support Network—Planning for When You Need Help
- Mar 3, 2014
- Jennifer Bray explains why developing a support network can be critical for women in STEM fields, and shows you how to go about developing a network, even if networking and socializing aren't your strong suit.
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- Introduction to Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life
- Dec 10, 2012
- The authors of Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life introduce their book: Whether you’re interacting with coworkers or customers, family members or friends, DISC will empower you to better relate with others. You will soon understand why you click with some people and clank with others. Moreover, you will gain a valuable framework for maximizing your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.
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- Introduction to The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life
- Nov 15, 2010
- Richard Templar explains that if we follow a few basic "Rules of Life," we tend to get more done, shrug off adversity more easily, get more out of life, and spread a little happiness around us as we go.
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- Introduction to The Rules of Parenting: A Personal Code for Raising Happy, Confident Children
- May 1, 2013
- When you think about the huge responsibility you have as a parent, it can stop you in your tracks and take your breath away. What you do and say over the years will have a huge influence on whether your child grows up to be screwed up or well balanced. Richard Templar explains that by thinking about it all now, you’ll automatically begin to correct many of your little foibles or bad habits as well as introducing new more helpful ones.
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- Keys to Launching an Extraordinary Career: What Contribution Will You Make?
- Dec 16, 2005
- The best way to manage your career, from Day One, is to focus on the contribution you will make to your employer. In other words, it’s not about you. It’s about what you can do to further the goals of your company or organization. This chapter will help you get serious and understand what it means to contribute to the goals of your company.
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- Knowing Your Flexstyle: The Good and Bad Ways We Manage Relationships Between Work and Personal Life
- Dec 21, 2007
- Whether you know it or not, you already have a strategy for handling your life. But is it a conscious strategy? Do you feel in control of your life? Begin to take control to be the CEO of your life by learning to manage your flexstyle.
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- Literacy Among Today's College Students
- Jan 24, 2003
- Why such a decline in college literacy? Students' overexposure to the mass media and commercials could be to blame. Chaz Austin takes a look at these factors and outlines his approach to teaching effective written English.
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- Make More, Worry Less: Secrets to Creating a Bigger Income and a Better Life
- Apr 9, 2008
- Wes Moss introduces the concepts in his book, Make More, Worry Less.
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- Making Winning Decisions: Why It's Hard to Be Rational
- Jan 18, 2008
- Stephen P. Robbins explains how you can learn to know your biases and how to minimize their impact in this introduction to his book.
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- Managing a Simple Mailing List in PHP and MySQL
- Aug 16, 2012
- This chapter provides the first of several hands-on, small projects designed to pull together your PHP and MySQL knowledge. In this chapter, you learn how to create a managed distribution list that you can use to send out newsletters or anything else to a list of email addresses in a database.
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- Managing Emotions to Learn from Failure
- Apr 8, 2009
- You will have obstacles, setbacks, and outright failures. Learn how to be better prepared not only to expect to deal with some failure, but to be better able to deal with it when it comes, and to actually derive some good from it.
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