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Book Cover:  Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution
By Cali Ressler & Jody Thompson

Imagine a workplace where employees can do whatever they want whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. No more pointless meetings, racing to get in at 9:00, or begging for permission to watch your kid play soccer. You make the decisions about what you do and where you do it.

It sounds like a fantasy, but Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson are leading a movement to make it a reality, even...

Imagine a workplace where employees can do whatever they want whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. No more pointless meetings, racing to get in at 9:00, or begging for permission to...

Published: 21/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781591842927
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results
By Bill Jensen & Josh Klein

It would be so much easier to do great work if not for pointless bureaucracies, outdated technologies, and deeply irrational rules. These things are killing us. Frustrating? Hell, yes.

But take heart. Today's top performers are taking matters into their own hands: bypassing sacred structures, using forbidden tools, and ignoring silly corporate edicts. In other words, they are hacking work to increase...

It would be so much easier to do great work if not for pointless bureaucracies, outdated technologies, and deeply irrational rules. These things are killing us. Frustrating? Hell, yes.

But take heart...

Published: 10/12/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670919505
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Working with Mean Girls: Identifying and protecting yourself from workplace nastiness
Offering practical advice and using fascinating case studies, psychologist Meredith Fuller shows you how to recognise and manage difficult women at work.
Offering practical advice and using fascinating case studies, psychologist Meredith Fuller shows you how to recognise and manage difficult women at work.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075393
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Rules of Work: A Definitive Code for Personal Success, Second Edition
By Richard Templar

Second edition of the hugely successful 'The Rules of Work'

Updated with new 'Rules' for today's business climate.

Some people are simply great at their job. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards through all the politics, the backstabbing, the system, and the nonsense that goes on.

Second edition of the hugely successful 'The Rules of Work'

Updated with new 'Rules' for today's business climate.

Some people are simply great at their job. They glide effortlessly onwards and...

Published: 27/01/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780273730262
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Conquer Your Email Overload: Super Tips and Trick for Busy People

Is email taking up too much of your valuable time?

Tired of spending hours sorting through unwanted emails?

Ever lost one of those really important emails that you thought you had filed in the right place?

Wish your business could use Microsoft Outlook Contacts for more than just a phone directory?

HELP IS HERE!

Conquer Your Email Overload solves these problems and more:

Is email taking up too much of your valuable time?

Tired of spending hours sorting through unwanted emails?

Ever lost one of those really important emails that you thought you had filed in the right place?...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143567417
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Chairing Meetings
By John Milligan
This book is an indispensable guide for all those who run New Zealand's many club and association committees.

What are the duties of the chairman, secretary and treasurer?
How do you organise an agenda?
What is a point of order?
What are the rules of voting?
How do you deal with amendments?
When can you go into committee?

These and many other questions are answered in this dependable guide, now fully...





This book is an indispensable guide for all those who run New Zealand's many club and association committees.

What are the duties of the chairman, secretary and treasurer?
How do you organise an agenda?...

Published: 02/04/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143006787
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Ubiquitous Computing for Business: Find New Markets, Create Better Businesses, and Reach Customers Around the World 24-7-365
By Bo Begole

Understand the emerging Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) revolution-- and drive maximum business value from it.

Understand the emerging Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) revolution-- and drive maximum business value from it.

Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137064434
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Working with Mean Girls
Offering practical advice and using fascinating case studies, psychologist Meredith Fuller shows you how to recognise and manage difficult women at work.
Offering practical advice and using fascinating case studies, psychologist Meredith Fuller shows you how to recognise and manage difficult women at work.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742534541

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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