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Get your idea off the ground.

You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or boost productivity--but how do you get the buy-in you need to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows your idea's value. That's not always easy: Maybe you're not sure what kind of data your stakeholders will trust. Or perhaps you're intimidated by number crunching.

The HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case, written by project management expert Raymond Sheen, gives you the guidance and tools you need to make a strong case. You'll learn how to:...

Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback." In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a framework for helping members of your design team give and receive critique.

Using firsthand stories and lessons from prominent figures in the design community, this book examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of feedback. You'll come away with...

What's YOUR story?

In the hypercompetitive world of Silicon Valley, this question has replaced "What's your pitch?" It's another way of asking, "Who are you?"

The art of the pitch is nothing short of a survival skill. If an entrepreneur can't convince an investor in 10 minutes that a business idea has potential, that is often the end of it. If a project manager in a large enterprise can't win support from other stakeholders, his or her project is at risk. You always need to be selling yourself, pitching your partners or your clients to work with you, or...

Sales Presentations For Dummies rises to the challenge of guiding you through the process of engaging and persuading busy buyers in a world that's constantly bombarding them with sales pitches. Motivating today's buyers to pull the trigger on a new deal requires a certain set of skills, and this straightforward text guides you through what you need to know to create and deliver compelling presentations. Pulled from examples and experiences of thousands of actual sales presentations, the information in this...

El ABC de la comunicacion efectiva: hablada, escrita y escuchada combina las ensenanza mas queridas de los tres primeros libros de la serie Habilidades de comunicacion... de Sonia Gonzalez en un solo volumen para un liderazgo mas asertivo y de alto impacto.

Este libro, ofrece claves practicas para eliminar los bloqueadores comunes de la expresion escrita, hablada y escuchada. Ofrece lecciones para ordenar las ideas y lograr una comunicacion hablada mas asertiva y persuasiva. Con claves sencillas y aplicables ayuda a efectuar un cambio extremo en la...

How we choose to communicate determines the difference between success and failure---in all of our endeavors. "Bridge Builders" gives you the strategic tools you need to connect to the hearts and minds of your audiences and achieve the objectives that are important to you.

"Bridge Builders" is a compelling fable of self-discovery about Daniel Reed s journey from ordinary...

Aun cuando permanezcan callados, hermeticos, timidos e inexpresivos, todos los individuos transmiten -algo-, desde su esencia particular y unica.

Incluso dormidos, quietos, distantes o de espaldas, siempre infunden parte de sus vidas en las otras personas a su alrededor. Tan solo con el milagro permanente de respirar, proyectan una imagen. Un clima interior que trasciende y revela el -aire- personal. Nadie sabe como llamarlo, pero es evidente que ahi esta

Ese -soplo- vivencial y personal, no se oye, ni se ve, ni se siente, pero usted lo exhala desde su interior sobre...

"I have seen literally thousands of companies trying to raise capital and know that a great pitch deck is critical. This book gives you the playbook for creating yours."
--Naval Ravikant, cofounder and CEO, AngelList

"I raised twice the amount of money I set out to in a mere five weeks. I'm naming my firstborn child after the Evans."
--Slava Menn, cofounder and CEO, Fortified Bicycle

HOW DO YOU LAUNCH THE VENTURE OF YOUR DREAMS?...

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples--ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.

Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal...

In what doesn't sound like the best plan ever, David decided to overcome his fears by pretending to be an accomplished comedian called "Irish Dave" for one full year, crashing as many comedy clubs, festivals, and shows as possible. One part of the plan was at least logical: he was already Irish and already called Dave.

In one year, David went...