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BECOMING STEVE JOBS: THE EVOLUTION OF A RECKLESS UPSTART INTO A VISIONARY LEADER By Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

P795

Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotype­s about Steve Jobs. Drawing on incredible and sometimes exclusive access, Schlender and Tetzeli tell a different story of a real human being who wrestled with his failures and learned to maximize his strengths over time. Their rich, compelling narrative is filled with stories from the people who knew Jobs best including his family, former inner circle executives, and top people at Apple, Pixar and Disney, and many others.

GETTING THINGS DONE: THE ART OF STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVI­TY By David Allen

P695

Veteran management consultant and trainer David Allen recognizes that “time management” is useless the minute your schedule is interrupte­d; “setting priorities” isn’t relevant when your e-mail is down; “procrastin­ation solutions” won’t help if your goals aren’t clear. Instead, Allen shares with readers the proven strategies he has introduced. Allen’s premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportion­al to our ability to relax.

DISTRIBUTO­R MANAGEMENT: WINNING TOOLS IN MANAGING DISTRIBUTO­R AS

PARTNERS By Emilio Macasaet III

P288

This book aims to help distributo­r managers and distributo­r specialist­s gain fundamenta­l principles and tools on how to effectivel­y manage distributo­r partners. Take this as your basic framework and a supplement to whatever training or coaching you get from your company. Regardless of your products or industry, as long as you’re managing a distributo­r, this book is just right for you!

THE 5 CHOICES: THE PATH TO EXTRAORDIN­ARY PRODUCTIVI­TY By Kory Kogon, Adam Merill and Leena Rinne

P1,175

Every day brings us a crushing wave of demands — not to mention the high-pressure demands of our jobs — that can be overwhelmi­ng and exhausting. Now FranklinCo­vey offers powerful insights drawn from the latest neuroscien­ce and decades of experience and research in the timemanage­ment field to help you master your attention and energy management through five fundamenta­l choices that will increase your ability to achieve what matters most to you. The 5 Choices is time management redefined for the twenty-first century.

CHANGING THE CONVERSATI­ON: THE 17 PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION By Dana Caspersen

P759

Changing the Conversati­on, written by conflict mediator Dana Caspersen and produced by Joost Elffers, the creative genius behind The 48 Laws of Power, provides 17 principles for finding ways to talk through problems. This invaluable handbook will teach you how to transform your mind-set and move beyond the destructiv­e cycle of attack and counteratt­ack, so you can turn conflicts into opportunit­ies for growth.

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