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Managing just one person can be difficult enough, but pulling together a team of people can be tricky even for experienced leaders. This book helps you create an effective team that can really get things done. It helps you form a good team in the first place, deal with tensions that may arise, communicate well, and motivate team members towards your overall goal. Most of us have to work with other people for some or most of our day. If you're a project manager in particular, you'll need to be able to pull together a team from different areas of your business and help everyone work together to

Work environment. --- Teams in the workplace.

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Too many meetings, never enough decisions. Badly-managed meetings are a waste of time, and often they just don't need to happen at all. If you have to chair or arrange meetings, this book will help you to make sure that they're useful and helpful exchanges of information rather than pointless shouting matches. Manage Meetings Positively offers practical solutions for many situations, including keeping the meeting on schedule, making sure decisions are reached, and dealing with conflict if tempers rise. Whatever your line of work, this book will help you make meetings more of a pleasure than a

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Industrial relations. --- Managing your boss.

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Being able to make good decisions is an essential workplace skill. Whatever your job, there will be times when you need to analyse an issue, get to grips with it, and decide on the best course of action. This book helps you do that effectively, even if time is tight. Practical and helpful, Make effective decisions will help you get to the heart of the matter, ask the right questions, avoid procrastination, and cope with pressure so that you reach the best solution possible, every time. Ideal for busy managers at all levels, this book helps you get to grips with a key skill: decision-making. Pa

Decision making. --- Choice (Psychology)

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Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cinemas or definitive cultural boundaries. Case studies illuminate the ambiguously gendered star persona of Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress Brigitte Lin, the fictional realism of director Jia Zhangke, the arcane process of selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and the intimate connection between cinema and identity in Hirokazu Koreeda's Afterlife (1998). Considering films, their audiences and tastemaking institutions, the book argues that cosmopolitan cinema does not smooth over difference, but rather puts it on display.

Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History. --- History and criticism --- East Asia. --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Cosmopolitanism --- Cosmopolitisme --- Cinéma --- East --- Asia