Books published by HarperCollins Focus

The Sales Compensation Handbook provides the information and tools needed to design and implement top-notch sales compensation programs. This authoritative reference from experts at Towers Perrin provides guidance on all aspects of compensating salespeople.

Maximize profits! Create shareholder wealth! These are the values driving many businesses today. Whipped into a frenzy by the single-minded pursuit of these goals, companies often end up sacrificing good judgment, value, and, ultimately, the very success they were striving to achieve. This sad trend can be reversed with Value Driven Management. Value driven management is aimed at creating and sustaining value over time.

Who says customer service guides have to be boring? Learn from one of the most entertaining and instructive customer service books ever written: Aesop's fables.

Raising Gifted Kids will help parents understand and cope with the obstacles they face in raising a gifted child, and help them make the best choices for their son's or daughter's growth and happiness. Filled with proven solutions to the unique challenges of raising gifted kids, this book is the powerful yet accessible resource parents have long wished for.

Companies are increasingly looking for ways to motivate and develop their employees' emotional intelligence. This book presents trainers and coaches with 50 innovative exercises to be used for either individuals or groups. The activities found in the book are grouped according to the various core competencies associated with Emotional Intelligence.

For more than 200 years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been a paragon of world-class leadership, excelling in the areas of motivation, training, and management. Semper Fi -- which since its hardcover publication has become a best-selling, business leadership classic -- shows readers how to adapt these proven practices for their own organizations.

Your success at any management level depends largely on your ability to deal with other people. In this business-oriented approach to interpersonal relationships, learn how to assess various behavior patterns and how to use that knowledge to capitalize on your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and get the results you want from others.

What Every New Manager Needs to Know gives readers the skills they need to excel in their new responsibilities, such as managing the relationship between individual and team performance, making key people decisions like hiring, coaching and evaluating, developing budgets, and mastering the skills of project management.

Can manners (or lack of them) really kill a career? Absolutely. In an era when companies are competing on the basis of service, manners are much more than a social nicety -- they're a crucial business skill. In fact, good manners are good business. This no-nonsense ''manners reference'' refreshes readers on everyday etiquette and makes sure they're on their best behavior.

Jonah has loved Stormi since she literally dropped from the sky during a tornado when they were young. But Jonah is stuck in the friend zone. On top of everything, he has severe scoliosis and seizures, whereas Stormi is beautiful and talented. But she also has the ability to know things before they happen, a dangerous gift within their small town.

In Bailee Madison and Stefne Miller's novel, Losing Brave, seventeen-year-old Payton Brave is desperate to uncover what happened to her twin sister, who disappeared one year ago. As she begins to question everything around her, Payton becomes caught in a mystery that goes deeper than she ever imagined.

You have an exciting new project to pitch, an inspired speech to give, or an important email to send. And only 8 seconds to get heard, remembered, and results. Ready, set, go!

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Stop relying on Internet traffic and marketing leads. Take control of your prospect pipeline today!

You don't have to just learn to live with "problem people" (or fire them!). Transform the troublesome into the tremendous!

Kids change our lives, adding joy but draining bank accounts. Learn from moms who have successfully become their family's Chief Financial Officer!

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A lifetime of cooking knowledge, passed down from generations of food lovers. Features classic go-to recipes and an elegant design.

You know all about match making when it comes to finding the right person. But do you need a match maker to help you find the right job?

In this steampunk-flavored YA novel by Evangeline Denmark, Grey has a secret the Chemists who rule her town can never know. But when her best friend is taken for punishment, Grey risks everything---and finds herself in a world hidden within a curio cabinet, where porcelain and clockwork people are real, and her secret has far-reaching consequences.