Alison Green

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

Ask a Manager

how to navigate clueless colleagues, lunch-stealing bosses, and the rest of your life at work

Ask a manager

Jerry Hauser

"Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priorityA nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world. Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: Managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; Setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars. Offers nonprofit managers a clear guide to the most effective management skills: addressing performance problems and dismissing staffers who fall short Shows how to address performance problems, dismiss staffers who fall short, and the right way to exercising authority Give guidance for managing time wisely and offers suggestions for staying in sync with yourboss and managing up This important resource contains 41 resources and downloadable tools that can be implemented immediately"--

The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting Results

Managing to Change the World

Imagine a world where everyone is kind - how can we make that come true? With gorgeous pictures by a host of the world's top illustrators, Kindis a timely, inspiring picture book about the many ways children can be kind, from sharing their toys and games to helping those from other countries feel welcome.The book is endorsed by The Gruffaloillustrator Axel Scheffler, and one pound from the sale of each printed copy will go to the Three Peas charity, which gives vital help to refugees from war-torn countries.

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The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Getting Results

The new King is searching for an animal to feature on his royal crest! All the animals think they will be best, except for elephant, who is too shy to put herself forward. However, an unexpected guest shows everyone's true colours and who is really the best beast.

The Very Best Beast

One night, a rabbit allows a frightened duck, mouse, and lamb to squeeze into his house in order to hide from a fox that each animal believes chased after him.

The Fox in the Dark

Nick Denchfield

Discover the secret world of the mermaids in their spectacular pop-up palace. Splash in Princess Sandy's bubble jacuzzi, and swim around the shipwreck with your dolphin. Just don't forget to be back for the Magical Mermaid Ball.

A Pop-up Book

My Mermaid Princess Palace

A hilarious new story with fabulous pictures by an internationally acclaimed illustrator. Captain Quack and his loveable yak deliver the post to the mountains and back. At least, that's the idea. But Yak loses all the post, and keeps picking up friends instead. Stranded baa-lambs; lost chickens; even some hitch-hiking rabbits - Yak stacks them all up on his back, till he surely can't carry any more. Or can he? Join Quack and Yak on their brilliantly bonkers journey, and find out just how much you can stack on the back of a yak.

What Can You Stack on the Back of a Yak?

Illustrations by prominent illustrators accompany this story on how to make the world a better place through kindness, with an emphasis on welcoming refugees.

With gorgeous pictures by a host of top illustrators, KIND is an inspiring picture book about the many ways children can be kind, from sharing their toys and games to making those from other countries feel welcome. Fifty pence from the sale of each printed copy goes to Three Peas, a charity which gives help to refugees from war-torn countries.

A book about kindness

Adam Stower

Welcome to the Top Secret diary of Professor Gideon Potts, Monster Catcher to the King. He has embarked on an intrepid voyage: through harsh deserts, sodden rainforests and into the depths of the deepest ocean. WARNING! His perilous quest is not for the faint-hearted: expect snot hammocks, severed fingers, exploding boils and frozen pants. Follow his dangerously funny journey as he searches for the greatest monster of them all ... A hugely spectacular novelty book with pop-ups that lift off the page. There's so much to discover: flaps to lift, letters to open, field notes to explore and even a minature 'flick book' to play with! "An amazing pop-up feast of monsters and adventure" - tBk magazine, Editor's Choice "So much to explore on every page with booklets, envelopes, maps and pop-up monsters. Funny and great fun, this picture book has mass appeal for inquisitive kids of all ages" - The New Books Christmas Guide to Children's Books

The Diary of a Monster Catcher

Imagine a world where everyone is kind-how can we make that come true? With gorgeous pictures by a host of top illustrators, Kind is a timely, inspiring picture book about the many ways children can be kind, from sharing their toys and games to helping those from other countries feel welcome.

An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators. In this ground-breaking book Alison Green provides the first critical history of visual artists curating exhibitions. The artist emerges as someone who carries a special responsibility for critiquing art's institutions, brings considerable creativity to the craft of making exhibitions and, through experimentation, has changed the way exhibitions are understood to be authored and experienced. But the book also establishes a curious ubiquity to the artist-curated exhibition. Rather than being exceptional or rare, artists curate all the time and in all kinds of places: in galleries and in museums, in studios, in borrowed spaces such as shopfronts or industrial buildings, in front rooms and front windows, in zoos or concert halls, on streets and in nature. Seen from the perspective of artists, showing is a part of making art. Once this idea is understood, the history of art starts to look very different. 0With extensive explorations of well-known artists such as Daniel Buren, Goshka Macuga, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rosemarie Trockel, Hito Steyerl, Andy Warhol and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, this book will change the way readers think about and look at exhibitions.

Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium

When Artists Curate

Axel Scheffler

An illustrated collection of more than one hundred nursery rhymes, interspersed with vignettes about Mother Goose and her three young goslings, Boo, Lucy, and Small.

Mother Goose's Storytime Nursery Rhymes

Traditional nursery rhymes, together with original stories about Mother Goose and her goslings. Suggested level: junior.

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