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Successful managers work like coaches, assessing each person’s strengths and weaknesses and developing the best strategy to get the job done. The 4-Dimensional Manager shows how managers can become more effective by using the DiSC system. “DiSC” stands for four communication styles: Dominance (direct and decisive); Influence (optimistic and outgoing); Supportive (sympathetic and cooperative); and Conscientious (concerned and correct). In the book’s first part, readers assess their own style, the style of the people they manage, and the style of their organization. The second part shows how to choose the most effective style (or combination of styles) for any situation, focusing on seven key areas: delegating, decision making, problem solving, motivating, complimenting, giving constructive feedback, and developing skills. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

Great bargain for a great book!
I am using this book for work-related purposes. The company bought copies for all of the managers, but I wanted my own. Lo and behold, I found this on Amazon. The price was great and the seller sent the book almost immediately. Now I have my own copy. Thanks so much, Amazon.

Very helpful/insightful book
This is a rather good book that helps to understand the different types of behavior people have when dealing with external environment. And also helps managers to deal with their subordinates more effectively.

Very confusing approach
This book is based on the DiSC model - one that says people approach a situation from one of four possible "styles"-

D = Dominance - Eager to take charge and take action
I = Influence - Socializes and tries to build consensus based on what others feel
S = Supportiveness - Will support/help anyone, but does not show initiative, lacks self-confidence
C = Conscientiousness - detail oriented to a fault, suffers from analysis paralysis, perfectionist

One way this book is inconsistent is that it the early chapters it makes it clear that people shouldn't be labeled with a style, since everyone can respond with any style, depending on the situation.In fact, it states that:

When one feels one is in an unfavorable situation, but that one has power to act, one uses "D"
When one feels one is in a favorable situation, and that one has power to act, one uses "I"
When one feels one is in a favorable situation, but that one has no power to act, one uses "S"
When one feels one is in an unfavorable situation, and that one has no power to act, one uses "C"

But many people will answer those questions consistently based on whether they are optimistic or not, and whether they have self-confidence or not.Starting in chapter six, the book also begins to label people making generalizations about how to manage each type of person.

It begins to sound a bit like Marcus Buckingham's "Strengths" books (which I recommend instead of this book), saying your style is your strength and you should often play to it.But based on the definitions, it would seem like better advice would be how to reframe the situation to apply a more appropriatestyle.For example, in most high-risk situations, one needs to respond more like a "C" than anything else.Unfortunately in no part of this book did it talk about reframing the situation to encourage a style that would fit better.About the closest it came, was suggesting that some assignments are geared more for certain types (again, contradicting the earlier premise of not labeling people).

Great resource
This book is great. I took the DiSC profiler and been improving the way to deal with daily situations. This is practical in job and in life.

DiSC users reference
This is a great little book both for those new to DiSC and old time users of this tool. Great tips for Managers who want to adapt their management style to better communicate with their employees. Tips on giving feedback, problem solving, delegating etc. Well worth the money. ... Read more

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St. Joseph-Baptist Hospital, Tampa, FL. Covers the basics in wound care from A to Z. The most common wound types are illustrated with color plates, shown at the beginning of the text. Numerous exhibits aid clinicians in assessment, documentation, and daily treatment of wounds. Authors are enterostomal therapy nurses. Softcover. DNLM: Skin Ulcer--Handbooks. ... Read more

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Not Bad, but...
The colored photos are in the back of the book, where the same photos in black and white are sprinkled throughout the text making it a bit aggreviating to go back and forth throughout the book.Otherwise, I think it is a great summary of the information needed for wound care. ... Read more

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Features: Living Raw Food / Sarma Melngailis,Raw Expert Q + A / Matt Monarch & Angela Stokes-Monarch, Who's Afraid of Sea Vegetables? / Julie Kalivretenos, Finding Your Sweet Spot / Cherie Soria, Fit to Travel / Scott Brown, Simple Al Fresco Recipes / Omid Jaffari, Traveling Raw / Matthew Kenney, Back to Raw School / Sheree Clark, Cool Crowd Pleasers / Shernell Cooke, Fork In The Road / Rebecca Carlson, Raw Teacher + Restaurant Guide, Peta, and more! ... Read more

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purely delicious
Love the magazine, full of lovely photographs and fab ideas for me to try in my quest to be 'raw'.Very enjoyable read.Wish we had something of similar quality and standard here in Oz.

Delicious
Love the magazine, full of lovely photographs and fab ideas for me to try in my quest to be 'raw'.Very enjoyable read.Wish we had something of similar quality and standard here in Oz.

Loving it.
My girlfriend gave me a subscription to Purely Delicious in the fall. So far both the fall issue and this new issue are super!
I am learning so much and have been making slow but steady improvements to my diet. This magazine is downright sexy.
I'm now a HUGE fan!

I'd love to see more recipes that don't need a dehydrator. Or tips to use the dehydrator, I haven't quite figured that out yet.
PS. We have our first batch of sprouts on the counter.

Beautiful. Just Beautiful!
I received this magazine as a gift and found it to be extremely elegant and well written without being feminine. I am extremely interested in learning about raw and appreciated seeing a strong male presence in the magazine. My girlfriend has been telling me for six months or so about raw, but it wasn't until she bought me this magazine that I finally connected the dots. I am not 100% raw yet but am really interested in learning more. The recipes in this issue are really great especially the pizza and pumpkin cheesecake.

I'm impressed. Don't change a thing. I look forward to the next issue, and the one after that!

For hard core raw-foodists
Great things about Purely Delicious:
+ Raw food recipes
+ Helpful reviews
+ Good ideas for the raw foodist.
+ Almost no advertising

Things they could do better:
- Shiny, glossy pages very hard to read
- Artsy color combinations between backgrounds and fonts make reading this very unpleasant. (Blender review was black text on dark red background)
- Some ingredients difficult to find: sunflower butter, charged water, yacon syrup, Irish moss gel, etc
- Odd size, Pages are very large so you can't store them with your other magazines
- Very thin, not many pages or content
- Would be nice if they had a column explaining what some of the less common ingredients were.
- Not recycleable, not for the eco-conscious.

I was so excited to find a raw foods magazine that I bought it before looking at it. When I got home I was disappointed. Many pages were hard to read, for example, the blender review was typed in black font on a dark red background. Further, the pages are very shiny making them hard to read. The combination of the shiny light reflecting pages and the odd color combinations gave me a headache when I read it.

If you can get past the dreadful colors of the pages, the recipes are great - for a hard core raw foodist. I'm not a hard core raw foodist, but my summer diet is mostly raw, I keep up with current food trends and I wouldn't know where to find some of this stuff. Beginners and occasional raw foodists would be baffled. Purely delicious does not even tell you where to find this stuff.

Overall, this is not the worst magazine I've ever read, but it is not what I hoped for. ... Read more

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Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with communication difficulties, and is of growing interest to those responsible for providing support and services. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of Active Support and how it can be used in practice, based on the theory and research underpinning the methods involved. They describe how to engage people with intellectual disabilities in meaningful activity as active participants, and look at the communication style needed to foster successful enabling relationships between carers and the people they are supporting. Highlighting the main issues for those trying to put Active Support into practice, they explain what is needed on a day-to-day basis to support the implementation, improvement and maintenance of the approach, along with possible solutions for the difficulties they may encounter.Finally, they look at how to integrate Active Support with other person-centred approaches, drawing on examples from various organisations and individual case studies. The definitive text on active support, this book will be of interest to anyone professionally concerned with the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities, including psychologists, behaviour specialists, social workers, care managers, occupational therapists and inspectors and regulators of services. ... Read more