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As sales managers are encouraged to manage increasingly global territories, the art of selling becomes complicated and the rules of negotiation more diverse. This absorbing book considers the many facets of cross-cultural sales management, to provide salespeople and managers with a guide to making the most of the global sales force. Topics covered include:

* cross-cultural negotiations
* hiring, training, motivating and evaluating the international sales force
* Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
* sales territory design and management.

Included in the book are ten international case studies designed to give sales students, salespeople and their managers an explanation of diverse cultures and the dilemmas, situations and opportunities that arise when selling across borders.

The experienced international authors have brought together the most up-to-date information on the global marketplace - a subject neglected by many other texts. While still tackling sales from a managerial perspective, its cross-cultural approach makes it essential reading for those wishing to succeed in global sales.

There are no stuffy theories here. Instead, the book jumps energetically between film references from the Wizard of Oz, Alfie and Superman to the leadership styles of World-Cup winning coaches Alf Ramsay and Clive Woodward. Speckled throughout are examples of ‘Liquid Leaders’, from people you know – like James Timpson, head of the UK-wide group of key-cutting and shoe repair outlets – to people we don’t know, including Fergus Findlay of Barnardo’s in Ireland. This book offers you a joyous diversion that pushes home important theory effortlessly.  It ends with practical exercises designed to galvanise the reader into identifying how they need to change, as well as a very useful annotated bibliography.

Both of Damian’s books have been credited with helping people build their own houses, fight cancer and run marathons, so come on and be a fellow Liquid Leader!

HOW TO $AV€ 5000: REDUCE YOUR OUTGOINGS WITHOUT REDUCING YOUR LIFESTYLE, as the name suggests, is a book that will teach you how to keep more of the money you earn, without making any cutbacks, just changing some spending habits.

It IS possible to maintain your current lifestyle, within reason, and spend less money at the same time. This book will teach you ways to spend smarter. By following the techniques, you will change your spending habits and save thousands each year. Better still, each year’s savings carries forward into the next year, so you could save not just €5,000 but tens of thousands of euro over time!

For each major category of household expenditure, the book suggests simple, practical money-saving tips, based on key principles, including:

• Shop around / do price comparisons

• Think long-term / total cost of use / ownership

• Think of cumulative, not one-off, savings

• Pay only for what you need – needs analysis

• Track your spending / monitor trends and changes

• Buy in bulk

• Avoid brands

• Time your purchases for special / seasonal offers

• Plan your shopping / avoid impulse buying

• Learn to DIY – food / cooking gardening, housekeeping, building repairs etc

• Use vouchers / coupons / reward points etc

And the system really works! The author, James O’Donovan is now on his fourth year of savings. He shares his experience – and the results of his savings – with you in this timely book.

From award-winning artist Atsuhisa Okura comes Twelve, an all-new manga fantasy tale of star-crossed warriors and fallen angels waging an epic war across a multidimensional universe.

Twelve opens as Aquarius becomes the first in a line of a dozen heroic defenders who attempt to vanquish a demonic foe whose untold powers threaten the survival of a once-placid civilization.

The countdown has begun...

Using bold G-pen strokes minimalist screen toning, Okura (illustrator of WIRED Magazines award-winning How Manga Conquered America feature article) has set a lofty new standard for manga storytelling with Twelve.