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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960251003321

Autore

Chivers Barbara

Titolo

A student's guide to presentations : making your presentation count / / Barbara Chivers and Michael Shoolbred

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, : SAGE Publications, 2007

Los Angeles : , : SAGE Publications, , 2007

ISBN

9786612020452

9781282020450

1282020455

9781849202206

1849202206

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Sage essential study skills

Altri autori (Persone)

ShoolbredMichael

Disciplina

808.51024378

Soggetti

Public speaking

Oral communication - Study and teaching (Higher)

Dissertations, Academic

Libros electrónicos.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why do a presentation? -- What makes an effective presentation? -- Improving individual performance -- Presenting as part of a group -- Ten steps for preparing your presentation -- Understanding your audience -- Developing content and structure -- Creating audiovisual aids and handouts -- Using PowerPoint effectively -- Learning from presentations -- Delivering a presentation as part of an interview -- Presenting numbers effectively -- Copyright and plagiarism -- Presentation skills guidelines

Sommario/riassunto

Are you daunted by the prospect of doing a presentation? Or, just keen to improve your presentation skills?    This book will give you a detailed guide to the preparation and delivery of both individual and group presentations. It will take you through all the practical stages necessary to complete a presentation and obtain excellent marks.    Key features include:    ""Real life examples illustrating effective presentation



techniques  ""Helpful tips and illustrations throughout  ""A 10 step guide to preparing your presentation  ""Tips on using powerp

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957170103321

Autore

Bhide Amar <1955->

Titolo

A call for judgment : sensible finance for a dynamic economy / / Amar Bhide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-977957-0

1-282-76340-7

9786612763403

0-19-978144-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

332.0973

Soggetti

Finance - United States

Capitalism - United States

United States Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; I: Ordering the Innovation Game: Beyond Decentralization and Prices; II: Why It Became So; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly neglects these necessary elements for enterprise. In the last several decades finance has become increasingly centralized, distanced, and mechanistic. Instead of many lending officers making judgments about borrowers they know, credit decisions are the output of the models of a few Wall Street