What's making you the CRAZIEST?! Getting organized requires an understanding of how things got so crazy in the first place. It's like putting together a puzzle.This isn't just another organizing tips book. It's not a book just about clearing clutter and organizing your stuff. Living an organized life requires skills. This is what professional organizing and productivity experts, Donna D. McMillan and Karen L. Simon, have been teaching since 1984. Audiences and clients benefit from their Donna-isms and Karen-isms. Along with exercises to reinforce these fun catchphrases, even the most disorganized can improve the way they live and work.This book introduces these -isms and 4 Key Principles to organizing anything - whether it's your space, your time, your information, or your technology. With their Puzzle Pieces, you'll get the hands-on experience of knowing what it feels like to become and stay organized. Solving The Organizing Puzzle gives you the answers to...Stop digging and using the Puppy Dog Method to find thingsKeep clutter from invading your Precious SpaceWard off the Bandits that steal your timeMake Tech Tools work FOR you, not against youCombat Information Overload. Are you ready to stop living in frantic chaos every day and take control? Solving the Organizing Puzzle gives you the missing pieces to put your life together and FINALLY get organized!

Solving the People Puzzle is about management control of an organization and its people: How to get it, how to use it, and how to keep it. Real performance management systems may not be easy, but they are absolutely essential.

Organizations have risk management strategies and procedures in place for disaster recovery, for employee safety, for computer system outages, and more. But not all organizations have an active succession planning strategy in place, which is a risk management plan for the key talent in the organization. But consider thishow much would it benefit your organization to predict leadership openings, using data and discussions in the same way that you predict other business risks? How much would it reduce your external recruiting costs to address future leadership gaps by proactively developing your top talent, with a sense of urgency to avoid or to lessen the negative impact of a predicted leadership opening when it arrives? The truth is that eventually each employee will leave the organization. Therefore, the risk management function of succession planning is the most critical risk management function for organizational success. Effective succession planning is a process of fitting together the puzzle pieces of organizational talent needs and employee career interests, for the purpose of identifying, retaining and developing talent for business success. This book provides the strategy and the puzzle pieces you will need to plan and to implement an active and effective succession program for your organization. Succession management expert Mark Caruso has created easy-to-use plans and tools you can use to create and implement a succession strategy that achieves results and doesnt sit on a shelf. Use the interview guides and the talent meeting agendas in this book to generate rich talent discussions and to make better talent decisions. Refer to the leadership models and ideas in this book to build leadership programs that address the competency needs of your top talent and successors. Make sure you have an effective succession plan in place for the most critical important asset of your companyyour talent!

Exercise your brain with hundreds of colorful, mind-blowing photo puzzles Sudoku, crosswords, word searches, and other brainteasers are wildly popular these days-not just because they're fun, but also because they stimulate the mind and keep it active and healthy. Now there's a new puzzle guide guaranteed to hone your powers of observation and perception. Picture Puzzles For Dummies features 100 full-color puzzles that use sight to enhance your brain capacity as well as keep you amused for hours! This portable guide features 100 fun and challenging photo puzzles Includes "spot the changes" puzzles, "cut-ups", "which one of these is not like the others", and a collection of bewildering "black and white" puzzles Visual puzzles have been proven to strengthen memory, attention span, and creativity, as well as amplify logic, vocabulary, and deduction skills. Whether you're completely new to puzzles or you're a puzzle fanatic, Picture Puzzles For Dummies is the perfect guide to keep you entertained.

In survey after survey, executives list attracting and retaining top talent as their #1 issue. Is it your top concern? While the people puzzle isn’t easy to solve, this book features compelling research, specific personal and client stories, and key perspectives from top business leaders and experts―all in a format that’s easy to read and prompts readers to act. Kathleen Quinn Votaw has years of experience working with CEOs who understand that traditional staffing methods don’t work for today’s companies, and in this book she offers advice on how to: keep “A Players” engaged, boosting retention and reducing turnover; attract people who will thrive in a demanding, uncertain, entrepreneurial environment; and Always Be Cultivating (ABC) by thinking of recruitment as a sales process.

This book provides insights drawn from the authors’ extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning. Practical advice is provided for teachers and lecturers evaluating a range of different formats for varying class sizes. Features: suggests numerous entertaining puzzles designed to motivate students to think about framing and solving unstructured problems; discusses models for student engagement, setting up puzzle clubs, hosting a puzzle competition, and warm-up activities; presents an overview of effective teaching approaches used in Puzzle-based Learning, covering a variety of class activities, assignment settings and assessment strategies; examines the issues involved in framing a problem and reviews a range of problem-solving strategies; contains tips for teachers and notes on common student pitfalls throughout the text; provides a collection of puzzle sets for use during a Puzzle-based Learning event, including puzzles that require probabilistic reasoning, and logic and geometry puzzles.