Bücher von Steve Robinson

Do you find it hard to start a conversation and even harder maintaining it? Or maybe you feel like speechless and run out of words each time you meet new people? What if tell you that there is nothing wrong with you? What if I tell you that mastering conversations is a skill and you can easily acquire it? Those people you see acting with confidence and smoothly leading conversations are not born with that. In fact, many of the famous conservationists were at one point dead loss in conversations. Look, If you feel like the questions above somehow relate to you, I'd like to warmly welcome you and congratulate you. Lucky you! You have just stumbled onto the best resource to master conversations. In this book, I will walk you through some of the best tips and tricks that helped me personally strike up any conversations with anyone, anytime and anywhere. Here is the deal, In the book, you won't find me talking about some rocket science stuff or very complicated advice. No. I will simply outline some of the techniques I personally used and had so much success with. I will show you how you can easily start a conversation and break that uncomfortable ice. I will then walk you through the best ways to successfully maintain it. And how to make people cling you you like crazy. And most importantly, I will show you how to do all of that, without doing much of the talking and at times, without uttering a single word. If you are ready to change your social life, I am here to help.

The longtime chief marketing officer for Chick-fil-A tells the inside story of how the company turned prevailing theories of fast-food marketing upside down and built one of the most successful and beloved brands in America.

Neighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits. From the recent experience of drawing up parish plans, and attempts to connect these to formal policy frameworks, it identifies lessons for future planning at the neighbourhood scale. It is not a manual on community planning practice, nor does it provide a formula for producing parish or neighbourhood plans. But in the context of the latest 'localism' agenda in England it, first, examines the potential contribution of neighbourhood planning to building a 'collaborative democracy' and, second, asks how much movement towards genuine local partnership, and consensus around development decisions, can be achieved through the rescaling of 'statutory' planning as opposed to expending greater effort locally on building stronger relationships, and generating trust, between 'people and planning'