Personal success program staff (2 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition; "Executive" Moroc. Lot of 2. 1960 vintage "Executive" Morocco-Grain leatherette booklets in the Personal Success Program. Good. Unmarked. All published by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, New York. Book 1) How to Put Your Ideas Across. 1960. Good. 48 pp. 5.5x8.25". Book 2) How to Keep Well-Informed. 1961. Good. 48 pp. 5.5x8.25". All volumes in pebble-grain faux-leather card wrappers, one saddle tan & one dark green, w/ vertical gold gilt title lettering & the geometric program emblem, light edge rubbing, minor corner wear; original stapled bindings secure. Moderate localized water staining along the lower page margins of the initial & rear leaves, interior text readable throughout. Duotone green & b&w illustrations. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: How to Put Your Ideas Across and How to Keep Well-Informed are two booklets from the Personal Success Program, a monthly mail-order continuing education series published by Nelson Doubleday for business professionals in the early 1960s. The first, from 1960, covers rhetorical framing, committee meeting dynamics, visual aids and tactics for gaining executive approval. The second, from 1961, sets out methods for filtering daily news, scanning trade journals and managing information intake. Two-color green and monochrome line illustrations run through the text of both booklets. The first booklet works through organizing spoken remarks and holding attention in a conference room; the second works through building personal reference files and screening specialized reports. In-house editorial staff and business consultants at Nelson Doubleday wrote the series. The two booklets record early 1960s American corporate managerial culture and post-war self-improvement publishing. …