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A Bad Day for Martha
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Worried because you agreed to MC your friend’s wedding reception…without knowing exactly what to do?
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Every day, Masters of Ceremonies are engaged to host corporate and social events. Since there is little published material about the ins and outs of the profession, even the most experienced MCs run into problems. Veteran Corporate MC Kafui Dey provides a needed guide to the work of a Master of Ceremonies with How To MC Any Event.
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Age Range: 8 – 10 years
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Managing Your Life
Managing Your Life is sequel to Living by Strategy, by the same author. It takes on the task of reducing strategies to the day-to-day actions to achieve the mission, vision, goals and roles of a person. It is about actualizing personal strategic plan to achieve personal, social and vocational development.
In this book, the author dedicates a chapter to each area of your life you have to manage. The chapter headings are pointers to their content in each of the fourteen chapters, which are grouped in Five Parts.
- Part One: Leading and Managing Yourself
- Part Two: Managing Your Private Life
- Part Three: Managing Your Relational Life
- Part Four: Managing Your Public Life
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