No-nonsense guidance to a crucial set of personal career skills. Can table manners make or break a megamerger? Can a faxing faux-pas derail a promising business relationship? Can an improper introduction cost you a client? Can manners (or lack of them) really kill a career? Absolutely. In an era when companies are competing on the basis of service, manners are much more than a social nicety — they're a crucial business skill. In fact, good manners are good business. This no-nonsense “manners reference” refreshes readers on everyday etiquette and makes sure they're on their best behavior. It provides quick guidance on such pertinent and timely topics as: * telephone and e-mail etiquette * table manners *grooming and business dress * written communications * gift giving * resumes and interviews * making introductions * public speaking * networking, and more.

"Manners and Mischief is a cohesive, stimulating volume. Reading these essays and the editors' enlightening introduction was a joy: I learned a great deal, smiled and laughed with uncommon regularity, and marveled at the quality of this remarkable collection." -William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind "This book is full of fascinating insights. Well-written and often witty, it captures a detailed snapshot of Japanese society in the early 21st century. I would say this is the most insightful book on modern Japan I have read in years." -Liza Dalby, anthropologist and novelist

Meet the personification of todays new etiquette, Mr. Social Grace weekly advice columnist in print, radio and online as he reveals the basics of good manners for everyday urban life. He offers a new interpretation of good manners that can serve as a powerful tool to help twenty-first century people get along better. Presented in answers to real-life quandaries is Social Graces philosophy of etiquette.

SRI Rahayu Suroso, born in Yogyakarta 28 December 1945, is The Head of Carissa Educational Institution in Palembang and active as a speaker in the South Sumatra Government Training, various government and private institutions including banks such as Mandiri Bank and BCA. Sri Rahayu Suroso has also filled the ethics and beauty rubric in Daily Sriwijaya Post and Palembang Smart FM Radio. The Power of Ethics by Sri Rahayu Suroso is a guide to etiquette in daily life. The goal is to be right in various situations so that other people feels comfortable and we are also feeling the same. By being right will increase one's self-worth value wherever they are. This book to explain about effective communication, daily attitude with other people, ethics of talking on the telephone and so on. As completeness it is also conveyed the ethics of dress and table manner.

From breaking the ice at a business seminar to hosting a successful cocktail party, Power Shmoozing is packed with extremely useful techniques and real world information about how to talk to people, what to say, and how to keep in touch with them to cultivate productive long-term business relationships. For every business person who wants to move through the world with a lot more confidence.

In preparing a book of etiquette for ladies, I would lay down as the first rule, "Do unto others as you would others should do to you." You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be impolite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us; a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; there can be no _true_ politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility.

Whitmore takes a fresh and contemporary look at how to use good manners for career success.