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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Author Jack Trout , Al Ries
The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as ....
Release Date 2001/01 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Virtual Teams
Author Richard Bellingham
Learn how to handle the new opportunities and challenges when managing virtual teams that work in different locations and come from different disciplines, departments—even organizations. Create a forum for idea-sharing, solve problems among people from multiple func....
Release Date 2001/01 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change
Author Richard Bellingham
In order to achieve desired transformation in corporate culture, leaders must take a logical and systematic approach to change. The most successful change programs begin with a statement of shared values. Beginning with values ensures that the entire organization pu....
Release Date 2001/01 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Workplace Coaching
Author Daniel A. Feldman
This guide is designed to help people become better managers. When a person is elevated to a management position, it is usually because he or she has done well at mastering the prerequisite technical skills. Coaching employees to develop their skills helps not only ....
Release Date 2001/01 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Knowledge Management
Author Barbara Kivowitz , Kathleen Foley Curley
Knowledge about customers, markets, core processes, how things get done, who knows what - is a core business asset. You may have heard of knowledge management. No longer a buzz word, it's becoming mainstream in companies large and small who want to strengthen core ....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author Gary R. Sisson
On-the-Job Training (OJT) is the single most used training method in organizations today. But it is also the most misused-because very few of those doing OJT are ever trained how to do it. In Hands-On Training Gary Sisson draws on his thirty-five years of experience....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author Henry Sims , Charles Manz
The truly effective leader today must be one who leads others to lead themselves. The rapid pace of change demands fast and flexible responses throughout the organization-there's no time to wait for directives from the top. And the highly-skilled workers so vi....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author John Ullmen , Samuel Culbert
The boss/subordinate relationship is an age-old problem cited in almost every management book and on-the-job survey as an area rife with dishonesty and inefficiency. All too often, subordinates spin the truth for those above while bosses fail to establish the c....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author Project Management Institute
This important book focuses on one of the nine knowledge areas of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®)-2000 Edition--namely, human resource management. Topics are far ranging and are divided into nine chapters ranging from Key Managemen....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author Joe Habraken
The easy-access, task-oriented guide to StarOffice Calc!Absolute basics to advanced data analysisCommunicate your data: Formatting, charting, printing, and Web publishingExchange files with Microsoft Excel usersFor Windows, Linux, Solaris, and other platformsEndorse....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Ten Minute Guide to Performance Appraisals
Author Dale Furtwengler
As a new manager, how do you construct a performance review that will give your employees balanced, encouraging feedback, yet provide them with the critiquing they may need? This book answers that question. It explains the importance of employee appraisals to your s....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Author Marc Bertoneche , Rory Knight
Financial Performance presents the foundation concepts underlying the Senior Executive Programmes the Authors have taught together and separately over the last 15 years in Europe, Asia and North America. These programmes include The Oxford Advanced Management Progr....
Release Date 2000/11 -
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company
Author James Noel , Stephen Drotter , Ram Charan
Together, these authors have more first-hand experience in leadership development and succession planning than you're likely to find anywhere else. And here, they show companies how to create a pipeline of talent that will continuously fill their leadership needs-n....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Windows® CE 3.0 Application Programming
Author Marshall Brain , Nick Grattan
Windows CE 3.0 programming for Pocket PC, handheld PC, and embedded devicesEnterprise computing including COM, DCOM, database access using ADOCE, and Microsoft Message QueueCommunications, including Internet Web access with HTTP, TCP/IP, sockets, serial communicatio....
Release Date 2000/10 -
The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
Author William J. Bernstein
“Bernstein has become a guru to a peculiarly ’90s group: well-educated, Internet-powered people intent on investing well—and with minimal ‘help’ from professional Wall Street.” --Robert Barker, BusinessWeek William Bernstein is one of today’s most unlikely f....
Release Date 2000/10 -
Leadership in Action: For Global managers, A World of Difference
Author Jean Brittain Leslie , Christopher T. Ernst , Jennifer J. Deal , Maxine A. Dalton
Global managers must assess and respond to each management issue through the ever shifting lenses of distances, countries, and cultures.
Release Date 2000/10 -
Leadership in Action: Agent of Change - A Talk with Marshall Goldsmith
Author John Alexander
Successful people are always successful because of many things and in spite of some things, according to coach and consultant Marshall Goldsmith. Helping executives understand this and change ineffective behavior is Goldsmith's challenge.
Release Date 2000/10 -
Accelerating Customer Relationships: Using CRM and Relationship Technologies™
Author Ronald S. Swift
Leverage people, processes, activities, information, and technologies to...Acquire new, more profitable customersBuild long-term customer loyaltyServe every customer as an individualDrive powerful marketing opportunitiesIncrease profits and shareholder value!The sta....
Release Date 2000/09 -
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
Author Patrick Lencioni
In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role i....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Author David P. Norton , Robert Kaplan
The creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and D....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Market Neutral Investing: Long / Short Hedge Fund Strategies
Author Joseph G. Nicholas
In today's volatile markets, managing risk is more important than ever. Investors are looking for downside protection while maintaining good returns--and market-neutral investing has become one of the hottest methods to meet that need. In this book, industry expert....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Author James W. Cortada
Manage all the changes driving your business in the 21st century!In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change, James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and successfully manage....
Release Date 2000/08