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The Performance Management Revolution
Author Dresner , Howard ,  
Useful insights into proactively managing business success, from the boardroom to the front lines The Business Performance Management Revolution shows business managers and executives that in order to improve performance of their business, they need to commit to....
Release Date 2007/11 -
Author To Hatch , Denis Desroches , Raef Lawson
Leveraging scorecards to remain competitive and achieve lasting business success Scorecard Best Practices provides best practice guidance on the design and implementation of scorecards. It outlines how organizations use scorecards to create an environment conducive ....
Release Date 2007/11 -
The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators: Updated and Expanded Edition
Author Richard Yamarone
New economic data are reported by the media virtually every trading day. Investors--big or small--have to understand how these reports influence their investments, portfolios, and future sources of income.The new edition of The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indica....
Release Date 2007/11 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Difficult Conversations
Author Gretchen Hirsch
How to tackle sensitive subjects. Covering both professional and personal situations, this guide examines ways to approach and handle conversations that are often put off or avoided altogether. The most comprehensive book of its kind, it provides all the informatio....
Release Date 2007/09 -
The First-Time Manager’s Guide to Performance Appraisals
Author Diane Arthur
Conducting performance appraisals can be a daunting prospect, especially for new managers. With the same brand of accessible and sage advice readers have come to rely on from The First-Time Manager, this helpful guide provides straightforward, useful information tha....
Release Date 2007/08 -
Author Bernard Baumohl
“This is the real deal. Baumohl miraculously breathes life into economic indicators and statistics.”–The Wall Street Journal“This is the most up-to-date guide to economic indicators and their importance to financial markets in print. The coverage of less-reported in....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Brian Cole Miller
Most managers, supervisors, and team leaders realize the importance of team-building, but just can’t seem to find the time in their busy schedules. More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers provides the solution! The book contains 50 all-new exercises th....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Business Planning: A Guide to Business Start-Up
Author David Butler
A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of people each year who consider setting up a small business or becoming self-employed. 'Business Planning' outlines the options and risks involved in setting up a business. The importance of thoroug....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Post-Project Reviews to Gain Effective Lessons Learned
Author Terry Williams
A key component of successful project management is the ability to glean key learnings from the experience throughout the lifecycle of the project, as well as at its conclusion. However, in practice, the lessons learned from a specific project are rarely incorporat....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Productive Performance Appraisals, Second Edition
Author Randi Sachs , Paul Falcone
Productive Performance Appraisalsplan and organize the appraisal sessionset short- and long-term goalselicit the employee's inputhandle problems and "sticky" subjects such as promotions and disagreements.
Release Date 2007/03 -
Transforming Performance Measurement
Author Dean R. Spitzer
You can't accurately gauge your company's performance if you don't know what -- or how -- to measure. It's no secret that you can't improve your organization's performance without measuring it. In fact, every function, unit, process, and the organization....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management
Author Bob Paladino
In Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management, Bob Paladino shares his decades of experience to provide proven, real-world implementation insights from globally recognized and award-winning organizations. You’ll discover what today’s Fortune 100 compani....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs
Author David Parmenter
Breathtaking in its simplicity and profound in its impact, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) distills the balanced scorecard process into twelve logical steps, equipping users with an implementation resource kit that includes questionnaires, worksheets, workshop outl....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Author Andy Smith
Transform your life and achieve your goals with strategies to ensure success
Release Date 2006/08 -
Performance Management: Measure and Improve The Effectiveness of Your Employees
Author Harvard Business School Press
Today’s competitive workplace demands that managers evaluate employee performance, and provide coaching. Performance Management will help managers prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan to increase employee produ....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Beyond Training Ain't Performance Fieldbook
Author Erica J. Keeps , Harold D. Stolovitch
Beyond Training Ain't Performance Fieldbook provides a clear and concise roadmap for anyone wishing to implement human performance principles in their organization. It is a direct answer to fans of the 2004 book, Training Ain't Performance, who asked for implement....
Release Date 2006/04 -
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Performance Appraisal Phrases
Author Peter Gray , John Carroll
Performance reviews, minus the dread.Nobody likes performance appraisals. To make the most of them, though, managers and supervisors can take advantage of this guide, complete with the phrases and words they need to confidently conduct clear, objective performance r....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance
Author VINH Q. TRAN
A comprehensive look at hedge fund performance issuesIn Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance, Dr. Vinh Tran gives readers the information they need to construct an efficient hedge fund portfolio based on their own level of knowledge. From evaluating hedge funds to pick....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Improving Employee Performance Through Appraisal and Coaching
Author Donald L. Kirkpatrick
Author Donald Kirkpatrick is one of the leading voices on human resources and training and development. For more than forty years, Kirkpatrick’s four-level performance evaluation model has been the standard throughout the world, and has revolutionized the way....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Keeping Employees Accountable for Results: Quick Tips for Busy Managers
Author Brian Cole Miller
All managers want to hold their employees accountable for results, but few know how. Moving beyond the far-from-ideal annual performance review -- which only evaluates what has already occurred, and not what the manager wants to achieve -- Keeping Employees Accounta....
Release Date 2006/01 -
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Italian Phrases, 2nd Edition
Author Gabrielle Euvino
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Italian Phrases, Second Edition, is truly the only Italian phrasebook readers will ever need. It employs language-immersion principles similar to 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian', a distinctly unique approach in Gabri....
Release Date 2005/07 -
2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews
Author Paul FALCONE
No managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. Supervisors may know the points they need to get across, but putting them on paper is another matter. This book puts the right words at their fingertips, with ready-to-use....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Succession Planning and Management: A Guide to Organizational Systems and Practices
Author David Berke
The purpose of succession-related practices is to ensure that there are ready replacements for key positions in an organization so that turnover will not negatively affect the organization's performance. CCL first published an annotated bibliography on succession ....
Release Date 2005/06 -
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to German Phrases
Author Susan Shelly , Angelika Korner
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to German Phrases is a handy, informative, and fun guide to all the phrases readers need to enjoy a visit to Germany, complete with the basics of German grammar and syntax and a compact German-English/English-German dictionary.- Nearly 1.7 ....
Release Date 2005/05 -
The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results
Author Ellen Kitzis , Marianne Broadbent
Two converging factors--the ubiquitous presence of technology in organizations and the recent technology downturn--have brought chief information officers (CIOs) to a critical breaking point. They can seize the moment to leverage their expertise into a larger and mo....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Author Brian Tracy
Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains t....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Harry E. Chambers
Micromanagement is one of the most widely condemned managerial sins, and one of the most common employee complaints. It contributes to low morale, high turnover, inefficiency, instability, and lack of continuity in an organization. Being perceived as a microman....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Bernard Baumohl
Every day, stocks, bonds, and currencies bounce wildly in response to new economic indicators. Money managers obsess over those statistics, because they provide crucial clues about the future of the economy and the financial markets.Now you can use these indicators ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Stress-Free Performance Appraisals
Author Madelyn Appelbaum , Sharon Armstrong
This is a one-stop comprehensive overview of the performance appraisal process. It is readable, practical, yet shrewd. Based on research and the actual experiences of many companies, the book will provide you with new ideas and new approaches to an old problem. I re....
Release Date 2003/07