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Essentials of Knowledge Management
Author Bryan Bergeron
Reader-friendly survey of Knowledge Management (KM): a business optimization strategy that identifies, selects, organizes, distills, and packages information essential to the business of a company. Provides best practices in knowledge management, examines enabling t....
Release Date 2003/05 -
Author Edward Winslow
The risk of investing in the stock market has increased remarkably over the last decade. In this period we've seen tremendous volatility in stock prices, a market bubble and its subsequent pop, a parade of corporate scandals, the demise of a leading accounting....
Release Date 2003/05 -
There's No Business That's Not Show Business: Marketing in an Experience Culture
Author Karen Vrotsos , David L. Rogers , Bernd H. Schmitt
Say goodbye to "business as usual"--to succeed today you need show business!How do you market in today's "experience culture"--as conventional advertising grows increasingly ineffective, and customers grow increasingly independent? Companies and brands from Altoids....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier
Author Hal B. Gregersen , J. Stewart Black
Of organizations that seek strategic change, 70% fail. In Leading Strategic Change,now in paperback, leading consultants J. Stewart Black and Hal B. Gregersen examine the core problem: organizations fail to change because individuals fail to change. Black and Greger....
Release Date 2003/06 -
The Truth About Managing People... and Nothing But The Truth
Author Stephen P. Robbins
This isn't just "someone's opinion"...It's the first, definitive, evidence-based guide to effective management. In The Truth About Managing People...and Nothing but the Truth, Robbins delivers principles you can rely on throughout your entire management career--r....
Release Date 2003/06 -
The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook
Author Galen Burghardt
Eurodollar trading volume is exploding, with no end in sight tools phenomenal growth. The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook provides traders and investors with the complete range of current research on Eurodollar futures and options, now the most widely traded....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager
Author Dragan Z. Milosevic
Provides a rare look at the situational framework used in building a project management toolbox. Includes real-world examples of toolboxes used in a variety of project situations.Bridges the gap between theoretical and applied project management.
Release Date 2003/06 -
Packaged Composite Applications
Author Dan Woods
Today's corporate computing environment is too often characterized by silos of data in enterprise applications like ERP, CRM, and supply chain management. Integrating these applications involves hardwiring connections between them, often resulting in a rigid and inefficient IT infrastructure.Packa....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Strategic Innovation: Embedding Innovation as a Core Competency in Your Organization
Author Nancy Tennant Snyder , Deborah L. Duarte
Strategic Innovation offers a flexible, customizable template that managers, executives, and business leaders can use to introduce an effective innovation strategy throughout their organization. The authors, Nancy Tennant Snyder and Deborah L. Duarte, provide the to....
Release Date 2003/06 -
The Global Diversity Desk Reference: Managing an International Workforce
Author Patricia Digh , Anita Rowe , Martin Bennett , Lee Gardenswartz
Written by a team of experts in the field of workplace diversity, The Global Diversity Desk Reference offers a strategic approach for international organizations that want to succeed in the worldwide marketplace by maximizing the potential of all their employees. Yo....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Author Bill Treasurer
Risks are a part of a fully-lived life—and are essential for personal and professional advancement. Right Risk draws on the experiences and insights of successful risk-takers (including the author's own experiences as a daredevil high diver) to detail ten prin....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Power to Change - A Conversation with Bernard M. Bass
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Bernard M. Bass, the distinguished professor emeritus of organizational behavior at the State University of New York at Binghamton, is a leading authority on transformational leadership, a term introduced in 1978 by leadership studies pioneer James McGregor Burns. ....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Leadership in Action - Tough Going - Learning from Experience the Hard Way
Author Mary Lynn Pulley , Russ S. Moxley
No one would ever choose to experience a hardship, but leaders say that difficult times are often key events in their development. Hardships can make people more aware of their values, their aspirations, and themselves. Here's a look at six types of hardship events....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Leadership in Action: Reader Forum - Perceptions Make a Difference in Leadership
Author John Admire
Leaders develop various perceptions about people that may be both negative and positive. These perceptions, true or false, influence the effectiveness of leaders and the performance of their followers.
Release Date 2003/06 -
Mirage of Global Markets: How Globalizing Companies Can Succeed as Markets Localize, The
Author David Arnold
Why do even the best companies struggle to become as profitable in international markets as they are at home? Because they've fallen for the "mirage" of a truly global market. In fact, the world is comprised of hundreds of intensely local markets that are becoming ....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Ruthless Execution: What Business Leaders Do When Their Companies Hit the Wall
Author Amir Hartman
Today's business leaders need a radically different skill from their recent predecessors: they must know how to know how to manage through adversity while preparing their companies for a new rebirth of success. In Ruthless Execution, Amir Hartman, author of the bes....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Training As a Business Partner—Business Skills
Author Dave McFeely , Ph.D. , Eric Davis
Becoming a business partner with an organization is quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception for workplace learning and performance professionals. But where do you begin to build the credibility and expertise to truly participate at the partner level in a....
Release Date 2003/07 -
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 -
Franchising: Pathway to Wealth Creation
Author Sue Birley , Robert M. Rosenberg , Stephen Spinelli
Franchising: Pathway to Wealth Creation is franchising as true entrepreneurship, for every potential franchisor and franchisee ready to generate large-scale wealth. Authors include the entrepreneur who built the world's largest system of Jiffy Lube franchises, the ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Author Laura Gladstone , David Gladstone
In his classic bestseller Venture Capital Handbook, leading venture capitalist David Gladstone showed thousands of companies how to get funding and work with early stage investors. Now, in his revision of the classic, Venture Capital Investing, he looks at venture c....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Special Edition Using® Microsoft® CRM
Author John Gravely , Laura Brown
A sophisticated yet easy-to-use software program, Microsoft CRM handles the full range of Sales and Customer Service functions, and allows the user to access key customer and sales information from Microsoft Outlook and the Web. It is designed for rapid deployment, ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Author Harvard Business School Press
Negotiation--whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract--is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation. ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Managing Creativity and Innovation
Author Harvard Business School Press
Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation.
Release Date 2003/08 -
Leadership in Action: What Women Want: Comparing Leadership Challenges in Europe and the US
Author Joan Tavares , Aparna Bhandary , Patricia Ohlott
As European companies strive to provide more in the way of support for talented women managers who deserve to rise up the career ladder, they have little to go by to identify the major obstacles faced by these managers and to respond to their developmental needs. No....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership
Author Cresencio Torres
The challenge that leaders must accept and meet to break the spiraling cycle of disillusionment with leaders in every aspect of our lives—business, government, religion, and education— is to identify this malfeasance and determine what can be done about it. ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
Author Eli Schragenheim , David J. Anderson
"This book does a good job of describing the methods employed at Sprintpcs.com ... over 250 people practicing Feature Driven Development and reporting their progress to me at the monthly operations review." --Scott B. Relf, Chief Marketing Officer, Sprint PCS"A trem....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide
Author Ph.D. David A. Taylor
“An excellent summary of the state of supply chain management going into the twenty-first century. Explains the essential concepts clearly and offers practical, down-to-earth advice for making supply chains more efficient and adaptive. Truly a survival guide for exe....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Dr. Marlene Caroselli
In an age of ethical decay at organizations of every type, a call is being sounded for accountabiliy. Accordingly, companies must educate their employees and executives regarding acceptable practice. The Business Ethics Activity Book presents an array of provocativ....
Release Date 2003/09