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Author Eric Garton , Michael C. Mankins
Managing Your Scarcest ResourcesBusiness leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of ad....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments
Author Hugo Pedro Proença , Michele Nappi , Maria De Marsico
Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments provides a unique picture of the complete ‘in-the-wild’ biometric recognition processing chain; from data acquisition through to detection, segmentation, encoding, and matching reactions against security incidents. Co....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Essentials of Organizational Behavior, 14/e
Author Timothy A. Judge , Stephen P Robbins
For courses in organizational behavior.A streamlined presentation of key organizational behavior conceptsEssentials of Organizational Behavior teaches readers how to communicate and interact within organizations, through real-world scenarios. The text offers compre....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Sharon Toye , Colin Price
Transform your organization into a dynamic catalyst for successAccelerating Performance is not just another “warm and fuzzy” change management book—it's a practical, comprehensive, data-driven action plan for picking up the pace and achieving more. Co-written by o....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Turning Goals into Results (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Author Jim Collins
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty a....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Amparo Díaz-Llairó
How companies can hire the best talent via the web and social networks.Despite current economic uncertainties, many companies are still recruiting, and of course competing to find the best talent. In the digital age, finding the right talent in general, and from so....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Kimberly G. Dellarocca , Mark C. Tibergien
A guide for financial advisors who are ready to embrace new opportunitiesThe Enduring Advisory Firm is a book for the forward-thinking financial advisor. Financial advisement is traditionally a hands-on field, so few in the industry feel threatened by the shifting ....
Release Date 2016/11 -
The Performance of Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
Author Nicola Pearsall
The Performance of Photovoltaic (PV) Systems: Modelling, Measurement and Assessment explores the system lifetime of a PV system and the energy output of the system over that lifetime. The book concentrates on the prediction, measurement, and assessment of the perfo....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Ben Lamorte , Paul R. Niven
Everything you need to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focu....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Judy Shepard , Joe Solmonese
Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Against daunting odds, HRC was instrumental in passing landmark national legislation such as the Matt....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Pravin Durai
Human Resource Management, 2e, presents multifaceted, up-to-date and all-inclusive information which will be useful to students and professionals pursuing human resource management (HRM). The book discusses the subject in lucid language using real-life examples fro....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Michael Alden
Small changes lead to big results that stick5% More presents a painless route to change, with results that can last a lifetime. Whether you want to boost your health, wealth, or wisdom, this book reveals a key technique that makes it stick. You may already know tha....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Ron Robinson
The attacks of 9/11 and The Great Recession affected us all and created a new economy in the process: the New Normal. The result has been greater demands for management to unleash the power within diverse workforces and rapidly respond to market and technology chan....
Release Date 2016/08 -
How Boards Botch CEO Succession
Author Nancy Lane , Robert Hooijberg
The strategic importance of CEO succession is indisputable, and the elements of effective succession planning have long been known. So why do many boards plan poorly for CEO succession when the cost of failure is so high? Research finds three key reasons: Hiring cr....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Achieving Meritocracy in the Workplace
Author Emilio J. Castilla
For their companies to remain competitive and successful, many executives strongly believe that they need to recruit and retain top talent. And to do so, they must foster meritocracies — hiring, rewarding, and promoting the best people, based on their merit. ....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Data-Driven City Management: A Close Look at Amsterdam’s Smart City Initiative
Author Michael Fitzgerald
The opportunity to use data analytics to improve city life is enormous — but cities aren’t yet ready to make the transition. One city leading the way is Amsterdam, which has been working toward becoming a “smart city” for almost 7 years. The....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human
Author Sean Carruthers , Kay Svela Walker , Andy Walker
Rewind Your Biology and Live Like a 20-Year-Old! Edit Your Genes to Live Disease-Free! Find a Parking Space with Your Internet-Connected Brain!Advances in longevity, genetics, nanotech, and robotics will make all this possible! This is not science fiction. This is ....
Release Date 2016/06 -
75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees
Author Paul Falcone
People power your business—and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? Are you just winging it?Every HR executive has a laundry list of things ....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Christina Wodtke
There’s no question that the goal-setting methodology OKR (Objectives and Key Results) helps companies achieve substantial goals—just ask Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter—but some organizations have struggled to make it work. This O’Reilly report explains how companie....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Fatma Pakdil , Karen Moustafa Leonard
A fearsome aspect of management is the performance appraisal. It has become a byword for unfairness and irritation among employees. Some management writers are even proposing in doing away with it. We agree that the current method of appraisal is unsustainable and ....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Essentials of Retirement Planning
Author Eric Robbins
This book provides the quintessential information needed to understand the financial side of the retirement planning coin. Readers will begin by learning about the various plan types available to the employers to offer to their employees. The topics related to comp....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Barbara Annis
Barbara Annis, the world's leading corporate gender specialist, believes that men and women don't understand each other because they don't appreciate the different ways men and women relate, communicate, problem-solve, and make decisions. In this original, solut....
Release Date 2016/04 -
HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback (HBR Guide Series)
Author Harvard Business Review
Take the stress out of giving feedback.To help your employees meet their goals and fulfill their potential, you need to provide them with regular feedback. But the prospect of sharing potentially negative news can be overwhelming. How do you construct your message ....
Release Date 2016/04 -
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction
Author Richard E. Mayer , Ruth C. Clark
The essential e-learning design manual, updated with the latest research, design principles, and examplese-Learning and the Science of Instruction is the ultimate handbook for evidence-based e-learning design. Since the first edition of this book, e-learning has gr....
Release Date 2016/03 -
How Performance Management Is Killing Performance—and What to Do About It
Author Dave Ulrich , M. Tamra Chandler
Rethink, Redesign, Reboot.Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is universally dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives ove....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Author Lorena Martin
A PRACTICAL, REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO ANALYTICS FOR THE 5 MAJOR SPORTS:FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, SOCCER, AND TENNISGAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE!This is the first real-world guide to building and using analytical models for measuring and assessing performance in the fiv....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Author David Livermore
Today’s workforce is more diverse than ever before. But despite new perspectives and talents, the promise of increased innovation rarely materializes. Why are so few businesses seeing results?Studies show that diverse teams are more creative than homogenous ones—bu....
Release Date 2016/02