To make matters worse, Lincoln, who was elected by a minority of the popular vote, was viewed by his own advisors as nothing more than a gawky, second-rate country lawyer with no leadership experience. What Lincoln did to become our most honored and revered president is history, how he can help you to run your organization is not.Lincoln On Leadership is the first book to examine Abraham Lincoln's diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied to today's complex world. You'll discover why you should:* Seize the initiative and never relinquish it* Wage only one war at a time* Encourage risk-taking while providing job security* Avoid issuing orders and instead - request, imply, or make suggestions* Once in a while, let things slip, unbenowst-like...and much much more.

    Tata, the patriarch of the biggest industrial house in India, comparable in stature to Forbes, Rockefeller or Du Pont. He pioneered aviation in India, and presided over the development of the country's steel, cement, truck and vegetable oils industry.

    And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe some other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns." It's the story of how Walton parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, he never lost the common touch. Here Walton tells his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements, Walton shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style."Here is an extraordinary success story about a man whose empire was built not with smoke and mirrors, but with good old-fashioned elbow grease."

    In this new edition, Margaret Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists for free. It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.This book will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape. You'll learn that:- Relationships are what matters--even at the subatomic level - Life is a vast web of interconnections where cooperation and participation are required - Chaos and change are the only route to transformationIn this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.

    Part entrepreneur, part enfant terrible, Gates has become the most powerful -- and feared -- player in the computer industry, and arguably the richest man in America. In Hard Drive, investigative reporters Wallace and Erickson follow Gates from his days as an unkempt thirteen-year-old computer hacker to his present-day status as a ruthless billionaire CEO. More than simply a "revenge of the nerds" story though, this is a balanced analysis of a business triumph, and a stunningly driven personality. The authors have spoken to everyone who knows anything about Bill Gates and Microsoft -- from childhood friends to employees and business rivals who reveal the heights, and limits, of his wizardry. From Gates's singular accomplishments to his equally extraordinary brattiness, arrogance, and hostility (the atmosphere is so intense at Microsoft that stressed-out programmers have been known to ease the tension of their eighty-hour workweeks by exploding homemade bombs), this is a uniquely revealing glimpse of the person who has emerged as the undisputed king of a notoriously brutal industry.

     An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies—and their stocks—perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

    This guide fuses the wisdom of the East and West, and explores how ancient Asian battle strategies and cultural mindsets can be applied today to achieve mental toughness and winning business techniques.

    Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core—Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and inspiring.

    Johnson rose from the welfare rolls of the Depression to become the most successful Black businessman in American history; the founder of Ebony, Jet, and EM magazines; and a member of the Forbes 400. Like the man himself, this autobiography is brash, inspirational, and truly unforgettable.

    Chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is the most powerful person in the computer industry and the youngest self-made billionaire in history. His company's DOS and Windows programs are such universal standards that more than nine out of ten personal computers depend on Microsoft software. Under the "Microsoft Everywhere" rallying cry, Gates intends to expand his company's worldwide dominance to office equipment, communications, and home entertainment. Vivid and definitive, Gates details the behind the scenes history of the personal computer industry and its movers and shakers, from Apple to IBM, from Steve Jobs to Ross Perot. Uncovering the inside stories of the bitter battle for control of the expanding personal computing market, Gates is a bracing, comprehensive portrait of the industry, the company, and the man-- and what they mean for a future where software is everything.

    Thoroughly updated, this new edition includes numerous case studies of actual projects as well as small-scale examples that are ideal for anyone new to real estate development.

    The first publication of the book in 1992 caused up an uproar in the City and beyond, and as a result of it many of the practices identified by Terry Smith have been changed or discontinued. This new edition, with much new material and additional chapters, is equally hardhitting and will once again put accountancy practices under the microscope.

    This book provides information on: the essential concepts of finance, so that you can ask intelligent questions and understand the answers; vital statements and reports; and, auditing - what is measured and how.

    As a long time manager who dealt with organizational issues, growth, personnel matters, finance, and political influences, and one who teaches undergraduate and graduate school courses in management and leadership, I have experienced most of these issues. The author has done a remarkable job in the detail and accuracy of the work. The work is clear and understandable and organized in such as way as to allow easy access to information. To find such a compendium of information in one book instead of many is an additional benefit. Content is also ratified by the collective skills sets the authors bring.I highly recommend this book as a desk reference for anyone in a leadership or management role, and highly recommend it for anyone aspiring to the job. The comprehensive nature of the material in the book provides the foundation for new managers. In addition, the reference material leads readers to many other sources, reducing the need for Internet surfing trying to find information, or visiting the local library. As a graduate school faculty member I would also state for the record that this would be a great textbook. The book is written by practitioners who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. This book is a must read. Well done to all the authors - you have provided a book any manager, supervisor, or teacher should have.

    He went to work for--and learned from--savvy businessmen who had made it from the ground up. Blending their wisdom with his own entrepreneurial gifts, McCormack made a stunningly successful comeback. Here he shares his inspiring story as well as the lessons he's learned about motivation, setting goals, and how creative companies can bring the American dream to those born without a silver spoon.

    Includes plenty of real-world examples drawn from Nike, L.L. Bean, Wal-Mart, Federal Express, and other success stories.

    Completely updated every two years with Buffett's latest moves and countermoves, this best-selling biography returns with new insights into the tactics and strategies of the "Oracle of Omaha."Over 100 easy-to-read chapters trace Buffett from childhood to his recent headlining investments and acquisitions, and provide a unique, in-depth look into Buffett's life and mind. Only here will Buffett enthusiasts find coverage this comprehensive, with valuable benefits that include:*A quarter-by-quarter replay of Buffett's remarkable investing record*Insights into his favorite investment moves *Over 250 black and white photos

    This dynamic CEO defined the standard for organizational change, creating more than $400 billion in shareholder value by transforming a bureaucratic behemoth into a nimble, scrappy winner in the global marketplace.Here, Tichy and Sherman extract the enduring leadership lessons from the revolution Welch wrought at GE. Of these, the most essential is the limitless power of learning. Leadership has its mysteries, but it is a skill that anyone can acquire and enhance. Above all, great leaders select great people and lure them into an endless process of learning and adaptation.Jack Welch's Six RulesControl your destiny or someone else will.Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were.Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to.If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

    This in-depth story is illustrated with large, high-quality photos of rare, outstanding and unusual Fender models, together with some choice selections of Fender memorabilia. Advertising in Guitar Player and Bass Player magazines.

    Equal attention is paid to the new Europe and the Pacific Rim as to the United States, and chapter cases are both domestic and international. Each of the six new Part Closings has a new International Focus section and a new Global Car Industry Case. Part closings 2 to 6 compare each of the 5 management functions in Japan, the USA and the People's Republic of China.

    It discusses the techniques and methods that can be used to aid such change.

    KEY TOPICS: Introduces the fundamental problems organizations encounter and explains why they occur. Discusses a number of patterns of response -- showing why organizations are structured as they are, why they adopt the policies they do, and how they solve organizational problems themselves.

    They are more likely planted seeds of financial and emotional failure in your life. This book reverses the damage It shows how to identify and revrse the harmful programming received in the classroom, and learn new habits that will set you up for financial and emotional success right now. Even more important, this book teaches you the skills and principles that will ensure your wealth in times ahead.With the blueprint in this book, you will learn attitudes and abilities that will help you not merely to sirvive, but to rposper, regardless of whether the economy goes up or down. If you want to be rich and happy, read this book

    Tape # 2: An interview with Dr. Wayne DyerThe internationally-renowned author of "Your Erroneous Zones" and "You'll See It When You Believe It" shares on a very personal level the insights that have made his books and tapes some of the bestselling self-help tools in the world. Special BonusA booklet summary of highlights from Paul Zane Pilzer's bestseller "Unlimited Wealth." A stimulating, challenging study of today's technological and economic realities, and how to make them work for you.

    

    By the 1970s, however, it had become a sprawling empire with revenues of $2.5 billion. But hard times were ahead for this computer giant. . . . 16 pages of photographs.

    Wayne DyerThe internationally-renowned author of Your Erroneous Zones and You'll See It When You Believe It shares on a very personal level the insights that have made his books and tapes some of the bestselling self-help tools in the world. Special BonusA booklet summary of highlights from Paul Zane Pilzer's bestseller Unlimited Wealth. A stimulating, challenging study of today's technological and economic realities, and how to make them work for you.

    This book is designed to give you guidance for the steps in the process. It is suitable for both veteran and novice patent attorneys.

    Through rare and exclusive interviews with Jack Welch and dozens of GE insiders, internationally renowned Time Magazine reporter Robert Slater gives readers an inside look into General Electric and the bold leader responsible for GE's magic.

    Their emerging voices are already starting to challenge our cherished notions about what business is and how it should be run. Not content to give their most productive years only to bump against the "glass ceiling" or work in megacorporations that consume every waking hour, women are leaving the Fortune 1000 in droves. They're voting with their feet, closing the door on corporate rigidity, and inventing their own companies in which they can as Godfrey puts it, "make money, have fun, and do good." Herself an entrepreneur, Godfrey talks about the special qualities (the "New Right Stuff") that women often bring to a business--qualities rarely recognized or fully appreciated. These include a head, heart, and hands policy, a comfort with connectedness, an appreciation of process and complexity, and an integrated vision of business and ethics. These aren't skills taught in business schools, but are resources lodged deep in the human psyche. They color the voices of women entrepreneurs from around the country who speak out in this book, with stories that resound with hope and energy, daring, and sheer exhilaration. Listen carefully--these are the voices of new leaders who are transforming the business landscape. At a time when corporate wisdom all springs from a male perspective, from the Japanese to The One Minute Manager, from Tom Peters to the Tao, Our Wildest Dreams is genuinely in a class by itself. The exciting possibility of a new way of doing business--not just women's business, but everyone's--is emerging from a never-before-tapped source. And that source, whether we realize it or not, is changing the shape of business in America.

    In-depth coverage includes locating prime products; calculating costs and break-even points; obtaining the best printing and advertising values; how to design effective promotions; finding and testing lists; handling shipping delays and refunds and much more.

    Juran, the world-renowned quality pioneer, presents a new, exhaustively comprehensive approach to planning, setting, and reaching quality goals. Employing three case examples which encompass the three major sectors of the economy -- service, manufacturing, and support, he offers a practical plan for companies to achieve strategic, market-driven goals by following a structural approach to planning quality. Quality, according to Juran, has become a prerequisite for business success. He cites the loss of market share, failure of products, and waste as results of poor quality planning. Juran provides a set of universal steps which can be used in the basic managerial process to establish quality goals, identify customers, determine customer needs, provide measurement, and develop process features and controls to improve business tactics. The author gives new emphasis to setting quality goals, planning in "multifunctional" processes, establishing data bases for quality planning, motivating managers and the work force, and introducing quality planning into organizations.

    This high-powered devotional will strengthen your relationship with God, enhance your career opportunities, and build your personal relationships at home and the office.

    Some people take these negative experiences personally, allowing the resulting anxieties to sap their initiative and make them cautious and defensive. Successful people, however, are able to discover the benefits in failure and become far more resilient in the process.

    This is a single-source guide to valuation approaches and methods, in addition to all of the procedures necessary to accurately value a business.. "The Second Edition of the Handbook of Business Valuation enables you to find precisely the information you need; just go directly to the chapter concerning the topic you are interested in. There is no need to read the entire volume - it's quick and easy.

    A problem arises and people react, placing the emphasis on mechanics and fixed choices instead of on the objectives that give decisionmaking its meaning. In this book, Keeney shows how recognizing and articulating fundamental values can lead to the identification of decision opportunities and the creation of better alternatives. The intent is to be proactive and to select more attractive decisions to ponder before attempting any solutions.Keeney describes specific procedures for articulating values by identifying and structuring objectives qualitatively, and he shows how to apply these procedures in various cases. He then explains how to quantify objectives using simple models of values. Such value analysis, Keeney demonstrates, can yield a full range of alternatives, thus converting decision problems into opportunities. This approach can be used to uncover hidden objectives, to direct the collection of information, to improve communication, to facilitate collective decisionmaking, and to guide strategic thinking. To illustrate these uses, Keeney shows how value-focused thinking works in many business contexts, such as designing an integrated circuit tester and managing a multibillion-dollar utility company; in government contexts, such as planning future NASA space missions and deciding how to transport nuclear waste to storage sites; and in personal contexts, such as choosing career moves and making wise health and safety decisions.An incisive, applicable contribution to the art and science of decisionmaking, Value-Focused Thinking will be extremely useful to anyone from consultants and managers to systems analysts and students.

    Using Ruth Klein's unique time-management plan, working women can learn to streamline their work lives and increase their efficiency--and save a little time for themselves.

    

    Combine the power of your beliefs, imagination, and faith with your abilities to concentrate, set goals, and take action to make success your habit for life! Soar...If You Dare will put you back in charge of yourself. Here are simple yet powerful daily techniques to help you build an unshakable self-confidence and then visualize and achieve your successes. Never again let people and circumstances hold you back. This remarkable, uplifting guide can make a major impact on your life. It is particularly helpful for those at a turning point in their lives or on the threshold of a new level of personal development and growth. Keep it nearby as a daily reference for happiness.

    It was founded by Ken Blanchard, co-author of the multimillion-copy One-Minute Manager. Blanchard explains how to take the same methods that are highly effective in business and adapt them to the self-management and mental aspects of one's golf game.

    The author examines the major issues facing airports throughout the world, and offers an insight into how to deal with the major economic and financial difficulties that are likely to arise in the next decade.

    The author criticizes economists for failing to understand these historical changes. The book shows that this intellectual failure is not inherent in the discipline of economics; there are important traditions in economic thought that the mainstream of the economics profession has simply ignored.

    Albrecht's plan goes beyond lip service and simple cosmetic approaches to show the way to a radical bottom-up, top-down, total company commitment to the customer. His blueprint for success encompasses and explains the five critical challenges facing every business: Finding the "Invisible Truth" about your customer Creating new, long-term rules for the Game Winning the hearts, minds, and hands of your people Making all systems, policies, and procedures customer-friendly Keeping score and leading the way

    Winning is more fun. Job satisfaction climbs as performance improves...jobs become more secure because good results protect the people who create them. It pays to play on a winning team...just as it pays for your company to create more of them. About the Author: Price Pritchett is Chairman of Pritchett, LLC, a Dallas-based consulting, training and publishing firm. For 30 years he has been advising CEOs, presidents, and other senior executives on a wide range of strategic matters related to merger integration and major organizational change. Price holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in psychology, and is recognized internationally as a leading authority on the dynamics of change in the workplace. His 26 books and handbooks have sold over 10 million copies, making him one of the best-selling business authors in the U.S.

    This work shows readers how to target task analysis TA resources effectively over the life cycle of a project from conceptual design Through To Systems Operation, Noting The Role Of TA In Safety And Quality assurance, minimizing operator error,

    Not only gives readers confidence but offers enhanced opportunities for promotion and career advancement. Elucidates how to organize presentations to achieve your goal; how to use factual, logical and captivating supporting materials as well as visuals and audio-visual equipment; how to answer questions effectively and includes numerous techniques to use with a variety of audiences.

    It also analyzes the nature and consequences of current practices in accounting, operational research, marketing, personnel and organizational psychology and information systems. Key issues of power//knowl

    Contains listings for more than 2,850 games and features tips on determining the authenticity and value of any game.

    Features: * New chapters address such topics as consumer credit transactions (Chapter 26), franchising (Chapter 49), and employment law (Chapter 52). * Approximately 25% of the text cases are New to this edition: * New Manager's Legal Agenda sections appear at the end of each part to provide the future manager with a real-world business perspective on the related legal concepts. * New chapter pedagogy includes chapter overviews, self-test questions with answers, key terms, demonstration problems that apply the legal concepts from the chatper to a realisitic situation, and phonetic guides immediately following all Latin legal terms. * An index of business names facilitates the discussion of actual business of actual business examples. * Law and Life boxes in each chapter contain articles taken from contemporary newspapers and periodicals to highlight the real-world implications of the legal concepts. The boxed material is referenced within the text, and the text is referenced in t

    

    The authors use experiments and empirical observations to build their model of decision making. They reject the structure of the firm as represented by classical economic theory, instead they focus on the discretion of management. They also offer a new way of viewing the effects of organization, communications and individuals on the firm's overall activity. This is path breaking book and among the most important and provocative interpretations yet advanced for seeing inside the firm to understand it as an organization and an economic entity.

    This new fourth edition is no exception. THE definitive introductory textbook for this crucial topic, it is highly illustrated and comes packed with over 50 brand-new, real examples of influential marketing campaigns. Bullets: OCo Summarises the latest thinking and best practice in the domain of brandingOCo All new real marketing campaigns show how branding theories are implemented in practiceOCo Brought right up to date with a clear European and UK focusUndergraduate business and marketing students studying brand management will find this an invaluable resource in their quest to understand how branding really works."

    A Full Service Bank recounts the biggest bank fraud in history, detailing BCCI's rise and fall, as well as the personalities involved.Two veteran journalists go behind the scenes to reveal the intrigues and machinations that led to the biggest bank fraud in history, detailing BCCI's enterprise that stole billions around the world.

    Spendolini, one of the original benchmarking proponents at Xerox, simplifies the whole process and presents a distillation of how the best benchmarking programs in the U.S. are run. This synthesis of "lessons learned" provides a solid, practical platform from which to launch an effective benchmarking program.

    D. J. Waters University of Calgary, Canada Holding stock is expensive--problems of inventory control almost universal. Based on sound theoretical principles this book describes the methods of inventory control which have developed over many years and proved most useful in practice. Covering both the traditional independent demand systems, quantitative models and forecast demand, and the more recent dependent demand systems, MRP and JIT, Inventory Control and Management presents a clear and practical guide to the subject. Although some quantitative ideas are developed in the text the author has kept mathematics to a minimum, allowing the reader to develop a thorough understanding of the principles involved. He uses practical examples to emphasise the value of stock control, as well as describing the context in which such decisions are made. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject area, this book will provide students of management, operational research and production--as well as practitioners--with an indispensable guide to inventory control.

    Kanter, Stein, and Jick present here a comprehensive overview and an authoritative model for how to and, in some cases how not to, institute change in organizations.Building upon their "Big Three" model of change, the authors focus on internal and external forces that set events in motion; the major kinds of change that correspond to external and internal change pressures; and the principal tasks involved in managing the change process. Several "portraits" of companies undergoing different types of change, coupled with the authors' own expert analyses, prove that no one person or group can make change "happen" alone. Instead, the authors assert that it is the delicate balance among key players that makes organizational change a success.The authors analyze the forces for change by examining Banc One, Apple Computer, and Lehman Brothers, among others, to illustrate environmental and cyclical change as businesses grow. Then they turn to forms of change, drawing on the Western-Delta merger, strategy change at Bell Atlantic, and takeover turmoil at Lucky Stores, to show how companies change their structures and cultures. The section on execution of change shows "change masters," to use Kanter's own famous term, at work at Motorola, General Electric, and other leading firms, as well as the difficulties of implementing change at General Motors and Microswitch.Fundamental organizational change, they argue, is exemplified by identity change, involving much more than the transfer of tangible assets. Managing the feelings, fears, and hopes of people must be the central strategy during such transitions. In this essential volume for managers and analysts of change, Kanter, Stein, and Jick offer powerful insights, practical new directions for action, prospects for the future of deliberate organizational change, and advice on where to begin the change process, and when: NOW!

    Beyond the Hype is an attempt to go beyond the verbiage plaguing today's manager to understand how things are actually done in organizations.

    Now he tells how his "prophets in the dark" slashed costs, doubled production, and cut the product development cycle by a full year to get Xerox back on top. Photos.

    It discusses in detail the choices of vocabulary, phrasing and sentence structure and each piece of advice is based on evidence of the styles prefered by technical readers and supported by many examples of writing from a variety of technical contexts.John Kirkman draws from his many years of experience lecturing on communication studies in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Hong Kong, both in academic programmes and in courses for large companies, research centres and government departments.Good Style has become a standard reference book on the shelf of students of science, technology and computing and is an essential aid to all professionals whose work involves writing of reports, papers, guides, manuals or on-screen texts. This new edition also includes information on writing for the web and additional examples of how to express medical and life-science information.

    By presenting decision-making skills that are useful in both personal and professional life, this guide helps readers to define a problem in a productive way, and to visualize new goals.

    Not since What Color Is Your Parachute? has there been such a powerful tool to help readers choose careers that will deliver satisfaction and success, and then show readers how to get hired and do the job they dreamed about.

    Written especially for new and intermediate-level managers and financial professionals, this easy-to-understand guide fills a significant void by taking the confusion out of GAAP so managers can understand and use today’s vast array of published financial statements. This comprehensive resource covers all areas of financial analysis and virtually every type of financial analysis tool, including: - The Income Statement: Authoritative coverage of Revenue Recognition, the Cost of Operations, and Income Taxes – Real and Deferred - The Balance Sheet: Techniques and strategies for analyzing Working Capital, Intercorporate Investments, Noncurrent Operating Assets, Long-term Debt, Debt Valuation, and Owner’s Equity - The Statement of Cash Flows: Including Cash Flow Analysis - The Quality of Reported Earnings and Assets: alternative models of financial analysis For all professionals responsible for credit and investment analysis this indispensable guide bridges the gap between simply reading and fully understanding financial statements.

    From the upper echelons of their city bank – with the attendant mobile phone, expense account and trips to Henley and Glyndebourne – to the indignity of NHS prescriptions, selling insurance and letting go of the company car, their progress has not always been in a forward direction.Alex – who first appeared in the pages of the London Daily news, graduated to the Independent and now resides at the daily telegraph – chronicles the rise, fall, and reincarnation of the yuppie with tremendous wit, perception, and up-to-the-minute satire.”This is a compilation of cartoon strips; including:“The Unabashed Alex”, first published in Penguin Books 1988.“Alex II: Magnum Force”, first published in Penguin Books 1989.“Alex III: Son of Alex”, first published in Penguin Books 1990.“Alex IV: The Man with the Golden Handshake”, first published in Penguin Books 1991. Also known as "Alex: The Independent Years" (publ. 1992).

    

    This text looks at the process of business writing breaking the process into four steps: plan; write; polish; and format.

    For example, accounting staff are increasingly being required to extend their record keeping into management accounts areas. The new edition includes chapters on stock control and budgetary control accounting. In addition, it will include more detailed guidance on the significance and importance of ratio analysis and statements of sources and application of funds, plus the latest available IAB and ICB exam papers.

    A company may have little or no history, and often may not know lender requirements, what to stress and what to avoid. Your First Business Plan simplifies the process by outlining the different parts of a business plan and, in an uncomplicated question-and-answer style, helps the business owner create a winning plan for their business. The easy-to-follow chapters show entrepreneurs how to: --Think through strategies and balance enthusiasm with facts --Capture and hold the interest of potential lenders and investors --Understand and develop their financial statements --Recognize the unique selling advantage of their products or services --Avoid potentially disastrous errors like undercapitalization and negative cash flow Also included in this book: --A glossary of planning and financial terms --A complete sample business plan

    All the jobs described have proven to be both profitable and satisfying to thousands of people--active or handicapped. The majority of positions have low start-up costs and are suited for communities of any size. Includes a cost rating system for beginning a business along with a new chapter discussing why people start-up and run their own home-based businesses.

    Add these workplace roles to responsibilities at home, and time becomes a precious commodity. Sometimes it all seems too much to handle. However, knowing how to manage and prioritize things can help you lead a more balanced, and fulfilling life. How to Manage Projects, Priorities & Deadlines will teach you how to create a winning game plan and set realistic, yet challenging, goals. 6 Information-Packed Audio CDs + 1 additional CD containing additional training materials in PDF format.

     You'll discover: * What a team really is * Why teams should be built * How teams are developed * Who develops them, and * How to measure and improve team effectiveness You'll also get 25 activities that cover a wide range of issues concerning team building, such as: setting objectives, analyzing the leadership function, leadership style, team development stages, charting team success, and many more! Based on the premise that few teams develop to their full effectivess without a good deal of nuturing, Improving Work Groups brings an element of open, systematic planning and review to the task of team development. Novice or seasoned veteran, you'll find it a valuable tool for developing teams that work together long into the future!

    Today, that model is a major cause of the nation's declining competitiveness. As Joe Pine makes clear, innovative companies are embracing a new paradigm of management--mass customization--that allows them to create greater variety and customization in their products and services at competitive prices, or better. He explains mass customization in its historical context, demonstrates why mass production cannot work in turbulent industries, and outlines how new forms of competition have led to greater variety and customization. Based upon academic and field research, his work is a thoughtful analysis and commentary on when and how managers in both service and manufacturing industries can make the transition to mass customization. He details the strategies, methods, and organizational transformations required to develop, produce, market, and deliver individually customized goods and services, and shows managers how to analyze their own industries to determine if they should shift to mass customization. Named one of the Best Business Books of the Year by the Financial Times.

    How Consumer Insights Can Inspire Better Marketing and Advertising

    But was Milken a media scapegoat, exploited and crucified by people more ruthless and savvy at the publicity game than he? Former Drexel Burnham employee Fenton Bailey provides a side of the spectacular Milken story that has rarely been heard. Photographs.

    It presents the operations tools and techniques for solving problems in the context of achieving a firm's overall goals and strategies, and provides a balanced treatment of manufacturing and services throughout. The book blends the latest in strategic issues with proven analytic techniques, and offers a wealth of interesting examples to engage readers and bring Operations Management to life. This sixth addition adds an increased emphasis on processes," to provide linkage between operational issues, as well as new problem-solving software and a website with innovative Internet resources. Other coverage includes operations as a competitive weapon, operations strategy, managing technology, total quality management, statistical process control, capacity, location, layout, supply-chain management, forecasting, inventory management, aggregate planning, resource planning, lean systems, and scheduling. For operations managers in a variety of fields.