If you're a typical project manager, you're probably aware of the importance of change management but may not have the time or expertise to develop a full-blown plan. Here's a quick and practical guide to applying the disciplines of proven change management practices without the rigor of complex processes. Part of the Project Manager's Spotlight series from Harbor Light Press, this straightforward book offers solutions to real-life project change scenarios. Author Claudia Baca highlights critical components of change control and equips you with tools, techniques, checklists, and templates you can put to use immediately. By following a realistic case study from start to finish, you'll see how a project manager deals with each concept. Ultimately, this book will help you establish effective guidelines for dealing with change and provide you the flexibility to minimize disruptions and derailments. Project Manager's Spotlight on Change Management teaches you how to: Define roles and responsibilities

Why work for someone else when you can call your own shots, pursue your dreams, and find success on your terms by starting your own business? So many people end up bored with their jobs, stuck in the corporate grind, never following their true passions. As wildly successful young entrepreneur Cameron Johnson shows, you don't have to live that way. We've entered a new age of entrepreneurship, with the Web making it easier than ever to start and run your own company. As Johnson's remarkable story reveals, the entrepreneurial way of life is a great way to make sure you love what you do -- and it offers the potential to achieve extraordinary success by following your gut instincts and going for what you really want. What about the risks? Don't you need lots of money? Don't most start-ups fail? Johnson shares his essential secrets to entrepreneurial success that show you how he got into the life at very low risk, and, with very little money, took an idea that excited him and ran with it, achieving great succ

Doug Hall is on a Robin Hood-like quest to translate the wisdom he's discovered researching and advising Fortune 500 corporations into practical tactics for small and medium-sized businesses.In Jump Start Your Business Brain, he reveals data-driven strategies for doubling or even tripling the odds of success for your new products,services, sales and advertising. First-person case studies of small businesses successfully leveraging the Eureka! Ranch's Law of Marketing Physics and Capitalist Creativity bring these principles to life. 作者简介：Doug Hall has been named one of America's top experts on business growth by Inc. Magazine,A&E Top 10, ClO Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and DATELINE NBC. Doug Hall started his entrepreneurial career at the age of twelve. After earning a degree in Chemical Engineering, he joined Procter & Gamble where he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor. Ten years later he retired to pursue his version of the American Dream. With three credit cards for

Just as location is a critical component to the value of real estate, knowledge is a critical component to investing success. As with any type of new endeavor, gaining knowledge and experience is essential as you move forward toward success. If you're interested in generating rental income through an investment in real estate, but unsure of how to go about doing this, Getting Started in Rental Income will show you the way. Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, this book discusses the two major ways of entering the rental income market—the traditional purchase of rental properties or buying and selling fixer-upper properties—and reveals what you need to do once you're in. This easy-to-read guide clearly explains how to: Invest in the right properties；Generate cash flow adequate to make insurance, tax, utility, and monthly mortgage payments as well as to allow for periodic vacancies；Make a profit from flipping properties；Take advantage of the tax benefits of real estate；I

In his best-selling book, Squirrel Inc., former World Bank executive and master storyteller Stephen Denning used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. Now, in this hands-on guide, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are in the organization CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines you can lead by using stories to effect change. Filled with myriad examples, A Leader’s Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. The right kind of story at the right time, can make an organization “stunningly vulnerable” to a new idea. 作者简介： Stephen Denning is a private consultant specializing in knowledge management and organizational storytelling. His clients include GE, IBM, Shell, McDonald's, and the U.S. Army, among others.

"Business Power is an essential handbook for every business leader. Creating and growing IP is a critical element of innovation and accelerates the transformation of knowledge to market value. Business Power provides a step-by-step approach to value creation." "It is difficult to overstate the importance of effectively managing intellectual property assets in the current and future global business landscape. This book gathers together a unique collection of thought leaders on every aspect of intellectual property management. Whether you are interested in brand management, human capital management, patent portfolio management, trade secret management, or anything in between, and whether you are an interested observer of business, or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you will gain something from this book." "Business Power provides valuable strategic and tactical knowledge about IP and its role in corporate performance. The book presents a unique collection of views about creating, and sustaining competit

The path to your professional success starts with a criticallook in the mirror. If you read nothing else on managing yourself,read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of HarvardBusiness Review articles to select the most important ones to helpyou maximize yourself. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself willinspire you to: - Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year worklife - Tap into your deepest values - Solicit candid feedback - Replenish physical and mental energy - Balance work, home, community, and self - Spread positive energy throughout yourorganization - Rebound from tough times - Decrease distractibility and frenzy - Delegate and develop employees' initiative

“Thull's leading-edge thinking makes this book extraordinary.This straightforward guide to communicating across all cultures with credibility and respect will give you a significant competitive advantage in a complex and crowded global marketplace.” “Exceptional Selling may be one of the most important books written on sales and marketing communications for high stakes sales.It shows you how to stand apart from your competition，communicate with great clarity，and position your solution as the most compelling choice for the long term.” “Thull has taken consultative and collaborative sales to new heights.The knowledge in this book is priceless.The trust and respect created by the diagnostic process is a must-have for success here in Asia and around the globe.It enables us to differentiate ourselves early and achieve long-lasting success.” “Having achieved exceptional success by working with Thull and implementing the strategy and process in his first two books，I'm astounded

Karl Albrecht defines social intelligence (SI) as the ability to get along well with others while winning their cooperation. SI is a combination of sensitivity to the needs and interests of others, sometimes called your “social radar,” an attitude of generosity and consideration, and a set of practical skills for interacting successfully with people in any setting. Social Intelligence provides a highly accessible and comprehensive model for describing, assessing, and developing social intelligence at a personal level. This book is filled with intriguing concepts, enlightening examples, stories, cases, situational strategies, and a self-assessment tool – all designed to help you learn to navigate social situations more successfully.

Ace the NCLEX-PN-with the help of nursing review pioneer Marlene Hurst! Use Marlene's unique “no cram, pass with what you already know” system and slash your study time in half Based on Marlene Hurst's phenomenally popular nursing seminars that train over 30,000 students annually, this innovative review is loaded with the author's time-tested strategies-all designed to help you pass the NCLEX certification and course exams the first time around! NCLEX-PN Review breaks the mold of other review books by explaining how to apply critical thinking and test-taking skills, rather than how to re-learn course content. Marlene shows you how to effectively work with the “think-on-your-feet” philosophy of the NCLEX-PN, not against it. Features: A complete NCLEX-PN toolkit-from the world's most sought-after speaker on passing the NCLEX Over 1,000 skill-building NCLEX-style questions, complete with answers and rationales Full of concise, easy-to-remember strategies that cut st

Is your company's top talent jumping ship as good replacementsbecome harder to get? If you need the best practices and ideas forwinning the race for talent but don't have time to find them thisbook is for you. Here are 11 inspiring and useful perspectives, allin one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: lookfor good people in all the right places; interview moreeffectively; make and keep compelling promises to candidates andemployees; mitigate the risks of hiring stars from other companies;coach and mentor to shore up commitment; stretch promisingemployees' responsibilities; rotate high performers into a varietyof teams; and, reverse the female brain drain.

As the authors state in their introduction, "highly succesful companies have not unearthed any magic formulas ... they simply focused tightly on their business fundamentals." Those fundamentals are Froschheiser's Vital Factors, "the critical component parts" of a business and the core idea behind the consulting company he runs, MAP. Success follows when you "pinpoint your Vital Factors, measure them consistently ... hone them, polish them, and finally perfect them." The bulk of the book is devoted to richly reported case studies involving MAP clients at companies such as Wells Fargo, Cold Stone Creamery and Insomniac Games. Illuminating their management system's inner workings, the authors demonstrate, at a personal level, how their clients have leveraged the power of Vital Factors into real results; lessons learned are bolstered by bullet-pointed "Bottom Line" summaries at the end of each chapter. The techniques they describe aren't groundbreaking and can get lost in business cliché, but generous helpings o

In today's fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one's discipline is not enough, assert world-renowned professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The key to professional success, they argue, is the ability to earn the trust and confidence of clients. To demonstrate the paramount importance of trust, the authors use anecdotes, experiences, and examples -- successes and mistakes, their own and others' -- to great effect. The result is an immensely readable book that will be welcomed by the inexperienced advisor and the most seasoned expert alike.

This is a guide through the uncertain future of advertising, with a star chart of luminaries to show the way. It examines the underlying principles and the living bones that shape the most successful body of work being done in the world of ideas today.

Is Anybody Out There will send shockwaves through the world of Marketing Communicmions. Its vision of the industry is dramatic; challenging and persuasive. It describes a world where brands are redefined, consumers are in control and marketers must be infinitelv innovative. It is a world in which the most sacred principles of traditional brand marketing must be ruthlessly challenged and perpetually rcinventcd. Fotxmlately: Austin and Aitclfison help us face these profound challenges with cleat" arguments: deep insight and extraordinary intelle

Mastering Business Negotiation is a handy resource for any leader or manager who needs practical strategies and ideas when conducting business negotiations. Grounded in solid research, the authors - experts in the field of business negotiation - reduce the huge volume of available information into an accessible handbook for busy executives who need to prepare for everyday negotiations as well as for more demanding and complex negotiation situations. Mastering Business Negotiation offers down-to-earth advice for learning to play the negotiation game and shows how to: Understand the game so you can better control what happens Predict the sequence of negotiation activities and move from disagreement toward agreement Identify the strategies and tactics of other players in the game. Apply the rules of the game - the "do's and don'ts" that will ultimately lead to success

A detailed look at how Warren Buffett really invests In thisengaging new book, author Prem Jain extracts Warren Buffett'swisdom from his writings, Berkshire Hathaway financial statements,and his letters to shareholders and partners in his partnershipfirms-thousands of pages written over the last fifty years. Jainuncovers the key elements of Buffett's approach that every investorshould be aware of. With "Buffett Beyond Value," you'll learn that,contrary to popular belief, Warren Buffett is not a pure valueinvestor, but a unique thinker who combines the principles of bothvalue and growth investing strategies. You'll also discover whyunderstanding CEOs is more important than studying financialmetrics; and why you need an appropriate psychological temperamentto be a successful investor. Reveals Buffett's multifacetedinvestment principles Discusses how Buffett thinks differently fromothers about portfolio diversification, market efficiency, andcorporate governance Highlights how you can build a diverse andp

As the demand for comparative studies of leadership rises, managers and trainers are looking harder than ever for new studies to which trainees will not bring preconceived idea. This unique book delivers just that. Though the contexts have changed, the examination of ancient events from a business perspective provides a wealth of useful insights on how the process of leadership works. From China’s first emperor Liu Bang on vision and Pericles on integrity to Alexander the Great on communication and Ramesses II on courage, Leadership Lessons from the Ancient World combines history with business to show that the universal strategies used by great leaders of the past are still relevant today.

Creative Learning is written by master trainer Bob Lucas, and offers a treasure trove of innovative and highly effective activities to simulate learning. The activities are tailor-made for trainers, presenters, and educators, and can be put to use in virtually any type of learning environment. Each activity offers a different approach to learning, but all are designed using a brain-based-learning approach that is proven to mentally or physically engage learners and enhance their learning experience.

Most books on Supply Chain Management simply focus on how to move materials and key resources throughout an industrial enterprise. Reinventing Lean shows how SCM can be made Lean, leading to much more reliable, cost-effective and competitive Supply Chain Management (SCM). In this book, the reader will find a collection of management tools that will help to implement Lean principles, and to understand the components of an integrated Supply Chain Management system. Moreover, the book will show that to make Lean SCM effective, both the functional management tools as well as an enterprise-wide cultural readiness are needed in order to lay the groundwork for a World Class Lean Supply Chain. Reinventing Lean will carefully lead engineers and manufacturing managers on how to adopt a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy. The book will lay out various proven approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices, by focusing on the ways in which SCM relates to materials, money, and information movement within the

You are a successful entrepreneur with a brain for business, but you’re indecisive about marketing and need a guide that will help your company distinguish itself, inspire customer loyalty and increase profits. Marketing for Rainmakers: 52 Rules of Engagement to Attract and Retain Customers for Life presents practical concepts, helpful tips and real-life examples to help you take your business to the next level with marketing that focuses on the customers’ needs. Fifty-two business-building ideas will inspire you to take immediate action and develop a marketing mindset.

Leading the way is Maxine Clark, the company's founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Bear. Clark is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading and most creative entrepreneurs. In The Bear Necessities of Business, she reveals how she built this amazing global business from the ground up, while arming you with the tools you need to start, run, and market your own company in today's tough competitive environment. While primarily drawing on real-life experiences from Build-A-Bear Workshop , Clark also offers wisdom gained throughout her entire thirty-plus-year career, including lessons and examples from some of the other great companies that do so much right. Straightforward and accessible, The Bear Necessities of Business is divided into seven parts, each built around an essential element that will allow you to stand apart from the crowd. The short, accessible chapters show you everything you need to: Get your business started； Become a great boss； Connect with your customers ；

The 2005 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting is a ready-made toolkit of ideas, methods, techniques, and models that assist and support your work as an organizational consultant. The materials provide a highly accessible means of interacting with a variety of systems and processes as diverse as collaborative work systems and executive coaching to strategic planning and organization development. The book is divided into four sections: Experiential Learning Activities (ELAs); Editor’s Choice, Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys; and Articles and Discussion Resources. ELAs are the mainstay of the Annual and cover a broad range of consulting topics. The activities are presented as complete and ready-to-use designs for working with groups; facilitator instructions and all necessary handouts and participant materials are included. 作者简介： Elaine Biech is the author of more than a dozen articles and books, including The Business of Consulting, Marketing and Selling Your Consulting Services, and The Consu

The history of consulting dates back to the original ‘intervention’ of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and today's consultants have just as dubious a reputation. They are tempted by flattery and over-assessment of their abilities, and run the risks of uncertainty, responsibility without authority and loss of control. In order to steer a middle course, they must understand their own intention as consultants. Fearless Consulting clearly demonstrates that, in spite of the many risks and temptations, consultants can approach their profession and clients fearlessly, and offers a range of philosophical inspirations for readers as well as specific intervention models and practical methodologies.