Until recently, most people expected to have one career withmaybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts adviseus to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple industry changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transferand repurpose your skills in a completely new direction. In The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention , Pamela Mitchellshows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can beadapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides thetools to help you navigate the full art of career change.
The smart way to succeed in electronic trading. There is money to be made in active electronic trading, if investors know the rules of the game and the right investing strategies. This guide includes all the information nonprofessional traders need to be successful at day trading stocks in today's market, with tips and up-to-the-minute information on the newest technologies, the amazing opportunities in both American and international markets, and strategies for how to profit from them. ?Most current day trading guide available ?Up-to-date screen captures of dozens of actual trading scenarios ?The newest information sites and technologies ?Full glossary of trading terms
The latest addition to the bestselling Perfect Phrases series, Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors is an indispensable tool for novice to mid-level managers and frontline supervisors. Corporate communications guru Meryl Runion coaches readers in the six fundamentals of effective delivery, including "Be Short, Specific, Targeted," and "Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, and Don't Be Mean When You Say It." And she arms them with: Hundreds of perfect phrases for every phase of management, from supervising operations, to performance reviews, to communicating the company's mission Expert advice on effective communication, with tips on what to say and what not to say, establishing the right tone, establishing authority, and more Phrases for hundreds of specific tasks, including delegating, giving feedback, empowering employees, handling emotional employees, disciplining, and terminating。
Persuasive Proposals and Presentations shows readers how to develop a winning strategy and how to be clear, organized, and persuasive. It lays out common mistakes in strategy and offers effective advice. 作者简介: Heather Pierce is a veteran business communications writer who has created hundreds of winning proposals and presentations for Fortune 100 corporations and has written for industry magazines, newsletters, and online publications.
Crises -- anything from a natural disaster to a data-security breach to the defection of your best employee -- can prevent you from carrying out your business operations. But with good planning, you can minimize the impact of a potential disaster. This book shows you how to: Avoid a crisis entirely Lay the groundwork for managing a crisis Know when a crisis is imminent Contain and resolve a crisis Learn from each crisis you've resolved
More and more, people are finding that chasing only material success feels hollow, unfulfilling. What people desire now is a career that stems from their highest personal vision and deepest creativity, and that is richly enjoyable and fruitful not just materially but on personal and spiritual levels. Top life coach Fiona Harrold has talked to some of the world's most successful people and discovered the rules that they live by to make their astonishing achievements. She presents interviews with a wide range of people – from celebrities to entrepreneurs to people from her own background – who have found their passion and made it into their career. Fiona sets out in clear, accessible form the rules of their success, and shows the reader how to apply these rules to their own situation. Written in Fiona's trademark no-nonsense, but always inspiring style, this is the ultimate guide, from successful people, to attaining the success and fulfilment you always dreamed of.
"[A]...breakthrough for the genre....Peters is not onlythe father of the postmodern corporation...he may well haveproduced the first piece of postmodern management literature."--LosAngeles Times "No matter where you are in your career, this book is a mustread. The younger your thinking the more you'll get out ofit." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer "A manual for businesses that want to survive and thrive in aworld continually undergoing change." --St. PetersburgTimes "Tom Peters has done it again."--J.W. Marriot, Jr., CEO, MarriotInternational, Inc. "[Peters] yields potent insights...his keen attention to thehuman element in organizational growth and change shinesthrough...No cutting-edge manager can afford to ignoreit."--Publishers Weekly -- Review
In this new edition, reluctant orators learn to understand andovercome their speaking-related fears; avoid common communicationpitfalls; make a successful delivery; and discover how to usePowerPoint and other visual aids effectively.
World-class rock climber Todd Skinner is also one of today's most sought-after motivational speakers for business audiences. Whenever he describes his history-making sixty-day free climb of the 20,500-foot Trango Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas (shown on the jacket), people are in awe of his stamina, skill, ambition, and determination. They are also eager to apply his lessons in their professional and personal lives. Skinner argues that everyone has a mountain to climb, whether it's meeting your annual sales target or launching a new product or getting your department to improve its teamwork. And he stresses that you should set your goals even higher than you normally would, and constantly look beyond the current summit to the next one. For instance, instead of aiming for 10 percent revenue growth, go after a seemingly impossible 50 percent target, and then think of new ways to get there. In both rock climbing and business, you must define your exact mission, assemble the right team, make the c
Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader thatever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of thetwenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost twoyears. Today the public can't get enough of this once-forgottenexplorer, and his actions have made him a model for greatleadership and masterful crisis management. Now, through anecdotes,the diaries of the men in his crew, and Shackleton's own writing,Shackleton's leadership style and time-honored principles aretranslated for the modern business world. Written by two veteranbusiness observers and illustrated with ship photographer FrankHurley's masterpieces and other rarely seen photos, this practicalbook helps today's leaders follow Shackleton's triumphantexample.
Here's a practical, step-by-step system that helps managers improve every area of their business through the concept of Circle-4 Quality. This revolutionary approach shows how to focus on the needs of employees, suppliers, shareholders, and end-users to achieve lasting quality in all company functions -- from product planning and design to manufacturing and customer service. Plus, you'll also find useful sample policies and plans, workable process models, checklists, charts, and numerous other tools to help you create a "Circle-4" Quality System in your own company.
Hewlett-Packard is a high-tech company with over $25 billion in sales; the Hewlett-Packard way has obviously been quite successful. Here, one of the company's founders tells the story of its growth. Packard frequently becomes nostalgic, such as when talking about his first vacuum tube. He explains why Hewlett-Packard follows strong management practices: management by objectives, educational subsidies for employees, profit sharing, and giving authority to employees closest to the customers. Packard also served as a Defense Department official and in doing so chose to give $20 million to charity to avoid ethical conflicts. The company history Packard relates is, however, an uncritical review. The cassettes, narrated by Martin Bookspan, are of limited use because they offer little discussion of ideas that a person in business might adopt. Not an important purchase.?Mark Guyer, Stark Cty. Dist. Lib., Canton, Ohio Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavail
The No Asshole Rule was awarded a Quill Award as the Best Business Book of 2007. When Robert Sutton's "No Asshole Rule" appeared in the Harvard Business Review, readers of this staid publication were amazed at the outpouring of support for this landmark essay. The idea was based on the notion, as adapted in hugely successful companies like Google and SAS, that employees with malicious intents or negative attitudes destroyed any sort of productive and pleasant working environment, and would hinder the entire operation's success. Now using case studies from these and many more corporations that have had unquestioned success using variations of "The No Asshole Rule," Sutton's book aims to show managers that by hiring mean-spirited employees - regardless of talent - saps energy from everyone who must deal with said new hires. FEATURING A NEW CHAPTER ON THE RULE AND ITS SURPRISING IMPACT! In this new version of The No Asshole Rule, Bob Sutton provides an uproarious account of the world-wide reaction to his best-se
Winston Churchill has long been one of the world’s preeminentleadership role models, his voice still reverberating more thanforty years after his death. This was illustrated when New YorkCity mayor Rudy Giuliani, described after 9/11 as “WinstonChurchill in a Yankees cap,” wrote to Celia Sandys: “Yourgrandfather was a great source of inspiration and strength to mefollowing the tragic events.” In We Shall Not Fail, Sandys (with coauthor Jonathan Littman)distills the traits that made Churchill so effective throughout hiscareer, including his use of language, his courage under fire, andhis willingness to defy convention and stand up to bullies. Drawing on vivid personal stories, as well as her grandfather’sletters and speeches, Sandys reveals the lessons we must all learnif we are to lead in today’s tough times.
Award-winning website consultant Lori Culwell demonstrates howto create a website that will increase sales and generate repeatcustomers on a small business budget. Not just another "graphicdesign for the web" book, Culwell offers invaluable insider adviceon what it takes to build a high-profile website, including dozensof guidelines to avoid the pitfalls of bad usability, withinvaluable tips on: ? Enhancing brand awareness ? Creating graphic designs that keep customers engaged and notconfused ? Writing web-savvy content ? Capitalizing on user feedback ? Making the most of search engine optimization ? Using blogs and social networking sites to increase traffic andget the word out
Most managers coach employees by giving them feedback and evaluating their performance, right? Wrong. Coaching differs markedly from other managerial functions. With its wealth of tips, worksheets, and self-assessments, this handy guide shows managers how to use coaching—not only to strengthen direct reports’ skills but also to rev up their performance to unprecedented levels. The books in this series offer immediate solutions to the challenges managers face every day. Each book is packed with handy tools, checklists, and real life examples, including a Test Yourself section to help identify strengths and weaknesses. For all readers eager to address the daily demands of work, these books are ideal.
Named one of the Best Business Books of 1997 by BusinessWeek , Inside Intel is the gripping business saga of acompany that rose to dominance through technological innovation,and maintained its leadership against competitors throughaggressive marketing, tough business tactics, and liberal use oflegal firepower. In his in-depth portrait of Intel, the firsthistory/expose of the company, Financial Times columnist Tim Jackson reveals that: * Intel's corporate culture isdeterminedly secretive and authoritarian. * The company retains itsown force of private investigators to prevent its employees fromgoing astray. * Intel routinely uses the threat of lawsuits againstworkers and rivals. At the center of this story is AndyGrove , Intel's high-profile CEO and chairman, once a pennilessimmigrant who waited tables to put himself through college. It isGrove who has made the unpopular decisions which have kept Intel atthe top of the chip market. Exhaustively researched from courtrecords, unpublished documents,
From recruiting and motivating members to setting ground rules and mediating problems, Leading Teams arms managers with a step-by-step plan and practical tools for maximising productivity in any team setting. Instructs readers how to: Organise a team with complimentary skills; Foster trust, creativity, and risk-taking; Get teams back on track after a setback.
This is the fully revised and updated edition of the ground–breaking self–help book on improving communicating and socializing skills in business and life. How To Work A Room lays down the fundamentals for savvy socializing, whether at a party, a conference, or even communicating online. RoAne clearly shows how to overcome the five roadblocks that keep most people from making new contacts; mix chutzpah and charm to start and end conversations smoothly; know when to use humor––and when not to; and follow simple rules of etiquette. Incorporating years of feedback from hundreds of presentations, as well as anecdotes from around the globe, RoAne keeps How To Work A Room fresh and on target. New chapters include: strategies starting, maintaining, and exiting conservations; and advice on commutating effectively in today's tech driven world.
Today’s leaders don't use command-and-control. Instead, they leverage their communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills to inspire employees to ever higher levels of performance. Packed with practical tools and expert advice, Leading People shows managers how to bring out the best in their team.
The bestselling author of The Discipline of Market Leadersreveals how companies can achieve sustained growth. In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders,Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema explained how great companiesdominated their markets by offering superior value propositions.Now Treacy is back with an equally groundbreaking book-revealinghow great companies master growth each year and how all businessescan identify and exploit opportunities for increased revenues,gross margins, and profits. Treacy's main point is simple-it really is possible to grow yourbusiness by 10 percent or more, year after year, in good times andbad, without cheating. Great companies already know how to do it,and the rest of us can learn their strategies and do the samething. Using case studies from industry leaders such as DellComputer, Home Depot, and GE, he shows the five steps that areimperative to ensure growth: keep the growth you have already earned look for growth where it's like
A pocket-sized companion providing smart interviewingprinciples for every job seeker. This guide offers the hands-on information, tools, and reallife*s interviewees need to comfortably and effectively "pitch"themselves. With concrete examples of job-winning words andphrases, plus invaluable ideas on how to advertise skills, thisresource includes: - Tactics to avoid self-consciousness and canned answers - Tips on how to anticipate questions - Strategies for framing responses with the organization's needsin mind - Techniques for responding assuredly to questions crafted tobring down your guard - A variety of solid, easy-to-implement tools to help ensure awinning job offer