In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart andRandy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution towhat The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in businesstoday”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs acompany $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours.This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider thatthe typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable.Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Methodfor Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kindever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements thatanyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a newCEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right peopleto make your company grow, or a pare

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The FifthDiscipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by thebusiness community: "How do we go beyond the first steps ofcorporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know thatcompanies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning toadapt their attitudes and practices. But companies that establishchange initiatives discover, after initial success, that even themost promising efforts to transform or revitalizeorganizations--despite interest, resources, and compelling businessresults--can fail to sustain themselves over time. That's becauseorganizations have complex, well-developed immune systems, aimed atpreserving the status quo. Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-termsuccess of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-fiveyears of experience building learning organizations, the authors of TheFifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoidthe obstacles that can stall momentum. The

Supercharge your job performance and get where your want to beby becoming an ACTIVE LEARNER In today's highly competitive workenvironment, continuous learning is an absolute necessity--arequirement to keep up with the latest innovations in the field andincrease productivity. Learn Your Way to Success helps you spototherwise overlooked opportunities to learn and teaches you how totake advantage of them. It provides tools for setting a personallearning agenda, keeping track of what is learned, and determininghow to use that learning to improve performance in their currentjob, prepare for their next job, and plan their careers. Daniel R.Tobin has more than 30 years of experience in the learning anddevelopment field. He has founded two corporate universities(Digital Equipment Corporation's Network University and WangGlobal/Getronics Virtual University) and served as vice presidentof design and development at the American Management Association(AMA).

In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. Now, in The Cycle of Leadership, Tichy takes the theme further, showing how great companies and leaders hone their business knowledge into "teachable points of view,'and pass this knowledge to others in the organization. In turn, these leaders learn from the employees they are teaching. Using examples of this "virtuous teaching cycle" from GE, Best Buy,Genentech, Southwest Airlines and many others, Professor Tichy presents and analyzes leadership principles in action and shows how leaders can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and,consequently, better-performing companies.

This second edition of Rosemary Caffarella's classic book, Planning Programs for Adult Learners, offers a concrete how-to guide and resource book for planning educational and training programs for adults in a variety of settings, from the corporate sector to educational organizations. This thoroughly revised and expanded resource includes a wealth of new material and fresh examples including the significance of discerning the planning context, the importance of addressing power dynamics and ethical issues encountered in the planning process, and current information about incorporating technology into the development and practice of adult education and training programs.

With major financial scandals popping up in greaternumbers—and with more inevitably on the way—it has never been moreimportant for you to understand what dishonest companies do totrick investors. Since the early 1990s, Financial Shenanigans hasbeen helping investors unearth deceptive financial reporting at themost critical time— before they suffer major losses. Now, the third edition broadens its focus to include thenewest, most sophisticated techniques companies use to misleadinvestors. Referred to as the “Sherlock Holmes of Accounting” byBusinessWeek, Howard Schilit and renowned forensic accountingexpert Jeremy Perler take you deeper into the corporate bag oftricks, exposing new levels of accounting gimmickry and arming youwith the investigative tools you need to detect: Earnings Manipulation Shenanigans: Learn the latest trickscompanies use to exaggerate revenue and earnings. Cash Flow Shenanigans: Discover new techniques devised bymanagement that allow it to manipulat

Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new, radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.

Services requiring parts has become a $1.5 trillion business annually worldwide，creating a tremendous incentive to manage the logistics of these parts efficiently by making planning and operational decisions in a rational and rigorous manner。This book provides a broad overview of modeling approaches and solution methodologies for addressing service parts inventory problems found in high-powered technology and aerospace applications。The focus in this work is on the management of high cost，low demand rate service parts found in multi-echelon settings。The text may be used in a variety of courses for first-year graduate students or senior undergraduates，as well as for practitioners，requiring only a background in stochastic processes and optimization。It will serve as an excellent reference for key mathematical concepts and a guide to modeling a variety of multi-echelon service parts planning and operational problems。

The first installment in a new series offering straightforward,practical wisdom from a top business guru John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Management is thefirst in a new series of titles from the noted business expert.Focused on concise, practical, and straightforward business wisdom,the series offers the kind of real-world insight that businessleaders thrive on. Short, punchy, and packed with real solutions, this bookprovides 100 proven and effective ideas for business managers,whether they manage a few people or a few hundred, and whether theywork for a small firm or a Fortune 100 giant. Proven, practical business wisdom for managers The first in a new series from renowned business authority JohnAdair Quick bites of business wisdom for everyday managementsuccess For real management wisdom from a proven expert, John Adair's100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Management offers everything youneed to be your brilliant best.

A top business consultant and speaker lights the path to a positive, productive work environment What do the best leaders do to achieve greatness in the modern workplace that is muddled by fear, pressure for productivity, overwork? Inspire! offers business leaders a clear vision of what a positive, productive, inspiring organization looks like in these challenging and chaotic times, and how to get there. The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in a transformational commitment to inspiring people rather than motivating them. Lance Secretan's Higher Ground Leadership concepts have been widely used to increase profits and quality, slash staff turnover, and achieve record organizational and personal performance. Inspire! describes Lance's breakthrough thinking, often in the words of the pace-setting leaders who are implementing them and building legacies. Countless examples, stories, and case studies demonstrate the magic of these brilliant ideas. Six essential values form the foundation of posi

A comprehensive look at creating pricing strategies that workin both good economic times and bad Written by three preeminentpricing experts at McKinsey and Company, the "Second Edition "of"The Price Advantage" is a practical pricing guide for the executiveor pricing practitioner who wants to identify, capture, and sustainsubstantial pricing gains in their business. Pricing is by far themost powerful profit lever that managers can influence. Yet fewcompanies approach pricing in a way that fully capitalizes on itsvalue. This "Second Edition," a major revision and extension of thefirst book, " "shows you what it takes to achieve "the priceadvantage" in today's competitive and complex businessenvironments. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience withthousands of companies, this book provides managers with apragmatic guide through the maze of pricing issues. It reinforceswhy pricing excellence is more critical than ever today and thenexplains state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improvingyour own pricing

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of socialtechnologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customersdiscuss products and companies, write their own news, and findtheir own deals but how do you integrate these activities into yourbroader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable groundswell thataffects every industry -- yet it's still utterly foreign to mostcompanies running things now. When consumers you've never met are rating your company'sproducts in public forums with which you have no experience orinfluence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Josh Bernoffand Charlene Li explain how to turn this threat into anopportunity. In this updated and expanded edition of Groundswell, featuring anall new introduction and chapters on Twitter and social mediaintegration, you'll learn to: · Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge · Determine how different groups of consumers are participatingin social technology arenas · Apply a four-step

How to use Strategic Learning to rapidly respond to change andgain a sustainable advantage over your competitors What's evenharder than creating a breakthrough strategy? Making it stick. Ascompanies are fighting to survive in a tough economy, this new bookby Willie Pietersen demonstrates the power of the StrategicLearning process, a four-step dynamic cycle guaranteed to createand sustain winning performance. Adopted by a wide range ofcorporations and not-for-profit organizations, the StrategicLearning process builds on eight years of practicing, adapting andhoning the original concepts Pietersen first introduced in"Reinventing Strategy "to explain how organizations can generatesuperior insights about their customers and competitors, craft aWinning Proposition, focus on a vital few key priorities, createbuy-in throughout the organization and achieve success - again andagain. Teaches organizations to make smarter decisions that helpthem win customers and earn superior profits Explains how toinstill a cul

This book describes and analyses the activities and proceduresthrough which the professional economist may advise on matters ofpublic policy, specifically on the performance of an economicsystem. The author shows that the decision-making component withina system may be defined in terms of optimal policies for attainingwell-specified objectives, but that the choice of rules by whichthe system is governed must remain 'outside' the system due to itsdependence upon the legislative process. He proposes a 'generatingmechanism' for arriving at public policy choices based on theinteraction between the economic system and the legislativeprocess.

At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Mark Zuckerberg, turned instead to his natural talents, hacking into the university's computer system to create a rateable database of every female student on campus. Narrowly escaping expulsion after 80% of Harvarda's population voted in just two hours, crashing the entire computer system, Mark and Eduardo together refocused the site into something less controversial - The Facebook - which spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country. Within months hundreds of thousands of college kids had signed up. Suddenly Eduardo and Mark were getting nods not just from the female population, but from venture capitalists too. It was then, amidst the dizzying levels of cash and the promise of unbelievable power, that the first cracks

Regarded as one of the pioneers of modern investment theory, Philip A. Fisher's investment principles are studied and used by contemporary finance professionals including Warren Buffett. Fisher was the first to consider a stock's worth in terms of potential growth instead of just price trends and absolute value. His principles espouse identifying long-term growth stocks and their emerging value as opposed to choosing short-term trades for initial profit. First published in 1958, this investment classic is considered a must-read as the foundation for many of today's popular investment beliefs.

Marketing strategists Ries and Ries spend all 320 pages of their latest book arguing one point: skillful public relations is what sells, not advertising. Case in point: the failure of Pets.com's sock puppet ads. However, in a chapter devoted to dot-com advertising excesses, the authors never mention that many dot-coms had miserable business plans and neophyte management. (The Rieses may be counting on the sock puppet to sell another commodity, as a deflated sock puppet dominates the book's jacket.) Today, most small companies aren't bloated with venture capital to buy TV ads, yet the book has little practical advice on how these companies' executives should use public relations, particularly PR's most important role: crisis control. Some readers might resent paying $24.95 for what amounts to an advertisement for pricey PR consulting firms like Ries & Ries. The authors frequently poke fun at the most outrageous TV ads of recent years, paralleling Sergio Zyman's The End of Advertising As We Know It (reviewed ab

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees. The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands. The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits. That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

Strategic Management of eBusiness discusses the role and value of the strategic management of e-business.It is written from a post-dotcom crash perspective and presents and organisational focus on the use of e-business and its company s business activities, existing business networks and supply chains,managing and improving customer relationships, and enhancing the company's financial performance. This new book provides students with the necessary strategies and models for identifying, planning, implementing and managing successful e-business initiatives. The text is aimed at students of information technology, e-business and management. It provides a holistic corporate view of e-business and the need for the various business units to work together to achieve specific business initiatives.

For any investment professional or specialist trader, knowing how to read and interpret rapidly fluctuating market signals can be one of the most challenging aspects of the job. This new title shows how DeMark Indicators can provide a technical analysis system for identifying risk, calculating future projected price rises, constructing more reliable trend lines and forecasting possible trend reversal levels. Jason Perl's concise explanation of the indicators themselves will familiarise the reader with one of the most popular technical analysis tools and demonstrate how to combine the various indicators and time frames to achieve a higher probability of trading success.

Microfinancing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts reveals how Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus revolutionized global antipoverty efforts through the development of this approach. This book presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus’s microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago, and recounts the experiences of different borrowers in each country, interspersing them with stories of Yunus, his colleagues, and their counterparts in Chicago.

The definitive guide to fixed income investing--revised andupdated for the new era of investing The Handbook of Fixed IncomeSecurities is the investing industry's most trusted, widelyfollowed fixed income reference. For nearly three decades,investors have been drawn to its unparalleled scope, detail, andexpertise. Now, the world's most authoritative fixed incomeresource has been updated with facts and formulas to help youbetter analyze, value, and manage fixed income instruments andtheir derivatives in today's evolving marketplace. This thoroughlyrevised eighth edition includes detailed discussions of: Types,features, and uses of fixed income securities Active and structuredportfolio management strategies Basics of fixed income analytics,from bond pricing to price volatility measures Risks and riskcontrol strategies Interest rate and credit derivatives and theirportfolio management applications Asset-backed securities,collateralized debt obligations, and innovative fixed incomeapplications The Handbook

In our lightning-fast digital age, a company can facehumiliation and possibly even ruin within seconds of a negativetweet or blog post. Over the last year companies such as BP,Goldman Sachs, and Toyota have experienced serious blows to theirimages that could have had reduced impact if their leaders hadimplemented reputation management into their business strategy andculture. There is no one in either the corporate or academic spherewith greater expertise in the area of corporate reputation than Dr.Daniel Diermeier. An award-winning professor at the Kellogg Schoolof Management, Northwestern University, Dr. Diermeier has blazed apath in understanding the significance of reputation management anddemonstrating how a company can create a program so powerful thatit can help turn a potential public disgrace into a public imagesuccess story.

"Genetics For Dummies," 2nd Edition serves as a perfect coursesupplement for students pursuing degrees in the sciences. With 25percent new and revised material, "Genetics For Dummies," 2ndEdition includes coverage of recent discoveries in the field ofgenetics and provides science lovers of all skill levels witheasy-to-follow and easy-to-understand information about thisincreasingly advanced field. It includes new information on: basicgenetics genetic mutations, diseases, and evolution gene therapyand other new--and controversial--medicines the exploration ofethical issues as they pertain to the study of genetics the futureof genetic science results and applications of scientificdiscoveries such as stem cell research, cloning, moleculargenetics, behavioral genetics, bioarcheology, and geneticengineering and more