Whatmakesaneffectiveexecutive? Themeasureoftheexecutive,PeterF.Druckerremindsus,istheabilityto"gettherightthingsdone."Thisusuallyinvolvesdoingwhatotherpeoplehaveoverlookedaswellasavoidingwhatisunproductive.Intelligence,imagination,andknowledgemayallbewastedinanexecutivejobwithouttheacquiredhabitsofmindthatmoldthemintoresults. Druckeridentifiesfivepracticesessentialtobusinesseffectivenessthatcan,andmust,belearned: Managingtime Choosingwhattocontributetotheorganization Knowingwhereandhowtomobilizestrengthforbesteffect Settingtherightpriorities Knittingallofthemtogetherwitheffectivedecision-making Rangingwidelythroughtheannalsofbusinessandgovernment,PeterF.Druckerdemonstratesthedistinctiveskilloftheexecutiveandoffersfreshinsightsintooldandseeminglyobviousbusinesssituations. 《卓有成效的管理者》论述了现代企业组织的管理者应具备的素质和才能。管理者要做到卓有成效，光靠天资聪明、工作努力是不够的，还要有创造力、创新精神和组织能

Create your own job security A wealth of info for prospectiveentrepreneurs. With unemployment rates rising, many people are out of work andmany more are either underemployed or in fear of losing their jobs.Many of these workers have long thought of owning their ownbusinesses and are pondering whether self-employment is the rightchoice. This book will help them make the call, and go about theprocess of starting and running their own businesses by learninghow to: ? Determine if it makes financial sense to leave the corporateworld behind ? Assess whether they have what it takes to be self-employed ? Identify the market for their business and test whether it'sviable ? Calculate start-up costs and revenue streams before making anyinvestments ? Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the Competition ? Advertise and market the business

To succeed in today’s ever-accelerating world, speed is the nameof the game. Forget “slow and steady wins the race.” The key togetting ahead is not fighting or hiding from speed, but embracingspeed and using its power to your advantage. As Vince Poscentedemonstrates in this rewarding and, yes, fast-paced book, speed hasa unique ability to enrich your life. He empowers you to takecontrol of your time, your tasks, your priorities, and yourtalents, and start making life everything you want it to be. Twentynew tips–exclusive to this paperback edition–show you how to:?recognize the difference between repetitive chores and passionatepursuits, and assign the appropriate amount of time and energy toeach? mentally shatter the outdated idea that work, home, andleisure should be completely separate, and create a new,purpose-driven model of organizing your time? discover how tocontrol interruptions, including how and when to accept them–bylearning when to multitask and when to focusSpeed provides amazingbene

The companion to the blockbuster bestseller, Getting Things Done . Since its publication in 2001, Getting ThingsDone has become, as Time magazine put it, "the definingself-help business book" of the decade. Having inspired millions ofreaders around the world, it clearly spoke to an urgent need in anincreasingly time-pressured society. Now, in the highly anticipatedsequel Making It All Work , Allen unlocks the full power ofhis methods across the entire span of life and work. WhileGetting Things Done functioned as an essential tool kit, Making It All Work is an invaluable road map, providing bothbearings to help you determine where you are in life and directionson how to get to where you want to go.

Discusses how to create products/services tailored to yourcustomers' needs, recognizing and rewarding your most profitabletrophy customers, using guarantees to build customer trust, andturning first-time customers into frequent buyers. Softcover. DLC:Customer satisfaction.

Even the actions of a single person can help to change theworld. How? Through simple acts of leadership and compassion. Openup this book, and discover the true stories of people whose actionshave caused a chain reaction at work and in their communities.Among them: A manager who gives an employee some supportive praise, and as aresult literally saves his life (page 231). A small group of bank tellers who spearhead a movement to raisemillions of dollars for breast cancer, making it the biggestfundraiser in North America, and enhancing their company’sreputation (page 213). A sales manager who gets a copy of a groundbreaking book that leadsto a transformation of the company’s operations. As a result,hundreds of millions of pounds of carpet waste avoid the landfill,and the company sparks a revolution in its industry (page 12).

Book De*ion In this parable for a modern age, motivational speaker Sanbornrecounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionatelyloves his work and who genuinely cares about the people he serves.Sanborn illuminates the simple steps each person can to transformtheir lives from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company tha

The administrative professional's guide to the modernoffice. This revised and updated Third Edition provides the office workerwith practical advice on how to survive and thrive in today'sfast-paced business environment. Written by business specialists,it has detailed information on standard office practices, withspecial emphasis on electronic communications and informationtechnology. ? Produced under the sponsorship and direct supervision of IAAP,International Association of Administrative Professionals ? Provides up-to-date information on the electronic office,simplifying complex tasks and procedures ? Indispensable for office personnel at every level;self-employed workers; consultants; and entrepreneurs

“Applicants looking for the competitive edge in gettingaccepted at the business school of their choice may want to perusethis book.” –Security Traders Handbook Every year, thousands apply for a finite number of places inbusiness schools. With similar grades, backgrounds, and goals,sometimes the only thing that can make an applicant stand out isthe application essay. It’s the best chance you have to shine andtip the balance in your favor. Essays That Worked for Business Schools shows that the bestessays are brief, sincere, and personal. Some are off the wall,some are bold, all are unique to their creator. One applicantwrites about starting his own airline. Another tells about thecorruption in his job as a defense contractor. And a third reflectson his license plate. From the thousands submitted each year, theforty essays in this book were considered some of the best byadmissions officers at the nation’s top business schools. As thiscollection demonstrates, with creativity and effor

This collection of revealing articles captures the varying leadership and management styles of senior executives in several industries. In today's unpredictable business environment, a strong effort at the top can be essential to capturing the highest performance results possible in most industries. Readers will learn the challenges and complexities that CEOs and senior executives face today and how they can restore sound strategic decision-making while maintaining morale throughout the rest of the company.

Whether you want to win that new account or inspire yourfamily and friends, bestselling author and acclaimed speaker MarkSanborn shows us how to make every performance count. Every day, we are called to perform— at work, at home, in ourcommunities. But is it possible to make every performanceoutstanding, the kind that leaves people applauding for anencore? Mark Sanborn, leadership expert and bestselling author of TheFred Factor, says that anyone can achieve remarkable performancetime after time—no matter what their personality, strengths, orweaknesses. In The Encore Effect Sanborn demonstrates, through hisown experiences as well as those of the people he’s worked with inhis career, how you can cultivate the traits shared by remarkableperformers and achieve extraordinary results in all aspects of yourlife. The secrets lie in five steps: Passion: The fuel for remarkable performance Prepare: How remarkable performance begins Practice: It won’t make you perfect, but it

"Strategy Maps" takes readers to the next level of precision in strategy implementation. "Strategy Maps" introduces a new tool that has evolved from Robert Kaplan and David Norton's ongoing research with hundreds of Balanced Scorecard adopters across the globe, and its premise is simple: if you can visually map your strategy, the people within your organization will better understand it and therefore be better able to execute it effectively. It offers a visual cause-and-effect explanation of what's working and what doesn't in a way that everyone in the company can understand. It helps get the entire organization involved in strategy. 《战略地图:化无形资产为有形成果》系平衡计分卡体系的之作，使企业量化关键的无形资产，如人力、信息和文化。至此，平衡计分卡理论的逻辑体系“描述战略、衡量战略和管理战备”已形成。在本书中，作者将管理领域中几个最关键的任务进行了清晰、严谨的整合，为领导者一本

Welcome to the world of high-powered investment banking. Please check your soul at the door. Meet John and Peter, two young business school graduates, grabbing their chance to become lords of the investment universe, as they run willingly into the open arms of one of Wall Street's giants, DLJ. Frustrated foot soldiers in a designer white-collar army, the two find themselves embedded in the strata of overworked and overlooked lemmings furiously trying to spin straw into gold. It's a high-stakes pressure cooker fueled by 20-hour days, inflated salaries, senseless prospects, outlandish characters, and strip club lap dances. Suddenly, escaping with their sanity seems like the wisest investment of all -- if it's still on the market.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis ofbusiness and American-style capitalism. Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set ofcompanies using their power not only for profits and sustainablegrowth but also social good. If you think business corporations are doomed to be lumbering,bloated, and corrupt, think again. Based on an extraordinary three-year investigation, interviewingmore than 350 key people at major companies around the world,Rosabeth Moss Kanter provides encouraging and astounding evidencethat this assumption is completely outdated. The businesses thatare agile, keeping ahead of the curve in terms of market changesand customer needs, are the businesses that are also progressive,socially responsible human communities. Take IBM. When the tsunami and earthquake struck Asia, IBM didn’tjust cut a check for relief funds and call it a day. The companyused its technological expertise and skilled people to create whatgovernment and relief agencies could not: infor

In this laugh-out-loud personal journey , acclaimed authorMeghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing thatonly a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartmentfantasies and her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hiddenroom” dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House is the truestory of one woman’s quest for the four perfect walls to callhome.

Actors specialize in the skills you need to excel at interviews: self-confidence, verbal communication and body language, and knowing how to project the desired image. Here, the directors of a consulting firm that applies acting techniques to success in the business world share a step-by-step training program to help you ace your own "audition." You'll learn trade secrets for conquering stage fright, how to research the "role" you're applying for, how to look the part, how to deal with job-hunting stress--and how to use simple exercises for effective verbal and physical communication. With each interview, the curtain rises on a new opportunity. With the seven steps in this book, you can get ready to take a bow!

Over the course of a forty-year career in the worlds oflaw, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked withand advised an incredible variety of people. What he’s found isthat the secret ingredient for getting into the winner’s circle issimply the discipline of methodical preparation: that old-school,step-by-step way of having all your ducks in a row, whether you arean executive getting ready to do a deal or make a speech; a pitcherstudying the traits of opposing hitters and keeping a meticulousnotebook of their strengths and weaknesses; an international tradenegotiator who knows all about the issues and the people on theother side before sitting down at the table; or a surgeon whorehearses like a classical musician. Deep down, you know you should do it. But how often do you wingit and fly by the seat of your pants because “Gosh, I don’t havetime . . . I’ve done this before . . . I know what I’m doing”? Itis obvious that you have to get ready for whatever game you’replaying

In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed authorHoward Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" and anaftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminalepisode in America’s history that would spark national debate anddraw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusadinglawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W.Griffith. "Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . AmericanLightning throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, forus today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here." –LosAngeles Times "A fast-moving, skillfully constructed account . . . Blum’s styleis cinematic." –Chicago Sun-Times "Compelling . . . a tense detective story." –Seattle Times "A thumping-good drumroll of narrative history . . . thecross-country manhunt reads like a great mystery novel . . . Blumblows the dust off a page of America’s own incendiary past andbrings it to pulsating life." –Dallas Morning News

So you're standing naked in front of a classroom. Or you'rebeing chased by a one-legged man. Or maybe you're standing naked infront of a classroom and kissing a one-legged man. Dreams can be mysterious, exhilarating, and terrifying but theydon't have to be confusing. With Field Guide to Dreams, you'llunravel the hidden meanings behind these mysterious subconsciousmessages. Organized by dominant symbol (animal, falling, flying,mother, and so on), each section provides helpful interpretationsfrom Freud, Jung, and other psychologists and dream experts. You'llalso learn when you're most likely to have these specific dreams,and whether you should interpret them positively or negatively.With Field Guide to Dreams at your bedside, you'll never wonder ifthat cigar was just a cigar!