Your Successful Project Management Career provides you with all the information and advice you need to get started. Beginning with an overview of how project management got started, how the field has grown, and where it’s headed, you’ll find a clarification of project management terminology, and a list of courses, educational programs, and reading requirements you need to be acquainted with. The book gives you helpful tips on how to make the transition from your present career into project management, as well as an explanation of typical corporate hierarchy. The book gives you indispensable advice on:

Acquiring preparatory skills in scheduling, budgeting, team-building, delegation, and building a personal skill set
Assessing the market and selecting the “right” organization
Making friends and alliances in the field
Taking over projects in progress, developing project plans, and executing and closing projects
Gaining experience, and expanding your knowledge and training

Easy to understand and filled with all the information you need to get started, Your Successful Project Management Career is an immensely valuable guidebook every beginning project manager should own.

If you’re going to reengineer your entire organization around ad hoc, short-term projects, you’d better have people who know how to run projects well. And when, according to Standish Group, only 28 percent of IT projects meet “basic” standards of success, we’ve clearly got a long way to go.

Smart big companies are building project management offices (often, leveraging resources they first organized for Y2K). Smart people are learning project management on their own, without being asked. Smart people in a hurry are doing it with Project Management JumpStart.

In this important book, successful organizations—including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair—share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they

  -Commit to organizational objectives and culture
  -Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions
  -Implement competency or organization effectiveness models
  -Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion

Excel As Your Database guides those of you who need to manage facts and figures–yet have little experience, budget, or need for a full-scale relational database management system. You'll learn how to use Excel to enter, store, and analyze your data.

This book is written and organized in a way that assumes you have some familiarity with Excel, but not with databases. The book features quick-start solutions, practice exercises, troubleshooting tips, and best practices.

You're busy-very busy. You need reliable, practical answers to your IT questions, and you need them now. The Vest Pocket Guide to Information Technology, Second Edition is a handy pocket problem-solver designed to provide you with the quickest route to a solution. Practical, reader-friendly, and thoroughly illustrated, this updated handbook provides complete guidance for the complex, ever-changing world of IT to help you quickly pinpoint what you need to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it.

Written by two all-time bestselling accounting and finance authors, Jae Shim and Joel Siegel, this thoroughly updated Second Edition includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports to help you avoid and resolve any and all IT dilemmas.

Many people use Outlook either by choice or by force, but few of them do more than scratch the surface of the personal information manager's many features. And after years of spending hours each day within Outlook, most users become at least proficient with its base features.

Outlook 2007: Beyond the Manual takes you to the next level, showing you how to better manage your time, tasks, mail, and activities using Outlook's sometimes hidden and sometimes undiscovered features. Freshly written for and based on Outlook 2007, this book doesn't waste your time showing you how to send an e-mail, but tells you how to make yourself more efficient, less cluttered, and more clear about what's happening in your life.

This book goes farther faster into Outlook's advanced capabilities than other books. It shows you how to take control of the flow of information and time in your life and use Outlook to keep better tabs on it. It helps you take the thinking out of e-mail management, the tedium out of appointments and meeting scheduling, and the "rottenness" out of manual tasks.

• Doesn't waste time with introductory features
• Highlights new Outlook 2007 capabilities and improvements
• Discusses quick troubleshooting options so you don't wait on hold with your tech support group
• Shows integration with other Office products (SharePoint, Word, etc.)
• Includes a treatment of popular Outlook add-ins and add-ons
• Shows programmatic/development capabilities of Outlook

This revised fourth edition of "Doing Business with China" has been updated to take into account key changes in the legal and fiscal environment. It remains the most comprehensive guide available to all aspects of commercial engagement in China. It focuses on developments in China's business and regulatory environment over the past four years since WTO entry and on the key industry sectors where China is already a global player or which offer good opportunities for foreign investment and trade. In addition, the guide provides authoritative insight into accounting, auditing and taxation practices; banking, foreign exchange and corporate finance; and marketing issues which are unique to the Chinese markets. Revisions include updates to chapter's on economic performance and outlook, China's Securities Market and sector reports on China's automotive industry, banking, oil and gas and steel production and core minerals.

The Brave New World of eHR is an important resource, filled with the most current information and practical advice on eHR for human resource professionals and industrial and organizational psychologists. Written by an expert group of scholars, practitioners, and subject matter experts, this book offers an overview of the major technological trends in eHR, and shows how to use technology to enhance organizational effectiveness.  Comprehensive in scope, the book includes information on a wide variety of topics.