Now translated into 11 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate heirarchy, can use a little “brushing up” now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. The Manager’s Guide to Effective Meetings is a hands-on guide to planning and conducting meetings that fellow professionals will want to attend. It provides techniques for keeping a meeting focused and on target, reveals latest tools for meeting “virtually,” and more. This latest addition to the popular Briefcase Books series will prove invaluable to anyone who has to plan or conduct meetings, in any environment.

Now translated into 11 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate heirarchy, can use a little “brushing up” now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. Managers in all types of organizations and environments must be able to prepare, or at least understand, a realistic and results-oriented budget. Budgeting for Managers rich in practical techniques and examples walks the reader through the entire budgeting process, from basic financial concepts and their use in creating a budget to methods for tracking actual spending.

Chock-full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world
examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise
paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking,
strategies, developments and technologies in knowledge management.
Order your copy today!

Reader-friendly survey of
Knowledge Management (KM): a business optimization strategy that
identifies, selects, organizes, distills, and packages information
essential to the business of a company. Provides best practices in
knowledge management, examines enabling technologies, and discusses
implementation issues. Softcover. DLC: Knowledge management.

Anyone who thinks the audiocassette adaptation of Stephen Covey’s bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
is a shortcut to reading the book has another thing coming. As a
preview, the cassette is worth every one of its 90 minutes; as a
substitute for the original, it will only leave you wishing for the
rest. There’s a reason 7 Habits has sold more than 5 million
copies and been translated into 32 languages. Serious work has
obviously gone into it, and serious change can likely come out of
it–but only with constant discipline and steadfast commitment. As the
densely packed tape makes immediately clear, this is no quick fix for
what’s ailing us in our personal and professional lives.

The
tape opens to the silky-smooth, overtrained voice of the female
narrator, who’s responsible for tying together audio clips from actual
Covey seminars. Leaving aside the occasional attempts at promoting
Covey and his institute, her script does a first-rate job of making
sense of Covey’s own intense, analogy-rich style of explaining his
habits. There’s nothing simple about his approach to becoming an
effective person. The first three habits alone–which have to do with
personal responsibility, leadership, and self-management–could take
years to master. Yet the last four are unattainable, the narrator
insists, if you can’t acquire the personal security–the “inner core,”
says Covey–that presumably comes from a mastery of the foundation.

Throughout our lessons, Covey’s presence is both learned and thoroughly
appealing. He drops references to the likes of Socrates, T.S. Eliot,
and Robert Frost with the aplomb of an English professor. And his knack
for mixing everyday stories with abstract concepts manages to clarify
difficult issues while respecting our intelligence. You could argue
that the cassette is nothing more than a clever marketing tool for
selling another few million copies of the book. But, even at that, it’s
worth the investment in time and concentration: in the end, we’re moved
to learn more about integrating all seven habits in our struggle to
become better and, yes, more effective people.

Executive Coaching is a consumer’s guide for HR professionals and
executives who want to be good clients and savvy consumers of coaching
services. Step by step, the book defines what coaching is, who uses it,
when, and why. In this comprehensive resource the authors outline the
entire coaching process, include key points on the readiness for
coaching, and clients’ first-hand accounts of their coaching
experiences. Valerio and Lee describe the roles of the HR professional,
the client, the boss, and the coach and how all work together in order
to achieve a successful coaching engagement.

Technology is everywhere in our world. We see it everyday in activities
such as banking, shopping, flying, entertainment, or communicating. We
live with technology, and we are surrounded by it. We cannot escape its
influence and how it shapes our lives. But work organizations are also
as dependent on technology as we all are for our daily activities.
Organizations use technology for manufacturing, sales, production,
marketing, and yes, for human resources actions and interventions. So
this is the focus of this volume electonic HR (eHR), a new world order
for managing human resources in organizations. A world where scientists
and practitioners in the industrial and organizational psychology field
have much to say and much to offer in order to promote the
effectiveness and optimization of eHR technologies and services. And so
the motivation behind this volume to provide practical advice to those
who compose, manage, and develop human resources in work
organizations.” from the Foreword by Eduardo Salas

• Processes and methods of financial statement analysis
• Framework for evaluating a company�s “quality of earnings”
• Identifies potential problem areas that need to be investigated
• Analytical tools and techniques to meet the objectives of different user groups

Essentials of Financial Analysis

Full
of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples,
exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will
help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies,
developments, and technologies in financial analysis.

“Essentials
of Financial Analysis is a concise guide with the necessary resource
base for improved client selection by any professional whose practice
is outside the field of financial analysis. I wish that Essentials of
Financial Analysis had been available to me twenty-seven years ago when
I formed an engineering firm. Its use is highly recommended.”
�A. Ray Howland, PE, President, The Howland Company, Inc.

The future of business growth is in the partnerships that companies and their executives form. Partnering explains how critical it is for business leaders to “partner” effectively, and features original contributions from more than 30 thought leaders, including such luminaries as Ken Blanchard, Jim Kouzes and Brian Tracy. Topics cover:

* Ken Blanchard on situational leadership
* Beverly Kaye on building, living, and leaving a legacy for the organization
* Kevin Cashman’s Five Touchstones of Authentic Partnering Leadership
* Robert Kaplan on the Balanced Scorecard for leadership
* R. Roosevelt Thomas on fostering trust and resonance through diversity
* Jim Kouzes on building cultures of collaboration
* Brian Tracy on the importance and power of focus
* Jon Katzenbach on where team performance fits in the balanced leadershipapproach

Meyer heads a consulting group in California that helps businesses
create and dominate markets with new products. According to Meyer, “new
markets are the product of someone’s recognizing a potential, finding
the right solution, and bringing that solution to market in a way that
works.” Meyer’s prescription for success in new-market ventures
includes detailed discussions of the risks and rewards and the
necessary skills for operational managers, executives, market analysts,
financial supporters, and salespeople. The particular needs and
influence of the customer, changes in the economy (successful ventures
can be had in any economic condition), the role of information
technology, demographics, and changes in domestic and international
markets are also critical. Throughout these discussions, he inserts
accounts of many well-known companies that engaged in these ventures
(including FedEx, AOL, Microsoft, Lucent, Motorola, and Nokia) and
analyzes their successes and disappointments. This timely and
thought-provoking book is a good choice for corporate, academic, and
public library business collections. Steven J. Mayover, Philadelphia

With the acceleration of technology and information, projects are
becoming more complex, costly, and time-constrained — and every year
thousands of them get cancelled or end up costing significantly more
than their original projections. Project and program managers are
sorely in need of tools to help them avoid failure.

Blueprint for Project Recovery
provides readers with a proven, proceduralized methodology for
identifying where and how projects went off course, and a defined plan
of action to bring them back on track. Based on years of research and
including a CD-ROM packed with all the forms, checklists and resources
used in the text, the book gives readers an entire process for both
evaluating and repairing projects gone off course, and guidance for
planning them more effectively in the first place. The book is designed
as an easy reference troubleshooting guide that readers can use
immediately to solve all their project difficulties.

Every project or program has exigencies that can cause problems with cost, schedule, or outcome. Blueprint for Project Recovery! is the ultimate