Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 1:23 am under Business
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“Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.” According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 1:13 am under Business
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Lewicki, Barry, Saunders, and Minton’s: Essentials of Negotiation Third Edition is a short paperback derivative from the main text, Negotiation. It explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution.
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Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 1:03 am under Business
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If you’re enrolled in an executive education or MBA program, you’ve probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you’re like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying, challenging, or downright frustrating. In “The Case Study Handbook”, William Ellet presents a potent new approach [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:53 am under Business
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John Lucht, an executive recruiter during the past three decades for some of America’s top corporations, knows what it takes to snag a new six-figure job. Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1 Million+ is his newly revised guide to the ins and outs of a search for a [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:43 am under Business
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A revised edition of this bestselling primer on empowerment. This modern-day fable explains what managers and organisations must do to create and maintain an empowered workforce, dedicated to continual improvement in quality, output, sales and customerA revised edition of this bestselling primer on empowerment. This [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:33 am under Business
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Reed, Shedd, Morehead and Corley’s, The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business, is the landmark text that established the field for the Legal Environment of Business course. The 12th Edition continues the fine tradition of highlighting the legal and regulatory environment in which people and companies conduct business activities. It [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:23 am under Business
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"…this book will provide useful advice for working at home–avoiding the online scams being peddled…" –Time Magazine, April 2, 2009
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"Lister and Harnish are careful to point out that working from home is not for everyone. They interviewed [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:13 am under Business
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Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to your development organization *Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle *Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leaderLean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Lean [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:03 am under Business
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From Publishers Weekly
In this highly readable companion to his nightly CNBC television series, The Big Idea, former ad man Deutsch profiles the entrepreneurs who have visited his show and the lessons he’s learned from them. The author relishes stories of little people—mothers, students, retirees and [...]
Posted by admin on 30 Oct 2009 at 11:53 pm under Business
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John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life’s work–not at business school or leading Microsoft’s charge into Asia in the 1990s–but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands [...]
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