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The Effective Manager

The Effective Manager

By: Sarah Cook

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 24-FEB-2009

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"Order this new book on Management Skills for High Performance today.... This series of books aims to provide practical guidance on a range of soft-skills areas for those in IT. They may also be used to good effect by others, including those who deal with IT professionals, in order to facilitate more effective and co-operative working practices. The Effective Manager is intended to provide IT managers with practical advice and tips on how to become an effective manager. Help develop your management skills Whether you are new to management, or have been a manager for some time,...

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Coaching for High Performance

Coaching for High Performance

By: Sarah Cook

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 27-JAN-2009

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Benefit from this practical guide to improving your team's performance Coaching helps people to define desired outcomes for themselves and encourages them to take responsibility for developing strategies and actions to achieve them. It's about helping people to learn rather than teaching them. By applying sound coaching skills within in the IT workplace, you can enhance the quality of your team's work, increase people's ability and confidence, and create a climate of high performance. If you are an IT manager and work with IT professionals on a regular basis, Coaching for High...

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Present Yourself

Present Yourself

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 12-JUN-2013

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With the success of SlideShare and other online presentation sites, slide presentations have become the language of business. This practical book demonstrates how you can use this visual language to make the story of your organization, brand, or initiative effective and entertaining—and how social sharing networks like SlideShare, Prezi, and Scribd can present your story to a worldwide audience....

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Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management

Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 13-JUN-2013

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If you’ve been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach....

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Les nouveaux défis du Brand Content: Au-delà du contenu de marque

Les nouveaux défis du Brand Content: Au-delà du contenu de marque

By: Thomas Jamet

Publisher: Pearson France

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 07-JUN-2013

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« Le Brand Content c'est finalement ce que devrait être la bonne publicité. Un échange entre une marque réussissant à construire une relation émotionnelle avec son public et un consommateur ayant le sentiment d'être diverti sans sentir la pesanteur d'une pression commerciale. » Olivier Altmann, co-président de Publicis Conseil Face à des audiences fragmentées et un écosystème média où tout est connecté et simultané, quelles solutions concrètes, ludiques, engageantes et surtout efficaces est-il possible d’apporter aux marques ? La nouvelle donne consiste aujourd’hui à envisager le Brand...

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Shortcuts to success - Project management in the real world

Shortcuts to success - Project management in the real world

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Publisher: BCS Learning & Development Limited

Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013

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Anything from an office move to the Olympic Games can be termed a project, and 97 per cent of successful projects are led by an experienced project manager. Presenting over 250 years of professional project management experience in a highly accessible format, this entertaining yet practical book will help project managers get up to speed quickly with good practice, avoid pitfalls and deliver business value. This fully updated edition reflects changes to working practices such as the use of social media and collaboration tools....

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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

By: Bernard Marr

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 21-JUN-2012

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Performance indicators are essential tools which will tell you if your business is on target or veering off course. Using the right indicators will help you deliver the right results.   Key Performance Indicators cuts straight to the 75 + KPIs that matter. It explains what key performance indicators are, gives you short overviews of each metric and describes how to use the measure effectively.  There are worked examples throughout which will equip you with the skills to understand, assess and interpret the most important aspects of any business.   From net profit margin, to...

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Key Business Solutions

Key Business Solutions

By: Antonio E. Weiss

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 14-MAY-2012

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This book explains how to resolve every challenge faced on a day-to-day basis in your business by presenting an unbeatable inventory of proven problem solving tools and techniques to help you tackle your toughest business dilemmas effectively. You will learn how to: ·    Overcome any business challenge with robust logic and structure ·    How to break down problems and make your workload lighter ·    Deliver the ‘killer’ recommendations ·    Discover how to successfully implement change in people and organisations ·    How to keep yourself, your team, and your stakeholders happy ...

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Leading from the Emerging Future

Leading from the Emerging Future

By: C. Otto Scharmer; Katrin Kaeufer

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Publication Date: 08-JUL-2013

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Our Time Is Now We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system from an obsolete “ego-system” focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole. Filled with real-world examples, this thought-provoking guide presents proven...

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E-Government Success Factors and Measures

E-Government Success Factors and Measures

By: J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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As governments around the world seek new and more effective methods of organizing their administrations, electronic government plays an increasingly more important role in governmental success. However, due to hindrances in financial and communication resources, these advantages are often overlooked. E-Government Success Factors and Measures: Theories, Concepts, and Methodologies investigates successful e-government initiatives in a modern technological environment, exploring both benefits and challenges due to various technical, organizational, social, and contextual factors. The book...

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Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader

By: Emmanuel Gobillot

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-APR-2013

Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013

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Most leadership models start with trying to identify what great leaders do. In Follow the Leader, global speaker, consultant and leadership expert Emmanuel Gobillot answers a much more fundamental question to anyone wanting to become a great leader: 'what do great followers want?'. In this fast-paced and well-researched book, he identifies the key elements of leadership success and the proven pathways to developing the charisma we all seek in the leaders who truly inspire and motivate us. He breaks down the all-important 'charisma' into eight critical elements, explaining how each component...

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Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting

Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting

By: Douglas J. Cumming; Sofia A. Johan

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 02-APR-2009

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Other books present corporate finance approaches to the VC/PE industry, but many key decisions require an understanding of the ways that law and economics work together. This book is better than straight corporate finance textbooks because it offers broad perspectives and principles that enable readers to deduce the economic implications of specific contract terms. This approach avoids the common pitfalls of implying that contractual terms apply equally to firms in any industry anywhere in the world. • Explores the economic implications of contract terms for start-up firms in various...

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THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIMEPerfect Phrases for Coaching Employee Performance gives you the language to empower, engage, and develop your employees. Filled with hundreds of wordsand phrases you can use in virtually every coaching situation, this go-to guide provides everything you need for:Onboarding and trainingConducting performance reviewsSetting employee goalsCoaching high and low performersCreating powerful teamsBuilding strong relationships ...

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S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E: The Art of Corporate Warfare

S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E: The Art of Corporate Warfare

By: Mukul Deva

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2012

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"In the intense competition of today's corporate world, CEOs cannot merely apply the theories of management they learnt in classrooms—unless, of course, they are content with mediocre success. No corporation can hope to succeed without proper strategies, discipline and determination—and there is no better place to learn those from than the battlefield. S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E. – The Art of Corporate Warfare studies military strategies, some brilliant, others flawed, taken from the times of Alexander the Great right up to recent military campaigns, and applies them to the dynamic, cut-throat...

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The Pause Principle

The Pause Principle

By: Kevin Cashman

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Publication Date: 24-SEP-2012

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Accustomed to doing, striving, and achieving, leaders are too often addicted to speed and action. But we live and lead in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Change is constant and we are on information overload. The way forward is often unclear. How can leaders deal with critical decisions, develop creative solutions, and thrive in the relentless pace of their 24/7 reality? Paradoxically, Kevin Cashman contends that the answer is not to act more quickly but to pause more deeply—to slow down to go fast, to stop and prioritize, to make time to discern and...

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Private Equity and Venture Capital in Europe

Private Equity and Venture Capital in Europe

By: Stefano Caselli

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 20-NOV-2009

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The distinctive nature of the European pe/vc environment is on display in Stefano Caselli’s presentation of its complete conceptual framework, from the volatile (its financial side) to the stable (its legal organization). A Bocconi University professor, Caselli offers a European perspective on market fundamentals, the v.c. cycle, and valuation issues, supporting his observations with recent examples and case studies. Written for investors, his book achieves many "firsts," such as clarifying many aspects of EU and UK financial institutions. Complete with finding aids, keywords, exercises,...

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Production Line Efficiency

Production Line Efficiency

By: Sabry Shaaban; Sarah Hudson

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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In today’s production world, many of the lines seem unpaced and unbalanced. Inside this book, you will learn new designs for these lines that can lead to more efficiency by taking advantage of inherent imbalance—for example, operators who work at different speeds—a concept that has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to efficient production. The authors have included a series of experiments that illustrate the issues involved in improving performance through production line imbalance, as well as some surprisingly easy ways to improve performance with low or zero costs. Emphasis is placed...

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Value Creation in Management Accounting

Value Creation in Management Accounting

By: CJ McNair-Connolly; Lidija Polutnik; Riccardo Silvi; Ted Watts

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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Value creation is at the heart of an economic enterprise, defining its capability to serve customers and generate profits and growth. This fact has led to an ever-increasing set of tools and techniques that start with customers, focusing on serving their preferences from the very inception of a product until its disposal. And this data is required to implement a value creation approach that has its roots in the Management Accounting System (MAS). The resulting model is called the Value-based Cost Management System (VCMS). If you or any manager want to take the lessons you learned in product...

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Valuation Estimates and Takeover Acitivity

Valuation Estimates and Takeover Acitivity

By: B. Espen Eckbo

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 02-JUN-2010

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A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume one, "Takeover Activity, Valuation Estimates and Sources of Merger Gains", focus on classical issues such as the existence and source of merger waves, empirical estimates of takeover announcement returns and the division of takeover gains between bidders and targets, and tests for potential sources of...

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Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management

Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management

By: Angela Lin; Jonathan Foster; Paul Scifleet

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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Businesses continue to design and implement a variety of information systems that facilitate the creation, aggregation, and provision of product-related information in order to increase the role that quality information is playing in consumers’ decision-making processes. Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management: Design, Implementation, and Use highlights empirical research, theoretical frameworks, and relevant models on the understanding and implementation of consumer information systems. By covering consumer perceptions of practicality and ease of use, this book is essential...