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Books, Resources & Products We Recommend - Small Business Management Fundamentals
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| 12 The Elements of Great Managing |
Rodd Wagner
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12: The Elements of Great Managing is the long-awaited sequel to the 1999 runaway bestseller First, Break All the Rules. Grounded in Gallup's 10 million employee and manager interviews spanning 114 countries, 12 follows great managers as they harness employee engagement to turn around a failing call center, save a struggling hotel, improve patient care in a hospital, maintain production through power outages, and successfully face a host of other .... [Read More] |
| Attitude |
Barbara Kaufman
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As Barbara Babbit Kaufman shows you in her revealing new book, Attitude is the power every person has within, a power that can make anything possible. Attitude is how you approach life. Each chapter shows you how to make it happen instead of waiting for it to happen. Attitude is the perfect book to guide any person of any age to a more fulfilling, accomplished life. |
| Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Unconventional Strategies That Build Support for Change |
Rick Maurer
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The book focuses on the critical people element in reengineering and restructuring efforts. According to Fortune, 50 to 70% of all restructuring and quality movement initiatives fail, specifically because they fail to take resistance to change into account. This book shows frustrated managers at all levels how to transform the power of resistance into a positive force. 50 illustrations. |
| Biggest Game of All, The |
Leo Hindery, Jr.
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In The Biggest Game of All, Hindery brings readers inside the rooms where he has worked his wizardry, sometimes in partnership with, and sometimes against, the best deal making businessmen of our time. The Biggest Game of All is a true master class in deal making, showing all the inside strategies, tactics, and temperaments that make great dealmakers great. And at the center of the master class are Leo Hindery's ten commandments of deal making. It is that rarest of .... [Read More] |
| Built On Trust: Gaining A Competitive Advantage In Any Organization |
Arky Ciancutti
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Along with technology and innovation, trust is one of the most powerful forces driving business today. Yet many companies wallow in a culture that is almost devoid of this virtue both inside their walls and with their customers. What many people don't realize, however, is that trust can be created in an organization. Using Built on Trust, companies can develop an enduring culture of earned trust that includes everyone on the payroll and increases opportunities to .... [Read More] |
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| Continuity Management |
Hamilton Beazley
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"How can I keep knowledge from walking out the door when employees leave?" This pressing question is insightfully answered in this landmark book. Operational knowledge has never been more critical to organizational success. Knowledge loss from downsizing, imminent baby-boomer retirements, and high job turnover have created a knowledge continuity crisis that poses an unprecedented threat to organizational productivity and profits. Based on extensive research, Continuity .... [Read More] |
| Creating and Dominating New Markets |
Peter Meyer
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Many executives and managers want to create and then dominate new markets. Creating and Dominating New Markets shows managers, executives, and business owners how to emulate the remarkable success of savvy market creators such as Microsoft, FedEx, and AOL. The rewards include unmatched brand awareness, the luxurious financial position of having no competition, and the exhilaration of building something completely new. Packed with instructive examples and entertaining .... [Read More] |
| Email Basics |
Kristin Arnold
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Discover the "ground rules" to communicate effectively through electronic email. In this essential handbook for teams, master facilitator Kristin Arnold shares practical tips to communicate through email faster, smarter, and easier. |
| Executive Thinking: The Dream, The Vision, The Mission Achieved |
Leslie Kossoff
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Executive Thinking stands alone as the book that shows how any executive, manager, supervisor, or team leader today can create or communicate his or her vision. To then develop the organizational systems and structures needed to gain commitment, establish alignment, and ensure success for themselves, their employees, and their organization. |
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| Experimentation Matters |
Stefan Thomke
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In Experimentation Matters, Stefan Thomke argues that to unlock potential, companies must not only understand the power of experimentation and new technologies, but also change their processes, organization, and management of innovation. He explains why experimentation is so critical to innovation, underscores the impact of new technologies, and outlines what managers must do to integrate them successfully. Probing and thoughtful, Experimentation Matters will influence .... [Read More] |
| Hardwiring Excellence: Purpose, Worthwhile Work, Making a Difference |
Quint Studer
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A "textbook with passion", Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence. In this book, author Quint Studer, CEO of Studer Group, draws on his personal experience as a former hospital executive who led two organizations to the top 1% in patient satisfaction and his experience coaching hundreds of healthcare organizations since. |
| In Search of Ethics: Conversations with Men and Women of Character |
Len Marrella
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Here is one of the most popular and readable books available today on ethics. It's most unique format offers interviews/conversations with individuals who represent the highest examples of ethical character. In addition, the author provides insight into what this country has gone through in recent years in the area of ethical and character failure. From our schools to the White House, from buisness to charities, this nation has been sorely challenged in recent years. .... [Read More] |
| Instant Profits Making Your Business Pay |
Steve Martin
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This book is a great resource for any business person who wants the inside track on maximizing cash flow and building a successful and profitable business. The author gives over 250 suggestions, methods, tips and tools from over 30 years of business success. You can apply these to make a positive difference immediately. Steve Martin gets right to the point to make it an easy tool to use and an enjoyable book to read. |
| Keep Swinging |
Jay Myers
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Starting a business is easy. Growing a successful business: not so much. The statistics are grim: less than 20% of the businesses started each year survive their 5th anniversary. Jay Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee is one such survivor. Jay shares his lessons on how he did it in "Keep Swinging" a story of overcoming adversity and achieving small business success. |
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| Management Mind Field, The |
Tony Paradiso
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The Management Mind Field is no ordinary business book. Unlike most business books, it is written in plain English. It strives to simplify the complex rather than complicate the simple. It is a quick, informative and entertaining read. Readers will experience a new perspective; one that will make them think, prepare them to recognize the signs of healthy and unhealthy companies, and allow them to better understand the mindset and motivations of management. It will .... [Read More] |
| Mentor, The: 15 Keys to Success in Sales, Business, and Life |
Jack Carew
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With recent downsizing trends, many seasoned executives have left the workforce, taking with them the knowledge and wisdom gained from years of experience. In this dramatized presentation between mentor and students, a veteran business leader takes two young professionals under his wing to show them how to find the inspiration and the self-understanding they need to forge strong ties with their customers and build their careers. Addressing 15 key issues, Jack Carew .... [Read More] |
| Mobilizing Minds |
Lowell Bryan
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Based on a decade of exclusive research, Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce of McKinsey & Company have come up with a simple yet revolutionary conclusion: Your workforce is the key to growth in the 21st century. By tapping into their underutilized talents, knowledge, and skills you can earn tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the interdepartmental complexities and barriers that prevent real achievements and profits.
In Mobilizing Minds, .... [Read More] |
| My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide |
Harry Chambers
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Most people think that micromanagement occurs only in management-employee relationships, but the truth is that it happens everywhere: employees micromanage managers, customers micromanaging vendors, board members micromanaging company leaders, parents micromanage children, governments micromanage citizens, peers micromanage one another, and more. With shoot-from-the-hip style and plenty of real-world examples, My Way or the Highway illustrates how micromanagement .... [Read More] |
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| Never Eat Alone |
Keith Ferrazzi
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The dynamics of status are the same whether you're working at a corporation or attending a society event - "invisibility" is a fate worse than failure. In the course of the book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world's most connected individuals. Chock-full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a "conference commando," and more. |
| No Man's Land |
Douglass Tatum
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Tatum's excellent guide brings fresh insight that will help fast-growing companies navigate the fatal trap of no man's land, a perilous zone where they have outgrown the habits and practices that fueled their early growth but have not yet adopted new practices and resources to cope with their new situation and challenges. |
| Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self |
Rosalene Glickman
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Maximize your talents, resources, and time. Make the most of every opportunity and achieve optimal personal and professional satisfaction. The successor to positive thinking, Optimal Thinking is the mental tool you need to achieve your ultimate life. This revolutionary, life-optimizing book shows you just how simple it is to sweep past the ordinary and even the extraordinary into the world of the highest and best. You will never settle for second best again! |
| Owner's Manual for Personality at Work, The |
Jane Howard
Pierce Howard
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This book covers the Big Five supertraits that describe how people respond to stress, adjust to their environment, determine interests, work with others, and establish their roles and goals. It includes workplace case studies and useful applications in areas such as leadership, sales and negotiation, education and training career planning, teamwork, and after hours application for family, friends, romances, and spirituality. |
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| Quantum Organizations: A New Paradigm for Achieving Organizational Success and Personal Meaning |
Ralph Kilmann
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Quantum Organizations presents a new paradigm that can help today's executives see, think, and act in new ways that enhance organizational success and personal meaning. Management expert and top-selling author Ralph Kilmann brings together more than three decades of research and consulting experience in this groundbreaking book to provide a practical guide to achieving the essential transformational changes the new realities require. He clearly explains how to use this .... [Read More] |
| Rapid Results |
Robert Schaffer
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Rapid Results! shows how to make large-scale changes succeed by using 100-day results-producing projects to develop this vital implementation capability. Written by Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and their associates—leaders in the field of change management—Rapid Results! describes an approach that has been field-tested by real organizations of every size and description to improve performance and speed the pace of change. |
| Resonant Leadership |
Richard Boyatzis
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Through vivid examples from the front lines of organizations worldvide, Resonant Leadership illustrates the ways that three key elements - mindfulness, hope, and compassion - are essential to enabling renewal and sustaining resonance. This book also provides dozens of exercises and a field-tested Intentional Change Model to guide leaders on their path to resonance and renewal. |
| Run With The Bulls Without Getting Trampled |
Tim Irwin
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Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled features Tim Irwin's seven critical success factors as well as six common career derailers to avoid. With compelling real-life stories to launch each chapter, Irwin distills not only his experiences as a successful corporate psychologist but also what he has learned from others in thousands of interviews with senior executives. Inside you will also find how you can access free online self-assessment exercises and .... [Read More] |
| SMARTS |
Chuck Martin
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Smarts contains the groundbreaking Executive Skills Profile: a powerful self-assessment tool that will identify, once and for all, a person’s innate strengths and weaknesses. The results offer tangible proof of why we gravitate to certain tasks and struggle with others. With this newfound clarity, readers will learn to play to their stronger skills, and avoid wasting time on lesser ones they can never improve upon. Most important, they will discover their own unique .... [Read More] |
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| Surviving Success |
Jeff Hansen
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Based on research of more than 200 businesses, this guide book uses self-evaluation forms to help you identify what your preferred management practices and priorities are, when those preferences will be most effective, and when they might inhibit continued success. Surviving Success shows you the essentials of leading your business to its next level of growth. |
| Team Basics |
Kristin Arnold
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This straightforward, illustrated guide takes the mystery out of teams in the workplace. Written in easily digestible sections, readers will be entertained as they learn, and will want to keep a copy on their desks for reference. With smart, hard-hitting tips and techniques to help your team be extraordinary, this book is a necessity for anyone who works with or manages teams. |
| Team Energizers |
Kristin Arnold
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Whether you are a team leader, facilitator, consultant or team member, you'll have no problem finding the perfect team activity to suit your situation. Choose from 50 activities specifically designed to energize your team, anytime and any place. |
| The Anti 9 to 5 Guide |
Michelle Goodman
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Not every working girl dreams of clawing her way to the corner office. In fact, many of us fantasize about fleeing cubiclelife for good.
Happily, The Anti 9-to-5 Guide offers an alternate plan. Hip, whip-smart, and laugh-out-loud funny, this practical career guide shows women who are weary of the corporate hamster wheel a better way to make a buck. |
| The DNA of Leadership |
Judith Glaser
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Just as your DNA may determine your destiny, a company's organizational DNA may determine its destiny. The DNA of Leadership helps you understand how to shape your company's genetic code for success. Expert author Judith E. Glaser identifies the seven vital leadership practices that can reshape an organization into a WE-centric culture-a culture that enables people to effectively work together during times of organizational change. |
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| The Medici Effect |
Frans Johansson
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Sharing vivid stories from the domains of business, science, art, and politics about "intersections"--the space in which established ideas clash and combine with insights to create new ideas--Johansson reveals how readers can turn ideas into path breaking innovations. |
| The ParentPreneur Edge |
Julie Lenzer Kirk
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Julie Lenzer Kirk draws upon her extensive experience to offer readers the humor, practical advice, and strategies needed to start, grow, and run a successful business. Using parenting anecdotes, she provides a refreshing twist on the typical business book. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this book explores the similarities between parenting and running a business, and reveals how readers can successfully draw on parenting insights to provide an edge .... [Read More] |
| The Partnership Charter |
David Gage
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In The Partnership Charter, David Gage offers a comprehensive guide to the art of establishing and maintaining a business partnership. The centerpiece of his approach is the Partnership Charter, a document that clearly outlines the goals, expectations, responsibilities, and relationships of the principals. The charter identifies potential sources of conflict and how they will be resolved, while addressing such sensitive issues as personal styles, values, money, .... [Read More] |
| The Pied Piper Principle |
Trudy Jean Evans
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The Pied Piper Principle: Lead, and They Will Follow is a practical and thoughtful approach to leadership techniques that will provide a basis to build or enhance your present methods of management. |
| The Speed of Trust |
Stephen M. R. Covey
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Trust is so integral to our relationships that we often take it for granted, yet in an era marked by business scandals and a desire for accountability this book by leadership expert Covey is a welcome guide to nurturing trust in our professional and personal lives. Drawing on anecdotes and business cases from his years as CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, the author effectively reminds us that there's plenty of room for improvement on this virtue. |
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| The Transparency Edge: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business |
Barbara Pagano
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Today's leading organizations have seized on the concept of transparency as the key to gaining the confidence of investors, employees, and customers--and gaining profits. In The Transparency Edge, leadership expert Barbara Pagano demonstrates that transparency is more than an excellent policy--it is a powerful management skill that managers can learn and use to make themselves and their organizations more competitive.
Presenting the nine behaviors that every .... [Read More] |
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