Whether you're dealing with a problem employee or praising the good work of a colleague, you need to communicate in a way that promotes positive change in others. Giving Effective Feedback quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results, including: 1. Choosing the right time to talk 2. Engaging in productive dialogue 3. Helping both star and struggling performer…
This volume in the new Arthritis & Arthroplasty series offers expert guidance on everything from patient selection and pre-operative planning to surgical approaches and techniques.
much time on strategy development with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. This book will inspire you to: 1. Distinguish your company from rivals 2. Clarify…
We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a luxury. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over.
Whether you're designing a new product or improving processes within your company, harnessing your team's creativity can help solve your toughest problems. Innovative Teams quickly walks you through the basics of leading the creative process, including: • Building a diverse team • Generating a wide array of options • Choosing the right solution • Promoting a culture of creativity
Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming—but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly, introducing you to key terms and concepts such as: • How to navigate financial statements • How to weigh costs and benefits • What's involved in budgeting and forecasting • How to ga…
Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work you need to accomplish? Being pulled in different directions by competing priorities? Getting Work Done runs you through the basics of being more pruductive at work.
In Business Statistics in Practice, Seventh Edition, we provide a modern, practical, and unique framework for teaching an introductory course in business statistics. As in previous editions, we employ real or realistic examples, continuing case studies, and a business improvement theme to teach the material. Moreover, we believe that this seventh edition fea¬tures more concise and lucid explan…
Behavior in Organizations is designed first and foremost to meet needs that other texts do not satisfy. It continues to take a hands-on, experiential approach to organizational behavior. The majority of the exercises, role-playing simulations, and cases were developed in and for management training workshops. Understanding human behavior in organizations is the heart of effective management.…
The Second Edition of Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain explains familiar operations management topics as viewed through a supply chain management perspective. This edition reiects key shifts in operations management, including transitions that demand new tools and ap¬proaches that address the demands and challenges businesses face today and will in the future. Three key shifts refl…
A few books can change your life. Our book may not be one of them. However, if you read it, you will better understand that pay matters. After all, you can't pick up a newspaper, power up a computer, or read a blog today without someone talking about compensation. The Great Recession had major ramifications for pay. Some folks had their hours cut and/or their pay frozen or reduced. Why? Because…
Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking foryou—and you'll probably be waiting forever. Instead, you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and eff…
In this sixth edition of Essentials of Contemporary Management, we continue to focus on provid-ing the most up-to-date account of the changes taking place in the world of management and management practices while maintaining our emphasis on making our text relevant and inter¬esting to students. And we know from feedback from instructors and students that the text does engage them. Our increase…
The Tenth Edition continues the tradition of excellence that has earned Fundamentals of Corporate Finance its status as market leader. Every chapter has been updated to provide the most current examples that reflect corporate finance in today's world. The supplements package has been updated and improved, and with the enhanced Connect Finance and Excel Master, student and instructor support has…
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