Sunday, April 19, 2009

Organisational Learning and Effectiveness (Ebook)

Based upon in-depth research, including over seventy interviews with managers and employees, this is an original and comprehensive analysis of learning organizations. It uses detailed case studies of Coca-Cola and Schweppes Beverages, 3M, Siebe, Mayflower and Morgan Crucible to reveal the most effective practices in organizational learning.

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Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness, A Philosophy for Leaders, New and Revised (Ebook)


Like most books about leadership, this one improves when the author finishes up with generalities and gets down to specifics. Whether it fulfills its "promise" ("to double your business leadership effectiveness on any measure you choose") is debatable; still there are pickings in the book for the would-be leader of a kind not to be found in the many other treatises on the subject. Believing that leadership is a "mindset and a pattern of behaviors" that can be learned and taught, Koestenbaum presents and illustrates the meaning of his "Leadership Diamond." This consists of "four strategies for greatness": vision (thinking big and new), reality (having no illusions), ethics (providing service), and courage (acting with sustained initiative). The "greatness" theme becomes a bit tedious, but there are many compensations. For management collections.

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Elaine D. Pulakos "Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results" (Ebook)

Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that drive results. It goes beyond prescribing typical best practices and instead focuses on what it really takes to implement performance management effectively. The book provides nuts and bolts guidance for how to develop effective performance measures. Providing both practical advice, tools, and examples, this book translates best practices, ideas, and concepts into concrete and practical development and implementation steps that can be applied in any organization.

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Contributions By New Editorial Board Members: A Special Issue of human Performance (Ebook)

Reinforcing the international diversity of researchers who are concerned with aspects of human performance, this special issue contains articles submitted by five new editorial members based in Australia, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. The increasing globalization of work organizations demands that a knowledge base is developed that is global in nature. Research questions about how constructs of interest and their relations are affected by regional and cultural factors must be carefully developed and tested. Human Performance continues to be a leading forum for such research and theory.

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Bruce J. Avolio, Fred Luthans, "The High Impact Leader" (Ebook)

The High Impact Leader takes you beyond static and inflexible leadership "rules" to help you develop hands-on leadership skills within the unpredictable, often chaotic framework of everyday life. This results-based examination features wide-ranging research and examples of how real-world leadership has developed over the past century. It details a program for accelerating your authentic leadership development that is realistic and achievable, for individuals in virtually any personal or professional environment.

Written by veteran researchers in the Gallup Leadership Institute and based on innovative leadership-building models and tools, The High Impact Leader provides you with:
A step-by-step process for helping you understand how to transform yourself into an exceptional leader
Tools presented in the book and accessible through the web for managing and measuring personal progress toward authentic leadership development
Strategies for building a pool of leadership-ready individuals in any organization

Authentic leadership is essential for transforming average results into breakthrough success. The High Impact Leader steers around buzzwords and silver bullets to reveal what you can do to achieve positive, organic growth fueling sustainable success--and what you must do to develop and nurture authentic leadership within yourself and your organization.

Life presents each of us with a series of positive and negative moments, both carefully scripted and completely unplanned. Whether they appear monumental or inconsequential at the time, many are destined to become key moments that profoundly shape our destinies, if we are prepared to take advantage of them.

High-achieving individuals understand the potential in these key moments and draw full value from them to realize their full leadership growth and potential. The High Impact Leader provides you with the information and knowledge you need to recognize and understand these "moments that matter" and use them to accelerate your authentic leadership development (ALD).

Designed to help you understand what the authentic leadership process is as well as how it can be enhanced, this straightforward and proactive approach to developing authentic leadership in any individual or organization includes:
A proven framework for structuring your chosen direction and regulating how you will execute your leadership development to pursue that direction
Ways in which leadership directly and indirectly impacts performance, and how the culture and climate of your organization contributes to extraordinary development and performance
Techniques for creating positive psychological capital in yourself and others, to achieve maximum potential organic growth and veritable performance
Proven methods for moving beyond your actual leader self to your possible leader self, and accelerating your progress toward powerful and sustainable success
Examples of how to move in the right direction and straightforward guidelines for doing so

The High Impact Leader is a clear-cut description of the insights and actions that lead to authentic leadership development, tested and proven to work in actual situations. It will show you how to recognize and gain full value from the key moments that trigger true leadership, allowing you to more effectively pull your positive future realities into your present with less risk and far greater success. The whole focus of this book is to help you leverage what you have been born with to help you achieve your points of excellence in terms of leadership success.

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Information Systems Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach (Ebook)


A comprehensive guide to the strategic management of information systems within business and public sector organisations. Key issues covered include: corporate strategy, information systems strategy and the technical versus social debate.

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Forex Freedom (Ebook)


Turn $300 into $30,000, Financial Freedom in as Little as 6 Months!, eReport By Robert Borowski.

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FOREX On-Line Manual For Successful Trading (Ebook)


he goal of manual is to introduce beginning traders to all the essential aspects of foreign exchange in a practical manner and to be a source of best answer on the typical questions as why are currencies being traded, who are trader, what currencies do they trade, what makes rates move, what instruments are used for the trade, how a currency behavior can be forecasted and where the pertinent information may be obtained from. Mastering the content of an appropriate section the user will be able to make his/her own decisions, test them, and ultimately use recommended tools and approaches for hi...

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Friday, April 17, 2009

8 Keys To eBay Trading Success (Ebook)


A ebook providing professional advice on how to be successful on eBay

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Affiliate Marketer's Handbook (Ebook)


The Affiliate Marketer's Handbook reveals proven elements of all things essential when it comes to marketing online as an affiliate. The book details not only the pitfalls to avoid but important affiliate marketing elements like the right program to join, how to promote an affiliated product, and much more. A bonus section is also included.Enjoy reading this excellent resource.

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Maria Bengtsson, Tomas Mullern - A Grammar Of Organizing (Ebook)


`I found A Grammar of Organizing an intriguing and compelling read. It is a conceptually rich text, which deals with fundamental questions concerning our understanding of and activities within organizations. To this end the authors develop a theoretical framework built around fundamental generating principles of organizing. They support their framework with illuminating case material making it an excellent textbook for Masters level teaching in organizational behaviour or design. An insightful book which will provoke debate as well as provide innovative insights into the complexity of organizing in the twenty-first century.'
- Evelyn Fenton, University of Reading Business School, UK

`A "generative" grammar of organizing - i.e. a systematic account of rules and conventions based on the concept of activities - that may help us avoid reducing our understanding of organizing to either structure or process features! This is the bold claim put forward by the authors of this book. To support their grammar, i.e. the activity-community model of organizing, the authors draw on multiple examples from organizations as well as references from the current research debate in the broad area of organization studies. The book, which is written in the Scandinavian tradition of organization studies, is an innovative and much welcome contribution to organization research in general and to the study of organizing in particular. In short, it is a distinct contribution that makes a lot of sense!'
- Per Olof Berg, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden

`This engaging book offers a fresh perspective on managing in a world where organizations and their activities are being rapidly formed and dissembled. The authors develop a novel model of community formation and activity coordination that smartly recasts managerial work to focus attention on how ideas travel and capabilities can be improved both within and across organizational units.'
- Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, US

A Grammar of Organizing provides a new, innovative perspective on the organizational challenges now facing companies in complex and dynamic business situations.

This book represents a much needed departure from static theories of organizations to incorporate the dynamic and ever-changing nature of today's companies. The authors assert that management and organization theory is increasingly turning its attention to the perpetual practice of organizing and strategizing rather than just focusing on formal structures and strategies. This new paradigm is thoroughly analyzed, and the consequent management implications discussed. The book then goes on to build a much needed, coherent and fully developed theoretical framework to further expand upon this new emerging perspective. The `activity-community' model is built around fundamental principles, and numerous case studies are used to illustrate and support this unique theoretical framework.

Offering an up-to-date overview of the latest developments within organization theory, and posing a number of important questions on this changing realm, this book will prove a fascinating read for academics, students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in management and organization studies and practices.

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Cathy Lake - Mastering Project Management (Ebook)


Commercial and competitive pressures place ever greater demands on the project manager and their team. Each project presents its own challenges--size, technical complexity, risk, timescale--and professional management skills of the highest order are needed to ensure success.

To be fully effective, project managers (and managers of projects!) need to take decisions from a business perspective and know how to identify and harness all the relevant skills required for the job.

Mastering Project Management enables the busy manager to review, extend and sharpen their project management skills. It promotes individual development, personal and organisational effectiveness by: reviewing lessons from past projects and exchanges, experience and ideas; enabling experienced project managers to assess and improve performance and methods; providing practical tools and techniques for the busy manager to improve their projects.

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Graham Roberts-Phelps - Customer Relationship Management: How to Turn a Good Business Into a Great One! (Ebook)


Information about and insights into how to attract and retain customers are provided in this business manager's reference. Demonstrating that every customer is unique but can be segmented by value, pattern, and buying criteria, this guide discusses why customers defect, how to keep a customer for life, the customer interaction cycle, and how to develop a marketing database. With charts, checklists, and case studies, it shares innovative ideas for customer service and explains how to generate a customer culture through recruitment, training, and promotion. Also included are strategies for conducting customer surveys and opportunities for connecting with customers in the digital age.

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Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Edition (Ebook)


When it comes to computer crimes, the criminals got a big head start. But the law enforcement and IT security communities are now working diligently to develop the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully investigate and prosecute Cybercrime cases. When the first edition of "Scene of the Cybercrime" published in 2002, it was one of the first books that educated IT security professionals and law enforcement how to fight Cybercrime. Over the past 5 years a great deal has changed in how computer crimes are perpetrated and subsequently investigated. Also, the IT security and law enforcement communities have dramatically improved their ability to deal with Cybercrime, largely as a result of increased spending and training. According to the 2006 Computer Security Institute's and FBI's joint Cybercrime report: 52% of companies reported unauthorized use of computer systems in the prior 12 months. Each of these incidents is a Cybecrime requiring a certain level of investigation and remediation. And in many cases, an investigation is mandates by federal compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, or the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated book which covers all of the technological, legal, and regulatory changes, which have occurred since the first edition. The book is written for dual audience; IT security professionals and members of law enforcement. It gives the technical experts a little peek into the law enforcement world, a highly structured environment where the "letter of the law" is paramount and procedures must be followed closely lest an investigation be contaminated and all the evidence collected rendered useless. It also provides law enforcement officers with an idea of some of the technical aspects of how cyber crimes are committed, and how technology can be used to track down and build a case against the criminals who commit them. Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Editions provides a roadmap that those on both sides of the table can use to navigate the legal and technical landscape to understand, prevent, detect, and successfully prosecute the criminal behavior that is as much a threat to the online community as "traditional" crime is to the neighborhoods in which we live. Also included is an all new chapter on Worldwide Forensics Acts and Laws.
* Companion Web site provides custom tools and scripts, which readers can download for conducting digital, forensic investigations.
* Special chapters outline how Cybercrime investigations must be reported and investigated by corporate IT staff to meet federal mandates from Sarbanes Oxley, and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard
* Details forensic investigative techniques for the most common operating systems (Windows, Linux and UNIX) as well as cutting edge devices including iPods, Blackberries, and cell phones.

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Felice Primeau Devine, "Goof-Proof Resumes and Cover Letters" (Ebook)


In today's tough job market, the perfect resume and cover letter are a must for every job seeker. Outlined in this book are the Goof-Proof Rules—the 36 simple solutions for composing Goof-Proof resumes and cover letters that get you hired! Goof-Proof Resumes and Cover Letters includes up-to-date resume and cover letter formats (with examples), clear and concise instructions on how to best express your unique skills, experience, and education, valuable lessons on everything from proper punctuation to expressing your personal style, and accurate and up-to-date advice on electronic submission. Also included are fill-in-the-blank sections to practice crafting your information after you've read and understood the Goof-Proof Rules.

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19 Secrets to Build Huge Muscles (Ebook)


If you don‟t know exactly what you‟re doing, right from the beginning, you will make many costly diet and training mistakes, and it can take years to get the type of body you want and deserve, if you ever get there at all. In fact, if you listen to the bad advice most “experts” are spitting out these days, you might even go backwards and actually gain fat or lose muscle!

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IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish, Second Edition (Ebook)


Renowned IT project management expert, Joseph Phillips, again delivers an authoritative, easy-to-understand guide that delves into all CompTIA IT Project+ certification objectives. The ???Inside the Exam??? sections focus on the necessary topics to pass the new CompTIA exam. Each chapter features an end-of-chapter review, and the CD-ROM includes an IT Project+ practice test, plus templates and worksheets to use when managing a project. The included real-world examples that provide on-the-job insight from practicing project management professionals, and tie discussed theory to practice, make this comprehensive reference a must-have for IT staff.

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"Beyond Six Sigma: Profitable Growth through Customer Value Creation" By Pl Gary, Jerry Alderman (Ebook)


Six Sigma is an incredibly powerful tool for trimming the fat from business processes and increasing operating efficiency to a point of near-perfection. But the days of cutting costs to create shareholder value are quickly coming to an end. In order to compete in today's super-hot global economy, companies like yours need radically new tools for connecting more closely with customers, identifying emerging market trends, and seizing opportunities for growth. Enter Customer Value Creation (CVC).
In this breakthrough guide to driving profitable growth, authors Gary Plaster and Jerry Alderman introduce CVC, a revolutionary customer-centered business paradigm that marries Six Sigma tools to the sciences of marketing and strategy.

20 Good Reasons to Stay Sober (Ebook)


This book consists of concepts relating to the dangers of alcohol use in correlation with our pursuit for peace and pleasure specifically tailored for the teenage/young adult reader.