Positive Management: Increasing Employee Productivity

Positive Management: Increasing Employee Productivity

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There is a myth in American and other first-world business cultures that being tough and unreasonable are keys to extracting high productivity from employees. Not true. Profound economic, demographic, and cultural change is creating a workplace where that myth can no longer be believed. If your organization has people who are hard to work for or is facing increasing difficulty in finding top-quality employees, this book will help you learn more about positive management and how to reach your strategic objectives. This book explains how to use this positive management (PM) as an organization-wide strategy to motivate employees, increase productivity, and accomplish organizational goals by creating upbeat and dignified relationships in the workplace. It covers the use of PM in a variety of situations, including difficult and negative ones, to achieve higher employee commitment and motivation, to lower communication inefficiencies, and to reduce absenteeism and turnover. Any manager, business owner, or student of management will want to have this book on hand when positive management is the next step and the right step.

Managing Investor Relations: Strategies for Effective Communication

Managing Investor Relations: Strategies for Effective Communication

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This book will examine the profession of investor relations from the practical standpoint. The book will define what investor relations is, what investor relations professionals do, what skills and competencies are required to become a successful investor relations practitioner and, finally, how to outsource investor relations services. Investor relations is a profession on the borderline between communication, finance and law. This book will address each of these three competencies as essential for successful practice. The book will discuss how these areas contribute to the day-to-day practice of investor relations and what demands they impose on the investor relations professionals.

Marketing Strategy in Play: Questioning to Create Difference

Marketing Strategy in Play: Questioning to Create Difference

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The ideas presented in this book explain marketing thinking and how to cultivate it, and ultimately, the ways in which marketplace differences are created. Instead of offering marketing steps, processes, and models, the focus here is on developing the practitioner’s thinking rather than providing some formulaic series of steps, processes, and/or models based upon someone else’s thinking. This provocative perspective requires a deeper reading and thinking about many of the familiar notions found in marketing. For example, why compete? It is written for serious practitioners interested in breaking from the familiar ways of doing things and in search of unique approaches to stimulate their own thinking that is effective for any organization large or small.

Blind Spots, Biases, and Other Pathologies in the Boardroom

Blind Spots, Biases, and Other Pathologies in the Boardroom

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In this book we show how seemingly ideal boards, those with “best practice” size, composition, and structure, can still fail to provide good governance simply because they fall victim to problems inherent in all groups. While having groups of board members provide corporate oversight is probably necessary, and even advantageous in some respects, groups have a dark side too.In this book we argue that as a first step it is important to recognize these group dynamics and the problems they cause. Some of them can be minimized through, for example, properly designed decision processes. Others are more complicated. But all of them need to be recognized and understood so that we can properly shape our expectations of the degree and quality of oversight corporate boards of directors can provide, and so that we can turn our energy toward the many group level factors that could improve board performance going forward.

A Primer on Negotiating Corporate Purchase Contracts

A Primer on Negotiating Corporate Purchase Contracts

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In today’s world everyone is looking for cost reduction opportunities. The main opportunity to reduce costs is through negotiations with suppliers. Many companies struggle with the ‘methodology’ in order to prepare for a negotiation. This book was written to help buyers develop a road map to negotiation success. Planning for a negotiation is an important skill set that can impact the bottom line and help your company save money. The process within this book has saved companies millions of dollars!

Achieving Excellence in Management: Identifying and Learning from Bad Practices

Achieving Excellence in Management: Identifying and Learning from Bad Practices

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This book adopts a fresh approach identifying reasons for bad management which are backed up by case studies from real life business situations. The sound management principles so developed can subsequently be applied to a broad range of settings for personal careers in traditional firms or in entrepreneurial or global ventures. Also, to establish role models and mentor topics for individuals and companies, and for handling many problems in the current uncertain international business environment.

Business Planning and Entrepreneurship: An Accounting Approach

Business Planning and Entrepreneurship: An Accounting Approach

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This book will focus on the fundamental steps of business planning within a managerial accounting framework, those being: (a) the business model, (b) volume and process flow, (c) product and service costing, (d) revenue and pricing, and (e) investment value. It will also use the core principles of risk management to address challenges that inevitably arise whenever situations fail to unfold according to plan.

Strategic Planning: Fundamentals for Small Business

Strategic Planning: Fundamentals for Small Business

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Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage. This book is about the fundamentals of strategic planning for the small business owner and his or her leadership team. Strategic planning is an essential process for every size business. While large businesses may have more resources and time to devote to strategic planning, small businesses have the advantage of being close to their stakeholders and the ability to move quickly.

A Director's Guide to Corporate Financial Reporting

A Director’s Guide to Corporate Financial Reporting

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This book is designed for corporate directors and senior executives who want to gain a better understanding of accounting. Corporate directors and managers are under pressure from recent changes in the law (especially The Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002) and demands by shareholders and the public to be more informed, vigilant and involved in the governance of business organizations.