Small Business & Entrepreneurship

How to Be a Great Coach provides guidelines, best practices, and state-of-the-art approaches for working with, instead of against, your empoyees, in the process boosting their motivation, performance, and productivity. This results-focused book covers 24 innovative and proven approaches for getting ... More

With stock prices for Internet companies at record lows, venture money kaput for many online business models, layoffs rampant and profits still an illusion, it's hard not to ask: What's up with these companies' boards of directors? Why didn't they act sooner to avert a crisis? Were they hamstrung by... More

Throughout this book the emphasis is uniquely on teams and their value in approaching and solving difficult problems. A team can be a natural work group, an ad hoc group, a management team or any number of other combinations. It is a group of willing people, with varied skills and talents, who are u... More

Vocation. Calling. Destiny. Bliss.There are all words associated with purpose. When we live 'on purpose, our decisions and actions feel right, not arbitrary or forced. We also live a life that is more meaningful and fulfilling. Sometimes, however, we are unclear our about our purpose because we are ... More

Pinsker has hit the high points of the job search very well. While there are many different ways of doing each facet, he has hit on the best of them and given good counsel. Worthwhile reading and a good guide for the job searcher. Robert. Mulford A Viva Crisp book comes through again. Practical, to-... More

Why do some companies consistently win in the marketplace while others struggle from crisis to crisis? The answer, says Noel Tichy, is that winning companies possess a "Leadership Engine" -- a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level.In this single volume, Tichy not only offers a ma... More

Innovative and on the cutting edge, Visionary Selling shows you how to sell effectively to top decision makers by going beyond the hard sell of a specific product to aligning with the broader vision of top management.... More

Top advice from one of America's leading small business experts.Top advice from one of America's leading small business experts.... More

Leading At A Higher Level!Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager and Raving Fans!, Leadership by the Book draws on the age-old wisdom of the Bible as a source of practical help in effective leadership.Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister and a marketplace leader who support ea... More

Business plans are needed to raise finance for a new venture, sell a business or to provide a blueprint for management in the future. Without such a plan, no bank, venture capital house or head office will consider finance for start-up or expansion.This fully revised new edition of How to Write a Bu... More

Making Teams Work outlines 24 rules and guidelines for molding individual team members into a solid, functioning group, one whose value is far greater than the sum of its parts. Look to this concise, value-packed book to learn how to build innovative, successful, and exceptional teams by showing tea... More

Job Evaluation is a timely and practical book, which provides a guide to designing, introducing and managing job evaluation processes and the pay structures associated with them. This useful guide covers:the basic features of job evaluationandnbspequal value considerationandnbspequal pay reviewsandn... More

Many organizations are embracing knowledge management as a source of strategic advantage. But already people are asking: "what comes next?" Likewise almost every large organization is heavily involved in e-commerce and turning their organizations into e-businesses. At the moment most e-commerce is f... More

This book takes a unique approach to the manager's need to become a coach and, at times, a counsellor. There are five sections to the book with about half of that space devoted to checklists, tips, and other supporting materials. If you are a manager, or just becoming one, COACHING AND COUNSELING ca... More

Application Link Enabling (ALE) is SAP's proprietary technology that enables data communications between two or more SAP R/3 systems and/or SAP R/3 legacy systems. ALE and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) technologies are the best fit for this type of communication. With ALE, EDI, & IDoc Technologi... More

This text introduces the concepts of information warfare from a non-military, organizational perspective. It is designed to stimulate managers to develop policies, strategies, and tactics for the aggressive use and defence of their data and knowledge base. The book covers the full gambit of informat... More