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A MUST HAVE!
Our organization gives this book out in one of our classes that teaches newly promoted or new to the company supervisors how we lead teams.We have a corporate culture where recognition is one of the key principles.This book definitely adds value and insight.

Not original, but good if you're looking for a lot of ideas in one place.
This book is a detailed listing of great ideas for rewarding and recognizing employees for a variety of reasons. If you're looking for esoteric and insightful discussions, look elsewhere. But a goodbook when you want to find a different reward.

Belongs on Every Manager's Bookshelf
In 1001 Ways to Reward employees, Bob Nelson reports on recognition tips from employers large and small nationwide. This is one of those books that makes me hit myself on the head and say, "Darn! Why didn't I think of that?" The concept is simple: find out what other employers are doing and compile them into one book. With all of the ideas listed, everyone should be able to find at least one or two (or more likely, nine or ten) they can use in their workplace.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Human Resources & Personnel Management    5. Incentives in industry    6. Management - General    7. Personnel And Human Resources Management    8. Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management    9. Personnel & human resources management   

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A Complete Approach to ITIL Foundations
This book contains a complete approach to all the topics covered in ITIL Foundations and serves like principal guide of study for this certification.

Is it worth it?
I need it for a shot at ITIL Foundation exam for ITIL Practitioner class by mid August. Also having trouble getting
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Industrial Technology    4. Reference - General    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Business information systems    7. Study guides, home study & revision notes    8. Systems management   

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Finally, practical advice.
This is not one of those garbage "no money down" real estate books, this book gives you valid and useful tips to help you build wealth in real estate, not pie in the sky nonsense. After reading this book I went out and did a deal (flip)and it went reasonably well. I'll get better with experience but this book gives you the basics to get started. Avoid all the no money, no credit books and read this one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Entrepreneurship    5. Real Estate - General    6. Real Estate - Investments    7. Real estate investment    8. Real property    9. United States    10. Valuation    11. Business & Economics / Real Estate    12. Property & real estate   

Editorial Review

Jack Groppel is a speaker-consultant on business issues and a partner in a company that helps sports stars such as Ernie Els and Monica Seles enhance their competitive edge by fine-tuning their training regimens and overall lifestyles. In Read more

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OUTSTANDING!
This great book should be on the desk of every stressed out business executive.It brilliantly describes what it takes to be in a peak state of mind when you need to be.There is no question that business people as wellas everyone should train their bodies to get their minds in top shape.Thisbook illustrates that with great information about diet,exercise,and properattitude.A wise investment.

Lacking new Insight to an age-old problem
I waited in anticipation for this book to arrive. Much hype had been made about this new research and the 21 day plan.Business men and women stuggle to balance work and home-life, and the foundation of this book isright on. If we loose weight, drink more water and exercise we will havemore energy for both. The problem with this book is that it says verylittle more.I found myself brousing through the book looking for newideas to give me some boost. The book does have some excellent chapters onhow to deal with stress in the work place. In fact, this book is worthbuying just for these two chapters.However, for those of us who read selfhelp books on a daily basis, you might be looking for more.

At the Top of Your Game
Finally - a book that delivers on its promise to help you get to the top of your game, to help you achieve maximal performance levels in life - and does so using a common sense approach that integrates experience, study andscience with focus and commitment.The key is training like an athletewhether its following an exercise or nutrition program or developing apositive attitude. What a refreshingly realistic concept in this "apill a day takes the fat away" world!Through Dr. Groppel'sconvincing clarity, it all makes perfect sense.And you don't have to bein the business arena to benefit from the principles of THE CORPORATEATHLETE.Maximizing performance can be a goal that crosses age, gender andoccupational or vocational boundaries.But what makes this book stand outfor me is Dr. Groppel's holistic approach - completing the palate offitness by incorporating the physical, mental and emotional with thespiritual.It takes courage to take spirituality out of its politicallycorrect closet and plop it onto the Board Room table, to make it a keycomponent of performance enhancement.Could it be that the growth ofcourage, confidence, conviction and character is a natural end product ofone's development into the ultimate corporate athlete? I am convinced,after reading the book, that this is the case. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business Life - General    4. Business/Economics    5. Businesspeople    6. Careers - General    7. Employee Training And Development    8. Executives    9. Health and hygiene    10. Health aspects    11. Personal Growth - Success    12. Success in business    13. Training    14. Fitness & diet    15. Management & management techniques    16. Self-Help / Success   

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Well Worth The Effort
This book described my work environment to a "T". You can drive yourself dizzy motivating your employees with certificates, gifts, or money and they still don't perform to your expectations. 365 Ways To Motivate And Reward discusses the motivators, which drive a person to work. The book advises managers to fit recognition to their staff's motivators. Helpful surveys, provided in the book, can reveal employees' motivators and guide you to the appropriate form of recognition. It further stresses that recognition begins with daily interaction. The tips for recognition that the book provides are mind-boggling. Tips range from one-year of dog food to senior management washing employees' cars. It seemed silly to me at first, but these suggestions beat a boring certificate and they probably make a bigger impact. It is a chore getting educated on the book's theories and putting its practices into action, but it's worth the effort if it results in better productivity and smiling employees.

Happy employees are essential for your business success
This new book is packed with hundreds of simple and inexpensive ways to motivate, challenge and reward your employees - great ideas from one of my favorite authors. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Employee motivation    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Incentives in industry    7. Leadership    8. Motivational    9. Training   

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Excellent
It tackles the various topics in sports marketing with great clarity and all the chapters integrate seamlessly. It explains concepts with good, clear everday sport examples.

A well structured approach to the subject.
Shanks has produced a solid undergraduate text. It has many examples and is well supported by case and discussion material. Also, the book makes good use of the Internet as a support medium. I am not aware of whether ornot an instructors package is available. If not, that is a failing. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Economic aspects    5. General    6. Marketing    7. Marketing - General    8. Sports    9. Sports & Recreation    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Marketing / General    12. Sales & marketing    13. Sport & leisure industries   

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Using IT to support the business, not the other way around...
All too often, an "enterprise architecture" is designed for a company by IT, and then it gathers dust as everything continues along the same path it always has.The book Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating A Foundation For Business Execution by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson approaches the whole subject from a different perspective, and it's one that actually integrates IT and business...
Pointing the way to how successful companies operate
The typical path taken by the CEO of the company is typically up the channel ofproduct, sales, or financial -- in today's world, a lot of financial types are reaching the big corner office. Unfortunately none of these paths to the top tend to educate the executive into the relatively arcane world if the information technology specialist.
How to achieve and then sustain superior execution

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Subjects:  1. Automation    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Industrial management    6. Information Management    7. Information technology    8. Management    9. Strategic planning    10. Business strategy   

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Learn from other people and other companies mistakes
Learning from other people and other companies mistakes is better than to gain experience through our own mistakes, especially if those are relate to safety.
A Master Class In Hazard Avoidance And Mitigation
"What Went Wrong?" is a well thought-out book on practical safety in the chemical processing industry. The book recounts numerous actual process plant accidents and incidents, includes causes and effects, and avoidance and mitigation practices.
Itemized Case History of Accidents in the Chemical Industry
What I like most about this book is its index and table of contents. It is easy to find a type of accident. For example, when I turned to page 291, I found an exact, simple description of the dangers resulting from the flow of a non-conducting liquid, i.e., one with a low dielectric constant --- like toluene (2.4 compared to water with a constant of 80). "The danger is that a spark could discharge between a body of liquid and grounded metal." In other words, a high voltage shock will knock you off your feet.
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Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Business & Economics    3. Chemical Engineering Safety    4. Chemical plants    5. Engineering - Industrial    6. Industrial Health & Safety    7. Insurance - Liability    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Total Quality Management    11. Engineering: general    12. Occupational / industrial health & safety    13. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

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Just an ordinary accounting book
The book is overall quite good as an introductory text for accounting, but there are other books out there, equally good, that come a lot cheaper. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Finance    6. Financial Accounting    7. Accounting    8. Business & Economics / Finance   

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Organizational Behavior, 11th Edition by Stephen P. Robbins
This is the text that we are currently using in my Organizational Behavior class. While the text is well laid out, easy to read and well-written, Robbins' tendency to blame the baby-boomer generation for all of society's modern-day problems and ethical issues is a bit much to swallow. I do not enjoy reading mere opinions that potentially carry the weight of fact by students when presented in a text-format by a "OB professional" and not presented as merely the opinion of the author. For example, Robbins states in chapter 3, page 74:
Apologyfrom the seller
The book I had received from Escobook was not hardcover as it was promised. It was also an Indian edition. (No color, thin paper, no different than photocopy) I paid almost $80 for $20 book. As soon as the the seller was informed about my dissatisfaction of the product, she sent my money back.
BEWARE!
If you are expecting a real version, buyer beware.The version I received through Amazon was not a real US copy, but rather the "Eastern Economy Edition".It was a "photo-offeset reproduction" which is legally for sale only in Bangledesh, Burma, etc.You can purchase these on E-bay for a fraction of what I was charged.It is a black and white version only, so pictures and graphs intended for color are much harder to read.Since it is basically a photocopy of the original, even the text is harder to read than it should be.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Human Resources & Personnel Management    5. Organizational Behavior    6. Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior    7. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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Easy to digest.
This book helps the new property manager get a feel for what it takes to be a property manager.Easy to read.

Very good book. Surprised!
The reason i gave this book a 4-star feedback is because i happen to have a book which is more extensive that this one, but as well more expensive. But this book, just about covers it all on the topic and very concise. I will keep it as an excellent reference book. Good for anyone; experienced or begginer property managers and for people who have rental units. Great buy!

Helpful Book
The Property Management for Dummies book was just what I needed.It is written in a clear, sensible way AND the index helped me get to the subjects I needed quickly. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Management    5. Personal Finance - General    6. Property Management    7. Real Estate - General    8. Real estate management    9. Rental housing    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General    12. Property & real estate   

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My View
Very good title, well structured and current.Assisted with our implementation process.

Great book with cool tips and tricks
This is a great book that puts you well on your way to success with understanding and working with MSCRM 3.0. The chapters on Callouts and workflow and the examples using the client side SDK and the server side SDK really helped me in making my MSCRM implementations very successful and gave me a complete picture of all the extensions points available in this version of MSCRM. I would highly recommend this book!

Not as one would hope...
This book is a fantastic resource for programmers and process engineers alike - however from the perspective of a manager assessing the capabilities of CRM 3.0 for their organization, I found this book to be commercially irrelevant.
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Great for reference, great for learning BizTalk
This is a piece of the review I wrote on my blog (putting the URL would be against the policies here so I'm leaving it out).
Excellent Book!!!!
This is an excellent book for Biztalk, Only suggestion is read the Biztalk 2006 white paper from the Microsoft website before you read this book. The authors have presented the content in a very easy to understand manner, without beating around the bush.........

BizTalk 2006 Recipes....Thank you!
Hats off to an excellent Biztalk Server 2006 reference! After many books that seem to rehash documentation, this book offers a fresher approach of giving BizTalk developers and admins a way to complete certain needed tasks without having to pour through mind-numbing chapters and still not find a solution to a needed problem.
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Residential Lighting - A Practical Guide
This is an excellent practical and technical book for learning about and designing lighting for a home. It's aimed at the professional, which I appreciate as an intern architect. Part of my job is to design sophisticated lighting schemes for custom homes, which takes a lot of experience and knowledge. This book has really helped me to pinpoint the different kinds of lighting needed for each space and how to place it and specify it in a professional way for the greatest effect. Most architects take years to learn this, but I'm getting a crash course by having this resource. It's not a fluffy coffee table book, it's a technical manual that teaches HOW to properly understand and design lighting for a residence. I highly recommend it.

Excellent Resource
This is the best book that I have seen on the topic.The practical advice is well balanced with technical information.A must-have for any Designer's Resouce Library.

Lighting secrets revealed!
As a designer, I can't say enough good things about Randall Whitehead's Residential Lighting, A Practical Guide. This is his follow up to his wonderful Lighting Up! A Practical Guide which has been a staple of the design community for seven years. All the best parts of the earlier book have been retained with the addition of more than 200 photos in both color and black & white.
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Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Decorating    3. Decoration & Ornament    4. Dwellings    5. Interior Design - General    6. Lighting    7. Architectural structure & design    8. Architecture / Interior Design    9. Heating, lighting, ventilation    10. Housing & property for the individual    11. Interior design   

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Exceptional Talent Management Resource
This handbook offers valuable and process rich descriptions of how to create a talent management system and how to develop competencies to work within that system for consultants and executives alike. The handbook also provides practical suggestions on creating performance management systems along with several other support tools common to talent management systems including compensation, 360 feedback, training and coaching.

Good reference material
A few of the articles are stellar, but many are so-so. Nevertheless, it is very comprehensive covering topics from A to Z, so it is a good reference tool.Definitely for the HR professional, not the line manager.

AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF INSIGHTFUL CONTRIBUTIONS.
The concept of talent management is a systematic, proactive approach to the integration of business and organizational planning, assessment, succession planning, performance improvement, competency enhancement, and career growth. Contributors explain: how a talent management plan and process are developed; the four steps to creating a system; how competencies create economic value; finding high-potential talent throughout the organization; and much more. Breaks important, new ground. ... Read more

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Well worth the money.
I own the 4th edition. I had to make a comment after amazon recommended the 5th.
Basic Supply Chain
This book has an easy written language and is very good for beginners in the Supply Chain Management Area.

Best book to understand manufacturing process
This is one of the best books I have come across which explains the basics of Manufacturing. ... Read more

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Hayre is lucid and informative! The Best Prepaymentbook
As other reviewers have mentioned this is a must for anyone involved with MBS ABS markets.Outstanding discussions on prepayment.Very detailed analysis of MBS ABS structures and related processes.A must for all people working with MBS.

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Asset-backed securities    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Investment Analysis    7. Investments & Securities - Bonds    8. Investments & Securities - General    9. Mortgage-backed securities    10. Securities    11. United States    12. Business & Economics / Investments & Securities    13. Investment & securities   

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Just what I needed
This book is a quick read and addressed the outages in my understanding of how to value companies and structure rounds of funding.

Check Out Author's DVD as Well - Negotiating Term Sheets
This was a really great resource - but even better is author's new product called Negotiating Term Sheets and Valuations in Venture Capital Deals (ISBN 1597010987).It is a 100 minute DVD that has a lot of different material in it that is critical for term sheets and valuations.It also covers specific negotiation strategies and roles and motivations for each key deal participant - which is not covered in the book.

A Must for Term Sheet Analysis and Composition
A great book for understanding term sheets and a much needed book for entrepreneurs, who really do not have many good books to choose from.
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Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Small Business - Capital Generation    6. Venture capital    7. Finance    8. Investment Finance    9. Investments & Securities   

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A Very High Level View
Being co-authored by a business school alum, I had to buy this book. I believe it provides a pretty good overview of how business consultants (mostly strategy) approach problems analytically. It introduces readers to hypothesis based analysis.
Doesnt really deliver -- former McKinsey trying to cash in on the name
Ok, everyone wants to know how McKinsey does it. Works with leading companies, drives corporate strategy, has great influence and often wind up CEOs in their own right.
The Five Activities of McKinsey Consultants
This is framework and brief explanation of the five areas of activities that McKinsey consultants enagage in.They are:
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