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Excellent!
Change and transition have become the norm for most organizations today.Change is difficult, unpredictable and demanding, and can threaten a company's success.In order to cope with change, your organization and its people must be able to balance between the familiar and the unfamiliar.You must be able to absorb as much change as possible without slipping into chaos.In order to do this, you must take steps to make your organization and its employees more nimble.The author provides the following advice for companies to become more flexible in an environment of constant change:
Insightful!
Daryl R. Conner's book operates under the assumption that the future of business will be steeped in chaos. Thus, it tries to prepare the leaders of the future for the kinds of challenges that result from chaos. These challenges will primarily involve employees, since every person reacts differently and usually unfavorably, to change. The companies that marshal an agile workforce and adapt quickly to unexpected circumstances will do the best in this unstable environment. This thoroughly researched book gives leaders a decisive look at what happens when the human psyche tries to navigate change. Conner documents the problems people have when they deal with change and offers a disciplined strategy for making your organization more limber. Even if you've heard many of the key concepts presented before, as you navigate the waters of change, this calm, lucid manual will keep your hands steady at the helm. Therefore, we [...] recommend it to everyone who is confronting change, and that is everyone.
Capitalizing on the emotional edge-
The consideration of the human component of the organization should not be overlooked- nor it's importance be minimized. Anyone who has ever tried to lead the unwilling or otherwise disinterested can appreciate the value of the Human Due Diligence model.Recent focus on employee satisfaction polling and scores underline today's concern with the "happy" employee, assuming that he/she is also the more complient, resilient and productive one.This book is a melding of how humans function in transition and organizational change.It provides a formula and certainly a novel slant to a topic much written about.Daryl Connor has taken concern for employee's feelings about their work environment directly to the heads of corporations and their boards.He creates a replicable framework on which to build an organization that can recognize, adapt to, and recover from change faster than it's competition. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Corporate reorganizations    5. Entrepreneurship    6. Management    7. Management - General    8. Organization Development    9. Organizational Behavior In Business    10. Organizational behavior    11. Organizational change    12. Organizational sociology    13. Structural Adjustment    14. Business & Economics / Leadership    15. Management & management techniques   

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A good place to start
When i started preparation for the PMP certification exam the first book i read was the PMBOK guide. i must admit i found it a bit difficult to understand. Acting upon the advice of a friend i procured a copy of this reference and wnet through it. Its pretty straightfwd but at the same time it enhances one's ability to appreaciate the concepts of the PMBOK guide which because clearer to my mind. hence, i would say its a good reference to start with. going back to basics is sometimes good!

A bit too disjointed
I find this a bit jumpy, hard to keep the context. Examples may be a bit dated.

Good introduction to Project Management
This is a good book for beginners. If you are a seasoned Project Manager, you probably won't find this book of much interest.
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On Becoming a Leader
The book On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis was originally published in 1989, however over the years it was credited with being one of the best books on the topic of leadership, so the author has added a new introduction in an attempt to make the book just as valuable in 2005's world as it did in the world of the late 1980's.
Speaks with Knowledge (4.5 stars)
As to say, this is a must-have for leaders alike who like to lead or teach members or families to become successful in acheiveing in better goals and higher equalities. This is not something to hate you know. It's certainly a great book to start to show yourself approval like what it saids on the Bible (which I read all the time) in 2 Tim 2:15.
Should have been better
When the author sticks to discussing leadership, I found this book very readable and easy to understand.The book is written in a very easy to follow format and he explores the personal side of leadership.He presents some very altruistic ideas the sound very good, however, aren't always practical in the real world.This book would have received a higher rating for me also if Mr. Bennis would have refrained from all the political commentary throughout the beginning of his book.His repeated support for a former president while being less than flattering of the current president put too much of a political overtone in the beginning and really turned me off.It wouldn't matter if I agreed with Mr. Bennis or not, it simply didn't have a place in what would have otherwise been a very good book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Case studies    5. Entrepreneurship    6. Leadership    7. Personal Growth - General    8. Business & Management   

Editorial Review

Anyone who has managed the process of developing or redesigninga Web site of significant size has likely learned the hard way thecomplexities, pitfalls, and cost risk of such an undertaking. Whilemany Web development firms have fantastic technical expertise, whatsets the topnotch organizations apart is the ability to accuratelymanage the planning and development process. Read more

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Worth the buy.
I found it a very useful book, especially with all the downloadable forms. I felt it was a little light on user testing - but otherwise, very good. It felt a bit repetitive and that things were presented in an odd order sometimes, but it's still worth the buy.

Thinking about creating a website and want to do it right?
BUY THIS BOOK!I wish I had this book a few months ago.It could have spared me from many of the nightmares I had while developing a college website.It includes a link to the author's website where you can find lots of forms that ask the right questions so that you can create the right solution.

This book takes a SWAG at a process that could work for web redesign
I use this resource as the textbook for the "Web Site Design" course I teach at PSU.My favorite thing about this book is that it supports my course approach that "everyone has a site" and "when you get a job as a web site (designer, producer,developer)OR have the responsibility of having a site dumped in your lap.... you will not be building it from scratch."
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Subjects:  1. Business Enterprise    2. Computer - Internet    3. Computer Books: Web Programming    4. Computers    5. Internet - Web Site Design    6. New Business Enterprises    7. Computers / Internet / Web Site Design    8. World Wide Web (WWW)   

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Buy this book if you are not a moron
This is easily the best textbook I've ever read. It deftly explains extremely complicated financial theory in plain english. If other reviewers found it hard, it's because finance is hard--really hard. This book, however, is written to make it as simple as possible.

Must Have for Business School Students
This is the main text used in most of the top undergraduate business programs in the US.Now in its 7th edition, Brealey and Myers still do a good job updating their already thick book to include new and relevant topics.I have read the 5th and 6th editions too, and they were fine books.The books are written for a general audience, and requires only a basic background in accounting.The rest of the material is pretty self-contained, but the treatment of some topics is quite shallow.I like the capital budgeting part of this book, as it provides a very good discussion on the subject matter.

Poorly written book - will not recommend
This book is very difficult to understand even with a basic background in finance and economics.There is no structure, no clear definitions or definitions at all. I do not understand why the majority of instructors chose this text.There even are errors in the solutions for the practice questions. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Corporate Finance    6. Budgeting & financial management    7. Business & Economics / Corporate Finance   

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Useful insights, practical exercises.
Written in 1979, People Skills is a classic in the field of communication skills. Like many people, I decided to read this book after it turned up on a must-read list for consultants and business people. The book offers a useful and practical guide to someone looking to improve their effectiveness in interpersonal situations. It is broken down into Listening Skills, Assertion Skills, and Conflict Management Skills.
Starts strong, ends weak
Most books give you 2-3 really good nuggets of insight, hidden in a dry prairie of "heard-it-all-before." Such is the case with People Skills. Most of the content is obvious - have a pleasant demeanor when listening, reflect what you've heard, and so on. Not very insightful.
Classic and Vital
This was part of my "assigned reading" when I first became an IT consultant.It does a fantastic job of providing practical guidance to anyone who interacts with people (i.e., all of us).There are numerous example dialogues and many gems of advice. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. Entrepreneurship    3. General    4. Human relations    5. Interpersonal Relations    6. Interpersonal communication    7. Psychology    8. Personnel & human resources management    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Develop Advanced Financial Modeling Skills
As a university teacher of strategic corporate finance and optimal investment, I have watched the financial industry analytics transcend hand calculation with financial calculators to financial modeling with spreadsheet software. Depending on whether the financial specialty is in corporate or banking/brokerage, the job skills requirement can range from corporate cost control to optimal portfolio design. Thus, modeling skills services both company research and financial planning.
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing, these kind of tools are basic for anyone interested in a financial career. Its an excellent book, an it is easy to read and very dynamic and useful
A useful handbook for financial modeling
This is a quite useful handbook for its easy understanding excel sheets and graphs demonstration.The CD-Rom attached is very helpful for practicing financial modeling problems. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Corporate Finance    6. Finance    7. Financial Applications - General    8. Managerial Finance    9. Mathematical models    10. Microcomputer Accounting & Financial Software    11. Microsoft Excel (Computer file    12. Microsoft Excel (Computer file)    13. Microsoft Visual Basic for app    14. Microsoft Visual Basic for applications    15. Spreadsheets - Excel    16. Budgeting & financial management    17. Business & Economics / Finance    18. Excel   

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WOW Eye opening
After taking a detailed teleclass on interview training from an outplacement coach /resume writer (http://www.callfranklyspeaking.com), she recommended some further reading to make me an expert. I found this book to be really perfect after what I had learned. Straight and to the point.

Muy interesante especialmente en cuanto a las preguntas que uno puede hacer....
Para el que no ha realizado ninguna entrevista de trabajo en su vida, este libro es fundamental, cubre la mayor�a de las preguntas a las que uno puede verse expuesto. Desde las m�s sencillas y t�picas (historial detallado) hasta las m�s extra�as y que suelen buscar situaciones de tensi�n o desequilibrio del entrevistado (dudas sobre capacidad para el puesto, preguntas sexistas, etc).
Good insight on how interviews go - step-by-step
I've had good interviews before, but since it's 4 years since I did my last job search, I decided to get some good insight on the subject.
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Subjects:  1. Applications for positions    2. Business & Economics    3. Career/Job    4. Careers - Interviewing    5. Careers - Job Hunting    6. Careers / Job Opportunities    7. Employment interviewing    8. Entrepreneurship    9. Interpersonal Communication    10. Interviewing    11. Job Finding    12. Advice on careers & achieving success    13. Business & Economics / Careers   

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Deep Change or Slow Death?
In this wonderful book, Quinn challenges us to confront our own hypocrisy and make a choice between deep change or slow death -- that is to say between commitment or disengagement. It's actually not an easy choice to make. Most of us have taken the easy path and chosen not to speak out when w've known what needed to be changed. Or, we've run from a difficult work situation, leaving the problems behind for someone else to clean up, not admitting our part in the failure or taking responsibility for changing ourselves.
An Eye Opener
This is probably the best book I have seen that tackles the theory behind how groups or corporations grow and change over time.I found it particularly helpful in seeing our church from an organic point of view.The writing is more metaphysical than I like at the beginning, but by working through it, I was better able to understand the remainder of the book.
Change at a Core Level
This book is for readers who are ready to look inside themselves in order to change their organizations. It isn't a book for novices. You need a fair amount of business experience to have the perspective to understand author Robert E. Quinn's message. Likewise, you need to have enough invested in your current organization to care if it changes. Quinn offers some theoretical analysis, but leavens it with ample practical examples and exercises. If you have a job, rather than a career, or if you are committed to staying in a narrow, technical field or just waiting for your retirement, skip this book. However, if you're willing to engage in extended self-examination, we suggest this to you. However, be warned that that many of Quinn's drills are emotionally challenging, such as identifying how you resist change or pegging which elements of your organization are more committed to the status quo than to success. But, then, whoever said change was easy? ... Read more

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Very boring
I bought this book based on the good reviews it had received. I could not find any useful infomraiton in this book and the Author seems to go to such great lengths trying to explain governance, but in a very rigid style.
IT Governance
This is an excellent book which should be read by everyone looking for results from their technology systems and not just Techies and IT managers. The overall premise is straightforward: your IT management directly impacts all facets of your organization and therefore to seperately manage your IT from the rest of your organization is impossible and to attempt to do so is inherently foolish.
Good models and a healthy dose of common sense.
The notion that good IT governance is the single biggest factor in generating business value from the IT department seems like a no brainer. Still, an astonishing number of companies get it wrong. Weill and Ross provide a book with an array of governance models that should be able to help many of the IT managers reading this book to get it right.
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Superb!!!
This book has changed the way I look at the world and the way I think. I've gifted copies to all my friends and relatives.
Together with 'Thinkertoys'...dynamic duo...consider them among the best in the genre!
The first time I encountered 'Thinkertoys' it was actually the first edition released during the early 90's, when it was also about the time I began to explore the various options with regard to my mid-life transition. In fact, I had initially spotted an interesting review in the Entrepreneur magazine. A classic
I've read over 30 books on the subject of creativity, and this one stands out as one of the best. It contains some fantastic ideas and exercises for training creativity. Teachers and trainers who are interested in developing student creativity should get this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Creative ability    4. Creative thinking    5. Creativity    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Psychology    8. Advice on careers & achieving success    9. Management & management techniques    10. Mind, body, spirit: mysticism & self-awareness   

Editorial Review

What are the most important things in your life? Do they get as much care, emphasis, and time as you'd like to give them? Far from the traditional "be-more-efficient" time-management book with shortcut techniques, Read more

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A Worthwhile Read even for time management junkies
The Stephen R. Covey engine has kicked out numerous books on self-help, and they consult 200 out of the top 500 Fortune companies. After all of those books and years, they have heard enough stories and waded through enough crisis situations to get a good handle on what works and does not work in all of those environments.
Excellent thesis camouflaged by flowery writing
The author of "First Things First," Stephen Covey, Roger Merrill, and Rebecca Merrill, are all involved with the Franklin Covey Company--a company most known for training individuals and institutions in "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."The purpose of "First Things First" is to provide an expanded, fuller treatment of some aspects of the Seven Habits.These aspects include the concepts of "Sharpening the Saw" (making time to renew and develop your mental, social, physical, and spiritual health), Quadrant II (things that are important yet not urgent), Personal Mission Statements, What Matters Most (making sure you spend your time in the most important activities and relationships), Roles and Goals, Synergy and Inter-dependence, and Leadership Styles.
Integrity in the Moment of Choice

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Very interesting, realistic and practical approach.
Recently, I purchased and read this book.I've to say it is an excellent source of information and ideas. Congratulations and thank you for offering a valuable resource.

Very well written
I've read a lot of books about business, investing and similar and this one is superior in writing clarity and focus.It was written by a true teacher who has that special gift of being able to explain the complex and make it understandable.He is able topredict questions the reader will have and answer them.He has broken down the sequence a beginner needs to take to be successful in starting a small importing business.
How Small Business Trades Worldwide by John Spiers
This book is excellent. I think it's a must-read for anyone who is trying to get into the import-export business. ... Read more

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Essential & Exceptional
The phrase "essential reading" is a clich�, however, this is truly essential reading for anyone seeking to understand competencies.
Required reading to become a true competency expert
I have studied and used dozens of books on the topic of competencies, and many are useful, but this is the one I return to most often. My copy of this book is ragged, dog-eared, coffee-stained, and marked by many colored tabs for quick reference. Competence at Work changed my approach to human resources, and I actually earned some national honors and recognition for innovations in assessment and workforce planning by using it as a guide. It yields an effective understanding of competencies and how to apply them in processes such as recruiting, selection, development, performance management, succession, and workforce planning.