Author: Thomas A. Schweich
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: staying, getting, top, executives, invincible, power, secrets
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-04-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071395172
ISBN-13: 9780071395175

Top professionals reveal the keys to their incredible success What personal and professional attributes seem time and again to propel successful people to the top? Staying Power asks that question of an amazingly diverse group of notable figures. Their answers--often startling, always enlightening--reveal 30 key characteristics that seem to be consistently present in those who experience breakthrough success. They also reveal how the most enduring top executives and public figures keep their careers out of the kinds of business scandals that are dominating today’s headlines. Execut

Authors:David Clutterbuck, David Megginson,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: directors, executives, mentoring
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1999-11-19
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0750636955
ISBN-13: 9780750636957

Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Very little is known about the nature of these relationships and the shutters on director mentoring are opened through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors. ’Mentoring Executives and Directors’ is a lively, informative read including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size.It will be of considerable interest to Human Resource professionals and academics, headhunters and managem

Author: Financial Executives Research FoundationFinancial
Publisher: Financial Executives Research Foundation
Keywords: solutions, accounting, cost, different, understanding
Number of Pages: 29
Published: 2007-05-14
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1933130504
ISBN-13: 9781933130507

The purpose of this study is to provide executives with a conceptual understanding of cost micro-economics and related cost accounting solutions, enable them to ask the right questions about cost information presented to them, and then make decisions that enhance the economic value of their organizations. A parallel, but no less important, purpose is to acquaint financial executives with various cost accounting solutions so that they may structure cost information in light of the economic circumstances of their organizations.

Author: Donald G. Krause
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: book, competitive, tactics, classic, executives, five, rings, musashi
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1999-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1857881346
ISBN-13: 9781857881349

Used for centuries by Japanese businessmen and studied by many of Silicone Valley’s warriors of today’s wired world, The Book of Five Rings by samurai swordsman Miyamoto Musashi has provided a powerful, practical approach to achieving competitive dominance. Now, in The Book of Five Rings for Executives , Donald Krause has enriched and simplified the original material of this ancient classic of competitive tactics and strategy into a set of seven clearly defined and easily applied business principles.

Authors:John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: guide, executives, managers, company, consultant
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-04-13
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0471387274
ISBN-13: 9780471387275

Obtain the Best Consulting Services for Your Business In this chaotic age of new technologies, downsizing, and reengineering, managers and executives are relying more and more on the consultant. Hiring the right consultants for your company and making effective use of them is a vital skill, and yet there has been a lack of guidance on this topic-until now. How to Use a Consultant in Your Company delivers expert advice and practical guidelines on how to successfully create and manage the client/consultant relationship-to your advantage. John McGonagle and Carolyn Vella provide up-to

Author: John Mullins
Publisher: FT Press
Keywords: business, writing, plan, executives, test, road, new, entrepreneurs
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-01-25
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0273708058
ISBN-13: 9780273708056

’You may have capital and a talented management team, but if you are fundamentally in a lousy business, you won’t get the kind of results you would in a good business. All businesses aren’t created equal.’ William P.Egan II, veteran US venture capitalist No matter how talented you are, no matter how much capital you have, no matter how good your business plan is, if you’re pursuing a lousy business’ i.e. a fundamentally flawed opportunity you’re on the fast-track to failure. The New Business Road Test shows you how to avoid the obvious mistakes that

Author: LASTBoardSource
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: board, chief, executives, members, practical, book, nonprofit, guide
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-07-27
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0787994618
ISBN-13: 9780787994617

“Think for a moment of the best conversations you’ve had with friends and colleagues. You were honest with one another—not shy about speaking up but relaxed, even if the topic being discussed was serious in nature. That’s the type of conversation The Nonprofit Board Answer Book aims to have with you in the pages that follow. It follows a question-and-answer format, enabling you to quickly find an answer to a burning question you have right now. At the same time, it’s easy to pick up and read straight through, either cover to cover or one section at a time. At the end of each