This important book is an invaluable resource for HR professionals and executive coaches who are charged with working with exceptional leaders, in order to prepare them to take on broader leadership responsibilities. Accelerating Your Development as a Leader helps to demystify the process of high-potential leadership development and translate this process into a well-defined plan of action.

Trade policy has played a vital role in the decline of European electronics business. The events that resulted in the disappearance of the European television industry, of a European and Japanese video recorder format and of other European consumer electronics are directly related to market structures in exporting countries and business practices.

Generate Maximum Economic Value from Leading-Edge Digital Analytics and Data Science.

The complete business practitioner's guide to profiting from analytics on big data.

Build a focused, highly effective, cross-functional, process-oriented analytics organization, backed by the right support from other teams, funded by management, and perceived as successful by business stakeholders.

Finally! A book that helps salon owners to open, remodel, and run a successful business!! Put your dreams of owning or remodeling a salon on the success track and learn operational tactics that would otherwise take you years to master! Opening a salon or remodeling your existing business takes a lot more planning and money than most people would ever imagine. Ready, Set, Go is packed with the steps, tips, ideas, and strategies to make your salon a success. Whether you already own a salon or you have the glimmering thought of advancing your career in this direction, this book is for you. We will help you visualize, plan, and organize your new business venture. This book gives tips to pick the right location and negotiating your lease as well as establishing a budget, creating a financial team and developing a salon culture perfect for you. This guide covers every detail and lays the ground work so there is no trial and error approaches, preventing unforeseen problems and saving thousands of dollars!

This book makes it easy for anyone to network. It discusses different networking styles, and covers everything from appearance to desktops to office enhancements, it is The Complete How - To on Effective Networking.

This book gives you more than just "tired and true" networking tips. What's more, it helps you understand how and why networking works in both business and interpersonal relationships, and provides real insight about interacting with one another. You will pick up many new ideas and use them to build your own network of contacts, increase your client base and expand your market. No matter what business you're in, this book can help you uncover new business and customers. It should be right up there on the bookshelf with all your other business reference books!

The newest edition of the book that has become a classic on team building, this fifth edition describes the Four Cs of the Team Development Model: Context-Laying the Foundation for Team Success; Composition-Getting the Right People on the Bus; Competencies-Developing Team Skills for High Performance; Change-Devising More Effective Ways of Working Together. The new edition features a new student assessment measuring team performance that is posted online as premium content; new chapters on innovative teams and managing cross-cultural teams; information on virtual teams, and a wealth of new examples.

This new book approaches knowledge management (KM) from several perspectives: it spans electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, information systems, and business. Comprehensive yet clearly and concisely written, "Knowledge Management" is simultaneously strong in managerial, technical, and systemic aspects of KM, providing readers with the right combination of theory, technology, and solutions.

Jeremy Hope and his coauthor, Steve Player, assess some common and allegedly hard-headed tools that firms often use in an attempt to improve performance, everything from mission statements through Six Sigma through high-powered exec compensation.

Current safety and risk management guidelines necessitate that organizations develop and formally manage their understanding and knowledge of the standards and protocols of risk management. The impact of communication and human performance on the identification and control of hazards and associated risk must be addressed in a structured manner.
This core reference provides a complete guide to creating a comprehensive and effective safety culture.

MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT, LIFE, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 10th Edition, is intended for a two-semester applied calculus or combined finite mathematics and applied calculus course. The book's concept-based approach, multiple presentation methods, and interesting and relevant applications keep students who typically take the course--business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences majors--engaged in the material. This edition broadens the book's real-life context by adding a number of environmental science and economic applications. The use of modeling has been expanded, with modeling problems now clearly labeled in the examples. Also included in the Tenth Edition is a brief review of algebra to prepare students with different backgrounds for the material in later chapters.

The 2014 Cash Flow Calendar has been designed to be incredibly easy and inexpensive for you to use. No matter what type of business you are in, or how long you have been in business, I guarantee you will walk away from this with the tools that you can use immediately in your business and can earn you an additional $5,000 in profits (that can be per month or per year, depending on how seriously you take this tool).

Larry Richman is a certified Project Management Professional® (PMP®) with 30 years of experience. As the Director of the Publications and Media Project Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he leads a project office that manages 8,000 printed, audiovisual, software, and Web projects each year in 185 languages. He has also developed and implemented computer-assisted project management systems. Mr. Richman has authored thirteen books, including four on project management, as well as articles in professional journals. Mr. Richman specializes in teaching the basic principles and processes of project management. As a management consultant, he provides one-on-one coaching to executives and managers and has taught hundreds of corporate employees in classroom settings. Dr. Richman holds an M.S. in Instructional Science and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Gain a better understanding of how human resources impacts both individuals and organizations with this market-leading, practical text. Snell/Bohlander's popular MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES, 16TH EDITION builds upon a foundation of research and theory with an inviting, practical framework that focuses on today's most critical HR issues and current practices. The book's engaging writing style and strong visual design use more than 500 memorable examples from a variety of real organizations to illustrate key points and connect concepts to current HR practice. Fresh cases spotlight the latest developments and critical trends, while hands-on applications focus on practical tips and suggestions for success.

From the grassroots growth of beverage brands like Red Bull, and Honest Tea, to the exploding growth of digital brands like Twitter, and Groupon - successful companies of all types and sizes begin with three things: an entrepreneur, a winning idea, and a brand strategy. Branding expert Catherine Kaputa, founder of SelfBrand LLC, uses dozens of US and international brand histories to demonstrate what makes a brand thrive, and provides you with the tools to do the same.

Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor, Kevin J. Duggan, an executive mentor and recognized authority on Lean and Operational Excellence, draws on more than 10 years of experience and learning to provide Creating Mixed Model Value Streams, Second Edition. This second edition takes a step-by-step approach to implementing Lean in complex environments and describes which Lean techniques to use when faced with difficult situations-including high product mix, scheduling problems, shared resources, and unstable customer demand. In addition to a new section on handling shared resources to support mixed model production, the second edition:

What does it take to create your New American Dream?

Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, says it's time for a serious reconsideration of the American Dream-what promise it still holds, what aspects are in need of revision, and how it must be refashioned to fit our lives so that we can once again have faith that our hard work will pay off and that a secure and hopeful future is within our reach.

NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada.

Small Change, Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur introduces climate change economics and provides recommendations on how to develop feasible pathways to a sustainable energy future. Mr. Stoner examines the global energy supply as if it was a single portfolio of assets, and shows it is possible to align the interests of energy investors, suppliers, users, and environmental stewards. He explains how we--as business professionals, students, consumers, and citizens--can transform our current energy system into a system that creates new business opportunities, promotes environmental health, and broadens our understanding of wealth.

With Mayo's INVESTMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION, 11E, readers fully understand today's most important investment topics from the perspective of an individual financial planner. This edition provides an inviting, comprehensive approach to investments--from the fundamentals needed for success on the CFP exam to more advanced topics. Readers learn to make solid investment decisions with applications such as an updated Financial Advisor's Investment Case at the end of each chapter and the latest Internet assignments. Expanded coverage of key topics, including stock valuation ratios, stock repurchases, and dividend payments prepare the reader to invest with confidence in today's global financial markets. Readers can even gain hands-on access with Thomson ONE-Business School Edition--the same financial analysis tool trusted on Wall Street every day. Mayo's INVESTMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION, 11E, offers the engaging details and insightful perspective to further any reader's investment success.