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Project Management ROI: A Step-by-Step Guide for Measuring the Impact and ROI for Projects

mrblue — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:37:30 +0000

To survive this modern age of financially skeptical “show me the ROI” investors, it is a crucial step for companies to develop an effective project management strategy in order to stay ahead of the curve and achieve success. Project Management ROI takes the guesswork out of determining how to monetarily

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Asian versus Western Management Thinking: Its Culture-Bound Nature

mrblue — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:51:17 +0000

This book attempts to address the important question of to what extent the theories of management are universally applicable principles and to what extent are they specific to particular cultural, national and temporal contexts.

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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers

mrblue — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:56:47 +0000

“There is more mythology, misdirection, superstition, and generalized academic babble about leadership than any other business subject,” says management consultant Slap in this must-read for anyone who cares about organizational success. Slap shares the techniques he’s used over several decades to transform the performance of some of the world’s leading

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Manager’s Guide to Leadership, 2nd Edition

mrblue — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:13:36 +0000

This book offers a useful and accessible guide to leadership. It encourages the reader to be pro-active and learn from experience to develop themselves, their colleagues and their organisation. Part 1 introduces the ’3 C’s’ model of leadership, while Part 2 develops practices that allow any leadership challenge to be

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Systems Life Cycle Costing: Economic Analysis, Estimation, and Management

mrblue — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:09:13 +0000

Although technology and productivity has changed much of engineering, many topics are still taught in very similarly to how they were taught in the 70s. Using a new approach to engineering economics, Systems Life Cycle Costing: Economic Analysis, Estimation, and Management presents the material that a modern engineer must understand

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Facilities Change Management

mrblue — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:48:45 +0000

Modern organisations are subject to continual change – technologies evolve, organisational structures are modified, people and underlying cultures are transformed. Yet the facilities that organisations occupy are static and can impede the changes that are essential to organisational survival. The response to change in terms of property and support services

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Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow the Business in Good Times and Bad

mrblue — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:46:22 +0000

Based on more than two years of surveys of more than 2,000 senior executives and managers, Tough Management may be one of the most important and practical business books of our time. Bestselling author, weekly columnist, and sought-after speaker Chuck Martin has tapped into his research firm’s vast network of

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Status in Management and Organizations

mrblue — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:05:50 +0000

It is only relatively recently that management scholars have turned
their attention to the powerful role that social status plays in
organizations. This book brings together this important work, showing
how a better understanding of status can be used to address problems in a
number of different organizational settings.

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Project Management, 4th Edition

mrblue — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:23:52 +0000

Project Management is a fast-moving and increasingly widespread
discipline with record numbers of practitioners now gaining professional
qualifications. Delivering projects on time and within budget is
critical to business success and the skill, therefore, is highly valued
in graduates and managers alike.

Drawing on Harvey Maylor’s 20
years of teaching,

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Strategic Management of Professional Service Firms: Theory and Practice

mrblue — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:40:39 +0000

Managing strategies for professional service firms is an important and complex activity. The main issues in this book cover the core management principles for service firms in a comprehensive way. Based on current research findings it includes the management of service quality, knowledge and marketing as well as people, organizational

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