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This is a practical guide to the essential core skills of project management in social work and social care. The authors set out the tools, steps and stages necessary for successful project management. Detailed case studies demonstrate the ideas in action, and reflective activities, practical tools and action checklists are included throughout.

Martin Davidson makes the bold claim that millions, maybe billions, of dollars in diversity training are being wasted. Attrition statistics show a revolving door for women and minorities, but companies are still recruiting and promoting employees as they've always done. As Chief Diversity Officer at the Darden School of Business (University of Virginia) and as a consultant with top Fortune 100 firms like AT&T and Merrill Lynch, Martin Davidson has found a better way: stop forcing diversity on people as a goal in and of itself, a matter of percentages and head counts, and instead use it strategically, creating business improvement strategies that draw on employees' different strengths. Make cultivating difference a core competency and enjoy the improvements in innovation, marketing, and business execution that are the natural result. Stop focusing on a narrow band of superficially diverse groups, and welcome deeper differences in lifestyles, economic backgrounds, and viewpoints.Davidson calls this new way "Leveraging Difference," which sees diversity NOT as a problem to be solved, but as an opportunity to make better business strategies. Net result: diversity that really moves the organization forward, not just another training program that changes little.

This new text presents a rounded approach to organizational change, encompassing emotional and psychological dimensions. The author team bring their strong experience of consultancy within a range of industries to bear both in the case studies used and the general approach of the text, balancing theoretical rigour with practical insight.

Cash rather than profit has always been the ultimate determinant of whether a business survives. For all businesses that want to avoid a credit crunch this guide will be invaluable. This guide explains the six critical aspects of the effective management of cash and cash flow.

Is your small business growing and thriving the way you envisioned it would when you struck out on your own? This trusted book explains how to develop and execute a simple, effective, and affordable marketing plan that brings new life to products and services.

"Read this book right now so you can look your potential VC in the eye with confidence." -David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR Finding the right venture capitalist to back your start-up is a challenge. Even if you manage to get backing, you want your VC to be a partner, not some dictator who will undermine your vision and take control of your life's work.Jeffrey Bussgang is one of a very few people who have played on both sides of this high-stakes game. Now he draws on his unique perspective to offer high-level insights, colorful stories, and practical advice gathered from his own experience as well as from interviews with dozens of the most successful entrepreneurs and VCs. He reveals how to get noticed, perfect a pitch, and negotiate a partnership that works for everyone.

What do people like about you? Learn how to identify and leverage your strongest traits to build more authentic and positive professional relationships and add value to your networking.

More than 1 MILLION Perfect Phrases books sold! The perfect quick-reference guide for engaging in challenging healthcare-related conversations with patients and their loved ones, colleagues, or superiors--articulately and professionally

The latest edition in the highly successful Art of M&A series! This is the essential business leader's guide for using mergers and acquisitions to compete in a time of endless corporate restructuring--driven by rapid globalization, technological advances, and dramatic changes in public policy.

A new classic, cited by leaders and media around the globe as a highly recommended read for anyone interested in innovation.In The Innovators DNA, authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton Christensen (The Innovators Dilemma, The Innovators Solution, How Will You Measure Your Life?) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact.By identifying behaviors of the worlds best innovatorsfrom leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and Virgin Groupthe authors outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking, and Experimenting.Once you master these competencies (the authors provide a self-assessment for rating your own innovators DNA), the authors explain how to generate ideas, collaborate to implement them, and build innovation skills throughout the organization to result in a competitive edge. This innovation advantage will translate into a premium in your companys stock pricean innovation premiumwhich is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organizations people, processes, and guiding philosophies.Practical and provocative, The Innovators DNA is an essential resource for individuals and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

* Enables students and managers to understand the reality of business networks and how to manage them * Updated with the IMP Group s latest thinking from research, consulting and teaching experience over the past five years * Includes case material from across Europe .

A renowned expert in operational excellence and advanced Lean training, Kevin Duggan offers a continuous-improvement system that reaches beyond the benefits of Six Sigma and Lean, facilitating overall business growth in both healthy and unhealthy economies

How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a whimper of opposition? Chalk it up to perfect timing, and some unexpected help from powerful members of the Busch dynasty, the very family that had run the company for more than a century.

This book will help you find meaning in your work and make your life better.

Make every communication count with a simple, four-step speaking model Whether it's among colleagues at lunch or an audience of a thousand, a leader's role is to move and inspire others.

Few years ago the Second Sea Lord of the Royal Navy asked the author to spend time with every level of the Navy staff, from junior sailors in the engine room of an aircraft carrier, right up to Navy Board and Cabinet level, with the aim of creating a book which distils the leadership culture of the Royal Navy. This title charts that journey.

The ultimate CISA prep guide, with practice exams Sybex's CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide, Fourth Edition is the newest edition of industry-leading study guide for the Certified Information System Auditor exam, fully updated to align with the latest ISACA standards and changes in IS auditing.

Key skills to make sales managers better developers of salespeople Get out of the firefighting business and into the business of developing the people who develop your profits. Successful salespeople rightfully become sales managers because of superior sales records.

Starting a Home Business For Dummies, penned by the accomplished author Rachel Bridge, is an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to venture into entrepreneurship from the comfort of their own home. First published in 2013 by the esteemed John Wiley & Sons Inc, this book has become a staple in its genre. The book is written in English.

The Second Edition continues to offer an accessible introduction to the important basics of project management while providing key issues and pointers on team leadership.

People seek safety from fearful places. And the American workplace is rife with fear. The Courageous Leadership training package offers consultants and facilitators a step-by-step approach to teaching leaders how to counteract fear and adversity in the workplace by building their own courage and that of their constituents.

Suitable for anyone who aspires to make things happen in organizations, this book gives every reader several 'a-ha!' moments, and smart, meaningful suggestions for changing the way we all lead. It shows you how to create a thriving organization by setting a vision and then collaborating with your people to guide your company to success.

A Guide to Going beyond Success Plenty of research has been done on why companies go terribly wrong, but what makes companies go spectacularly right? That’s the question that Kim Cameron asked over a decade ago. Since then, Cameron and his colleagues have uncovered the principles and practices that set extraordinarily effective organizations apart from the merely successful. In his previous book Positive Leadership, Cameron identified four strategies that enable these organizations, and the individuals within them, to flourish: creating a positive climate, positive relationships, positive communication, and positive meaning. Here he lays out specific tactics for implementing them. These are not feel-good nostrums—study after study (some cited in this book) have proven positive leadership delivers breakthrough bottom-line results. Thanks to Cameron’s concise how-to guide, now any organization can be “positively deviant,” achieving outcomes that far surpass the norm.

"A chronicle of one of the most unusual series of events in the history of medicine, this book tells the story a group of men and women clinicians, administrators, frontline workers, trustees, and leaders blessed with vision, courage, and a relentless determination to improve. It is the story of a medical center transformed. Ultimately, it is the story of a new and possibly better way to take on the challenge we face in the United States today to provide superb medical care to our people while at the same time controlling costs"--Provided by publisher.

Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. That one of them, the visionary Mark Zuckerberg, had the maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of its rivals anchors the tale.With exclusive inside access to all the company's leaders David Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to compromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. A brilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook and Kirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before have Zuckerberg and his closest colleagues told what really happened as they built their dynamo while eating fast food, staying up all night, and thumbing their noses at how things are usually done.

America's "Greatest Coach of the 20th Century," UCLA's John R. Wooden returns to March Madness with his upcoming bestseller

Provides a framework for building a business case. This book helps you learn how to: define the opportunity you want to address in your business case; identify and analyze a range of alternatives; recommend one option and assess its risks; create a high-level implementation plan for your proposed alternative; and, more.