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Manager's Toolkit: The 13 Skills Managers Need to Succeed (Harvard Business Essentials) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Review of Essentials Manager's Toolkit: 13 Skills Managers Need to Succeed The Manager's Toolkit, was an appropriate title for this book. This is not the kind of book that you sit down and read cover to cover over a couple of evenings and pass along to a friend. I conceptualize it more like a file cabinet that sits on my bookshelf containing ...
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Creating a Business Plan Pocket Mentor) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Every business needs a business plan a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. This book will help you take a long, hard look at each element of the plan and show you how to communicate the right message to the right people, and maximize the chances of getting your business launched.
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Crisis Management: Mastering the Skills to Prevent Disasters (Harvard Business Essentials) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
A superb guide to preparing for and handling any corporate crisis Be prepared. One day the company you own or help manage may face a severe crisis. Inexplicably, one of your most popular products suddenly proves lethally hazardous. Your accountant is frog-marched in handcuffs to the nearest slammer for embezzlement. Your plant in ...
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Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management I thought the book presented several interesting examples through eight papers covering various supply chain topics. Several of the papers have appendices with very useful information. This is a good book to take on a plane and read on one or two flights. But, ...
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Managing Change and Transition Richard Luecke
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Invaluable "Essentials" This is one of several paperbacks in the "Essentials" series, each of which offers "cutting edge" thinking on a major business subject. Mike Beer served as the adviser to Richard Luecke while he wrote this volume. Brief information about both is provided. There are ...
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Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Book Review This book is well written, and clearly explains the financial concepts in a manner that makes it easy for the layman to understand. I highly recommend this book for all non-financial types, who want to better understand the world of fiancial statemetns and data.
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Harvard Business Review on Marketing Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
A Collection of the best articles from the HBR magazine. There are now over 20 books in this Harvard Business Review series. All the books are compilations of the best articles from the Harvard Business Review magazine. This book is one of the best books in the series for the quality, relevance, and usefulness of the ...
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Harvard Business Review on Strategic Sales Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Powerful Reference Tool for a Sales Veteran, Rookie and Everyone In-between This book is an excelent reference tool for sales veterans, rookies and everyone in-between. It focuses on the important lessons learned when you blend sales persistence, creativity and tenacity with a big dose of motivation from management. As a sales motivational ...
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Harvard Business Review on Becoming a High-Performance Manager Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Not a recipe, but a collection of ideas This review is supposed to tell the potential reader what to expect from this book, based on the confession that I highly recommend reading this book.
This book is NOT A RECIPE. If you look for a "recipe" as to how to become a high performance manager, I would ...
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Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver on budget and on Time Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Essential to any executive's "tool box" This is one of the volumes in the Harvard Business Essentials Series. Each offers authoritative answers to the most important questions concerning its specific subject. The material in this book is drawn from a variety of sources which include the Harvard Business ...
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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance (Harvard Business ... Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Coach your employees to success Everyone would agree that organizations are only as good as their employees. Still, many companies have not established a formal coaching and mentoring system to develop their most promising talent. Moreover, these companies do not capitalize on the vast knowledge and ...
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Harvard Business Review on Doing Business in China (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) Rick Yan, Kenneth Libeberthal
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
An excelent reading in my business trips I have been in china for business trips over 7 times and I always use this reading during the air trip(many hours from Puerto Rico to China (22 hours).
And always find something new to apply to my visits for negotiations from this book.
Humberto Torres
Puerto ...
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Running Meetings: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Great resource for anyone looking to run more efficient and effective meetings As an instructor and facilitator who runs workshops on numerous business topics, including "Running Effective Meetings," I have found most all the HBR Pocket Mentor books a great addition to our content. The Running Meetings book is especially good as it provides ...
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Harvard Business Review on Strategic Alliances
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
This is a first-time collection of the old classics and best new thinking on how to build and manage strategic business relationships. It features these selling points. It features all-star names in marketing, including Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hamel, and Kenichi Ohmae. It provides a broad and diverse look at strategic alliances including: why ...
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Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Section on ADT is worth the price This was my first time reading the Harvard Business Review books. The book is made up of 8 topics by different authors. I'm not used to this format so the topics felt short and leaving me wanting more.
The topic on "Overloaded Circuits" is fantastic. Dr. ...
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