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The definitive guide to keeping your project on time, under budget, and problem-free

In this Third Edition of The Project Manager's Desk Reference, top project management consultant James Lewis arms you with today's most comprehensive and understandable project management resources, showing you how to conduct a project of any size or nature-from the office move to building new facilities.

Using results-oriented language and easy-to-understand examples, this comprehensive, quick-reference guide presents specific situations taken from today's fast-moving business...

To hire the right talent -- the most vital contribution a manager can make to a company -- it's crucial to learn if a candidate will be a team player, a good leader, or a dud. To get the answers you need as a manager, you have to ask the right questions, and that's why The Manager's Book of Questions has been a bestseller for nearly a decade.

Every leader has a number

Millions of people around the world use the nine-point Enneagram system to analyze their personality strengths. Now for the first time, renowned Enneagram expert Ginger Lapid-Bogda shows how to use this personality typing system to reach your full potential as a leader and to pinpoint your core leadership style.

"A unique combination of business savvy, organization development, and in-depth self-development perspectives."-Colleen Gentry, senior vice president for Executive Development, Wachovia Corporation

"Chock-full of excellent...

The Right Phrase for Every Situation...Every Time

Whether you're a project manager, department head, or CEO, you have to choose the perfect words to inspire real teamwork. This quick-reference guide addresses all the issues you could possibly encounter working with a team-offering hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for every situation. From managing interpersonal conflicts to motivating an entire company, you'll find the exact words you need to:

• Get people to work with, not against each other
• Use positive feedback to promote and reward teamwork
• Inspire...

Turn the top 7 career breakers for women into career makers

Statistically, more than one-third of Fortune 500 managers are women-and yet we represent barely five percent of the top earners among executives. Usually, we blame it on men-those "old boy" networks that don't typically welcome women into "the club." But, according to leadership coach Rebecca Shambaugh, the real obstacle to women's advancement is not a "glass ceiling." It's the self-imposed career blocks that prevent us from moving up.

These are the 7 "sticky floors"

1. Balancing Your Work...

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world's most respected consulting firms.

Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is...

Named one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine

Does innovation come about by luck or hard work? Is it a flash of inspiration or the result of careful management? Are innovators born or taught? In Closing the Innovation Gap, Judith Estrin provides the answers to these and other questions critical to our future. A technology pioneer and business leader, Estrin describes what will be required to reignite the spark of innovation in business, education, and government--ensuring our long-term success in the global economy.

Innovation...

The classic guide to getting the best deal when buying a home--from America's #1 real estate expert

Featuring fully revised facts and figures that reflect the most recent changes in the real estate market, Tips & Traps When Buying a Home, Fourth Edition is helpful whether you're a first-time or experienced home buyer. It gives you practical, step-by-step information on a broad range of proven home buying strategies, along with indispensable advice and guidance on buying in an "up" market, flipping, buying with options, bidding wars, and other important facets of real...

With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers--conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong--consistently seize this opportunity to present woefully simplistic explanations and hype the latest myths regarding issues affecting the economy. Their purpose is not to educate but to advocate and, in many cases involving the media, manufacture outrage to drive ratings higher. So, where can you find the truth about today's economy and how it affects you? Turn...

"Filled with tips ... The author's tone is supportive and she does not argue that introverts should become live wires."
--The New York Times

"Best Books 2009"
--Publishers Weekly

"Whatever's behind your reluctance to speak out for yourself, Self-Promotion for Introverts(R)] is the first book I've seen with serious research on the topic that leads to a new game plan; it may help you promote yourself without bragging."
--Los Angeles Times

"Best Book Gifts"
--ABC News

"Best New Career...

"Today, Mr. Minsky's view of economics] is more relevant than ever."- The New York Times

"Indeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street."-The Wall Street Journal

John Maynard Keynes offers a timely reconsideration of the work of the revered economics icon. Hyman Minsky argues that what most economists consider Keynesian economics is at odds with the major points of Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes and Minsky refuse to ignore pervasive uncertainty. Once uncertainty is...

The Right Phrase for Every Situation . . . Every Time

WNo matter how much you love your job, you will inevitably run into difficult situations on the job that test your ability to keep your cool. Written by the author of Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People, this handy reference of ready-to-use phrases will help you avoid disasters, steer clear of sticky circumstances with coworkers, and leave you in control. If you're asked to give an impromptu presentation or you accidentally send a personal e-mail to your boss, you'll have the best words for every...

IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE ACCOUNTABILITY--NO EXCUSES

"Very engaging Grimshaw and Baron provide practical coaching points on how to translate leadership intentions into results."
DAVE HILFMAN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES

"A timely collection of valuable lessons on how to prevent excuses before they happen."
MICHAEL PIETRUNTI, PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, KYOCERA MITA AMERICA, INC.

"Jam-packed with authentic examples and insights, this book encourages all leaders to actively look in the mirror and pay keen...

New Contacts, Greater Success, and Bigger Business

The key to unlimited opportunities for your business starts with Smart Networking. This is the essential guidebook for building business relationships in a wired world. Business strategist Liz Lynch demystifies the process and puts strategic systems in place that build connections worldwide and attract opportunities 24/7.

Packed with powerful strategies tested by years of experience, as well as real-life stories from the field, Smart Networking describes how to integrate face-to-face techniques with a...

Go from manager to coach--and motivate your staff to unprecedented success

Since the original publication of this classic guide, organizations have recognized that sales coaching is a sales manager's most important role. Now, author Linda Richardson has completely updated and revised Sales Coaching to include the latest tools and techniques, as well as a refined sales coaching process for increasing performance.

Sales Coaching will help you make the essential transition from boss to coach so you can help salespeople achieve their goals. In this new role, you...

Have you ever used a stochastic oscillator?

Does your portfolio have spiders in it?

Do you really know what a derivative is?

From the creators of one of today's most popular investing Web sites, The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak presents in-depth definitions of the site's most searched terms.

Covering everything from the basics, such as asset, commodity, and index, to more advanced concepts like tranche, ebenture, and value...