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Unleash your employees' hidden talent for innovation and creativity--the key to organizational success

For any organization competing today, nothing is more important than building teams of creative thinkers and problem solvers. With practical, simple-to-implement leadership techniques, Manager's Guide to Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Teams explains how you can

• Create an environment that gets people thinking creatively
• Align teams to work toward creative, original solutions
• Lead the charge toward a newly innovative organization
• Build a...

Get the business results you want by creating and executing a solid plan

One simple thing usually makes the difference between business success and failure: a well-laid plan. Whether you want to enact a long-term strategic initiative or set short-term revenue targets, Manager's Guide to Business Planning provides the tools and techniques for developing a workable plan everyone will support. You'll learn how to:

• Measure success
• Prioritize initiatives
• Run business reviews
• Create a budget
• Engage employees

There's no reason to experience...

A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness

"A punchy and relevant book on our present distress that has, at its core, one very big and useful idea."
Portfolio

"Heeding the lessons of the last few years, as documented in this book, may help both financiers and government policy makers find ways to reduce some future costs of capitalism without sacrificing all the potential rewards."
The New York Times

" Barbera] challenges the blind faith in free markets."
The Economist

"Barbera ... is] one of the few...

TQM, Reengineering, Theory of Constraints, JIT, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing . . .

These are just some of the methods that, over the past five decades, have promised to transform any manufacturing firm into a lean, mean, moneymaking machine. While each incorporates certain fundamental truths, strengths, and benefits, they are not panaceas. Nor do they necessarily provide much-needed insight into the science that underlies factory performance.

James Ignizio, Ph.D., an internationally recognized performance optimization expert, believes that only a balanced approach...

The Right Phrase for Every Situation . . . Every Time

Clearly crafted company announcements--both internal and external--are critically important for your company's day-to-day operations.

Perfect Phrases for Writing Company Announcements has hundreds of ready-to-use phrases suitable for any announcement, regardless of the situation or scenario. Learn the most effective language for:

• Describing new products and services
• Explaining hiring procedures
• Detailing a new strategic focus
• Announcing relocation or expansion
• Articulating mergers...

The book that completes Positioning . . .

Thirty years ago, Jack Trout and Al Ries published their classic bestseller, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind--a book that revolutionized the world of marketing. But times have changed. Competition is fiercer. Consumers are savvier. Communications are faster. And once-successful companies are in crisis mode.

Repositioning shows you how to adapt, compete--and succeed--in today's overcrowded marketplace. Global marketing expert Jack Trout has retooled his most effective positioning strategies--providing...

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book on building powerful, effective teams

"An amazing book that bucks the old paradigm that maverick leaders and self-made entrepreneurs set the bar. It will forever change the way you look at leadership."
--Marshall Goldsmith, author of The Wall Street Journal #1 business bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"In Never Fly Solo, Rob 'Waldo' Waldman shares potent, personal leadership lessons on what it takes to access the power of your wingmen. If you want...

Praise for The Drucker Lectures

"Peter Drucker shined a light in a dark and chaotic world, and his words remain as relevant today as when he first spoke them. Drucker's lectures and thoughts deserve to be considered by every person of responsibility, now, tomorrow, ten years from now, fifty, and a hundred."
-Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall

"Rick Wartzman has brought Peter Drucker alive again, and vividly so, in his own words. These samples of his talks and lectures, because they were spoken not written, will...

Don't fear taking the leap into a new career with this seven step program from bestselling author and life coach Talane Miedaner. Whatever the situation or economic environment, Coach Yourself to a New Career gives you the tools to take matters into your own hands by assessing your needs and strengths, finding the right work fit, weighing options and possible sacrifices, and preparing your family for transitions.

Packed with expert advice and helpful examples from her many...

Supercharge your writing skills . . . by the end of the week

In the workplace, your writing speaks volumes about you. Whether you're crafting a three-line message or a 300-page report, you need to write in a polished, professional way--regardless of your position or profession.The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication puts you on the fast track to becoming a strong, persuasive business writer. Complete with exercises, self-tests, and an online final exam, this multifaceted business writing "course" teaches you how to:

• SEIZE READERS'...

In The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management, David DeLong and Steve Trautman combine wide-ranging research and real-world expertise to chart...

Building and maintaining a strong and effective team

If two heads are better than one, how about a team of heads? An effective team can be more innovative than an individual. But how do you get there? Building and managing a strong, productive team is difficult and the Mining Group Gold gives you the proven tools, techniques and processes that you must use and practice al all levels of your organization to build and maintain a strong collaborative team.

Based on 30 years of work on teams and organizational development this updated classical guide shows you how to set clear...

Praise for What Investors Really Want

"We all share behavioral traits that are major roadblocks to intelligent financial decisions. Bottom line: if you really want to achieve investment success, understand yourself and eliminate or minimize these traits. This book will help you do exactly that."
-- John C. Bogle, Founder, Vanguard Funds

"What Investors Really Want enables us to "post mortem" the financial decisions of ourselves and others. The book is extremely valuable for theory, as a survey of how the human animal makes...

The Right Phrase for Every Situation . . . Every Time

Communication is the single most important skill for excelling as a manager. What you say and how you say it sets the tone for your department and your entire organization.

Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, second edition, has been completely revised to help you communicate in today's workplace, where collaboration, cooperation, and personalization are critical to building an efficient, productive work environment. Learn the most effective language for:

• Setting a tone of mutual trust and...

Whether you're giving a pep talk to a team or inspiring a direct report in a one-on-one meeting, you need the right words to keep your staff focused, engaged, enthusiastic, and productive.

This fully revised and updated edition of Perfect Phrases for Motivating and Rewarding Employees has hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for inspiring peak performance. Learn the most effective language for:

• Creating a positive work environment...

Real success is about the future, not the past. As a supervisor, you'll be most effective if you concentrate on setting goals for your employees, rather than assessing past events and behaviors.

This completely revised and updated second edition of Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals provides hundreds of precisely worded performance goals you can put to use in virtually any situation. This handy, quick-reference guide provides effective language for:

• Focusing your people on the most important parts of their...

Whether you're trying to motivate a team, negotiate a contract, make a sale, ask for a raise, land a new job, or terminate an employee, the conversations you have will either help you succeed or undermine your goals. Communication...

"Vital--a cogent, timely journey through the economic history of the modern world." -- Publishers Weekly

In The Birth of Plenty, William Bernstein, the bestselling author of The Four Pillars of Investing, presents his provocative, highly acclaimed theory of why prosperity has been the engine of civilization for the last 200 years.

This is a fascinating, irresistibly written "big-picture" work that highlights and explains the...

The high-profile accounting scandals of recent years have made one thing clear: You can't know too much about the company for which you work. What are the numbers? Where do you find them? How do they affect you and your staff?

This fully revised and updated third edition of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Finance for Nonfinancial Managers provides a firm grasp on what all the numbers really mean. Designed to let you learn at your own pace, it walks you through:

• The essential concepts of finance, so you can ask...