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The Principles Of Project Management - Free 66 Page Preview!
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Every project you manage will be unique. Scope, budgets, team dynamics, and timeframes will differ. As a project manager, the most important factor in achieving project success will be your understanding of ‘The Principles Of Project Management’. This book will show you that project management isn’t rocket science.
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The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Monday, July 13th, 2009
In this summary you will learn:
Who Warren Buffett is
What his personal and business history is
What his investment philosophy is
How he became the world’s richest man
Why you should read The Snowball:Warren Buffett is “everyman” as multibillionaire. Despite his vast wealth, he has always eschewed ostentation. He pays himself about $100,000 annually, which in today’s U.S. [...]
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Security Director News
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Security Director News delivers day-to-day facts and real business information that assists security directors in making the right decisions for the safety of their organizations. Through interviews with involved parties, analysts and experts from every industry segment, Security Director News presents security practitioners with a wide variety of viewpoints on the issues they face, just [...]
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Site Selection
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Our goal is to help the expansion planner do a better job. Site Selection covers the world like no one else in the industry. Only Site Selection gives a global, expansion-minded audience World Reports, compiled by our network of top-notch, veteran international correspondents.
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Sustainability Matters: The Corporate Executive’s Strategic Agenda
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Best-in-Class companies achieved an 11% decrease in paper costs.
Best-in-Class companies achieved a 10% decrease in overall facilities costs.
Best-in-Class companies achieved a 9% decrease in energy costs.
For a growing number of companies, positive social and environmental performance is inextricably tied to their vision of long-term viability and success. The emergence of responsibility-framed strategies for business [...]
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The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Monday, July 13th, 2009
“In this summary you will learn:
Why highly significant yet unpredictable events, called “”black swans,”” are underappreciated
Why people continually see misleading patterns in data
How to embrace randomness and come to terms with black swans
Why you should read The Black Swan. According to critic Harold Bloom, Hamlet’s predicament is not “”that he thinks too much”” but [...]
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Operational BI: What You Need to Know About Customer-Facing Performance
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Best-in-Class companies are experiencing 6.5x higher year-over-year improvement in customer operations performance.
Best-in-Class companies are 84% more likely to use operational forecast tools as part of their sales & customer-facing management process.
Best-in-Class companies are 79% more likely to enable access to operational data within an hour or less of business activity taking place.
This is an age [...]
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Leadership Gold - Free Book Summary
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Good leadership always makes a difference. It can turn organizations around and positively impact the lives of thousands. Learning more about leadership will make a difference in you, and you will make a difference in the lives of others. John Maxwell shares a lifetime of leadership truths, which can guide anyone who currently leads or [...]
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Leaders at All Levels - Free Book Summary
Monday, July 13th, 2009
In Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, Ram Charan — prolific author and world-renowned advisor to business leaders — takes aim at the current crisis in leadership: the shortage of leaders prepared to face the complex business challenges of today. Charan offers a solution that outlines a new [...]
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Judgment - Free Book Summary
Monday, July 13th, 2009
According to business gurus Tichy and Bennis, it is a leader’s judgment that can determine the fate of the entire organization.
You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business [...]
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