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Finance Basics (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming--but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly, introducing you to key terms and concepts such as:How to navigate financial statementsHow to weigh costs and benefitsWhat’s involved in budgeting and forecastingHow to gauge a company's financial healthDon't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

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Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to:Distinguish your company from rivalsClarify what your company will and won't doCraft a vision for an uncertain futureCreate blue oceans of uncontested market spaceUse the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategyCapture your strategy in a memorable phraseMake priorities explicitAllocate resources earlyClarify decision rights for faster decision makingThis collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter, "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," "Building Your Company's Vision," "Reinventing Your Business Model," "Blue Ocean Strategy," "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," "Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action," "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance."

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)

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The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you express your ideas with clarity and impact—no matter what the situation.Leading experts such as Deborah Tannen, Jay Conger, and Nick Morgan provide the insights and advice you need to:Pitch your brilliant idea—successfullyConnect with your audienceEstablish credibilityInspire others to carry out your visionAdapt to stakeholders’ decision-making styleFrame goals around common interestsBuild consensus and win support

Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook

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The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills.Whether you’re a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes—a direct report’s anxious questions, your boss’s last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills.Packed with step-by-step advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review’s management archive, the HBR Manager’s Handbook provides best practices on topics from understanding key financial statements and the fundamentals of strategy to emotional intelligence and building your employees’ trust. The book’s brief sections allow you to home in quickly on the solutions you need right away—or take a deeper dive if you need more context.Keep this comprehensive guide with you throughout your career and be a more impactful leader in your organization.In the HBR Manager’s Handbook you’ll find:- Step-by-step guidance through common managerial tasks- Short sections and chapters that you can turn to quickly as a need arises- Self-assessments throughout- Exercises and templates to help you practice and apply the concepts in the book- Concise explanations of the latest research and thinking on important management skills from Harvard Business Review experts such as Dan Goleman, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, and Michael Porter- Real-life stories from working managers- Recaps and action items at the end of each chapter that allow you to reinforce or review the ideas quicklyThe skills covered in the book include:- Transitioning into a leadership role- Building trust and credibility- Developing emotional intelligence- Becoming a person of influence- Developing yourself as a leader- Giving effective feedback- Leading teams- Fostering creativity- Mastering the basics of strategy- Learning to use financial tools- Developing a business caseHBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role.

HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)

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MEET YOUR GOALS—ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.How do you rein in the scope of your project when you’ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention?Whether you’re managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.The HBR Guide to Project Management will help you:Build a strong, focused teamBreak major objectives into manageable tasksCreate a schedule that keeps all the moving parts under controlMonitor progress toward your goalsManage stakeholders’ expectationsWrap up your project and gauge its success

HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (HBR Guide Series)

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ARE YOUR WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WORKING AGAINST YOU?To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? Or when you have a boss who gets in your way? Or when you’re juggling others’ needs at the expense of your own?By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you’re a young professional or an experienced leader.The HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across will help you:Advance your agenda—and your career—with smarter networkingBuild relationships that bring targets and deadlines within reachPersuade decision makers to champion your initiativesCollaborate more effectively with colleaguesDeal with new, challenging, or incompetent bossesNavigate office politics

Managing Time (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

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Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics. You’ll learn to:Assess how you spend your time nowPrioritize your tasksPlan the right time to work on each oneAvoid procrastination and interruptionsDon't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

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Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time.If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to becoming a great manager of others.This book will inspire you to:Develop your emotional intelligenceInfluence your colleagues through the science of persuasionAssess your team and enhance its performanceNetwork effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancementNavigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peersGet support from aboveView the big picture in your decision makingBalance your team’s work and personal life in a high-intensity workplaceThis collection of articles includes “Becoming the Boss,” by Linda A. Hill; “Leading the Team You Inherit,” by Michael D. Watkins; “Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,” by Carol A. Walker; “Managing the High-Intensity Workplace,” by Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan; “Harnessing the Science of Persuasion,” Robert B. Cialdini; “What Makes a Leader?” by Daniel Goleman; “The Authenticity Paradox,” by Herminia Ibarra; “Managing Your Boss,” by John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter; “How Leaders Create and Use Networks,” by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; “Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?” by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass; and BONUS ARTICLE: “How Managers Become Leaders,” by Michael D. Watkins.

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules, The Lost Writings [Ultimate Edition]

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* Features Amazing Dynamic Chapter Navigation Linking & Professional Formatting for a Premium Reading Experience. Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 & 1923 for Success Magazine. Hill's obsession with achieving material success had led him from poverty stricken Appalachian Mountains with the desire to study successful people. These articles focus on Hill's philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experience of a multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons.

Informationsmanagement für NPO's, NGO's et al.

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Dieses Buch diskutiert die Informationsfunktion spezifisch für Non Profit Organisationen (NPO's) und Non Governmental Organisationen (NGO's). Es stellt die strategischen und organisatorischen Grundsatzfragen für ein effizientes und effektives Informationsmanagement in den Vordergrund. Die Themenschwerpunkte des Fachbuches sind: Strategische Informationssystemplanung mit Vorgehensmodell und Umsetzungsoptionen, aufbau- und ablauforganisatorische Fragestellungen inklusive Beziehungen zwischen Organisationen und Informationsmanagement, Architekturaspekte zum Information und Process Engineering, Nutzung webbasierter Plattformen und elektronischer Netzwerke zur Mitgliederentwicklung und zur Community Bildung, Gewährleistung von Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, Controlling des Informationsmanagements bei NPO's und NGO's. Die Themen werden anhand klarer Vorgehensweisen und anschaulicher Anwendungsbeispiele erläutert. Das Fachbuch richtet sich primär an die Verantwortlichen der Leitungsorgane von NPO's und NGO's, an die Leiter von Mitglieder- resp. Trägergruppen sowie an Führungskräfte und Projektleiter des Organisationsbetriebes. Darüber hinaus ist es für Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen gedacht.

The Prosperity Bible

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In a beautiful, durable volume suited to a lifetime of use, here is the all-in-one "bible" on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity-packaged in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects the greatest moneymaking secrets of authors from every field-religion, finance, philosophy, and self-help-and makes them available in an attractive, keepsake edition. This is a book to treasure and return to again and again for guidance, ideas, know-how, and inspiration. Here is the only single volume where you can read success advice from Napoleon Hill, P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Fillmore, Wallace D. Wattles, Florence Scovel Shinn, and Ernest Holmes-along with a bevy of million-copy-selling writers who have one key element in common: a commitment to understanding and promulgating the laws of winning. These are the beloved teachers and writers who created the idea of a mental formula for success. Their principles, comprehensively collected in nineteen selected writings, have been proved in the experience of millions of men and women who have cherished their works from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Now they are enshrined in this all-in-one treasury-complete in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness (with bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with Martin Seligman) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

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Come back from every setback a stronger and better leaderIf you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance.This book will inspire you to:Thrive on pressure like an Olympic athleteManage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging themPlan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirationsSurround yourself with the people who will push you the hardestUse challenges to become a better leaderUse creativity to move past traumaUnderstand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.This collection of articles includes "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; "Crucibles of Leadership," by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas; "Building Resilience," by Martin E.P. Seligman; "Cognitive Fitness," by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts; "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; "Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It," by Alla Crum and Thomas Crum; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rebounding from Career Setbacks," by Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas; "Realizing What You're Made Of," by Glenn E. Mangurian; "Extreme Negotiations," by Jeff Weiss, Aram Donigian, and Jonathan Hughes; and "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience," by Martin Seligman and Sarah Green Carmichael.

The Psychology of Salesmanship

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American attorney William Walker Atkinson, a leader in the New Thought movement, describes the mind of the salesman and the buyer in this 1912 business book about how to close sales.

Đắc Nhân Tâm

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Đắc nhân tâm của Dale Carnegie là quyển sách của mọi thời đại và một hiện tượng đáng kinh ngạc trong ngành xuất bản Hoa Kỳ. Trong suốt nhiều thập kỷ tiếp theo và cho đến tận bây giờ, tác phẩm này vẫn chiếm vị trí số một trong danh mục sách bán chạy nhất và trở thành một sự kiện có một không hai trong lịch sử ngành xuất bản thế giới và được đánh giá là một quyển sách có tầm ảnh hưởng nhất mọi thời đại.Đây là cuốn sách độc nhất về thể loại self-help sở hữu một lượng lớn người hâm mộ. Ngoài ra cuốn sách có doanh số bán ra cao nhất được tờ báo The New York Times bình chọn trong nhiều năm. Cuốn sách này không còn là một tác phẩm về nghệ thuật đơn thuần nữa mà là một bước thay đổi lớn trong cuộc sống của mỗi người.Nhờ có tầm hiểu biết rộng rãi và khả năng 'ứng xử một cách nghệ thuật trong giao tiếp' – Dale Carnegie đã viết ra một quyển sách với góc nhìn độc đáo và mới mẻ trong giao tiếp hàng ngày một cách vô cùng thú vị – Thông qua những mẫu truyện rời rạc nhưng lại đầy lý lẽ thuyết phục. Từ đó tìm ra những kinh nghiệm để đúc kết ra những nguyên tắc vô cùng 'ngược ngạo', nhưng cũng rất logic dưới cái nhìn vừa sâu sắc, vừa thực tế. Hơn thế nữa, Đắc Nhân Tâm còn đưa ra những nghịch lý mà từ lâu con người ta đã hiểu lầm về phương hướng giao tiếp trong mạng lưới xã hội, thì ra, người giao tiếp thông minh không phải là người có thể phát biểu ra những lời hay nhất, mà là những người học được cách mỉm cười, luôn biết cách lắng nghe, và khích lệ câu chuyện của người khác.

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

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Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients.At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with?This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive.Books in this series are based on the work of experts including:Daniel GolemanTony SchwartzNick MorganDaniel GilbertThis collection of articles includes "To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?" by Mark Gerzon; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It's About You," by Tony Schwartz; "How to Deal with a Mean Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How To Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How to Work with Someone Who's Always Stressed Out," by Rebecca Knight; "How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent," by Liz Kislik; and "Do You Hate Your Boss?" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries.HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Creating Business Plans (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

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A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success--whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to:Present your idea clearlyDevelop sound financial plansProject risks--and rewardsAnticipate and address your audience's concernsDon't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

Piense y Hágase Rico

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The bestselling success book of all time--Think and Grow Rich-- is now available in Spanish.El libro de éxito más vendido de todos los tiempos —Piense y hágase rico— ya está disponible en español. Piense y hágase rico ha sido llamado el "abuelo de toda la literatura de motivación". Fue el primer libro que se atrevió a preguntar audazmente: "¿De qué está hecho un ganador?". Napoleon Hill, el hombre que hizo la pregunta y escuchó la respuesta, hoy en día se considera como uno de los ganadores más destacados del mundo. ¡Descubra los secretos que le harán descubrir su mayor potencial! Si usted está feliz con su vida tal como es, deje de leer ahora mismo. Pero si usted quiere más de la vida —más riqueza, más éxito, más independencia— entonces usted está a punto de unirse a las legiones de mujeres y hombres exitosos que juran por Piense y hágase rico de Napoleon Hill. Esta es la edición original, de la clásica y legendaria guía que ha demostrado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo cómo alcanzar sus objetivos a través de una serie de leyes, claras y sencillas, que llevan al éxito. No espere más, ¡ponga estas reglas a trabajar para usted hoy mismo!. Todo comienza con las primeras líneas de esta valioso libro.Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winners himself.Unlock the Secrets to Your Highest Potential!If you are happy with your life just as it is, stop reading right now. But if you want more out of life – more wealth, more success, more independence – then you are about to join the legions of successful men and women who swear by Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. Here is the original, classic edition of the legendary guidebook that has shown millions of readers around the world how to attain their goals – through clear, simple, step-by-step laws to achievement. Put these rules to work for you today. It all starts with the opening lines to this treasured work.

Think And Grow Rich [The Deluxe Edition]

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* Featuring Dynamic Chapter Navigation & Pro Formatting for a Premium Reading Experience. Think and Grow Rich (1937) is a motivational personal development book written by Napoleon Hill inspired by a suggestion from tycoon businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that the book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy can be used to help individuals succeed in all lines of work & achieve anything. Think and Grow Rich was credited for Ken Norton's boxing upset of Muhammad Ali in 1973.

Who Moved My Cheese?

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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT!A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze.If the same old routines worked.If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese."But things keep changing...Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude.Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

O ego é seu inimigo

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Ele arruinou a carreira de gênios promissores.Mandou pelos ares grandes fortunas e destruiu empresas.Tornou as adversidades insuportáveis e transformou esforço em vergonha.Seu nome? Ego.O ego é um adversário interno citado por quase todos os grandes filósofos da história, em incontáveis obras de arte, de todas as culturas e todos os tempos.E agora vamos aprender a destruí-lo, antes que ele destrua você.Em O ego é seu inimigo, Holiday apresenta exemplos reais e inspiradores de pessoas comuns que dominaram o ego, chegaram aos mais altos níveis de poder e sucesso e se tornaram lendas — não pela fama, mas pelo trabalho e legado. Ao perceber a influência negativa do ego e combatê-lo, você será capaz de viver melhor e conquistar resultados mais expressivos. As estratégias e táticas desenvolvidas por essas figuras fascinantes vão ajudá-lo a vencer esse inimigo tão poderoso que nos desafia todos os dias.• Ryan Holiday abandonou a faculdade aos 19 anos para ser aprendiz de Robert Greene, autor de As 48 leis do poder. Contratado mais tarde como diretor de marketing da American Apparel, antiga loja americana, foi responsável por campanhas famosas por suas polêmicas.• O autor é fundador da agência Brass Check, que já ofereceu consultoria para grandes companhias, como Google, e também para diversos autores de sucesso, como Tim Ferriss (4 horas para o corpo).• Holiday é autor de vários livros, entre eles O obstáculo é o caminho, traduzido para 17 idiomas e cultuado entre técnicos da liga de futebol americano dos Estados Unidos, atletas de elite, personalidades de TV e líderes políticos. Atualmente vive em um rancho próximo de Austin, Texas, nos Estados Unidos.“Ensina a domesticar a fera dentro de nós e a manter o foco no que importa ― fazer o melhor trabalho possível.”

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