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The quest for quality in every school is unique. This new book shows you how to eliminate coercion, focus on quality, and institute an effective system of self-evaluation in your school. The author also provides practical guidance on common issues of school quality such as homework, tests, grades, retention in grade, ability grouping, team teaching, and discipline. "I loved it! Timely, practical, inspirational. It operationalized the concepts of choice theory and quality. I am eager to share this book with my colleagues." -Neil Chivington, school counselor, Maine.
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Effective Management Control: Theory and Practice
Eric G. Flamholtz
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Effective Management Control deals with a critical but relatively neglected and misunderstood aspect of organizational effectiveness: the process of controlling the behavior of people in organizations. The issue of organizational control and the design of an optimal control system is essential for the long term effectiveness of an organization: too little control can lead to confusion and chaos; conversely, too great a degree of control can result in the erosion of innovation and entrepreneurship. This monograph presents a conceptual framework for approaching these issues, and examines the role accounting can play in a successful control system. The author works towards an understanding of the nature, role, elements and functioning of organizational control and control systems in organizations. The book posits and discusses the features of a core control system and its component parts, including: planning, measurement and feedback, evaluation and reward sub-systems. It also discusses the ways in which a core control system operates within a larger organizational structure and culture. The theory is illustrated through its application to a particular case study.
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Harvard ManageMentor guides are practical, portable advice for managers, especially designed to support just-in-time and other corporate training needs. Project management is the ultimate juggling act, involving the use of sometimes scarce resources like people, time, and money to meet a goal or solve a problem. This essential guide shows a new project manager or one who desires a refresher how to scope out a project, develop schedules, set deadlines, manage and monitor progress, and overcome some typical project snags, such as mission creep and schedule slippage. It also covers the four phases of planning, buildup, implementation, and phaseout and the tasks associated with each. Written in an engaging style designed for easy scanning by the business reader, the guide is packed with advice, tips, worksheets, and more to help any manager become a more efficient and effective multitasker.
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Basics for a Project-Driven World.......2002-10-11
It's short, clearly written, to the point, and filled with basic templates. A book designed for the professional who wants to understand and be able to use standard project methodologies from information technology (IT) projects to construction projects, to planning a trip, or preparing a research grant. We are using it in all of our business areas.
I am an experienced project manager, and recommend this book to anyone who wants to approach life in an organized, measurable manner. Project Management is not just for IT.
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Divorce is a time of loss—it also becomes a time of change with the possibility that each partner might move forward toward personal restoration and wholeness. But how? David and Lisa Frisbie, authors of Happily Remarried, share godly wisdom, sound advice, and encouragement to help readers:
- heal from feelings of anger and abandonment
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This excellent resource provides great help for those with children and will guide any divorced reader to see the hope of a second chance as they learn to depend on God’s grace, sufficiency, and promises.
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Great Parenting Tips!.......2007-03-26
As a divorced mom, single parent, mother of two --- I read a lot. This new book has already changed the way I'm parenting my boys --- who are just now emerging into their teen years. Great parenting tips! This is one of the most positive, encouraging, "real life" books I've discovered. Extremely useful for anyone who is in their first 3-5 years after a divorce. Very well done!
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- Towards Performance Excellence in the Era of Chaotic Competition
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Maximum Performance: A Practical Guide To Leading And Managing People At Work
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources (March 2006): `the book comprehensively covers leadership and people management issues that are topical in the present context of competitiveness in the contemporary business environment' ... `he has demonstrated a rare degree of professionalism in selecting and putting together the contents of the book (and) the entire sets of contents knit together exceptionally well' ... `the editorial and production quality is outstanding' ... `this book can be seen as one of the best intertwinements of management theory and management practice' ... `this remarkably helpful bible to practicing managers ... is full of ideas, insights, analyses and even exhortations rooted in corporate and business realities, and is perhaps the best book of its type that I have read in my 34 year academic career' (Professor Debi S. Saini). Stern Management Review, (December 2005): `If I were giving a graduate-level class in leadership and people management skills, I would use this book as the text' ...`if a client asked for a great book to enhance his/her leadership skills this would be one of the first books I would suggest. It's that good! This book is an outstanding resource for leaders and aspiring leaders. It is filled with an abundance of insights: the distinction it makes between a leader and a manager is one of the best, if not the best, we've read'... `it's a powerful, broad-spectrum leadership toolkit with a wealth of information about skills and practices … it is clearly written and superbly organized. An excellent bibliography and subject index top off this outstanding work. We highly recommend this book' (editors, Yvette Borcia and Gerry Stern). Business Information Alert (September 2005): `Maximum Performance is a comprehensive business tome. Although it is designed for students, busy executives who use the chapter summaries or chapter sections that focus in topics that interest them will find the book useful… `The strength of Maximum Performance is its depth. Forster touches on everything from whether leaders are born or made, to Machievellian strategies for dealing with toxic work environments. Anyone interested in leadership will find several sections of interest. Those sections that are particularly strong include the discussions on the different roles of leadership, key issues in motivating employees, the team development process, and best practices in leading organisational change' (Scott R. Jenkins) The Australian Financial Review (August 2005): `This is a big book in more ways than one ... a detailed and illuminating exploration of leadership qualities, attributes, skills and competencies ... the mixture of theory, reflective questions, stories, tools and practical exercises demand a level of thoughtful engagement and self-reflection rarely required by books on leadership ... the Australian content is refreshing, as is the lack of evangelistic promises of immediate transformation ... this book is firmly grounded in supporting the learning and skill development needed for maximum performance' (Viv Read).
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Towards Performance Excellence in the Era of Chaotic Competition.......2006-02-12
After reading the book, the reader tends to be provoked into thinking about the core values, standards and principles that will underpin her leadership and people management practices in the future.
While illustrating his formulations, Forster has very thoughtfully selected the anecdotes and stories about leaders and managers they worked under, as also their personal experiences of leading and managing others. In the chapter on female managers, he has presented evidence to show that successful leaders and managers in western industrialized countries have personal qualities and competencies that encompass male and female characteristics, and hints towards emergence of "a superior hybrid style that will transcend the traditional male-female stereotype" (p. 542). He has demonstrated a rare degree of professionalism in selecting and putting together the contents of the book, including the material, exercises, questionnaires and self-evaluation exercises. He claims to have "tried and tested them in dozens of leadership and management development courses over the last decade" (p. xiii), and he has included only those materials and exercises that worked for busy managers and professionals.
The book comprehensively covers leadership and people management issues that are topical in the present context of competitiveness in the contemporary business environment. In nutshell, the book has argued that organizations and managers that get most out of their people over a long period of time are the ones which focus not just on setting up systems and processes but focus on people management style, people skills and organizational culture to support the systems and processes.
The author has fully succeeded in delivering what he promises to the reader in the preface. He has used little jargon in building his formulations. The editorial and production quality is outstanding. Most other how-to books on people management are simplistic and tend to be prescriptive of universal magical truths, often through bullet points; they are often unrelated to research underpinnings and the contexts in which the prescriptions can be made use of. For, business dynamics is far more complex than it is presumed to be. Forster has related his formulations mostly with the help of anecdotes and stories, which is the hallmark of this book. But he never loses sight of the wider theoretical underpinnings in his narrations. This is reflected in his quoting the American comedian Groucho Marx when he said, "That's all very well in practice--but how does it work in theory" (p. 538).
This book should be an essential reading for all line and human resource managers, and management consultants. It will also be liked by academics belonging to areas such as leading change, performance management and strategic HRM. More than that, it would be found useful by all leaders, who could pick up a good number of insights from it and also develop perspectives from the analyses made. While I read through this book, I had a feeling, I wish I could author it myself.
Debi S. Saini
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A POWERFUL, PRACTICAL LEADERSHIP GUIDE.......2005-12-07
If we were giving a graduate-level class in leadership and people management skills (we are UCLA Business & Management Program instructors) we would choose this book as the text.
If a client asked for a great book to enhance his/her leadership skills, (we consult in organization, compensation & performance management) this would be one of first books we would suggest.
This book is that good!
The book offers a comprehensive guide for developing leadership and people management skills. It's a powerful, broad-spectrum leadership toolkit with a wealth of information about skills and practices, and hundreds of suggestions and opinions from business and political leaders, consultants, and academics.
This book is an outstanding resource for leaders and aspiring leaders. It is filled with anabundance of insights: the distinction it makes between a leader and a manager is one of the best, if not the best, we've read.
Just few of the subjects covered are: the leadership-as-servant philosophy; leaders as coaches and mentors; communication; motivation; leading and managing teams; women as leaders; managing power, politics and conflict; leading organizational and cultural change; creating an innovative organization; leadership and people management in high-tech, networked; and
virtual organizations.
Throughout the book are bullet-point lists, exercises, and to-the-point conclusions. It is clearly written and superbly organized. An excellent bibliography and subject index top off this outstanding work. We highly recommend this book.
Yvette Borcia & Gerry Stern, Editors
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Managing People: A Practical Guide (Psi Successful Business Library)
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practical guide for students or professionals.......2000-10-05
This book has been used as required text in a college management class, students responses were extremely positive. There is good use of contemporary management terminology and practical applications of the implications of management ideas. Students particularly appreciated the author's utilization of clear ,informative exercises to illustrate management concepts. Students indicated that the team building,motivating,transformation,becoming multicultural and manging stress chapters were timely and important.The strongest support for the book was evidenced by the fact that most of the students planned to keep the book for use in professional careers. I am so impressed with the book that I frequently give it as a gift to professionals who give lectures to my classes.
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Expanding Leadership Impact: A Practical Guide to Managing People and Processes (Management Skills)
Kevin R. Kehoe
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The structures of organizations are evolving so rapidly today that managers must be able to let go of old leadership models and implement new management methods that can be put into practice immediately. Assessing you leadership role and building a learning team are only a few tools defined in this guidebook to provide you with maximum leadership results.
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Managing People: A Practical Guide for Line Managers
Michael Armstrong
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As line managers take on increasing responsibility for such personnel matters as recruitment, discipline, pay and training, Michael Armstrong takes on a topical issue in his new book, which focuses on what these managers need to learn about these areas and how they can be best applied in their work. The book will fill the gaps in all line managers' knowledge enabling them to deal more confidently and efficiently with the day-to-day personnel questions which arise and which, with personnel specialists now assuming the role of policy advisor, can no longer be passed on to colleagues. It covers performance management, the development and reward of employees, health and safety, and welfare matters. Discussion of the legal framework and ways of dealing with employment problems concludes the work. The approach adopted is direct: Michael Armstrong writes without recourse to jargon, explaining all the personnel terminology, and supplies plenty of practical examples, plus action points and checklists.
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Practical guide to managing people
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Good People, Good Practice: A Practical Guide to Managing Personnel in the New Primary Care Organisations (Harnessing Health Information Series)
Hilary Haman
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources—including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories—to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore.
Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
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Better then Sena Jeter.......2000-10-27
While Lisa Norling certaintly did not write a book to change our times, she has written the best Ahab's wife book we have. Our only other real chioce seems to be Sena Jeter, and she is not an exeptional writer of any magnitude. So when choosing between the two, Lisa is the way to go.
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Physics of the Inner Heliosphere II: Particles, Waves and Turbulence (Physics and Chemistry in Space)
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