Book Description
This book stands firmly in its place as the leading textbook in its coverage of health care finance. No other text so completely blends the best of current finance theory with the tools needed in day-to-day practice.
Customer Reviews:
Essentials of Health Care Finance.......2007-09-10
This is a very difficult book to digest if you are not familiar with accounting concepts. This is not a beginner text! The text is written in a very broad context, however, the expectation in my class was to apply the broad concepts to detailed financial problems. This was difficult because Cleverly offerred few examples to help apply the difficult financial concepts. I found the text to be utterly frustrating!
Essentials of Health Care Finance.......2003-06-19
I bought the book of Essentials of Health Care Finance, it was delivered on time, however, some papers insided the book are very dirty, I can see the brown oily figure prints. I wish that I can exchange the book ...
Troubling Guide to Alien Territory.......2001-08-23
This books offers a broad coverage of health care topics for a non-financial person. It is most deeply flawed for its inability to communicate clearly to a lay person. Essentially it is a vocabulary primer of important financial principles and concepts. It requires abstract thinking and the ability to follow mathematical models.
This reader studied Cleverly's text as a requirement for a healthcare finance class. The text was frustrating as this reader attempted to "know" everything about healthcare finances; however, this is probably not the intent of the book. It does present a road into the foreign land of finances. It demands respect for another set of data and another language for interpreting that data. One does not master this data set at one pass, however.
Nevertheless, this reader did gain some new financial information. At the risk of being simplistic, but communicative; a listing of some of the concepts learned follows:
1. There are many users of financial information.
2. Financial information can guide the formation of programs.
3. Financial management is essential for successful healthcare organizations.
4. Various qualities of health care organization types.
5. How health care organizations make up for discouting and bad debt and capitated payments.
6. General principles of accounting and why they are important. Also that these principles still need to be explained, to be consistent, and to be clarified.
7. Overview of four main types of financial statements with a brief explanation of vaious line items.
8. That financial planning includes considering inflation before it happens, and for equipment etc. to break and wear out before it breaks or wears out.
9. That financial information can be better understood by comparing financial ratios of different line items and trends over time. There are national benchmarking ratios available and Cleverly gives some and tells how to get more.
10. That financial planning should be an orderly process in an organization.
11. There are different types of costs. Some stay the same, some are overhead types. Some are direct, some are hidden. Some can be controlled, some cannot.
12. Figuring out prices is a very complex process in healthcare. It is based on costs and payers. It must also include indirect costs and costs of future problems.
13. There is still stuff to learn . . . And this reader is still no expert.
Finally, after this MSN course and this text, this reader is more conversant with the financial landscape. It holds interest and it is understandable, after all.
Not for beginners.......2000-01-08
I have finished about 5 different chapters for a Masters degree course I am taking. This book is not for beginners! I am an RN and have been working in business for 10 years. The author assumes that you have had basic accounting and the terminology is unfamiliar. There are very few examples given so it is hard to take the information and see how it is really used. I have had to buy another book just so that I could understand this book.
Mr. Cleverley is the guru of healthcare finance.......1999-08-27
This book represents the foundation on which all healthcare organizations should examine their financial strength and management. While not for beginners, it provides a comprehensive overview of reporting and benchmarks that prove invaluable during the budgeting process and for financial control.
Book Description
Clinard describes specific skills that each of us can develop in order to create effective relationships. She identifies particular areas of relationships that often cause hardships and illustrates how it is possible to build the skills that can make even those relationships positive experiences for all concerned. The book has been used for training managers in industry and can be used for other types of communications training sessions and seminars.
Customer Reviews:
Winning Ways.......2001-03-31
Winning Ways is a step by step book for development and learning of powerful and subtle ways of communicating with people. I was first introduced to Helen Clinard's "ways" in 1993, became a student, and with practice and nurturing, have endeavored to incorporate these skills into my daily living, that is to make them become so natural that they are behavioral habits. Helen Clinard's insights into human communication behaviors, were ahead of their time, sort of precursors to recent emphasis and popularity of Emotional Intelligence in management training. The book is technical, thorough, uses graphical models, and incorporates many day to day examples to help the reader. A must have for those in executive coaching and counseling professions.
Winning Ways to Succeed With People.......2001-03-02
I use this book as a communication training resource for suprvisors. The skill outcomes are concrete and applications oriented. Another advantage of the book is that it is written in a developmental format. Everything is in a stepwise order. Each part builds on the skill previously presented. I recommend using this book as a training guide for communication training with people who want well defined, concrete, applications-oriented training. I liked it so much I brought in the author, Ms. Helen Clinard, to do the training. I also recommend this book as a self-help guide to individuals wanting to learn concrete and useable communication skills. It is clearly written, easy to understand and the skills are effective when practiced in real life situations.
Most important book in my library!.......2001-02-25
If it is true -- and I believe it is -- that effective communication is the key to success in business, life, and parenting, then this book is a "must buy!" The "seven skills" taught in this book are really interlocking parts of a single framework for understanding and interacting with human behavior that can transform all the relationships in one's life. I have used the skill called "Tracking Positives," for example, to teach first-time supervisors how -- pragmatically -- to (in Dr. Johnson's words) "catch employees doing something RIGHT!" I know parents who have been able to open up long-closed channels of communication with their adolescent children by practicing the skills in this book. And I have watched as volunteers have been able to use these skills to break through to people on the edge of hopelessness. If you are serious about communicating effectively or if you know someone who should be -- buy this book!
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Author Dennis Boyer will guide you to some of the most memorable and unique drinking establishments in the state of Wisconsin. You'll discover over 100 taverns where you are sure to find a cold brew plus a whole lot more. Visit historic downtown taverns, quaint gathering spots in small towns, or your local neighborhood bar. There are breweries, bars, taverns, pubs, and saloons, all offering mouthwatering suds and friendly faces. This is the quintessential guide to the best Wisconsin taverns.
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This book offers solid advice on setting and achieving your goals. Goal Setting 101 helps you to become brilliant on the basics by explaining the Who?, What?, Where?, When?, How?, and Why? of goal setting. You will learn what to do before, during, and after as you pursue any goal.
A great tool for beginners, students and a valuable reference for seasoned goal setters and teachers!
Customer Reviews:
don't waste your time and money....look elsewhere.......2007-10-07
I ordered this booklet/pamphlet based on the reviews and also because the books is kind of short. When dealing with goal setting short it is not necessarily bad. You certainly don't want a psychological dissertation about the benefits of goal setting. But a least you should expect the book to explain one of the many ways of setting them. However, this book does not provide any specific as to how to go about it.
The book not only is very short (less than 40 pages) with big typed letters and lots of white space, but the author only deals with some psychological benefit of goal setting, and a few "catchy" phrases. And I guess for "meat" or mechanics of the subject you should look elsewhere. Get "Your best year yet" by Jinny S. Ditzler, and don't waste your money on this pamphlet.
Magnificent little book!.......2005-09-05
I appreciate the fact that this little gem is only 40 pages. It is all meat and no fluff. I highly recommend to those who are serious about setting goals.
Enjoyable, Educational, and Inspiring.......2005-03-27
I have had the opportunty to hear Gary Ryan Blair speak at a company function. I can't tell you how much the man has inspired me to reach goals I never thought possible.
As Gary will tell you, success is a state if mind. I highly recommend this book and every other book you can get your hands on. Also, he has such a inspiring intellect you should consider audio and video.
Great Message - Great Delivery.......2005-03-27
This is one of those rare books that makes it points clearly and then guides your through exercises that reinforce its key messages.
I found Goal Setting 101 to be incredibly helpful in preparing myself, my employees and my children for success. I have used the content to help me design company and personal goals and I am well on my way toward measurable success on those goals.
I highly recommend it!
Goal Setting Done Right!.......2005-03-16
Boy, this book makes you really work, and gives you a great understanding how it works.
It's not always easy, but when you get the understanding behind goal setting you are eager to do the writing part of it.
I feel that anyone who does the work involved at the end of each chapter can't help but succeed too.
Very powerful tools here for your success.
Book Description
Motivation and Goal Setting delivers concise, how to information in a friendly, interactive format ideal for team or individual use. This book will help one clearly define their values, maintain flexibility by setting realistic goals, and stay motivated in the face of setbacks. With tools that can be immediately incorporated, goals will soon become realities.
Customer Reviews:
Generic Basics - Little Specific Help.......2006-05-01
Motivation and Goal-Setting by Jim Cario is a short book. Compared to many other motivation books on the market, you need to be prepared for only quick tips here. The book has about 100 pages of content - but of that, about half is taken up by redundant empty worksheets for you to fill in. Here's an example of a full page form. It has a grid. You descrie a situation you've seen as a team member or leader. You say what type of reinforcement should have been used, and what results should have been seen. It makes you do this 3 times. Surely an entire page didn't need to be devoted to this exercise. It's not just once - it is all through the entire book. You're paying for empty forms.
What's in the other half? There are apparently 8 steps to achieving success. These are Identity, Values, Goals, Action Plan, Motivation, Discipline, Flexibility and Outcome. The book goes over each step of course, to help you understand it. Each section has a brief area showing you how to determine this trait in yourself, and then gives an example of "Margo", and unhappy 27 yr old office worker.
Most of us know these basic things and were getting a book to help us do them more efficiently. Some of the chapters therefore seemed very light and unhelpful - but I suppose they had to be included for the sake of going from start to end and not just "jumping into the middle". However, the actual "meat" chapters were given the same light treatment. I can understand the "identity" chapter only getting a few pages - it's important to really understand what you want in life before you plot out how to get it. That's fairly clear. On the other hand, people are getting this book because they ARE having problems getting to their goal, so you would think the "action plan" chapter would be thick and meaty. Nope! It's got a few tips, and then skips right ahead. Were they trying to conserve paper? Keep their book under $x price point? It's hard to know. Surely if those were concerns, they could have handled the 800 giant forms differently. But I digress.
So, their entire 3 pages (using large print) of action plan description tells you: Make a list of goals, start now, record your progress. Do planning at every level in your organization, and commit the energy and time to do it. Then they restate that same information, and have Margo do it. There's no actual help on how to do these things, or how to do them well, or what pitfalls to avoid, or so on. I knew to make a list! I knew to prioritize it. I got this book for help in doing these tasks.
OK, on to motivation. Luckily, motivation gets a much more thorough treatment. The book should really have been called "Motivation Techniques". You get info on motivating yourself and motivating others. A key message of this area is that people respond to positive motivation, while negative motivation only makes things worse. The book says to give positive reinforcement quickly, with explicit praise for the action (not general praise). It says to give private feedback when it's negative, and to do it quickly and specifically. Then the book says to keep score - to show graphs and charts constantly of the progress.
Here's my issues. The generic instructions tell you what to do, but not how to do it - and some are so generically Pollyanna so as to be nearly impossible. Say you have someone who simply is always late. This book tells you to "catch him being early and praise him". It assumes he IS going to do the good trait someday. It gives many warnings about negative reinforcement, but no real suggestions on how to handle problems in real life. It emphasizes keeping score - but in many work environments, that causes HUGE problem with inter-personal competition and unhappiness. Many organizations do much better without constantly keeping score.
The book could be helpful for someone just starting out, who has never done any self evaluation of any kind and who needs the very basics on how to work with others. However, again, it should be titled to reflect that - "The Bare Basics of Motivating". With an actual subtitle of "how to set and achieve goals and inspire others", I expected much more actual content to help me do these things.
Powerful Message.......2002-08-15
Motivation and Goal Setting's strength lies not in the destination, but in the map. Chock-full of various strategies and tips on how to set the goal and then motivate yourself into attaining the goal, even when said goal seems more unattainable than ever. Well written and easy to follow, Cairo's book's ideas can be applied to all areas of life. It reminds me of Guerilla PR: Wired as both books deal with attaining your goals.
Insightful!.......2001-04-18
Motivation and Goal-Setting shows rather than tells. Instead of launching into long-winded sermons about discovering your "true" identity, author Jim Cairo poses a few simple questions that set the reader off on an interesting path of introspection. By forcing you to get involved with the book by answering these questions yourself, Cairo is using the principles that he writes about. The exercises he suggests will start building momentum that you can carry right over into your own personal goals. The book falters only in the sections on motivation and change, where Cairo lapses into generic sloganeering about learning from mistakes and embracing change. Regardless, we [...] recommend this book to anyone who feels that they could use a second wind, from a high-school student struggling to remain motivated, to a 55-year-old CEO looking for fresh challenges.
Goal setting leads to motivation.......2000-10-30
This book examines motivation strategies through goal setting. It teaches readers how to define their goals or help employees define what their goals are. I have found through reading this book that setting goals are important for many reasons. It helped me discover that organizations must establish goals to give employees top down a foundation to build their own goals. It is important for employees to develop their own goals and for managers to help direct,and define their goals to help with motivation. Goal setting leads to motivation which in turn leads to increased productivity. This book strives to help managers as well as individuals establish goals and goal setting procedures as well as tips and tools that are beneficial. It has already proven to be a very beneficial tool for me in my business.
Goal setting leads to motivation.......2000-10-30
This book examines motivation strategies through goal setting. It teaches readers how to define their goals or help employees define what their goals are. I have found through reading this book that setting goals are important for many reasons. It helped me discover that organizations must establish goals to give employees top down a foundation to build their own goals. It is important for employees to develop their own goals and for managers to help direct,and define their goals to help with motivation. Goal setting leads to motivation which in turn leads to increased productivity. This book strives to help managers as well as individuals establish goals and goal setting procedures as well as tips and tools that are beneficial. It has already proven to be a very beneficial tool for me in my business.
Book Description
Discover the psychological strategies that hedge fund traders use to maximize their success in Hedge Fund Masters. Author Ari Kiev interviewed over 80 hedge fund traders, including some of the most successful hedge fund operators in the world, to illustrate the principles of success. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, the book explores the pressures felt by professional hedge fund traders as they manage enormous sums of their clients' money and shows you how to maintain emotional balance, focus on targets and goals, overcome deep-seated psychological obstacles, and trade with consistency and discipline.
Customer Reviews:
get bigger!.......2006-09-24
After reading all the negative reviews (one from a reviewer that admits he didn't even read the book???) I am a little confused. I just finshed reading Hedge Fund Masters and I really liked it.
The author comments on interviews with 80 hedge fund managers. He talks about the problems holding them back and keeping them from getting bigger, or keeping them from staying profitable. I am amazed that all these managers running huge money have the same problems that I do. Maybe there is hope for me!
There are many ideas in this book that will help traders and managers. Everything from developing a vision, planning a strategy, to the section on fears, emotions, and overcoming obstacles. I think Kiev is more of a coach than a psychologist in this book. He does not say "Ok, I validate your fears, its ok to be a loser", he comes out and tells some of these managers they are being weak and should change their risk levels and profit targets if they want to run big money. It makes sense in the context of the conversations.
With the loss of 5 billion by Aramanth this week, maybe they should have read this book last week. Now just getting bigger is not going to help many managers. Kiev only pushes some of these managers to trade larger on the positions they have extreme confidence in. Confidence levels that they have a track record of in previous trades. After all, if your goal is to be one of the best, you cannot stay in your comfort zone.
Suspicious Reviews.......2006-04-26
'Sceptic' (See March 2nd review below) is right - the author has conjured up a slew of similar 5 star reviews from family, friends and SAC office co-workers. His ego knows no bounds.
If you have his first two books you would be wasting your money to get this one. And it would be nice to expect better of an author on subjects of peak performance than to pad reviews. Sorry, Ari.
Confoundedly disappointing! .......2006-03-27
I had expected something of the genre and quality of Market Wizards I & II, Trading for a living, Trade like a Hedge Fund (by James Altucher), Soros on Soros, Reminiscences of a stock operator, Running Money by Andy Kessler etc etc. I had been confoundedly disappointed. The book is flooded of interviews with hedge fund managers anonymous leading you to nowhere but setting goals, visualizing success, overcoming fears and all the stuff you find in any trading psychology book, only that the writing skill of the author is sub-standard. The author had repeated the term "Hedge Fund" highly frequently. However, the content is not related particularly to any hedge fund or hedge fund manager at all. Also, the author had elaborated the term "mastery" throughout the book. I assure you that you will have no idea of how to achieve it unless you employ the author as your personal trading counsellor.
In short, a waste of time, money and the paper to print the book.
Sceptic.......2006-03-03
I did not read the book so I can't review it, but reviewing the reviews it does not smell good that 11 out of 14 reviews are between Aug. 1-4 by reviewers that for most of them this is their only review
Wisdom from the best.......2005-09-22
The psychological dimension of investing is one of the most important yet least discussed. Dr. Ari Kiev has filled that gap! He does a great job and I now understand why he is the pre-eminent trading coach. Hedge Fund Masters both inspires you to achieve break-through performance and provides the specific tools to do so. I found it particularly valuable that he combines his conceptual framework with actual interviews of top traders that are applying it daily. I am a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at a large hedge fund and have referenced this book more than any other so far this year. I highly recommend this great read if you are serious about investment mastery.
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How to Set and Achieve Goals
Manufacturer: Careertrack
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Steps that work.......1999-12-02
This lady really explains clearly why we do what we do. She gives excellent step-by-step directions on goal setting. Now the hardest part is the "doing daily" next steps. I know she can help anyone, if you put these into practice. A great resource for any day and age, especially as we enter the new millenium.
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Choose success;: How to set and achieve all your goals,
Billy B Sharp
Manufacturer: Hawthorn Books
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Cracking the Code of Success will show you how to implement a precise method to help you attain the goals you wish to reach. You will learn how to unleash the power of your mind and gain control of your life. Cracking the Code of Success will teach you how to eliminate your bad habits and self-defeating thoughts and how to replace them with good habits and positive people that will help lead you toward your goals. All of us dream about being able to achieve our business, financial and personal goals. Cracking the Code of Success will help make those dreams come true by giving you a roadmap for you to follow on your way to time, financial and workplace freedom. Cracking the Code of Success shows you how to lay the foundation of your goals firmly on your values and core beliefs. With a solid foundation in place you can proceed confidently on your way toward identifying, outlining and achieving your ultimate goals in life. Cracking the Code of Success also reveals leadership, visualization and planning techniques that will help you improve you supervisory and management skills. In addition, Cracking the Code of Success shows you how to deal with failure and why applying discipline into your daily routine is so important to your success. Cracking the Code of Success divulges the secret to writing an effective and detailed action plan that will assist you in making your dreams reality. If you're passionate about success and realizing your potential, the concepts in Cracking the Code of Success will have you well on your way toward living your life the way you want to live it!
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How to Set and Achieve Your Financial Goals (One Hour Guides)
Thomas E. Bailard
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