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Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results Through detailed step-by-step discussions, Niven provides insight on and practical solutions for: developing performance objectives and measures that faithfully translate strategy, generating executive support, and assembling the right team. Readers also learn how to ensure the Balanced Scorecard becomes an integral component of their management systems by cascading it to all levels of the organization, aligning budgets and compensation with strategy, reporting results with software, and putting in place systems to ensure lasting success. |
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The Effective Executive The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. In this classic book, Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned: Management of time; Choosing what to contribute to the practical organization; Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect; Setting up the right priorities; And Knitting all of them together with effective decision making. |
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Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation A guide to successful negotiation. |
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Getting Things Done Subtitled "The Art of Stress-free Productivity," the book provides a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a files and action lists -- all to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. |
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The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart Without being preachy or theoretical, this book looks at how others have faced moral dilemmas and gives you the tools to help you reach your own decisions. you will see firsthand how businesspeople have grappled with difficult issues, from how to draw the line between lying and posturing, to whether it's ever ethical to spy on competitors, to how to align personal beliefs with business practices. you will also discover the common misperceptions about ethics in business and learn how to define your "comfort" level so that you can conduct business knowing you've made thoughtful decisions with full knowledge of the possible consequences. |
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How to Be Organized in Spite of Yourself: Time and Space Management That Works With Your Personal Style Recognizing that just one organizational system is not for everyone, the authors have devised solutions that provide ten different systems to match ten basic personality types. |
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Human Resources for Small Business The legal way to deal with everything from recruiting employees to terminating them. Includes sample documents, letters, and memos. |
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Treat People Right!: How Organizations and Employees Can Create a Win/Win Relationship to Achieve High Performance at All Levels In this book, Edward Lawler shows how companies can "treat people right" by doing more than simply ensuring good working conditions and good pay. He shows how to build a special relationship between individuals and the organizations they work for-a relationship in which good performance at all levels of the organization pays off for both the company and the individual. The author details specific practices designed to keep employees satisfied but still motivated to continue improving their performance. These techniques include: developing a "brand" as an employer that attracts high achievers, selecting and developing the high achievers, crafting a leadership style that integrates and promotes these actions, and more. |
