books: manager's guide ...     books:       The Rental Property Manager's Toolbox: A Complete Guide Including Pre-Written Forms, Agreements, Letters, And ...8 reviews Jamaine Burrell Atlantic Publishing Company (FL), 2006 Make Yourself a Professional I have a few rental properties that I've managed myself over the years, with some success, but I was looking to do better and acquired Jamaine Burrell's book to get some pointers. Her book, The Rental Property Manager's Toolbox does the trick! The "Toolbox" has all the advice, tips, forms, and sample letters that one could possibly need to make the transition from an "amateur" rental property ...             FYI: For Your Improvement, A Guide for Development and Coaching (4th edition)9 reviews Michael M. Lombardo, Robert W. Eichinger Lominger International, 2004 Encyclopedia of Competencies FYI presents a comprehensive list and description of competencies needed for leadership, according to the Lominger Group. This model may differ in some respects from the one used by your organization, but it won't be far off. The competencies in this book are organized into six factors: Strategic Skills, Operating Skills, Courage, Energy & Drive, Organizational Positioning Skills, and ...             The Six Sigma Handbook: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels, Revised ...30 reviews Thomas Pyzdek McGraw-Hill, 2003 One of the Best Books on Six Sigma This is one of the classics.If you are in to Six Sigma,buy this and keep it in your library. The explanations are simple and very comprehensive.             Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators25 reviews Patrick M. Lencioni Jossey-Bass, 2005 Great Customer Services Delivered on the promissed time frame. I recomend and will use this service again.             Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean32 reviews Karen Berman, Joe Knight, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Great for anyone I got this book for a leadership course and was surprised that I learned a lot about my own finances, stocks, etc. A quick and easy way to learn about finance. I would recommend for anyone that has to look at financial statements for any reason.             IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide4 reviews Dan Volitich McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008 IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence I found the book to have a ton of useful examples on how to write reports using Cognos and on how to use some of the more complicated features. For example, creating a union in a report and how to use a Master-Detail relationship in a report. There are examples for just about everything.             Marketing Management (12th Edition) (Marketing Management)30 reviews Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller Prentice Hall, 2006 Marketing Management Text I purchased the text for an online course. The delivery was as promised and I was satisfied with my choice. Now that I am in class, the text choice I agree was a good one.             Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager28 reviews Michael Lopp Apress, 2007 The title should be Managing Software Engineering Humans! Living in a Software Engineering world, this book nailed it. Not everyone gets "1.0 Start-Up Tragedies". Perhaps it's something akin to Katrina. (You had to be there.) Beyond that he does a little physco-analysis of personality work approaches: incrementalist and completionists, manager (north and south) poles of organics and mechanics. It's not only funny and true-to-life, but upbeat. It might ...             HR Answer Book, The: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals15 reviews Shawn Smith, Rebecca Mazin AMACOM, 2004 An excellent resource I highly recommend this book. I run a HR department by myself and since it is just me, myself, and I - this book gets lots of use; just to get another perspective on how something should be handled or feedback "so to speak." It is written in a simple, clear, and direct manner. Very easy to use and understand.             Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam (Head First)57 reviews Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Great for visual learners I'm a visual learner and I found this book to be very helpful in preparing for the exam. The situational questions in the book are relevant to the types of questions on the exam and the cross-word puzzles and exercises are helpful to remember the concepts. The FREE online practice test is very useful as well.             It's Okay to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees Need15 reviews Bruce Tulgan Collins Business, 2007 Sharp A+++ book Extremely practical, well laid-out and intelligient method for evaluating and improving managerial performance. He teaches a straightforward approach to management problem solving: sharp and right to the point. We've applied these management tools to our household, also, and it has improved problem solving in the home. I've been using Bruce's method in my music teaching business too. Bruce is ...             The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards (w/CD) (The Jossey-Bass ...7 reviews Murray Dropkin, Jim Halpin, ... Jossey-Bass, 2007 Budget Management When I purchased this book I thought it might be outdated for my organization. I was wrong - this is an excellent budget WORKBOOK. The author did an excellent job in bringing the complex and problematic issues of budgeting for Nonprofit organizations and takes you step by step into the process. The book covers everything from the start of the budget to financial reporting of the budget. This book ...             Business Process Change, Second Edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals ...9 reviews Paul Harmon Morgan Kaufmann, 2007 Very good discussion of business process - applicable to a broad arena of work I think this is the best book that I have seen that allows an organization to consider business process at the enterprise and department level. I have been engaged in business process management in the government for years, trying to define the processes, trying to communicate them, trying to improve them. This is by far the best treatment and guide I have seen. This is what I have been ...             Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know4 reviews David A. Moss Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Exactly what the title promises It is rare to find a book so aptly described by its title as "A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics." The book really is concise; the text is only 141 pages long, and even that number might give an exaggerated impression because there are fairly wide margins and two blank pages between each chapter, as well as numerous graphs and tables. Yet in those 141 pages, this guidebook covers the essentials of ...             Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You -- A Project Manager's ...6 reviews Tom Kendrick AMACOM, 2006 This stuff works! This stuff works! "Results without Authority" is a powerful source of tools and common sense advice for people managing projects without formal authority. And most of the projects I have managed and most of the projects I am aware of are managed by people without authority. Tom Kendrick brings a depth of wisdom that can only be learned in the trenches. Kendrick weaves theory and practice to ...             Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 2 (CIPT2) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (Self-Study ...1 review Chris Olsen Cisco Press, 2008 The only Self Study for CIPT2 out there. The only Self Study out there for Call Manager version 6 CIPT2. Well Written. It did help prepare me for the test. In the latest version of this exam Cisco has dramatically increased the content. This covers all of the new multisite dialplan additions pretty well.             Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Revised Edition21 reviews Ferdinand F. Fournies McGraw-Hill, 1999 A Must-Have Book for Any Manager / Leader / Mentor The key focus for any person in a management, leadership, or mentoring position should always be to help their employees be as fulfilled as possible. In many ways that is the definition of management - that the manager's main task is to manage people. It is their duty, their job to help those they are managing. Many managers lose track of that - they yell at their employees, mistreat them, and ...             The 4 Dimensional Manager: DiSC Strategies for Managing Different People in the Best Ways (Inscape Guide)7 reviews Julie Straw Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002 Great resource This book is great. I took the DiSC profiler and been improving the way to deal with daily situations. This is practical in job and in life.             A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing: Quick Reference for Affiliate Managers & Merchants20 reviews Evgenii Prussakov AM Navigator LL, 2007 No Fluff and 99.99% Solid Content Out of All of the Affiliate Marketing Books This is a MUST HAVE Unlike most of the books on Amazon I found Geno's to be an extremely efficient read. Most of the books on this subject are filled with "fluffs" and long run on's of success stories. It was very refreshing to finally read a book by someone who approaches Online Marketing and Management from more of a "This is the exact science" standpoint while still keeping the book enjoyable and not dense at ...             Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide (Agile Software Development Series)47 reviews Craig Larman Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Excellent survey of iterative and incremental development (IID) methodologies This work by Larman shares some commonalities with Balancing Agility and Discipline, a work by Boehm and Turner (see my review for that book) in which a wide range of methodologies are compared side-by-side to determine the best fit for teams. However, rather than serving as a guide to determine best fit from a wide assortment of methodologies, Larman's work is limited to a discussion of Scrum, ...              search for books agreements, authorized, blackbelts, brain-friendly, budget-building, communications, controlling, development, dimensional, dysfunctions, engineering, executives, facilitators, greenbelts, implementing, improvement, indispensable, intelligence, jossey-bass, macroeconomics, management, nonprofits, overcoming, performance, pre-written, professional, professionals, self-study, step-by-step, strategies books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Art of Walter Anderson we recommend Great for visual learners leave a comment home  impressum - about us