Julie's having a very bad day. She's a new manager, and her top performer has resigned to escape her, and her own manager is looking on with a skeptical eye... This is the story of her turnaround. Being a first-time manager is a tough job. If you were Julie, what would you do? Wouldn't anyone, given the choice of taking on a leadership role (with a raise), or staying put, have done the same? But no one prepared her for developing co-workers, her...

Improve your project management skills and accomplish more in no time at all In these days when projects seem to be bigger and more challenging than ever before, you need to make sure tasks stay on track, meet the budget, and keep everyone in the loop. Enter Project Management For Dummies. This friendly guide starts with the basics of project management and walks you through the different aspects of leading a project to a successful finish. After...

This book is your essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership. Whatever your level in an organisation, this is your practical handbook for getting to the top and staying there. Anyone can learn to be a great leader. And everyone can learn to lead better. This book will show you how. Its clear focus on practical, straightforward advice and guidance, delivered with refreshing honesty and humour, and with a relentless focus on the practical...

You've been given a project to run. You know you need to get it right, but you don't know what you need to do and in what order to make sure it all runs smoothly and you come out of it looking great. You need Project Management Step by Step. Almost every manager and businessperson finds at some time they need to complete a task that has sufficient complexity and importance that an ad-hoc approach to getting it done is just not enough. Managers in...

Comment les jeunes imaginent-ils l'entreprise dans dix ans ? Celle dans laquelle ils voudront s'investir ? Celle qui leur donnera envie de s'impliquer ? À travers dix textes sensibles, imaginatifs, créatifs ou prospectifs, dix étudiants d'aujourd'hui répondent à ces questions et nous décrivent leur entreprise idéale de demain, celle qui assurera la coexistence harmonieuse de toutes les parties prenantes. Les textes présentés dans...

"This book is an accessible and comparatively short text that can comfortably be read cover-to-cover over the course of a semester. It has been written for readers with little or no prior knowledge of the concepts of management or experience in professional management activities. It forms an academically rigorous, accurate and consistent treatment of a subject that draws on a wide field rife with competing definitions, methodological variety, conceptual...

Get the "how" of correctly managing project risk in this latest edition of Practical Project Risk Management: The ATOM Methodology. The authors, David Hillson and Peter Simon, have applied their extensive experience in managing risk on projects to develop this simple and scalable approach-the ATOM methodology. ATOM-Active Threat and Opportunity Management-is a proven practical approach that all project managers, as well as all members of the project...

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