Amacom: 564 books
The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit
Redesigning Your Performance Review Template to Drive Individual and Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The key difference between a highly successful organization raising bars at every turn and one that limps along just happy to reach its quarterly goals--most of the time--might very well be how they address performance reviews. Are they just a perfunctory, annual “check-off,” with no other goal...
The Board of Directors and Audit Committee Guide to Fiduciary Responsibilities
Ten Crtical Steps to Protecting Yourself and Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
You took the highly coveted position on the board or audit committee--now it’s time to figure out what you’re doing. And with SEC scrutiny at an all-time high, there is little room for growing pains. Boards and audit committees can now be held liable for acts of fraud and other corporate malfeasance...
Do It! Marketing
77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
As a business owner, everything you’ve worked so hard to achieve thus far depends on getting the word out to the right people. Marketing your product or service is detrimental to your survival! With that said, it is not an exaggeration to say that the most important hat a business owner wears is...
Marketing to Millennials
Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The jokes at the Millennials’ expense are aplenty, but not nearly as much as the $200 billion in buying power they now wield as they enter their peak earning and spending years. Love it or loathe it, you are doing business in their domain now, and your future depends on your ability to successfully...
by Joseph Heagney
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
With sales of more than 160,000 copies, Fundamentals of Project Management has helped generations of project managers navigate the ins and outs of every aspect of this complex discipline. Using a simple step-by-step approach, the book is the perfect introduction to project management tools, techniques,...
by Kathy Roper, Richard Payant
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Loaded with procedures, checklists, guidelines, samples, and templates, The Facilitator’s Fieldbook covers all the key areas of successful team management, including establishing ground rules, planning meetings and agendas, brainstorming, resolving conflict, making decisions, and helping groups...
Enterprise Project Governance
A Guide to the Successful Management of Projects Across the Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
In our increasingly competitive global economy, companies in all industries are struggling to survive and seeking new ways to do more--and this places unprecedented pressure on project managers to take on and govern multiple efforts simultaneously. Enterprise Project Governance reveals proven techniques...
Get Clients Now! (TM)
A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Knowing where to spend your marketing dollars was a lot easier in the days when the choices were commercials, magazines, and billboards. But now life in twenty-first-century America has become one gigantic 24/7 commercial, with no limit to ways of getting your brand in front of your customers. But...
by Brian Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The pressure surrounding the sales manager is intense. Given the task of recruiting, managing, and motivating a top team of high-performing sales professions, so much of the sales manager’s success is dependent on others. Or is it?Sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying the most successful...
The Small-Business Guide to Government Contracts
How to Comply with the Key Rules and Regulations . . . and Avoid Terminated Agreements, Fines, or Worse
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Each year, the federal government awards billions of dollars in small-business contracts. Government law attorney Steven J. Koprince teaches readers to look beyond winning a piece of the $500 billion pie and concentrate instead on the crucial but complex Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and other...
Smart Sales Manager
The Ultimate Playbook for Building and Running a High-Performance Inside Sales Team
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
With the explosion of social media, as well as the increasing dependence on digital communications, the need for businesses to shift their focus from field sales to inside sales is growing exponentially today. Businesses now rely on inside sales to generate up to 50 percent of their revenue! The burgeoning...
Redefining Operational Excellence
New Strategies for Maximixing Perforamnce and Profits Across the Organization
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
When will companies learn? You cannot fire and budget-slice your way to sustainable growth. Our world is too complex, too interconnected, and technology too quick-evolving for organizations to achieve dramatic results simply by eliminating waste and increasing standardization. Maybe these methods...
by Joseph Heagney
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Having already sold more than 200,000 copies and helped generations of project managers navigate the ins and outs of every aspect of successful project management, this revised fifth edition of Fundamentals of Project Management remains the perfect resource for succeeding in this complex discipline...
The Innovation Killer
How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine -- and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
"Knowledge is good,"" preaches the inscription under the statue of college founder Emil Faber in the film Animal House. But as valid as that declamation may be at a university, in the corporate world what passes for knowledge can be a killer. Companies and teams rely on ""what...