Amacom: 564 books
The Elements of Resume Style
Essential Rules for Writing Resumes and Cover Letters That Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Building your résumé should be one of the easier parts to the whole job-interview process. But instead it’s becoming increasingly stressful as well! What kind of résumé will spark the employer’s interest? Which kind most often get passed over? How far back are we supposed to go? How can we...
Power Etiquette
What You Don't Know Can Kill Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1999
No-nonsense guidance to a crucial set of personal career skills. Can table manners make or break a megamerger? Can a faxing faux-pas derail a promising business relationship? Can an improper introduction cost you a client? Can manners (or lack of them) really kill a career? Absolutely. In an era when...
Performance-Based Project Management
Increasing the Probablility of Project Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Even the most experienced project managers aren’t immune to the more common and destructive reasons for project collapses. Poor time and budget performance, failure to deal with complexity, uncontrolled changes in scope . . . they can catch anyone off guard. Performance-Based Project Management...
The Lean Machine
How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
From near-extinction in the early eighties, Harley-Davidson rose to worldwide recognition and is still today one of the great, iconic American motorcycle brands. In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt...
Cracking the New Job Market
The 7 Rules for Getting Hired in Any Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The rules for finding work once seemed pretty straightforward. In this myth-busting book, Author R. William Holland, a human resources insider, shows job seekers how those rules have changed. A clear resume, rehearsed interview answers, and face-to-face networking are no longer enough to land the...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 7
Globalization, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Virtual Working Arrangements
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Organizations are globalizing at a frenetic rate. The world is becoming more connected each year and each generation of technology speeds up this process. What once took weeks and then days to share now can be done in minutes. This section will help you understand the dynamics of culture and diverse...
by Geri McArdle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A trainer’s job is to ensure their lessons stick, which means relating lessons to their trainees’ own on-the-job experiences. Author Geri McArdle teaches trainers how to do this by using the strategies of “action learning” in their lesson design and presentation to help learners better absorb...
Transforming Performance Measurement
Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
It's no secret that you can't improve your organization's performance without measuring it. In fact, every function, unit, process, and the organization as a whole, is built and run according to the parameters and expectations of its measurement system. So you'd better make sure you're doing it right....
The Successful Virtual Classroom
How to Design and Facilitate Interactive and Engaging Live Online Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Virtual training and instruction has allowed students from different continents to learn simultaneously from a distinguished professor, as well as dispersed employees of a transnational company to participate together in training seminars. Because of this unprecedented flexibility it has provided...
Lead with Purpose
Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Internationally recognized speaker, executive coach, writer, and leader John Baldoni believes it’s up to those at the top to bring meaning to employees’ day-to-day work. In this encouraging guide, he’ll show you what it takes to build a company of committed employees from your current workforce--using...
Personality Power
Discover Your Unique Profile--and Unlock Your Potential for Breakthrough Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
A recent Conference Board survey found that a staggering 53 percent of workers are unhappy in their jobs. Personality Power reveals a better way to find professional satisfaction and experience breakthrough success than searching for a new position or, worse, jumping ship and landing in the growing...
No Sweat
How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
We always start with the best of intentions when we begin a new exercise program. In fact, we could not be more determined to tone our bodies and get in shape! But then our planned week of five days at the gym or doing an at-home program turns into three days, into one day, into . . . Who has the...
Idea Agent
Leadership that Liberates Creativity and Accelerates Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Leaders are responsible for helping their teams meet and advance organizational goals while nurturing intuition and growing talent. Drawing on considerable experience assembling and nurturing cutting-edge teams at Corning Inc., author Linda Echeverria shows how leaders can serve as a team catalyst...
How Do I Get There from Here?
Planning for Retirement When the Old Rules No Longer Apply
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Not long ago everyone knew what the word retirement meant--retire at age 65 after 40 years at the same job and coast through your golden years courtesy of a comfortable nest egg. But now, age expectancy is higher, savings are slimmer, and people change jobs more frequently. Clinging to this outdated...