All Summaries

All Summaries

 
Doing Business in China Plafker, Ted Business Plus , 2007 Entrepreneurship, Global Business

Over the past few years, China has transformed itself into a powerful, consumer-oriented culture, and many Western companies have flocked to China to take advantage of this new marketplace. However, entrepreneurs from...

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Project Management for Dummies Portny, Stanley E. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Management, Productivity

In Project Management for Dummies, Stanley Portny examines project-management skills and techniques, and aims to suggest that they are not burdensome tasks. Rather, they are a systematic way of...

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Too Big to Save? Pozen, Robert John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Business Biographies, Economics & Finance

In 2008, the United States and the world plunged into a serious financial crisis. This major downturn resulted from the collapse of the U.S. housing market and excessive debt that made its way throughout the global...

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Well Said! Price, Darlene AMACOM , 2012 Communication

Effective presentation and communication skills can get people noticed, remembered, and promoted more quickly than any other skill set. Well Said! is a how-to guide to delivering targeted, memorable...

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Army of Entrepreneurs Prosek, Jennifer AMACOM , 2011 Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Businesses face a tough financial landscape today. To complicate matters further, the economy does not always function in a predictable or recognizable fashion. Large, well-established companies have faced great...

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Happiness at Work Pryce-Jones, Jessica John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Human Resources, Personal Growth

The old saw says that money cannot buy happiness. But what about the reverse? Does happiness matter in the workplace? In Happiness at Work, Jessica Pryce-Jones demonstrates that happy employees are...

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Built to Learn Purington, Cliff | Butler, Chris | Gale, Sarah Fister AMACOM , 2003 Management, Personal Growth

In 1998, aerospace giant, Rockwell Collins, was representative of the outdated approach to organizational learning that existed throughout the business world. Its training program, budgeted for $17.3 million, was...

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Socialnomics Qualman, Erik John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Customer Focus, Marketing, Technology

Social networking is expanding at an exceedingly rapid rate and has resulted in a revolution in the way people relate to one another and to corporations. In Socialnomics, Erik Qualman shows how easy it...

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Building the Bridge As You Walk On It Quinn, Robert E. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2004 Change Management, Human Resources, Leadership, Personal Growth

"Building the Bridge as You Walk on It" is Robert Quinn’s final book in the trilogy focusing on personal change and organizational leadership that began with "Deep Change" in 1996. In "Deep Change," Quinn teaches that...

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Deep Change Quinn, Robert E. Jossey-Bass , 1996 Leadership, Personal Growth

At some point in their lives, many individuals get overwhelmed and disconnected. They feel that their lives lack meaning, and they realize they need to do something to alter their present situation but lack the...

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