In a world where customers are fickle and markets change overnight, you need to be ready to move rapidly when opportunities or threats arise. This book helps you to understand your organization's potential, its capabilities and limitations, so when new challenges appear, you'll know how to manage your resources effectively to take advantage of them. It will show you how to build a more sustainable competitive advantage by revealing the techniques that underlie your firm's strategy, and explaining how to improve and manage these resources to reinforce your strengths and ameliorate your weaknesses. Written for managers of small to medium sized businesses and industry consultants, this book also forms part of a three-volume set covering business strategy, performance, and competencies.

Strategy and Performance: Competing through Competences

Business & Money

Richards, Huw

Bourne, Michael

Platts, Ken

Mills, John.

Biography & History

Cambridge University Press

Understanding how your manufacturing business performs is essential to remain competitive, but extremely difficult to do. The main purpose of this book is to provide directors, managers, change agents and consultants with simple but effective tools to help design and implement performance measurement systems, such as the Balanced Scorecard. It contains specific tools which will be of interest to practicing managers and consultants. These tools and techniques have been developed over many years and honed through application in companies such as Rolls-Royce Aerospace and Federal Mogul. Besides large multi-nationals, the techniques have also been used effectively in medium and smaller sized entreprises and are appropriate to any manufacturing company employing 50 people or more.

Strategy and Performance: Getting the Measure of Your Business

Neely, Andy

This unique industry guide consists of a three-volume set which explains in practical terms how to develop effective manufacturing strategy for your business, how to measure the performance of your processes and procedures, and how to assess and manage the capabilities of your business to provide a sustainable competitive advantage. Worksheets, examples and practical advice are included throughout, and a CD provided with the set contains printable versions of the worksheets, plus implementation advice and background material.

Strategy and Performance 3 Volume Paperback Set

Maximize your impact in the workplace with Achieving High Performance. It will show you how to get the best out of your job by working smarter, not harder.

DK Essential Managers: Achieving High Performance

Bourne, Pippa

Management & Leadership

Maximize your impact in the workplace with Motivating People. It will show you how to get the best out of your staff by increasing morale, and getting them to work smarter, not harder.

DK Essential Managers: Motivating People

Business Culture

DK Essential Managers: Achieving High Performance is the visual guide that gives you all the know-how you need to be a more effective manager. 
Now newly updated with an all-new graphic approach to explaining key techniques and skills, the best-selling DK Essential Managers: Achieving High Performance features: <ul>
<li>A practical, "how-to" approach teaches you the information and skills to succeed.</li> <li>Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask yourself" features show you how to boost your confidence and overcome challenges.</li> <li>Tables, illustrations, "in-focus" panels, and real-life case studies.</li> </ul>
Learn all you need with DK Essential Managers: Achieving High Performance. About DK Essential Managers: The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics. The handy pocket format slips easily into a briefcase or portfolio.

DK Essential Mgrs:Achievg High Perfrmce: Setting Goals, Being Creative, Networking (DK Essential Managers)

Trent Wolfer has blown it, in every possible way, over and over and over. And now he's blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab, he's back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of vodka and gin, when he looks up from his register one day to see Suze Randall, his closest friend from high school, now a radiant blonde single mother of two.Set in a small, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven to moneyed paradise, Blithedale Canyon asks whether a man who has spent his whole life screwing up can stop long enough to avoid destroying a woman he loves. Michael Bourne's funny, edgy debut is a literary love story for every man who has ever wondered why he keeps smashing up the things he cares about, and for every woman who's ever wondered what was going on in the head of that guy she spent her twenties trying to fix.

Blithedale Canyon

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Regal House Publishing

Inventory of Historic Sites in Caroline County

History

Americas

Maryland Historical &

Maryland Historical Trust Press is the publishing unit of the State of Maryland's Division of Historical and Cultural Programs, an agency of the Department of Housing and Community Development. Publications include newsletters and numerous books, papers, and other print resources. A variety of publications offers the public a look at Maryland's historical and cultural past through architectural survey and inventory, archeological site exploration both above ground and underwater, and oral history documentation. Other publications help to make Maryland's populace more preservation conscious and provide technical assistance for saving cultural traditions, planning and managing historic sites, and enriching museum resources. The publications program is an educational outreach to the Maryland community -- serving schools and libraries, students and teachers, preservation planners and developers, historical organizations and citizen groups, and numerous others who, in learning, become more committed to protecting Maryland's historical and cultural legacy.Prepared to serve as a guide for a series of field tours organized for the annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum held in Annapolis in May 1998, this publication emphasizes pre-industrial architecture with a clear regional identity. Included are brief historical sketches and illustrations featuring architectural landmarks located in Anne Arundel, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Wicomico, and Somerset Counties. Designed to assist the reader to recognize patterns of development in regional building traditions and architectural decoration, this book provides useful insights into the evolving nature of the Chesapeake landscape inMaryland.

Architecture and Change in the Chesapeake: A Field Tour of the Eastern and Western Shores

V, Orlando Ridout

Touart, Paul

Ware, Donna

Ridout, Orlando V.

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