The Handbook for Organizational Change: Strategy and Skill for Trainers and Developers (MCGRAW HILL TRAINING SERIES)

Business & Money

O'Connor, Carol A.

Management & Leadership

McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd

This is a resource book for practice managers and professionals in general. The text emphasizes eight management areas of importance to professional firms and highlights the need for their regular review. These areas are: commitment to quality service, vision and planning, decision-making, finance, marketing, communication, leadership and information technology. The book contains a comprehensive questionnaire, "the management health check", which should enable readers to analyze strengths and weaknesses. Questions are organized and scored in categories which correspond to the chapter headings. Low scoring categories reveal which management areas need attention. Readers can then turn directly to the relevent chapters. Case studies based upon interviews with leading professionals introduce the key concepts of each chapter and numerous examples from both the traditional and newer professions illustrate management concepts. A problem with detailed analysis concludes every chapter.

The Professional's Guide to Successful Management: The Eight Essentials for Running Your Firm, Practice or Partnership

Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the American West, trace Stuart's remarkable trajectory from his birth in Virginia, through his formative years in the agricultural settlements of Iowa and the mining camps of Gold Rush California, to his rough-and-tumble life in Montana and his rise to prominence as a public figure. Along the way, we see Granville and his brother James battling bandits and horsethieves and becoming leaders of the new Montana territory. The authors explore Granville's life as a cattleman, including his role as the leader of a vigilante force, known as "Stuart's Stranglers," responsible for several hangings in 1884, his abandonment of his half-Shoshone children after his second marriage, his government service in offices ranging from the head of the Butte Public Library to U.S. Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay, and his final years, during which he composed a memoir, Forty Years on the Frontier, still widely read for its dramatic account of the era. Written with narrative flair and a lively awareness of current issues in Western history, As Big as the West fully illuminates the conflicting realities of the frontier, where a man could speak of wiping out "half-breeds" while fathering 11 mixed-race children, and go from vigilante to diplomat in the space of a few years.

As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart

Biographies & Memoirs

Milner II, Clyde A.

Historical

Oxford University Press

Leadership is the ability to present a vision so that others want to achieve it. The best leaders use their experience, skills and personal attitudes to inspire co-operation and team work. this guide suggests that everyone has leadership potential and shows how everyday events can be used topractise leadership skills. Topics include: assessing situations; gaining and giving feedback; setting clear objectives and priorities; and taking responsibility.

Leadership in a Week

Hodder Arnold

Some leaders are born, but most people can teach themselves to lead and apply the knowledge to business situations. Here are methods for honest self-assessment, ways to inspire and motivate others, advice on developing social skills, tips on delegating authority, and ways to formulate a business goal and take responsibility for guiding others to achieve it.

Successful Leadership (Barron's Business Success Series)

Barrons Educational Series

Scarsdale, New York, is a small community with a large reputation. Long before it had gained general recognition as a source of fad diets and the presumed site of sensational murders, it was well-known in upper-middle-class circles for the rigor of its zoning, the excellence of its schools, the splendor of its houses, and the wealth of its residents. Indeed, Scarsdale is, what one observer has called, "a sort of utopia"--a capitalistic version of the ideal community. In this clear and well-written study, Professor Carol O'Connor explains how Scarsdale came to be the classic rich suburb. Using a wide range of sources--from local newspapers, to village and school board records, to real estate deeds and census tracts--she shows how its residents have invested time, effort, and their own tax dollars in making Scarsdale a wealthy, attractive, convenient community. She also discusses the question of who rules in Scarsdale and examines one group, its domestic servants, who, at least in the past, have played an important but invisible role. Professor O'Connor analyzes the reaction of residents to national events, from their unquestioning nationalism in the First World War to the deep divisiveness of the Vietnam era. What emerges in these pages is not simply a chronicle of what occurred in Scarsdale, but an insightful perspective on many national trends of the twentieth century.

A Sort of Utopia: Scarsdale, 1891-1981

History

Americas

State University of New York Press

Scarsdale, New York, is a small community with a large reputation. Long before it had gained general recognition as a source of fad diets and the presumed site of sensational murders, it was well-known in upper-middle-class circles for the rigor of its zoning, the excellence of its schools, the splendor of its houses, and the wealth of its residents. Indeed, Scarsdale is, what one observer has called, “a sort of utopia”―a capitalistic version of the ideal community. In this clear and well-written study, Professor Carol O’Connor explains how Scarsdale came to be the classic rich suburb. Using a wide range of sources―from local newspapers, to village and school board records, to real estate deeds and census tracts―she shows how its residents have invested time, effort, and their own tax dollars in making Scarsdale a wealthy, attractive, convenient community. She also discusses the question of who rules in Scarsdale and examines one group, its domestic servants, who, at least in the past, have played an important but invisible role. Professor O’Connor analyzes the reaction of residents to national events, from their unquestioning nationalism in the First World War to the deep divisiveness of the Vietnam era. What emerges in these pages is not simply a chronicle of what occurred in Scarsdale, but an insightful perspective on many national trends of the twentieth century.

Sort of Utopia: Scarsdale, (New York), 1891 - 1981

Successful Selling on the Internet in a Week (Arabic Edition)

Arab Scientific Publishers

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