Financial leaders can no longer succeed on financial skills alone: "soft" leadership skills are now crucial to success. Leverage Competencies shows how eight great companies are helping their financial managers become outstanding business leaders. Discover how these companies are promoting creativity, adaptability, communications, teamwork, strategic vision, innovation, entrepreneurial drive, and core corporate values - and how you can make it happen in your organization.

Leverage Competencies: The Key to Financial Leadership Success (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

Business & Money

Militello, Frederick C.

Schwalberg, Michael D.

Finance

Financial Times Management

Offering advice to the stressed-out and future-shocked business executive, this book provides guidance on matters like personal space, using technology, innovations and simplicity, ability and experience, privacy, change, anxiety, confidence, organizational styles, idealism, and personal satisfaction. The human aspects of business and technology are emphasized, and the human benefits prioritized. Bardwick teaches psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Seeking the Calm in the Storm: Managing Chaos in Your Business Life

BARDWICK, Judith M.

Business Culture

Mills (business administration, Harvard Business School) examines the expansion and collapse of the economic bubble surrounding information technology stocks in the United States. He compares the American situation to a similar German bubble that had vastly different outcomes, blaming much of the problem on inability of the "financial value chain" of accountants, investment banks, money management firms, and the media to accurately assess the short-term value of companies. The discussion of Enron is mostly limited to one short chapter that relates the collapse of the company to some of the larger processes that Mills details. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble

Mills, Daniel Quinn

Mills, D. Quinn

Economics

Business project plan consultants Randolph and Posner present ten chapters that offer rules for successful project management. Rules addressing project organization and managing the product team are respectively represented by the acronyms GOCART-S and DRIVER, which the authors suggest need to be put together to win the "checkered flag" of the business race. Most of the rules are standard to management literature, including setting goals and objectives, reinforcing people's energy, establishing communication, encouraging creativity, and the like. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Checkered Flag Projects: 10 Rules for Creating and Managing Projects That Win

Posner, Barry Z.

Randolph, W. Alan

Management & Leadership

A former management team member at FedEx and other innovative firms uses the FedEx start-up story as a model of the theory, application, and results of his CustomerCulture process of creating values-driven, customer-oriented organizational culture. Chapter titles include "the Phoenix dog piss theory" (referring to new managers marking their territories). Lacks exercises and references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Customer Culture: How Fedex and Other Great Companies Put the Customer First Every Day

Basch, Michael D.

Billions of humans and machines are linking as tightly as neurons in a brain, generating and exchanging ideas at unprecedented speed. Living Networks shows leaders how to build organizations that leverage living networks to deepen relationships, promote innovation, and accelerate product/service delivery. It also shows how individuals can plug into living networks to liberate themselves from conventional organizations, earn more money, and achieve greater personal fulfillment.

Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy

Dawson, Ross

Provides a strategy for the use of talent more effectively in organizations to increase business value.

The Talent Era: Achieving a High Return on Talent

Chowdhury, Subir

This guide makes sense of the changes that are being wrought by the Internet and related technologies, and explores which aspects of Internet-related change offering the greatest long-term promise in higher education.

The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education

Computers & Technology

Software

Now your reputation can be attacked by anyone, anywhere, at any time. Now Is Too Late delivers a blueprint for 21st-century crisis management that reflects your constituents' new demands for instant, accurate answers direct from you, not the media. Crisis management expert Gerald R. Baron shows why you're a target even if you've done nothing wrong, identifies powerful new crisis preparation techniques, and helps you think clearly and act effectively to protect your reputation no matter what happens.

Now Is Too Late: Survival in an Era of Instant News

Baron, Gerald R.

Marketing & Sales

Photographs from the news agency and personal accounts by correspondents portray the central Asian country during the US bombing and subsequent fighting, with a chapter on life under the Taliban. There is no index or bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil

History

REUTERS

Middle East

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