<p>This is a look at the critical issues involved in the area of arts and culture management in a European context. Including contributions from practitioners and academics in Ireland, the UK, Spain, Denmark and elsewhere, the study highlights the increasing pressure on arts and cultural practitioners for increasing effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and accountability against a backdrop of financial constraints. Many of the chapters reflect the often suspicious and even hostile reaction of the people in the arts to the strictures of management, yet there is the realization that their organizations must be run professionally and cost-effectively.</p>

From Maestro to Manager: Critical Issues in Arts and Culture Management

Arts & Photography

Oak Tree Pr

A practical handbook to exemplary leadership which can be applied to all management situations. It explains the things that an individual has to do in order to become someone others will want to follow, without becoming overbearing or straying into the impractical. It identifies the essentials that separate management from leadership and lift-out memory-joggers of main points.

Will the Real Leader Please Stand Up?: A Practical Guide to Being a Manager Others Will Want to Follow

Business & Money

Starmer, Mark

Management & Leadership

Have you ever felt that life was passing you by? That you were in a bit of a rut and not living up to your potential? That you needed to create a vision of how your life could be and how to turn your dreams into reality? If so, this book will help. In "The Five Plateaus of Progress", Gerry Madigan avoids the typical quick fix, feel-good approach to personal development to offer something that should lead to lasting results. In simple, down-to-earth language and with numerous real-life examples he describes the "Five Plateaus" - awareness, vision, discipline, change and commitment - and how to move successfully from one to the next. He outlines the guiding principles he believes lead to success in all dimensions of your life: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, with a series of self-help questions throughout the book to put the important lessons learned into practice in your life. Aimed at businesspeople, parents, students, athletes and anyone striving for self-improvement, "The Five Plateaus of Progress" aims to offer you the tools and inspirational guidance to realise whatever goals you set in life, and show you how to break out of the status quo, push your boundaries, develop a new zest for life and a new faith in your own abilities.

The Five Plateaus of Progress

Madigan, Gerry

This text surveys the processes and economic circumstances that have worked to produce the modern Irish economic miracle. It also analyses the conditions that create a have and have-not society in modern Ireland. The book asks such questions as: did the remarkable turnaround of the Irish economy just happen, or was it a result of shrewd policy decisions?; will the boom last?; what remains to be done in eliminating poverty and inequality and reforming taxes?; and what lessons does Ireland's success pose for other countries?

The Celtic Tiger: Ireland's Continuing Economic Miracle

Sweeney, Paul

Economics

The Accountant's Guide to Excel

Written by an accountant for accountants, The Accountant's Guide to Excel is designed to take both beginners, and those with some experience with Excel, through a step-by-step explanation of the software and how it can be used in their working lives. Drawing together areas of computer knowledge needed to allow users to complete spreadsheets with confidence, its straightforward, easy-to-follow approach will demystify Excel for the accountant.A CD accompanies the book which covers the different types of uses for spreadsheets: clerical intensive; end-user orientated; and figures' manipulation orientated, providing a back-up to enhance quicker learning.

Computers & Technology

Fulford, James

Software

Written by an accountant for accountants, this advanced guide to Excel is the second in The Accountant's Guide series. The book looks at advanced data analysis techniques and some practical uses for Excel VBA. the accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the spreadsheet models in the book, demonstrating how the finished models are built. Comprehensive and easy to use, this book will improve your ability to handle large volumes of data easily, and enhance the professionalism of your presentation of this information to senior management and clients.

The Accountant's Guide to Advanced Excel

Presenting to Win: A Guide for Finance and Business Professionals

Aziz, Khalid

Skills

Coaching is fast becoming one of the key skills in every manager's portfolio, a vital tool for improving the performance and morale of all staff. This book covers every aspect of coaching from the manager's point of view. With numerous case studies and examples of coaching in action, this book is a guide to help all managers looking to develop their staff - and themselves - to their full potential.  Sections cover the coaching process itself and the coaching session; the key skills involved; the different approaches the coach can take; the various types of individuals the coach might encounter; and coaching downwards, sideways and upwards in the organisation.

Coaching for Growth: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Team and Yourself

Bolt, Peter

Job Hunting & Careers

Do you want to accelerate your learning ability? Learn new skills with ease? Improve your IQ? Balance your time between learning and managing? "Learning Skills for Managers" is all about what managers need to know about learning. A practical mix of tools, techniques, models, learning maps and mnemonics, this book aims to accelerate your learning ability, so that learning is no longer a necessary distraction to the "day job", but a regular, achievable, fascinating - and fun - part of your job. In today's business world of rapid technological change and fierce competition, knowledge is the manager's most powerful weapon. Continuous, lifelong learning is the key to staying ahead of the pack. Many managers find they must learn new skills and upgrade their old skills, both on- and off-the-job, through training, experience and sometimes a return to formal education. Yet many managers lack the skills to increase and improve their learning power. In "Learning Skills for Managers", Samuel A. Malone discusses how to: integrate the analytical and creative parts of your brain; discover your own learning style; improve your learning IQ and your memory; explore the learning organization; balance your time between learning and managing; learn essential study, writing and examination techniques; and become an on-the-job and off-the-job learner. This book should be of value to all managers who need to learn new skills or upgrade their old skills. It is intended for both those taking part in on-the-job training and to those who are returning to formal education.

Learning Skills for Managers: Practical Tools and Techniques to Turbo-Charge Your Career

Malone, Samuel A.

Education & Reference

ISO 9000 is an international Standard. It claims to be a standard for quality management but John Seddon argues it has nothing to do with quality, being based on entirely different theory. Organizations register to ISO 9000 because they are obliged to - market-place coercion works on the principle of "you comply or we won't buy", and registration is no guarantee of quality. In this attack on one of the sacred cows of business today, John Seddon shows how the ISO standards are not only failing to deliver the improved quality they promise, but in most cases are actually damaging the companies that have implemented them. In this updated paperback edition, which includes a critical analysis of the new and much-hyped ISO 9000:2000 version of the Standard, Seddon maintains his position that managers should say no to ISO 9000. For those who feel they have to register to ISO, Seddon shows them how to avoid the usual pitfalls of the Standard.

The Case Against Iso 9000

Seddon, John

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