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Budgeting for Managers

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Iremember the first time I made a budget. I had just started a new job, my first time as a manager. My boss, the dean of the school, said, “Sid, we have $50,000 to spend on computer systems this year. Please prepare a budget.”

Wow! All the exercises in school, all my thinking as I started the job and wrote out a plan for my...

The Executive Guide to E-mail Correspondence: Including Model Letters for Every Situation

Career Press, 2006

Sit down at the keyboard and cinch that deal! Press the send button and get the account!

Writing skills are more important than ever in determining business success. They can make the difference between climbing the corporate ladder and getting stuck on a low rung. An e-mail that's clear, concise, and targeted will get more than just a...

Professional Cross-Platform Mobile Development in C#

Wrox Press, 2012

PEOPLE TAKE UP MOBILE DEVELOPMENT these days for a lot of reasons. For some it is all about learning something new, but for many it comes out of necessity of a job or career. Perhaps you see mobile development as the next big thing, just like client-server development was in the 1990s, or web development became in the 2000s. Maybe...

How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive-- Without Killing Your Boss

Career Press, 2003

For more than two decades, Dr. John Hoover has written books on leadership, creativity, and organizational performance, extolling the virtues of flattened organizations, collaborative leadership, and shared responsibility. His clients welcomed him, praised him...yet (he felt) completely ignored his advice! This book contains the confession of...

The Manager's Guide to Competitive Intelligence

Praeger Publishers, 2003

In The Managers Guide to Competitive Intelligence, McGonagle and Vella offer comprehensive guidelines for CI managers to achieve their goals. They cover the responsibilities and duties, and give strategic direction for managers trying to find their way in this important, but often overlooked, discipline....Get this book and read every...

The Accidental Leader: What to Do When You're Suddenly in Charge

Jossey-Bass, 2003

The Book You Need When You Are Unexpectedly Put in Charge

It could happen today. You are called into the office, and the boss tells you that due to unforeseen circumstances, starting today you will be in charge of a team, a project, an office, a committee, or a business unit. Without any warning (or preparation on your part) you’ve become...

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers

Apress, 2002

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers is a comprehensive guide—think of it as a field manual—to the management challenges of supervising and leading programmers. J. Hank Rainwater introduces new and not-so-new managers to concepts that will encourage them and help them become a...

The 30 Day MBA: Learn the Essential Top Business School Concepts, Skills and Language Whilst Keeping Your Job and Your Cash

Kogan Page, 2009

I left the family business, in my case the Army, after a few short years. I hadn’t given much thought to a career before I ‘joined up’ and I followed a similar approach when I left. I found a job in sales and within a year or so was in a very junior management position. The company I worked for was in the vanguard of some new...

Copyediting & Proofreading For Dummies (Language & Literature)

For Dummies, 2007

Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career

Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and speed

Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps you position yourself for success. Polish...

The Principles of Successful Freelancing

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2008

Thinking about becoming your own boss and embarking on the wonderful and rewarding journey of freelancing? The Principles of Successful Freelancing is for you. In this easy-to follow guide you'll learn what's important in transforming your skills into a booming freelance business.

This book leads you...

Americans at Work: A Cultural Guide to the Can-Do People

Intercultural Press, 2004

Whether you work with Americans face-to-face, communicate with them via telephone or e-mail, or interact together in a virtual team, this book reveals the subtle and not-so-subtle aspects of American culture in the workplace.

Best-selling author Craig Storti provides historical perspectives and explanations of the six most important...

In the Godfather Garden: The Long Life and Times of Richie "the Boot" Boiardo (Rivergate Regionals Collection)

Rutgers University Press, 2013

In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie “the Boot” Boiardo, one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underworld. The Boot cut his teeth battling the Jewish gang lord Abner Longy Zwillman on the streets of Newark during Prohibition and endured to become one of the East Coast’s...

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