Author: Frances Kay, Helen Guinness, Nicola Stevens

Countless books have been written on management theory. This one gets straight to the issues and tells you how to handle them effectively.

You will learn how to:
* Get yourself organized
* Make decisions and focus on results
* Communicate effectively
* Recruit the right people
* Manage change
* Make the most of limited resources
* Handle difficulties and resolve conflict
* Avoid time-wasters
* Cope with your work overload

Author: K. Dennis Chambers

Entrepreneurs—and entrepreneurial companies—live or die by the quality of their plans and proposals. Whether it's to get funding for a new product line or business from a client, writing hard-hitting prose that answers essential questions and makes specific requests is an indispensable skill. Entrepreneur, ad man, and writing teacher Dennis Chambers shows how entrepreneurs can persuade people, through skillful writing, to pony up capital or contracts. This ability—which can be learned—is rare in today's media-saturated world. But it counts more than ever if an entrepreneur wants to make it over the magical five-year hump and on into lasting business success. Numerous examples and exercises ensure that entrepreneurs understand how the writing game is played—and that they play it well.

Unfortunately, most don't play this game well. Most business writers mistakenly believe their task is to inform. They write to fill an information gap or to update the reader on a particular project. Or they write about what's important to them. What these writers do not take into account is that the speed of today's work world has reached overdrive. The typical reader simply doesn't have time to ponder dense, poorly organized information and intuit the appropriate action. And readers don't give a hoot about what's important to the writer—they want to know what's in it for themselves. Business writers need to use all the tools at their command to persuade, inspire action, and in general move a project forward.

This book is about how to be persuasive in two key skills in business: writing proposals and writing business plans. Step by step, Dennis Chambers illustrates the techniques of effective business writing, with numerous examples throughout. Whether the objective is to secure financing from an investor, lay out a marketing strategy, or secure a large contract, getting results requires crafting an effective structure for the proposal, and using words that sell. Chambers is an able guide in saving entrepreneurs time and undue effort while reaching the goal of long-term business success.

Author: Frank Satterthwaite, Gary D'Orsi

Your resume may have gotten you the interview, but a career portfolio will get you the job

Employers are interested in actions, not words. And a career portfolio shows them that you have the skills, talent, knowledge, and personality they want. With The Career Portfolio Workbook learn how to create a winning portfolio that will land you the mega-bucks job of your dreams.

No longer used only by creative professionals, a career portfolio is the tool to add to your career-search arsenal-whether you're looking for a new job, going for a promotion, changing careers, or seeking admission to college or graduate school. The Career Portfolio Workbook guides you step-by-step through the process of building a targeted collection of documents that provide employers with concrete evidence of what you've done in the past and what you can bring to their organization in the future. Based on extensive research with hiring managers and job seekers, The Career Portfolio Workbook demonstrates how a carefully considered and well-presented portfolio can best validate your skills and accomplishments and how it can be your most effective self-marketing device during the interview.

Win the competitive edge on your next interview with a commanding career portfolio that packs a punch. Complete with checklists, charts, and worksheets, The Career Portfolio Workbook covers:
* How a career portfolio is an effective tool for all professions
* What examples and documents to include in your career portfolio
* How to arrange your documents for quick and easy access
* Creating a portfolio quickly when you have limited time
* Selecting the right documents for each occasion
* How to use your portfolio during the interview to land the job
* Developing a resume you can use in conjunction with your portfolio
* Using your portfolio during performance reviews to get a raise or promotion
* Updating, maintaining, and improving your portfolio throughout your career
* And much more

Author: Garrison Wynn

Life and business aren’t fair, which is good. If they were, you couldn’t seize the unfair advantage.

Think about it. Is your CEO the smartest person in the company? Is the head of your department more driven than you? Does the leading company in your industry make the best products? Probably not. They all have one thing in common, though: They’re on top of the pile because they discovered and exploited their unfair advantage—and with the help of business expert and motivational dynamo Garrison Wynn, you can do the same.

The Real Truth about Success is the culmination of ten years’ worth of interviews with more than 5,000 top performers in their fields. During the process, Wynn discovered that better brains, a positive attitude, and superior all-around quality rarely drive true success. Rather, the most successful people in the world leverage their unique, distinctive qualities—whatever they may be—to propel themselves to the front of the line.

In The Real Truth about Success, you will learn how to:
- Discover (or create) your own personal advantage
- Align it with the most appropriate goals
- Transition from self-knowledge to repeatable implementation
- Relentlessly put your advantage to practical use
- Bask in the sunshine of well-deserved success

All of us have a personal advantage we can use to stack the cards in our own favor. What’s yours? High intelligence? Good looks? Likability? Great connections? (Your unfair advantage may well be a talent for leveraging other peoples’ unfair advantage.)

Refreshingly (sometimes brutally) honest about what it takes to get to the top, The Real Truth about Success blows the lid off the secret of their success—so you can make it the secret of your success.

Author: Andrew Lester

Successful people and companies do two things at the same time: they are efficient day to day and they see great new opportunities. They use different styles of thinking and management to deliver cash today, and sustainable growth tomorrow. Wearing Two Hats is essential to business: but how and when to wear each one?

Andrew Lester provides simple tools, techniques and processes for people and teams to use and adapt for day to day profits. Lester has based this book on his personal experiences as head of Jaguar Cars UK and his senior positions in Ford and Alfa Romeo. He now runs his own successful consultancy business. The book provides practical tools and strategies which can be adapted for the reader's own business needs. This book expertly combines a theoretical approach with useful practical strategies for the modern business. This essential book identifies how to establish a 'Twin Hat' organization that drives growth without confusing employees or losing focus on delivering day to day revenues and profits. It identifies from personal experience what works in practice.