"Business Strategy: A Guide to Effective Decision-Making (The Economist Series) "
Bloomberg Press | Pages: 288 | 2003-10-29 | ISBN: 1861974590 | PDF | 1 Mb
Powerful new forces are reshaping the business world and the role of the manager in making effective strategic choices is increasingly demanding. This book shows today's manager how to create and sustain a dynamic, profitable business with techniques to support effective decisions. It evaluates the tools, tactics, and techniques for making profit-boosting decisions. Moreover, it contains insights into effective strategic decisions--what worked and why, what failed and why.
Though classroom instructional strategies should clearly be based on
sound science and research, knowing when to use them and with whom is
more of an art. In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction,
author Robert J. Marzano presents a model for ensuring quality teaching
that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally
vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual
students.
This book is designed for foreign-born professionals working in the U.S. who already possess good English skills, and yet are not polished communicators in a U.S. business environment. We provide practical advice - with student and client anecdotes throughout the text - and help foreign-born professionals change their communications skills and style to become more effective in typical business situations such as: managing meetings, understanding U.S. negotiation tactics, writing effective e-mails, delivering U.S.-style presentations, using Power English to stand out as a leader, and other communication areas such as how to reduce accents that interfere in business transactions.
Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify wea
Am I teaching well? Self-Evaluation Strategies for Effective Teachers Am I doing the right thing in the classroom? Are my students learning all they could? Is there anything I could do to gain even more satisfaction from my job? Am I teaching well? If you ask yourself questions like these but aren't quite sure how to go about finding the answers, then this book is for you! Am I Teaching Well? Self-Evaluation Strategies for Effective Teachers is a resource for classroom practitioners, pre-service teachers and teacher trainers. Each chapter presents a series of self-assessment tasks that will help you reflect and improve on a wide range of aspects of your teaching practice. Topics include organizing for instruction, designing programs and lessons, using resources and integrating technology, classroom presentation, responding to student questions and encouraging student participation, providing feedback, increasing motivation, assessment, program evaluation, and professional development. Numerous self-evaluation exercises are fully photocopiable without infringement of copyright, and the book is illustrated throughout with humorous drawings. The table of contents clearly indicates the scope and richness of Am I Teaching Well? An appendix at the end of the book takes you step-by-step through procedures for self-evaluation using video- or audiorecording, a particularly effective strategy that will really let you see yourself as others see you. Audience: Newly qualified to experienced teachers as well as teacher trainers interested in improving their classroom practices.
