Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape
The workplace is constantly in flux, and even now there are new opportunities open to women. But to take advantage of these possibilities, it's essential to know the current rules for corporate success. This isn't your father's or your mother's workplace anymore! Whether it's the CEO seat, an executive manager slot, or a more intrapreneurial position, women who follow Career GPS will have what it takes to gain their professional goals.
Managing in Changing Times: A Guide for the Perplexed Manager
This topical book challenges the hegemony of neoclassical scientific management approach, exploring new potentials for the development of the understanding of management and organization in the post-scientific era of globalization. It brings together distinguished writers from diverse fields to offer specialized perspectives on new ideas. This is particularly relevant in view of the fragmenting management theory in the face of the shift of the center of political and economic power to Asia and the increasing financial resurgence in the West.
Like many things in life, becoming a great manager is in fact a simple process—if only we knew how and changed our current habits. The authors in this book have identified 15 fundamental principles that are exhibited by great managers and which can easily be followed by mere mortals when they have something or somebody to manage. These fundamentals derive from the real experience of successful managers. One by one, the fundamentals are described and illustrative examples given of their use, especially in relation to what great managers do and importantly what bad managers fail to do.
Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit In the 21st Century
The only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses your unique concerns as a nonprofit manager and policy-maker
The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity
"Kennedy has artfully integrated the phenomenon of offshoring services in the global competitiveness agenda of firms. His insights on the key economic drivers and trends paint a picture of the potential and the pitfalls of this phenomenon. No manager can afford to ignore this shift. All managers may want to read, understand, and ride the competitive benefits of this shift.
