The fourth edition of this popular book helps small and midsized businesses as well as nonprofit organizations and public-sector agencies to achieve effective, efficient, and disciplined business development, proposal development, and knowledge management (KM) process

The book focuses on enhancing your entrepreneurial effectiveness. It integrates the newest pondering on business entrepreneurship with the perfect ideas about nonprofit management in a practical and accessible package deal that requires no prior enterprise training. This practical and easy-to-use book is filled with examples, exercises, checklists, and action steps that bring the concepts, frameworks, and tools to life

Like a mentor-on-call, this best-selling book brings a wealth of wisdom and information to the new supervisor. It's clearly organized into four logical parts that focus on the biggest concerns: understanding the basics of supervisory responsibilities, developing personal effectiveness, managing many personalities, and working with groups

Six Disciplines for Excellence provides six fundamental business principles that are specifically designed to help small businesses move beyond momentary success to attain enduring excellence. This book is not for those who are looking for a quick fix. Six Disciplines for Excellence is a long-term fitness program, not a fad diet. You will find: Information on creating a unique mission statement. Ways to deal with internal and external factors (such as equipment failure or an unfavorable stock market) that affect your business. Helpful charts, checklists, hints, tips, and graphs

Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Together they seek to clarify some of the ambiguity around this term, describe a range of social entrepreneurship projects, and establish a clear set of frameworks with which to understand it

Sonic Boom is the definitive story of how technologies have brought out the best and worst in artists and consumers alike. It reveals how even as the star-marker machinery of record companies remains in the hands of the old guard, innovators are finding ways to route around it. Sonic Boom exposes the recording industry's plight as a fascinating microcosm of the vast cultural, ethical, and legal issues that all industries face in the information age

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This book will show you how to build a business that creates both money and meaning, and that provides a legacy for you and your family

Social Intelligence provides a highly accessible and comprehensive model for describing, assessing, and developing social intelligence at a personal level. This book is filled with intriguing concepts, enlightening examples, stories, cases, situational strategies, and a self-assessment tool all designed to help you learn to navigate social situations more successfully

This book is for you, from Jane Bryant Quinn, the most trusted voice in personal finance today. The book guided a generation toward smart and sensible financial choises. Here the author strips away the extras, choosing the best financial ideas and products available today