The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms
Unlike most business dictionaries, which address a specific discipline, The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms covers the entire spectrum of business terminology. This dictionary is for business professionals and investors at all levels of expertise. Business students also will find it a helpful reference tool.
Barron's Real Estate Handbook
Updated to reflect real estate market conditions in today’s post-subprime mortgage era, this comprehensive reference book covers virtually every aspect of buying and selling, understanding mortgages, analyzing real estate investment opportunities, getting and understanding appraisal reports, and more.
On Becoming a Leader
Deemed “the dean of leadership gurus” by Forbes magazine, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued that leaders are not born—they are made. Delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it, his classic work On Becoming a Leader has served as a source of essential insight for countless readers. In a world increasingly defined by turbulence and uncertainty, the call to leadership is more urgent than ever. Featuring a provocative new introduction, this new edition will inspire a fresh generation of potential leaders to excellence.
Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business
In a forest of dry marketing books, Lynda Resnick's animated debut stands out as its own hidden gem, filled with juicy real-life tales of marketing strategies that rocketed Resnick and her husband to astounding success with companies like Fiji Water, Teleflora, the Franklin Mint and Pom Wonderful, the wildly successful pomegranate juice. The author charms with her winning wit and a self-deprecating tone as she distills the secrets of her extraordinary career into a series of philosophies illustrated through behind-the-scenes looks at various marketing campaigns.
Bootstrapping
With a focus on practical techniques, entrepreneurs learn how to stretch resources and thrive on lean budgets. The text focuses on bootstrapping techniques for a variety of ventures-from small, family-owned businesses to high-growth upstarts. While this book treats the subject of securing initial financing for the start-up venture, it also fully explores how entrepreneurs manage and sustain the business as it grows.
The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management
There are now more than 1 million nonprofit organizations in the United States, and the fundraising industry is one of the fastest-growing segments of the economy. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management presents step-by-step guidance on planning, self-assessment, continual improvement, cost effective fundraising strategies and much more.
Dewalt Construction Residential and Light Commercial: Professional Reference
A must have reference for anyone working in the residential or commercial construction trades. This comprehensive job site solution provides contractors with easy access to a wealth of reference material including construction specifications, site work, concrete and masonry construction, foundation, carpentry, roofing and drywall/plaster.
Medical Office Handbook
The Medical Office Handbook provides readers with a handy resource for both the student on their externship or going to their first job, as well as the seasoned professional who has been in the medical office for years. The medical office is a busy place with many day-to-day challenges. Each chapter of the Handbook was written to provide the reader with a practical summary of the critical information they need to know. Sample forms, checklists and letters, as well as resources for more information are included.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
This book caused a storm when first published in 1969 giving the world an answer to a question that nags us all: Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The book and the phrase it defined are now considered comedic-yet-classic cornerstones of organizational thought, and in honor of the book's fortieth anniversary, Robert I. Sutton has written a foreword introducing the book to a new generation of readers.
Start & Run A Graphic Design Business
This book shows artists and designers how they can start their own successful freelance graphic design business. Photo- and art-sharing websites, social networking sites, and low barriers to setting up websites have all driven a demand for fresh new graphics, and provided numerous opportunities for graphic artists to reach new markets and customers. This book will show you how to capitalize on these opportunities, market your business, find clients, and stay organized.
September
Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week
With tips from industry insiders, the latest technology solutions and hundreds of tools and resources, you can build a successful online web design business selling your creative services. See how to effectively showcase your work, promote yourself to a worldwide audience, generate new clients, and more.
The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
This indispensable resource addresses the legal, financial, and organizational questions that an independent or guerilla filmmaker must face, and the problems that will doom a project if left unanswered. It demystifies issues such founding a film company, obtaining financing, preparing a budget, securing locations, shooting, granting screen credits, and distribution, exhibiting, and marketing.
The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
The story of the development of economic thought told in a candid, irreverent, passionate, sometimes humorous and often highly opinionated account of the lives and theories of famous economists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. The author's unique view compares the development of economic thought to the construction of a building, designating Adam Smith's 1776 Wealth of Nations as the foundation. He contends that Smith's philosophy of natural liberty and the invisible hand was a sound foundation that created a new era of wealth and economic growth spanning two centuries.
Million Dollar Website: Simple Steps to Help You Compete with the Big Boys--Even on a Small Business Budget
According to website consultant Lori Culwell, today no business can compete without a website. If you think you don’t have the budget, time or technical expertise to create a site that speaks effectively for your brand and makes you money, Million Dollar Website will give you the step-by-step advice for creating a cutting-edge site on even the smallest budget.
The New Art Of Managing People: Person-To-Person Skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs to Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team
A fully revised, expanded, and updated edition of the management classic that has sold more the 185,000 copies. Updates on crucial strategies for establishing a friendly yet productive working atmosphere are offered along with techniques for: Developing the interpersonal skills necessary to improve relations with employees; Understanding the difference between people, and behaving accordingly; Assessing, and then improving, current working situations; and Creating trust between managers and employees.
Who Killed Change?: Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change
By way of telling a witty whodunit, a detective investigates the murder of another change initiative. A step-by-step guide shows you how to apply the story’s lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization’s change initiatives, and you’ll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.
August
Create Your Own Employee Handbook : A Legal and Practical Guide
Every company, no matter how big or small, needs to provide workers with an employee handbook. Create Your Own Employee Handbook gives you all the information and policies managers, HR professionals and business owners need to create their own reader-friendly guide, no matter what state you live in. Each chapter covers a different topic, including: at-will employment, hiring, pay and payroll, workdays and hours, performance evaluations, benefits, discrimination and harassment, complaints and investigations, leave, health and safety, substance abuse, privacy in the workplace, and discipline.
How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business
This book contains al the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your business. An experienced designer shares her advice on every aspect of the trade. Lean how to develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you’re in business.
Manufacturing & Distribution U.S.A.: Industry Analyses, Statistics, and Leading Companies
One of a kind business reference source that analyses manufacturing industries to provide current and estimated activity and growth. For each NAIC, it provides general statistics (number of establishments, employment, compensation, production), indices of change, selected ratios, leading companies, materials consumed by the industry, inputs and outputs, occupations covered, and industry data by state.
The New Commodity Trading Guide: Breakthrough Strategies for Capturing Market Profits
Over the long term, commodities prices are expected to rise based on massive increases in global demand. But, as many investors have discovered the hard way, merely knowing this is not enough to make consistent profits. Fundamental changes in the commodities markets have occurred that have implications most investors do not understand. For instance, century-old “open outcry” trading floors have now been replaced with computerized trading. In The New Commodity Trading Guide, commodities expert George Kleinman reveals the new practical realities of worldwide electronic commodities trading and specific strategies for capitalizing on today’s radically different markets.
The Online Professor's Practical Guide to Starting an Internet Business
From ideas to future growth, successful online professor Dr. Danielle Babb and custom support network youronlineprofessor.com take you step by step to online success, delivering a host of tailor-made online tools, resources, templates, forums, and more with every chapter. Use online quizzes to discover your specialty, establish your business using downloadable forms and templates, streamline operations with real-time support from practicing “netpreneurs,” spread the word with help from your online network, and more!
Standard & Poor's 500 Guide
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is the most watched index in America--if not the world. Whether you're an individual investor looking to make a smart stock purchase, an executive researching corporate competitors, or a job seeker looking for concise and up-to-the-minute overviews of potential employers, you'll find the critical, often hard-to-find information you need in Standard & Poor's 500 Guide, 2009 Edition. Easy to use and packed with market intelligence on all 500 of the companies listed in the S&P 500 Index.
Foreign Exchange: An Introduction To The Core Concepts
An engaging, accessible book that delivers the basics as well as the key drivers of foreign exchange markets and exchange rate determination, in an efficient and understandable way.
Nolo’s Quick LLC: All You Need to Know About Limited Liability Companies Business owners who operate LLCs aren’t personally liable for business debts, which can be hugely important in a recession. But is it right for your business? This guide provides all the detailed information you need to understand this popular choice for structuring a business—and decide whether it right for you.
Selling Online 2.0: Migrating From Ebay To Amazon, Craigslist, And Your Own E-Commerce Website
Where can you sell when you can’t sell on eBay? Second-generation online selling means migrating from e-Bay to other online marketplaces, including Craigslist, Amazon, and your own e-commerce website. Learn the benefits and pitfalls of the various options and tips for getting started.
Winning Grants Step by Step
Developing great grant proposals is essential for nonprofit leaders who are new to fundraising as well as anyone who needs a refresher. This new edition of Winning Grants brings updated tips and vivid examples.
The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans
For soldiers and their families coping with the chock and reality of their futures, this guide provides straightforward answers to questions regarding medical treatment, rehabilitation, counseling, support, and transition.
June
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues
Written for the nonspecialist, Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues covers the medical, cultural, sociological, and historical aspects of infectious diseases from prehistoric times to the present. About 300 articles, authored and signed by subject specialists, present an authoritative, often-engaging overview of diseases of consequence to humankind worldwide.
How to Start a Home-Based Children's Birthday Party Business
From first birthdays to sweet sixteens, the children’s birthday party business is booming and offers an ideal entrée for those hoping to start a home-based business with low financial risk.
Remarkable Service: A Guide to Winning and Keeping Customers for Servers, Managers, and Restaurant Owners
The most comprehensive guide to service and hospitality on the market, this new edition includes the most up-to-date information available on serving customers in the contemporary restaurant world. Chapters cover everything from training and hiring staff, preparation for service, and front-door hospitality to money handling, styles of modern table service, and the relationship between the front and back of the house.
Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide
Written in plain English, not "legalese," this book provides essential guidance for those interested in starting new nonprofits, as well as valuable advice for directors of established organizations. This easy-to-read resource contains essential information on virtually every legal aspect of starting and operating a nonprofit organization from receiving and maintaining tax-exempt status to tips for successful management practices.
The State of Working America
The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988, by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty—data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people.
Streetwise Credit and Collections: Maximize Your Collections Process to Improve Your Profitability
The credit and collections function of any business is the nerve centre of the company, operating in the heart of all accounting systems. The primary purpose of accurate bookkeeping is the need to make payments and be paid, in full and on time. Streetwise Credit and Collections provides business owners with the skills to manage a company's financial obligations, collect due payments and avoid falling into debt.
May
Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors
The top 101 mistakes made in emails, presentations, and conversations every day are examined one by one and, in no time, you learn how to: recognize and rectify embarrassing grammatical mistakes; improve the clarity of what you say and write; solidify your understanding through the use of “memory tricks;” and master the language-so you can focus on your business!
How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Retail Business
The dream of starting a retail business can easily become a reality. This complete manual will arm you with everything you need including sample business forms, leases, contracts, worksheets, and checklists for planning, opening, and running day-to-day operations. There are plans, layouts, and dozens of other valuable, timesaving tools of the trade that every entrepreneur should have.
It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business is Driven by Purpose
According to Roy Spence, purpose is “your reason for being that goes beyond making money—and it almost always results in making more money than you even thought possible.” Especially during times of great economic uncertainty, purpose is the key to creating and maintaining a high performing organization, deserving just as much attention as strategy, execution, and innovation.
The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results
Moving into a new leadership position is one of the toughest challenges an executive can face. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first eighteen months. Often, that failure is the result of crucial mistakes made in the first 100 days. If that happens to you, your first 100 days on the job could be your last. A must have text for the aspiring business professional. This book effectively serves as warning, motivation, and how to get results in your new role.
Wisconsin Local Food Marketing Guide: A Producer's Guide to Marketing Locally Grown Food
A resource for farmers and producers that will acquaint you with some of the opportunities you can use to market your food products. How to market to direct and intermediate customers as well as market development, licensing, labeling, and regulations are covered. Prepared by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
April
Boiler Operator’s Handbook
Written specifically for boiler plant operators and supervisors who want to learn how to lower plant operating costs, as well as how to operate plants of all types and sizes more wisely. Going beyond the basics of "keeping the pressure up", the author explains how to set effective priorities to assure optimum plant operation, including safety, continuity of operation, damage prevention, managing environmental impact, training replacement plant operators, logging and preserving historical data, and operating the plant economically.
The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
No matter how talented you are, no matter how much capital you have, no matter how good your business plan is, if you're pursuing a lousy business' i.e. a fundamentally flawed opportunity you're on the fast-track to failure. The new edition of this best-selling book will help you to road test your idea, making sure that the business you build is based on a winning concept. It will enable you to invest your time wisely and pitch to investors and customers with confidence.
Creating A Web Site
Get everything you need to plan and launch a web site, including detailed instructions and clear-headed advice on ready-to-use building blocks, powerful tools like CSS and JavaScript, and Google's Blogger. The thoroughly revised, completely updated new edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual explains how to get your site up and running quickly and correctly.
Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth: A Strategic Guide for Owners and Their Advisors
Written by John Leonetti—a business owner, attorney, wealth manager, merger and acquisition associate, and business owner — Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth will guide you in thoughtfully planning out your business's exit by illustrating your exit options as well as helping you analyze your financial and mental readiness for your business exit. Providing a simple, step-by-step process that you can start using right away.
Leading With Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results
Far from presenting a naive idea of kindness, this eye-opening book identifies the surprising attributes successful "kind" leaders share. Readers will learn how they can use kindness to: motivate employees, committee members, and others; recognize unique talents while nurturing all employees; establish a supportive environment; spur continuous organizational growth; adapt to change; stimulate calculated "stretch" and risk-taking; and prepare the next generation of leaders This realistic book shows leaders how they can use sincerity, honesty, and respect for the good of their organizations.
Mergers & Acquisitions: A Condensed Practitioner’s Guide
This essential guide addresses the entire acquisition process with pragmatic information that will serve you as an excellent reference whether you are a novice or expert acquirer. Filled with immediately useful information in a condensed format on the mergers and acquisitions, this guide equips you with a working knowledge of principal business terms, as well as the customary contractual provisions, legal background, and how-to's applicable to business acquisitions.
March
The Daily Art of Management: A Hands-On Guide to Effective Leadership and Communication
Managers thrust into roles of authority need grounding in the fundamentals of management. This book closes the gap between the idealized leader and reality. It shows managers and aspiring leaders at all levels of the organization how to master ten key roles and practice them on a daily basis. Examples and practical guidelines reinforce the concepts and serve as a handy resource for anyone interested in the art and science of effective management. Managers will learn how to: Set goals; Create an ethical environment; Create a vision; Select and motivate followers; Manage change; Handle competitors and other critical skills effective managers employ to get the job done with style.
Doing Business in China
Advice on all aspects of breaking into and expanding business opportunities in China. The author gives tips and insights on the top emerging markets, rules and regulations, cultural differences, and sales and marketing strategies that differ greatly from the rest of the world. He identifies pitfalls, including ethical challenges and power and water shortages, and comments on the areas most resistant to change, which are its media, legal system, and currency.
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. A world in which corporations such as Costco, Nike, BP, and countless others are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the earth and better livelihoods in the developing world.
The Small Business Valuation Book: Easy-To-Use Techniques That Will Help You-- Determine a Fair Price, Negotiate Terms, Minimize Taxes
How much a small business is worth can be difficult to determine, but when a business is about to change hands, a fair and objective valuation is crucial to the sale. This book is an invaluable resource for business owners or buyers looking for accurate small business appraisals. This completely revised and updated book outlines the major valuation methods, including discounted cash flow, excess earnings, asset value, and income capitalization.
February
Business Plans That Work: For Your Small Business
The essential elements of a professional business plan have been updated in accordance with new laws and regulations in this revised guide that translates complicated marketing and financial concepts into down-to-earth, practical advice. Five updated sample business plans are included with instructions that provide a wealth of detailed information about the operation of a successful small business. Plans are presented for simple one-person operations, as well as for corporations with many employees. Aspiring business owners can learn how to create a professional plan, describe the mission and objectives, analyze the competition, target market, create sales and marketing plans, generate financial statements, and use the business plan as a management tool long after it is completed.
The Designer's Guide to Marketing and Pricing: How To Win Clients and What to Charge Them
Contents include: Who is my market? -- How can I find clients and prospects? – How should I present myself? -- Which marketing tools should I use? -- What should I say in person, on the phone and online? – How should I follow up? -- How do I manage my money? -- What should I charge? -- How do I talk about money? -- What should be in my proposal? -- What should be in my contract? -- How should I grow my business? Doing Business Beyond America's Borders: The Do's, Don'ts and Other Details of Conducting Business in 40 Countries
Contents include: The basics of global trade -- Global financial system -- Protectionism and free trade -- Public and private information and assistance resources -- Competitiveness and barriers to market entry -- American habits that drive foreigners up a wall -- Beware of cultural risks -- Overcoming language barriers -- Woman power in global trade -- Winning negotiations -- Market research: performing a country survey -- Assessing country risk -- Building relationships with strategic alliances -- Selling channels in foreign markets -- E-commerce and advertising -- Moving your goods to market -- Trade finance and ensuring you get paid -- Countertrade as a last resort -- Foreign sourcing (importing) made easy.
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Drawing on their work training tens of thousands of people at leading organizations worldwide, the authors provide an understanding of the basics of financial management and measurement, along with hands-on activities to practice what you are reading. You'll discover:
Why the assumptions behind financial data matter
What income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements really reveal
How to use ratios to assess your venture's financial health
How to calculate return on your investments in your enterprise
Ways to use financial information to do your own job better
How to instill financial intelligence throughout your team
The Small Business Valuation Book: Easy-To-Use Techniques that Will Help You-- Determine a Fair Price, Negotiate Terms, Minimize Taxes
How much a small business is worth can be difficult to determine, but when a business is about to change hands, a fair and objective valuation is crucial to the sale. This book is an invaluable resource for business owners or buyers looking for accurate small business appraisals. This completely revised and updated book outlines the major valuation methods, including discounted cash flow, excess earnings, asset value, and income capitalization. This edition includes completely new material on the following topics: exploring the 8 myths of business valuations; using the Internet for research; and advice on startups and first generation service businesses. With this book, appraising a business has never been easier—or more accurate!
Strategic Communications for Nonprofits: A Step-By-Step Guide to Working with the Media
Contents include: The basics of strategic communications -- Elements of a strategic communications plan -- Conducting research and targeting audiences -- Framing and developing messages -- Navigating a changing industry -- Making the most of your resources -- Earning good media coverage -- Responding to a media crisis and
managing backlash -- Selecting and training spokespeople -- Capitalizing on the power of partnerships.
January
Crafting a Business: Make Money Doing What You Love
The women artisans at the heart of this volume will inspire and motivate anyone who wants to follow in their footsteps. They provide invaluable practical information on what it takes to get started, develop a saleable product, organize a company, market your goods, manage the finances, and handle staffing. All types of businesses are featured, from hand-weaving, doll making, and rug hooking to travel, interior design, and photography.
Jay and Jeannie Levinson's Startup Guide to Guerrilla Marketing: A Simple Battle Plan For First-Time Marketers
This book illustrates the building blocks for any successful marketing plan, where your business doesn't rely solely on the Internet, shopping carts or walk-ins. After describing the personality of a guerrilla marketer, suggests techniques for achieving conventional marketing goals using unconventional means that require more time and imagination than money. The guide lists 200 guerrilla marketing weapons, outlines the seven sentence marketing plan, and offers practical advice on researching customers and competitors.
The Professional Personal Chef: The Business of Doing Business as a Personal Chef
This is the definitive guide for starting and growing a successful professional personal chef business. It covers the skills and competencies required for the American Culinary Federation's Personal Certified Chef certification, and lays out a practical road map for this challenging but rewarding career.
Tough Questions--Good Answers: Taking Control Of Any Interview
Learn why there is no need to fear tough questions when you know how to identify them and craft your answer to reflect the message you want to deliver. To do that, this easy-to-read guide will show you how to create good messages first, and then deliver them effectively.
Writing Proposals
A comprehensive approach to proposal development that helps to refine the rhetorical style of the proposal to make it more persuasive, provides visual thinking strategies, includes a complete discussion of creating budgets, and uses two case studies to illustrate the proposal writing process. Appearing in every chapter, these case studies show readers how people invent, compose, revise, and edit proposals.
Business Math for Dummies
Navigate fractions, decimals, and percents in business and real estate transactions, and take fancy math skills to work. You’ll be able to read graphs and tables and apply statistics and data analysis. You’ll discover ways you can use math in finance and payroll investments, banking and payroll, goods and services, and business facilities and operations. You’ll learn how to calculate discounts and markup, use loans and credit, and understand the ins and outs of math for business facilities and operations. You’ll be the company math whiz in no time at all!
The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business
A comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything a small business owner would need to know about starting and succeeding in business whether you're a novice entrepreneur or a seasoned pro. It shows you what really works (and what doesn't!) and includes scores of tips, insider information, stories, and proven secrets of success.
Small Business Operator
Anyone wondering about the nuts of bolts of starting and running a small business, regardless of the field, will find this a great primer. But, this book is orientated toward those who are starting small in a true sense of the word -- minimal background, funding and personnel.
Stomp the Elephant in the Office
Enjoyment. Pleasure. Excitement. That's what the Elephant has trampled in the office. Everyone feels the weight, but it takes a major attitude shift to get out from under it-- stomp it, in other words, using pachyderm as metaphor. Left alone, that-which-must-not-be-named grows toxic: tension, mistrust, nitpicking, backbiting, and arguing rule the day. But it can be stopped. This book offers tested ways for leaders to foster constructive change and prevent loss of morale, loss of money, and damaged lives.
The Corporate Records Handbook: Meetings, Minutes & Resolutions
Because meeting minutes are the primary paper trail of a corporation's legal life, it's important to know when and how to prepare these minutes. The Corporate Records Handbook provides all the forms (plus instructions) you need. Also included are 75 additional resolutions to amend articles and bylaws, borrow or lend money, adopt pension and profit-sharing plans, set up employee benefit plans, and many more.
One Year to a Successful Massage Therapy Practice
A week-by-week roadmap filled with results-oriented marketing activities you can implement to build a successful massage practice. Reviewing traditional marketing concepts, industry specific tips and guidance is offered.
Perfect Selling: Open the Door, Close the Deal
A concise, practical, easy to use presentation of techniques that work. The five steps - "Connect," "Explore," "Leverage," "Resolve" and "Act" provide a clear organization of the material and there are brief explanations, examples of hypothetical applications and great review check sheets at the end of each chapter.
Start & Run a Landscaping Business
A guide that provides the basics of landscape maintenance, as well as proven systems for running a business. For entrepreneurs in colder climates like ours, the book also covers snow shoveling and plowing.
October
The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants: Step-By-Step Instructions
This book is organized following the process of grant writing: from creating the structure of your new organization, forming your project idea, and locating the grant(s), to preparing and submitting your proposal and following through with post-grant award requirements. Sample forms are included in the companion CD.
OECD Factbook 2008: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is 30 democracies working together to address the economic and environmental challenges of globalization. This statistical annual includes data of more than 100 indicators covering: economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, population/labor force, taxation and much more.
Office Financials Made Easy Master the basics of everyday business math essentials and review cash flow statements, depreciation, markup and markdown, balance sheets, profit and loss statements, budgeting processes, basic accounting methods, simple statistics, and payroll calculations.
September
Creating Market Insight: How Firms Create Value from Market Understanding
Addresses the key strategic issue facing any company: How to make sense of our market and find those precious nuggets of knowledge that lead to real competitive advantage? Creating Market Insight explains how firms tailor their market scanning behavior to work well in the special conditions of their market; describes the process through which data is translated first into information, and then knowledge; differentiates routine market knowledge from true insight and details how firms turn insight into value; and provides a detailed, step-by-step process that enables the reader to emulate the success of insightful firms.
Making Diversity Work: 7 Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace
Workplaces are more diverse than ever, and studies show that this diversity contributes to innovative ideas and novel approaches to decision-making. A diverse workplace also makes for stronger business relationships with customers and vendors, and offers opportunities for lucrative interactions with businesses around the globe. Diversity expert Dr. Sondra Thiederman provides executives and managers with step-by-step strategies for minimizing conscious and unconscious bias and maximizing the ability to manage diversity.
Office Financials Made Easy
Whether it's a quick brush-up or an in-depth education on business math essentials, this book provides up and coming managers with all the mathematical skills necessary for succeeding in today's business world. Office Math Made Easy is a basic-level business finance book aimed at the novice or junior manager. Sample topics covered include excel-based programs, how to read a spreadsheet, how to understand the budgeting process, etc.
Ultimate Homebased Business Handbook: How to Start, Run and Grow Your Own Profitable Business
Some of the most successful companies were started from a kitchen, a spare room, even a garage. Here's the toolkit you need to move your venture from startup to profitable. Detailed information on every stage of business creation combined with how-to tips, ideas, tools and hundreds of print and online resources, and you have the required one-stop guide to starting your venture at home.
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