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This text suggests how document management can be achieved in the context of knowledge management and improvemtn approaches such as business process re-engineering, quality management and Investors in People. The author explains how different technologies can support the life-cycle from creation, indexing, retrieval and communication to disposal or storage. Both strategic and project-level issues are addressed, from developing an information systems strategy, to day-to-day records and document m...

The ability to persuade, influence and convince is a vital skill for success in work and life. However, most of us have little idea how to argue well. Indeed, arguing is still seen by many as something to be avoided at all costs, and mostly it's done poorly, or not at all. Yet it's possibly the most powerful and yet most neglected asset you could have. In How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively , you will discover the art of arguing powerfully, persuasively and positively and you'...

Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended hours on the job. Perlow doesn't buy it. She challenges the basic assumption that the more employees work, the better the corporation will do.For nine months, Perlow studied the work practices of a product development team...

The most successful organizations add a healthy dose of play into their daily or weekly routines. In fact, research has shown that when people actually enjoy their jobs they're more creative, more productive, and more committed to doing their jobs well. Companies like the Colorado Health Sciences Center and Southwest Airlines attest to the positive effect of fun at work. Both trace increased job satisfaction and decreased employee downtime to concerted efforts to make fun a part of their corpora...

When you take on responsibility for other people you need a framework to understand and address how they think, feel and behave. Facilitation provides that framework. It doesn't offer you proscriptive solutions; instead it uses, proven principles and practice to enable you to get the best out of each of the people with whom you are working. As a facilitator, you also need to be able to adapt your style and approach to the situation you are in. This requires good self-awareness and a solid under...

Learn to break the pattern of ineffective and costly meetings! For bosses and first-time managers alike, the tips in this book provide new ways to share information and come to decisions without wasting time, money and energy.

The authors review Chinese values and characteristics using Western strategic thinking to understand the new perspective. This book will enable the global practitioner, Western or Eastern, to develop this new world-view and to avoid only taking leads from global standardization, especially of regulatory and legal environments.

Die Assistenz ist eine wichtige Funktion im Unternehmen, die nicht selten unterschätzt wird. Dabei kann sie einen entscheidenden Beitrag zum Unternehmenserfolg leisten, indem sie die Führungskraft effektiv entlastet. In diesem Chefsache-Buch erhalten Sie praktische Tipps für die Verbesserung der Effizienz im Büro sowie Input zu den Themen Kommunikation, Motivation und Resilienz. Sie erfahren, wie virtuelle Chefentlastung gelingt und warum Assistenznetzwerke und Selbstmarketing immer wichtiger we...

This book is about what we have called the "leadership illusion"; the hardwired habit of writers, researchers and leaders themselves, when examining success or failure, to focus on predominantly the individual and often the context, but very rarely both. The Leadership Illusion asserts that to make sense of leadership, we have to understand at the same time the context in which leaders operate because both are inextricably interlinked. To try to understand a leader without the context is only ha...

Targeted specifically at women just entering or re-entering the workforce, A Woman's Framework for a Successful Career and Life is a comprehensive resource for any woman navigating her career while seeking balance in her life. The authors lay out the building blocks of a successful lifelong career, focusing on blending skills such as communication, negotiation, leadership, career path navigation, ambition, mentoring, work-life fit, and personal branding, all of which need to be done in a global...