September 2011 | sf business times

Run Your Business So It Doesn't Run You Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a professional organizer, I'm always interested in learning new efficiencies. This book offers more, page for page, than any of the current "best books on business" found on the best seller's lists. Francis makes her points briefly and succinctly in a conversational style that keeps you interested....

Successful Time Management: Learn to Priortise; Minimise Paperwork; Maximise Performance (Sunday Times Creating Success) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)From getting organized and learning how to prioritize to categorizing time categories and learning how to handle and allot both idle and busy times, SUCCESSFUL TIME MANAGEMENT comes from The Sunday Times' Creating Success' series and packs in solid specifics on the entire process. While SUCCESSFUL TIME...

Time Management Techniques: 92 Affirmations That Apply Time Management Tips For Overcoming Procrastination Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book should be on every adult's required reading list - it should probably be required reading for high schoolers. The reason this time management program works is first, you need to have a long term goal or vision for what you hope to achieve. The whys - why it's important to you to learn to manage...

Small Business, Big Vision: Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I received a pre-release copy of this book to review, and loved it! I've been an entrepreneur for a long time and am always looking for better ways to build and improve my businesses. This book provides practical advice that anyone can put into use to "dominate their market" as the book says.I'd strongly...

Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times, New and Expanded Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jon M Huntsman is a humble & self effacing man who quietly goes about his business; and business is good. He's a self-made billionaire who knows that success is attainable through hard work, determination, and of course; through honesty, integrity and generosity.This book captures Huntsman's vision...

No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having just read Dan Kennedy's time management book, I am more thrilled than ever that I was introduced to Mr Kennedy's books and courses some 18 months ago! I believe the principles in this book to be not only "priceless," (which is perhaps contradictory to the subject of the 1st chapter), but it's...

Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Absentee Ownership is Veblen's attempt to explain the case of American business after World War II and prior to the great depression, which he unfortunately did not live to see. The book reads like a warning for the crash which came a few years after its publication. Veblen charts the rise and fall of...

The Confident Decision Maker: How to Make the Right Business and Personal Decisions Every Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dawson goes over many concepts that are common sense such as realizing the qualities of a good decision-maker, finding categories for decisions. I found it helpful for students taking courses on general OR/MS. The author provides a guideline to categorize the decision problems. Is it a problem or an...

Lower Your Taxes - Big Time 2011-2012 4/E Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It's hard to judge these many books on taxes and tax-related issues because a reviewer doesn't necessarily know what a specific reader needs to know.In my case, I'm interested in tax advice to the self-employed. I want to get all the deductions to which I'm entitled. In reading a number of books of late,...

One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Harvard Business Review Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Frederick Herzberg was Head of the department of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland when he wrote this Harvard Business Review-article in 1968. He currently is Professor of Management at the University of Utah.In this article the author tries to answer one of the main questions...

The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques: How to Get More Done Without Driving Yourself Crazy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)No matter how well you manage time, this book will make you better at managing time and return your investment many times over. You get the benefit of the top twenty books on time management in one easy to read book. The authors took an interesting approach to writing this book. They started by reading...

Up the Loyalty Ladder: Turning Sometime Customers into Full-Time Advocates of Your Business Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book has it all for the small all the way up to the biggest of companies. This book tells you how to take a person who is just a possible customer, and make that person not just a customer but someone who will sing the praises of your business, and according to the authors, that is what will make...

Real-Time Marketing for Business Growth: How to Use Social Media, Measure Marketing, and Create a Culture of Execution Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was looking for a marketing book that would help me reinvent marketing and sales strategies for our organization. I already knew a lot of the basics and was looking for a fresh approach that would help us compete more effectively since our market has changed considerably over the past couple of years....

Small Time Business Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes & Stay Out of Trouble (Small Time Operator: How to Start ... Keep Yourbooks, Pay Your Taxes, & Stay Ou) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I loved this book. It's been around for a while. So it should be well outlined and well written. This 2008 edition is the 32nd version and the 63rd printing. The book is 8.5 X 11 and the text is arranged in two columns on each page. There are some illustrations and pictures interspersed through the book...

Time Management (Barron's Business Success Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Have you ever browsed through a time management book--when you should have been doing something else, of course--and realized it wasn't for people who really need to manage their time? Many seem written for people who just like to feel organized, whether it does them any further good or not. This isn't...

Hit the Deck: Create a Business Plan in Half the Time, With Twice the Impact Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Maybe you have an idea? Maybe you have already a venture - complete with a business plan? No matter what stage of the entrepreneurial journey you're on, this book will be of immense value to you! Unlike the many books that have crowded the marketplace recently, 'Hit the Deck' provided you with smart,...

Words At Work: Business Writing In Half The Time With Twice The Power Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an exceptional book. It is a quick read with outstanding points for writing in different aspects of business. The author, Susan Benjamin, gives you six steps to use when writing anything. I especially appreciated the section on how to make a quick list of the points you want to cover in your...