November 2011 | sf business times

Marketing Plan Workbook (Sunday Times Business Enterprise Guide) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Written by a sales and marketing professional with a lifetime of experience, John Westwood's The Marketing Plan Workbook is a guide to principles and practical methods of marketing planning. Chapters cover how to conduct a marketing audit, setting reasonable marketing objectives, advertising and sales...

Women Make the Best Salesmen: Isn't it Time You Started Using their Secrets? Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is not an anti-male diatribe, nor is it sentimental gush. Marion Luna Brem's book provides incredibly practical advice useful to both genders. And yet she does not shy from her own femininity in her writing; she is not afraid to appeal to women's sensibilities or leverage their natural tendencies....

Time Management Made Easy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Though somewhat militant in its teachings the book is extraordinary in its approach to time management. The systems explained by Peter Turla are truly inspiring!Click Here to see more reviews about: Time Management Made EasyClick here for more information about Time Management Made E...

Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1 (v. 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great accounting book. It delivers in what it promises, The chapters are arranged in a logical progression. The pedagogy is elegant. Before I read this book I was lost in the shuffle of debits and credits, with this book I have mastered these a bit.I'am an American, the content of this book...

Going Public in Good Times and Bad: A Legal and Business Guide for New Media Companies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Great book! This is a very comprehensive book that spells out everything a business person needs to know to grow their company and go public. Also covers private placements, marketing and business plans. Basically it covers everything you need to know from the begining of the business until you sell...

Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Business "surprises" occur with an alarming frequency. It is an understatement to say they exact a considerable toll on the organization.According to Kenneth G. McGee, even the worst catastrophes rarely happen without warning. The author is a group vice president and research fellow at Gartner, Inc.,...

It Sure Beats Working: 29 Quirky Stories and Practical Business Lessons for The First-Time, Mid-Life, Solo Professional Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This may be the first of it's kind. Katz draws on his personal successful experience as a solo professional while adding the type of humor that makes you laugh but also makes a point. Each "quirky story" educates and motivates in very practical and useful ways. If you aren't one yet, this just may be...

Everything Project Management Book: Tackle any project with confidence and get it done on time (Everything (Business & Personal Finance)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The title tells it all: This book contains everything you need to know about project management, and it is written in a way that does not put you to sleep after the first three pages. Of course, for very special und extremely complex projects you need more, then you buy a big standard publication. But...

Master of the Big Board: The Life, Times & Businesses of Jack Massey Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you live in Nashville and are active in business this is a must read book. It is unbelievable how inter related some of the top companies and executives are. There are many good lessons to be learned by the business acumen of Jack Massey.Click Here to see more reviews about: Master of the Big Board:...

Out of Time: How the Sixteen Types Manage Their Time and Work Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A guide to time management from MBTI perspective. I use this kind of stuff all the time when coaching leaders on getting focused--it is amazing how much difference it makes to understand the person's type and what kinds of organizational tools and techniques will work with that type.Click Here to see...

Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There are tonnes of book on this topic. After reading books such as First Thing First, Getting Things Done, Flow and others, I had been only been partially solving my clutters.It seems that this book was the final piece that links all the pieces together. However, this effect although work for me, may...

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Strategy-Focused OrganizationBuilding on their Balanced Scorecard approach, Kaplan and Norton have developed an impressive framework in The Strategy-Focused Organization for the implementation of strategy. They have found that 90% of strategic initiatives fail due not to formulation but to implementation...

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In this book, business journalist Andrea Gabor traces the contributions of several key management thinkers and practitioners, and how their efforts shaped both the modern American corporation and popular notions of it. By chronicling well known (such as F.W. Taylor and Robert McNamara) and less known...

The First-Time Manager Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Many rookie managers feel like imposters until they grow into their jobs, but if you are scaling that learning curve, help has arrived. Authors Loren B. Belker and Gary S. Topchik provide managerial coaching for new occupants of corner offices (or, at least, of cubes with windows). The text provides...

Managing in a Time of Great Change (Drucker Library) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Similiar to Kennedy's (1993) "Preparing for the Twenty-First Century," Drucker's presentation is different. Drucker uses less jargon; does not read as research article; provides perspective on shared topics; and touches on areas not covered by Kennedy. Drucker provides a analysis of four major change...

Get Rid of the Performance Review: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters (Business Plus) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ah, the business/career advice book, that calm appeal to mature rumination in favor of some innovative approach! That is NOT this book. This is a would-be inflammatory polemic looking to send mobs of its readers, pitchforks and torches in hand, to overturn the oppressive and inefficient old regime and...

Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Time Power by Brian Tracy is about taking control of your schedule so that you free up more time to do more and more. Using strategies like using a organizer, figuring out what your goals and priorities are, and things like refusing to take coffee breaks are examples of what can be found in this book.The...