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Offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching. Managers learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

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Most managers coach employees by giving them feedback and evaluating their performance, right Wrong. Coaching differs markedly from other managerial functions. With its tips, worksheets, and self-assessments, this guide shows managers how to use coaching - not only to strengthen direct reports' skills but also to rev up their performance.

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The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lepinay, a former employee of one of the world's leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives

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The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. This title takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at one of the world's leading investment banks before the crisis.

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Demonstrates how government at various levels can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. This title shows how the public sector can harness private expertise to bolster productivity, capture information, and augment resources.

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Originally published in 1951, Louis Cheskin's groundbreaking Color For Profit initiated a scientific approach to color and design.

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With funding for nonprofits shrinking and global markets shaky, our business and social sectors are confronting an increasingly uncertain future. This book argues that forward-looking businesses and social sector organizations can solve many of their problems by working together - while serving the common good in the process.

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Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges This work includes 12-14 essays by some of the top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.

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Argues that we've grossly underestimated the power of the Internet to change the way companies behave. This book asserts that managers and their companies must embrace and exploit the very technologies that have upended their jobs and their businesses.

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This book is a sociological examination of competition and the competitive drive, told from the viewpoint of a competition freak. The author explores the energy and force behind the need to compete, and what the consequence of that need is.

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Develops a coherent model for how modern executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. This blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.

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Presents a collection of essays, which reveal that the key to success for companies competing in the digital world will not be to engineer big technological breakthroughs, but rather to develop products and services by creatively combining technologies with innovative managerial approaches.

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Essays discuss technology, manufacturing, marketing, finance, capital, government policies, coalitions, competition, and leadership in the global marketplace, and look at specific cases.

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Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings conflict with the teachings of oligopoly theory that supposedly underlie modern competition policy. Competition

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Explores why - despite long-standing evidence that a committed work force is essential for success - firms continue to attach little importance to their workers. The answer resides in a complex web of factors based on perception, history, legislation, and practice that continues to dominate management thought and action.

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Provides an introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. This work develops the intellectual tools and insights needed to confront many marketplace problems. It emphasizes cooperation, pricing, litigation, and antitrust as vital to a firm's competitive posture.

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Econometric models are widely used in the creation and evaluation of economic policy in the public and private sectors. This book addresses the critical earlier stage of model development, the point at which potential models are inherently incomplete.

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Designed to help move from verbal to mathematical to computational representations in economic modeling, this book is organized around economic topics as macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance. It employs software systems, including MATLAB, Mathematica, GAMS, the nonlinear programming solver in Excel, and the database systems in Access.

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