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Balance
Sheet Basics: Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers
by Ronald C. Spurga, Reissue Edition
This is a small simple paperback book designed for people without
an MBA. In understandable terms, it presents what you need to know
for knowledgeable financial management of a business. If you have
bottom-line responsibility for any kind of business, you should
read this or some other book like it. The downside is, it is out
of print, and it may take Amazon.com a month or two to find you
a copy.
Fair, Square,
and Legal: Safe Hiring, Managing & Firing Practices to Keep
You & Your Company Out of Court by Donald H. Weiss, Revised,
Hardcover, 358 pages, List: $27.95
The book is written
for business managers and is designed to help you avoid legal pitfalls
associated with recruiting, hiring, firing, harassment, discipline,
promotions and others. As a manager, you need to know as much as
possible about these issues.
The Ten-Day
MBA by Steve Silbiger, Hardcover, 378 pages, List: $23.00
While no substitute
for a MBA (especially the contacts made while attending a good program),
this book does serve to provide a good review and a workable explanation
of the subjects covered in an MBA program. Areas covered include:
marketing, ethics (business), accounting, organizational behavior,
analysis, finance, operation, economics and strategy.
Negotiating
Rationally by Max H. Bazerman, Margaret A. Neale, Reprint Edition,
Paperback, List: $16.95
This text is
one of the better texts available on the theory and practical application
of negotiating skills. Negotiating is a learned art; a lack of which
will limit your climb up the corporate ladder. This book gives you
advice on avoiding common errors made during negotiations and how
to exploit those errors when made by others.
The Practice
of Management by Peter F. Drucker, Reissue Edition, Paperback,
List: $16.00
Peter Drucker
has been writing books on management for decades. His books are
extremely readable, and he makes a lot of sense. This book provides
an excellent review of management issues. How to manage a business,
other managers, organization structures, workers and work. Plain,
pragmatic and useful.
Letitia Baldrige's
New Complete Guide to Executive Manners by Letitia Baldrige,
Revised, Hardcover, 590 pages, List: $35.00
Written primarily
with the USA in mind. Information for the proper behavior of companies
and people for a wide array of business situations.
The
Statesman's Year-Book: A Statistical, Political and Economic Account
of the States of the World of the Year 1996-1997 (Annual)
by Brian Hunter, (Editor), 133rd Edition, Hardcover, List: $125.00
A single compact
source with information on government infrastructure, politics,
history and economic data for every country in the world. Expensive,
but an impressive compilation.
Worldwide
Government Directory with International Organizations, 1997
by Ken Gause Hardcover, List: $357.00
A Complete
Guide to World Governments and International Organizations
All inclusive and extremely detailed. Do you need the name of the
Ministry of Labor for Singapore and his phone number? You will find
it here, unless he has been eliminated.
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