BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

13 Books to Help You

Quick Fixes for Business Writing:

An Eight-Step Editing Process

Readability Problems

By: Jim Taylor

Breaks down the editorial process into a series of tasks which are designed to improve the readability of the final product. It will be invaluable to you; regardless of whether you are a novice or a proficient editor.

Author, Jim Taylor, has taught Eight-Step Editing for 18 years and clients for his workshops include the Editor’s Association of Canada and the Ontario Cabinet office.

Quick Fixes For Business Writing by Jim Taylor .156 pages; ISBN 978-1-55270-252-9; Softcover: $24.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.  MORE INFO 

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The "Please" and "Thank You"

Fifteen Essential Ingredients

By: ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D.

This book will show you how to successfully raise funds for non-profits; whether you are a member of a national organization, or a small community association. The author, Dr. ArLyne Diamond has many years of experience with non-profits.

The Glass Slipper:

Smart Steps for Every

By: Shelley Peever and Layla Didmon

A functional business guide specifically geared toward women in small and medium sized businesses. Each chapter is an integral part of an overall guide that will assist women in gathering information to apply to businesses of their own.

The Glass Slipper by Shelley Peever and Layla Didmon .124 pages; ISBN 978-1-55270-262-8; Softcover: $24.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.   MORE INFO  

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Global Wolves are at the Door:

Be the Future or be History

By: James Bowen, Ph.D.

In order to keep ahead of the global competition we need to thrive not just survive. This means we need metrics to evaluate our organization's capability. We need to have a framework that shows us what our organization's current ability is and how to improve it.

Global Wolves are at the Door by James Bowen, Ph.D., .184 pages; ISBN 978-1-55270-254-3; Softcover: $48.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.   MORE INFO  

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Innovate or Perish!

Seven-Step Innovation Process

to Meet the Challenges of Globalization

By: Richard Sussman Sc.D.

This book is a complete manual for small and medium sized manufacturing companies to produce new products and processes that can enhance their competitive position. The unique Seven Step Innovation Process starts with the creation of a strategic innovation plan and then provides a system to evaluate the current products and manufacturing capabilities of a company.

Training Your Board of Directors:

A Manual for the CEOs, Board Members,

With a special section on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which raises the standards for corporate governance, even if you are not legally bound by it.

The role of the Board of Directors is critical to the health and growth of both for profit and not-for-profit organizations. This manual is designed for Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Board Chairs, Board Directors, Administrators, Executive Directors and those contemplating serving on boards in the future. Although the manual works best as an interactive document for a group of people working together with a well trained facilitator, it can be used as an educational and motivational guide for any interested individual willing to improve his or her participation on boards, committees, or groups of any kind.

Training Your Board of Directors by: ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D.338 pages; ISBN 978-1-55270-207-9; Softcover: $39.93 + $9.95 postage & handling  MORE INFO

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Materials management is the process in which you plan, direct and control all phases of the acquisition of goods and services; from introduction to disposal, from suppliers to end users. This book will give you the opportunity to explore materials management as a profession. If you are already in the profession, it will help you enhance your skills and abilities and help you to improve your service performance.

Modern Materials Management Techniques is essential reading if you work in business, a government department or any other organization involved with procurement.

Author, Paula Mackie, has over 20 years of experience in Material, Financial, Purchasing and Supply Management, both in the private and public sectors. She was also a Help Desk Analyst for the procurement requirements of a major Canadian Government department. With this book, she has created a hand-on, user-friendly package that helps you explore all aspects of Modern Materials Management Techniques.

This SECOND EDITION includes a new chapter on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Modern Materials Management Techniques: A Complete Guide to Help You Plan, Direct and Control the Purchase, Production, Storage and Distribution of Goods in Today's Competitive Business Environment.....Essentials of Supply Chain Management by: Paula Mackie 398 pages, ISBN 978-1-55270-257-4 softcover,  $74.93 + $9.95 postage/handling.  MORE INFO

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You could have called this book "What they don’t teach you at The Culinary Institute". As you know, operating a restaurant is a difficult; even a dangerous business. Competition is fierce and costs keep rising.

This great book offers you with unorthodox (but proven) advice on the subtle art of survival. The material is arranged alphabetically and it will take you only 3 or 4 minutes to read. each chapter. If you have some basic knowledge of the restaurant business, it will help to comfort and guide you through the "best of times; the worst of times".

A Street Wise Manager's Guide to Success in the Restaurant Business, by: Matthew Lallo: 241 pages, ISBN 978-1-55270-144-7 softcover,  $29.93 + $9.95 postage/handling. MORE INFO

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Critical Analysis in Decision-Making: 

Conventional and "Outside the Box" 

Approaches to Developing Solutions 

to Today's Business Challenges

By: James Briggs

What is it that enables some people to make good business decisions more effectively, more often, than others? Great leaders in the public service, business, and the non-profit sectors, remind us that an effective decision-making process is the key to solving problems for any organization. Effective organizations, both large and small, search for leaders who have good problem solving skills.

Project Management: 

Welcome Opportunity or Awesome Burden?

by: Robert G. Edwards

This concise, how-to, self-help guide will help both aspiring and practicing project managers. Its content was developed during the author's forty-four years in professional engineering and project management. The principles and practices that he describes are based on his personal experience and can easily be applied to most simple or complex projects.

Business Relationships – 

Development and Maintenance 

Confederation College 

Entrepreneurship Series

The success of any business hinges on the effective management of three critical categories of business relationships. These are a firm’s relationships with its customers, with its employees, and with the individuals and organizations that supply it with essential goods and services. This book outlines the nature and role of each type of relationship, and identifies a variety of best practices and operating tools to be employed in the successful development and maintenance of these relationships.

Leadership with Panache

52 Ways to Set Yourself Apart  

as a Dynamic Manager

By: Jeff Jernigan

This book cuts to the underbelly of leadership in the modern organization. Divided into 52 "Ways" so that you can select one topic each week of the year for group discussion with your management and supervisory associates. Poses hard hitting questions for consideration.

Author, Jeff Jernigan, has over 25-years experience as an organizational development specialist providing companies support in creating, continuing and capitalizing on change. He is the recipient of numerous industry awards.

Leadership with Panache by Jeff Jernigan: 180 pg., Softcover; ISBN 978-1-55270-081-5: $29.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.     MORE INFO   

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Effective Management

Interpersonal Skills that Will Help You Earn 

the Respect and Commitment of Employees

By: Dave Day Ph.D.

Ten key interpersonal skills for the manager... from choosing a leadership style to the day of completing annual performance evaluations. Contains practical suggestions to increase the productivity and commitment of all employees. Essential reading for all new managers and a resource for existing managers.

Dave Day has over 35 years experience as a manager, consultant and is now a Professor of Management at Columbia College.

Effective Management: Interpersonal Skills That Will Help You Earn the Respect and Commitment of Employees: by Dave Day, 182 pages, ISBN 978-1-896210-99-5; softcover, $27.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.    MORE INFO   

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