Event Planning

Event Planning
Author: Judy Allen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 047015618X

This bestselling all-in-one guide to the event planning business is back and better than ever, fully updated and revised to reflect the very latest trends and best practices in the industry. This handy, comprehensive guide includes forms, checklists, and tips for managing events, as well as examples and case studies of both successful and unsuccessful events. Judy Allen (Toronto, ON, Canada) is founder and President of Judy Allen Productions, a full-service event planning production company.

Planning for Everything

Planning for Everything
Author: Peter Morville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692059951

We can't predict the future, yet we do it all the time. We organize projects, events, days, weeks, and years. We plan to buy a home, build a career, travel, get married, raise children, teach a class, retire, or get in shape. Our ability to model the world as it is and might be is a gift, but mental time travel is also really hard. Fortunately, since planning is a skill, everyone from playful improviser to rigorous planner can greatly improve, if they are ready to learn: The principles and practices of nonlinear planning. How to grow and sustain hope with willpower and waypower. When to pivot or persist with paths, goals, values, and metrics. How myths, memories, fears, and feelings shift the future. Why the plans of an octopus are the product of evolution. How artificial intelligence is poised to transform what we plan. If you hate planning, you're doing it wrong. The uncertainty of change makes us crave chaos or control, but it's as dangerous to be rigid as it is to move fast and break things. To organize the future, we will find better ways, because happiness is a prediction, and it's also the freedom you'll feel upon realizing there is no one right way to plan.

The Best-Laid Plans

The Best-Laid Plans
Author: Randal O'Toole
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2007-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1933995270

Some people think they know all the answers. They know how far you should live from your job. They know how big your backyard should be. They know how cities and forests should grow. Government planners claim to know all of that and more. They say that if you want to live in pleasant communities, enjoy beautiful wilderness, and get to work on time, you should put them in charge. But 30 years of research has convinced Randal O’Toole—one of Newsweek's top 20 “movers and shakers in the West”—that they’re wrong. In The Best-Laid Plans, he shows in case after case that government planning frequently causes the very problems it is intended to solve. Combining theory with case studies to underscore his analysis, O’Toole calls for repealing federal, state, and local planning laws and proposes reforms that can help solve social and environmental problems without heavy-handed government regulation. The Best-Laid Plans is a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom about public lands, urban growth, and government planning.

Playing to Win

Playing to Win
Author: Alan G. Lafley
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 142218739X

Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.

The 12 Week Year

The 12 Week Year
Author: Brian P. Moran
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118616421

The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound. Explains how to leverage the power of a 12 week year to drive improved results in any area of your life Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.

The City in History

The City in History
Author: Lewis Mumford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 788
Release: 1961
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780156180351

The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.

Co-Planning

Co-Planning
Author: Andrea Honigsfeld
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-09-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1544366051

Pool your collective wisdom in support of your English learners! Bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove have returned with this new resource that compliments and expands on their previous titles on co-teaching and collaboration by addressing collaborative planning in greater depth. Co-planning is positioned as the first step toward integrative language and content instruction as regular and purposeful collaboration ensures that Els/MLs have access to core content. Key features include: · Practical, step-by-step guidance to starting and sustaining collaborative planning for integrated language, literacy, and social-emotional development · An array of checklists, templates, and protocols for immediate implementation · Snapshots from the Field provide real-life examples of co-planning in action · Beautiful full-color design with original sketch notes to bring concepts to life · QR codes that link to author interviews elaborating on key ideas

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management

Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management
Author: David A. J. Axson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Praise for Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management "Having worked closely with David Axson, I have seen his strategic brilliance firsthand. The integrated approach he takes in practice synthesizes external dynamics, business process, planning, systems, and management for effective execution. Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition brings his keen insight to life, presenting a comprehensive approach to managing business dynamics in comprehensible language. This should be required reading for anyone engaged in the management of a complex business." —Greg Horn CEO, Garden of Life; former CEO, General Nutrition Centers "Once again, David Axson has delivered a provocative read. Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition showcases the 'age of convergence' in business technology as companies begin to renew systems and transform business processes to align execution with strategy, improve decision making, and gain competitive advantage . . . Winning companies follow Axson's prescription of combining leadership, quality process design, and the functionality of proven performance management systems." —Rob Ashe CEO, Cognos "Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition is an insightful guide for any organization seeking to transform its management processes. David Axson provides practical and thought-provoking perspectives on the practices needed to effectively manage performance in today's competitive and volatile markets." —Michael Geltzeiler CFO, Reader's Digest Make better business decisions faster If you are looking to significantly upgrade your management practices to better meet the needs of today's increasingly volatile, complex, competitive, and global markets, look no further. Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition provides an accessible framework to help any business unite its reporting and budgeting functions to achieve its strategic objectives. Updated to reflect changes in the market, the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley, new technologies, emerging best practices, risk management, planning in a turbulent world, and global uncertainty, Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management, Second Edition is a must-read for anyone looking to leverage technology to better meet the needs of today's global environment.

Planning Extreme Programming

Planning Extreme Programming
Author: Kent Beck
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780201710915

Without careful ongoing planning, the software development process can fall apart. Extreme Programming (XP) is a new programming discipline, or methodology, that is geared toward the way that the vast majority of software development projects are handled -- in small teams. In this new book, noted software engineers Kent Beck and Martin Fowler show the reader how to properly plan a software development project with XP in mind. The authors lay out a proven strategy that forces the reader to plan as their software project unfolds, and therefore avoid many of the nasty problems that can potentially spring up along the way.

Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life
Author: Bill Burnett
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 110187533X

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.