The Manager's Pocket Guide to Innovation

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Innovation
Author: Richard Brynteson
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599964708

Innovation is necessary for your survival and your organizations. But the process is fraught with obstacles. How can you keep yourself and your team moving forward? You start with this how-to guide to innovation written specifically for todays busy manager. This quick-read is full of practical, easy-to-implement techniques that will help you avoid the unending details and stops and starts, distractions that cause your focus to shift, false starts and market shifts that lead you down the wrong path and steep learning curves that slow the process down.

The Change Management Pocket Guide

The Change Management Pocket Guide
Author: Kate Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Organizational change
ISBN: 9780976735908

The Change Management Pocket Guide is a fantastic resource for people who need to make change happen. This tactical, hands-on guide will lead you through the steps of the entire process from planning for change through sustaining new ways. It includes 27 valuable change management tools that can be adapted to fit any team or organization's situation.

Creativity and Innovation for Managers

Creativity and Innovation for Managers
Author: Brian Clegg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113641326X

Creativity and Innovation for Managers will appeal to any manager responsible for getting more out of a business. Creative thinking, creative problem solving and creative idea generation have become essential business drivers. This book provides an excellent executive briefing for senior management to understand what business creativity is, how it can benefit the company, and how to get the most out of it. It looks at the pitfalls on the road to innovation and the ways to avoid them, pulling together the experiences of key practitioners in the field both in the UK and the US. By concentrating on the essentials, Creativity and Innovation In Brief is a waffle-free approach to creativity, providing a quick action focused and accessible insight into a complex topic. It provides; - a practical approach to business creativity without the hype; - an agenda for making innovation happen in your business - a real world view.

The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide

The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide
Author: James P. Lewis
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2003-07-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071436162

Troubleshooting tips and techniques for keeping projects and management careers on track Bestselling author James P. Lewis has become today's number one authority on the rules of project management in virtually any industry or environment. Now, in The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide, Dr. Lewis focuses on areas that are often the largest stumbling blocks to project managers both new and experienced, and provides the practical skills and hidden keys necessary for completing projects on time and within budget. Providing numerous case studies of project management successes and failures in the field, this no-nonsense book explains how to maintain project consistency and success in today's environment of fast change and even faster innovation. Managers will obtain new tools and insights for: Understanding the politics of projects Running a successful, results-driven meeting Managing effectively in the project environment

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Knowledge Management

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Knowledge Management
Author: Kathleen Foley Curley
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0874256410

A practical plan and road map to start the knowledge management process. Walk through all the stages - assessment, planning, deployment, and evaluation - and gain specific action steps for putting it all together to expand core competency and win competitive advantage.

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity Management

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity Management
Author: Edward E. Hubbard
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2004-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0874257611

This pocket guide will expose the business opportunity that underpins the support of diversity in today's organizations. Learn how to improve workplace productivity by bridging organization goals with diversity imperatives in areas like recruitment, retention, team building, and service.

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Social Media

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Social Media
Author: Jason DeBoer-Moran Mba
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599962586

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Social Media offers managers a solid look at the world of social media, spelled out in clear and simple English. If you want to get started with social media and look at ways it can be used to improve internal and external communication, sell products and services and boost your productivity and effectiveness as a manager, this pocket guide is for you.

The Exceptional Manager

The Exceptional Manager
Author: Rick Delbridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199292221

How do businesses go beyond the prescriptive policies and make the shift from the 'low road' of cost to the 'high road' of innovation and value? This book presents an analysis of the context and the challenges, and offers managers and consultants a range of ideas that are helpful to their companies.

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Spiritual Leadership

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Spiritual Leadership
Author: Richard Bellingham
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2014-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874256178

This guide teaches all managers how to find the inspirational elements in their own work and the work their employees do. An innovative managerial prescription for combating the cynicism that reigns in today's organizations at all levels.

The Managers Pocket Guide to Creativity

The Managers Pocket Guide to Creativity
Author: Alexander Hiam
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599967510

Use this guide to unleash the creative potential in others by understanding the key enablers and barriers to creativity. Directed creativity is possibly the most important problem solving skill. Is there a secret to creativity? Can a simple change in the way we think about problems dramatically cut the cycle time for generating state-of-the-art solutions? Yes! And this book will show you how. It presents practical tools and suggestions for creative thinking while never losing touch with the essential components of the process: its looseness, its freedom, its risk-taking. You'll learn how the elements of creative thinking-the methods that help us get un-stuck-can themselves be creative. What better way to drive home the power of the creative thought process than to go out on a limb and be creative about creativity!. Includes: .: Personal Creativity Assessment.; Checklist of common workplace behaviors that block creativity.; A realistic, useful model of the creative thought process.; Creative thinking methods-process tools that help you do creative thinking.; Training Transfer Assessmen