Multicriteria Decision Aid Methods for the Prediction of Business Failure (Applied Optimization)

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This book provides a new point of view on the subject of business failure prediction, through the application of multicriteria analysis methods. The aim of the book is to provide a review of the research in the area and to explore the adequacy of these methods to one of the most complex problems in the area of financial management. In addition, the book explores the applications of the methods so that it can become a very useful tool for researchers and practitioners. The analysis of the modeling and the results in these applications provides the background for further employment of the methods.

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Enjoyable and encouraging - very worth reading.

Redundant, trivial compilation of lists, opinions and generalizations

Coaching, Mentoring, and Managing: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Performance Problems and Build Winning Teams

Manufacturer: Career Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring: How to Choose & Use the Right Technique to Boost Employee Performance

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Leader As Coach: Strategies for Coaching & Developing Others

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The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture (3rd Edition)

ASIN: 1564145840

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This book offers hundreds of practical, easy-to-learn techniques every manager can use to coach employees to become more productive, positive, inspired and effective. Filled with real-world advice and management-changing exercises, this manual shows how to get the most from employees in today's era of downsizing, layoffs, buyouts and mergers. Managers learn how to be more than just a boss and develop the skills and strategies to become more like a coach to their employees.

This invaluable management resource will show managers how to tap into the hidden strengths and talents of employees, to inspire peak performers to even greater levels of productivity, to confront inappropriate behavior, turn problem employees into productive workers, to ask questions that get good answers,-to be a winner and to teach others how to be winners. Gives the skills to become a good coach to lead and inspire people to work as a team and produce winning results.

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Enjoyable and encouraging - very worth reading........2006-10-29

I was looking for a book on team building for my department and found this book on accident as I took others off the shelf at the local library. I checked out five books that day and read them all - but this is the only one I renewed. I am on Amazon right now to purchase a copy of it to keep on MY shelf permanently.

Whether a manager, a supervisor or just a co-worker, we are often presented with performance problems in the work place. How to handle them in a way that will bring about change and not degrade morale of the group or the individual?? To me, that is what this book speaks to.

What can we do attain the performance we seek from our team?? We can coach, we can mentor, we can counsel. Which to do when and how? That is what this book presents in a very human and compassionate style. And when performance problems are the topic, we often let frustration, anger and exasperation rule the moment instead of what might FIX the issue - a coach, a mentor or a counselor.

This book will help you approach the team buidling aspect of work with a better attitude and some new ideas.

Redundant, trivial compilation of lists, opinions and generalizations.......2005-07-12

It looked interesting when I saw it on the shelf, but unfortunately you cannot judge a book by its cover. Coaching, mentoring... is disapointing work which neither gives a "how to" set of instructions or provides interesting theoretical reflections on coaching. Mostly it is a book of trivial lists (the 10 values of a successful coach) and vacuous statements ("no coach has ever had the perfect team"; "support is tied to synergy"). And, you will search in vain for any empirical evidence that any of the authors assertions are true. Should have left this one on the shelf.

Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers

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Good background material but not at all actionable
distills to one book many on subject
Heavy on Cases Light on Content

Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers
Tony Hope , and Jeremy Hope
Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0875847463

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Transforming the Bottom Line presents an agenda for organizational transformation achieved by focusing on seven key imperatives: cutting the workload, not the workforce; managing performance by measuring value-adding work; developing a horizontal team-based organization; aligning performance measures with strategy; selling profitable products and services; finding and retaining profitable customers; and implementing a horizontal information system. By distilling the work of such scholars as C.K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel, and Jeffrey Pfeffer, the book provides managers with a useful synthesis of these important and cutting-edge ideas. In addition, the authors contribute a model of a horizontal information system that provides managers with the real numbers. Arguing that better management information, more relevant performance measures, and more thoughtful reward systems can change management behavior, support strategy, and transform the bottom line, the authors pose a hypothetical case in which this new horizontal information system is enacted.

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Good background material but not at all actionable.......2003-01-17

I'm familiar with this book as it was an assigned textbook for a graduate level accounting course I taught. Where is succeeds is in pointing out the flaws of traditional accounting as a management tool and traditional cost reduction efforts as a response. Their material on finding and retaining profitable products and finding and retaining profitable customers are especially good. However, there isn't much in here on implementing the ideas and some ideas, especially managing with the real numbers, may be difficult to impossible to implement.

So, what's here is a good to great source of ideas in financial aspects of general management. There's just not much on how to take action on the ideas.

distills to one book many on subject.......1999-10-28

Although the critic that complains of lack of originality is perhaps correct, this book is of great use to the small business owner. Through this book one may convey the writtings of Porter, Kaplan, Drucker, Copeland, Urich and many others to the layman employee that neither has the interest, time, nor perhaps even the capacity to to inculcate the writtings of the aforementioned authors. It delivers the spirit and meaning of value adding/non-value adding activity and its relavance for every business.

Heavy on Cases Light on Content.......1999-03-31

Apply the cost of this book to the purchase of Robert S. Kaplan's "The Balanced Scorecard" and, perhaps, "Cost & Effect." (I'm assuming that almost every reader already has a copy of Michael Hammer's and James Champy's "Reengineering the Corporation.") The author's tend to quote the leading authorities in activity based costing, balanced scorecards, and process reengineering liberally and follow each quote with an endless stream of supporting cases. Outside of these celebrity quotes and the mind-numbing quantity of cases, there is a surprising lack of content -- I'm almost tempted to write the authors to request a refund.

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At some point every manager has to cope with people problems. From alcoholism to illiteracy, this book has a case study to help you learn how to handle 29 specific problem behaviors. With a view to the changing needs of the new workforce, you'll learn how to tell the difference between legitimate complaints and insubordination. Discover why your employees work and how to encourage good performance. Also included are tips on resolving disputes fairly. The real-world situations in these case studies provide practical solutions to boost performance in any organization.

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Managing Employee Performance Problems
Neville Tompkins
Manufacturer: Viva Books Private Limited
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8130902451

It's all in the details: scrutinizing the work process can help managers spot underlying problems.(Managing): An article from: Security Management

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It's all in the details: scrutinizing the work process can help managers spot underlying problems.(Managing): An article from: Security Management
Will Kaydos
Manufacturer: American Society for Industrial Security
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on October 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1672 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Managers can improve work performance by examining work procedures closely to determine the presence and location of bottlenecks. A simulation of the ideal work situation will establish an ideal standard of productivity to which actual work can be measured. The measurement will reveal performance gaps which in turn can be analysed further through time usage survey to determine what causes these. The survey would reveal how time is used or wasted, how work flow is organized and how resources are used. Performance can also be improved by identifying business waste such as untapped employee potentials so that these can be maximized.

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Title: It's all in the details: scrutinizing the work process can help managers spot underlying problems.(Managing)
Author: Will Kaydos
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1996
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: v40 Issue: n10 Page: p25(3)

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Critical issues in employee management: Your practical guide to successful hiring, performance reviews, managing problem employees, terminations

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Critical issues in employee management: Your practical guide to successful hiring, performance reviews, managing problem employees, terminations
Robert Lapp
Manufacturer: Professional Educational Systems
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ASIN: B00072IG8E

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The Andes and Amazonia are two of the harshest regions on earth. The opportunities for productive agriculture, even with modern methods, seem limited given conditions of climate, terrain, and soils. Nevertheless, indigenous people, both prehistoric and more recent, developed systems of cultivation that have been intensive, highly productive, and sustainable, reclaiming marginal lands and supporting large numbers of people and complex socities. This valuable reference work examines native South American agriculture. Its focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields which have persisted for hundreds of years. The evidence utilized comes from abandoned fields, historical documents, and current practices. What emerges is a picture of indigenous farming practices in rain forests, savannas, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts. This knowledge provides unique techniques and some basic principles for farming difficult environments.

Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes

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Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
William M. (Author) Denevan
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The origin and early years of any rapidly changing scientific discipline runs the risk of being forgotten unless a record of its past is preserved. In this, the first book-length history of clinical chemistry, those involved or interested in the field will read about who and what went before them and how the profession came to its present state of clinical importance. The narrative reconstructs the origins of clinical chemistry in the seventeenth century and traces its often obscure path of development in the shadow of organic chemistry, physiology and biochemistry until it assumes its own identity at the beginning of the twentieth century. The chronological development of the story reveals the varied roots from which modern clinical chemistry arose.

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The properties of regular solids exercise a fascination which often appeals strongly to the mathematically inclined, whether they are professionals, students or amateurs. In this classic book Professor Coxeter explores these properties in easy stages, introducing the reader to complex polyhedra (a beautiful generalization of regular solids derived from complex numbers) and unexpected relationships with concepts from various branches of mathematics: magic squares, frieze patterns, kaleidoscopes, Cayley diagrams, Clifford surfaces, crystallographic and non-crystallographic groups, kinematics, spherical trigonometry, and algebraic geometry. In the latter half of the book, these preliminary ideas are put together to describe a natural generalization of the Five Platonic Solids. This updated second edition contains a new chapter on Almost Regular Polytopes, with beautiful 'abstract art' drawings. New exercises and discussions have been added throughout the book, including an introduction to Hopf fibration and real representations for two complex polyhedra.

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A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierre's Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing story of two young men-one white, one Indian-caught in the vortex of the Vietnam War.

Dale, a young middle-class white American from South Dakota, joins the army during the Vietnam War and dreams of serving his country. Frank, a young Lakota Indian, joins the army both in an effort to flee the seemingly inescapable circumstances of his life and to follow his people's warrior tradition. In Of Uncommon Birth, Mark St. Pierre intimately weaves together the lives of these two young men from very different worlds. Each in his own way struggles with issues of loyalty, responsibility, sacrifice, and personal identity through his experiences in Vietnam.

Of Uncommon Birth presents the ironic story of what it means for an American Indian soldier in Vietnam to let himself become stereotyped as the Native "good luck charm" for his unit as a way to find acceptance, approval, and identity within the majority culture, even if the Brave and Loyal Indian Scout stereotype carries with it the smell of death.

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Insightful study of race relations.......2004-01-02

Mark St. Pierre is a writer who understands the world of white culture and the world of the Lakota Sioux. In "Of Uncommon Birth" he brillantly uses the contextual background of the Vietnam War to bring the reader into the world of the Lakota Sioux, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, juxtaposed against a dominant white civilization that exploits both white and Indian youth from backgrounds of modest means. A must read for anyone concerned with the plight of the Lakota. A brillant work by a master storyteller.

uncommon birth-defect maybe.......2003-12-28

Mark St. Pierre does not seem to know where his reality and fantasies begin or end. I had trouble understanding where he was comming from and if I should keep reading or head down to the local used book store and find better " used and worn out " books to keep my intrest. I do not wish to say anything further, for fear I might give anyone the unfortunate idea to read this trash for themselves. I hope Mr. St.Pierre does not quit his day job.

Universal themes of friendship and pain.......2003-10-08

St. Pierre is a consumate story teller. He brings the two pivotal characters in the story to life in such a way that you want to simply hang out with them. I am not a Vet (though veterans will resonate with the book deeply), a Lakota Indian, or a man from the Dakotas, but the book spoke to me in a powerful way. Don't miss it.

Uncommon Warriors.......2003-08-13

Two young men from South Dakota cross paths on the way from very different versions of this place called America. They are on a journey to understand manhood and love and family and duty. One is white, one Indian, and they meet in Basic Training. Their paths uncross in Vietnam, where the reader is shown the nature of that war--perhaps any war--with a truth that cannot be dismissed. The impact of this non-fiction novel is more similar to Michael Shaara's THE KILLER ANGELS than to much recent writing about warfare. The reader comes to care about, and to understand these young men, and through them, their worlds.

Mark St. Pierre. Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today

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Mark St. Pierre. Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today
Donald C., Jr. Simmons
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 535 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mark St. Pierre. Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam.(Book Review)
Author: Donald C., Jr. Simmons
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 77 Issue: 2 Page: 108(1)

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The shared qualities of friendship and the healing arts are the subject of this riveting memoir of one man's battle with heart disease. When, in February 1999, Jay Neugeboren discovered he needed emergency quintuple-bypass surgery, he embarked on a journey that just began on the operating table. At sixty, he was the picture of health, swimming a mile a day and playing tennis and basketball regularly -- often with teenagers. How could he possibly have heart disease? But as he soon came to know, the difference between being healthy and being sick, and between receiving good care and receiving misdiagnoses, can be alarmingly narrow.
Fortunately, on his side were four lifelong friends, all prominent physicians -- a cardiologist, a psychologist, a neurologist, and one of the world's pioneers in AIDS medicine -- who helped him sift through the contradictory advice and the uneasiness one feels when life lies in the hands of strangers who are doctors. Guiding him through the system and relying on the strength of their childhood bonds, born from their Brooklyn upbringing, his friends in effect saved his life and opened his eyes to the ways -- good, bad, miraculous, and at times chilling -- in which medicine is practiced in the United States today.
In this book, Jay sets out to understand how and why he nearly died, and to find out what we know -- and don't know -- about disease and illness in general. Joined by his friends, each of whom reflects on his own life as a physician, Jay examines the faith many of us place in the advanced technologies of modern medicine and how that often distracts us from the most fundamental health care tool -- an engaged physician who listens and cares. What he discovers, in part, is that the qualities that lie at the heart of friendship also define what we hope for, and are losing, in our doctors.
At a time when our health care system continues to disappoint, Open Heart will resonate with every patient who has been shuttled between specialists, with every physician who has faced impossible time constraints and technologies, and with everyone who has helped a loved one through the maze of health care choices.Clear, compelling, comic, and inspiring, Open Heart is a story that will open eyes and hearts -- a memoir every patient, doctor, and care provider will want to read.

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friendship and learning.......2006-03-26

A heartwarming story about longstanding friendships and a revealing look at medical practices in the US today.

Wish I had friends like that.......2003-08-12

Excellent account of friendship and honest account of the medical profession. Can truth be as interesting as fiction -- absolutely!

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