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The Distance Manager: A Hands On Guide to Managing Off-Site Employees and Virtual Teams
Global business demands and new technologies have created a virtual workplace for many companies, with employees and teams routinely collaborating from distant geographical locations on the road, from home, at client sites—even on the other side of the globe. The Distance Manager provides practical information and tools to help managers bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation, and get peak performance from employees they rarely see. This handbook is perfect for sales managers, project team leaders, senior managers, and anyone who manages people at more than one location. Key topics include: • Using e-mail, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing for maximum effectiveness • Mastering the people skills required to manage from a distance • Virtual team building, and strategies for managing multiple locations
Understanding New Media
This book outlines the development currently underway in the technology of new media and looks further to examine the unforeseen effects of this phenomenon on our culture, our philosophies, and our spiritual outlook.
The Christlike Leader
Jesus Christ is our ultimate example. Learn to lead like Him. The Savior showed His followers how to guide and motivate others, delegate duties, rescue those in need, resolve conflicts, and create councils. It is up to you to implement His lessons in your life. Bestselling management author Kimball Fisher is an international expert and authority on leadership. Addressing Church leaders, he applies the same practical principles he uses with Fortune 100 companies and his own personal stories to leadership roles in the Church, along with the example of the Lord and lessons from the scriptures. Magnify your calling and serve the Lord as to your fullest potential.
Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise
A proposal for a new framework for fostering collaborations across disciplines, addressing both theory and practical applications. Cross-disciplinary collaboration increasingly characterizes today's science and engineering research. The problems and opportunities facing society do not come neatly sorted by discipline. Difficulties arise when researchers from disciplines as different as engineering and the humanities work together and find that they speak largely different languages. This book explores a new framework for fostering collaborations among existing disciplines and expertise communities. The framework unites two ideas to emerge from recent work in STS: trading zones, in which scie...
Dare to Kiss the Frog
-- Do things seem out of control in your in your business, with your employees? Read this book and learn: -- How to recognize the hidden factors within your organization that support change, adaptability, innovation and commitment. -- Why rules and behavioral control do not create responsiveness. -- Ways to truly implement your company's values statement. -- How to relate purpose, values and beliefs to everyday actions.
Knowledge Management
Here is the first comprehensive reference to the literature available for the individual interested in KM, featuring citations to over 1,500 published articles, 150+ Web sites, and more than 400 books. Organized by topic area, this is a natural companion volume to Knowledge Management for the Information Professional and an important tool for anyone charged with contributing to or managing an organization's intellectual assets.
Dreamcrafting
Many people set out to achieve a dream-starting a business or learning to play the piano or publishing a book-but they don't succeed, and the dream fizzles away. In many cases, these people have lots of skills and expertise, such as deep knowledge of the business or career they are interested in, so why don't they succeed? Paul Levesque and Art McNeil have discovered that making a dream come true requires cultivating skills of a higher order-macroskills-that inevitably spell the difference between success and failure no matter what the specifics of a person's dreams are. These are the skills Dreamcrafting outlines in detail.
The Distributed Mind
What are "knowledge work teams" and how do they reflect changes in the nature of work itself? This intriguing book offers compelling insights into new ways of working at dozens of leading-edge companies that are not doing "business as usual".
The Human Element
Despite some of the most sophisticated computer systems known to mankind, modern life can be infuriating – and it's getting worse. But there is a growing suspicion that, despite all the investment in IT and organization we have seen, we live with the same old problems we always have done. Why are we still addicted to oil and petrol despite the disastrous consequences? Why, three generations after the Beveridge Report, are his Five Giants – Want, Disease, Idleness, Ignorance and Squalor – still so much with us? Why did teenage pregnancies go up despite the UK government spending up to £100 million over a decade to prevent them? Why do so few of the public clocks tell the right time or ...
The Office Professional's Guide
When do you address correspondents by their first names in an e-mail? How is business conducted in a particular foreign country? Now, all these workplace questions--and many more--are answered in one convenient volume. The Office Professional's Guide takes you through office basics (frequently misspelled words; proper telephone, fax, and email etiquette; common filing systems), important business and financial concepts (P&L, ROI, price-to-earnings ratio), international business (a glossary of terms in five different languages; a guide to travel arrangements), giving presentations (with PowerPoint), setting up meetings, and much more.
