The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life. Whether simple or complex, private or public, decisions are an essential part of life, affecting individual lives for good or ill, as well as friends, families, and communities. Decision-making is a skill--one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. When the necessary components of a smart decision are understood, mistakes can be sidestepped. When...

"Our journey through this book looks at the why and how the nations of our small, fragile sphere in the cosmos cooperate, or not, with each other in a global economy"--

Who's pulling for you? Who's got your back? Who's putting your hat in the ring? Odds are this person is not a mentor but a sponsor. Mentors can build your self-esteem and provide a sounding board-but they're not your ticket to the top. If you're interested in fast-tracking your career, what you need is a sponsor-a senior-level champion who believes in your potential and is willing to advocate for you as you pursue that next raise or promotion. In...

Inventory management is about more than counting what you've got. It's about understanding business realities and making decisions that balance current demand with future needs. Author Max Muller teaches readers how to do this while keeping overhead and operating costs at a minimum by maximizing productivity in key areas--from physical stock issues to problem identification and resolution to technologies like RFID and other automated inventory mechanisms....

You have a daily to-do list consisting of several dozen items. You're always busy, but you never really feel productive. You know what you need to get done, but you can't figure out where to start. You routinely agree to help others with their tasks but can't make headway with your own work. Sound familiar? If you've ever felt (or been told) that you have a time management problem, award-winning educator PJ Caposey has a revelation to share: you probably...

In Robert Staub's The Heart of Leadership: 12 Practices of Courageous Leaders, he lays out an articulate inquiry into, and explanation of, critically essential aspects of effective business leadership including competency, intimacy, integrity and passion. Articulate, educative, ardent and inspiring, Staub offers a thoroughly 'reader friendly' and practical presentation that is very highly recommended for anyone charged with an entrepreneurial or business...

Examples of real managers in action, revealing the six key disciplines and related practices that strengthen a leader's capacity for developing and sustaining credibility.

"Cashman's book on why personal development is essential to exemplary leadership is a classic" (The Washington Post). In the revised third edition of this seminal work, author Kevin Cashman offers stories, exercises, and practices to help readers develop heightened awareness, courage, character, authenticity, purpose, agility, service, and contribution. These so-called soft skills no longer can be dismissed as "nice-to-haves." Research shows they...

Imagine thinking about your company's information technology in the same way that you think about its investment portfolio: as a bundle of assets that-when managed right-will generate revenues and savings. Here's just such a framework for leveraging IT (technology, networks, data, and software)-one that enables business managers to make the important decisions about the potentially confounding mix of high-technology that influences near- and long-term...