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An Insider's Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice by Bruce L. Katcher
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 It's every working stiff's fantasy: I want to be my own boss. And even though establishing yourself as a consultant can be risky, with some first-rate advice behind your decision making, you'll be able to hit the ground running. "An Insider's Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice" is an invaluable resource whether you are a beginner just starting your practice or a veteran looking for ways to invigorate your business.
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Apr-03-2010
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Blind Spot: A Leader's Guide To IT-Enabled Business Transformation by Charlie Feld
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 This book describes a framework developed and enriched by Charlie Feld over the last 30 years in a variety of organizations, including Frito-Lay, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot, and Southwest Airlines. The framework focused on business leadership defines and describes the principles and mechanisms for an IT-enabled business transformation:
WHY (Why do anything?)
WHAT (What will we do?)
HOW (How will we do it?)
WHO (Who will lead and manage the change?
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Mar-21-2010
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Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
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 In Trust Agents, two social media veterans show you how to tap into the power of social networks to build your brand's influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. Today's online influencers are web natives who trade in trust, reputation, and relationships, using social media to accrue the influence that builds up or brings down businesses online.
The book shows how people use online social tools to build networks of influence and how you can use those networks to positively impact your business. Because trust is key to building online reputations, those who traffic in it are "trust agents," the key people your business needs on its side.
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Mar-07-2010
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The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking by Maria Azua
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 Millions of people use social networking sites, and companies are increasingly turning to social networking to build relationships with customers. But companies routinely miss the best opportunities to create value and promote innovation -- by using social networking to build thriving communities of employees, partners, and customers.
Business leaders and strategists can drive immense value from social networking "inside the firewall." Drawing on her unsurpassed experience deploying innovative social networking systems within IBM and for customers, Maria Azua demonstrates how to establish social networking communities, and then leverage those communities to drive extraordinary levels of innovation. Azua offers specific techniques for promoting mass collaboration in the enterprise and strategies to monetize social networking to generate new business opportunities.
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Feb-21-2010
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Treat People Right by Edward E. Lawler
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 Faced with changing markets, fickle customers, free-agent employees, and a volatile stock market, companies need to build a "virtuous spiral" in which good performance at all levels of an organization pays off for both the organization and the individual. Lawler identifies what individuals and organizations can do to build a mutually beneficial relationship that fits today's business environment. In the chaotic business world of the twenty-first century, the relationship between individuals and organizations can make the difference in the survival of an organization. Treat People Right! provides a blueprint for creating greater rewards and better employee performance that will in turn propel an organization to higher and higher levels of performance.
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Feb-07-2010
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