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With If You Want It Done Right, Your Don't Have to Do It Yourself: The Power of Effective Delegation, Donna M. Genett, Ph. D. combines an engaging business management allegory with a full measure of step-by-step practicality that allows the reader to immediately put what they have learned from the story to work improving their lives both on the job and at home.
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Strong, simple and useful!.......2007-05-14
The ability to effectively delegate is one of the most important attributes of a strong leader. This book dissects the act of delegation and sections it into definable and repeatable steps, creating a process. This book should be taught in MBA courses. My entire staff has read this book and strives to practice its lessons.
Worth a quick read - will hone your skills.......2007-01-09
You can read this one in about an hour, but you will probably want to read it twice. Excellent refresher or beginner for managers. I was surprised how a little self-reflection prompted by this book helped me hone my delegation skills. I have a colleague who keeps the 'quick reference' that comes with the book on hand at all times, and uses the steps to review his project list every week. The story is a bit simplistic, but it gets the point across.
A believable story about effective delegation.......2005-11-21
Some parables are great stories, but not "real world stories". This book made sense to me!
Similar to the One Minute Manager books, but the two main characters are not "super hero types".
Excellent summaries on key points, and an executive summary list at the end of the book.
A fun, easy read that could help you become a more effective delegator.
Disappointing.......2004-11-05
I expected more concrete advice regarding follow up and accountability. Also, I find "Minute Mangager"-style business parables annoying. The book has some good points, though they could have been presented in a couple pages of punchy prose.
Worth reading........2004-06-17
This is a very clever and entertaining story that teaches simple, important steps for more effective time, work, and life management. Delegation is difficult for many of us successful people, but Dr. Genett inspires us to stretch for the purposes of stress reduction and optimal performance.
Highly recommend.
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In the world of work, managers and team leaders need powerful strategies to streamline workflow. Skillful delegation is one of the most effective skills a leader can have. The strategies and practical tools outlined in this resource demonstrate how managers and team leaders can break the cycle of business and complete projects more effectively and efficiently. It enables managers to devote their energy to critical issues and gives employees a chance to develop their capabilities and learn new skills. Included are numerous activities and checklists.
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Effective Delegation Skills (Ami How to)
Bruce B. Tepper
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ASIN: 1884926452 |
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This book will help you devise a delegation plan that works. First, you'll learn how to overcome fears of delegation, then how to effectively delegate tasks to the right person and what to do to keep assigned projects on track. On top of all that, you will receive practical lessons on demonstrating support and gaining trust in employees.
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Success at work isn't just about working harder. It means thinking and working smarter. The Self-Development for Success series helps you quickly improve basic but crucial professional skills--and ensure your ongoing career success.
These brief, visually attractive, interactive books let you assess your current strengths, target weak areas, and build your knowledge and skills. You get an entire skills-training workshop--complete with charts, checklists, exercises, and questionnaires.
With Effective Delegation, you'll learn how to: * Improve your skills through a simple yet powerful program * Put yourself in control by getting your team to work more effectively * Give yourself more time for your work * Improve team performance by delegating effectively * Build the skills and confidence of your team as you delegate responsibility to them
Other titles in the series: Effective Communication Effective Interviews Perfect Presentations Selection Interviewing Stress Management Telephone Techniques Time Management
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A great introduction.......2007-06-13
If you are a manager who is too busy to read long books and want to find out how to get more out of your staff, this book is a great start.
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Effective Delegation
James C. Campbell
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Guide book with Audio Cassette and Action Planning Sheets to guide you toward specific actions that teach you essential leadership skills
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Learning effective delegation skills. (Employee Training): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing
Manufacturer: National Retail Hardware Association
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Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Do-It-Yourself Retailing, published by National Retail Hardware Association on July 1, 1993. The length of the article is 974 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: Suggestions are given on how to delegate tasks to employees. Saying the right words will help clarify exactly how much authority they can exercise. Employers or managers should say whether they will be giving the exact plan of action or merely some advice. Subordinates should know the extent to which they can use their own judgments. This way, managers can be assured that their expectations of the job are met.
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Title: Learning effective delegation skills. (Employee Training)
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Do-It-Yourself Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1993
Publisher: National Retail Hardware Association
Volume: v165
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Page: p78(1)
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Delegation, step by step.......2002-09-24
This is one of the most useful books I've located on delegation. I examined longer books, but they were padded with theory and other material I didn't need. For the busy manager or supervisor (or even leader of volunteers), this is a good book to take you through the process of selecting the right person to delegate to, preparing for and conducting the delegation meeting, and then following up to make sure the job gets done. There's also a chapter on "Coping with Delegation Difficulties" to avoid the most common traps and pratfalls.
Ms. Baer's style is casual and conversational, and her writing is clear and interesting. Some books on this topic drone on and on, but hers moves along quickly.
The book has lots of brief exercises and case studies to test your skill & knowledge--it's one of those self-paced, self-study books. It's kind of fun to match wits with the author and see how your answers compare, but of course you don't have to work your way through the exercises if you don't want to -- you can skip straight to the answers.
All in all, it's an ideal book for the busy person who needs to get things done through other people. And the price is right, too!
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50 Tips for Effective Delegation (Business Tips Booklets)
Beverley Williams
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A directory of virtually every business in the state! In depth information on each business location. You can use our premier database to find new customers and grow your sales and profits. You can create your own direct mail campaigns. Our information is simply the best for telephone sales or research; we make millions of phone calls every year to verify our information. Our credit rating codes can help you evaluate probable credit worthiness for small trade accounts, qualify prospects, and manage financial risk. You can analyze your competition, plan your next sales and marketing campaign, or establish new sales territories.
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The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America
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Indians in Unexpected Places (Cultureamerica)
ASIN: 0520232011 |
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The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was shifting to a market economy. This well-crafted book describes the fascinating controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced.
Drawing on an enormous number of personal narratives--accounts of mostly poor, suffering, and often uneducated Americans--The Unvarnished Truth analyzes a long-ignored tradition in popular literature. Historians have treated the spread of literacy and the growth of print culture as a chapter in the democratization of refinement, but these tales suggest that this was not always the case. Producing stories that purported to be the plain, unvarnished truth, poor men and women edged their way onto the cultural stage, using storytelling strategies far older than those relying on a Renaissance sense of refinement and polish. This book introduces a unique collection of tales to explore the nature of truth, authenticity, and representation.
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The Human Development Report 2004 debunks myths that regard diversity as a threat to nations and states, the source of inevitable clashes, and an obstacle to development. It asserts that struggles over economic resources and political power, not diversity, are most often at the root of conflict. The Report opens with an analysis of the vital links between human development and cultural liberty by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. It goes on to examine issues that the dynamics of globalization have brought to the forefront of policy agendas in rich and poor countries alike: migration, predatory extremism, and the expansion of cultural diversity. Drawing on data from national and local governments around the world, it proposes evidence-based constitutional, juridical, and socioeconomic policy options to promote cultural liberty and multicultural democracy in the context of universally accepted human rights.
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Forecasting future from a new perspective.......2006-03-01
When Egypt's president revealed a drive for improving democracy a year ago, the deputy head of the country's top appeals court felt hope, but today, are Egypt's democratic reforms complete? Recently Pakistan has banned anti-cartoon rallies in Lahore after several demonstrations turned deadly, but can the same protests be totally controlled in other parts of the Islamic world? When thousands of demonstrators marched through Paris to protest racism after the killing of a Paris Jew, do you really think it just an incident? These are just some headlines from today's AP news. Coping with cultural diversity is one of the central challenges of the 21st century. Nowadays, while most people are concerned about the future of technological new frontiers such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and gene technology, I am more curious about the status quo of our human societies, cultures and its implications for forecasting the future. This can be best explained why I chose to read the book, Human Development Report 2004.
This book is about discussing human development from a global perspective. As this book alerts us, "a global clash of cultures" is now happening. Like all UNDP's Human Development Reports, this book is actually an independent study intended to encourage discussion about human rights, cultural diversity, globalization, cultural liberty, etc. From my point of view, those are basic issues and at least continue to be "hot" and even getting hotter in the rest of this century. In other words, when people forecast new trends and changes of technologies, it is unfair to assume that the human society will simultaneously develop as technologies do. The fact is just the opposite: people always overlook or neglect those issues when they are preoccupied by fascinating technologies. In addition, technologies degenerate human development by making masses of people lazy and indulging people with convenience and effortless lives.
One of the book's strengths is that it takes you through cultural issues around the world by which the authors make a case for respecting diversity and building more inclusive societies by adopting policies that explicitly recognize cultural differences-multicultural policies. Another powerful section was on building of multicultural democracies.
Among many issues mentioned in this book, cultural liberty is the one that fascinated me. According to the authors, cultural liberty is a vital part of human development because being able to choose one's identity-who one is-without losing the respect of others or being excluded from other choices is important in leading a full life. Because minority identity was my former research area eight years ago when I pursued my first MA in cultural anthropology, I can well understand today's conflicts from a perspective of cultural identity. In the future, war will involved more identity disputes, especially when you realize that most countries of our world share the same cultural diversity. For example, Malaysia, consists of 62% of its people Malays and other indigenous groups, 30% ethnic Chinese and 8% Indian. China has 56 nationalities and, even in a metropolitan city such as Shanghai, there are 34 nationalities recorded, not to mention the other minority autonomies in the remote regions of the country.
In sum, this book opens a door for us to better understand the future of the human society, and especially for those who are willing to forecast the future but without any background of human development.-by Chunfeng
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Amnesty International Report 2004 (Amnesty International Report)
Manufacturer: Amnesty International
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An international citizens' progress report on poverty eradication and gender equity.
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If one band could be said to symbolize British punk in its heyday, that band is The Clash. As a young journalist on tour with all of punk's biggest names, Kris Needs forged lifelong friendships with The Clash while witnessing their wild exploits firsthand. One of the first journalists to see the band live, Needs championed them from the start, becoming close friends with Joe Strummer and the rest of the group, accompanying them on many major tours, and being present at pivotal moments in their career. Combining his own anecdotal and press material from the era with a wealth of biographical detail and photographs, Needs illuminates the legend with accounts of life-changing gigs, on-the-road antics, and the recording sessions that produced the critically revered and ever-popular albums. The book pays special attention to the late Joe Strummer — his motivations and passions and his place as a punk pioneer.
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The best Clash retrospective I have found.......2007-10-17
This is an extremely detailed, up close and personal history of the Clash. The unique perspective of being written by a journalist that became a true friend of the band and who was there from the start gives it an authenticity that is irreplaceable. I did not want the book to end, just like a lot of things relating to the band.
Soak up this book!!.......2007-05-25
This "you're right there book" inspires and grabs you. Joe Strummer and The Clash are some of the greatest artists and original creators of all time. Author Kris Needs keeps you hooked. Fill your soul with Joe Strummer. Like a cosmic twin of John Lennon--he is raw, genuis, powerful, loving!!!
A genuine, funny book that portrays The Clash as real people rather than inaccessible rock icons.......2005-10-03
Kris Needs' 'Joe Strummer & The Legend of The Clash' is the most fun that you'll have with a book on this legendary band. The author hung out with the group during the heyday of punk and recounts many amusing anecdotes from this period.
His reminiscences go a long way to dispelling the myth of the band as a quartet of humourless political activists and give a genuine sense of Messrs Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Headon's true personalities. In addition to exploring the indvidual band member's fun-loving natures, Needs exposes the interpersonal dynamics within the group and the way in which outside forces caused Strummer to sack both Mick Jones and Topper Headon, thus effectively destroying the band.
The two decades following The Clash's split are comprehensively described and the section recalling Joe's untimely death from an undiagnosed congenital heart condition are especially moving.
If you want to know what The Clash were really like, then you should check out this lively, entertaining book.
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Getting There: Growing Up With Polio in the 30's
Robert C. Huse
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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Absorbing accounts of a paraplegic's struggles through boyhood into early adulthood. We share his pain and frustration- the endless trial and error. But as we also share in the love and laughter, courage and optimism that make this a book to remember
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