Develop an Affirmative Action Program: Compliant With the November 2000 Revisions

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You Should Read This Book If:

You have just been informed you need an Affirmative Action. Program – and you’ve never done one! You have heard there are revisions to the Executive Order 11246 and you need to update your existing plan! Over 50000 contractors and subcontractors receive the EO Survey annually and you want to know what it’s about before hand. You have just completed your EO Survey and you want to be prepared in case they decide to review your plan.

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Affirmative Action is Complicated.......2002-08-29

Well, after struggling to get my plans in place I decided to buy the book. I have learned a great deal more and have developed my plans using the book and a simple and inexpensive software called AAPMaker.

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Principals: Learn to ride the wave of change without drowning!

This collection of insights, anecdotes, gifts, and guidance on shared leadership in schools is written by principals for principals—the book, the authors say, "we wish we could have had when we began or careers as administrators." It’s a book of theory evolved into day-to-day practice, with subjects that include:

Trusting in yourself and others
Learning to change
Handling change without being swept away
Assessing students, staff, and schools
The administrator as mediator
Standing your ground while maintaining your relationships

. . . and much more, including specific self-assessment skills that allow you to measure your own development.

Being a Successful Principal is a great new book for administrators, aspiring administrators, or anyone interested in how schools are run on a day-to-day basis.

Dave Schumaker has been a public school teacher for 21 years, a principal of a high school and middle school for over ten years, and a staff develop for the past four years as the Director of the Central Coast Consortium for Professional Development, Region V in Santa Clara County, California. David is also a mentor on assignment for the National School Conference Institute in Phoenix; his workshops explore brain-based education, teaching strategies, assessment, thinking skills and many other subjects.

William A. Sommers, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of educational leadership at Hamline University and a junior high school principal in Owatonna, Minnesota. For the past ten years, he has worked as an associate trainer for the Institute of Intelligent Behavior based in Denver, Colorado. Bill has been in K-12 education for 29 years as a teacher, an assistant principal, junior high and high school principal in suburban and urban schools. He has also been adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas, the University of Minnesota, and Capella University.

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Powerful guide.......2007-05-21

This book gives new principals (and probably others too) a reference for dealing with the challenges of the job.

A True Surfer's Guide for Survival.......2001-02-06

This book was written with humor and insight. It makes you realize that being a principal with heart and humor is possible. It's not a high-handed theory book; it's a book that you can read and put into immediate practice for success. The situations used in the book strike home with "everyprincipal" realism. I enjoyed it tremendously and found it very useful.

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The sampling inspection tables presented in this book were developed for use in the manufacture of communication apparatus and equipment for the Bell Telephone System. It assembles under one cover the three papers of original publication and adds a brief introduction. The papers have been reproduced with no modifications but the material has been rearranged in chapters. Chapter 1 outlines some of the factors to be considered in setting up inspection plans and develops a basis for minimizing the amount of inspection. Chapter 2 covers double sampling, the "average outgoing quality limit" (AOQL) concept, and the mathematical background of the tables. Chapter 3 is a reproduction by permission, which outlines the shop procedures for applying the tables.

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Simple and Easy to Use.......2006-12-21

I don't use it much but I have used the tables in a training exercise and they were worth the price.

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If an opportunity exists, is it best to ensure that your product is first to the market or is performance enhanced through waiting and following? What factors should an entrepreneur consider in deciding when to take the lead in being the first to introduce a new product or service? What can be done to improve new venture performance? New Venture Strategy examines the process of introducing a new product or service and offers readers a framework for thinking through the issues involved in new venture performance. Examples include entry timing, market conditions facing the entrant, focus or breadth of entry scope, product or process mimicry, creation and development of entry barriers, and differences between independent and corporate ventures. New Venture Strategy will be useful as a core text in courses on entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, new product development, small business, and strategic planning. It will also be of interest to those developing business plans and others involved in new venture funding, marketing, and business development.

New Venture Strategy : Timing, Environmental Uncertainty, and Performance (Entrepreneurship & the Management of Growing Enterprises)

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New Venture Strategy : Timing, Environmental Uncertainty, and Performance (Entrepreneurship & the Management of Growing Enterprises)
Dean A. Shepherd
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU7GB4

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Newly revised and updated, The Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in Great Britain, the United States, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Germany from the preindustrial era to the present, with emphasis on the twentieth century. Because the evolution of business has been profoundly influenced by its environment, this study pays close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes. It also offers an insightful argument on similarities and differences in global business development: the similarities result from the technological and economic imperatives of industrialization, and the differences result from the decisive influence of the national environments—laws, politics, social norms, and culture—within which businesses operate.

This edition of The Rise of Modern Business further highlights the diversity and complexity of business developments by examining both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms, exploring the development of small firms in addition to big businesses, and weighing the importance of labor and government for business development in all four nations discussed.

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The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan
Mansel G. Blackford
Manufacturer: University of North Carolina Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Required reading material, definitely!!

Keep It Simple Whenever and Wherever Possible

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Simplicity Marketing: End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion
Steven M. Cristol , and Peter Sealey
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

ASIN: 0684859181

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For more than half a century, marketers have bombarded customers with more and more choices in products and services. What is the result? Unprecedented anxiety. Our mental circuit breakers are on overload. In fact, pioneering brand strategists Steven M. Cristol and Peter Sealey assert that we have reached our manageable threshold for making decisions -- and a watershed in product proliferation. In this pathbreaking book, the authors argue with compelling evidence that the next generation of marketing successes will belong to those brands that simplify customers' lives or businesses in ways that are inextricably tied to brand and product positioning. They contend that if a brand is not reducing customer stress, it is creating it -- and it is vulnerable to losing market share to more customer-empathetic competitors.

Writing especially for product or brand managers who are struggling to simplify their portfolios, Cristol and Sealey have created a breakthrough framework that is itself a lesson in simplicity. After presenting two essential guideposts for managers to assess where their brand sits on the stress spectrum, the authors turn to the heart of Simplicity Marketing -- the 4 R's of simplification: Replace, Repackage, Reposition, and Replenish. Using scores of real-world company examples, Cristol and Sealey show how each of the 4 R's interacts with the others in powerful ways to relieve customer stress and how these strategies may be executed individually or in combination to build brand loyalty. Here for the first time are ten specific strategies to relieve customer stress through consolidating, aggregating, or integrating products and services, repositioning brands for more relevance to stress reduction, and decluttering customers' decision-making requirements. The final pages of this brilliant manifesto for a simplicity revolution provide a guide to managing simplicity strategies, leveraging information technology to simplify rather than complicate customers' lives, and integrating all the tools in the book into an executional blueprint.

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"Simplicity Marketing" is a disciplined set of strategies that teaches how to make brands an obvious, stand-out choice for customers.

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Required reading material, definitely!!.......2004-09-11

Even if you don't agree with the conclusions of the authors, this book is a 'must-read'! The authors lay out a very convincing argument for the validity of their 'Simplicity' approach to marketing, and the recommendations they make to encorporate the simplicity message in your own marketing, (or otherwise) plans are straightforward and well thought out. I have found the material to be compelling and easy to read, with just enough graphics to add value without clutter. (It seems that even while writing the book, the authors to care to embody the message through the medium!) The materials in the book can be applied to a number of areas in both business and personal life to increase your 'value', and I highly recommend this!

Keep It Simple Whenever and Wherever Possible.......2002-01-19

"Simplicity Marketing" rings particularly true in the most developed economies around the world. Businesses and consumers are often overwhelmed with the complexity of choosing goods and services available to them, many products are full of functions and features that only a small minority of users will ever utilize. To end the prevalent brand complexity, clutter, and confusion denounced above, Steven M. Cristol and Peter Sealey offer their audience four strategies called the 4 R's: Replace, Repackage, Reposition, and Replenish. Cristol and Sealey apply each of the 4R's to a multitude of situations in which the life of businesses and consumers can be made it easier at the profit of marketers cognizant of the importance of stress reduction, simplicity, and convenience. Cristol and Sealey correctly point out that only few companies are ultimately insulated from the 4 R's imperative. Cristol and Sealey also rightly draw the attention of their readers to the fact that the 4R's must be integrated into the brand and product strategy so that the product offered is perceived as part of the solution to the growing complexity of people's lives.

Adobe eBook Rip Off Alert!!!.......2001-10-05

Caveat Emptor!

This eBook has NO flexibility built into it. What does this mean?
> you cannot print the eBook
> you cannot copy any text from the eBook
> you are required to download Adobe's eBook Reader (not to be confused with Acrobat. I was.)

Had I known the above, I would NEVER have downloaded it, but rather simply bought the book by mail!

Required reading material, definitely!!.......2001-07-18

Innovative Marketing.......2001-01-23

An excellent resource for anyone deeply interested in marketing, considering a new business model, or developing a new product.

Finally, marketing professionals who will intelligently embrace and (with ease) outline "repackaging" and "replenishing" strategies. These sections made the book worth the price for me.

The only drawback(s) with the book (though I gave it a full 5 stars), are the case studies. Too many of the online grocers are performing poorly in the marketplace to rely on them as standards, whether or not their marketing strategies are exciting and workable.

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Too Much Choice, Too Many Decisions.(Review) (book review): An article from: Strategic Finance
David Nicklaw
Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B0008HZY5G
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 597 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: Too Much Choice, Too Many Decisions.(Review) (book review)
Author: David Nicklaw
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Volume: 82 Issue: 12 Page: 21

Article Type: Book Review

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Simplicity Marketing: End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion
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Written in a practical, easy to understand style, this text provides a step-by-step guide to System Analysis and Engineering by introducing concepts, principles, and practices via a progression of topical, lesson oriented chapters.
Each chapter focuses on specific aspects of system analysis, design, and development, and includes definitions of key terms, examples, author's notes, key principles, and challenging exercises that teach readers to apply their knowledge to real world systems.
Concepts and methodologies presented can be applied by organizations in business sectors such as transportation, construction, medical, financial, education, aerospace and defense, utilities, government, and others, regardless of size.
An excellent undergraduate or graduate-level textbook in systems analysis and engineering, this book is written for both new and experienced professionals who acquire, design, develop, deploy, operate, or support systems, products, or services.

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Written in a practical, easy to understand style, this text provides a step-by-step guide to System Analysis and Engineering by introducing concepts, principles, and practices via a progression of topical, lesson oriented chapters. Each chapter focuses on specific aspects of system analysis, design, and development, and includes definitions of key terms, examples, author's notes, key principles, and challenging exercises that teach readers to apply their knowledge to real world systems. Concepts and methodologies presented can be applied by organizations in business sectors such as transportation, construction, medical, financial, education, aerospace and defense, utilities, government, and others, regardless of size. An excellent undergraduate or graduate-level textbook in systems analysis and engineering, this book is written for both new and experienced professionals who acquire, design, develop, deploy, operate, or support systems, products, or services.

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great practical book on SE - not systems analysis .......2005-12-08

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The author wrote this beook because he was concerned that many of the SE textbooks on the market were too philosophical, and decided to channel his energies into creating a text
that reflected his realities as an SE practitioner and program
manager.

The book includes
1) conceptual foundations in SE,
2) HOW TOs,
and
3) practitioner-based knowledge.

Since SE applies to any type of system from Space Shuttles to PDAs, organizations, services etc., Wasson built on the basic SE foundations from aerospace and defense in formulating a fresh new approach that canbe applied to any business domain - construction, communications, financial, medical, educational, transportation, etc.

The 57 chapters are "lesson oriented", developed for upper-undergraduate to graduate level students, focus on specific SE topics, and include two types of exercises: development of general systems, products, and services and organizational centric.

Instructors can take the topics to any level of detail they desire, depending on their audience.

Project Management for Business and Technology: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)

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Project Management for Business and Technology: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)
John M. Nicholas
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good quality service.......2007-03-09

The book is in excellent condition. True description of the book provided. Shipping was very fast. Over all very good value for money.

Project Cost Estimating - Principles and Practice - IChemE

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Project Cost Estimating - Principles and Practice - IChemE
Jack Sweeting
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Cost Estimating is beset with pitfalls. Which technique to use? How accurate will it be? This book aims to shed light on these questions. It presents a structured analysis of cost estimating and helps cost estimators make contract-winning estimates for projects relevant to both the budding cost engineer and the reader who simply wants to know how these things are done. After all, if the cost estimator gets it wrong, the implication affects the whole project! Exploring the methodology and overall strategy of project cost estimating, this publication provides an introduction to statistics and databases and illustrates how these may help the modern cost estimator. The book offers an interactive approach where the reader is encouraged to participate in a series of dice exercises to create a thorough understanding of the concepts involved. A disk supplied with the book contains a program - DICER - designed to simulate the dice throws and help calculate the relevant statistics.

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Project Management for Business and Technology: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)
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