Merchant Shipping Notices, Marine Guidance Notes and Marine Information Notes

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Merchant Shipping Notices, Marine Guidance Notes and Marine Information Notes Consolidated to July 31 2005

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Merchant Shipping Notices, Marine Guidance Notes and Marine Information Notes
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Merchant Shipping Notices: Consolidated to 31 August 1996

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Keys to Workplace Skills shows students how to manage the transition between college and the workplace with ease. With an emphasis on developing job success skills, this book teaches practical skills for working with others on the job, along with techniques for job performance improvement. Includes profiles from professionals, case studies, and skill-building exercises. Designed for people graduating from career and professional programs.

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Keys to Workplace Skills: How to Get From Your Senior Year to Your First Promotion
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Managing in the New Team Environment: Skills, Tools, and Methods
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Managing in the New Team Environment is essential reading for all managers in contemporary business organizations who are attempting to work productively in today's challenging economic environment. As the organizational model based on hierarchy and conformity has increasingly revealed its inability to meet competitive challenges, a new team environment has evolved. Larry Hirschhorn's Managing in the New Team Environment presents an overview of the skills and techniques required to manage successfully in this new environment and focuses in particular on the ways in which the manager's role should change in response to changes in the nature of the team.

The book, which includes extensive case studies, is designed to help managers understand the social and psychological realities that shape their choices and behaviors. The manager in the new team environment is at once a member of the team and the leader of the team. Hirschhorn presents guidelines to help the manager adapt to this dual role, to become a "learner" as well as a "controller," and thereby ensure that the team functions at optimal effectiveness. Divided into five chapters and a summary, the book introduces the manager to the nature of the new team.

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Managing in the New Team Environment: Skills, Tools, and Methods. (book reviews): An article from: Human Resource Planning
John A. Miller
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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on June 1, 1992. The length of the article is 829 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: Managing in the New Team Environment: Skills, Tools, and Methods. (book reviews)
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Publication: Human Resource Planning (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1992
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Who gains and who loses from economic transformation in Eastern Europe is a key question--but one that is too rarely discussed. To understand the implications of the move to a market economy, it is necessary to know more about the distribution of income under Communism. This book assembles evidence about earnings, dispersion, income inequality and poverty in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the USSR (with separate information for Russia, the Ukraine and other republics). It adopts a comparative perspective--bringing out the differences between these countries and the West, as well as within Central and Eastern Europe. It shows that widely held beliefs about Eastern Europe under Communism are not borne out by the evidence.

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This comprehensive guide to sales careers and sales management explores the exciting and challenging role of sales within today's business environment. From sales theory to sales process and practice, this book explores the wide range of opportunities for sales professionals, from an entry-level field sales rep role to upper-level sales managers. Combining real-world experience with sales theory, How to Climb the Sales Pyramid shows how innovative information technology has dramatically changed the activities of salespeople and sales management and how these roles are currently being done.

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Excellent Model for Leadership Coaching

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Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage: Five Keys to Becoming a More Effective Leader

Coaching is the secret behind so many corporate leaders' successes. In dialogue format, Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage gives you both building blocks and practical tips to become a corporate sage.

Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage is the story of how a hard-driving executive, Max Sinclair, transforms his perspectives and practices and becomes a more powerful and compassionate leader.

One of the executive coaching profession's experts—Dr. Susan J. Bethanis—has written Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage for an unusual behind-the-scenes look into how executives become better leaders in the corporate world. The reader will be able to listen in on confidential conversations between Max and his executive coach as he learns the lessons necessary to become a corporate sage. Through real-life reflections and struggles, the story of Max Sinclair will bring to light how corporate sages can establish inspirational organizational legacies. Informed by actual coaching conversations with executives, Dr. Susan J. Bethanis—the story's coach and narrator—offers timely questions and insights to Max in a simple, yet ingenious way.

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Entertaining and Insightful Case Study.......2005-12-09

If you want to know what coaches do, read this book. And learn about leadership along the way.

This recent and innovative contribution to the growing body of coaching specific literature is a narrative case study by a leading American coach Sue Bethanis. Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage is unique in describing step-by-step the processes and conversations that take place between one coach and one client over a period of six months, thereby getting inside the coaching experience. Bethanis has included what she thinks is the most relevant for the reader to know and has not included grandiose transformational moments which litter a lot of coaching books. The reality of good coaching is that what usually happens is incremental change, with epiphanies along the way. The book is apparently a composite of about five clients and the dialogue is very similar to actual dialogue. As such, this is a rarity in providing unique evidence of what really goes on between coach and client. Bethanis is a good case study herself of a coach who works on the boundaries between academic and practitioner in the scientist-practitioner model. She gained a Doctorate at University of San Francisco (USF) and is now Adjunct Professor at JFK University in the coaching certification program.

I wrote the above review as part of my doctoral disseration on coaching with the Australian National University.

Excellent Model for Leadership Coaching.......2004-12-30

This book provides the reader with a "fly on the wall" perspective of an effective coaching relationship. The reader can better understand the dynamics of the coaching relationship and how real progress is made. Susan models her coaching expertise as she coaches the executive in core leadership skills. An interesting and insightful read for any coach or corporate leader!

Profound wisdom, simply put.......2004-11-23

This is one of the best books on coaching I have read. It is remarkably substantive, yet concise and exceptionally readable....a diamond in the rough field of coaching books. Bethanis has deftly illustrated both the art and science of the leadership development process. She offers some key aspects and tools for leadership development, and makes an important link between vision/strategic focus and real-time coaching. The last time I got something so substantive out of a coaching book (there are certainly other places for wisdom!) was from James Flaherty's Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others. And, due to his impressive intellect, hip-waders are useful for traversing its conceptual rapids. The simplicity of Corporate Sage makes it all the more profound. This book is time well spent for coaches and executives alike.

Practical Wisdom for Managers and Coaches.......2004-11-10

Required reading for a course I'm taking in executive coaching, this book has something to offer for both managers and coaches. Using direct, elegant prose, Susan provides ways of working with issues commonly experienced by managers and executives in a culture she describes as "interrupt driven". She also offers practical methods for bringing compassion into the workplace, without seeming touchy-feely. I have been a manager, consultant, and small business owner, and view coaching as a key responsibility of managers and leaders. The notion that this key job role may be outsourced is difficult for me. Susan shows how this approach may add value; as she coaches her client, she teaches him to coach his team members. And while Susan's client operates in a global technology firm with 2,800 employees, the leadership values and practices she offers are just as valid for small business owners, who often have to coach themselves -- and who truly know the meaning of "interrupt driven". A wonderful debut!

Simply Profound.......2004-09-10

A first pass through this book makes it seem too easy to turn from a typical over-achieving, stressed out manager into a true leader. But that is the beauty of the book and Bethanis' insights into leadership coaching. Via the easy-reading, entertaining style we get to see how a few fundamental shifts in perspective, some honest feedback and a few simple tools can make profound changes in the performance and fulfillment of an up-and-comer in today's fast-paced corporate world. Great read for someone seeking self-development, looking to develop team members, or just curious about what corporate coaching is all about. Simple, practical tools are included so there is a mix of story and "how to." This book will serve as a regular reference for me as a leader. Bravo Bethanis!

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A guide for making information technology work for any company

Often corporate IT projects fail because the underlying assumptions about a program are unrealistic. Revolutionizing IT helps organizations find success for their IT projects by showing them how to create and reach realistic goals. A combination of real case histories and examples helps show how this strategy controls both expectations and costs.

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A guide for making information technology work for any company
David Andrews and Kenneth Johnson
Often corporate IT projects fail because the underlying assumptions about a program are unrealistic. Revolutionizing IT helps organizations find success for their IT projects by showing them how to create and reach realistic goals. A combination of real case histories and examples helps show how this strategy controls both expectations and costs.

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Expectations not met.......2004-04-18

This is a very,very basic book talking about project impmentation and not how to really transform IT for business. This si the kind of material that should be available as a pdf off a site instead of getting people to pay for it.

move onto the next book.

Book Review from leadingtoday.org.......2004-02-17

Don't let the title of this book fool you. Even if you are not an Information Technology professional, this book might be for you. The authors state that the primary audience for the book is managers and knowledge workers within organizations that depend heavily on Information Technology (IT). That covers almost all managers and knowledge workers today! If you manage any complex task, are involved in improving how information is used within your organization, or are involved in any form of project management, this book is a worthy read.

The book is intentionally written in a nontechnical style for managers as well as IT professionals-from programmers to Chief Information Officers (CIOs). The authors present numerous profound principles that can be applied to project management in general, as well as the management of IT projects in particular.

The fundamental concept behind the book is that "managers do not have to become experts in technology to make effective use of it." However, managers do need a new way of thinking about projects and need to learn new patterns of behavior. Half or more of IT projects fail due to what the authors call "IT project disease." Symptoms of this "disease" include project abandonment, missed schedules, cost overruns, and delivery of less than what was expected. The authors offer a new view of this organizational affliction and present a philosophy and approach to cure it.

This new approach to IT project management is called the RITE approach. RITE stands for Revolutionizing IT Effectively. This approach is an integrated collection of observations and principles which provide guidelines to those making decisions regarding IT projects. Some of the fundamental issues addressed by the RITE approach include:

How organizations should think about, organize, and carry out projects.
Who should be accountable for the success of a project?
What is reasonable to expect from a project.
How project success should be defined.
Why limits need to be set on the scope of the project.

You will notice that none of these issues relate solely to IT projects. That is the beauty of this book. Although the authors bring many decades of IT experience to the table, they have distilled principles that apply to any complex task or project.

It should be pointed out that the RITE approach is not a new methodology. It is not sufficient by itself to manage an IT project. As the authors state, "management principles do not take the place of good development practices." In fact, the RITE approach advocates adherence to a strong, disciplined methodology. The book even briefly reviews the latest thinking in methodologies, including the "Agile" methodologies and Extreme Programming (XP). However, the primary focus of the book is on a higher level of thinking which addresses attitudes, assumptions, approaches, and the organizational culture that creates the environment in which projects are managed. "The culture of each organization includes its way of approaching problems and opportunities for improvement. Too often that approach sets up projects for failure."

This book provides a realistic approach for dealing with highly complex and unstructured projects by addressing issues such as scope control, accountability, the reuse of proven ideas, and the need for balance. It also addresses the political realities of implementing the RITE approach. The book discusses how some will want to maintain the status quo, seeing that a change in philosophy and culture might threaten their power and prestige.

IT professionals are in the business of managing complex tasks and projects. Considerable learning has taken place since the publication of the excellent book, The Mythical Man-Month, over 20 years ago. David Andrews and Kenneth Johnson are true IT veterans, and distill their wealth of experience in this easily read book. Although the title of the book might lead you to think it is a technical book written only for IT professionals, I suggest that the principles presented are universal and, if applied, can have a powerful impact on any organization.

(Review by Dr. J Howard Baker)

Not revolutionary, but good book ..........2003-05-21

Although there is really nothing revolutionary about "Revolutionizing IT", this is a good book for seasoned and war-torn IT professionals as well as end-users frustrated with their IT departments. It offers some *evolutionary* ideas on how to improve project and support methodologies based on the experience of the Andrews Consulting Group.

Several principles put forth are those many of us already knew but never mentioned out loud.

+ Despite how much time, money, and attention given at the outset of the project, it is impossible to create a complete plan and cost estimate for an IT project.
+ Any complex design will be imperfect.
+ Scope control, although unpopular, is absolutely critical.
+ There will never be enough resources available to build the optimum solution.

Some insightful tenets I took away.

+ Those most familiar with an existing system/design are in a poor position to lead the recommendation of a new one (because of a bias)
+ IT professionals like complexity and by their nature tend to bring more complexity into projects.
+ Endusers should be 100% accountable for projects.
+ Time is a project's worst enemy - as more time passes between approval and deployment, the number of things that can go wrong and the number of assumption that can change increases.

The authors discuss their "RITE Approach", which again is not revolutionary ... or contradictory to other methodologies, but rather offers some common sense best practices that complement waterfall, Agile, and RUP methodologies. The authors self-admittedly bash the waterfall paradigm but then come back and confess that the waterfall is the foundation of all PM methodologies.

Good book to read to insure you're on the right track...

Practical Information for my entire IT department.......2003-04-15

This is one of the most practical books on the topic I have read, and I have been following and participating in this field, and following writing on the subject, since Fred Brooks taught us fledgling programming managers in IBM about the mythical man-month and other programming project realities.

This book is being routed throughout my IT department -- managers, developers, infrastructure and support people. I suggest they read the last chapter first as it is an excellent summary and reference checklist of the points Andrews and Johnson bring to the reader.

Key reminders and points made and expanded upon, for me, include:
1) Just do it -- the perfect solution is never available.
2) Know what goes wrong and what goes right and manage accordingly.
3) Control scope creep, probably the greatest weakness of all of us IT managers who want to be loved by our customers.
4) Managing programmers -- "junior programmers run the world" making those detailed, seemingly low level decisions that can compromise a project implementation.

This is not only a great read but an excellent reference manual for experienced and new IT managers alike -- one of those books we should each read every year! Well done, guys.

Great for Business Students also.......2003-04-05

You have to like any book that is what it claims to be, and Revolutionizing IT is exactly what it claims to be. After reading this book and recently completing a 10 week course based on its contents I can say happily that it will "change the way you think about the management of any complex task, especially if it involves Information Technology."

Written for a non-technical management audience, its best attribute is the multitude of genuinely useful examples that illustrate the principles of the authors' RITE approach in detail for serious understanding. Unlike many books, especially college textbooks, these concrete examples keep the book, which is filled with good project management theory, from becoming merely a set of entertaining but impractical and vague remarks on IT as some books are.

Of course, while these qualities are helpful for the non-IT managers at whom this book is aimed, I found it to be invaluable for college students planning on entering the business world upon graduation with aspirations toward higher management. Not only does this book help future mangers understand IT, an important task in and of itself, but more importantly it's simply good advice for anyone who will be managing people and major projects in the future.

In my personal experience, Revolutionizing IT has made me very aware of the risks, and how to manage them, involved in any change to an organization that will fundamentally alter the way current staff will be doing their jobs. While this is a good reminder for experienced managers (who should be aware of this already), this advice both on how to look out for and how to deal with potential resistance and hostility toward business process changes is invaluable for future business executives. In fact, as I read the book I found myself wishing I had read it before I embarked on a particularly difficult internship which involved my writing an efficiency audit report for a department within the organization. The report ultimately culminated in the firing of the department manager.

This is a great book, easy to read and full of wisdom hard won through the experience of its authors. Put it into the hands of non-IT managers, especially the ones who are uncomfortable with IT. But first put it into the hands of young business people, even the ones who think they understand computers, because they will need the advice on project and people management.

Justin Swift
Principia College

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