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Calculating and assessing the financial health of business is an important part of any managerial position. From reading and deciphering financial statements, to understanding net value, to calculating return on investment, this book provides the fundamentals of financial literacy.

Teams can be a driving force for organizational performance--and managers can play a key role in teams' ultimate success or failure. Highlighting the latest research on team development and dynamics--and including hands-on tools for improving communication, resolving conflicts, promoting interdependence, and more--this guide helps managers at all levels to motivate teams to achieve higher performance.

Harvard Business Essentials are comprehensive, solution-oriented paperbacks for business readers of all levels of experience. In today's ever-changing business environment, hiring an all-star work force and keeping it in place is a challenge for any organization. With an overview on topics such as recruiting the right people, cultivating the right culture, avoiding employee burnout, and calculating employee turnover, Hiring and Keeping the Best People offers managers a clear understanding of how to hire more effectively and increase retention. Packed with hands-on tips and tools, this helpful guide provides actionable and practical advice for managers and human resources professionals alike.

Effective marketing can mean the difference between runaway successes and costly flops. Covering everything from customer programs to ad campaigns to sales promotions, this guide for marketers, aims to help them to turn opportunities into profits.

The Innovator's ToolkitWhat are the types of innovation? How can you generate creative ideas for your business? How can you move from ideas to unleashing you innovation to the market? How can you combine your innovation with a strategic plan to move your company forward? Get these questions answered with jargon-free, useable, practical tools and advice. The Innovator?s Toolkit offers you field-tested techniques and tips to ensure the successful development and implementation of your innovation. Topics Include:- Moving innovation to the market- Making strategic, innovative moves and placing strategic bets- Using projects to drive innovation to marketReaders can also access free interactive tools on the Harvard Business Essentials companion Web site at www.elearning.hbsp.org/businesstools.Harvard Business EssentialsThe Reliable Source for Busy ManagersThe Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world class business school. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking for a personal resource, these solution-oriented books offer reliable answers at your fingertips.

When it comes to project management, success lies in the details. Part of the "The Harvard Business Essentials Series", this book walks managers through every step of project oversight from start to finish. It offers information on everything from planning and budgeting to team building and after-project reviews.

From hiring and retaining good people to motivating and developing team members, from understanding key financial statements to delegating work effectively, and from setting goals for others to managing your own career, this guide walks readers through various aspects of managing in a complex business world.

Offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching. Managers learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

With advice and tools for improving a wide array of communication skills--from delivering an effective presentation to drafting proposals to the effective use of e-mail--Business Communication helps managers deliver information effectively.

Negotiation--whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract--is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation.

Suitable for managers who seek to develop the skills and capabilities that can help them excel in a complex business world, this work covers topics ranging from hiring and retaining good people to motivating and developing team members, from understanding key financial statements to delegating work effectively.

Designed to provide advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the relevant topics in business. This title is suitable for managers seeking to expand skills and a professional looking to broaden knowledge base, and helps them prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan.

Helps managers identify, manage, and prevent potential crises. Containing tips and tools on how to prepare an emergency list and how to utilize pre-crisis resources, this book shows managers how to shepherd their team from crisis to success.

From the basics of writing a business plan to the challenges of developing a marketing and sales program, this concise guide provides a practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. It is also suitable for new managers.

Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation.

Managing through change and crisis is difficult in any business environment. This guide offers advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change such as M&A, and address emotional responses to downsizing.

Part of the "Harvard Business Essentials" series, this work discusses the various options for how to use your time effectively to achieve the best results both personally and organizationally. It includes topics such as: prioritizing tasks, scheduling, stress management, and work/life balance.

To be effective, managers have to be skilled at acquiring power - and using that power to persuade others to get things done. This guide offers methods for commanding attention, changing minds, and influencing decision-makers up and down the organizational ladder.

Explains what strategy is, how to put together a strategic plan, what tools and resources are necessary to execute it, and how to measure results.