Alan: 6649 books

This work is the definitive guide for IT managers and agile practitioners. It elucidates the principles of agile risk management and how these relate to individual projects. Explained in clear and concise terms, this synthesis of project risk management and agile techniques is illustrated using the...

Ever wondered why some people receive or give such superior performance appraisals? Well wonder no more. This brief but useful eBook can help. Whether you are an employee, manager, upper management or owner, you will gain useful techniques and information by reading this eBook.

Alan S. Blinder offers the dual perspective of a leading academic macroeconomist who served a stint as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board—one who practiced what he had long preached and then returned to academia to write about it. He tells central bankers how they might better incorporate...

Managerial Finance provides a clear and readable explanation of the most important topics managers should understand about business finance. These include resource management, investment and decision making, as well as the practical use of financial rations and performance indicators. Real examples...

A Concise Guide to Financial Accounts provides advice and guidance on preparing your own accounts for your business. The book covers all the necessary elements of preparing financial projections and management accounts to enable the entrepreneur to take control of their business and avoid financial...

When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to bestselling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own, original path to success....

A counterintuitive approach to fostering greater innovation, collaboration, and engagement Most of us assume our success relies on a network of friends and close contacts. But innovative thinking requires a steady stream of fresh ideas and new possibilities, which strangers are more likely...

First published 30 years ago, Wyatt and Dashwood's European Union Law was a landmark publication, designed and written for students taking degree level courses in EU law. In the intervening years new editions have appeared at regular intervals, firmly establishing the book as a reliable and authoritative...

Looking for a simple guide to technical analysis of the financial markets? Technical Analysis – A Newbies’ Guide is what you need if you want to learn the principles of technical analysis plain and simple. This is not technical analysis for dummies, as the author assumes that the reader is intelligent,...

This workbook provides the law student and attorney step by step instructions (with detailed examples) on the three forms of representation taught in a Wills, Trusts & Estates course: strict per stirpes, modern per stirpes, and generational per capita. Following the instructional material the...

The in-your-face, no-hype guide to getting happy… Your life sucks if… • You routinely make someone or something more important than you • The life you are living on the outside doesn’t match who you are on the inside • You say yes when you mean no • You try to fix other people •...

So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored. Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink what we produce...

Airborne Express, Hershey's, Motorola, Pillsbury-how do the executives of international corporations formulate effective strategies for corporate success? Filled with helpful insights into the state of the art in strategic management, this book provides a framework for the formulation, implementation,...

Markets trend: up, down and sideways. Stocks never stand still. Knowing this, how can you consistently profit from the Australian stock market? In Trade My Way, best-selling author and sharemarket expert Alan Hull reveals his two short-term trading strategies—active trading and breakout trading....