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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Doing Business Effectively Collection from Harvard Business School

The Doing Business Effectively Collection from Harvard Business School Publishing will teach new and experienced managers alike to plan, lead, and innovate for results.

Leading a team, driving a project, inspiring and channeling creativity in the people around you—these are critical skills that every manager needs, but few ever acquire. Those who do, however, multiply their value to their organizations and accelerate their career tracks.

The Doing Business Effectively Collection provides key concepts, comprehensive advice, and personal coaching for executives—junior or senior—who want to maximize their ability to generate positive results when managing teams or projects. This four volume set of paperback titles delivers the concentrated wisdom and experience of world-class authorities on team building, project management, creativity, and other key skills through the quick-read format of the Harvard Business Essentials series.

Here's what you'll receive:
Volume One: Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver On Cost and On Time Rapid change and the pressures of intense competition have caused more and more organizational work to become project work. The need for effective project management grows as the stakes get higher and companies can no longer afford missed deadlines or cost overruns. Managing Projects Large and Small helps new managers master the challenges of team building, budgeting, reporting, defining success, and more.

Volume Two: Creating Teams with an Edge: The Complete Skill Set to Build Powerful and Influential TeamsTeamwork is the driving force behind strong organizational performance—and great managers drive team success. How prepared are you to organize and lead team-based work? Do you know the keys to successful teamwork? How should teams relate to the organization as a whole? Do you understand what role each member should play? Creating Teams with an Edge is packed with expert advice on resolving conflict, promoting interdependence, improving communication, building a shared vision, inspiring commitment, measuring performance, and more.

Volume Three: Manager’s Toolkit: The 13 Skills Managers Need to Succeed This comprehensive guide is an essential primer for managers seeking the skills to excel in a complex business world. Topics include hiring, motivating, understanding financial statements, delegating, setting goals, navigating through crisis, giving and receiving feedback, mentoring, and assessing your own performance. All of the core capabilities you need to reach and remain at the top of your game are here in a quick-read, action-oriented format.

Volume Four: Managing Creativity and Innovation 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. It explores the manager’s role in sparking organizational creativity, generating new ideas, recognizing opportunities, moving innovation to market, removing mental blocks, brainstorming, fostering creative conflicts within groups, and creating an innovation-friendly culture.

Added Benefit: Interactive Tools And all Doing Business Effectively Collection readers can access free interactive tools to practice and hone their skills on the Harvard Business Essentials companion website at www.elearning.hbsp.org/businesstools.