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This is a short book on Management By Objectives (MBO). It covers goal setting, incentives, and follow up in a lot of detail but is still an easy read. If you need help coming up with well defined goals, this book provides a great set of questions that you can use to refine employee and department goals so that they are practical. The questions will speed your creation of goals.
The book doesn't cover any other management topics.

If you're about to become a manager for the first time and don't have a clue about how to get your direct reports to do what you want them to do, use this book as a step-by-step primer. It explains what to say, when to say it and how to follow up. It teaches you why meeting and connecting with employees individually is so important if you want to keep them accountable and get results. Author Brian Cole Miller's advice will help you develop your coaching skills. It will also save you a lot of headaches if you're struggling with problem employees. Miller shows you how to work with difficult employees in a way that is supportive, yet puts the ownership of results squarely on the employee's shoulders - where it belongs. If you've just promoted someone to manager, or if you are a new manager, we suggest that you make this book a part of your on-the-job training and development curriculum.

This is fantastic. Miller (great name!!) uses the same style from his first book (also good-Quick Team-building Activities for Busy Manager) and applies it to something much more important: holding your employees accountable. The book is organized so well for the busy manager, that it's almost more like an outline than a traditional book...it's easy to breeze through it, gleaming the points you need, glossing over stuff you already know (and not fear that you're missing anything). BUT, you can also dive deep into detail whenever you want it, or learn from the many examples provided. The steps here are concrete and logical. The flow makes sense...you learn quickly that this is not rocket science...or is it just that Miller knows how to make things seem simple, so the average manager "gets" it and can do it?

Like he warns in the intro, there's not a whole lot of theory here-just the how-to steps with examples and checklists of how to apply them, and then just enough theory to support them without ever bogging you down. So if you accept that up front, you wont miss the theory (which weighs down most other books on this subject, anyway). You'll just appreciate the simple process (which is cool, since he was able to make his 6 step process fit an acronym SIMPLE). If you need some help on holding your employees accountable, and you just need the quick and dirty "just tell me how to do it!" version, this is the book for you! A quick read, to the point, well organized. Miller packs a lot of punch into very few pages. A great resource for the harried manager who wants some help, but quick.

As managers, we work at top speed all the time and often we simply assume (and hope!) our employees are getting the job done. This book offers an easy to implement way to ENSURE employees are getting the job done. What a relief to have found this book. THANKS!

Accountability is essential to individual and organizational success, but few leaders know how to make it happen. Consequently, accountability remains at too high a level-far away from the people who really should be accountable for their work. Managers spend far too much of their valuable time chasing after details, progress reports, and hope-it-got-done worries. If there were a way to calculate the value of managerial time wasted because of our accountability deficiency, the cost would be astronomical. If you could calculate the cost to you, personally, it would far exceed the price of this book.

Miller presents his advice in a design that's easy to grasp-complete with anagram. He offers a SIMPLE system: Set expectations, Invite commitment, Measure results, Provide feedback, Link to consequences, and Evaluate effectiveness. Each of these components is explained in its own chapter, following the same format. The principle is presented, followed by an explanation of why it is important, then the how-to. Examples and checklists (good ones at the end of each chapter) strengthen the book's value.

You will gain a considerable amount of worthwhile knowledge, technique, and advice reading this book from cover to cover. However, the strongest benefit will come over time as you use this volume as a reference book, a handbook to return to for refreshers and reinforcement.

Idea: copy relevant items from the end-of-chapter checklists and use them as daily reminders that you're doing what must be done to build and maintain accountability. This is a book you'll want to keep close to your desk as an important companion.

PS-the principles will work in non-business situations, as well.

This book is just GREAT!! I use it for EVERYTHING!! It is so complete and easy to read. I highly recommend it. It is a must have for dietetics students.

This 1200-page book is EXCELLENT! I recommend this book to those dietetics graduate, like myself, who's planning to take RD exams! Not only it will help you on the RD exams itself but as well as in real life! I bought it for $99.00 and it's worth every penny! Go ahead! Buy this book and you won't regret it! Muah!:*

As physicians, we are used to prescribe and trust only on pharmacotherapy. This book gives you a medical approach to nutrition therapy to add effective counseling and a scientific approach to your patient's nutricional issues, in order to add a new therapeutical tool to your daily practice. ¿obese patients? it is just not enought to say "cut out haburgers, eat more salad" a problem-oriented anamnesis and special physical measurements must be done. Wanna know the diference between a diet for a COPD patient and one with arthritis? this book gives you the theoretical basis as well as the "for dummies" approach

This book was a big help when I studied for my test as a Registered Dietitian. I liked the way pro and cons of controversial issues were pictured. This book is great for any health professional.

This book is the required text of my dietetics coursework time and time again and thus I use it extensively. At first I resented the very large and heavy book, but more and more I find myself turning to it for answers, even for things that aren't school-related. My university has a book rental program. Previously I'd only rented the book, but now, as I sit inbetween semesters, I find myself missing it terribly. The moment the bookstore opens I will be buying this book for keeps.

I give it four stars because it's cumbersome and dry, although on the positive side you can point out it's cumbersome and dry because it's such an exhaustive and scientific coverage of the subject.

this is a really good prayer book, it helps a lot helps you get closer to jesus.

This is an excellent book for those who are interested in a deeper prayer life. I received this book as a gift from a friend and it totally transformed my prayer life. At first I thought how on earth could I find the time to spend one hour each day in prayer. Yet as I committed myself to this time with Our Lord becaure of my desire to have have a deeper realtionsip with Him, I found that instead of one hour I was easily spending two hours and more in His Presence. Ms. Schubert's method of prayer is simple but very effective because she covers all the essentials of true praye. I have recommended this book to my prayer group members and have given several copies to others who have indicated an interest in praying more effectively. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to transform their prayer life.

This book teaches you different kinds of prayer to deepen your faith. You will feel such peace when using this book that you will want to pray more than an hour. It gives specific suggestions and examples of how to pray that is very helpful.

Annointed, and beautifully written. I use it morning after morning, when the Lord wakes me up. Now much of it has penetrated my heart, and I can pray anywhere, with or without the book. It seems to cover everything. Nothing is left out. My walk with the Lord has deepened with this special book.

This book is a wonderful display of how to pray effectively. It touches on all the strong points of prayer. I needed this book. I just got done with my first hour with this book. Actually, it was a hour and a half. I feel at peace with God. I look forward to a deeper meaning of my prayer life with the guidance of this book.

One of the most comprehensive landscape ecology materials existing on the market nowadays. Ideal for landscape ecology beginners or for for anybody who wonders what fragmentation, ecological processes and patterns are.

This is an excellent book that intrigues the informed while explaining complex information in such a way that novice readers can follow along.

It is a good book that help us to maintain an equilibrium of the landscape when we mad some changes to it. The content will be usefull for different areas of study, maily ecology, but also here in San Luis Potosi we have a class that we call landscape ecology. This class is the architecture carrer. We got many information from the book.

If the credentials of the authors didn't convince of the quality of this book, I'm not sure I can. I will say that I have read and re-read the book several times, and that it's a vital resource in our laboratory. From the various issues of scaling to what analyses do what, this book is an excellent resource of theories and technologies involved in Landscape Ecology.

I use this book as the recommended text for both undergraduate and graduate courses in landscape ecology. It has a useful synthesis of recent trends in the field and particularly good chapters on scale, landscape metrics and disturbance. The accompanying CD has jpeg versions of most of the figures, which is handy for preparing lectures, although the quality of some of the digital images from CD (especially graphs and line charts) isn't so great. The literature review is thorough without being overwhelming, so it's a good entry point into the professional literature in most areas of landscape ecology. My main criticism is that the writing style is somewhat dense; I didn't find it easy to read from cover to cover. People looking for a cursory introduction to the field may do better to start with an alternative text. As a teaching and reference text for landscape ecology, however, I think this book is the best available.

This book is not only for HR professionals, but also a valuable resource for marketing professionals interested in tapping the growing Hispanic market segments.

With Latino Talent, Dr. Rodriguez makes a timely and thoughtful contribution to our national discussion about the changing face of the U.S. workforce. He manages to clarify and contextualize general Latino cultural norms and preferences while steering clear of counterproductive stereotypes. This kind of frank and deep exploration of our growing community's integration with "mainstream" America is critical to our collective journey toward true workplace diversity and inclusion.

Dr. Rodriguez does a remarkable job of clarifying the ambiguity that exists in defining Latinos. Regardless of how you interact with Latinos, including as an HR specialist or marketer of products and services, I highly recommend that you focus on Chapter 3 - "Latino Cultural Aspects." Dr. Rodriguez discusses how Latinos interact with others, including "collectivism, respeto, simpatia, personalismo, and communication" (p. 37). Knowledge of those concepts alone provides your organization with a competitive advantage. Without a doubt, I highly recommend "Latino Talent." - Dr. Jim Flores

This is an excellent reference for anyone that one that wants to gain a unique perspective on America's emerging workforce. Dr. Rodriguez treats the subject with unique insight based on research and practical experience. A "must have" for managers working with a diverse workforce.

The book was an easy read and very informative. It provided a lot of helpful insight into the Hispanic communitee. I have shared the book with my recruitment team to help my staff become more effective at recruiting top Hispanic talent.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone in the recruitment space.

Lisa Rodriguez
Director, Talent Acquisition
Abbott

Paul has defined what being a leader is all about. Read it for the insight, but live it for the true value! Step up to the plate as a leader the leads through their love relationship with Christ. The author's points are structured well and can be a tool that can be used in your ministry right out of the package! People will see the difference when you lead out of love!

Paul Heier, pastor of Lifespring Church of Palm Harbor, Florida, has provided a heart-felt and gripping book about the importance of walking with Jesus. As a former college administrator and professor, he brings out many salient points about leadership. For him, no one can properly lead unless they have a genuine and daily dependency on Christ. Everything rises and falls on our love for and from Jesus Christ. This book is an excellent resource for pastors, deacons, Bible college students, lay leaders, and those interested in ministry.

Paul has defined what being a leader is all about. Read it for the insight, but live it for the true value! Step up to the plate as a leader the leads through their love relationship with Christ. The author's points are structured well and can be a tool that can be used in your ministry right out of the package! People will see the difference when you lead out of love!

This is a must-read for all leaders. The author does a great job of giving practical guidelines for leaders and explores areas of leadership that so many prefer to avoid. It is an honest look at leadership and what it means to be a true leader. I am confident that it will be as valuable to you as it has been to me. You will be glad you read this book!

Hi Everyone, I've read this book I received a copy from the same author of it, I live in Nicaragua and I had the chance to meet Paul Heier since he has just settled in Chinandega, Nicaragua as full time missionary with his wife Thania Heier and his best friend Chris Rozycki (who is like my brother). The message of the book is so refreshing, Paul has a very dinamic way to teach and always put a spark of good sense of humor to ilustrate a truth, u know, whenever I start reading a book besides the message, I always wonder if the author really reflects with his life what he intended to transmit other in his book, and I can truly say that Paul is a living example of what he teaches in this book, I believe that he has that give from God wich is to lead with a deep love for the people, I've had the priviledge to work with him as translator, and I've learn more things from his behavior than from his teachings, and I really want to keep working with him and his crew until God allows me to do it. I strongly recommend his book, I assure u is a living testimony, I found things there that sometimes we don't thing too much about them but they are so important to develop an effective ministry for the Lord based in the universal principle of love, which should be the motivation of any leader who server to the Lord. I could keep saying many things about Paul, I really love this people, get his book as soon as u can.

Melvin Loza Lainez, melloza@gmail.com

This book changed my life and my career. Reading it made me certain I was in the wrong place, in the wrong industry at the wrong time (for me). Companies that adhere to the tenets of LP&P will not have the retention issues most companies are dealing with today. People are drawn to and loyal to bosses who hold them in positive regard. Such companies are out there. Such leaders do exist and together they attract the best and brightest and the profits take care of themselves.

This book encourages those of us who want to make a little difference every day. It also dares us to be bold and public and exemplary in holding others in conspicuous--and high--regard. Written from experience on the inside of corporations, yet rich with values and insights, it is the most "balanced" look at leadership this year.

There are "how to treat people" books out -- and tons of "how to make more profit" books. Mark this book as one of the very few that integrates the themes with effective, believable ideas about how to manage more productively (and humanely!) tomorrow. One neologism worth noting in this book: altrupreneur. The word symbolizes the writers' core idea: that you can be an entrepreneur while being altruistic. You don't have to exploit to advance, they say, in convincing, straightforward language, statistics, and quotes.

Altrupreneur: One who conducts the affairs of an enterprise with conspicuous regard for the welfare of others." An excellent concept and philosophy that we should all learn to grasp as we operate in today's business environment. Nagle and Pascarella, very successful in their own right, quickly get to the essence of the successful business formula. It comes down to people! They cover the gamut from "Healing the Wounds of Betrayal," to "Creating a Mindset for Change," to "Building Community from Complexity." They reference that to the alrtupreneur, the company is a system but not just a system; it is something more human than that--itis a community. Furthermore, the new covenant being established in the altrupreneurial workplace exchanges accountability and continuous improvement for a reasonable and competitive income and continued opportunities for employability. This is best summarized by two quotes in the book; 1) "Did you do what I told you?" the traditional manager, versus 2) "What results did you get?" What did you learn? today's effective manager. An excellent book, with excellent insights. I have personally purchased a number of these and have passed them on to CEOs of both small and large firms with which I do business!

The truly successful organizations in the next century will be those that learn how to engage and energize the creativity an enthusiasm of their human assets. This is the next frontier in competitive advantage. In fact, there's always likely to be someone out there who can outspend you on those things. What makes your company unique is your people. Their innovation, creativity, and enthusiasm can't be copied. And, if that uniqueness is directed to creating processes, products, and services that are better than your competitors, you have an unbeatable advantage.

In Leveraging People and Profit the authors introduce a new term, altrupreneur. Altrupreneur is defined as one who conducts the affairs of an enterprise with conspicuous regard for the welfare of others. The altrupeneur is not one who acts only for the welfare of others, but one who acts with awareness of others' welfare as one of his or her top priorities.

The authors go on to outline a leadership model which includes the following.

1. The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You cannot blow an uncertain trumpet. 2. Employees want and expect leaders to set direction and determine the business focus. Leaders are relying more on the power of influence than of command and control. 3. To be credible as a leader, you must first clarify your own values, translate them into a set of guiding principles, a credo, that you can communicate to the people you hope to lead. These overaching values help employees make decisions consistent with the aspirations of the company. 4. A leader must earn the trust of those he/she expects to lead. 5. Establish a mutual service compact which helps people understand where they fit in the value chain, aligns recognition programs to reward organizational successes, establishes training and personal development programs to reinforce continuous improvement, develops a communicaiton plan to ensure every employee understands values and vision and allocates resources to support improvment initiatives.

When an organization is energized by a vision that draws out the best efforts of all stakeholders in a positive and mutually beneficial context, there is virtually no limit to what is possible. Human creativity is not maximized until it is challenged by the impossible.

I teach computers in high school and can relate to the cartoons in this book. In fact, I use a few of them on my inter school memos. They're attention grabbers. The cartoons are funny and each has a nugget of truth in it which any teacher can recognize.
I love this book.

There's some funny stuff in this book! I teach computers in a public school and the situations portrayed in this adorable volume seem familiar, with a humorous twist. These cartoons are professionally sketched and make wonderful intro pieces for our school's in-service courses where our staff can upgrade their computer skills.

Great work! These are funny on-target cartoons. If you use a computer you've already visited these situations but now you can laugh about it. Even if you don't know a hard drive from a memory stick, get this book and laugh a little before you boot up. Teachers beware! You're going to have a smile on your face every time you go near that computer in school.

I teach computer classes in high school and in college. The cartoons in this funny book deserve a place on the class bulletin board. A few have been posted there for all to enjoy. The author has a clever way of portraying familiar tech situations in cartoon shorthand. The artwork is very professional and enjoyable. I plan to use one of the cartoons as an ice-breaker for an upcoming workshop.

I teach computer courses and the situations described in this wonderful cartoon book look familiar, with a very funny twist.
These are professionally sketched cartoons and I have placed a few of them on a bulletin board in the class. We all get a kick out of them. Don't forget to back up your hard drive and to buy this book.

I feel like can not speak highly enough about this book and I'm really sorry about! It is one of the best books on how to connect learning with business performance I ever seen.

Starts explaining how to conect learning objectives with business' performance objectives. Explains how to develope learning objectives, design learning measures, check measures reliability and validity. Makes a clear, nice and easy to understand transition to how to analyze learning data, presenting several techniques to collect and process data. Designs job performance measures, and explains how to collect and analyze it. The whole book contains detailed examples, and from the beginning to the end are presented three case studies: 1. technical training program, 2. sales/customer service training program, 3. leadership development program. In each chapter, after presenting new concepts, the three case studies are developed based on the new concepts introduced.

This book is not only for HR specialists.

A project manager have a lot of useful information and tools to include in every project and ideas on how to make her/his projects more succesful by connecting them with implementing the new skills. This can create projects' sustainability and synergies inside the organization.

A manager will have a better idea on how the big picture looks like, what have to plan, implement, manage and improve in order to be sure all business actions are aligned with business objectives.

Any reader should have a better understaning on how to maximize resources impact by being focused on implementing the new aquired skills, and not only on acquring new skills.

Toni has captured the critical conceptual and theoretical elements for effectively implementing practical training and employee performance improvement evaluation strategies. Her book should be required reading by all training evaluation specialists. It provides the fundamentals for designing, developing, and implementing valid and reliable learning assessment and performance measurement tools and methodologies. She provides easy to understand templates that can be tailored to any industry. It's comprehensive, well-thought out, and will be the standard textbook for my organization's program instruction on evaluation.

Toni Hodges brings a wealth of practical, easy to follow guidelines to the performance improvement practitioner, on how to approach, measure, and communicate about learning outcomes in organizational settings. She brings the reader step by step through the development, implementation, analysis, and communication processes to establish a credible and useful set of evaluation tools. Always linked to the day-to-day realities of organizational goals and pressures, she provides a handbook to move the practitioner into an effective and valued role as on-the-job evaluator of performance improvement interventions.

This book is full of tips, tools and examples that practitioners will find very useful. The tools and examples are easy to find in the book and provide a great basis for customizing to your own requirements. Toni speaks with experience and authority.

Linking learning and performance is filled with the kind of rigor that all of us Hodges-junkies have come to expect and look forward to. What Hodges maps out is not easy. It requires soul searching and a lot of work. But standing up in front of a CFO with a bullet-proof case for corporate learning makes it all worthwhile.

This book is about a girl named Elizabeth who's nickname is Lizard and is a total tomboy. There is a contest going on at her school and the prize is to be in a fashion show at the mall. Lizard could'nt care less but secretly her Best Friend/Boyfriend
Zach,entered her in the contest! Lizard ends up getting into the finals and now she can't get out!
This book is very funny and I reccomend it to girls ages 9-13.

I just recently read the book Lizard Flanagan...Supermodel??? and I think it is unbelieveably interesting and very fun to read. I thought the title sounded a little cheesy at first, but then i got onto reading it and I just couldnt put the book down! I really liked this book and I love the originality of it. Thanx to Carol Gorman for writing this awesomely cool book!

Lizard Flanagan, Supermodel? was a great book. I had never heard of the author or the Lizard Flanagan books and I bought one and loved it. It is a really great example of the things that really do happen in real life with teenagers!

This book goes through the changes of Lizard Flanagan's 6th grade life. It is very interesting. I suggest you read the firt book before you read this. (the Maraculous Makeover of Lizard Flanagan)

Elizabeth "Lizard" Flanagan who is a sports fanatic wants more then anything to go to Wrigley's Field with their friends Mary-Anne, Zach, Ed, Stinky, and her brother Sam, to see their favorite team, The Chicago Cubs, play baseball. When she gets the opportunity to go, she isn't able to, due to the fact that the trip would cost a fair amount of cash. She has already owes her parents money and can't receive another advance in allowance. She had already spent a lot of money on a speed odometer.

Meanwhile the spring pines 0fashion show is taking place at the town mall, and 2 models from each school are chosen. Each participating model receives money and one model is named "Supermodel". Someone secretly enters Lizard in the contest she becomes a finalist. Now Lizard, who has terrible stage fright, has to parade around strange people in a swimsuit, and a dress!

She is so worried that she will have the hiccups during the show, just as she did while giving an oral report in the fourth grade. The only upside to being a model in the fashion show is that she will be able to pay her parents' back. Also, she will be able to go to the baseball game with the money she receives.

Also, her boyfriend Zach goes through his own set of fears while playing the part of Dracula in a school play. Lizard jumps to conclusions about him liking another girl, who is another cast member in the play. She thinks this is why he is asking so strangely all of a sudden. Will Lizard loose her boyfriend? Will she make it through the fashion show? Will she relive her fourth grade hiccupping disaster?

This well written book can easily be related to while reading. I thought about different people and memories while reading this book and its different events. It is exciting and comical with appealing characters. My favorite character would have to be either the fashion-show director Mrs. Landers, or a snobby classmate named Lisa St. George, who is also another contestant in the fashion-show. Even though they have practically opposite personalities. I liked Mrs. Landers because she accepted Lizard for who she was no matter what happened. Also she didn't try to re-create her as I thought she would. I thought Lisa was amusing. She was obsessed with herself throughout the book and took a random disliking to Lizard. This book is a distinctive page-turner. I think many different people would like this book, probably people who like sports, adventures, fashion, and comedy. I hope anyone who reads `Lizard Flanagan, Supermodel??' enjoys reading it as much as I did.