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Strategic Planning for Contractors
By Ted Garrison
If you are asking, "Why must we
develop a company strategic plan?" The answer is that
only by focusing on your strengths and opportunities will your company
maximize its profit potentials. The construction industry is being hammered
by the following challenges
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Best Value Procurement
By Deat T. Kashiwagi, Ph.D
Best Value Procurement focuses on the source of poor performance in the
construction industry, and how the Information Measurement Theory (IMT)
and the Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS) can help minimize
and solve these problems.
This book answers many industry questions, including:
- How to identify the "best value"
- How to compare price and performance
- How to collect, store, and use past performance information
- How to implement the PIPS process
- How to sustain a best-value process in the construction industry
- How to increase performance by minimizing management
- How to increase quality without spending more
- How to minimize litigation and increase partnering with very little
management
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The E-Myth Revisited
By Micheal Gerber
In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy
underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Micheal Gerber dispels the
myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions
can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the
steps in the life of a business--from entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding
light of all businesses that succeed--and shows how to apply the lessons
of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise . Finally,
Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on
your business and working in your business. After you have read The
E-Myth Revisited, you will truly to be able to grow your business in
a predictable and productive way.
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Impending
Crisis
By Roger E. Herman, Tom Olivo and Joyce Gioia
9 months on Business Book Best Seller List;
#11 for January 2004
The labor shortage will be much more severe than most people realize. By
2010, we'll be 10,033,000 people short in the United States. Bottom line:
corporate leaders must begin now to change the way they do business. This
issue is not only strategic, but highly competitive, as well. Competition
for competent workers will drive competition for customers and capital.
See the evidence, get the advice, understand the situation. Read this book
. . . before your competitors do!
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The Process of Excelling: The Practical How-To Guide
for Today's Leaders
By Roger E. Herman, 1997.
Strengthen your skills and effectiveness as a leader. Easy-to-read and understand,
this step-by-step guide will help you master the 12 elements of high performance
leadership. Enriched edition. Works as a training text, too.
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Lean and Meaningful:
A New Culture for Corporate America
by Roger E. Herman and Joyce L. Gioia, 1998
Does your company provide meaningful work for its employees? Here's a blueprint
to help you attract, optimize, and retain top talent. Corporate culture
makes a difference, and cultures are changing. The next generation of corporate
culture will be dramatically different from the past. Learn why-and how-employers
must shift to a more lean operation with a culture that's filled with meaning
for everyone. Over 200 organizations are cited, with stimulating examples
of how leading edge employers are providing meaning for their workers. Read
commentaries from successful CEOs who share their "meaningful" secrets.
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The Complete Idiot's
Guide To Project Management With Microsoft Project 2003
by Ron Black
Stop managing crises and start leading projects!
This high-powered book provides:
- easy step-by-step instructions to the most popular project management
software in the corporate world
- organizational strategies for completing your projects on time and
under budget
- up-to-date terms and specifications for today's project manager
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Marketing Your Services
- For People Who Hate to Sell
by Rick Crandall
Marketing is not a dirty word. Done right, it involves customer service
and relationship building. Whether you're in an established company or just
starting out, whether your company is big or small, whether you're an attorney
or a window washer, this book gets your marketing program moving.
This book covers networking, referrals, publicity, advertising, customer
service, seminars, newsletters, brochures, the telephone, online, personal
selling, the "MBA" technicalities of marketing, and action plans. Plus an
easy-to-read design.
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1001 Ways to Market
Your Services - Even If You Hate to Sell
by Rick Crandall
Many people don't like marketing and selling. One reason is because they're
not sure what to do. This book helps you find specific methods and ideas
that can fit your style and your marketplace.
The focus here is on practice, not theory. This book gives you more than
1001 specific examples of how services from IBM to one-person firms have
successfully marketed. In addition to examples in your field, you benefit
from what others are doing that you can apply. Expect every idea here to
give you two possibilities you can use.
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