Maximum Return: The Ultimate On-Time, On-Budget, Results-Driven Project Planning Guide

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Determining which projects to fund is often a frustrating, time-consuming and ineffective process. But it is this process that lays the foundation for your company's future. Written in an easy-to-read, lighter style, Maximum Return: The Ultimate On-Time, On-Budget, Results-Driven Project Planning Guide is the ultimate reference guide for managing how project ideas are evaluated, approved and positioned for success. Whether your capital projects are large or small, complex or simple, this book offers you the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure that only the best project ideas get funded.

Maximum Return will show you how to:

-Prepare a meaningful project business case that is of the highest quality.
-Conduct a proper business and financial analysis of your project idea.
-Design a practical and effective process that focuses on the people side of project analysis. Insist on a disciplined process that gets results!
-Explain financial analysis in terms non-financial people will understand and will want to learn.
-Package your project proposal into a business case format that management will love.

Help your company achieve total success in its capital project process by utilizing this new management tool that focuses on the fundamentals of capital project analysis. Maximum Return--chosen by the Publishers' Marketing Association as best business book.

Fighting Injustice
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Essential reading for young lawyers and law students

Fighting the good fight

Fighting Injustice
Michael E. Tigar
Manufacturer: American Bar Association
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Binding: Hardcover

Lawyers & Judges | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1590310152

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In this book the author describes the battles--both inside and outside the courtroom--that have made him one of the world's most courageous defenders of personal freedoms.

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Essential reading for young lawyers and law students.......2003-09-03

As I read this book, I found myself saying "this is why I went to law school" again and again. As an example of what someone can do with a law degree and a conscience, no one surpasses Michael Tigar. Young lawyers should read this for inspiration. Law students should read this to remind themselves why sitting through four hours of Contracts or Evidence or Federal Courts matters. Activists should read this to relish the victories and learn new approaches. Anyone who has ever watched The Practice or Law & Order should read this to understand what criminal defense lawyers really do.

Fighting the good fight.......2003-08-28

A vivid and engaging glimpse into the highstakes game of constitutional law. What's at issue is whether there will be any control at all over police and prosecutors in the USA. The cases and issues frame the world we in the USA will all have to live in, and it would be a far better one were Tigar's side to win. In the voice of an experienced (and winning) storyteller, Tigar takes the reader through the strategies, gambles and often humorous surprises of his stellar career of high profile cases. I'm a musician, not a lawyer (though I know some of the people Tigar mentions), and was never at a loss due to technical language left unexplained. A great book.

Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements

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Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements
Asafa Jalata
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

Ethiopia | Africa | History | Subjects | Books

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The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Since the same global system that created racialized and exploitative structures in African American and Oromo societies also facilitated the struggles of these two peoples, this book demonstrates the dynamic interplay between social structures and human agencies in the system. African Americans in the US and Oromos in the Ethiopian Empire developed their respective liberation movements in opposition to racial/ethnonational oppression, cultural and colonial domination, exploitation, and underdevelopment. By going beyond its focal point, the book also explores the structural limit of nationalism, and the potential of revolutionary nationalism in promoting a genuine multicultural democracy.

Dolores C. Huerta: founder, The Dolores Huerta Foundation: once you have committed your life to fighting social injustice, it is difficult to stop. That ... ACTIVIST): An article from: Latino Leaders

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Dolores C. Huerta: founder, The Dolores Huerta Foundation: once you have committed your life to fighting social injustice, it is difficult to stop. That ... ACTIVIST): An article from: Latino Leaders
Graeme Stewart
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Latino Leaders, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 781 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dolores C. Huerta: founder, The Dolores Huerta Foundation: once you have committed your life to fighting social injustice, it is difficult to stop. That is why, well into her 70s, Dolores Huerta continues to champion the underdog, particularly deprived Latinos, and remains active in progressive causes.(PASSING THE TORCH: THE PHENOMENAL ACTIVIST)
Author: Graeme Stewart
Publication: Latino Leaders (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Page: 56(2)

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High hopes, high costs: when research produces expensive therapies, what can be done to end injustices in access?(fighting for changes): An article from: Inside MS

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High hopes, high costs: when research produces expensive therapies, what can be done to end injustices in access?(fighting for changes): An article from: Inside MS
Gary Sullivan
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Multiple Sclerosis | Disorders & Diseases | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000SKJJ04
Release Date: 2007-06-26

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This digital document is an article from Inside MS, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1190 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: High hopes, high costs: when research produces expensive therapies, what can be done to end injustices in access?(fighting for changes)
Author: Gary Sullivan
Publication: Inside MS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25 Issue: 3 Page: 58(4)

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Speaking Professionally: A Concise Guide to Effective Business Presentations (with InfoTrac)
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Speaking Professionally: A Concise Guide to Effective Business Presentations (with InfoTrac)
Alan Zaremba
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0324201370

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SPEAKING PROFESSIONALLY is a concise text for those learning to prepare, deliver and analyze business presentations. Dr. Zaremba draws on more than 20 years' experience to offer a practical, application-oriented alternative to the basic 'how-to' products and the longer, more broad-based, theoretical texts. No other text currently on the market compares to this First Edition. SPEAKING PROFESSIONALLY also addresses one of the major challenges all students face when taking a speaking course: speech anxiety. Sample presentations with critiques help students apply and analyze what they learn. The text also covers business presentation skills; overcoming speech anxiety; communication principles and their application in the business environment; audience analysis and multicultural issues; crisis communication resources and organizations for business speakers; and more.

Speaking Professionally: A Concise Guide to Effective Business Presentations (with Infotrac) with Other

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Alan Zaremba
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An Introduction to the Profession of Social Work: Becoming a Change Agent
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An Introduction to the Profession of Social Work: Becoming a Change Agent
Elizabeth A. Segal , Karen E. Gerdes , and Sue Steiner
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
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ASIN: 0495127094

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Considering a career in social work? AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION OF SOCIAL WORK: BECOMING A CHANGE AGENT helps you decide whether social work is a good fit for you by introducing you to the social work profession and describing the role of social work in the social welfare system. Through cases, personal stories, and exercises, this social work text helps you apply the concepts and understand what it means to be a social worker. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION OF SOCIAL WORK is a must read for anyone considering or pursing a career in social work!

Change Agent Skills in Helping and Human Service Settings

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Change Agent Skills in Helping and Human Service Settings
Gerard Egan
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Agent of change: administrator works to strengthen business marketing education in Alabama.(Lisa Weeks of Department of Education): An article from: Techniques

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Agent of change: administrator works to strengthen business marketing education in Alabama.(Lisa Weeks of Department of Education): An article from: Techniques
N. Susan Emeagwali
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This digital document is an article from Techniques, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 444 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Agent of change: administrator works to strengthen business marketing education in Alabama.(Lisa Weeks of Department of Education)
Author: N. Susan Emeagwali
Publication: Techniques (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
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Agents of Change @ Work
William J. Walsh
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ASIN: 0970162154

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Do they think of you as a "changer" or "changee" at work? In today's dynamic world of enterprise every employee must continually choose to become an empowered "changer" or risk becoming a helpless "changee". With this provocative thought the new book, "Agents of Change @ Work" explores the attitudes and approach of today's job-effective, make-it-happen employees.

Business writer and consultant, Bill Walsh, first analyses how the intersecting forces of globalization, the rise of a service-dominated economy, and the explosive proliferation of information technologies have forever altered the organizational landscape of today's successful business enterprises and the job demands of their employees. In this new economy employees at all levels must come to terms with a working world where change is the only constant; up-to- date information and speed of response are the ultimate competitive weapons; and individual resourcefulness always trumps organizational resources.

In the early chapters the author introduces a customer-focused, three-step work process that consistently leads to job-effective results. Next six key attributes are developed that define the work ethic of today's agent of change. These are initiative, credibility, energy, self-adaptability, commitment, and follow-up. With job approach and job attitude firmly established, Walsh next deals with two very timely issues : the ever expanding leadership roles of knowledge workers, and the leadership of teams.

There is an insightful chapter on how today's job leaders put the well-known business concepts of core competency and strategic intent to work for themselves by pinpointing their individual "performance" and "opportunity" gaps. Readers will also be amused and forewarned by a chapter tour of the "company zoo", where mavericks, psuedo-heroes and incompetent employees eventually wind up. In the concluding chapter seven powerful levers for effecting meaningful enterprise change are described.

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What does it mean when decision making has speeded up beyond imagining? When life and work are fused rather than relegated to their own places and times? What about the impact of the serial career on industries built with the expectation that they were training employees for the long haul?Based on unique research and interviews, THE CHANGE AGENTS is a clear-eyed examination of what living in a wired world really means to organizational behavior and individual empowerment. The media has been full of stories of the dizzying ascents and fast falls of dot-commers over the last few years, but THE CHANGE AGENTS shows how the rest of the world -- from top CEOs to the guys in the mailroom -- is irrevocably affected by a paradigm shift as wrenching as the industrial revolution. Nickels has identified a self-empowered group she labels "Change Agents" who are demanding more power in the workplace than previous generations were granted after years with a company - and they are getting it. THE CHANGE AGENTS shows how they do it and why it matters. Backed by exclusive statistical research and scores of personal interviews, FASTER FORWARD is a revealing and significant look at the future for everyone who works today.

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How despite the ups and downs of the NASDAQ -- the new economy has irrevocably changed life and the way things work.

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Good profile, but lacks critical eye.......2002-06-27

This book offers a detailed, and sometimes humorous profile of the driving force behind the New Economy. In some respects, this book is inspiring in its take-no-prisoners approach to ambition and success.

However, in as much as it glorifies the dress-down, work-till-you-drop, super ambitious types who drive the New Economy, the author never asks the critical questions of cost. Nickles describes people postponing weddings, having no time for friends or romance. These are people who practically live in their offices because a home is not condusive to the frenetic pace of e-commerce. I admire the ambition and innovation of the Change Agents, but I'm not sure I want to see these people thirty years from now.

Apparently Ms. Nickles (who I assume didn't go through such a lifestyle) finds none of this disturbing.

A fascinating read........2002-01-26

A fascinating read about today's internet driven world and the young turks behind the wheel. I thought the book might be a bit too statistical, but it was not at all. Nickles explains the behavior and psychology of the new technology-fluent generation and their far-reaching influences, from traditional corporate environments to culture changing dot coms like wedding planners and on-line magazines. A lot of intellegence gathering research went into the book, but it is presented in an enjoyable, anecdotal fashion.

Guiding School Change: The Role and Work of Change Agents (Series on School Reform)

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Guiding School Change: The Role and Work of Change Agents (Series on School Reform)

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Systemic Work With Organizations: A New Model for Managers and Change Agents (Systemic Thinking and Practice Series) (Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

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Systemic Work With Organizations: A New Model for Managers and Change Agents (Systemic Thinking and Practice Series) (Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

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This book explores the challenges faced by managers and consultants working in large organisations. Based on methods first used in family therapy, it emphasises how connection, context, and communication can help them deal with issues such as change, leadership, and learning within today's complex work environment.

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Viruses: Agents of Change
Ann Giudici Fettner
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Shoulda Bought it.......2000-01-28

I'll admit it....I'm biased because I'm her son. BUT...I'd be the first one to point out flaws. This is very well written and in language that someone with a 11th grade education can read...without getting lost nor talked down to. This is agreat companion reader for anyone interested in virus and/or AIDS

Latino Change Agents in Higher Education: Shaping a System that Works for All

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Latino Change Agents in Higher Education: Shaping a System that Works for All
Leonard A Valverde
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Latino Change Agents in Higher Education offers college and university leaders a practical guide for meeting the challenges of educating the burgeoning population of Latino students. The contributors, a stellar group of experienced leaders in higher education, clearly show that the changes to higher education needed to ensure Latino student success will benefit all students.

Rating Game: Report of the 20th Century Fund Task Force on Municipal Bond Credit Rating
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