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ResourcesThis page is regularly updated with a new selection of top tips and resources. Please contact us with your own tips, advice, book recommendations, and useful websites. We will add your recommendation along with your name, organisation, one-line about your organisation, and a link to your email and website. |
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The two tips I would pass on to anyone in management are :-
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Mark Jarvis
Technical Pre-Sales Manager |
Fujifilm Graphic Systems
Fujifilm Graphic Systems supply Professional Pre-Press equipment and consumables to the Print, Graphic Arts and Design markets. Fujifilm is a multinational organisation researching, developing, manufacturing and supplying imaging and information products to professional and consumer markets. www.fujifilm.co.uk/ |
"Set realistic, achievable but ambitious objectives that have good or excellent chances to lead to profitability - and work hard to achieve them." |
Kenneth Thomson
Chairman, The Thomson Organisation |
Learn to Earn.
Published by Business Wise, 1996. Written by: Spark Partners C. Powell & P. Richardson |
| If you get stressed out battling through issues with your senior manager - choose the one or two issues a week you can influence and give them everything you've got. Let the other 10 or 12 issues go by. You may not achieve everything you would like to see, but on important matters you have done your best. Relax in the knowledge |
Geoff Makin
Environmental Health Manager (Commercial) |
Coventry City Council
www.covenvhealth.org.uk |
Who Moved My Cheese?An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work and In Your Life
£4.79 (save 20%)
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Whilst I do not agree with the thoughts behind the book it does give a very clear window onto the way many modern business managers treat staff as a consumable that can be written off if they do not follow the need for change philosophy. |
Recommended by:
Mark Jarvis Technical Pre-Sales Manager Fujifilm Graphic Systems Fujifilm Graphic Systems supply Professional Pre-Press equipment and consumables to the Print, Graphic Arts and Design markets. Fujifilm is a multinational organisation researching, developing, manufacturing and supplying imaging and information products to professional and consumer markets. www.fujifilm.co.uk/ |
| A wonderful short-story insight into the nature of change and its management. |
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Colin Wilson PerformanceProcess.com Personal and Professional Development Consultants; High Performance Coaching |
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The Ultimate Entrepreneur's BookA straight-talking guide to business success£10.39 Buy from Amazon |
Written by two self-made millionaires, Richard Dobbins and Barrie Pettment, published 1999. This is a practical book that encourages you to get on and achieve your goals - and enjoy it. |
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Jerry, Entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant Marketing Strategy & Action Ltd Business Innovation Centre Coventry |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People£8.79 (save 20%) Buy from Amazon |
Or any of Stephen Covey's other books
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Alex Chatterley Strategy & Policy Yorkshire Forward www.yorkshire-forward.com |
| Although it is very American, it is full of practical, positive advice about how to motivate oneself and others in business and personal life. Come to think of it, it's about time I read it again. |
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Pete Wise Switzerland |
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Just brilliant - one of the services you know must be out there, but can't always find! Check you mail from anywhere, including WAP, by only knowing your email address and password. It gets the IT boys going every time, when you tell them you can do it without having to configure an email client! |
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Martin Lawson Corporate Development executive SIG plc (multinational building materials distribution) |
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The on-line version of the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Find out the latest information on jobs, research, legal news, corporate strategy, training and development. |
Recommended by:
Pete Richardson Partner, Spark |
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Perfect for everyone who needs to know where they are going and how to get there. From just a postcode you can view any street, get directions or even look at an aerial photograph of where you are going. Seems to cover just about every street everywhere. |
Pete Richardson Partner, Spark |