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For Your Bookshelf

By Rick Saia
August 16, 2001 12:00 PM ET

Got some time to read? Here are a half-dozen new books intended to inform, inspire and maybe even boost your standing inside the organization.


Purchase through Amazon.comThe Forward-Focused Organization

Author: Stephen C. Harper
Publisher: AMACOM Books, New York
Pages: 258
Cost: $19.56

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Harper, a management professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and president of a consulting firm, writes about the latest strategies to help companies be forward-looking. He offers ideas on fostering speed and agility, adapting the best entrepreneurial thinking, and cultivating strategic management by having leaders set a goal of where they want the company to be in a few years, then working back from that target date to determine how to get there. Make note of these two appendices: One Hundred Ways to Self-Destruct as a Leader, and One Hundred Ways to Drive Away Your Customers.






Purchase through Amazon.comGet Weird! 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work

Author: JohnPutzier
Publisher: AMACOM Books, New York
Pages: 224
Cost: $14.36

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If your IT troops are somewhat lethargic and findin g it a chore just to come to work every day, workplace performance strategist John Putzier has plenty of ideas for turning around their attitudes. For instance, he urges managers to think about giving business cards to everyone at the office. "You will be amazed at the pride people will feel and demonstrate when they have business cards," he writes. Or, "Let's Play Dress-Up," in which he suggests ways in which people can have fun with a dress code, such as dressing up in period costumes to commemorate the year the company was founded (So long as it's pre-disco.).





Purchase through Amazon.comManaging Business Change for Dummies

Authors: JBeth L. Evard and Craig A. Gipple
Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, New York
Pages: 340
Cost: $15.39

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It's common for companies to change, and only human to resist it. But as a manager, you play a crucial role when the company is going through change. Evard, an organizational psychologist, and Gipple, a consultant in change management and quality, offer advice and questions to ask yourself when employees resist change, when they need information, and when change stresses them out.





Purchase through Amazon.comSecurity Transformation: Digital Defense Strategies to Protect Your Company's Reputation & Market Share

Authors: Mary Pat McCarthy and Stuart Campbell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
Pages: 204
Cost: $17.46

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The authors, both business strategists at Big Five consulting firm KPMG, look at the security threats that have emerged with the growth of e-business. They also guide readers through the components of what the authors believe constitutes a successful information security strategy, and alert executives to danger signs associated with looming security breaches. You'll also find helpful hints surrounding e-business, and questions to ask of yourself and your organization in the two appendices.
Additional Resources
Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World
WHITE PAPER
Solving application issues over the WAN requires careful consideration. Based on their independent research, Forrester Consulting offers recommendations on how to tackle application performance issues, insufficient bandwidth and the inability to quickly restore users in a disaster.

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Security KnowledgeVault
WHITE PAPER
Security is not an option. This KnowledgeVault Series offers professional advice how to be proactive in the fight against cybercrimes and multi-layered security threats; how to adopt a holistic approach to protecting and managing data; and how to hire a qualified security assessor. Make security your Number 1 priority.

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Cut Communications Costs Once and for All
WHITE PAPER
New IP-based communications systems are being deployed by small and midsized businesses at a rapid rate. Learn how these organizations are enabling faster responsiveness, creating better customer experiences, speeding office or mobile interactions, and dramatically reducing existing communications costs.

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