This book is written for students taking courses in monitoring and evaluation both in college and at the university .The outstanding feature of the book lies in its organization. The chapters are arranged in chronological sequence to correspond to the classic steps in monitoring and evaluation systems. By looking at the monitoring and evaluation steps, the reader is presented with a logical & integrated framework. The principles and ideas expressed herein are relevant to any monitoring and...

The Killer Questions Your Company Should Be AskingGenerating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert Phil McKinney, the real problem is that we're teaching people to ask the wrong questions about their businesses--or none at all. There has to be a better way.In Beyond the Obvious, McKinney will help you use his prove...

Praise for SURVIVING YOUR SERENGETI"One of a kind. You'll actually know more about yourself after you read this book."-KEN BLANCHARD coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level"Beautifully illustrates nature's basic survival strategies-and how they help you create a sense of meaning and purpose."-SUSAN SCOTT New York Times bestselling coauthor of Fierce Conversations7 Questions This Book TacklesAre you experiencing a challenge...

Growing a small business requires more than just salesBusiness Development For Dummies helps maximise the growth of small- or medium-sized businesses, with a step-by-step model for business development designed specifically for B2B or B2C service firms. By mapping business development to customer life cycle, this book helps owners and managers ensure a focus on growth through effective customer nurturing and management. It's not just sales! In-depth covera...

The landscape of workplace learning is transforming. Organizations today understand that formal training is not always the best solution in the fast changing world of innovation and new technology. The rise of social and informal learning, gamification of training, dealing with big data and working with extended enterprise are just some challenges L&D professionals face in their work today.The Learning Challenge helps practitioners to make sense of the latest developments ...

Gross domestic product is arguably the best-known statistic in the contemporary world, and certainly amongst the most powerful. It drives government policy and sets priorities in a variety of vital social fields - from schooling to healthcare. Yet for perhaps the first time since it was invented in the 1930s, this popular icon of economic growth has come to be regarded by a wide range of people as a 'problem'. After all, does our quality of life really improve when our economy grows 2 or 3...

The book tells the story of three cavemen that found an apple tree and their struggle to overcome the challenges imposed by nature to convert it into a reliable source of food for their tribe. This tale is a compulsory read for the modern day business development manager.

SHIFT your Family Business was written for anyone who has ever worked in a family business or been part of a business family. Steve Legler grew up in one such family, and married into another, and in this, his first book, he examines the challenges that business families face, and gives readers lots of insights and ideas to help them face and overcome those challenges. Since clear, frequent, and open communication is the key to getting out of difficult situations, he walks readers through the...

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This is one of the first books to detail the challenges facing poorer segments of the female population who commonly reside in ‘slums’. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from a gender perspective.This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-sl...

Business and warfare have more in common that most people think. The Art of Business Warfare applies military techniques to the business world. It outlines how businesses can use the military principles preemption, dislocation, and disruption to outmaneuver their competition. In addition, before conducting an operation, the military has four primary areas it must address: personnel, intelligence, operations, and logistics. Companies must also manage these four areas. While The...

Discoveries of an Accidental Guru is a collection of conversations with entrepreneur Mark Comer. This book, put together in an autobiographical style, points out important events and specific moments in Mark's life where key lessons were learned. Along the way, he finds that these lessons were actually a series of time-tested fundamental truths of success that he was simply discovering for himself. These truths became guiding principles that helped him earn a fortune at a young age. By app...

This book is an introduction to the complexity of business strategies and value chain management. It shows the variety of the different strategies and their importance in a companys failure or success..