Decision trees or backing a hunch - smart advice on the art and science of decision making.

Learn how to plan, develop, and implement dynamic business and team strategies. This concise and informative guide shows you how to identify the route to success by gathering and analyzing key information, setting short- and long-term objectives, developing your team-leadership skills, predicting future trends, and maintaining a flexible approach. It covers the essential tools of strategic management, from SWOT analysis and feasibility studies, to budgeting forecasts and contingency plans,...

Learn everything you need to know to evaluate and enhance staff performance. This helpful guide explains how to prepare and conduct an appraisal session and how to follow up with effective action plans. Practical techniques demonstrate how to motivate your staff, and power tips help you to handle real-life situations and develop the skills to build a committed team.The Essential Managers have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benef...

GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN FINANCE. FAST.Whatever your main functional role as a manager, if you ignore the financial side of your job, you will start to lose control and you won’t deliver the business results you need to get ahead. On the other hand, if you can read and understand financial accounts and management accounts – and if you know the difference between them – you will be far better placed to make the right decisions. When you can combine your functiona...

Company financial reports are a key resource for investors, helping them uncover priceless information about a company’s profitability, or lack thereof, from the figures as well as through other non-monetary indicators. Details of lawsuits, changes in accounting methods, liquidations, and mergers and acquisitions can all be ways of detecting red flags if you know where to look.However the jargon and financial footnotes in financial reports can be difficult to decipher, and this

DK's best-selling Essential Managers series are ideal for managers at every level. These compact references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.