Corporate Restructurings and Reorganizations Seward

Corporate Restructurings and Reorganizations by James Seward

Restructurings, no matter what type, are applications of valuation principles. This book moves logically from general valuation to the valuation of non-distressed restructurings and finally to the valuation of distressed restructurings. 

By providing a simple and sound economic framework for understanding restructuring and reorganization, it focuses on a technique-based approach. This approach uses cases and extensive analyses to emphasize ways to understand a situation, choose appropriate tools, make necessary adjustments, and execute plans. 

Distinctly different from mergers and acquisitions textbooks, "Corporate Restructurings and Reorganizations" improves everyone's chances of making money.

• Provides a comprehensive examination of distressed and non-distressed restructurings
• Cases and extensive analyses expose readers to broad range of restructuring techniques and outcomes
• Teaches ways to design restructuring strategies to create maximum value
• Surpasses books on mergers & acquisitions that only partially address restructuring subjects

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Marketing Management by Kotler & Keller

Marketing Management (14th Edition) by Philip Kotler & Kevin Keller

This book is an excellent resource for the marketing professional or student! Great case studies, easy to understand context and a wealth of information. 

An excellent book. It provides sufficient detail in each section thereby enabling any marketer or company owner to put in place successful strategies and tactics tailored to their specific field of business. Backed up by very good examples.

Stay on the cutting-edge with the gold standard text that reflects the latest in marketing theory and practice.

Marketing Management is the gold standard marketing text because its content and organization consistently reflect the latest changes in today’s marketing theory and practice.

Remaining true to its gold-standard status, the fourteenth edition includes an overhaul of new material and updated information, and now is available with mymarketinglab–Pearson’s online tutorial and assessment platform.

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One Minute Manager Blanchard-Johnson

The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard

First of all, it's an easy read, and it gets its points across by telling a story. Other books, such as The Sixty-Second Motivator, have also used this format succesfully, but this style may not appeal to everyone. To me, it makes the book a lot less boring to read.

Secondly, the book is short. The vast majority of readers will easily be able to read this book in a day. It has bigger font, which I personally liked and thought it made it a joy to read. However here again, some may be turned off by that and consider it to be too "child-like."

Thirdly, the book takes solid mangagerial info and gives it to the reader handily in the form of three "secrets." I found the advice to be very practical and while some may consider it far too simple, it can help you a lot IF you actually apply the info- which I suspect most managers do not.

In conclusion, I recommend this short business classic to anyone looking for better ways to improve their managerial skills. I doubt most will be disappointed. Also liked Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by the same author.

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees.

The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands.

The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits.

That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

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Fundamentals of Management (7th Edition) Robbins

Fundamentals of Management (7th Edition) by Stephen P. Robbins

Fundamentals of Management to be a very well organized and informative learning tool. The chapters start simply and build upon one another in a manner that facilitates retention-(in order to learn from one chapter you must have understood the previous one.) This book develops a solid management base that will enable a student to succeed in the rest of their managerial education. 

Each chapter is prefaced with a prevalant example of a current managerial situation that ties directly to the chapter's content. These real life examples help to encorporate what the student learns with how it applies to today. The combination of these examples and the diagrams and pictures that are distributed throughout the chapters, present an easy to understand and current depiction of management. 

The sectioning of the chapters and the questions at the end of each chapter help the student to organize the important information in their own mind. These questions emphasize the important points and give students a place to begin when it's time to study. This form of presentation is very student friendly and will definitely enhance their learning experience.

The practical tools of management presented through in-depth practice. 

Robbins/DeCenzo is the best-selling, brief, paperback text that gives students more depth and breadth of practical tools to practice their management skills than any other textbook. 

New author Mary Coulter brings a fresh perspective to the already best-selling duo of Stephen Robbins and David DeCenzo. 

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Management Tomorrow's Leaders Challenges

Management: Challenges for Tomorrow's Leaders (with InfoTrac 1-Semester) by Pamela S. Lewis

In the Fifth Edition of this nationally acclaimed book, students learn the management skills and competencies that will enable them to meet the challenges they'll experience as leaders in tomorrow's dynamic, rapidly changing business environment. The authors focus on key management principles and how they apply in real business practice, as well as on the skills and competencies students will need as they move into the workplace. In this leadership-focused book, students discover how proactive leaders respond to both the opportunities and challenges of global management, diversity and ethics issues, team-based management, service management, and other developing trends. In emphasizing the competencies and skills needed by contemporary leaders, MANAGEMENT: CHALLENGES FOR TOMORROW'S Leaders translates theory into practice, showing students how to fully develop their skills in teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and adapting to change. The authors further broaden students' understanding by applying the concepts of management to the various functional areas of organizations of all sizes, illustrating that leaders emerge from all areas- production, finance, accounting, sales, and marketing.

The text asks students to look at numerous ethical issues, and asks them to take a stand, thereby encouraging students to role-play and envision themselves as leaders and managers. Further, the topics of social responsibility and ethics are not simply lists of theories, but discuss how to make managerial decisions and conduct strategic planning with these areas in mind.

The book was chosen because of the way it is organized (planning, organizing, leading and controlling). The book support is superior to others. It definitely has lived up to all expectations.

Single most significant reason for selection of the Lewis text is readability for the student. However, most significant reason from the faculty perspective is the section on discussion questions.

I think the approach of totally integrating leadership with the core management functions in the principles course adds a lot of value and makes an improvement to the text. Having also seen the 3rd edition of the text, I might also remark that I think it is one of the most comprehensive texts for a principles course, covering very well some of the key topics, such as organizational structure, which other principles texts often do fairly poorly.

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