Inprint: Comatose Management: Six Short Stories of Destructive Management Practices By Scott R. Scheaffer; BookSurge Publishing, 174 pp., $12.99 "The reasons organizations, both big and small, are loaded with incompetent management and seem to continuously make poor business decisions are a result of beliefs we hold that go unquestioned or unrecognized."
Inprint: Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work By Tamara Erickson; Harvard Business School Press, 278 pp., $16.95"Whether or not the education you are getting or have received is perfectly suited to the workforce, there is little doubt that educational credentials shift the balance of power in the workforce."
Why Stretch Goals Waste Time And Money In "OOPS! 13 Management Practices that Waste Time and Money (and what to do instead)," workplace behavior expert Aubrey Daniels reveals why common business practices—such as annual bonuses, automatic pay raises, and layoffs—actually reward bad behavior.
Win-Win Negotiations Excerpt from Chapter 2: You Can Negotiate Anything of "Harvard Business School: Secrets of Success" by Emily Chan.
Marketing Guide to Public Relations and Social Media An excerpt from Chapter 1: An Introduction to Marketing Public Relations and Chapter 10: Social Media from "Marketing Public Relations: A Marketer's Approach to Public Relations and Social Media" by Gaetan T. Giannini, MBA.