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Set the bar for outstanding performance
A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports. A timesaving job aid for any performance review or plan, the book:
- Makes it easy for managers to set high performance goals for executives, management, or non-managers employees
- Includes many categories of goals, from revenue and productivity goals to quality and personal development goals • Facilitates the goal-setting process across the organization
- Includes a guide to writing a performance plan for any employee
Featuring hundreds of ready-to-use performance goals, this practical job aid makes it simple for managers to set the bar for outstanding future results.
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Set Effective Performance Goals for Your People--Just Look Up the Right Phrase! In their previously published, top-selling book Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, Robert Bacal and Douglas Max described past employee performance. In Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals, Bacal and Max go a step further with hundreds of precisely-worded future performance goals. Use these "perfect phrases" in the context of an annual performance review to let your people know what is expected of them in the coming year, or use them in regular "performance planning" meetings to: Focus your people on the most important parts of their jobs. Clearly communicate your expectations Align employee goals with organizational priorities Improve productivity and morale in the workplace Reduce disagreements during performance reviews Raise the bar for performance You will find ready-to-use performance goals for both managers and employees, in many categories including sales and profit goals, quality and productivity goals, on-time performance personal development goals, and much more. This practical job aid makes it easy for managers to raise the performance bar, and focus their people on the organization's top priorities.
Customer Reviews:
An Effective Management Tool For Managing Right.......2007-10-05
I am a business consultant for client companies whose business size is $30-50 million sales.I have been consulting for 27 years.I continue to find department heads and general management lacking the experience or know-how in establishing goals for their departments, associates or the over-all organization.
The subject tool, provides a common sense method for jump-starting management in the establishment of departmental and organization goals.I use this tool as a instructional approach. I have found that clients improve their communications and specific action. The tool gives the manager confidence.
Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals.......2006-02-23
Lots of great ideas and thoughts to better express a behavior.
Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals - not so perfect.......2006-02-17
My reason for purchasing the book was to have a resouce for our employees to use as they are writing their goal statements based on the SMART goal matrix. I did not find it as helpful as I was hoping in demonstrating what a good, specific, measurable goals looks like. I think it gives you a few beginning words but should have expanded more within the examples.
Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals.......2004-08-07
When I order this book, I thought I will get lots of ready-to-use "Goals" which I can esay to set my subordinate's Goals. But I am very disappoint. Lots of Goals listing in the books are actually the working items not goals. Like "Deposit completed backups...", "Schedule all planned shutdown...". Therefore this book help me to setup the work items of my subordinate not set the goals.
Sam
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Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!
"Paul Merriman's new book is a rich and meaty guide to achieving real retirement security. It's full of wise, easy-to-follow advice that will stand the test of time."
—Knight Kiplinger, Editor in Chief, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and The Kiplinger Letter
"Read, Live It Up! Not only does Paul Merriman know the secret to making your money work as hard as you do, he loves helping people achieve their goals and dreams."
-Paul B. Farrell, author of The Millionaire Code, The Winning Portfolio and The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing
An educational and motivational guide to retiring without running out of money
No one understands this better than Paul Merriman. For four decades, Merriman has helped and watched people manage their money—both before and during retirement. Now, in Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!, Merriman distills what he has learned into a sound, time-tested approach to creating a portfolio that will fulfill your unique retirement needs.
Based on Merriman's popular retirement workshops, Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! offers ten straightforward steps to creating and maintaining the perfect retirement portfolio. From determining how much you will need to live on after retirement to recognizing and controlling the expenses of investing, the easy-to-understand strategies outlined within these pages can help you regain confidence in your retirement plan.
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How to make sure the golden years aren't lean years In the coming years, more than 70 million people will enter retirement. But even as people live longer and stay active longer and with Social Security's future in jeopard, theyhave saved less than any previous generation. Baby boomers are hungry for sound, time-tested advice about how to reinvigorate their retirement portfolios with less risk so that they can live the comfortable retirement they've promised themselves. Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money! is the road map that people are looking for. Based on the author's popular workshops, this plain-speaking book gives readers simple, low-risk strategies to get the most out of their retirement without running out of money. Paul Merriman is President of Merriman Capital Management in Seattle, which manages more than $600 million in investments for more than 1,200 clients. Merriman hosts "Sound Investing, a weekly Seattle-area and Internet radio show and is a retirement and mutual fund columnist at CBSMarketwatch.com. He is the publisher and editor of FundAdvice.com, an online newsletter and investment advisory service rate Best of the Web" by Forbes in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Customer Reviews:
The Guiding Merriman.......2007-08-16
The most complete book for understanding the whats and hows of retirement planning and investing for retirement. Complete with data to support the ideas the author presents.
Review of overall subject matter .......2007-05-30
One of the best references on the subject of retirement & Investing I have read so far. Step by step method for securing income during retirement. Intruduces a number of strategies Investors don't want you to know about. I have recommended this book to several of my friends who are also close to retirement. For those close to retirement, it should be front and center in their libraries. A lot of facts backing up recommendations. Short read.
Easy to Read and Excellent Advice.......2007-03-21
I found Merriman's writing style easy to read. He does an excellent job of covering the basics of investing including asset allocation.
Merriman's suggestion of holding 50% foreign stocks and 50% U.S. stocks was a little surprising to me. I was not expecting such a high allocation to foreign stocks. Vanguard, for example, suggests no more than 20% foreign stocks. Merriman makes a compelling case for holding 50% foreign stocks, but past performance of foreign stocks relative to U.S. stocks does not necessarily mean future performance will be the same.
Another surprise was no mention of REITs. For a book published in 2005, I expected to see at least a 10% allocation to U.S. REITs.
The last surprise was his recommendation of DFA funds compared to Vanguard funds. He tries to make the case the 1% of assets fee per year to a DFA advisor is more than offset by the superior performance of a DFA fund portofolio compared to a Vanguard portfolio. Most of the extra return is not due to lower DFA expense ratios, but the fact that DFA offers more asset class choices than Vanguard. I'm a big Vanguard fan, plus manage my own portfolio.....so I'm not sold on the DFA approach.
Over-all an excellent book.
I would suggest companion books to supplement this book including:
The Richest Man in Babylon
Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
The Millionaire Next Door
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition
Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Financial Life and Beat the Pro's
The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It
All About Asset Allocation.
Better Book Than Most Books Offering Financial Advice.......2007-01-21
Merriman's book offers readers a review of different portfolio options with a focus on the risk of each portfolio. Most books and discussion of investment options fail to consider risk and thereby mislead readers into thinking that one can simply repeat the strategy that produced spectacular investment returns in a prior year.
This book provides example portfolios that were constructed using the most convincing economic theory to-date developed by leading financial and economic scientists at the highest regarded economic schools in the world (Chicago, Stanford, Yale). The probability of having greater portfolio returns than most people by receiving the average return of many asset classes (financial markets) is higher when investors follow the relatively low risk options Merriman provides.
I highly recommend this book to readers of all knowledge levels. I also highly recommend the firm Merriman Capital Management for its low fees, excellant customer service, and access to the mutual funds of Dimensional Fund Advisors. The portfolio returns of DFA funds have far exceeded the portfolio returns of most actively managed funds and even passively managed funds from Vanguard and Fidelity in all of the last 5 years including 2006.
Understanding the importance of Asset Classes.......2006-04-21
This book, written by a money manager with 40 years of experience in the field, makes it crystal clear how diversification using asset classes can increase your return while reducing risk. It offers fundamentally sound advice while rejecting the "get rich quick" mentality. If you want to sleep better when you retire, read this book.
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Whether it’s writing a proposal, motivating employees, or reaching out to customers, the Perfect Phrases series has the tools you need for precise, effective communication. Distilling complex ideas into specific phrases that diplomatically and honestly depict the concepts at hand, this invaluable series provides:
- The best techniques to communicate messages and goals in business letters and proposals
- Tips for bringing out the best in every employee in every business
- Dialogues and scripts to practice interactions with customers or employees— tailorable to any industry or company culture
- Phrases for each step of the sales process
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Successfully start your own profitable business
Starting your own business is an American Dream. But raising money requires a polished business plan that sells financial backers on your idea. The Perfect Business Plan Made Simple approaches the business plan as a sales document that will persuade bankers and venture capitalists to invest in your new or growing enterprise. Featuring examples and detailed sample plans, this updated edition addresses legal concerns and special issues unique to internet-based businesses. Detailed writing instructions, overviews of the funding process, and explanations of why certain arguments are crucial make this guide invaluable to both novices and experienced entrepreneurs. Important topics include:
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For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised and updated editions of bestselling titles, plus a whole range of new subjects from personal finance to office management to desktop publishing.
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The Business Plan for the Believer
Kontrena Clark
Manufacturer: Tate Publishing
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Hell is real! Where will your loved ones go? Author Kontrena Clark uniquely delves into every facet of a business plan in this guide to winning souls. The Business Plan for the Believer maps out a workable plan to keep your family members and friends out of hell. You must be ready and willing to go out into the world and preach the gospel. The Business Plan for the Believer dually touches on increasing your church membership, and more importantly, it touches on wisdom, because he that winneth souls is wise. Start planning out eternity with your family members and friends by working through your own spiritual business plan. The Business Plan for the Believer qualifies you to become a CPA, a Christ Partner in Action! Since we know that only what you do for Christ will last, there is no better qualification!
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Creating a Perfect Business Plan
Mervin L Evans
Manufacturer: Community People Press
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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Release Date: 2005-01-02 |
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Creating a Perfect Business Plan
7-Audio CD & 100 Page Workbook
Written by one of America's leading experts in the industry, Mervin Evans, the author of "NEW YORK VENTURE CAPITAL DIRECTORY!"
This title will teach you what are the best methods to search for investment capital. This exciting program forces you to research and plan for the future. The package provides the user all of resources needed to locate investment capital.
You will find Merv's presentation style refreshing.
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Don't dwell on failure when outcome isn't perfect.(As I See It) : An article from: Mississippi Business Journal
Joe D. Jones
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 9, 2006. The length of the article is 919 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Don't dwell on failure when outcome isn't perfect.(As I See It)
Author: Joe D. Jones
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Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 9, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
Page: 4(1)
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This book contains a comprehensive treatment of the theory of production in a long-period framework. The issues dealt with include prices and income distribution, economic growth, joint production, fixed capital, scarce natural resources (both renewable and exhaustible), and heterogeneous labor. The issues are treated analytically; in addition, the book's introduction provides a history of the subject.
Customer Reviews:
Theory of Production.......2003-05-10
First, let me say that this book is for intermediate students of economics or professors, not for the layman.
The book contains a throughout treatment of Sraffarian-von Neumann type production theory; coupled with a brief intoduction
to various theories of distribution. The perspective of the book
is on the Cambridge-UK side of the so-called Cambridge controversy. Production sets are inherently non-connected (in particular they are not differentiable manifolds), consisting of a list of Leontieff type input-output vectors. What the authors succeed in doing is bringing out the (many) interesting insights this perspective leads to; and since the book contains a very skillfully written historical dimension, it is altogether enjoyable reading.
On the back of the book P. Samuelson writes in a review that he expects to wear down a copy every year or two. I don't know if everybody would read it that much; but the book does cover material which standard text-books miss completely: Joint production (not just as a possibility within general assumptions but its implications), the debate on "capital aggregates" (the Cambridge controversy), and so forth.
I would recommend this book to any economist, who wishes to get a glimse into a world where "aggregate capital" is considered a misfit of imagination. I would in fact recommend this book to any economist, who wishes another perspective on the theory of production. I don't see it as being necessarily in opposition to neo-classical theory, more as supplementary to Arrow-Debreu theory (of which it may be seen as a special case, though the authors argue against this viewpoint). The Cambridge-UK perspective does, however, pose a challenge to macroeconomic modeling with production functions and all of that. And after all, since so many excellent economists chose to side with Sraffa, it would be strange if they did not arrive at some exciting results and insights - wouldn't it ?
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