Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis (Hardcover)
by Blaise Ganguin (Author), John Bilardello (Author)
2005
McGraw Hill Co.
Monday, September 29, 2008
The Bank Analyst's Handbook
The Bank Analyst's Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks (Hardcover)
by Stephen M. Frost (Author)
John Wiley and Sons 2004
Book has chapters on valuing banks and valung insolvent banks.
by Stephen M. Frost (Author)
John Wiley and Sons 2004
Book has chapters on valuing banks and valung insolvent banks.
The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook
The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook: A Guide for Analysts, Bankers and Investors (Hardcover)
by Jonathan Golin (Author)
Wily Finance
Out of Print--Limited Availability.
by Jonathan Golin (Author)
Wily Finance
Out of Print--Limited Availability.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching: Developing Managerial Wisdom in a World of Chaos
By Richard Kilburg. Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association, 2000. 272 pages, $39.95.
Kilburg's literature review examines coaching applied to athletic performance, problem behaviors, job applicant performance, and the effectiveness of human resources practitioners.
Kilburg applies a variety of psychotherapeutic principles and techniques to executive coaching. He addresses topics such as using reflective containment, working with human emotion and cognition, working with client defenses, and working with client conflicts. He reviews the pertinent seminal psychological literature, draws implications for professional practice, and employs case studies to demonstrate the application of psychotherapeutic principles to executive coaching.
Executive Coaching is well-written, extensively documented, and amplified with numerous figures and detailed charts. This book would be excellent supplemental reading in a graduate consultation skills course and should be read by executive coaches and consultants who wish to incorporate a psychotherapeutic approach into their practice.
Source:
Review by
Mark J Safferstone. The Academy of Management Executive. May 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 2; pg. 131,
By Richard Kilburg. Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association, 2000. 272 pages, $39.95.
Kilburg's literature review examines coaching applied to athletic performance, problem behaviors, job applicant performance, and the effectiveness of human resources practitioners.
Kilburg applies a variety of psychotherapeutic principles and techniques to executive coaching. He addresses topics such as using reflective containment, working with human emotion and cognition, working with client defenses, and working with client conflicts. He reviews the pertinent seminal psychological literature, draws implications for professional practice, and employs case studies to demonstrate the application of psychotherapeutic principles to executive coaching.
Executive Coaching is well-written, extensively documented, and amplified with numerous figures and detailed charts. This book would be excellent supplemental reading in a graduate consultation skills course and should be read by executive coaches and consultants who wish to incorporate a psychotherapeutic approach into their practice.
Source:
Review by
Mark J Safferstone. The Academy of Management Executive. May 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 2; pg. 131,
CEO Succession
CEO Succession: A Window on How Boards Can Get It Right When Choosing a New Chief Executive
By Dennis C. Carey and Dayton Ogden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 224 pages, hard cover, $25.00
Based on original research and interviews with numerous well-known companies, Carey and Ogden paint a rich and diverse picture of the processes used by leading companies to ensure leadership as a stable force for implementing each company's long-term strategy. They cite such best practices for top management succession as encouraging boards of directors to play an interactive role with the CEO in crafting the firm's succession planning process, identifying succession candidates below the top layer of management, measuring internal candidates against outside leaders to ensure the development of a comprehensive set of skills among internal succession candidates, and using financial incentives appropriately to assure successful succession planning.
Throughout the book, Carey and Ogden repeatedly make the argument that effective succession planning is an ongoing process resting primarily with the board of directors.
CEO Succession is a thorough and well-written discussion of the reasons why top management succession is increasingly important for effective organizational leadership. The book is an excellent primer for further developing an increasingly important board responsibility-leadership continuity.
Source:
CEO Succession: A Window on How Boards Can Get It Right When Choosing a New Chief Executive
Jeffrey P Katz. The Academy of Management Executive. May 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 2; pg. 130,
By Dennis C. Carey and Dayton Ogden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 224 pages, hard cover, $25.00
Based on original research and interviews with numerous well-known companies, Carey and Ogden paint a rich and diverse picture of the processes used by leading companies to ensure leadership as a stable force for implementing each company's long-term strategy. They cite such best practices for top management succession as encouraging boards of directors to play an interactive role with the CEO in crafting the firm's succession planning process, identifying succession candidates below the top layer of management, measuring internal candidates against outside leaders to ensure the development of a comprehensive set of skills among internal succession candidates, and using financial incentives appropriately to assure successful succession planning.
Throughout the book, Carey and Ogden repeatedly make the argument that effective succession planning is an ongoing process resting primarily with the board of directors.
CEO Succession is a thorough and well-written discussion of the reasons why top management succession is increasingly important for effective organizational leadership. The book is an excellent primer for further developing an increasingly important board responsibility-leadership continuity.
Source:
CEO Succession: A Window on How Boards Can Get It Right When Choosing a New Chief Executive
Jeffrey P Katz. The Academy of Management Executive. May 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 2; pg. 130,
How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
By Robert C. Solomon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 145 pages, hard cover, $23.50.
Solomon is the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. A well-known author of numerous books on business ethics, he has more than twenty years of consulting experience in ethics with major corporations.
In the first part, Solomon examines the impediments to developing an ethos of integrity and virtue in business. Noteworthy among these impediments are the faulty metaphors, myths, and heroes that predominate in the depiction of business today.
In the second part of his book, Solomon dwells on the necessity of integrity in business life. He employs an Aristotelian approach to business ethics, stressing that businesses, like individuals, are members of a community. Corporations can therefore be conceived of as communities operating within the boundaries of the larger societal community. Business is thus fundamentally a human and social enterprise with obligations that extend well beyond stockholders. Communal obligations become even more relevant in an era of global and multinational corporations with the power to exert enormous influence over their stakeholders.
The third part of the book consists of an exhaustive, working catalog of virtues in business. The catalog serves as a handy reference tool for managers.
The book serves as a useful and practical guide for managers who wish to see how important ethics and integrity can be to business success. The book would also make an excellent supplementary text for courses in business ethics and the social responsibility of businesses.
Source:
A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Eileen P Kelly. The Academy of Management Executive. Briarcliff Manor: May 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 2; pg. 127, 2 pgs
By Robert C. Solomon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 145 pages, hard cover, $23.50.
Solomon is the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. A well-known author of numerous books on business ethics, he has more than twenty years of consulting experience in ethics with major corporations.
In the first part, Solomon examines the impediments to developing an ethos of integrity and virtue in business. Noteworthy among these impediments are the faulty metaphors, myths, and heroes that predominate in the depiction of business today.
In the second part of his book, Solomon dwells on the necessity of integrity in business life. He employs an Aristotelian approach to business ethics, stressing that businesses, like individuals, are members of a community. Corporations can therefore be conceived of as communities operating within the boundaries of the larger societal community. Business is thus fundamentally a human and social enterprise with obligations that extend well beyond stockholders. Communal obligations become even more relevant in an era of global and multinational corporations with the power to exert enormous influence over their stakeholders.
The third part of the book consists of an exhaustive, working catalog of virtues in business. The catalog serves as a handy reference tool for managers.
The book serves as a useful and practical guide for managers who wish to see how important ethics and integrity can be to business success. The book would also make an excellent supplementary text for courses in business ethics and the social responsibility of businesses.
Source:
A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Eileen P Kelly. The Academy of Management Executive. Briarcliff Manor: May 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 2; pg. 127, 2 pgs
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Communication Skills for Effective Management
Owen Hargie , David Dickson and Dennis Tourish Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2004, 496pp.
ISBN: 0-333-96575-2
Review by
Sow Hup Chan. Asian Business & Management. Houndmills: Dec 2006. Vol. 5, Iss. 4; pg. 559
Each chapter has an extensive list of references, valuable to the diligent student, teacher or researcher. The authors provide an introduction and overview or conclusion in each chapter, and most also have a 'reflective exercise', extremely useful in identifying areas for improvement and taking a more active role in the learning process.
Although oriented towards practitioners, this book would be suitable for a course covering a broad range of communication skills in management.
The book covers core skills across the spectrum of managerial communication and need not be read from cover to cover or in any particular order, as each chapter is stand-alone. Of particular interest are perhaps the last five chapters of the book, not often found in business communication texts. Chapter 11, 'Tell it like it is ...: communicating assertively', is particularly interesting as assertiveness is the preferred way of dealing with people problems.
In sum, the book lives up to its title. The information and insights should stimulate any individual in the workplace to understand how to interact more effectively. The emphasis on real-world organizational communication skills issues and recommended strategy makes Communication Skills for Effective Management a winner and a book I would recommend to prospective managers and librarians, as well as business instructors seeking to help their students appreciate the importance of developing communication competencies.
ISBN: 0-333-96575-2
Review by
Sow Hup Chan. Asian Business & Management. Houndmills: Dec 2006. Vol. 5, Iss. 4; pg. 559
Each chapter has an extensive list of references, valuable to the diligent student, teacher or researcher. The authors provide an introduction and overview or conclusion in each chapter, and most also have a 'reflective exercise', extremely useful in identifying areas for improvement and taking a more active role in the learning process.
Although oriented towards practitioners, this book would be suitable for a course covering a broad range of communication skills in management.
The book covers core skills across the spectrum of managerial communication and need not be read from cover to cover or in any particular order, as each chapter is stand-alone. Of particular interest are perhaps the last five chapters of the book, not often found in business communication texts. Chapter 11, 'Tell it like it is ...: communicating assertively', is particularly interesting as assertiveness is the preferred way of dealing with people problems.
In sum, the book lives up to its title. The information and insights should stimulate any individual in the workplace to understand how to interact more effectively. The emphasis on real-world organizational communication skills issues and recommended strategy makes Communication Skills for Effective Management a winner and a book I would recommend to prospective managers and librarians, as well as business instructors seeking to help their students appreciate the importance of developing communication competencies.
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