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To translate insight into action, Booz & Company have developed an online simulation tool that enables individuals to audition various five-step organizational change programs. After assessing the current state of your organization and diagnosing it as one of seven common types, you can select from among 28 specific actions that map to one or more of the organizational DNA building blocks—decision rights, information, motivators, or … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Strategy& | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management, Organizational Behavior

If your PowerPoint presentations are feeling a little robotic and your slides could use some freshening up, SlideFinder is a PowerPoint presentation search engine that can help you find new slides and inspiration.

SlideFinder catalogs publicly available PowerPoint presentations and indexes them by content. You can search for and download thousands of PowerPoint presentations to help with everything from ideas on how to lay out your … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

If your Excel skills are perennially rusty, this cheat sheet will help you knock out basic tasks without forcing you to scramble back up the learning curve.

Content: Article | Author: Jody Gilbert | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work.

The research is the work of Chris Atherton, a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. There’s been a tremendous amount of interest in them, but as they were designed to complement Chris’s talk – … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Olivia Mitchell | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Are things you need to get done falling between the cracks? Does taking an entire day off seem impossible?

Maybe you need a time-management system.

Sue Shellenbarger asked a half-dozen executive coaches to help pick the most widely used time-management systems—not just software tools or high-tech to-do lists, but behavioral-change techniques that help people get organized, clarify thinking and increase output. Then, she tried out for … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Sue Shellenbarger | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Calling all business students and students of business: Pocket MBA shrinks a complete MBA coursebook to iPhone size. The app originally sells for $29.99, but you can get the lite version for free from the iTunes App Store.

Based on the work of Jae K. Shim (co-author of “The Vest-Pocket MBA”), Pocket MBA covers topics ranging from Business Strategy to Economics to Information Technology.

In each of … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Education, MBA Related, Products & Services

Countless hours have been spent by stock market investors researching the historic performance of the S&P 500 stock market index but until now, they’ve had to slog through spreadsheets or go datamine other reams of data to be able to extract the data they’re after, and that’s before doing any number crunching! Now however, everything has changed because we here at Political Calculations are putting … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Political Calculations | Subjects: Economics, Finance, Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

Getting a business education doesn’t have to be expensive. An increasing number of colleges, universities and even nonprofit organizations offer free business courses online. Find out how you can sign up for these courses and what you can get from them.

Content: Article | Source: Education-Portal.com | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, Personal Development

Legendary retailers Sam Walton and Ray Kroc used to hunt for real estate at 30,000 feet; they used private planes to survey the country for prime spots in which to open new stores. Now a new website, ZoomProspector, attempts to provide business owners a similar bird’s-eye view of the commercial landscape from their desk chairs.

Using information from local governments and other sources, ZoomProspector allows companies … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subject: Products & Services | Industry: Real Estate

Richard Ludlow launched Academic Earth with the goal of building a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development

Are you an entrepreneur who has been seduced by social media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook? If so, you may realize the benefits of displaying your resume, finding and staying in touch with business partners, employers and customers, and learning new information through these basic tools.

If you don’t use a variety of basic social media tools for networking, then you’ll learn a few … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: The Biz-learner | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality, low-cost and global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools

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To make a stronger business case, put away the spreadsheets and get out your pencil.

Content: Article | Author: Scott Leibs | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Free textbooks are a great way to get a free education. This article tells you where you can get all sorts of free textbooks online, including free accounting textbooks, economics textbooks, computer science and technology textbooks, English textbooks, history textbooks and science textbooks.

Content: Article | Source: DiplomaGuide.com | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools

Mashable’s online business toolbox lists more than 270 online apps for running your business, broken down into the following categories:
Accounting, Billing, Invoicing, Estimating & Contracts
Calendars & Scheduling
Charts, Diagrams, and Whiteboards
Collaboration & Workgroups
Conferences, Presentations & Meetings
Crowdsourcing, Networking & Community
Customer Relationship Management, Customer Service & Contact Management
Database, File Storage & Information Management
Email
Employee Management, Payroll & Human Resources
Feedback
Marketing & Publicity
Money Making & eCommerce Solutions
Office Applications
Organization & Management
Phone … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Mashable | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Products & Services

Making quality decisions is an intricate tapestry of experience, inquiry, and judgment that converge to form solutions. According to Michael Sacks and Steve Walton, professors at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, there are strategies that can be adopted to make the process more effective.

Content: Article | Authors: Michael Sacks, Steve Walton | Source: Knowledge@Emory | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Need a template for your business plan, a tutorial on Python programming, or a copy of the Gettysburg address? Document sharing web site DocStoc has more than 12,000 files posted for free browsing and downloads. Registered members can keep personal “folders” on the site with links to useful docs and get notified by email when another user uploads a file type they request. Those looking … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Authors: Alon Shwartz, Jason Nazar | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

ASSESS is an interactive computer program for assessing utility functions. A utility function is a quantitative scale of how an individual values different levels of a payoff, for example, the personal value that you attach to various monetary outcomes. The utility function of an individual may be used to help him/her make decisions among complex alternatives involving risk and multiple objectives. ASSESS can elicit a … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Philippe Delquié | Subjects: Market Research, Productivity / Work Tips

R. Preston McAfee offers his economics textbook online in MS Word and PDF formats for free.

Abstract:
This book presents introductory economics (“principles”) material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: R. Preston McAfee | Subjects: Economics, Free Stuff / Tools