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Small Business Management Guide: Advice from the Brass-Tacks Entrepreneur.


The new manager

The word for today: flexibility

Browsing through the small business section of any local bookstore can try the patience of even the most avid AVID Cardiology A clinical trial–Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators that compared the effect of implantable defibrillators vs the best medical therapy–antiarrhythmics for survivors of MI or those with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia  reader. There is one book, however, that you cannot afford to miss, since it promises to turn you into a top-notch manager: Jim Schell's Small-Business Management Guide: Advice From The Brass-Tacks Entrepreneur.

Written for the entrepreneur who is just past the start-up stage, the Small-Business Management Guide takes a step-by-step look at dealing with employees. Flexible management is the cornerstone cornerstone

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 of the book. Schell emphasizes ways for the new manager to build a team, motivate staff and set short-and long-term project goals.

While offering no exceptional revelations, the book is filled with good advice and is fun to read. Schell humorously hu·mor·ous  
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 of his personal business ventures. He also provides enough warmth and guidance to support the efforts of even the most wary trooper who is attempting to make a smooth journey from professional to entrepreneur to manager. Small-Business Management Guide: Advice From The Brass-Tacks Entrepreneur by Jim Schell, Henry Holt holt  
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Author:Drye, Leslie Ann
Publication:Black Enterprise
Article Type:Book Review
Date:May 1, 1995
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