Project Management or Crosstalk

Project Management: Tools and Trade-offs

Author: Ted Klastorin

This book presents the fundamental concepts of project management in a concise fashion with an emphasis on the difficult tradeoffs that must be made by project managers. The authors describe the basic analytical tools and project management methodologies and show how to apply these tools and methodologies to realistic problems.
* Offers a unique balance of theory and practice, with emphasis on the uncertain, risky projects that managers have to manage in the real world.
* Takes an analytical and applied approach.
* Includes Excel templates for all models described in the book on an accompanying disk.

Interesting book: Coltura e direzione organizzative

Crosstalk: Communicating in a Multicultural Workplace

Author: Sherron Kenton

As a result of increasing relationships with individuals whose culture is different from our own, our communication challenges grow proportionately greater. The purpose of this text is to make it easier and more effective for workplace professionals to speak, write, interview, or meet with other professionals whose cultural backgrounds differ from their own. Offers one straightforward, strategic model for effective business communication. Enables the reader to identify and effectively communicate with a culturally diverse audience. Covers gender issues in conjunction with diverse cultures. For anyone interested in the multicultural business communications field.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	The CrossTalk Communication Model	1
Ch. 2	What if Your Audience Is a Man or a Woman with Roots in the European Culture?	22
Ch. 3	What if your Audience Has Roots in the African Culture?	51
Ch. 4	What if Your Audience Has Roots in the Asian Culture?	71
Ch. 5	What if Your Audience Has Roots in the Latino Culture?	96
	Appendixes	118
	Bibliography	208