Free Management “Library”

Authenticity Consulting has a pretty capable resource http://www.managementhelp.org/ , that has good overviews of a number of areas in management. I don’t think “library” is the best descriptor. The site has a good number of high level overviews on a number of business related topics.

Bookjive.com- Book Review Wiki

Want to get a quick overview of  Made to Stick ? How about The 4 Hour Work Week? Bookjive.com has 100’s of reviews, submitted by readers, like you and me. Not just business, either. Quality runs from fantastic to non-existent, I’d recommend to look for highlighted stories recommended on the front page. Great place for you to do your book reports as well. If you sign up for their newsletter, you’ll get a PDF every month of the latest business books, including author bios.

University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center

 

Prof. Murray Seligman is, without doubt, one of the leaders and founders of contemporary Positive Psychology. This website contains a number of good resources, including papers and interviews.

http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/

Wikiversity Section on MBA

Wikiversity has a great outline of the subjects you need expertise in to advance you MBA.

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Master_of_Business_Administration

How to Handle That First Sales Meeting

Eric gives an overview of how to get to that first meeting. From the site:

These notes are intended as a guideline for the first sales meeting with a buyer. It is not expected that all sales meetings will go this way, but we believe that our salespeople will find it useful, in many cases, to use parts or all of these guidelines. They are based on The Everything Selling Book.

http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/sell/first_meeting.html

Overview of Structured Modeling

Site gives an overview of Structured Modeling, and compares it to other management models. 

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/art.geoffrion/home/csts/index.htm

TED.com Thoughtful, Innovative and Exciting.

To me, TED.com is the pick of the litter. Go to this site, and you’ll have access to video lectures from innovative thinkers all over the map. I watch a lecture with my son every night.

www.ted.com

Papers from the Stanford Center on International Negotiation

These studies have more of a focus on negotiations from an international conflict standpoint, but I felt that they were of such high quality, they merited entry.

http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/scicn/#scicn_papers

Building Trust In Negotiations

A superb article on building trust in negotiations can be found at Harvard’s Working Knowledge Website. From the site:

All negotiations involve risk. That’s why establishing trust at the bargaining table is crucial. Professor Deepak Malhotra presents strategies to build trustworthiness. From Negotiation.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4033.html

Program of Negotiation at Harvard Clearinghouse

Harvard’s Negotiation Clearinghouse covers all kinds of negotiations. From the site:

Founded in 1986 as the first institution of its kind in the United States, the Clearinghouse serves as the Program on Negotiation’s educational resource center. The PON Clearinghouse develops and disseminates role simulations and other interactive teaching exercises as well as books, educational videos, curricular packages, and scholarly working papers. In addition, the Clearinghouse offers some materials and services free of charge, such as an online negotiation syllabus collection, online access to its Negotiation Pedagogy Video Series, and telephone consultations regarding pedagogical questions such as role simulation selection and course development. All PON Clearinghouse products have been developed or endorsed by PON faculty or affiliates.

http://www.pon.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=22