Bøker av Daniel Plung

Going beyond the mechanics of professional communication, this book combines insights into the overlooked implicit demands of corporate communication challenges with the proven strategies and techniques that distinguish professionals as capable communicators and candidates for promotion.The practical strategies offered in this book represent professional communication principles filtered through the lens of the author's 40-year career, that enabled him to rise from an initial assignment as a technical editor to positions of senior management directing large, diverse business and technical organizations. Here, he has collected into one resource the reasoned and disciplined decision-making processes, tools, and techniques essential to craft communications, precisely attuned to the explicit and implicit expectations of each assignment and supported by a structure and presentation logic that delivers a totally responsive and accurately targeted product. This is an essential guide for all levels of professionals who recognize the need to distinguish themselves within a highly competitive career environment.Business professionals and instructors in corporate training programs, supervisors and managers, and students in professional communication programs will welcome this deep dive into the real-world challenges and opportunities in professional communication and the role effective communication plays in career advancement.

Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy presents a unique, proven methodology for achieving an environment of innovation.This book details a comprehensive and integrated approach to optimization: acting strategically; refining business processes; energizing personnel development; forging reasoned technology decisions; and synchronizing corporate governance, organizational design, and company culture.Practices and principles are delivered in a conversational tone and are accompanied by intriguing historical anecdotes that entertain and help illustrate the authors' position points for each chapter-making for an interesting read.Whether the goal is improving select aspects of your company or totally rethinking the business model, this book furnishes the roadmap for achieving that successful transformation.

The Practical Guide to Transforming Your Company is a concise handbook for conducting business transformations-defining and implementing a redirection in the company's core business or in its strategic positioning.Starting where such programs as LEAN and Six Sigma leave off, the text offers a well-proven methodology for conducting a comprehensive transformation (not a process-by-process efficiency enhancement). The book provides dozens of forms, figures, templates, and checklists the authors have developed through personal experience leading successful corporate efforts.In a sequence paralleling the process of transformation, individual chapters are devoted to the roles and responsibilities of the company leadership, the workforce, and the board of directors. Principles are reinforced by illuminating key success factors by examining government and commercial projects from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Written by two individuals with proven track records, this book is sure to produce success in any transformation endeavor.