My MBA
I finished my Master of Business Administrationstudy in March 2002 at Rushmore University
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 Zertifikat |
 Kursbewertungen |
Meine Kurse
| Course Number | Status | Planed Time in hours | Earned Credits | Used Time in hours | Finish Date | Grading and its reports | |
| 1104 Accounting | 425 KB | FINISHED | 90 | 3 | 60 | 25.9.01 | A |
| 2253 Shim on Operations Managemant | 306 KB | FINISHED | 90 | 3 | 90 | 3.2.2002 | A |
| 2155 Baker on Project Management | 300 KB | FINISHED | 60 | 3 | 25 | 4.3.2002 | A- |
| 2258 Sybold on Internet Business | NOT NEEDED | 60 | |||||
| 2192 Marketing | 308 KB | FINISHED | 90 | 4 | 25 | 27.11.01 | A |
| 2111 Drucker on Executive Development "Effective Executives" | 273 KB | FINISHED | 90 | 3 | 45 | 24.8.01 | A- |
| 2121 Benton on Leadership "CEO Coaching" | 264 KB | FINISHED | 90 | 3 | 45 | 22.8.01 | A |
| 2130 Boyett on Management | NOT NEEDED | 90 | |||||
| 1101 Management | NOT NEEDED | 90 | |||||
| 2049 Crosby on Entrepreneurial Leadership | 274 KB | FINISHED | 60 | 3 | 30 | 16.8.01 | A |
| 1109 Human Resource Management "Successful Hiring" | 275 KB | FINISHED | 30 | 3 | 60 | 21.10.01 | A- |
| 2082 Smart on Human Resource "Topgrading" |
309 KB |
FINISHED | 90 | 3 | 30 | 02.11.01 | A |
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Foundation Course
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FINISHED | 40 | 4 | 90 | 18.7.01 | A |
| TOTAL | 970 | 32 | 500 |
Grader for the Foundation Course was: Mr. Perry Garsombke. www.garfather.com
Grader for the other courses was: Mr. Gary Smith www.smithscott.com
Remark from Mr. Smith:
You will note that I am also on the graduate (MBA) faculty of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois (the world's largest private university and the #4 ranked part-time MBA program in the U.S.). I always make it a point to explain to my distance learning students that I employ the same grading standards at Rushmore that I do at a "brick and mortar" university such as DePaul. What this means is that I seek identify whether true learning and application has taken place. I am not focused on the number of words in your papers (although the University has to be--due to accreditation requirements), but rather the content. I do not expect students to write a "book report", but to actually apply what they have learned to real-life scenarios, preferably their own jobs, careers, companies, etc.
As an aside, it is not my practice to award more than 3 credit hours. In the classes that I teach at DePaul University, the length of a paper has no impact on the number of hours that a student earns. I expect that students produce as much as is necessary to get their point across and support their thesis.
Meine Buchbeurteilungen Letzte Aktualisierung: Feb 2013
This page contains a list of management books which I read. Unfortunately not all books had the same quality and reading some was wasted time for me. This was the reasons why I decided to create this web-page.
I need to stress that this is only my opinion. Other people might judge the books differently.
| Title | Author | Rating | Comments |
| "The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting"
1997, 2nd edition ISBN 0-471-18425-X |
John Leslie Livingstone | Excellent | This books gives an excellent
insight into Finance and Accounting. It is appropriate for newcomers and for
experts.
I recommend this book to all people who want to to be able to read financial reports, who are interested in understanding financial decision within their company, or who need to take financial decision within their company. |
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"Financial Management"
Theory and Practice 9th edition, 1999, ISBN 0-03-024399-8 |
E.F. Brigham,
L.C. Gapenski, M. C. Ehrhardt |
Excellent | This books gives an excellent
insight into Finance and Accounting. It is appropriate for newcomers and for
experts.
I recommend this book to all people who want to to be able to read financial reports, who are interested in understanding financial decision within their company, or who need to take financial decision within their company. A special highlight are the questions and exercises per chapter. The solutions can be found at the end of the book. |
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"Management Accounting"
3rd edition, 2001, ISBN 0130101958 Prentice Hall |
Atkinson, Banker, Kaplan, Yound |
Excellent | The authors describe clearly the difference between financial management and
management accounting. They point out that management accounting is oriented
towards a company's internal use whereas financial accounting is outside
oriented.
They describe several procedures how to calculate costs and they point out which procedure is applicable for which kind of business. They offer ways to calculate costs for manufacturing, service, R&D, and other types of companies. I advice this book to everybody who wants to understand the occurring costs in his/her company. It helps managers at all levels to evaluate his / her department performance and (maybe even more important) to question whether or not the imposed budgets given to him are adequate calculated or not. A special highlight are the questions, problems and exercises at the end of each chapter. A big disadvantage is that the answers are not part of the book. They shall be purchasable somehow. Prentice Hall also offers an internet platform where you can answer questions and verify your answers. |
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"Process-Based Strategic Planning"
2001, ISBN 3-540-41822-9 |
R. Gruenig, R. Kuehn |
Excellent | The authors describe in a convincing and surprising clear manner what
strategic planning is, which steps are to be considered, and how this can be
put into practice.
Many drawings make this book lively and easy to read. This book is a must for an entrepreneurial leader and for everybody working in a company in which s/he is responsible for strategic planning. |
| "Topgrading"
1999, ? edition ISBN 0735200491 Prentice Hall |
Bradford D. Smart, Ph.D. | Excellent | This book deals with building up the best performing team. It describes in
a very convincing manner the responsibility of managers and human resource
departments when new employees need to be hired. It gives a very strong and
practical guideline for job-interviews so that managers who follow this method
are likely to hire the best and most fitting people.
I recommend this book to all people who need to evaluate and improve the team performance of their team. |
| "The Classic Guide to Better Writing" | Rudolf Flesch / A. H. Lass | Excellent | This book gives excellent information about how to write in English. |
| "The 10 Natural Laws Of Successful Time And Life Management" | Hyrum W. Smith | Excellent | This book gives hints on successful time and life management. It should be
read by all people who are dissatisfied with their current life and who want
to check if they use their time in an efficient way.
The book is more useful for people who live in an unstructured way rather than for people who have already a lot of control over their time. However, even for the first category of people, the book offers the opportunity to verify if something can be improved. Eventually, I propose everybody to create him/herself a small reminder checklist with which everybody could check regularly if the time management is still optimal. |
| "The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook" | Jay Levinson, Seth Godin |
Excellent | This book handles two topics: Marketing and Advertising.
The marketing aspect was handled with less deepness and intensity than advertising. Related to marketing, I assume that this book is only an introduction for people who work in marketing departments, but it could be enough for small companies or for independent entrepreneurials. The advertising chapters are very useful for small companies with lower marketing and advertising budgets, because the book focuses on new or uncommon advertising strategies. The book can save you a look at of money if you don't need to reach the average masses. |
| "The Ten Day MBA"
1999,? edition ISBN 0-688-13788-1 William Morrow and Company |
Stefen Silbiger | Excellent | It's a small book which offers a broad overview about 10 areas of an MBA
study. It gives the reader sufficient knowledge to start ones own business,
because it tackles 10 areas which are needed to run a business.
Of course, this book does not fill the place of an MBA study. |
| "The Effective Executive" | Peter F. Drucker | Good | The book is about best practices of highly effective executives. |
| "Secrets Of A CEO Coach" | D. A. Benton | Good | The book was written by a CEO coach. The author gives some insights into
how CEOs were coached.
The author explains the different steps a CEO goes through during a coaching: his/her history evaluation, his/her self perception, his/her expectations and plans, feedback from others and some practical proposals how to behave, dress, talk, walk and others. All in all, the book is interesting to read and it gives some interesting hints. I still have my doubts that this book is equally good as real coaching can be. |
| "The Millionaire Mind" | Thomas J. Stanley, Ph. D. | Interesting | The author describes how millionaires are: he describes how millionaires
think, behave, which attitudes they have and which circumstances were
applicable so that they could become millionaires.
I regard this book as an information base, but not as an help to become rich. The author describes clearly that many (if not all) of his described pieces of the picture must fit to enable to a person to become a millionaire. However, there are too many things a person can not influence: e.g. having a great idea at the correct time, having a spouse supporting him/her fully which means giving up his/her own life..., so that this book is not a practical guide how to become rich. On the other hand, this books shows you what you can influence in order to enable you to become wealthy. The book focuses on the millionaires' minds and the millionaires' attitudes and these are things the reader can partially influence. |
| "Operations Management" | Jae K. Shim, Ph. D., Joel G. Siegel, Ph. D. |
Not Convincing | The authors try to describe how companies need to manage their business in
order to create an operational profit. They write about supply chain
management and similar things.
However, they miss to write a book which helps in today's business. I am working in R&D in the telecommunication sector and this book is not applicable to us. One example is that the authors describe how to calculate mathematically how to determine the shortest way between several locations in order to find the best fitting place to build a new factory. I am sure that nobody today uses this approach today. |
| "Project Management" | Sunny and Kim Baker | Not Convincing | The authors claimed to write a book which helps readers to manage
successfully their projects.
They miss this target. Of course, if you have the best people in your project team then you can succeed. Of course, if you have the project with the highest priority in your company, then you can succeed. However, what happens, if you don't have the best conditions for your project. The authors write that you shouldn't start such a project, but this is also not always possible. If you read this book and intend to start a project accordingly, then your chance is high to successfully finish this project. I doubt that in today's business this is ever possible. I worked in dozens of projects and I don't remember one in which the conditions stayed as perfect as described in the book. The authors don't give appropriate answers to how to such situations. This book might be interesting for people who never worked in projects and want to understand the ideas behind project management. It might also help newcomer project leaders to start their job. |
| "The Fastforward MBA in Hiring" | Max Messmer | Not Convincing | The book is not thinking deeply. If hiring is so easy as explained in the
book, then the question is open why so many companies have inadequate
employees and why so many people are unhappy in their jobs.
Current laws (especially in Germany where I live) make hiring a so difficult thing because a company will almost never be able to fire these people again. Consequently, hiring is a hated process for companies in Germany, because hiring the wrong people will harm the company for years. The book doesn't tackle the selection process in an adequate way. |
| "How to write, speak and think more effectively" | Rudolf Flesch | Poor | I didn't find anything new in this book and I also didn't like the way of writing. |
| "Find It Fast" | Robert I. Berkman | Poor | The author wanted to describe how to gather in a fast way the information
you need in order to write an article. He wrote about 'making a plan',
'structuring ideas', 'gathering information', 'structuring information', and
so forth. This might be interesting and helpful for somebody who never wrote
something (not even at school). However, if you ever wrote an assay at school
then this book will not help.
For me, the most interesting was the chapter about Internet. However, even this chapter and the given links didn't help me. This book might be helpful for someone who starts writing articles or essays. |
| "The Portable MBA in Management" | Allan R. Cohen | Not Yet Read | |
| "The Guru Guide" | Joseph Boyett, Jimmie Boyett |
Not Yet Read | |
| "Customers.com" | Patricia B. Seybold | Not Yet Read | |
| "Quality And Me" | Philip B. Crosby | Not Yet Read |
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