New Product Development

Business & Money

Robert J. Thomas

Management & Leadership

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise

Provides information on running for elective office, covering such topics as getting organized, campaign literature, campaign signs, raising campaign money, endorsements, commercials, and surveys.

How to Run for Local Office : A Complete, Step-By-Step Guide that Will Take You Through the Entire Process of Running and Winning a Local Election

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

R & T Enterprise

When I first ran for office in 1989, I won that first election by a mere 200 votes out of 17,000 votes cast. I informed my campaign team that we were starting our reelection campaign the day after I took office. As mayor, I worked with many other politicians and was totally surprised by how many of them never prepared for their reelection campaign until they filed their petitions. I explained to many of them that they needed to put on programs and events between election cycles to help them get reelected. Any incumbent officeholder who wants to increase their odds of winning their reelection, will find dozens of simple programs and events that they can put on and get positive publicity from doing so. This book will give you program after program that you can put on. Some of them will cost money but some of them you can do completely free and even the free ones will get you positive recognition from the public and in many cases, the news media. If you are one of those politicians who think that just because you stay late at the office every night and work your fingers to the bone between election cycyles, that you will assure your next reelection, you are deluding yourself and you might just get the surprise of your life in your next reelection campaign. follow some of the advice in this book and it will definitely increase your odds of winning your next reelection. It helped me win both of my reelection campaigns for mayor by record margins.

How to Stay in Public Office

Bojibooks

This is the completely revised, second edition of How to Run for Local Office. This new edition includes everything that made the first edition so popular, selling over 18,000 worldwide and used by dozens of universities and colleges, including Harvard, Oklahoma State University, Ohio State Univerisity, Indiana State Univerisity, Keene State College, Pennsylvania Fels Center of Government and even West Pointe Military Academy. How to Run for Local Office will take you step-by-step through the election process when running for political office. This book covers everything you need to know whether you are running for Alderman in a small community or running for Mayor in a city of over 100,000 population. It covers every aspect of putting a campaign together including making your decision to run or not, what you will face if you do, putting your team together including your inner circle and much more. This book will explain how to put your literature together, how to use it, how to distribute it and do it cost effectively. It will explain how to use campaign signs, where to place them, where not to place them, which ones are the best for you to use and how to put together your campaign lawn sign crews. This book will tell you how to prepare for debates, how to determine what public events to attend and which ones to avoid. It will explain how to do your door to door knocking and how to use your volunteers to maximize your efforts. It will explain how to set up your fundraising and what to expect. It will explain how to determine whose doors to knock on and which ones to avoid. It will explain how to maximize your campaign funds and save you more money than you would believe. This book will explain the use of the internet for your campaign and how to use GOTV. The original first edition of this title was 128 pages. This new edition has 304 pages but it includes some additional, completely new chapters not found in the original. The new Chapters are, Using Computers and the Internet, Just for Council Members-Township Trustees-Alderman, Etc., Just for Judges, Just for Mayors, Final Thoughts and Words of Wisdom. The book contains samples of letters to absentee voters, press releases, samples of postcard literature and sign up sheets that you can use for your campaign. Anyone who liked the first edition of this book, and over 18,000 people already did, will love this new edition.

How to Run for Local Office, Revised-second edition, 2008. An extensive step-by-step guide to help you win your election, along with valuable advice for you after you take office.

R & T Enterprise Inc

Presenting an effective new leadership model for the modern era, the authors explore the dynamic process that forges new leaders, explaining how key turning points and challenges force each individual to decide who he or she is and what one is capable of. 150,000 first printing.

Geeks and Geezers

Warren G. Bennis

Economics

Harvard Business Review Press

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