AnnaMaria Bliven

"Entrepreneurship Essentials You Always Wanted to Know" by AnnaMaria Bliven attempts to serves as a thorough, comprehensive (all-encompassing) guide for both novice and seasoned entrepreneurs, offering valuable insights and practical advice for navigating the complex world of business.

AnnaMaria Bliven's extensive experience in business development and management shines through in this book, providing readers with a wealth of knowledge to draw upon in their entrepreneurial endeavors.

One of this book's strengths is its ability to distill complex entrepreneurial concepts into easily understandable language, making it accessible to a wide audience, including business students and aspiring entrepreneurs. Bliven covers essential topics such as identifying business opportunities, developing products/services, setting up a company, and marketing strategies, all accompanied by real-world examples and engaging discussion questions. Moreover, the inclusion of online resources enhances the learning experience, allowing readers to delve deeper into the subject matter and apply their newfound knowledge in practical scenarios.

"Entrepreneurship Essentials" stands out as a potentially useful (and thus valuable) resource for anyone seeking to embark on an entrepreneurial journey or enhance their existing business skills.… (more)

""Business Communication Essentials You Always Wanted to Know" by Dr. AnnaMaria Bliven is a comprehensive guide to enhancing communication skills within an organization. The book, divided into eleven chapters, focuses on internal and external communication, highlighting the importance of effective communication for collaboration and synergy. It also provides practical strategies for improving communication outcomes, including audience analysis techniques and emotional intelligence. The book also covers crisis management, guiding organizations through the lens of the 5Cs, and serves as an indispensable resource for individuals and organizations seeking to improve their communication capabilities."… (more)

A procrastinator at heart, time management is something I often struggle with, which is why I picked up Time Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know. This is a very straightforward resource that helps you put your focus where it needs to be, helping you to improve your time management skills if you implement what it teaches.

Though the reading is dry I still found this resource to be invaluable and can see referencing it again and again. The discussion questions and quizzes at the end of each chapter are great at bringing the points brought forth in that chapter home, and are quite thought-provoking.

I did learn that eliminating distractions is a huge part of time management. It’s unreal how many time suckers there are in all of our lives and by putting these wasters into their own designated time frame and not allowing them to overtake other important tasks is a game changer. Though it is something that I knew before reading this text it was still a wonderful reminder, and has again helped me put my focus where it needs to be. Addressing these problems is really what’s been helping me and I feel like just this alone has helped with my time management skills.

Though it will take time to document what you need to get your time under control once you begin to get focused you will be amazed at how much more you will be able to accomplish. I am so thankful I had the opportunity to read this text.… (more)

In Time Management Essentials, Annamaria Bliven emphasized the importance of time management planning and of starting your plan backward by focusing on the desired result. The steps needed to get that result, and when it’s due, are decided and documented. Those steps require timely accomplished preliminary steps in turn. Preliminary steps must also be analyzed strategically and planned with their respective timelines. Once the steps and the timelines due are put together on a paper chart, you know what needs to be done and when each step is needed for the timely achievement of your goal. This process and fulfillment require intentionality and diligence.

Time blocks should be set aside for accomplishing these tasks. Nothing must be allowed to interfere with the periods established. Incoming emails, phone calls, and social interactions have to be minimized. Time for socializing, doing family chores, and relaxing are not ignored by Bliven but are given their time block for enjoyment on the chart.

Blivin’s process may seem regimented until you realize how much time gets lost without diligent adherence to taking timely steps to get things done. Without a planning chart, goals aren’t achieved when due nor are obligations timely met.

After reading the book, I became determined to get better control of my time by putting together a task management chart. It went well the first day but I got waylaid the second. In self-defense, Bliven did warn that this could happen early on when following her time management guidelines. She had an entire chapter devoted to time lost.

While I haven’t had many time-blocking successes yet, Bliven’s book gave me the steps needed. That is what any of us want when we realize a need to better manage our time but don’t know where to start.… (more)