Project management: A good website to begin understanding Prince2 http://www.prince2.com/what-is-prince2.asp Official website of the Office of Government Commerce (UK) http://www.ogc.gov.uk/methods_prince_2.asp Official website of the APM Group (in charge of Prince2 accreditation and certification) http://www.apmgroup.co.uk/PRINCE2/PRINCE2Home.asp Plenty of information http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/project/project.htm

 

Training: Businessballs.com: excellent, a lot of information and tools; not limited to training http://www.businessballs.com Free management library: overview of training and development http://www.managementhelp.org/trng_dev/trng_dev.htm

 

Strategy: QuickMBA: clear descriptions http://www.quickmba.com/strategy Free management library: strategic planning http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm A classic text: "The art of war" by Sun Tzu; translation with explications http://www.sonshi.com/learn.html "A book of five rings", by Miyamoto Musashi: another still used classic text, with explications http://www.samurai.com/5rings

 

Coaching: An independent portal http://www.coachingnetwork.org.uk Businessballs.com: an overview; not limited to coaching http://www.businessballs.com/

 

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming): Businessballs.com: an introduction to NLP http://www.businessballs.com/nlpneuro-linguisticprogramming.htm

 

Consultancies and Organizational development: Free management library: organizational development http://www.managementhelp.org/org_chng/org_chng.htm MCNews: articles, newsletters, and so on http://www.managementconsultingnews.com MarketingProfs: very interesting http://www.marketingprofs.com/marketing/library

Friendly websites

 

	Postfrontal: aviation products; the number one in Italy http://www.postfrontal.com
	USI: Università della Svizzera Italiana, in English and Italian www.unisi.ch
	D-S-X: Vehicle Dynamic Systems; a Swiss high-tech firm http://www.d-s-x.com
	Oakwood Lodge Guest House: an excellent B&B in the Heathrow area www.oakwood121.co.uk

 

Dictionaries and glossaries: An excellent business dictionary http://www.businessdictionary.com A financial dictionary http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com English-English: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org A super multifunction English/French and French/English dictionary, with definitions, synonyms, conjugations and so on http://dictionnaire.tv5.org/dictionnaires.asp A super bi-directional dictionary: German/English, German/French, German/Italian, German/Spanish, German/Chinese http://www.leo.org The Yahoo! Babel Fish http://babelfish.yahoo.com

 

Maps and route planners: Google maps: maps and directions http://maps.google.ch Multimap: maps and directions http://www.multimap.com Maps and aerial views combined (Switzerland) http://map.search.ch ViaMichelin: route planner http://www.viamichelin.com Green Flag: route planner http://www.greenflag.com/routeplanning Mappy: route planner (in Italian) http://www.mappy.it

 

Airports: Landings.com: impressive, airports worldwide, with links to official airport websites; click on the four-letters name (e.g., EGLL for Heathrow) http://www.landings.com

 

Railways: German railways: Europe wide, impressive; in English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Turkish http://www.bahn.de/international SBB/CFF/FFS: Swiss railways, in English, French, German and Italian http://www.sbb.ch Transport for London: the Tube, and so on http://www.tfl.gov.uk National Rail: UK; very useful, especially if you have to travel from airports to London (and spare lots of money) http://nationalrail.co.uk

 

Buses: Meleterc: useful website on buses, rails and ferries in Europe http://meleterc.com/Page655.html#Buses

 

Weather forecast: Weather-forecast: impressive, worldwide http://www.weather-forecast.com Westwind: professional weather forecast http://www.westwind.ch WetterOnline: worldwide, in German http://www.wetteronline.de MeteoSvizzera: official Swiss website; in English, French, German and Italian http://www.meteosvizzera.admin.ch/web/it/meteo.html

 

Telephone directories: International dialing codes http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm Infobel: worldwide telephone directories, in many languages http://www.infobel.com

 

Converters, time zones, and so on: Time and date.com: world clock, time zones, time zones converter and a lot of other information http://www.timeanddate.com Unit converter: very useful http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter Turbosite: if one needs to convert pressure units; in Spanish http://www.turbosite.com.ar/conversiondeunidades/ X-rates.com: currencies, with a currency calculator http://www.x-rates.com

 

News: BBC http://www.bbc.com Financial Times http://www.ft.com The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com Reuters http://www.reuters.com Deutsche Welle: in many languages http://www.dw-world.de Le Monde diplomatique: in many languages http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr China Daily: news from China http://www.chinadaily.com.cn RIA Novosti: a Russian information agency http://en.rian.ru Techworld: very interesting news http://www.techworld.com NewScientist: scientific news http://www.newscientist.com

 

Stock exchanges: London http://www.londonstockexchange.com NYSE: Wall Street http://www.nyse.com NASDAQ: US http://www.nasdaq.com Frankfurt: in English and German http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de Zurich: in English, French and German http://www.swx.com Hong Kong http://www.hkex.com.hk Shanghai http://www.sse.com.cn Tokyo http://www.tse.or.jp/english/index.html Toronto http://www.tsx.com Micex (Russia) http://www.micex.com RTS (Russia) http://www.rts.ru/en Paris: in English, French, Dutch, Portuguese http://www.euronext.com Milan: in Italian http://www.borsaitaliana.it

 

	Currencies and precious metals: X-rates.com: currencies, with a currency calculator http://www.x-rates.com Kitco: a lot of information and graphs on precious metals http://www.kitco.com
	Energy: 321energy: oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, gasoline, solar and wind http://www.321energy.com