Books in category Management

Executive Intelligence

Author: Justin Menkes
Publisher : Harperbusiness
ISBN : 9780060781873
What differentiates a star executive from his or her peers? This is no idle question because experts like Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and Jack Welch agree that great talent builds great companies. So, finding and assembling a critical mass of the very best people should be the first priority of every business. But how do you recognize a star? What distinguishes them? Over the years, we've heard va

The 80/20 Principle

Author: Richard Koch
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN : 9780385491747
The 80/20 principle -- that 80 percent of results flow from just 20 percent of our efforts -- is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? Now available in paperback, The 80/20 Principle shows how we

Managing Creativity and Innovation

Author: Harvard Business Essentials
Publisher : Harvard Business School Pr
ISBN : 9781591391128
The fifth installment in the Harvard Business Essentials series and provides managers with insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to foster innovation.

It All Starts With You (Hardcover)

Author: Mary Kay Whitaker, Ron Whitaker
Publisher : Xcelogic Inc
ISBN : 9780980215809
The secret to leadership success. Pre-Emptive Leadership is a six-step system for getting results through people that will change the way you do your job and the way you deal with everyone in your life. It is not fluff, psychobabble, or rocket science. It is not about being nice or changing who you are. Nor is it a flavor-of-the-month. It is a real, proven system that leaders worldwide have used t

Leading at a Higher Level

Author: Scott Blanchard, Don Carew, Marjorie Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Ken Blanchard
Publisher : Financial Times Management
ISBN : 9780132347723
Leading at a Higher Level translates decades of research and 25 years of global experience into simple, practical, and powerful strategies to equip leaders at every level to build organizations that produce bottom-line results. At Nissan, we have made these principles a core part of our leadership philosophy, better equipping our managers to bring out the great energies and talents of our employee

Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership

Author: Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar, Jeff Brown, Mukul Pandya, Robbie Shell
Publisher : Wharton School Pub
ISBN : 9780131877306

Now in paperback. . . . What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it. Building corporate culture that can withstand anything. Reinventing your business: when it`s time, how to do it. Key attributes of lasting leadership. The greatest business leaders of our generation. How they achieved the impossible. What you can learn from them. How to use those lessons to super

Southwest Airlines Way

Author: Jody Hoffer Gittel
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
ISBN : 9780071458276
Management lessons from the world's most profitable airline As a former Southwest insider, I often wondered why other organizations couldn't duplicate the business model. Anyone who wants to understand how it works should read this book. --Libby Sartain, Senior VP of Human Resources, Yahoo Professor Gittell has tackled one of the hottest and most important topics in business circles today--why som

Leading Up

Author: Michael Useem
Publisher : Three Rivers Pr
ISBN : 9781400047000
Today’s best leaders know how to lead up, a necessary strategy when a supervisor is micromanaging rather than macrothinking, when a division president offers clear directives but can’t see the future, or when investors demand instant gain but need long-term growth. Through vivid, compelling stories, Michael Useem reveals how upward leadership can transform incipient disaster into hard-

The Upside

Author: Adrian Slywotzky, Karl Weber
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780307351012
An innovative business consultant offers a provocative, counterintuitive approach to business success that explains how to transform change and threats into an opportunity for corporate growth, offering a series of practical tools, information, and strategies for identifying, anticipating, and effectively utilizing these potential problems. 35,000 first printing.

Harvard Business Review on Decision Making

Author: John Hammond, Howard Raiffa, Alden M. Hayashi, Ralph Keeney, Peter F. Drucker
Publisher : Harvard Business School Pr
ISBN : 9781578515578
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The Innovator's Solution

Author: Michael E. Raynor, Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : Harvard Business School Pr
ISBN : 9781578518524
Focusing on nine crucial areas of business, Christensen and Raynor advise corporations on how to develop successful new businesses and get ahead of the competition. The authors emphasize ways managers can avoid bad decisions and devote their energies to productive ones, and they use such giants as IBM, Microsoft, and Sony to illustrate their principles.

It Risk

Author: Richard Hunter, George Westerman
Publisher : Harvard Business School Pr
ISBN : 9781422106662
Are you exposing your business to IT risk, and leaving profit opportunities on the table? You might be if you are managing your IT risk using more traditional approaches. IT Risk, a new book based on research conducted by MITs Center for Information Systems Research and Gartner, Inc., helps companies focus on the most pressing risks and leverage the upside that comes with vigilance.

The Human Element

Author: Lee Roy Beach
Publisher : M E Sharpe Inc
ISBN : 9780765620361
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Smart World

Author: Richard Ogle
Publisher : Perseus Distribution Services
ISBN : 9781591394174
Our ideas about creativity, and particularly the most important kind--what Richard Ogle calls breakthrough creativity --are governed by a long-standing and deep-seated myth: the mind inside the head. From ancient times, philosphers of mind have held that important ideas and insights come from the individual brains of geniuses with awesome rational powers, whose minds seem to function on a higher p

Alignment

Author: David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan
Publisher : Harvard Business School Pr
ISBN : 9781591396901
The creators of the Balanced Scorecard apply their proven approach to corporate level strategy and offer a framework for aligning all of a company's individual business units with the organizations' overall strategy to ensure optimal business performance.

Experimentation Matters

Author: Stefan H. Thomke
Publisher : Perseus Distribution Services
ISBN : 9781578517503

Revolutionizing Innovation and Performance Through New Experimentation Technologies

Every company`s ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of experimentation often limits innovation. New technologies-including computer modeling and simulation-promise to lift that constraint by chang

Principles of General Management

Author: John L. Colley, Robert D. Hardie, Wallace Stettinius, George, W Logan, Jacqueline L. Doyle
Publisher : Yale Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780300117097
Stop! If you have been looking for the one resource for managing a business of any size, this is it. Based on the extensive business experience of five experts, this authoritative guide provides an in-depth look at what every leader must know about managing across departments, functions, divisions, or companies.Drawing on decades of combined experience, John Colley and colleagues detail the wide r

Law of Success

Author: Ann Hartley, Bill Hartley, Napolean Hill
Publisher : Highroads Media
ISBN : 9781932429244
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Ripples from the Zambezi

Author: Ernesto Sirolli
Publisher : New Society Pub
ISBN : 9780865713970
After six years of economic development work in Zambia, Kenya, the Ivory Coast, Algeria, and Somalia, Ernesto Sirolli witnessed how little most foreign aid programs were actually doing for the people they hoped to help -- from creating a communal tomato field on the banks of the Zambezi river (only to be demolished by the river`s hippos at harvest time) to donating snowplows to African nations and

Moral Intelligence

Author: Doug Lennick, Fred Kiel
Publisher : Wharton School Pub
ISBN : 9780132349864
Through a combination of research, and original thought leadership, the authors demonstrate how the best performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. These individuals exhibit moral intelligence: a strong moral compass and the ability to follow it. Lennick and Kiel reveal how dozens of companies benefit from the moral in