-
Author Patrick Sweeney
Be truly inspired, discover your potential, and leverage it to drive organizational successWhat You Aren’t Seeing uniquely combines Herb Greenberg’s inspiring story with insights and practical ideas that can help you become the leader you were meant to be. Herb, wh....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Rick Wartzman
An in-depth look at today’s most pressing business issues through the eyes of Peter Drucker—the father of modern management“Channeling Peter Drucker to tackle some of this century’s most difficult topics, What Would Drucker Do Now? is a veritable treasure trove of f....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Tara McMullin
Set and achieve your goals in a brand-new way for a more fulfilling lifeIn What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, celebrated speaker, coach, and author Tara McMullin shows you how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and m....
Release Date 2022/11 -
What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
Author Jeffrey Pfeffer
Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalize on opportunities because they misunderstand the real sources of business success.Based on his popular column in Business 2.0, Jeffrey Pfeffer delivers wise and timely business commentary that challenges conven....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Julian Birkinshaw
In this article, the author examines agile as a management practice through a case study of ING bank in the Netherlands, which has adopted agile across its headquarters in Amsterdam. The research is based on in-depth interviews with 15 ING executives and many front....
Release Date 2018/01 -
What the U.S. Can Learn from China
Author Ann Lee
While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China's economy is the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States' by 2020. President Obama called Ch....
Release Date 2012/01 -
What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets
Author Frieda Klotz
Technology leaders are not shy about pushing the boundaries of their industries, and sometimes they go further — challenging the prevailing rules of society at large. The eagerness of entrepreneurs to test limits isn’t surprising to Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Le....
Release Date 2019/06 -
What Managers Can Gain From Anonymous Chats
Author Ryan Bonnici
While anonymous feedback in teams can sometimes be less than constructive, when used the right way, digital chat tools that provide anonymity can help managers gauge employee morale and drive change. Show and hide more
Release Date 2019/01 -
Author Douglas E. Schoen , Michael J. Berland
In the most challenging economy of our lifetime, where should you turn for guidance?To the stories of those who have made it—the leaders who battled adversity, forged their own paths,and succeeded . . . because they knew what made th....
Release Date 2009/06 -
What Makes Great Leaders Great
Author Frank Arnold
Master the skills that icons throughout history have used to achieve the highest levels of success“This is an intelligent, knowledgeable presentation of management. The pragmatic approach of learning from icons makes the book extremely worthwhile reading for up-and-....
Release Date 2011/10 -
What Makes Change Harder or Easier
Author Jan vom Brocke , Theresa Schmiedel , Markus Spiegel
Before you adopt any popular new management approach, it pays to analyze the implicit values embedded in it. Then ask yourself: How well will those values fit our existing organizational culture? Show and hide more
Release Date 2017/04 -
What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Author Peter F. Drucker
In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It’s about these practices: Effective....
Release Date 2017/01 -
What Makes a Stock (Bond, Commodity) Look Good?
Author Michael N. Kahn
This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats.The six stock-picking criteria that help you consistently choose winners.If yo....
Release Date 2010/06 -
What Makes a Great Training Organization?: A Handbook of Best Practices
Author Russ Hall , Ken Taylor , Doug Harward
All learning leaders want their organizations to be perceived as great, but what makes a “great” training organization? How does a training organization achieve greatness, particularly from the perspective of the corporation, the learners, and any customers, client....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Not every leader is wildly charismatic or cut from the same cloth as other leaders in the organization. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways leaders can turn their weaknesses into strengths, overcome their personal deficits....
Release Date 2018/07 -
What Keeps Project Managers from Managing Their Projects?
Author Michael B. Bender
This Element is an excerpt from A Manager's Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best Practices (ISBN: 9780137136902) by Michael B. Bender. Available in print and digital formats.What senior managers can do to drive more effective project execution–and w....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Andrew Stellman
The most common Agile framework for project management and product delivery today is Scrum. If you combine Scrum with Kanban—an Agile method for process improvement and workflow management—you get Scrumban: a project management/product delivery tool that features p....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Matt LeMay
In a narrow sense, product managers work with designers and developers to build and maintain a company’s products. But product managers work best when they reach across organizational silos to connect internal stakeholders with your business goals—while ensuring th....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Daniel Cawrey
Facebook recently announced Libra, an ambitious project to bring blockchain-based cryptocurrency technology to its users around the world. This large-scale project involves a consortium of organizations in technology and finance hoping to reimagine digital finance.....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Matt Garrish
This book discusses the exciting new format that is set to unleash a content revolution in the publishing world. Laden with features the printed page could never offer--such as embedded multimedia and scripted interactivity--EPUB 3 will forever change what a book ca....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Rick Freedman
What began as an approach to manage individual software projects, agile has blossomed into a powerful group of principles and practices that any organization can use to stay successful in an ever-evolving business environment. This article from Rick Freedman, autho....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Andrew Stellman , Jennifer Greene
Agile has become popular with software teams because the ones that have “gone agile” often talk about the great results they get. The software they build is better, which makes a big difference to them and their users. Not only that, but when agile teams are effect....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Thornton Parker , Hazel Henderson
When it was first published, What If Boomers Can't Retire? predicted what would happen when boomers switched from buying stocks to selling them for retirement income. Since then-and as predicted by author Thornton Parker-stocks have become less important, pric....
Release Date 2002/11 -
What I Didn't Learn in Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World
Author Trish Gorman Clifford , Jay Barney
Meet Justin Campbell. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed a job with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on a mission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define and execute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the company developed.Ju....
Release Date 2010/10 -
What High-Potential Young Managers Want
Author Otto Scharmer , Thomas Graf , Jie Cao , Burak Koyuncu , Monika Hamori
The authors conducted two surveys, yielding responses from more than 1,200 young professionals, and had 18 in-depth interviews to examine the work behaviors and experiences of early-career, highly skilled employees. They found that young professionals have short av....
Release Date 2015/10 -
What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better
Author MA Collins Hemingway , Ph.D. Cathy Greenberg , Ph.D. Dan Baker
Happy companies are winning companies. Well-adjusted, psychologically healthy companies collaborate better. They innovate more effectively. They change faster. They see reality with exceptional clarity, but they know how to address it positively. They uncover opport....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Author Dorothy Grover Bolton , Robert Bolton
Corporate trainers are tasked with an awesome responsibility—helping individuals develop the skills they need to advance their careers and boost their organizations’ bottom lines. It’s a challenging job, but What Great Trainers Do is here to help—providing a proven....
Release Date 2015/12 -
What Great Service Leaders Know and Do
Author Leonard A. Schlesinger , W. Earl Sasser , James L. Heskett
Entire service businesses have been built around the ideas of Heskett, Sasser, and Schlesinger, pioneers in the world of service. Now they test their ideas against the actual experiences of successful and unsuccessful practitioners, as well as against demands o....
Release Date 2015/09