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Why Your Company Must Have a Design Culture
Author Russ Hall , Stewart Emery , Robert Brunner
This Element is an excerpt from Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company (ISBN: 9780137142446) by Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery. Available in print and digital formats.Take a broader view of great product design--and promote culture and....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Why You Can’t Stimulate Your Way to Prosperity
Author Peter Navarro , Glenn Hubbard
This Element is an excerpt from Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity (9780137027736) by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.Why the 2009 fiscal stimulu....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Author Gary Pittard
Your journey to success starts hereWhy Winners Win identifies the crucial elements of business success and provides step-by-step guidance on getting there. Author Gary Pittard shows you why consistent results are the key contributing factor to lasting success, and ....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Victor Lombardi
Just as pilots and doctors improve by studying crash reports and postmortems, experience designers can improve by learning how customer experience failures cause products to fail in the marketplace. Rather than proselytizing a particular approach to design, Why We F....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Why the Influence of Women on Boards Still Lags
Author Robert G. Eccles , Erwinn Danneels , George F. Colony , Jill J. Avery , Susan Fourni
Research indicates that the reason women aren't making more rapid inroads on corporate boards is that few have reached the most influential board leadership positions. Although more women are on boards now than 10 years ago, very few have been promoted to a post t....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Why Tech Companies Don’t See Their Biggest Problems Coming
Author Ian Mitroff
Technology companies, such as Facebook, often fail to make crisis management a central feature of their operations, thanks to five blind spots to which they're especially susceptible. Recognizing these shortcomings is the first imperative; the next is developing a....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Author Frieda Klotz
While flat organizational structures have gained favor in recent years, hierarchies continue to provide many important benefits, says the University of Michigan’s Lindy Greer. Depending on the circumstances, the answer isn’t to eliminate hierarchy but to train lead....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Why Startups Fail: And How Yours Can Succeed
Author David Feinleib
For the want-to-be entrepreneur thinking about taking the leap, the boot-strapped entrepreneur trying to energize a business three or four years in, and the venture-backed entrepreneur trying to scale, Why Startups Fail shows you the key mistakes new ventures make—a....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Why Some Platforms Are Better Than Others
Author Jonathan Knee
Executives often look at the network effects of digital platforms as a key source of competitive advantage — without understanding that platforms need to also leverage other factors at play in the local markets and among preferred customers. Network effects ca....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Why Social Responsibility Produces More Resilient Organizations
Author Sarah Kaplan
Companies are concerned about finding new sources of revenue and cutting costs to stay afloat during the COVID-19 crisis. But those aren’t the only risks they need to manage. They must also consider the impact of their activities on their myriad stakeholders. Those that d....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Why Smart Companies Are Giving Customers More Data
Author Barbara H. Wixom , Ronny M. Schüritz , Killian Farrell
Companies looking for ways to stand out from their competition can offer customers data products that enhance the product or service the customer originally came looking for. This “data wrapping” technique is an innovative option to increase a product’s value to the custo....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Lisa Bodell
Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move b....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Why Should the Boss Listen to You?: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor
Author Lukaszewski James E.
This is a book about gaining influence and becoming a key trusted advisor. It is for everyone who advises leaders and senior managers (accounting, finance, human resources, IT, law, marketing, public relations, security, and strategic planning) and for outside consu....
Release Date 2008/02 -
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? With a New Preface by the Authors
Author Gareth Jones , Rob Goffee
Are you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders--men and women who are confident in who they are and what they stand for ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Tony Martyr
We are all involved at some time in our lives in projects, if not professionally then in our private and community lives. Some projects fail completely and many more disappoint. We frequently hear reports of IT, construction, engineering, and personal projects fail....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Why People Believe in Their Leaders — Or Not
Author Lynne M. Andersson , Brad Gilbreath , Tae-Yeol Kim , Daniel Han Min Chng
Organizations need to focus on how blockchain can be used to support their unique strategies. Without this focus, they risk investing in initiatives that don’t provide meaningful value. Show and hide more
Release Date 2018/10 -
Why Our Knowledge Economy Can Survive the New Age of Pestilence
Author Joel Mokyr
Modernization has changed the way economies are exposed to, respond to, and are affected by disasters. Changes to the drivers of economic growth, particularly the move to a knowledge-based economy, should make us more resilient and limit the long-term effects of COVID-19.....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Why Nonprofit Transitions Fail
Author Laura Watkins , Susan Egmont , Barry Dym
This Element is an excerpt from Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits: Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence (9780137047659) by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont and Laura Watkins. Available in print and digital formats.How to manage both the predicta....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Why New Systems Fail: Revised Edition: An Insider’s Guide to Successful IT Projects
Author Phil Simon
What does a Fortune 500 company implementing a multimillion dollar "off the shelf" system have in common with a 150 person firm building its own system? In each case, the organization failed to activate and utilize its system as initially conceived by senior managem....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Why Moats Matter: The Morningstar Approach to Stock Investing
Author Heather Brilliant , Elizabeth Collins
Incorporate economic moat analysis for profitable investingWhy Moats Matter is a comprehensive guide to finding great companies with economic moats, or competitive advantages. This book explains the investment approach used by Morningstar, Inc., and includes a free ....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It: A Results-Only Guide to Taking Control of Work, Not People
Author Cali Ressler , Jody Thompson
Change the way you think about work (and life) by focusing on results—and only resultsWhy Managing Sucks and How to Fix It shows how the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) mindset can make you or your organization more entrepreneurial, more connected with the broa....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation
Author Peter T. Ward , Rachna Shah , Toni L. Doolen , Philipp Mayrl , Anja Schulze , Udo Lin
Managers often say they want to improve their product development capability based on so-called “lean” principles and practices so they can innovate while reducing costs and improving quality. In studying manufacturing over the past two decades, the aut....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Why Investors Should Trade Options Around Earnings Announcements
Author Ping Zhou , John Shon
This Element is an excerpt from Trading on Corporate Earnings News: Profiting from Targeted, Short-Term Options Positions (9780137084920) by John Shon, Ph.D., and Ping Zhou, Ph.D. Available in print and digital formats.Two Line DescriptionHow to trade options before....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open
Author Neil C. Thompson , Didier Bonnet , Yun Ye
Forging partnerships and investing in startups for new technologies can help companies catch up with rivals, but it doesn’t always give them a competitive advantage. Most would do better to rethink their innovation systems. They must treat external innovation as a way o....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Byron Hanson , David H. Henard , Michael A. Stanko , Charan K. Bagga , Neil T. Bendl
Too often, great products fail because customers do not recognize the value that they create. Although we now have ample insight into how customers evaluate new products, many companies focus primarily on creating value -- without enough regard to how customers rec....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus, Second Edition
Author Michael A. Roberto
Make better decisions! Michael A. Roberto will help you achieve deeper consensus, get past groupthink and "yes men," and achieve superior results in every decision you make -- especially your most complex and highest-stakes decisions! Roberto's Why Great Leaders Do....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus
Author Michael A. Roberto
Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men.In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Why Digital Transformations Fail
Author Tony Saldanha
Former Procter & Gamble Vice President for IT and Shared Services, Tony Saldanha gives you the keys to a successful digital transformation: a proven five-stage model and a disciplined process for executing it. Digital transformation is more important than....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Why Digital Transformation Needs a Heart
Author George Westerman
Three technology-driven forces are transforming the nature of management. Automation is making it more and more possible for companies to do work without humans involved. Data-driven management supplements intuition and experience with data and experimentation. Res....
Release Date 2016/10