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Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader
Author Robert J. Thomas
Experience may be a leader's best teacher--but there's a hitch. Two people can have identical experiences, but one blossoms while the other is depleted. The same can be said for any pair of fired CEOs, unsuccessful political candidates, or rookie supervisors. In C....
Release Date 2008/03 -
Author Ken Jennings , John Stahl-Wert
Matt James is in trouble. Recently promoted to head his division, he's delivered two years of divisional losses in clients, market share, and profits. He knows his workers are talented and creative, but they don't respond to his efforts to lead them, and he'....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Author Richard E. Zultner , Peter C. Patton , Bijay K. Jayaswal
Leading companies around the world, including Toyota and General Electric, have practiced Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for decades. Developed in Japan by Dr. Yoji Akao and Dr. Shigeru Mizuno, QFD has two aims: to ensure that true customer needs are properly dep....
Release Date 2007/03 -
101 Ways to Build Better Relationships with Your Customers
Author Peter R. Garber
Building better customer relationships is not just something that would be nice to do – it is something you must do if you expect to be successful in business today. This book contains 101 useful suggestions for maintaining and building relationships with your custo....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Author Esther Der , Johanna Rothman
You may never have seen great management. Or, more likely, you've seen pieces of great management, but you may not know how to pull it all together. If you're a seasoned manager who wants to be more effective, or if you're considering moving into management, thi....
Release Date 2005/09 -
Who Stole My Customer??: Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty
Author Harvey Thompson
Who's stealing your customers? Why is it happening? How can you stop it? These are the toughest questions facing virtually every enterprise. Who Stole My Customer?? is your complete guide to planning and implementing customer loyalty processes that really work-beca....
Release Date 2004/02 -
The Software Deployment Mystery - Solved! A Customer Guide
Author Charles P. Brown , Fernando Zuliani , Reid Byers , Calvin Lawrence , Mike Ransom , Ca
To solve any mystery, detectives rely on their experience along with proven tools and techniques to unravel the conundrum. This IBM Redbook addresses the often illusive mystery known as software deployment success. The information, practices, and methods presented i....
Release Date 2004/02 -
There's No Business That's Not Show Business: Marketing in an Experience Culture
Author Karen Vrotsos , David L. Rogers , Bernd H. Schmitt
Say goodbye to "business as usual"--to succeed today you need show business!How do you market in today's "experience culture"--as conventional advertising grows increasingly ineffective, and customers grow increasingly independent? Companies and brands from Altoids....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Author Joseph A. Michelli
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS!You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks success lies in its ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profi....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Customer Culture: How FedEx® and Other Great Companies Put the Customer First Every Day
Author Michael D. Basch
Everyone talks about creating a "customer-centered culture." In CustomerCulture: How FedEx and Other Great Companies Put Their Customer First Every Day, the executive who pioneered FedExÕs legendary customer culture shows exactly how to go beyond talk and make it ha....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Windows® CE 3.0 Application Programming
Author Marshall Brain , Nick Grattan
Windows CE 3.0 programming for Pocket PC, handheld PC, and embedded devicesEnterprise computing including COM, DCOM, database access using ADOCE, and Microsoft Message QueueCommunications, including Internet Web access with HTTP, TCP/IP, sockets, serial communicatio....
Release Date 2000/10