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Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results
Author Barry O'Reilly
A transformative system that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success.There’s a learning curve to running any successful business. But when leaders begin to rely o....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Author Richard R. Reilly , Karen Sobel Lojeski
Praise for Uniting the Virtual Workforce"Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on how to navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual work environments in the global economy. The authors do an outstanding job of presenting how organizations....
Release Date 2008/04 -
Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers, Second Edition
Author Christopher Duncan
Every day, customers see the results of divided companies. Regardless of the manner in which their company's fractures manifest themselves, however, corporate leaders must find a way to rid their workplaces of the divisions that threaten to undermine their company....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Lucy English
This text provides a succinct overview of concepts related to organizational success and offers a clear-eyed assessment of what is useful and what not.Every organization is unique. In order to make yours the best it can be, you need to understand the concepts prese....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Unearthing Business Requirements
Author Kathleen B. Hass , Rosemary Hossenlopp
A Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library Series Learn how the business analyst works collaboratively with the project manager and other core team members to create plans that customize elicitation activities to the unique needs of the project. The a....
Release Date 2007/10 -
Understanding Relative Price Strength
Author Charles D. Kirkpatrick
The author presents current evidence of the success of using relative price strength as an investing strategy and gives specifics on when to buy or sell stocks based on its premises.Relative strength is a method of selecting favorable stocks, based on the observatio....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Understanding Patterns of Enterprise Transformation
Author Jeremy Sutherland , Helen Williams
Although companies "going digital" has captured a great deal of attention, that’s just one form of organizational transformation sweeping through the enterprise today. Many companies are actively looking to change aspects of their operation, whether it’s reorganizi....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Understanding Patterns of Disruption
Author Ken Gleason , Q. Ethan McCallum
From startups to established market leaders, many companies today are taking advantage of disruptive forces to produce new products, become more efficient, or demolish barriers to entry. The web is a good example of a disruptive force, but subtler forms of disrupti....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Understanding Decision-Making within Distributed Project Teams
Author Emilie Hamel , Jaouad Daoudi , Nathalie Drouin , Mario Bourgault
The proliferation of geographically dispersed teams is, of course, related to the explosive development of information and communication technologies (ICT), and particularly technologies related to the Internet. Now that these technologies are performing better and....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Understanding China's Next Wave of Innovation
Author Wei Wei , George S. Yip , Mark J. Greeven
A few Chinese companies recently have challenged the R&D strategies of foreign companies and offered lessons on how to make ideas commercially viable. But another, less obvious force to be reckoned with in China are the thousands of innovative companies that are qu....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author George H. Baxter , Daniel C. Krawczyk
This book describes the biases most relevant to investing, include background on how biases develop, and offer practical strategies to help you to improve your performance.The authors offer a guide to categorizing biases based on cutting-edge brain science, which w....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation
Author Russell E. Palmer
To succeed, leaders must understand and apply the core principles of leadership--but that’s not enough. You need to shape your approach for any unique situation. Too many leaders don’t know how to do that--and that’s why they fail. Ultimate Leadership shows how to a....
Release Date 2008/01 -
Ubiquitous Computing for Business Innovation
Author Bo Begole
This Element is an excerpt from Ubiquitous Computing for Business: Find New Markets, Create Better Businesses, and Reach Customers Around The World 24-7-365 (9780137064434) by Bo Begole. Available in print and digital formats.Finding breakthrough opportunities to ad....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Twin-Win Research, 2nd Edition
Author Qiang Yang , Charles X Ling , Ben Shneiderman
The thrill of discovery and the excitement of innovation mean that research is often immensely satisfying. But beyond the personal satisfaction, the goal of research is to improve the lives of people everywhere by driving revolutionary advances in healthcare, educa....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Twenty-Two Ways to Develop Leadership in Staff Managers
Author Michael Lombardo , Robert Eichinger
A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs. This report shows why and offers several specific ways to increase the leadership potentia....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author James Yoder , Charles Sull , Stefano Turconi , Donald N. Sull
Businesses develop strategies to address complex, multi-layered business environments and challenges — but to execute a strategy in a meaningful way, it must produce a set of specific priorities focused on achieving clear goals. Rather than trying to boil the....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Turning Silicon into Gold: The Strategies, Failures, and Evolution of the Tech Industry
Author Griffin Kao , Jessica Hong , Michael Perusse
A few square miles of Northern California contain some of the world’s largest companies whose products affect billions of people every single day. What made these giants of Silicon Valley as impactful as they are? What do their paths to success have in common? Turning Sil....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Author Paul J. Zak
For decades, alarms have sounded about declining engagement. Yet companies continue to struggle with toxic cultures, and the low productivity and unhappiness that go with them.Why is “culture” so difficult to improve? What makes so many good employees check out? Ne....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Tarun Khanna
TrustCreating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesEntrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries the developed world has built ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Author Mark Albion
How do you build the kind of company you've always wanted to work in—one that serves people and the planet while being financially successful, too? What do you do when you believe that business should serve the common good, but everyday business pressures—meet....
Release Date 2006/06 -
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
Author David Gergen , Peter Sims , Bill George
True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, accla....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Douglas M. Baker , Bill George
The challenges we face these days are so great that we cannot rely entirely on ourselves, our communities, or our organizations to support us and help us stay on track. We need a small group of people with whom we can have in-depth discussions and share intimat....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Edgar Papke
Alignment is the single most critical business challenge for any organization and its leaders. Without it, inefficiency, conflict, and disengagement will cripple your ability to provide value to your customers. Companies live or die based on their ability to c....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Troubleshooting & Maintaining PCs All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition
Show your PC who’s boss Nothing’s more annoying than a tech malfunction, especially when it’s your PC—with the exception of perhaps wading through reams of random, unreliable theories online looking for a solution, or paying an expensive tech geek to show up to pe.... -
Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age
Author Wendy Evans , David P. Baker
Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of digital information to....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor
Author Patricia Ward Biederman , James O'Toole , Daniel Goleman , Warren Bennis
In Transparency, the authors-a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership-look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the ligh....
Release Date 2008/06