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Author Thomas Ferratt , Jerry Power
Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers' time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. This book shows how it's done. Business survival requires valuing what customers value—and in our overwo....
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Leadership in Higher Education
Author Barry Posner , Jim Kouzes
The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the f....
Release Date 2019/09 -
The Outward Mindset, 2nd Edition
Author The Institute Institute
The new edition of an international bestseller helps individuals and organizations shift to a new mindset that will improve performance, spark collaboration, accelerate innovation, and make your life and the lives of everyone around you better.Without even bei....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Author Dave Ulrich , Arthur Yeung
Your Company Isn't Fast Enough. Here's How to Change That.The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models--the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few--have emerged, but leaders nee....
Release Date 2019/09 -
LeadAbility: Transforming the Way We Live and Work Together
Author Dr. Wade A. McNair
"What we think, we become." - Proverb For decades, leadership was reserved for a select few that others thought had been gifted with innate talent and the exclusive right to lead. Today, we know better. Everyone leads - in their personal life, their workplaces, ....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Innovation and Creativity in SMEs
Author Berangere L. Szostak , Claudine Gay
In order to survive in their market and differentiate themselves from the competition, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which represent more than 90% of companies worldwide, need to be creative and innovative. This book presents a conceptual....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Creating Digital Offerings Customers Will Buy
Author Jeanne W. Ross , Cynthia M. Beath , Martin Mocker
How can companies decide which new digital offerings to pursue? Successful digital offerings are created at the intersection of what technologies can deliver and what customers want and will pay for. That point of intersection, however, has proved to be elusive. To find i....
Release Date 2019/08 -
'Just Enough' Piracy Can Be a Good Thing
Author Gerald C. Kane , Debabrata Dey , Atanu Lahiri , Antino Kim
When piracy is rampant, its negative impact makes manufacturers and retailers worse off — but anti-piracy measures are often expensive. Before going full force against piracy, organizations should ponder whether doing so would be a worthwhile investment. One factor....
Release Date 2019/08 -
The Management Consultant, 2nd Edition
Author Richard Newton
Richard Newton is an author and business adviser. He worked for the management consultancy practices of Cooper & Lybrand, Ernst & Young, and A.T Kearney, and continues to provide consultancy through his own company, Enixus. Richard has worked with many professional services firms on major pr....
Release Date 2019/08 -
The Economics of Higher Purpose
Author Anjan V. Thakor , Robert E. Quinn
Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose—something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line.What does a lofty notion like purpose have to....
Release Date 2019/08 -
How to Take Action for Successful Performance Management
Author Hanne Nørreklit , Professor Falconer Mitchell
This book is intended for practitioners, students, and researchers who are interested in designing, using, assessing, and researching performance management systems.Managerial personnel involved in such activity will hold many beliefs about how their organization f....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author David A. Thomas , Anthony J. Mayo , Laura Morgan Roberts
Rethinking How to Build Inclusive OrganizationsRace, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are ....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Marty Linsky , Ronald Heifetz , James Allen , Chris Zook , Harvard Business Review
How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown?If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming back stronger, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and select....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Alfonso Asensio
Chief Kickboxing Officer shows how the fighting and business mindsets cross over in this process of discovery and, in particular, what lessons can be learned from a highly refined and scientific type of fighting system: the martial arts.Business and fighting are tw....
Release Date 2019/08 -
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 -
How Managers Can Help Workers Tackle Digital Distractions
Author Brian Solis
Managers and staff alike have been conditioned to respond to digital messaging platforms to the exclusion of all else — and digital distraction is costing businesses big in employee productivity. Managers can teach their reports how to tune out the siren song of di....
Release Date 2019/07 -
How Business Ecosystems Rise (and Often Fall)
Author Martin Reeves , Hen Lotan , Julien Legrand
It’s tempting to look at high-profile business ecosystems and assume that the model is a reliable formula for success. In fact, many ecosystems never earn a significant market share, and only about 15% dominate their markets over time. An analysis shows that most share a ....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Starting a Practice, 2nd Edition
Author Simon Foxell
The second edition of the popular Starting a Practice: A Plan of Work is a fully revised and updated guide to planning, setting up and running your architectural practice. Mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work 2013, it approaches starting a business as if it were a design proje....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Mario Herger
How the radical disruption of the auto industry affects you—and how you can prepare for the soon-to-be “new normal”The combined effect of autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and the sharing economy is on the verge of changing the auto industry—all within the nex....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Ian Shepherd
Ian Shepherd is a CEO and CMO who has held senior roles in a range of world-class consumer brands over the last 25 years including BskyB, Vodafone, Game and Odeon. He has seen businesses driven to the brink of extinction by changing consumer needs but also seen businesses respond to those changes, t....
Release Date 2019/07 -
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 -
Author Renée A. Mauborgne , W. Chan Kim
The collection you need to create more blue oceans.W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne changed the field of strategy and the language of business with their pathbreaking "blue ocean strategy," a model for creating uncontested markets that unlock new demand and new oppo....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Sustainable Enterprise Performance
Author Jean-Louis Leignel , Emmanuel Menager , Serge Yablonsk
Sustainable Enterprise Performance details a method for evaluating an enterprise’s readiness and progress toward sustainable performance through a comprehensive set of qualitative and quantitative indicators. These indicators cover enterprise strategy for meeting both th....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author David Heller , Sylvain de Chadirac , Lana Halaoui
In France, the number of young start-ups has soared since the beginning of the 2010s, leading the government to encourage their development and make France the “start-up nation”. This book contributes to a better understanding of the emergence of these companies by study....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Jean-Claude André
Digital technology opens up extraordinary fields for applications that will deeply change the nature of jobs and trade, the very concept of work and the expectations of user–producers. The “masters of algorithms” have disrupted production and services, and this tre....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Information Systems Management
Author Claudio Vitari , Jean-Loup Richet , Julien Malaurent , Philippe Eynaud , Daniel Alba
Information Systems Management is intended to sensitize the heads of organizations to the issues raised by information systems (IS). Through its pedagogical presentation, the book ensures that issues related to IS are not left solely to the experts in the field. T....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Olga V. Mack
Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board Seat is a practical beginner’s guide for anyone considering becoming a director, from young professionals seeking corporate board service in the distant future to seasoned professionals contemplating an imminen....
Release Date 2019/07 -
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 -
Author David McCourt
Rethink your way to a better lifeIn business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to ....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Michelle Lapierre , Francisco Palao , Salim Ismail
A practical handbook for using Exponential Organization to transform your organization—and disrupt your industry—in 10 weeksToday’s top business challenge is adapting to accelerating technological and global change. In his bestselling book Exponential Organizations....
Release Date 2019/06