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Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate America
Author Thomas T. Stallkamp , Joel M. Shulman
Large, mature companies always become trapped at some point in the declining stages of what has become known as the corporate life cycle. Historically this barrier to continued growth has been, and is still, as unavoidable as death and taxes.In Getting Bigger by Gro....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Grow Your Own Leaders: How to Identify, Develop, and Retain Leadership Talent
Author Matthew J. Paese , Audrey B. Smith , William C. Byham
Today's enterprises face a profound leadership crisis - and the speed of business has far outstripped conventional executive development systems. In Grow Your Own Leaders, three world-renowned experts introduce an entirely new approach for identifying tomorrow's l....
Release Date 2002/02 -
Author James W. Cortada
Manage all the changes driving your business in the 21st century!In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change, James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and successfully manage....
Release Date 2000/08 -
Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier
Author Hal B. Gregersen , J. Stewart Black
Most organizations that seek to change fail. The central reason: employees are relying on obsolete "mental maps" that prevent them from observing changes in their business environment, responding effectively, or following through on changes they've begun. In Leadin....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices
Author Dr. Daniel Rouach , Jeff Saperstein
Drawing on extensive new research through dozens of interviews with entrepreneurial champions in diverse sectors, Creating Regional Wealth in the Global Innovation Economy pinpoints the key reasons why some locations succeed in the quest to become centers of technol....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Online Rules of Successful Companies: The Fool-Proof Guide to Building Profits, The
Author Robin Miller
In The Online Rules of Successful Companies: The Fool-Proof Guide to Building Profits, leading Internet entrepreneur Robin "Roblimo" Miller (developer for Slashdot and Freshmeat Web sites) presents systematic rules for building the profitability of your business onl....
Release Date 2002/10 -
Minding the Corporate Checkbook: A Manager's Guide to Executing Successful Business Investments
Author Steven R. Kursh
Minding the Corporate Checkbook: A Manager's Guide for ExecutingSuccessful Business InvestmentsSteven R. Kursh, Ph.D."I agree strongly with the author that Return on Investment (ROI) is notby itself a sufficient justification for most of today's businessinvestment....
Release Date 2004/03 -
And Dignity for All: Unlocking Greatness through Values-Based Leadership
Author Jane Bodman Converse , James Despain
And Dignity for All is about leading with values, leading by example, and - in so doing - unleashing the astonishing commitment and innovation that are buried within your organization right now. Discover how Jim Despain and his colleagues used values-based managemen....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Many Facets of Leadership, The
Author Albert A. Vicere , Marshall Goldsmith , Beverly Kaye , Vijay Govindarajan
In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexit....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Ruthless Execution: What Business Leaders Do When Their Companies Hit the Wall
Author Amir Hartman
Today's business leaders need a radically different skill from their recent predecessors: they must know how to know how to manage through adversity while preparing their companies for a new rebirth of success. In Ruthless Execution, Amir Hartman, author of the bes....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier
Author Hal B. Gregersen , J. Stewart Black
Of organizations that seek strategic change, 70% fail. In Leading Strategic Change,now in paperback, leading consultants J. Stewart Black and Hal B. Gregersen examine the core problem: organizations fail to change because individuals fail to change. Black and Greger....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Global Leadership: The Next Generation
Author Maya Hu-Chan , Alastair Robertson , Cathy L. Greenberg , Marshall Goldsmith
The follow-up to Marshall Goldsmith's 500,000-copy bestseller The Leader of the Future, Global Leadership: The Next Generation systematically identifies what tomorrow's leaders will need to know, do and believe in order to successfully lead the global enterpris....
Release Date 2003/04 -
Author Jeffrey D. Wager , J. Donald deBethizy , Michael D. Lord
Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
Author Ken Blanchard
“Leading at a Higher Level translates decades of research and 25 years of global experience into simple, practical, and powerful strategies to equip leaders at every level to build organizations that produce bottom-line results. At Nissan, we have made these princip....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure
Author Alfred A. Marcus
What keeps great companies winning, year after year, even as yesterday's most hyped businesses fall by the wayside? It's not what you think -- or what you've read. To find the real answers, strategic management expert Alfred Marcus systematically reviewed detaile....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Author Jack B. Rochester , John Gantz
Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
No Substitute for Victory: Lessons in Strategy and Leadership from General Douglas Macarthur
Author Donna Kinni , Theodore Kinni
General Douglas A. MacArthur's extraordinary life of leadership spanned three wars and more than six decades inside and outside the military. He defined principles of leadership that were decades ahead of their time: principles reflecting extraordinary wisdom about....
Release Date 2005/01 -
The Next Global Stage Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World
Author Kenichi Ohmae
Globalization is a fact. You can't stop it; it has already happened; it is here to stay. And we are moving into a new global stage.A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday's nation-based economic world. To succeed, you must act on the glob....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap
Author Dave Taylor , Linda S. Sanford
Praise for Let Go To Grow"Over the next ten years large companies will be hit with a wide array of harrowing new business challenges—commoditization being at the top of that list.Let Go To Grow elegantly outlines the critical new innovation, standardization, and glo....
Release Date 2005/12 -
The 86 Percent Solution: How to Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the Next 50 Years
Author Robert Gunther , Kamini Banga , Vijay Mahajan
Most global businesses focus nearly all their efforts on selling to the wealthiest 14% of the world's population. It's getting harder and harder to make a profit that way: these markets are oversaturated, overcompetitive, and declining. The Invisible Market shows ....
Release Date 2005/09 -
Moral Intelligence Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success
Author Fred Kiel , Doug Lennick
Through a combination of research, and original thought leadership, the authors demonstrate how the best performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. These individuals exhibit moral intell....
Release Date 2005/05 -
Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World
Author Eamonn Kelly
Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it!We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profound inflection point in human history since the Enlightenment. Th....
Release Date 2005/09 -
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 -
Winners Never Cheat Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten)
Author Jon M. Huntsman
Next time someone tells you business can't be done ethically -- corners must be cut, negotiations can't be honest -- hand them Jon Huntsman's new book. He started with practically nothing, and made it to Forbes'list of America's Top 100 richest people. Huntsman....
Release Date 2005/03 -
The silk road to riches: How you can profit by investing in Asia’s newfound prosperity
Author Ivan D. Martchev , Yiannis G. Mostrous , Elliott H. Gue
Asia is now the world’s #1 growth story. Farsighted investors will realize enormous profits by investing in companies that benefit from Asia’s historic transformation. In The Silk Road to Riches, a team of world-class financial analysts and newsletter editors point ....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Mick Cope
The consultancy business is booming. For any consultant aiming to survive and grow in this complex world, they need to have a clear and concise change model to hand, one that can guarantee delivery of a wide range of change projects.Based around the author's 7Cs mo....
Release Date 2000/03 -
When Consensus Hurts the Company
Author Alfredo Enrione , Felipe Csaszar
Boards and top management teams often try to gain consensus about important decisions. New research offers insights into when that's the right course, when it isn't - and how leaders can determine the best form of decision making for a given situation. Sho....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Is Your Business Ready for a Digital Future?
Author Doug Palmer , David Kiron , Anh Nguyen Phillips , Gerald C. Kane
Successfully incorporating today’s digital technologies requires companies to work in new ways. To explore how digital technologies are changing the way companies do business, MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte surveyed more than 4,800 r....
Release Date 2015/07