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Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure [Secure eReader]
by Alfred A. Marcus
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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 detailed performance metrics for the 1,000 largest U.S. corporations, identifying 3% who've consistently outperform their industry's averages for a full decade. Many of these firms get little publicity: firms like Amphenol, Ball, Family Dollar, B... more info>>
Category: Business
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Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow's Crisis...Today [Secure eReader]
by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson, Herbert J. Addison
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What's the best way to drive fundamental, transformative change within your organization? Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. It's called idealized design, and--as executives in hundreds of organizations will testify--it's one of the most powerful techniques you'll ever use. Authored by its legendary creator, Wharton Professor Emeritus Russell Ackoff, and leading practitioner Jason Magidson, Idealized Design covers every facet of this breakthrough methodology. Yo... more info>>
Category: Business
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Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It [Secure eReader]
by Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein, Robert Shelton
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Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft and Toyota, to help ordinary managers drive top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience--as well as the most thorough review of innovation research ever performed. They'll show what works, what doesn't, and how to use management tools to dramatically increase the payoff from innovation investments. Learn how to define the right s... more info>>
Category: Technology/Science
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Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change [Secure eReader]
by Lawrence G. Hrebiniak
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Formulating strategy is one thing. Executing it throughout the entire organization ... well, that's the really hard part. Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know far more about developing strategy than about executing it-and overcoming the difficult political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. In this book, Larry Hrebiniak offers a comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. Hrebi... more info>>
Category: Business
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Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of Our Times [Secure eReader]
by Mukul Pandya
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In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style..achieve breakthrough results ... and accelerate your career progress. The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV business news program, and Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School'... more info>>
Category: Business
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The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job [Secure eReader]
by Oded Shenkar
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China, the 21st century's new #1 economic superpower? What it will mean to you. * Why China's ascendancy is for real. * How China's ascendancy is redrawing political, economic, and social battle lines. * Why the U.S. is now most vulnerable to China's ascent.
Category: Business/Politics/Government
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The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want [Secure eReader]
by David Sirota
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Enthusiastic employees far out-produce and outperform the average workforce:they step up to do the hard, even 'impossible' jobs. They'll rally each others' spirits in even the toughest times. Most people are enthusiastic when they're hired: hopeful, ready to work hard, eager to contribute. What happens? Management, that's what. The authors tell you what managers do wrong, and what they need to do instead. It's about giving workers what they want most, summarized in the Three-Factor Theory: to be... more info>>
Category: Business
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The Next Global Stage: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World [Secure eReader]
by Kenichi Ohmae
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The future takes shape! Preview tomorrow's global economy... and the new rules for politics, business, and personal success. # Beyond the nation-state: towards a world driven by regional states and economic 'platforms'. # Why yesterday's economic theories no longer work: the accelerating power of complexity in today's global economy. # New ways to prepare for success on the global stage--in your business, and in your life.
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Understanding Arbitrage: An Intuitive Approach to Financial Analysis [Secure eReader]
by Randall Billingsley
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Arbitrage is central both to corporate risk management and to a wide range of investment strategies. Thousands of financial executives, managers, and sophisticated investors want to understand it, but most books on arbitrage are far too abstract and technical to serve their needs. Billingsley addresses this untapped market with the first accessible and realistic guide to the concepts and modern practice of arbitrage. It relies on intuition, not advanced math: readers will find basic algebra suff... more info>>
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Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus [Secure eReader]
by Michael A. Roberto
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No more 'yes-men'! How leaders can get the real truth, build real consensus, and drive real action. Leverage the wisdom of your entire organization to make more effective decisions. When 'yes" doesn't mean 'yes": discovering and addressing the hidden doubts that can sabotage your success. Better decision-making processes: lessons from business, the military, mountain climbing, even the White House.
Category: Business
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Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned As Children (But May Have Forgotten) [Secure eReader]
by Jon M. Huntsman
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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. Who's Jon Huntsman? Just someone who started with practically nothing, and built a world-class business that carried him to Forbes' list of America's wealthiest people. Here, he presents the lessons of a lifetime: a passionate, inspirational manifesto for returning to the days when your word was your bond, a handshake was sacred, and swarms of lawyer... more info>>
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