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Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete מאת Byron Reeves Every week, millions of people including many of your employees spend hours playing multi-player online games with a level of engagement they don t bring to work. These aren t just adolescent video games we re talking rich narrative quests with 3-D environments, cool avatars, and compelling goals an...

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Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת Peter Ferdinand Drucker We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out.But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers' careers. Instead, you must be yo...

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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good) מאת Robert Kegan A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddening...

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Executing Strategy (Pocket Mentor) מאת Hbsp Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skill...

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Harvard Business Review on Sales and Selling (Harvard Business Review Paperback) (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) מאת Hbsp No matter what business you're in, there is one ultimate driver for all that you do: sales. To survive, companies must sell. Whether you sell directly to mass-market customers, pitch to just one major buyer, or negotiate complex multiparty deals, knowing when and how to apply the right techniques ca...

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Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital מאת Spencer E. Ante Venture capitalists are the handmaidens of innovation. Operating in the background, they provide the fuel needed to get fledgling companies off the ground--and the advice and guidance that helps growing companies survive their adolescence.In Creative Capital, Spencer Ante tells the compelling story ...

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When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance מאת Robert J. Lees For too long, professional services firms have relied on the producer-manager model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations...

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Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation מאת Dov Dvir Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialisation. In fact, the number of projects in most organisations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, most projects fail - largely because ...

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HBR Case Studies: Keeping Strategy on Track (Harvard Business Review Case Studies) מאת Harvard Business Press Few management topics generate as much discussion--and disagreement--as strategy. Should you grow from the core, or expand into new markets? Do you really need take your company global? Should you make that next acquisition, or are you "growing for broke?"See how leading experts on strategy weigh in...

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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning מאת Thomas H. Davenport You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to "out-think" your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool. In "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" , Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue t...

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Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Successfully Navigating Major Career Transitions מאת Michael Watkins After three months in a new job, are you up to speed? Will you sink . . . or swim? Transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today.Yet far too often, leaders fail to transition effectively into new ...

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On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition מאת Michael E. Porter For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to h...

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Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates מאת Peter Skarzynski If you're like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success.In Innovation to th...

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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action מאת Jeffrey Pfeffer The market for business knowledge is booming, as companies looking to improve their performance pour billions of dollars into training programs, consultants, and executive education. Why, then, are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many ...

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Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (Center for Public Leadership) מאת Barbara Kellerman There is no leader without at least one follower - that's obvious. But this groundbreaking volume is the first to provide a sweeping view of followers both in their own right - and in relation to their leaders. It deliberately departs from the leader-centric approach that has for too long dominated ...

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HBR Case Studies: Making Change Stick (Harvard Business Review Case Studies) מאת Harvard Business Press Companies today are forced to transform almost continuously--leaving managers faced with difficult questions. How soon can you initiate change as a new hire? Should you merge cultures after an acquisition? How can you create lasting results when the majority of change efforts fail? See how leading m...

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Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press) מאת Scott D. Anthony More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attack...

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Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done מאת Mark Morgan Why do businesses consistently fail to execute their competitive strategies? Because leaders don't identify and invest in the full range of projects and programs required to align the organization with its strategy. Moreover, even when strategy makers do break their plans down into doable chunks, th...

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Operation China: From Strategy to Execution מאת Jimmy Hexter China has matured as a market and the game has changed. Yesterday, multinationals grappled with fundamental strategic choices: Do we go to China? Whom do we partner with? Where should we invest? Winning in China was all about achieving approval to enter the market, picking the right joint venture pa...

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Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty מאת Peter Cappelli Executives everywhere acknowledge that finding, retaining, and growing talent counts among their toughest business challenges. Yet to address this concern, many are turning to talent management practices that no longer work?because the environment they were tailored to no longer exists. In today's u...

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The Knowledge-Creating Company (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת Ikujiro Nonaka In a world where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. The best companies survive by consistently creating new knowledge, disseminating it widely throughout the organization, and quickly leveraging it in their business processes and the...

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Dismissing an Employee (Pocket Mentor) מאת Harvard Business School Press While no one likes to be the bearer of bad news, managers are sometimes faced with the difficult task of having to dismiss an employee. In this book, you'll learn how to effectively manage a dismissal--including making key decisions before, during, and after the critical event. Handled skillfully, ...

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Control in an Age of Empowerment (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת Robert Simons In Control in an Age of Empowerment, Robert Simons explains how to give employees the freedom to innovate while protecting your firm from loose cannons. Using powerful examples, Simons shows how to apply four powerful management "levers" to balance autonomy with control: Traditional diagnostic contr...

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Teaching Smart People How to Learn (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת Chris Argyris Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward -- on anyone or anything they can.In Teac...

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Preparing a Budget: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor) מאת Harvard Business School Press A budget is a financial action plan for an organization. "The Pocket Mentor Series" offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self tests, and real life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses an...

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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life מאת Stewart D. Friedman Now more than ever, your success as a leader isn't just about being a great business person. You've got to be a great person, performing well in all domains of your life -- your work, your home, your community, and your private self. That's a tall order.The good news is that, contrary to conventiona...

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Becoming a New Manager: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor) מאת Harvard Business School Press You've just been promoted to a managerial position for the first time - congratulations! But beware: the managerial role differs markedly from the individual contributor role. Go into the job with mistaken assumptions about what to expect, and you just may be blindsided by surprising realities. This...

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What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management מאת Jeffrey Pfeffer Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalise on opportunities because they misunderstand the real sources of business success. Based on his popular column in "Business 2.0", Jeffrey Pfeffer delivers wise and timely business commentary that challenges conventional wisdom while providing d...

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Harvard Business Review on Strategic Renewal (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) מאת Hbsp Technologies, consumer preferences, and market dynamics are changing faster than ever. To help your company stay competitive in the face of accelerating change, you need to continually test and redefine your strategy. But strategic renewal isn't easy.This book provides the ideas you'll need to refre...

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Power Is the Great Motivator (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת David C. McClelland In this provocative exploration into the nature and value of power in organizations, authors David McClelland and David Burnham reveal how the drive for influence is essential to good management. The authors provide a wealth of counterintuitive insights about what using power really means in today's...

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Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You מאת Sydney Finkelstein Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight?Sydney Fi...

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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies מאת Charlene Li Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry...

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Mastering the Hype Cycle: How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time (Gartner) מאת Jackie Fenn It happens over and over again. Some innovation (a new product, a management trend) comes along that captures the public's imagination. Everybody joins the parade with great fanfare and high expectations. This "next big thing" promises to transform the companies that adopt it -- and inflict great pe...

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Managing Diversity (Pocket Mentor) מאת Hbsp The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a m...

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Execution Premium מאת Robert S. Kaplan In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial...

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How to Choose a Leadership Pattern (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת Robert Tannenbaum Since 1922, "Harvard Business Review" has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice many of which still speak to and influence us today. "The HBR Classics" series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each vo...

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How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת William A. Sahlman Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be furthe...

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Setting Goals (Pocket Mentor) מאת Hbsp Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skill...

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Succession: Are You Ready? (Memo to the Ceo) מאת Marshall Goldsmith A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. A great deal has been written for corporate boards on the issue of succession planning. But most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--f...

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Built to Win: Creating a World-class Negotiating Organization מאת Hallam Movius Companies that consistently negotiate more valuable agreements in ways that protect key relationships enjoy an important but often overlooked competitive advantage. Until now, most companies have sought to improve their negotiation outcomes by sending individuals to training workshops. But this new ...

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How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Conflict in the workplace is natural--and even necessary. Colleagues who challenge one another's thinking tend to consider a richer range of options, which ultimately leads to better business decisions. How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight reveals the tactics managers can use to ensure that th...

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The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking מאת Roger L. Martin Successful business leaders think fundamentally differently than others - in a more "integrative" and expansive way. Emulating what successful leaders do is dangerous; instead, learn how these leaders think. This "integrative thinking" can be taught; we can all learn how to do it, and experience the...

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Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management מאת Gordon Binder Widely regarded as the most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Top magazines including Fortune and Industry Week have repeatedly named it one of America's best companies to work for.In Science Lessons, Gordon Binder--CEO and chairman...

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Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan מאת Ethan S. Harris Ben Bernanke's swearing in as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006 marked the end of Alan Greenspan's long, legendary career. To date, the new chair has garnered mixed reviews. Business economists see him as the best-qualified successor to Greenspan, while many traders and investors worry that he's too ...

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Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity מאת Rita Gunther McGrath You've been charged with growing your business. Incremental growth can no longer deliver the results you need. You need truly dynamic growth - and you need to achieve it without risking a hugely expensive gamble. How can you encourage innovative new ventures and pursue ambitious growth while minimiz...

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The End of Corporate Imperialism (Harvard Business Review Classics) מאת C. K. Prahalad Hundreds of millions of people in China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil are eager to enter the marketplace. Yet multinational companies typically pitch their products to emerging markets' tiny segment of affluent buyers, and thus miss out on much larger markets further down the socioeconomic pyramid -...

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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours מאת Tarun Khanna Called well worth reading by The Economist and earnest and entertaining by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna s Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new b...

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The Future of Management מאת Gary Hamel What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation - new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new ...

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Managing Difficult People (Harvard Business Review Case Studies) מאת Nicholas G. Carr Great managers can lead their teams through any challenge--but what if your people are the problem? From deciding whether an aggressive star performer is worth the trouble to knowing when team morale needs to come first, managers often face questions with no easy answers.See how leading experts weig...

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Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers מאת Gerald Zaltman Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book that reveals how to overcome th...

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Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness מאת Richard E. Boyatzis What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a commitment to being their very best.As Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis have shown in their bestselling books Primal Leadership and Resonant Leadersh...

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Starting a Business (Lessons Learned) מאת Harvard Business School Press Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the ...

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Harvard Business Review on Manufacturing Excellence at Toyota (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) מאת Hbsp Few companies have so consistently inspired management best practices as Toyota. In everything from strategic operational design and quality improvement to integrated product development and management training, the company has achieved success through constant innovation. This collection shows just...

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Hiring an Employee (Pocket Mentor) מאת Hbsp Your hiring decisions can make or break your team. Hire the right employees, and your team's performance will soar. Bring the wrong ones on board, and you're likely to see productivity and morale plummet. How to hire right? Understand and master the many steps in the hiring process. This book helps ...

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The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage מאת Roger L. Martin Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get d...

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Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value מאת Dave Ulrich Your company's brands hold intangible value and differentiate your firm from rivals. So does your leadership brand - a shared identity among your organization's leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals' leaders can do. In "Leadership Brand", Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood s...

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Five Minds for the Future מאת Howard Gardner We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how we will...

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The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow מאת Michael Maccoby A leader is: someone people follow. But why do people follow? Books abound on leaders, but much less is known about followers. In "The Leaders We Need", Maccoby steps into this yawning gap in the literature. This insightful book shows that followers have their own powerful motivations to follow. Man...

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Creating a Business Plan Pocket Mentor) מאת Harvard Business School Press Every business needs a business plan a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. This book will help you take a long, hard look at each element of the plan and show you how to communicate the right message to the right people, and maximize the chances of ...

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Doing Business Ethically (Lessons Learned) מאת Fifty Lessons Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out- with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the mos...

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Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset מאת Thomas C. Redman Your company's data has the potential to add enormous value to every facet of the organization -- from marketing and new product development to strategy to financial management. Yet if your company is like most, it's not using its data to create strategic advantage. Data sits around unused -- or inc...

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Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work (Memo to the Ceo) מאת Steve Steinhilber As a top executive, you've almost certainly forged strategic alliances with other companies. Some of these deals have worked--but many others have likely failed. In fact, companies worldwide launch more than two thousand strategic alliances every year, and more than half never deliver as promised.In...

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If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government מאת William D. Eggers The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfa...

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Harvard Business Review on Retailing and Merchandising (Harvard Business Review Paperback) מאת Hbsp Even the best features and sharpest marketing won't matter if a customer can't find your product. Given all of today's channels and increasingly competitive shelf space, creating a successful retailing and merchandising strategy is a growing challenge. This collection provides the tools and tactics ...

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Performance Appraisal: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor) מאת Harvard Business School Press One of your most sensitive duties as a manager is conducting performance appraisals. How do you objectively evaluate another person's performance? What guidelines are there for talking to your direct reports about both their strengths and their weaknesses? How can you address a weakness to help an e...

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Off-ramps and On-ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success מאת Sylvia Ann Hewlett With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway? By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate the...

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Rocking the Boat: How to Effect Change Without Making Trouble מאת Debra E. Meyerson Most people feel at odds with their organizations at one time or another: Managers with families struggle to balance professional and personal responsibilities in often unsympathetic firms. Members of minority groups strive to make their organizations better for others like themselves without limiti...

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Developing Employees: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor) מאת Harvard Business School Press "The Pocket Mentor" series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a...

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Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? (Memo to the CEO) מאת Steve Kerr It's one of the thorniest management problems around: dealing with unmotivated, low-performing employees. It's easy to point the finger of blame at them. But in most companies, it's the reward system, not the workforce, that's causing poor attitudes and performance: many reward systems actually d...

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Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life מאת Ronald A. Howard We often make small ethical compromises for "good" reasons: We lie to a customer because our boss asked us to. We exaggerate our accomplishments on our résumé to get an interview. Temptation blindsides us. And we make snap decisions we regret.Minor ethical lapses can seem harmless, but they instil...

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Doing Business Globally (Lessons Learned) מאת Fifty Lessons The Lessons Learned Series Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers twelve to fourteen insightful essays by top leaders in business...

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Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Memo to the Ceo) מאת Sylvia Ann Hewlett During tough economic times it's more vital than ever to hold on to and leverage your top performers: They've got the outsize smarts and dedication your firm needs to survive recession and emerge stronger. Yet in 2009 many employers are failing to support and sustain their best people. Loyalty and t...

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IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage מאת George Westerman Are you exposing your business to IT risk, and leaving profit opportunities on the table? You might be if you are managing your IT risk using more traditional approaches. IT Risk, a new book based on research conducted by MIT s Center for Information Systems Research and Gartner, Inc., helps compani...

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Innovator's Toolkit: 10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation (Harvard Business Essentials) מאת Harvard Business School Press The Innovator's ToolkitWhat are the types of innovation? How can you generate creative ideas for your business? How can you move from ideas to unleashing you innovation to the market? How can you combine your innovation with a strategic plan to move your company forward? Get these questions answered...

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Harvard Business Review on Collaborating Across Silos (Harvard Business Review Paperback) (The Harvard Business Review Series) מאת Harvard Business School Press Today's organizations are larger and more complex than ever. Increasingly, you cannot simply take cooperation across your company for granted. To manage cross-departmental projects effectively, you must break down 'silos'; and master the tools and tactics of collaboration. You'll benefit from a fast...

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Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? (Memo to the CEO) מאת Andrew J. Hoffman Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. And increasingly, it's become a crucial business issue. How will you and your company respond?In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John Woody provide concise and reliable advice to help you ...

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Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition מאת Michael J. Mauboussin Leaders in all fields-business, medicine, law, government-make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they mismanage many of those choices, even though they have the right intentions. These blunders take a huge toll on leaders, their organizations, and the people they serve. Why is it ...

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Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By מאת Dave Ulrich What makes a great leader? It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But where are the clear, simple answers we need for our daily work lives? Are there any?D...

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The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning מאת Joseph L. Bower With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company s culture and history that they need to succeed. Result? Many deliver disappoin...

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Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind מאת Bernd H. Schmitt Business leaders need bold strategies to stay relevant and win. In Big Think Strategy, Schmitt shows how to bring bold thinking into your business by sourcing big ideas and executing them creatively. With the tools in this book, any leader can overcome institutionalized small think the inertia, th...

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Going Green (Lessons Learned) מאת Fifty Lessons The Lessons Learned Series Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers twelve to fourteen insightful essays by top leaders in business...

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Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds with Economics--and Why it Matters מאת Peter A. Ubel Humans just aren't entirely rational creatures. We decide to roll over and hit the snooze button instead of going to the gym. We take out home loans we can't possibly afford. And did you know that people named Paul are more likely to move to St. Paul than other cities? All too often, our subconsciou...

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High Performance with High Integrity (Memo to the CEO) מאת Ben W. Our free-market capitalist system is the world's greatest driver of prosperity, but it has a dark side. Under intense pressure to make the numbers, executives and employees face temptation to cut corners, fudge accounts, or worse. And in today's unforgiving environment, such lapses can be catastroph...

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Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big Growth Strategy מאת Erich Joachimsthaler Companies must innovate to grow, but they often forget to look beyond their own brands. Take Sony, for example. Its success with consumer innovations like the Walkman blinded it to obvious changes in how, when, and where people wanted their music. Apple capitalized on those changes in demand with th...

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Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation מאת Tamara Erickson Good news: there is no need to retire. There is no need to pack up your desk or attend one more retirement party. Why? With the widen gap between the number of workers and demand for talent, employers are looking to keep smart, productive workers in the workplace. The growing talent shortage will al...

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Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know מאת David A. Moss Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and concis...

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Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want מאת II Pine Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what you sell or how you sell it? If so, welcome to the club. Inundated by fakes and sophisticated counterfeits, people increasingly see the world in terms of real or fake. They would rather buy somethi...

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Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities מאת Christian Terwiesch Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how to systematically identify excepti...