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Think Out of the Box by Mike Vance and Diane Deacon (Paperback, 216 pages, 1997) In today's fast-changing global marketplace, organizations must adapt to new, sometimes contradictory, demands from customers, competitors, employees, and shareholders. Think Out of the Box offers a treasure chest of operational creativity--the same creative solutions which major corporations have used for three decades. |
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Built to Last Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras (Paperback, 368 pages, 1997) Built to Last identifies 18 visionary companies and sets out to determine what's special about them. To get on the list, a company had to be world famous, have a stellar brand image, and be at least 50 years old. To highlight what's special about their 18 visionary picks, they use a control group of successful-but-second-rank companies . Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, Hewlett Packard to Texas Instruments, and so on |
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Reengineering Management The Mandate for New Leadership Edited by James Champy (Paperback, 1996) Now that corporations have taken pains to reengineer their operational processes, management processes must change in accordance. This book focuses on teaching managers their roles in a reengineered corporate environment and provides examples of top corporations who have successfully implemented change. |
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Leadership Moment Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All Edited by Michael Useem (Hardcover, 320 pages, 1998) Useem offers nine accounts of leaders facing circumstances that tested leadership to its utmost. Individually, each account offers a distinct set of lessons that can be remembered and used in everyday management, whether in a company or community. Collectively, the nine accounts are intended to map a broad leadership terrain, from strategic vision and persuasive communication to team building and fact action. |
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The Discipline of Market Leaders Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market Edited by Michael Treacy and Frederik D. Wiersema (Paperback, 210 pages, 1997) The authors' thesis is deceptively simple: that successful organizations - the market leaders - excel at delivering one type of value to their chosen customers. The key is focus. Market leaders choose a single "value discipline" - best total cost, best product, or best total solution - and then build their organization around it. They sustain their leadership position not by resting on their laurels, but by offering better value year after year. |
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Quality in Action 93 Lessons in Leadership, Participation, and Measurement Edited by Patrick L. Townsend and Joan E. Gebhardt (Paperback, 262 pages, 1997) Twonsend and Gebhardt mix contemporary versions of familiar fables with workplace anecdotes and nuts-and-bolts guidance to bring the quality process to life--at every level and for every employee of a company. The book is divided into three mini-books that cover leadership, employee participation, and methods of measurement. |
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Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will Lessons in Mastering Change from the Principles Jack Welch Is Using to Revolutionize GE Edited by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman (Paperback, 496 pages, 1994) A chronicle of Jack Welch, General Electric's revolutionary CEO, and his ideas that allowed him to rescue one of the world's largest corporations. |
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Even Eagles Need a Push Learning to Soar in a Changing World Edited by David McNally (Paperback, 1994) this motivational masterpiece uses anecdotes, quotations, and exercises to teach readers how to find meaning and purpose in both their professional and personal lives. |
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If It Ain't Broke, Break It And Other Unconventional Wisdom for a Changing Business World Edited by Robert J. Kriegel and Louis Patler (Paperback , 1992) A guide to unlocking creative thought in order to work smarter employs hundreds of real-life examples to teach readers how to break away from the pack; apply innovative principles to a career; and more. |
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The New Leaders Leadership Diversity in America Edited by Ann M. Morrison (Paperback, 1996) From the author who brought the term "glass ceiling" into our vernacular comes a grounded and practical approach to vaulting women and people of color into the leadership ranks of corporate America. As the debate over quotas, affirmative action initiatives and equal opportunity intensifies, Morrison's wisdom is essential today more than ever. |
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Jumping the Curve Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition Edited by Nicholas Imparatp and Oren Harari (Paperback , 324 pages, 1996) Two internationally known management thinkers offer a historically-based framework for managing change and facing a future radically different from past or present. Having devised successful strategies for managing throughout the chaos of new eras, the authors show leaders ways to "jump the curve" to a new way of thinking. Concrete examples from interviews with thousands of managers represent a wide variety of industries that stretch around the world and have broad implications for new organizations. |
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Enterprise One to One Tools for Competing in the Interactive Age by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers (Paperback, 432 pages, 1999) Peppers & Rogers explain how to harness technology to achieve competitive advantages in customer loyalty and unit margin. They show you how you can tell customers apart, remember them individally, and have them give feedback directly to you. They also display how mass customization technology enables businesses to customize products and services as a matter of routine. |
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Analysis for Financial Management Edited by Robert C. Higgins (Paperback, 1997, 5th edition) Higgins gives you the essential tools, strategies, and tactics for improving the financial dimensions of your operating decisions. This completely revised Third Edition for Analysis for Financial Management covers recent developments in the finance field such as market signaling, market efficiency, and capital asset pricing and, for the first time, integrates international topics throughout the book |
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Blur The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy Edited by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer (Paperback, 265 pages, 1999) The authors, who both direct research at the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, maintain that "connectivity, speed, and the growth of intangible value" have catapulted business into a period of unprecedented transition that demands immediate and creative attention. Citing disparate examples including Amazon.com, singer David Bowie, and the Beanie Baby toy phenomenon, they show how a willingness to step away from conventional thinking is crucial for continued success. |
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The Profit Zone How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Edited by Adrian J. Slywotzky and David J. Morrison with Bob Andelman (Hardcover, 342 pages, 1998) The Profit Zone looks at how profit happens in today's customer-driven economy. The authors demonstrate why market share often leads to a "no-profit zone" and identify 22 profit models that have helped dozens of companies consistently make money. Included are in-depth looks at companies--Disney, GE, Microsoft, Intel, Charles Schwab--that have successfully redesigned their businesses and dramatically increased the value of their companies. |
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Lean & Meaningful A New Culture for Corporate America by Roger E. Herman and Joyce L. Gioia (Hardcover, 400 pages, 1998) To succeed in the years ahead, employers must shift to a new culture, a culture that is more in keeping with the exciting, fast-moving, unforgiving future. We describe that emerging culture as "lean and meaningful." Companies will continue to seek ways to be more efficient in their operations, but at the same time thy will need people-quality people-to perform the work that has to be done. |
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Empires of the Mind Lessons to Lead and Succeed in a Knowledge-Based Edited by Denis Waitley (0688147631, 266 pages, 1996) The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs now offers an inside look at how you can learn the skills for a successful future. Denis Waitley tells you how to "fireproof" your career in today's volatile business climate while developing the qualities necessary to lead others and to lead a life full of satisfaction. |
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Break Out of the Box by Mike Vance and Diane Deacon (Hardcover , 224 pages, 1996) This book focuses on the 10 most important elements that need revival in individuals and organizations on a continuing basis. The techniques they discuss enable you to act fast to identify needs, develop solutions and implement action plans. |
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Intellectual Capital The New Wealth of Organizations by Thomas A. Stewart (Paperback, 288 pages, 1998) Knowledge has become the most important factor in economic life. It is the chief ingredient of what we buy and sell, the raw material with which we work. Intellectual capital--not natural resources, machinery, or even financial capital--has become the one indispensable asset of corporations |
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