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by Michael A. Roberto
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (9780131454392) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Why “take-charge” leadership requires surprising restraint:...
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer
Managing for Conflict and Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle...
by Michael A. Roberto
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, Second Edition offers a powerful framework every leader can use to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; test their assumptions; more thoroughly consider "best alternatives"; make better choices, and align organizations to act...
by Farnoosh Torabi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset and Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life (9780137079278) by Farnoosh Torabi. Available in print and digital formats. Feeling rich: it’s not just about money — it’s...
The New Commodity Trading Guide
Breakthrough Strategies for Capturing Market Profits
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
“I’ve been trading stocks and commodities for more than 30 years, and I’ve read any number of how-to books, but George Kleinman’s The New Commodity Trading Guide is as clear, precise, and useful as any book I’ve come across during my career. I cannot recommend it strongly enough, if for...
Retirement Income Sources
New Models for Your Work and Your Life in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
This Element is an excerpt form Work Wanted: Protect Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times (ISBN: 9780132354646) by James W. Walker and Linda H. Lewis. Available in print and digital formats. From social security to inheritance: how to objectively assess the retirement savings and income you’ll...
The Network Challenge (Chapter 16)
Extended Intelligence Networks: Minding and Mining the Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Although networks in key business areas such as communications, supply chains, R&D, and sales are designed to improve the flow of information, people, or goods, they can also be used to improve the “peripheral vision” of the organization. In this chapter, the authors examine how networks can be used...
The Spider's Strategy
Creating Networks to Avert Crisis, Create Change, and Really Get Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
To thrive in a world where networks of companies increasingly compete with other networks, managers can no longer focus solely on excellence in planning and execution. In The Spider’s Strategy, top business consultant Amit S. Mukherjee provides the tools you need to sense and respond to unexpected...
by David Russo
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent: Why Engaged Employees Are Your Greatest Sustainable Advantage (9780137146703) by David Russo. Available in print and digital formats. A better way to...
How to Craft a Disruptive Hypothesis
Be Wrong at the Start to Be Right at the End
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business (9780137025145) by Luke Williams. Available in print and digital formats. Where revolutionary innovations begin: How to create your own “unreasonable provocation.” It starts with a wild question:...
Turning Learning Right Side Up
Putting Education Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought...
Seven Trends in Corporate Training and Development
Strategies to Align Goals with Employee Needs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Understand, anticipate, master, and leverage the seven powerful trends that are transforming workplace training and development! In Seven Trends in Corporate Training and Development, pioneering innovator Ibraiz Tarique offers actionable thought leadership on all seven trends, helping you address the...
Mastering Project Management Strategy and Processes
Proven Methods to Meet Organizational Goals
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Randal Wilson gives managers powerful insights and tools for structuring and managing any project based on business strategy and how that project will be used. Starting with project objectives, it demonstrates how to establish processes that optimally group actions at each stage of the project lifecycle...
What's Your Story?
Storytelling to Move Markets, Audiences, People and Brands
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
“As usual these two future-finders have their fi ngers on the pulse of what’s happening--and what we need to know about. In every business, in every organization, the seven most important words these days are: ‘But wait! A story goes with it!’ You need to read this book to fi nd out why.”...