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Green Recovery

Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top

by Andrew S. Winston
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency,...

Back to the Drawing Board

Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World

by Colin B. Carter, Jay W. Lorsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003

Business scandals from Enron to WorldCom have escalated concerns about corporate governance into a full-blown crisis. Institutional investors and legislators have dominated the debate and enacted important changes in corporate accounting and other areas. But Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch say that...

Alive at Work

The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do

by Daniel M. Cable
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

Social psychologist Dan Cable explores the link between what he calls our "seeking system" (the parts of the brain that encourage and thrive on new experiences and experimentation) and how productive and happy we are with our jobs. A fascinating look at the inner workings of the brain...

Hardball

Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?

by George Stalk, Rob Lachenauer, John Butman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004

Great companies stumble and fall when they lose it. Highfliers crash when a competitor notices they don't have it. Start-ups shut down if they can't develop it. "It" is a strategy so powerful and an execution-driven mindset so relentless that companies use it to gain more than just competitive...

Think Again

Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You

by Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, Andrew Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

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...

Higher Ambition

How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

by Michael Beer, Nathaniel Foote, Russell A. Eisenstat
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

Meeting the new standard for leadership. Higher Ambition is required reading for every leader who refuses to compromise between people and performance. Choosing one or the other may have worked in the past, but it won’t work now. As global competition stiffens and businesses face increased...

Authenticity

What Consumers Really Want

by James H. Gilmore, B. Joseph Pine II
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007

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 something...

Simply Effective

How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done

by Ron Ashkenas
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2009

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal. Yet...

What Happened to Goldman Sachs

An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences

by Steven G. Mandis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

This is the story of the slow evolution of Goldman Sachs-addressing why and how the firm changed from an ethical standard to a legal one as it grew to be a leading global corporation. In What Happened to Goldman Sachs, Steven G. Mandis uncovers the forces behind what he calls Goldman’s “organizational...

The Social Organization

How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees

by Anthony J. Bradley, Mark P. McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

As a leader, it's your job to extract maximum talent, energy, knowledge, and innovation from your customers and employees. But how? In The Social Organization, two of Gartner's lead analysts strongly advocate exploiting social technology. The authors share insights from their study of successes...

Build, Borrow, or Buy

Solving the Growth Dilemma

by Laurence Capron, Will Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

How should you grow your organization? It’s one of the most challenging questions an executive team faces-and the wrong answer can break your firm. The problem is most firms’ growth strategies emphasize just one type of growth-some focus on organic growth, others on M&A. When...

Cultivating Communities of Practice

A Guide to Managing Knowledge

by Etienne Wenger, William Snyder, Richard A. McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002

Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal...

The Strategy-Focused Organization

How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

by David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000

The creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of...

Getting Unstuck

A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

by Timothy Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010

You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to...
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