Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide
What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how...
Innovate Like Edison
The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Read Sarah Miller Caldicott's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Michael J. Gelb, author of the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, and Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, introduce a revolutionary new system for successful innovation.
Bestselling...
by Greg Satell
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Map the innovation space—and blaze a path to profits and growth
Countless books, articles, and other advice promise leaders solutions to the complex challenges they face. Some offer quick, silver-bullet remedies—a straight line to success!—and some are so technical that readers get lost...
Strategic Leadership and Strategic Management
Leading and Managing Change on the Edge of Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Leaders and managers face tremendous pressure to keep their organizations moving forward successfully. It can seem like an impossible task amid economic uncertainty and hyper-competition.
The roles of leader and manager tug us in opposite directions: managers seek stability and predictability,...
Le management par objectifs
Maximiser les performances de votre équipe
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Un guide pratique et accessible pour gérer son équipe autrement !
Développé par Peter Drucker, « le management par objectifs » permet d’obtenir des équipes que vous gérer le meilleur résultat possible. Le modèle du management par objectifs (MPO) développé par Peter Drucker permet...
by Scott D. Anthony, David S. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Introducing the Four Components That Make Innovation Repeatable
Even the best-performing companies eventually stall. Sustaining momentum-and remaining a great growth company-takes a system.
Scott Anthony and David Duncan call this system a Growth Factory.” They’ve seen it work...
by Orit Gadiesh, Hugh Macarthur
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies.
How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in Lessons...
Strategic Management
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Leadership, adaptability, value creation. These are the skills necessary for tomorrow’s managers. Allen Amason approaches the topic of strategic management with these traits in mind. Rather than simply teaching theory and research, he seeks to communicate to them the fundamental keys to how strategy...
The Maverick
Dispatches from an unrepentant capitalist
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
For eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrote a regular column as 'The Maverick' in The Sunday Telegraph. His short, pithy essays tackled subjects ranging from rich lists to bankrupt companies, from high finance to investment techniques, from philanthropy to trophy wives, bringing a practitioner's...
2020 Vision
Today's Business Leaders on Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
What will be the shape of global business in five years’ time? 2020 Vision delivers cutting-edge insights from twenty industry leaders, sharing their current strategies and future plans to cope with the challenges presented in the twenty-first century.
In 2020 Vision leading...
by Stephen Sashihara
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Why downsize when you can OPTIMIZE?
"At McDonald’s our focus has always been on providing maximum value to customers through ‘optimal’ quality and tight cost management, which is why Optimization has become such a pivotal concept for us. Steve Sashihara’s book brings the concept...
by David Houle
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to...
Trillions
Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities--technical, business,...
The Power of the Plan
Empowering the Leader in You
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
How many of us have offered to run a small project in our lives only to discover mid-way through that we really didn’t have a good grasp of the art of managing a project?
How many of us would like to step-up and volunteer our time to run a project but feel we don’t have the necessary...