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Power Cues
The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Take control of your communications-before someone else does
What if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim-but it’s largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals of which...
Financial Intelligence for HR Professionals
What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
As an HR manager, you're expected to use financial data to make decisions, allocate resources, and budget expenses. But if you're like many human resource practitioners, you may feel uncertain or uncomfortable incorporating financials into your day-to-day work.
Using the groundbreaking formula...
Keeping Up with the Quants
Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Why Everyone Needs Analytical Skills
Welcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)-your world is awash with data.
As...
Strategy for Sustainability
A Business Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The definitive work on business strategy for sustainability by the most authoritative voice in the conversation.
More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and a passion for companies that do well by doing good. So any strategy without sustainability at...
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2000
The Entrepreneurial Mindset offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principles...
Never Stop Learning
Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant.
It's a truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you're competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet...
Innovation Tournaments
Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
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 exceptional...
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Why are group decisions so hard?
Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups—first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person...
StandOut 2.0
Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The Groundbreaking Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution
In the years since the publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have come to the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people, you must build...
Playing to Win
How Strategy Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Are you just playing-or playing to win?
Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future-something that doesn’t happen in most companies.
Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get...
by Herminia Ibarra
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra-an expert on professional...
by Robert D. Austin, Shannon O'Donnell, Richard L. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
What does it take to lead and manage your company’s tech?
Becoming an effective IT leader and manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technologies, to managing relationships with senior executives, vendors, and employees, to communicating with the board. A good IT...
Data Driven
Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
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 incorrect...
Alignment
Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance.
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton...