Review imprint: 1779 books
The Leadership Code
Five Rules to Lead by
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
What makes a great leader?
It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But where are the clear, simple answers we need for our daily work lives? Are there...
Talk, Inc.
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Conversation-powered leadership
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the magic”-the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement-that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more...
Strategy That Works
How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
How to close the gap between strategy and execution
Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally...
Executing Innovation
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a...
Agile Talent
How to Source and Manage Outside Experts
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
How to Leverage Talent You Don’t Own
Campbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology.
Companies are...
The Hidden Wealth of Customers
Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Introducing return on relationship” with your most valued customers
The traditional model of growing your business-by relying on employees in sales, marketing, and product development-is dying. Today’s most successful companies are taking a different approach: getting customers to market,...
by Mary Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Great teams don’t just happen.
How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, “Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve?” As a team leader, you have the power to improve things. It’s up to you to get people...
Six Simple Rules
How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
New tools for managing complexity
Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.
According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And,...
Silver Lining
Your Guide to Innovating in a Downturn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Experts agree: The turbulence triggered by the economic shock of 2008 constitutes the "new normal." Unfortunately, too many managers have become paralyzed by it, capable only of slashing costs indiscriminately.
Though examining spending during recessions makes sense, the smartest...
The Knowing-Doing Gap
How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Why are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they've worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to...
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization’s effectiveness.
In...
Winning Through Innovation
A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
Tushman and O'Reilly examine how leadership, culture, and organizational architectures can be both important facilitators of innovation and, not uncommonly, formidable obstacles. They demonstrate how to clarify today's critical managerial problems, use culture and commitment to promote innovation and implement strategy, and deal with changing innovation requirements as organizations evolve.
Competing on Analytics: Updated, with a New Introduction
The New Science of Winning
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
From two pioneers in business analytics, an update of the classic book on how analytics and business intelligence are transforming competition and how leading organizations build and compete on an analytical capability.
The first book to describe how analytics are changing the business landscape,...
Analytics at Work
Smarter Decisions, Better Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.
In their previous...