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Decide and Deliver
Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Dithering. Decisions that turn out wrong. Decisions that people sabotage or don't know how to implement. If your company's experiencing these problems, it's not alone. Most organizations don't know how to make and execute good decisions. And they're paying a high price-as profitability and competitiveness...
Retooling HR
Using Proven Business Tools to Make Better Decisions About Talent
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
HR professionals have made major strides toward becoming strategic partners. But they need to do more - by generating value through savvy decisions about talent. HR leaders typically assume that, to make such decisions, they must develop sophisticated analytical tools from scratch. Even then, the...
Betterness
Economics for Humans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Betterness: Economics for Humans is a powerful call to arms for a post-capitalist economy. Umair Haque argues that just as positive psychology revolutionized our understanding of mental health by recasting the field as more than just treating mental illness, we need to rethink our economic paradigm....
The Balanced Scorecard
Translating Strategy into Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1996
The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives,...
The HR Scorecard
Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance. Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's overall strategy--what...
Beyond Budgeting
How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond...
Beyond HR
The New Science of Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact.
Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions,...
Spanning Silos
The New CMO Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Powerful product, country, and functional silos are jeopardizing companies' marketing efforts. Because of silos, firms misallocate resources, send inconsistent messages to the marketplace, and fail to leverage scale economies and successes--all of which can threaten a company's survival.
As...
by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of The Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allows organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships....
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for entrepreneurial managers.
Drawing on their work training tens of thousands...
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional...
8 Things We Hate About IT
How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to Form a New Partnership with IT
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
"Why can't you get what you really want from IT? All you desire is a ready-and-willing partner to help you exploit IT to drive your business. Instead, you get endless rules and regulations, not to mention processes, projects, and technologies that deliver too little, too late, for too much. It's...
Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis
The Uncertain Future of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In this provocative study, economist Ernesto Screpanti argues that imperialism—far from disappearing or mutating into a benign “globalization”—has in fact entered a new phase, which he terms “global imperialism.” This is a phase defined by multinational firms cut loose from the nation-state...