Review imprint: 1779 books
Senior Leadership Teams
What It Takes to Make Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO-right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives...
Hardball
Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?
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...
by Ronnie Kasrils
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Winner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against the apartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. One August 19th, the dreaded Security...
Think Again
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You
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
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
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...
Information Rules
A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1998
In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competing in the new economy, they must...
Clever
Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending patterns no one else sees and defines new market categories your enterprise...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Scores of books and articles have been written in the popular press and mainstream marketplace about leadership: who leaders are, what they do, and why they matter. Yet in academia, there is a dearth of rigorous research, journal articles, or doctoral programs focused on leadership as a discipline....
Ethics for the Real World
Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
We often make small ethical compromises for "good" reasons: We lie to a customer because our boss asked us to. We exaggerate our accomplishments on our résumé to get an interview. Temptation blindsides us. And we make snap decisions we regret.
Minor ethical lapses can seem harmless,...
by Michael Schrage
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Who do you want your customers to become?
According to MIT innovation expert and thought leader Michael Schrage, if you aren’t asking this question, your strategic marketing and innovation efforts will fail.
In this latest HBR Single, Schrage provides a powerful new lens for getting...
Simply Effective
How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
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...
The Differentiated Workforce
Translating Talent into Strategic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.
Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high...
The Workforce Scorecard
Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resources practices...