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What Happened to Goldman Sachs
An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This is the story of the slow evolution of Goldman Sachs-addressing why and how the firm changed from an ethical standard to a legal one as it grew to be a leading global corporation.
In What Happened to Goldman Sachs, Steven G. Mandis uncovers the forces behind what he calls Goldman’s organizational...
1,037 Practice Questions for the New GMAT, 2nd Edition
Revised and Updated for the New GMAT
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
If you need to know it, it's in this book. Practice makes perfect, and 1,037 Practice Questions for the New GMAT, 2nd Edition aims to give you everything you need to do just that. This edition of our practice-packed prep book has been revised and updated for the next generation GMAT debuting in 2012,...
Give Your Speech, Change the World
How To Move Your Audience to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard? If not, you're not alone. In fact, studies show that audiences remember only 10% to 30% of speech or presentation content. Given those bleak statistics, why do we give speeches at all? We give them, says communications expert Nick Morgan, because...
Uncommon Service
How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Most companies treat service as a low-priority business operation, keeping it out of the spotlight until a customer complains. Then service gets to make a brief appearance for as long as it takes to calm the customer down and fix whatever foul-up jeopardized the relationship.
In Uncommon...
The Social Organization
How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
As a leader, it's your job to extract maximum talent, energy, knowledge, and innovation from your customers and employees. But how?
In The Social Organization, two of Gartner's lead analysts strongly advocate exploiting social technology. The authors share insights from their study of successes...
The Innovator's Guide to Growth
Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks...
Beyond the Core
Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient...
Build, Borrow, or Buy
Solving the Growth Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
How should you grow your organization?
It’s one of the most challenging questions an executive team faces-and the wrong answer can break your firm.
The problem is most firms’ growth strategies emphasize just one type of growth-some focus on organic growth, others on M&A. When...
Winning Investors Over
Surprising Truths About Honesty, Earnings Guidance, and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Pleasing Wall Street used to be easy for executives. Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers,...
by Michael Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's Capital. Although mainstream economists and commentators once dismissed Marx's work as outmoded and flawed, some are begrudgingly acknowledging an analysis that sees capitalism...
Cultivating Communities of Practice
A Guide to Managing Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal...
Repeatability
Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An argument for simplicity from the bestselling authors of Profit from the Core
Is radical reinvention the key to winning in today’s fast-paced world? Not judging by the results of some of the world’s best-performing companies.
In Repeatability, Chris Zook and James Allen-leaders...
How Brands Become Icons
The Principles of Cultural Branding
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than brands--they are cultural icons. How do managers create brands that resonate so powerfully with consumers? Based on extensive historical analyses of...
Design of Business
Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they...