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Copycats
How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In the business world, imitation gets a bad rap. We see imitating firms as ?me too? players, forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. We pity their fate: a life of picking up crumbs discarded by innovators striding a path paved with fame and profit.
In Copycats, Oded Shenkar...
by Howard Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?
In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how...
by damali ayo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
A hilarious and satirical look at race relations that is almost too close for comfort, this pseudo-guidebook gives both renters and rentals "much-needed" advice and tips on technique. Reframing actual stories, techniques, requests, and responses gathered from the author's more than 30 years...
Breaking Bad Habits
Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
An in-depth look at how certain best practices can have unintended and negative effects on businesses, and how to avoid them.
Based on rigorous research, most of it the author’s own.
Great stories (from the world of management and beyond).
Freek is an entertaining storyteller.
Even though the...
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements—can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald...
Ahead of the Curve
A Commonsense Guide to Forecasting Business And Market Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Economic and stock market cycles affect companies in every industry. Unfortunately, a confusing array of anecdotal and conflicting indicators often renders it impossible for managers and investors to see where the economy is heading in time to take corrective action. Now, a 35-year Wall Street veteran...
The Success Equation
Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” - From the Introduction
The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each-and how we can learn to tell the difference ahead of time.
In most...
Mondo Magnets
40 Attractive (and Repulsive) Devices and Demonstrations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Surprising and seemingly impossible effects result from the 40 experiments included in this fascinating science resource-all based on real magnetic physics. Each experiment-such as using a common refrigerator magnet to create a three-dimensional image or floating a magnet and carbon sheet in midair-is...
A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race....
Crucibles of Leadership
How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Experience may be a leader's best teacher--but there's a hitch. Two people can have identical experiences, but one blossoms while the other is depleted. The same can be said for any pair of fired CEOs, unsuccessful political candidates, or rookie supervisors.
In Crucibles of Leadership, Robert...
Managing With Power
Politics and Influence in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1993
Although much as been written about how to make better decisions, a decision by itself changes nothing. The big problem facing managers and their organizations today is one of implementation--how to get things done in a timely and effective way. Problems of implementation are really issues of how...
Leaving Mundania
Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Exposing a subculture only beginning to enter the imagination of mainstream America, this is the story of live action role-playing (LARP) games. A hybrid of games—such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend—LARP games are thriving and this book...
Private Label Strategy
How to Meet the Store Brand Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
As retailers have become more powerful and global, they have increasingly focused on their own brands at the expense of manufacturer brands. Rather than simply selling on price, retailers have transformed private labels into brands. Consequently, manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson, Nestle,...
by George Stalk, John Butman
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
It's easy to miss many innovations in strategy until they appear on the front page of a major business publication. But by then everyone--including all your competitors--is using them.
As a CEO or senior executive, your job is to detect these strategies?and implement them--before your competitors.
That's...