Management & Leadership
mobi |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Edward Hess & Jeanne Liedtka [Hess, Edward]

* * * Source: From Designing for Growth by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie. Copyright 2011 Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie. Reprinted with permission of Columbia University Press. The Two ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-09-05 | Author:Susan Benjamin

* * * Quick tip: Unknowingly, you may be fostering a passive-aggressive work environment. So be sure you regularly do the following: Hold whatever meetings you have scheduled except in ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Player, Steve & Hope, Jeremy [Hope, Jeremy]

What is the performance potential of this practice? To reduce costs. In the typical organizational hierarchy, work is done in well-defined functions and departments. There are multiple handoffs between each ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Bardwick, Judith M. [Bardwick, Judith M.]

REALLY KNOW EXPECTATIONS AND PRIORITIES For much of the twentieth century, the number-one priority for the great majority of working Americans was security. It was the lingering, multigenerational impact of ...
( Category: Business Culture December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Robert Bruce Shaw

CHAPTER 6 SEEK OUT THAT WHICH DISCONFIRMS WHAT YOU BELIEVE One of the more robust findings in the research on decision making is that people tend to see what they ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Alan Weiss

Figure 9-2 The wisdom pyramid This first appeared in Business Wealth Builders, Phil Symchych and Alan Weiss (BEP, 2015). THE STEPS TO CREATING THOUGHT LEADERSHIP While it may seem that ...
( Category: Personal Finance December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Ray Aldag & Loren Kuzuhara

Gaining Acceptance of New Techniques Each of the tools we’ve just discussed works well and is widely used in modern organizations. Still, it sometimes seems difficult to try something different; ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Donovan Campbell [Campbell, Donovan]

DISCIPLINE DEFINED Most of us associate the word discipline with “punishment,” and so it has generally negative connotations. It was not always so. The word itself originates from the Latin ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Joshua Pearl & Joshua Rosenbaum [Pearl, Joshua]

ECONOMICS of LBOs Returns Analysis—Internal Rate of Return Internal rate of return (IRR) is the primary metric by which sponsors gauge the attractiveness of a potential LBO, as well as ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Fred Crawford & Ryan Mathews

Applying the Conceptual Model to Access It’s clear, then, that physical access alone will not be a viable strategy going forward for businesses that choose to dominate or differentiate on ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:William Putsis [Putsis, William]

A few things stand out from this table. 1. A litmus test. Segments A and B are the same. This is the litmus test referenced earlier that indicates that we ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-27 | Author:Tom Hopkins [Hopkins, Tom]

50—GO FOR THE LARGEST RETURNS A trained seal gets a bit of fish after every little trick. Dealers in casinos get paid after every shift. Hourly workers take a check ...
( Category: Success December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Karen Martin [Martin, Karen]

4 Discipline We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. —ARISTOTLE What do world-class athletes, musical virtuosos, Pulitzer Prize winners, and elite military ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2001-11-26 | Author:Tom Demarco [Demarco, Tom]

1. The first of these is Volvo, which during the 1980s hit upon a team-based vehicle assembly scheme that would have given Taylor fits. A team of workers is assigned ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Govindh Jayaraman & Jack Daly

LISTEN TO THE FULL CONVERSATION HERE WWW.PAPERNAPKINWISDOM.COM/WEEK22 TOP TAKEAWAYS… •Focus does not come naturally—it takes practice. •Sometimes a coach is helpful in developing our focus because they know what we ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship December 2,2017 )