Management & Leadership
mobi |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Thomas H. Davenport & Jinho Kim [Davenport, Thomas H.]

When Results Don’t Imply Actions We expect that the results from quantitative analysis will lead to action, but sometimes perfectly good results don’t translate into specific actions, although they are ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-08 | Author:Jared Harris & Michael Lenox [Harris, Jared]

Figure 8-1. Generic strategies. In general, there are two types of competitive advantage a firm can pursue: low cost or uniqueness. Using a low-cost strategy, a firm simply tries to ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1997-10-24 | Author:Preston G. Smith & Donald G. Reinertsen [Smith, Preston G.]

New Roles for Functional Managers If you have just an occasional dedicated team or two, they will not be too disruptive to the rest of the organization. But if much ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Richard S. Tedlow [Tedlow, Richard S.]

That was the end of him as far as I was concerned. All businessmen get asked a question like that sometime in their lives. They either answer it with courage ...
( Category: History & Culture December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Ann Deaton & Holly Williams

38 EDGAR AND JACK ROLL EDGAR SAT DOWN, gazing at the screen of his smartphone. Jack waited, expecting Edgar to look up when he’d finished. Instead, Edgar continued to scroll ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-12-07 | Author:Tony Stoltzfus [Stoltzfus, Tony]

Changing the World "If you could invest the rest of your life and know you could change one thing in the world around you, what would it be? What led ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Rose Fass [Fass, Rose]

This executive passionately laid out what UPS was really about: the strong identity, the commitment to quality, its dependability, its strong sense of accountability, and a lot of pride, right ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Michael Bungay Stanier

AFFECTION CREATION RECREATION FREEDOM IDENTITY UNDERSTANDING PARTICIPATION PROTECTION SUBSISTENCE When you ask someone, “What do you want?” listen to see if you can guess the need that likely lies behind ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Frank J. Barrett [Barrett, Frank J.]

Clearly, Burton’s story demonstrates that leadership means taking risks, leaping in, and violating rules—all broad principles of jazz as well—but it also illustrates more specific tenets of the art form ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Stan Slap

You don’t have to do this up front for the entire scope of the strategy, which is good, since not much has changed about your ability to do that since ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Justin Constantine

KEY TAKEAWAYS Not asking for help is counterproductive, shortsighted and can adversely affect others. Even the most successful person needs help at different points throughout her life. A mature leader ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Jim Collins [Collins, Jim]

TECHNOLOGY AND THE HEDGEHOG CONCEPT Now, you might be thinking: “But the Internet frenzy is just a speculative bubble that burst. So what? Everybody knew that the bubble was unsustainable, ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Laloux, Frederic [Laloux, Frederic]

We have discussed the second type of practice in the previous chapter: spelling out a well-defined and thorough conflict resolution process. Such a process is needed in self-managing organizations for ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Chip Heath & Dan Heath [Heath, Chip & Heath, Dan]

CLINIC Our Intuition Is Flawed, but Who Wants to Believe That? THE SITUATION: People often trust their intuition, but our intuition is flawed by identifiable biases. Still, most people feel ...
( Category: Management & Leadership November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1988-03-02 | Author:Taiichi Ohno & Norman Bodek [Ohno, Taiichi & Bodek, Norman]

► 0. 1 Worker Is Still One Worker In business, we are always concerned with how to produce more with fewer workers. In our company, we use the term "worker ...
( Category: Engineering November 29,2017 )