Management & Leadership
epub |eng | 2006-02-13 | Author:Sutton, Robert I. & Pfeffer, Jeffrey [Pfeffer, Jeffrey]

TABLE 6-1 The 10 best-performing stocks, 1972–2002 Company Compounded annual return Southwest Airlines 25.99% Wal-Mart Stores 25.97% Kansas City Southern Industries 25.61 % Walgreen Company 23.72% Intel Corporation 23.49% Comcast ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Morgen, Sharon Drew & Dibble, Shawn & Konrath, Ji [Morgen, Sharon Drew]

Solving the buyer’s Identified Problem with our solution requires a different skill set than the one we must use to help them get buy-in to change. SALES DOES NOT ADDRESS ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Phillips, Judah [Phillips, Judah]

• Determining what is possible (and what isn’t possible): People will request analysis for data that exists, data that could exist, data that will never exist, and data that exists ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis

The embryonic period of the new Nokia 1.0 Over the years, Nokia evolved into a diversified conglomerate with activities in forest products, consumer electronics, television sets and PCs, rubber tyres, ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Kennedy, Dan S. [Kennedy, Dan S.]

Get Publicity and Motivate Customers by Doing Good Business tie-ins with charities occur all around you, all the time. But you don’t need to be a big company or deal ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Macarthur & Hugh Macarthur [Macarthur, Hugh]

Getting the Metrics Right Let’s look at a case in point that hinges on the challenge of defining the right metrics. As you’ll see, choosing what to monitor is highly ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Walter Kiechel [KIECHEL, WALTER]

10. Struggling to Make Something Actually Happen BY THE EARLY 1980S, the glorious phase of the strategy revolution was drawing to a close. The original lords had largely completed their ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 17,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Hubbard, Douglas W. [Hubbard, Douglas W.]

In Chapter 3, I briefly mentioned the Rule of Five. Remember, that rule states that if you randomly sample 5 of any population, there is a 93.75% chance that the ...
( Category: Mathematics June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Andrew W. Savitz

Chapter 9 Shaping Your Sustainability Strategy You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. —Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist Finding the Sweet Spot: ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Burrus, Daniel & John David Mann [Burrus, Daniel]

This epic shift was a long time coming. For thousands of years, we have imagined what life in an abundant economy would look like, and introduced ideas and mechanisms into ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Ranadive, Vivek & Maney, Kevin [Ranadive, Vivek]

Predictive, talented systems will be built around the idea that a little bit of the right information just ahead of time can be more valuable than a boatload of information ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marc H. Meyer, Alvin P. Lehnerd

Avoid Pseudo-Ownership Perhaps no organizational sin is more demoralizing to teams than what we call “pseudo-ownership.” Pseudo-ownership is a condition in which teams believe they have the authority to make ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laughlin, Patrick R.

Figure 5.9. Proportion of Correct Hypotheses (Laughlin 1992) These results demonstrate the value of further evidence from other individuals in improving performance in collective induction. Just as performance improved with ...
( Category: Psychology June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Morgan, Nick [Morgan, Nick]

A more subtle possibility is to gently reshape what people are saying in order to move them slowly toward a point of view or an outcome you desire: “So if ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:Ross, Jeanne W. & Weill, Peter [Ross, Jeanne W.]

Transitioning from stage 3 to stage 4. The strategic objective of the optimizing stage is business operational efficiency. Invariably, optimizing involves reduced business process autonomy for middle managers. Thus, it ...
( Category: Computer Science June 17,2017 )