All Summaries

All Summaries

 
The Extraordinary Leader Zenger, John H. | Folkman, Joseph R. McGraw-Hill , 2009 Leadership

In The Extraordinary Leader, John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman explore what it takes to develop poor and average leaders into extraordinary leaders, defined as those leaders occupying the top ten...

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The Extraordinary Coach Zenger, John H. | Stinnett, Kathleen McGraw-Hill , 2010 Leadership Development

The majority of today’s leaders believe that they are providing a sufficient amount of coaching to their employees, but studies show that the “coachees” disagree. In The Extraordinary Coach, John H....

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Generations At Work Zemke, Ron | Raines, Claire | Filipczak, Bob AMACOM , 1999 Diversity, Human Resources, Management

The late 1990s are unique in that four different generations (Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Nexters-born 1980 on) have converged upon the workplace at the same time, each with their own set of work ethics, set...

 
 
e-Service Zemke, Ron | Connellan, Tom AMACOM , 2000 Customer Focus, Technology

On the Web, differentiation by location, price, and/or product is meaningless. Moreover, because the Net’s infrastructure is largely in place, technology no longer represents a competitive edge. Thus, in order to...

 
 
Successful Time Management for Dummies Zeller, Dirk Wiley Publishing, Inc. , 2009 Personal Growth, Productivity

Time is a precious commodity. Each person has the same amount of time given to them to use productively or to waste. In Successful Time Management for Dummies, Dirk Zeller describes a broad variety of...

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Delivering Quality Service Zeithaml, Valerie A. | Parasuraman, A. | Berry, Leonard L. The Free Press , 1990 Customer Focus, Marketing

From focus-group findings, common patterns offer valuable insights about how customers define and evaluate service quality. As perceived by customers, service quality can be defined as "the extent of discrepancy...

 
 
Lightning Strategies for Innovation Zangwill, Willard I. Lexington Books , 1992 Innovation, Marketing

Willard Zangwill’s most valuable contribution to the study of innovation is that he demonstrates clearly that innovation is not something that just happens but is a conscious process governed by planning. He does an...

 
 
Share This! Zandt, Deanna Berrett-Koehler Publishers , 2010 Marketing, Technology

In Share This!, Deanna Zandt discusses how social networks allow individuals to share their stories with a large number of people at a time by observing what others are posting over time. When...

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How Customers Think Zaltman, Gerald Gerald Zaltman , 2003 Business Strategy, Marketing

In today's Consumer Society, Gerald Zaltman quotes Peter Drucker that a company's competitive advantage will come from its ability to capture and apply the insights from...

 
 
The Three Laws of Performance Zaffron, Steve | Logan, Dave Jossey-Bass , 2009 Leadership, Management, Productivity

In the work environment and at home, when things are not working, people struggle with which part of the problem to address first. However, the reason that fixing a problem often does not deliver the expected results,...

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