All Summaries

All Summaries

 
The Man Who Discovered Quality Gabor, Andrea Times Books , 1990 Business Biographies, Major Works, Management

The Man Who Discovered Quality is an in depth introduction to W. Edwards Deming, his work, the various applications, the problems and opportunities, and his philosophy of variation. The author explains...

 
 
The Capitalist Philosophers Gabor, Andrea 2002 Business Biographies

Throughout the 20th century, shapers of modern management theory and practice have searched for "one best way" to improve productivity. As a result, companies have jumped from one management fad to the next, running...

 
 
Pricing for Profit Furtwengler, Dale AMACOM , 2010 Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

Who has never fretted that raising prices will cause a business to fail? Even those who know their products are the best may feel trapped by industry pricing if they do not know how to quantify and communicate value....

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Body Language in Business Furnham, Adrian | Petrova, Evgeniya Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 Communication

Body Language in Business by Adrian Furnham and Evgeniya Petrova is about the signals people send and receive, the messages they transmit and decipher, and the statements they make about themselves...

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Competing in a Flat World Fung, Victor K. | Fung, William K. | Wind, Yoram (Jerry) Wharton School Publishing , 2007 Management

Competing in a Flat World isn't a theoretical exploration of what a business should be, it is a practical explanation of how a business has become at the top of its game...

 
 
All Rise Fuller, Robert W. Berrett-Koehler Publishers , 2006 Diversity

Respect for the dignity of others is a value often sadly lacking in today's society. In All Rise, author Robert W. Fuller makes the case that abused power inherent in rank - rankism - is the main obstacle in...

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Brand Advocates Fuggetta, Rob John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2012 Marketing

In Brand Advocates, Rob Fuggetta explains that companies have a powerful yet underutilized marketing weapon that is ten times more effective than other marketing methods: the advocacy of their most...

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The Second Coming of the Woolly Mammoth Frost, Ted S.1 Ten Speed Press , 1991 Personal Growth

Offering the fully revised and updated original ideas of his first book, Where Have All the Woolly Mammoths Gone (1976), Frost recognizes the improved environment for small business and shares the entrepreneurial...

 
 
Team Turnarounds Frontiera, Joe | Leidl, Daniel Jossey-Bass , 2012 Teams

Turning around a failing team is not an easy task. In Team Turnarounds, Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl present their findings from interviews with successful team leaders in sports and business,...

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Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach Frisch, Michael H. | Lee, Robert J. | Metzger, Karen L. | Robinson, Jeremy | Rosemarin, Judy AMACOM , 2012 Leadership Development

Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach reveals how executive coaches can discover their best coaching approaches by using resources such as knowledge, experience, and intuition to create a Personal...

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