All Summaries

All Summaries

 
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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Who's in the Room? Frisch, Bob John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2012 Teams

In Who’s in the Room?, Bob Frisch examines how leaders can better utilize their teams while increasing satisfaction and productivity. CEOs and their Senior Management Teams (SMTs) frequently experience...

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The World Is Flat Friedman, Thomas L. Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2005 Global Business, Innovation, Major Works, Productivity

Although outsourcing is the current hot topic, Friedman reports that outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more fundamental phenomenon unfolding today – the flattening of the world. Massive technological...

 
 
Hot, Flat, and Crowded Friedman, Thomas L. Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008 Global Business, Major Works

Global warming, the rise of the middle class and rapid population growth are making the world hot, flat and crowded. In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, author Thomas Friedman explains that these challenges...

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree Friedman, Thomas L. Anchor Books , 2000 Global Business

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman, writes in his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, about the phenomenon of globalization and how it has instituted an international system that has...

 
 
No Thanks, I'm Just Looking Friedman, Harry J. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2012 Marketing

Customers face similar product choices in just about every store they visit. In this competitive environment, the key to moving merchandise is the sales force. The connection that a salesperson establishes with a...

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Blowout in the Gulf Freudenburg, William | Gramling, Robert MIT Press , 2011 Business Biographies, Social Responsibility

When Deepwater Horizon, a massive oil-drilling rig leased by BP, exploded in April 2010, it killed 11 people and released more than 200 billion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The ecological disaster was...

 
 
NUTS! Freiberg, Kevin | Freiberg, Jackie Bard Books , 1996 Business Biographies

Twenty-five years ago, Southwest reinvented air travel with its low fares and irreverent style. Today, the company keeps air fares at rock-bottom levels by keeping costs low, satisfies customers by getting them and...

 
 
Guts Freiberg, Kevin | Freiberg, Jackie Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 2003 Leadership
Truly enlightening is the discovery that while these companies belong to diverse industries, their brand of gutsy leadership, culture and philosophy share a common...
 
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