All Summaries

All Summaries

 
The Influence Game Vance, Stephanie John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2012 Communication, Relationships

Lobbying and wielding influence over key decision makers are activities often associated, somewhat unflatteringly, with Washington, D.C. The reality is that lobbyists have influence and successfully sway lawmakers to...

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The Information-Based Corporation Vincent, David R. Dow Jones-Irwin , 1990 Business Strategy, Technology

The shift from an industrial economy to an information-based economy will have a major impact on the value of information and information technology. In order to fully harness the information potential, we need to...

 
 
The Innovation Killer Barton Rabe, Cynthia AMACOM , 2006 Innovation

Forget conventional wisdom. Forget the thought that the more you know, the better off you’ll be. Forget the idea that knowledge and expertise are the only true routes to success and innovation in business. Education...

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The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs Gallo, Carmine McGraw-Hill , 2011 Innovation

In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, business journalist Carmine Gallo describes the seven principles that form the philosophical core of master innovator, Steve Jobs. Although there is only one...

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The Innovation Zone Koulopoulos, Thomas M. Davies-Black Publishing , 2009 Innovation, Management

Successful companies have built innovation into their corporate cultures, looking beyond their research and development departments for innovative ideas. In The Innovation Zone, author and management...

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The Innovator's Prescription Christensen, Clayton M. | Grossman, Jerome H. | Hwang, Jason McGraw-Hill , 2009 Health Care, Innovation

It will not come as news to most Americans that the United States health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer people can afford to pay for medical care and fewer businesses can afford to provide...

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The Innovator's Way Denning, Peter J. | Dunham, Robert The MIT Press , 2010 Innovation

Innovation is critical for personal, business, and economic success. Although thousands of books have been printed on meeting the challenges of innovation, the August 2005 issue of Businessweek reports an innovation...

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The Inside Advantage Bloom, Robert H. | Conti, Dave The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. , 2008 Business Strategy, Customer Focus

Robert H. Bloom believes that every company inherently possesses the leverage they need to launch their product or service toward greatness. The Inside Advantage explains the strategy and tools...

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The Inspiring Leader Folkman,, Joseph R. | Edinger, Scott K. | Zenger, John H. McGraw-Hill , 2009 Communication, Leadership

In The Inspiring Leader, John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger explain how leaders can bring about extraordinary performance and move a group from ho-hum to gung-ho by breaking...

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The Instant Survivor Moorhead, Jim Greenleaf Book Group Press , 2012 Business Strategy, Leadership

Many problems can assail an organization or its employees, and in The Instant Survivor, Jim Moorhead outlines methods that major companies and leaders use to respond to crises. Crises can cause people...

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