All Summaries

All Summaries

 
Contrarian Management Smith, Martin R. AMACOM , 1992 Human Resources, Management

In America’s capital-starved economy, high-tech industries will do no better than low-tech ones. In fact, low-tech businesses that supply staples for everyday living, whether the economy is prosperous or austere, will...

 
 
Contented Cows Still Give Better Milk, Revised and Expanded Catlette, Bill | Hadden, Richard John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2012 Human Resources, Leadership

Research has shown that when employees are focused and fully engaged, they are more productive at work. In Contented Cows Still Give Better Milk, Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden suggest that employees...

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Content Rules Handley, Ann | Chapman, C C. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. , 2012 Marketing, Technology

Today's online platforms give organizations powerful and low-cost ways to connect with their customers and create awareness of their offerings. In fact, as people rely increasingly on web-based information and...

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Content Is Currency Wuebben, Jon Nicholas Brealey Publishing , 2011 Marketing

Content Is Currency can help businesses take maximum advantage of the new possibilities created by the Internet, smart phones, and other digital tools and media. Author Jon Wuebben surveys the many...

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Contagion Talbott, John R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Economics & Finance, Global Business

There are some economists who view the current financial crisis as a “once in a hundred years” event in the business cycle that is a severe but necessary readjustment that must be endured. However, the current crisis...

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Consumer.ology Graves, Philip Nicholas Brealey Publishing , 2010 Customer Focus, Marketing

Market research in the form of consumer focus groups, polls, and surveys has long been the normal and accepted manner for testing new products, services, and communications materials. In Consumer.ology...

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Consulting Basics Gendelman, Joel ASTD Press , 2010 Entrepreneurship

While businesses are struggling with economic problems in today’s market, jobs are changing, and employment is unstable. Professionals are grappling with thoughts concerning whether they should strike out on their own...

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Consider Forrester, Daniel Patrick Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 Personal Growth

In Consider, author and strategist Daniel Patrick Forrester issues a call to individuals and institutions across the globe, urging them to carve think time out of their busy schedules and engage in...

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Conquering Consumerspace Solomon, Michael R. AMACOM , 2003 Customer Focus, Marketing

According to Solomon, marketing has entered a realm in which branding is: "bagels, tortillas, and croissants" (rather than "white bread"), "consumer.com", the individual’s search for meaning, the tie that binds, and...

 
 
Conquering Complexity in Your Business George, Michael L. | Wilson, Steven A. McGraw-Hill , 2004 Major Works, Management, Productivity

According to George and Wilson, when companies rely solely on Lean and/or Six Sigma improvement initiatives, the amount of profit they are able to generate is severely limited. It is a ceiling on profit that comes from...

 
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