All Summaries

All Summaries

 
The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building Topchik, Gary S. AMACOM , 2007 Management, Teams

In The First-Time Manager’s Guide to Team Building, Gary S. Topchik explains how to achieve a powerful team that can focus successfully on the desired end results. Topchik dissects the meaning of team...

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Rethinking the Corporation Tomasko, Robert M. AMACOM , 1993 Management, Productivity

Rethinking the Corporation is an application of architectural design logic applied to corporate reorganization. Tomasko shows how to go beneath the strategic and make the kinds of structural changes...

 
 
Bigger Isn't Always Better Tomasko, Robert M. AMACOM , 2005 Innovation, Productivity

A big business is a successful business, or so goes contemporary thinking. In Bigger Isn't Always Better, Robert M. Tomasko, discusses his belief that growth does not necessarily mean getting bigger. He believes that...

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Service Failure Toister, Jeff American Management Association , 2013 Customer Focus

We have all been treated rudely or thoughtlessly by a cashier, clerk, waiter, or manager at some point. Most people probably do not have to think back too far to find an example. But why does this happen? Why should...

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Powershift Toffler, Alvin Bantam Books , 1990 Economics & Finance, Global Business, Innovation

Toffler gives a new name (Powershift) to the rapidly unfolding events of the last decades and paints a captivating picture of the future. Powershift completes a monumental trilogy on change in our...

 
 
Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline Tobin, Daniel R. ASTD Press , 2010 Leadership Development

In the coming years, the business industry in the United States will face an important transition. By 2030, 78 million baby boomers will turn 65, the common retirement age. Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline...

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Put The Moose On The Table Tobias, Randall | Tobias, Todd Indiana University Press , 2003 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

Some problems are like having a moose in the room; the more one tries to ignore it, the more of an issue it becomes. Thus, the best thing to do is to confront it - to put the moose on the table - and look for a...

 
 
The Power of We Tisch, Jonathan M. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2004 Business Biographies, Human Resources, Leadership, Social Responsibility

Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and one of the nation's most influential corporate executives, understands the power of partnerships in achieving success. Although he developed his leadership...

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Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will Tichy, Noel M. | Sherman, Stratford Currency Doubleday , 1994 Business Biographies, Global Business, Leadership

Noel Tichy and Stratford Sherman contend that Jack Welch’s successes as a leader depend less on his personality than on the quality of this thought. What makes this account of GE’s renaissance unique is that the...

 
 
Judgment Tichy, Noel M. | Bennis, Warren G. Portfolio , 2007 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

According to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis, leaders are remembered for their best and worst decisions. Whether they are running a country, a military unit, a global corporation, or a sports team, the quality of their...

 
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