All Summaries

All Summaries

 
Agents of Influence Choate, Pat Touchstone , 1990 Leadership

Politics is now an economic strategy along with price, quality, innovation, marketing, and service. Few American companies give attention to this sixth dimension of competition-fewer than 30 percent of the 150 largest...

 
 
All Marketers Are Liars Godin, Seth Seth Godin, Portfolio Hardcover , 2005 Management, Marketing

What sells a product these days? Is it price point? Is it the buyer's need? Are product features and benefits the deciding...

 
 
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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Allies or Adversaries Holm, Craig E. Health Administration Press , 2004 Health Care

Since its inception in the early part of the 20th century, the medical staff organization has allowed physicians to have some say in the running of hospitals and has acted as an overseeing body for granting credentials...

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Alternative Staffing Strategies Nye, David Facts on File Publications , 1989 Human Resources

Alternative staffing strategies are defined as employer-employee relationships that depart from traditional, full-time, long-term, in-house employment arrangements. While alternative methods are not new, they are...

 
 
Always a Winner Navarro, Peter John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Business Strategy, Economics & Finance

In Always a Winner, Peter Navarro makes the case that a recession can be substantially more damaging to an organization that any 10 competitors. He presents a comprehensive guide for executives to...

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Always On Vollmer, Christopher | Precourt, Geoffrey McGraw-Hill , 2008 Marketing, Technology

The new media environment is “always on,” accessible to audiences from anywhere at any time, and responsive to their control. The world of marketing is now at the beginning of a consumer-centric digital age in which...

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American Business: A Two-Minute Warning. Grayson Jr., C. Jackson | O'Dell, Carla The Free Press , 1990 Leadership, Management

From history we find that leadership and world dominance tend to cause complacency. Leaders overlook the relative growth rates of challengers, the changes are so gradual that leaders have difficulty sensing the crisis...

 
 
American Wheels Chinese Roads Dunne, Michael J. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2011 Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Michael Dunne is an American businessman with over 20 years of experience working in China in the automotive industry, initially as an industry consultant and more recently as an investment advisor. In American...

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An Insider's Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice Katcher, Bruce K. | Snyder, Adam AMACOM , 2010 Business Strategy, Personal Growth

For people who long to be independent in their work and to make the most of their time, independent consulting may be the ideal. An Insider’s Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice by Bruce...

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