Management

Management

 
Built to Learn Purington, Cliff | Butler, Chris | Gale, Sarah Fister AMACOM , 2003 Management, Personal Growth

In 1998, aerospace giant, Rockwell Collins, was representative of the outdated approach to organizational learning that existed throughout the business world. Its training program, budgeted for $17.3 million, was...

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Absolute Honesty Johnson, Larry | Phillips, Bob AMACOM , 2003 Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Social Responsibility

With shocking revelations of deliberate corporate dishonesty and manipulation appearing almost daily in the media, many are beginning to wonder if the realities of business and the concept of integrity are, by...

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Breakthrough Davidson, Bill John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2004 Innovation, Management

Success is, unfortunately, not self-perpetuating. Once a company reaches the level of industry incumbent, and must not only defend its market share among established players in the industry, but also operate in a...

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Building A Knowledge-Driven Organization Buckman, Robert H. McGraw-Hill , 2004 Human Resources, Management, Productivity

If knowledge is power, then knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied. For many years, the knowledge that Buckman Laboratories, an international specialty chemical company in business since 1945, brought to its...

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Shaping the Future Belgard, William P. | Rayner, Steven R. AMACOM , 2004 Leadership, Management

Change management should, theoretically, be an ongoing element of every company’s growth. However, with three-quarters of all change initiatives failing to achieve the intended results, change management has become a...

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How Great Decisions Get Made Maruska, Don AMACOM , 2003 Management

In How Great Decisions Get Made, Maruska outlines ten steps that will help any group reach truly effective, innovative decisions backed by genuine commitment from all concerned. His ten-step process...

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Corporate Conversations Holtz, Shel AMACOM , 2004 Communication, Leadership, Management

While many companies invest significant sums of money in their external communications efforts, internal communications are frequently overlooked and considered as being of lesser importance. In today’s competitive,...

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Navigating the Badlands O'Hara-Devereaux, Mary John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2004 Global Business, Leadership, Management

Business forecaster and author Mary O’Hara-Devereaux borrows a metaphor from the old American West, “navigating the badlands,” to describe the journey that business and industry finds itself on in the current...

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Leveraging The New Human Capital Burud, Sandra | Tumolo, Marie Davies-Black Publishing , 2004 Diversity, Human Resources, Management, Personal Growth

According to Burud and Tumolo, people live and work differently today than they did in the past. Because employees no longer have the “invisible” support of the home-based partner who backed workers of the Industrial...

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Managing Across Cultures Solomon, Charlene M. | Schell, Michael S. McGraw-Hill , 2009 Diversity, Human Resources, Management

Today’s business world has become so interconnected that most businesspeople now regularly work with colleagues, customers, or suppliers from other cultures. Not everyone in the world shares American attitudes toward...

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