Management

Management

 
The Executive and The Elephant Daft, Richard L. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2011 Leadership, Management

Experience suggests that leaders know how they should behave in different situations, yet they often choose unwise behavior instead. Their intentions and actions are not in alignment. As people cultivate their inner...

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The Female Advantage Helgesen, Sally Currency Doubleday , 1990 Diversity, Leadership, Management

As the world evolves, we need to understand what the world will be like as women come to have more and more impact in the public realm. Thus, The Female Advantage attempts to answer the small questions...

 
 
The Firefly Effect Douglas, Kimberley John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Business Strategy, Leadership, Management, Teams

What does the ideal organic team look like? The Firefly Effect addresses the key characteristics that compose creative, energetic, and productive teams and discusses practical methods leaders can use...

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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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The First-Time Manager, Sixth Edition McCormick, Jim | Topchik, Gary S. AMACOM , 2012 Management

When an individual is first promoted to a managerial position, it is frequently because they have proven themselves to be a valuable employee. The skills required for management, however, are significantly different...

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The Five Temptations of a CEO Leoncioni, Patrick Jossey-Bass , 1998 Leadership, Management

Managing a company need not be complicated, and being a CEO should be conceptually simple. True, business leaders face difficult problems and challenges, but they eventually get the results they want...

 
 
The Four Pillars of High Performance Light, Paul C. McGraw-Hill , 2005 Management, Productivity

The Four Pillars of High Performance is a culmination of hundreds of studies by The RAND Corporation, the highly respected think tank out of Santa Monica, California, revealing a set of central truths...

 
 
The GE Work-Out Ulrich, Dave | Kerr, Steve | Ashkenas, Ron McGraw-Hill , 2002 Business Biographies, Business Strategy, Management

Employees at GE have a deeply engrained and internalized process for addressing and solving the company’s problems quickly, simply, and with the involvement of people who will ultimately carry out the decision. The...

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The Granularity of Growth Viguerie, Patrick | Smit, Sven | Baghai, Mehrdad John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Business Strategy, Management

It is undeniable that companies need growth to continue to thrive in today’s marketplace. The question that lingers in the minds of many organizational leaders – particularly those representing large companies – is...

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The Halo Effect Rosenzweig, Phil Simon & Schuster , 2007 Management

Much of our thinking about company performance, says Phil Rosenzweig, author of The Halo Effect, reflects a tendency to make specific evaluations and judgments based on general impressions. If a...

 
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