Management
Management
In his first best seller, First, Break All the Rules, Buckingham, breaking with conventional wisdom, offered managers valuable guidelines on how to avoid the mistake of coercing their employees into overcoming their...
A new business paradigm of one-to-one production, marketing, and communications. The authors provide a detailed description of life after mass marketing -a life that focuses on share of customer, rather than...
Five key paradoxes form the foundation of this book. These paradoxes clarify and formulate the organizational tensions that executives reported during their interviews with the authors, and seem to represent...
Everyone enjoys something, but that "something" is usually not the job. This is unfortunate because a job consumes a large portion of an adult’s life, and spending countless hours toiling at a career that is neither...
In this unpredictable economy, where corporate crises have virtually become a way of life, Pate and Platt have found that shareholders, employees, and creditors constantly ask, “What went wrong, and what could we have...
According to Albrecht’s Law, "Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity." This, says the author, is a situation that is all too common throughout business and...
In The Power of Story, Jim Loehr, the noted performance expert and sports psychologist, presents the idea that our lives unfold in accordance with the stories we tell ourselves and others. Telling...
In The Prize, Yergin provides unprecedented insight into the history of the oil industry, and by extension, the dynamic and intricate history of the 20th century. In light of events in the Gulf...
The "rice-paper ceiling" is the phenomenon that frequently prevents non-Japanese employees from enjoying successful careers and rising to key managerial positions in Japanese firms. It is a combination of...
In The Road to Organic Growth, Edward Hess defines two types of growth patterns in business, nonorganic growth, where companies increase size and power primarily by consuming or assimilating other...
