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As Ann Rhoades and Nancy Shepherdson explain in Built on Values, the “perfect company culture” does not exist. The right culture for any company can be defined by determining what values are important...
The “great recession” has completely changed today’s economic climate. Consumers are buying less and saving more, banks are lending very little money, and conservationist policies are emerging from developed nations,...
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in reforming the organization and delivery of health systems in developed countries, including the United States. While health economists recognize the need for government...
Issues that the business world now believes to be important, such as values, empowerment, service, quality, and environmental responsibility, are matters of feeling and spirit. Although most people acknowledge that...
Innovation X by Adam Richardson offers a new way to view innovation. He believes that the problems that today’s businesses must innovatively solve have grown in scope and complexity. Richardson labels...
A successful sales call takes talent and effort. Marketing, sales strategy, preparation, technical expertise, business knowledge, keeping pace with technology, fast access to accurate information, drive, and the...
The average American consumer is exposed to $376 worth of advertising per day over 365 days. With this enormous volume of communication, the only way to score big is to be selective and concentrate on narrow targets...
The authors describe in detail why and how Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson gave up engineering positions at MIT in order to start Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in August of 1957. They focus on how Olsen and...
Little by little, scholars and business practitioners have begun to recognize the significance of followers in organizations. Inspired by a groundbreaking conference held in 2006 called “Rethinking Followership,”...
We learn why the illusion of the team vehicle has created confusion, personality conflicts and slowed progress in Why Teams Don’t Work. The authors examine the team myth and offer practical tools and insights about...
