ENVIRONMENTAL scanning

ENVIRONMENTAL scanning

 
Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management Hampton, John J. AMACOM , 2009 Business Strategy, Economics & Finance, Entrepreneurship

For many years, managers analyzed risks separately, without considering how they affected the business entity as a whole. In many cases, risk management was handled by the company’s chief financial officer, who often...

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Get There Early Johansen, Bob Berrett-Koehler Publishers , 2007 Leadership

In Get There Early, Bob Johansen’s goal is to provide a guidebook for a future that is not optional and cannot be avoided. He calls this future VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity...

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Turnaround Leadership Callaghan, Shaun O. Kogan Page , 2010 Change Management, Leadership

Crises constantly arise in the world of global business. All career managers will experience a crisis at some point, be it the aftermath of a recession or a change in the way consumers spend their money. Regardless of...

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Plan B Kord, David Free Press , 2012 Business Strategy

In Plan B, David Kord Murray contends that one of the worst problems in business is the failure of detailed strategic plans that have taken a great deal of time and money to develop. The problem is...

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Flash Foresight Burrus, Daniel | Mann, John David HarperCollins , 2011 Business Strategy, Leadership

In Flash Foresight, author Daniel Burrus describes seven radical principles that enable people to better foresee the future, and walks readers through a step-by-step guide to understanding and applying...

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The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership Burnison, Gary The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. , 2012 Leadership

According to Gary Burnison in his book, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership, there are no half measures when it comes to leading others. A leader must be fully engaged, fully committed, cognizant of the...

 
 
Get Lucky Muller, Thor | Becker, Lane Jossey-Bass , 2012 Business Strategy

Many entrepreneurs will claim that they got lucky or were in the right place at the right time when asked why or how their businesses succeeded when so many others fail. In Get Lucky, authors Thor...

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Strategic IQ Wells, John R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , 2012 Business Strategy

In Strategic IQ, author John Wells issues a wake-up call to all companies—big and small, new or established, successful or floundering—about why businesses fail and what they must do to continually...

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