BUSINESS planning
BUSINESS planning
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...
"Building the Bridge as You Walk on It" is Robert Quinn’s final book in the trilogy focusing on personal change and organizational leadership that began with "Deep Change" in 1996. In "Deep Change," Quinn teaches that...
Studies show that, because sales to existing customers are more profitable than sales to new customers, today’s businesses are recognizing that establishing long-term customer relationships is the best way to ensure...
In the 1950s, GM was a juggernaut, dominating every market it entered and influencing American manufacturing, marketing, and even society like no other company, before nor since. Now, as the company approaches its...
Forget conventional wisdom. Forget the thought that the more you know, the better off you’ll be. Forget the idea that knowledge and expertise are the only true routes to success and innovation in business. Education...
In The Triple Bottom Line, authors Andrew Savitz and Karl Weber look at how businesses can prosper financially while protecting and renewing the social, environmental, and economic resources they need—...
Why do certain tasks seem easier for some people than for others? Why do some individuals excel in one job and flounder in another? Why are personal weaknesses relatively stable and difficult to change?
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At one time or another, most managers have experienced dissatisfaction with their employees' performance. Despite the strong temptation to fall prey to the assumption that poor performance is a result of unchangeable...
The organizational landscape has undergone so many transformations over the last decade that thousands of talented professionals who managed to thrive through all sorts of difficulty have suddenly found themselves the...
A new role, that of the corporate performance management (CPM) executive, is rapidly emerging in companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations as a means to ensure effective and efficient alignment of...
