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Managing for the Short Term: The New Rules for Running a Business in a Day-to-Day World
Martin has found that nothing consumes bus. managers more than how to manage a co. in the weeks & months immediately ahead. If you don t manage for the short term, you won t be around for the long term. As founder of the Net Future Inst., an exec. think tank made up of some 3,000 high-level exec. at over 1,400 co s., Martin has interviewed & gathered the insights of thousands of mgmt. specialists to discover how co s. are successfully zeroing in on improving short-term performance, while still balancing these efforts with long-term strategic goals. By looking to managers & exec. at co s. like IBM, Deloitte & Touche, Kraft, AT&T, & Dow Chemical, Martin has uncovered the best practices that help propel short-term performance
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New Think & Grow Rich by Ted Ciuba
Why Write A New Think and Grow Rich? At first exposure the very idea of rewriting the greatest success classic of all time sounds like some fruit from California announcing he’s re-written the Bible. However, looking at it correctly, wouldn’t it be amazing if a “how-to” manual didn’t need updating after 70 years of service? What other body of knowledge and practice has not progressed dramatically in the intervening years?! Can the science of personal achievement be any different? So what kinds of changes can you expect? Certainly modern advances in neuro-science, motivation, NLP, and quantum reality make it easier to grasp the secret, and have been included. Also, those uncomfortable “isms of an antique age” have been eliminated. You no longer have to be a white American male to achieve success..thus the language, quotes, examples and stories include, while retaining much of the familiar work, women, other races and nationalities. More accessible for young people, who need it most
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The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management
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Competitive Strategy Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter’s Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity — like all great breakthroughs — Porter’s analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies — lowest cost, differentiation, and focus — which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter’s framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment.
More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter’s ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing.
Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter’s rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.
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Sun Tzu For Execution: How to Use the Art of War to Get Results
While most other titles on Sun Tzu emphasize the strategic or philosophical nature of Sun Tzu’s writings, this guide will show readers how to implement The Art of War tactically and operationally. It promotes savvy strategic principles from Sun Tzu such as: share rewards, coordinate resources, and choose your timing. “Sun Tzu for Execution” enables readers to achieve results and improve their bottom line. Filled with insight commentary and examples from companies that are best in class at execution, “Sun Tzu for Execution” makes strategy actionable.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
Global warming”:
the Left’s last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economyFor decades, environmentalism has been the Left’s best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It’s for Mother Earth! It’s for the children! It’s for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they’ve trumped up haven’t been large enough to justify the lifestyle restrictions they want to impose. With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only “global governance” (Jacques Chirac’s words) can tackle such problems.
Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left’s manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes–and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and UN globalists endlessly bleat that “global warming” is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true. It’s the ideal scare campaign for those who hate capitalism and love big government. For, as Horner explains, if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could “solve” it. According to the logic of the greens’ own numbers, no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of big government.
Horner (an attorney and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) reveals the full anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-human agenda of today’s environmentalists, dubbing them “green on the outside, red to the core.” He details how they use strong-arm legal tactics–and worse–against those who dare to point out the weakness of their arguments for global warming. Along the way, he explodes ten top global warming myths, carefully examining the evidence to determine how much warming there really is and what is actually causing it. He exposes the lies that the environmental lobby routinely tells to make its case; the ways in which it is trying to impose initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol on an unwilling American public; and much more–including the green lobby’s favorite politicians (John Kerry, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and others).
It’s time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted, and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism gives you the facts you need to do so.
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Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria
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Consult Yourself: The NLP Guide to Being a Management Consultant
This book is essential reading for anyone involved or interested in consultancy. Suitable for independent consultants, partnerships, associates, and new entrants to large consultancy practices, it covers:
– Essential Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) based consultancy strategies that will revolutionize approaches to planning, analysis, problem solving, IT, networking, and marketing.
– Techniques to enable the reader to manage more time effectively, present information, interview, coach, collaborate, evaluate and be confident. -
The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success
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Law School Labyrinth: The Guide to Making the Most of Your Legal Education
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Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognition, Governance, and Institutions
The 2008-9 financial crisis demands we look anew at the role of corporations, and the working of financial markets around the world. In this challenging and insightful book, one of our most eminent economists provides a compelling new analysis of the corporate firm; the role of shareholders, managers and workers; and institutional governance structures.
In recent decades the firm has predominantly been seen as an organization run and governed in the interests of shareholders, where management act as the agent of shareholders, and the workers simply as instruments for share-value maximization. This book reverses this viewpoint. It sees corporations as associational cognitive systems where “cognitive actions” are distributed amongst managers and workers, with shareholders supplying “cognitive tools” and monitoring their use in the systems. Aoki analyses the different relationships that can exist between shareholders, managers, and workers from this perspective, and identifies a range of different models of organizational architecture and associated governance structures. He also discusses ways in which corporations act as players in social, political, and organizational games, as well as global economic games; how these inter-related social dynamics may change particular, distinctive national structures into the diversity incorporated in the global corporate landscape; and how they now call for new roles for financial markets