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The Orange Revolution
How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
From New York Times bestselling authors and renowned leadership consultants Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton comes a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams. What is the true driver of a thriving organization’s exceptional success? Is it a genius leader? An iron-clad business plan?...
The Leader Who Had No Title
A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
For more than fifteen years, Robin Sharma has been quietly sharing with Fortune 500 companies and many of the super-rich a success formula that has made him one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world. Now, for the first time, Sharma makes his proprietary process available to you,...
The Trust Edge
How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relati
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In The Trust Edge, David Horsager reveals the foundation of genuine success—trust. Based on research but made practical for today’s leader, The Trust Edge shows that trust is quantifiable and brings dramatic results to businesses and leaders. In this book, Horsager teaches readers how to build...
The Leadership Pill
The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
In the bestselling tradition of Whale Done! and The One Minute Manager, their entertaining and inspiring new book is a parable about the competition between two leaders with totally different management styles—a story that reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.
How can you...
Brand Portfolio Strategy
Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage, and Clarity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In this long-awaited book from the world's premier brand expert and author of the seminal work Building Strong Brands, David Aaker shows managers how to construct a brand portfolio strategy that will support a company's business strategy and create relevance, differentiation, energy, leverage, and...
Leading Product Development
The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
In their groundbreaking book Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark demonstrated how project leaders for product development could apply new innovations to bring products to market at breakneck speed. Now, in their new work, they address the general manager's role...
Thinking In Time
The Uses Of History For Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
“A convincing case that careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions can lead to better decisions—in business as well as in government” (BusinessWeek).
Two noted professors offer easily remembered rules for using history effectively in day-to-day management of...
The Elegant Solution
Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
"Toyota is becoming a double threat: the world's finest manufacturer and a truly great innovator . . . that formula, a combination of production prowess and technical innovation, is an unbeatable recipe for success."
-- Fortune, February 2006
For the first time, an insider...
Discovering the Soul of Service
The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
This wise and inspiring book by Leonard Berry, moves far beyond his pioneering work in services marketing and service quality to explain how great service companies meet their toughest challenge: sustaining long-term success.
In a world where customers regard flawless products as a given, service...
Plan B
How to Hatch a Second Plan That's Always Better Than Your First
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Why has Facebook been so limber, evolving so successfully even after a number of stumbles, while Myspace stalled and lost ground? Why was Wal-Mart able to expand so successfully into new offerings, such as groceries, while H&R Block dramatically failed to expand into offering financial services?...
Risk Intelligence
How to Live with Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
We must make judgments all the time when we can’t be certain of the risks. Should we have that elective surgery? Trust the advice of our financial adviser? Take that new job we’ve been offered? How worried should we be about terrorist attacks? In this lively and groundbreaking book, pioneering...
Vision, Values, and Courage
Leadership for Quality Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Today, quality is the battleground on which global competition takes place, yet without effective leadership no quality program can succeed. This penetrating book exposes the problems that arise when leadership in business fails to do its job, and offers powerful, inspirational examples of firms that...
by John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In this unprecedented study of America's leading executives, John Kotter shatters the popular management notion of the effective "generalist" manager who can step into any business or division and run it. Based on his first-hand observations of fifteen top GMs from nine major companies,...
Marketing Aesthetics
The Strategic Management of Brands, Identity, and Image
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1997
There is no way to mistake the ubiquitous trademarked Coca-Cola bottle, or the stylish ads for Absolut Vodka with any of their competitors. How have these companies created this irresistible appeal for their brands? How have they sustained a competitive edge through aesthetics?
Bernd Schmitt and Alex...