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New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness—that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems—has increased by a whopping factor of...
| Автор | Yves Morieux |
As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul SundayA New York Times and Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today’s best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can—and do—work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders: including customers, employees,...
| Автор | John Mackey |
What Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach us about leadershipHow do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Here’s what the world’s best leaders and teams do: they improvise. They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a scripted plan or a safety net that guarantees specific outcomes. They negotiate with each other as they proceed, and they don’t dwell on mistakes or stifle each other’s ideas. In short, they say...
| Автор | Frank J. Barrett |
Your guide to making better decisionsDespite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today—and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions—many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights.In Judgment Calls, authors Tom Davenport and Brook Manville share twelve stories of organizations...
| Автор | Томас Дэвенпорт |
A manager's job is getting harder to do. But the central question for all managers – the one that separates great managers from the rest- is how to get the most from your people. What do you do when your most talented people fall short of their potential, or worse, fall off their game for awhile? How do you inspire a solid contributor to even more stellar performance? How do you find that spark? And turn it into a burning flame?According to best-selling author and psychiatrist, Ned...
| Автор | Ned Hallowell |
For most companies, cost cutting in a down economy means across-the-board slashing that «spreads the pain» of budget reductions across many departments. While that may sound like the best approach for getting critical results fast and for limiting political infighting, it is a mistake-one that will leave your company weaker, not just smaller. Instead, companies that need to reduce costs should treat the challenge as an opportunity to identify and reinforce their key capabilities, while divesting...
| Автор | Paul Leinwand |
Pleasing Wall Street used to be easy for executives. Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers, and suppliers—which can erode your earnings and stock price.In Winning Investors Over, Baruch Lev draws on his own and other finance scholars’ research to present...
| Автор | Baruch Lev |
In recent years a new—disquieting—form of disruptive innovation has emerged, one that beats incumbents on both price and quality right from the start and quickly sweeps through every customer segment. This kind of “big bang” disruption can devastate entire product lines virtually overnight. Look at the effect that free navigation apps, preloaded on smartphones, had on the market for devices made by TomTom, Garmin, and Magellan.Big-bang disruptions often come...
| Автор | Larry Downes |
For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile, the emerging economies of the world–Brazil, India, China, and others–will surge forward.As these fast-growing, low-income economies mature, will they adopt the practices of the old guard? Or...
| Автор | Christopher Meyer |
A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success–whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to:Present your idea clearlyDevelop sound financial plansProject risks–and rewardsAnticipate and address your audience's concerns Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential...
| Автор | Harvard Business Review (HBR) |
Stewart Brand famously declared, “Information wants to be free.” Except he didn’t (not really). And it doesn’t.Information is much more complicated than that. What information really wants—what makes it more valuable, useful, and immediate, Joshua Gans argues—is to be shared.Using the tools and logic of information economics, Gans shows how sharing enhances most information’s value. He also shows how the business models of...
| Автор | Joshua Gans |
The era of social technologies provides seemingly endless opportunity, both for individuals and organizations. But it’s also the subject of seemingly endless hype. Yes, social tools allow us to do things entirely differently—but how do you really capitalize on that?In 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, the newest in Harvard Business Review’s line of digital books (HBR Singles), social strategist and insightful blogger Nilofer Merchant argues that...
| Автор | Нилофер Мёрчант |
Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard? If not, you're not alone. In fact, studies show that audiences remember only 10% to 30% of speech or presentation content. Given those bleak statistics, why do we give speeches at all? We give them, says communications expert Nick Morgan, because they remain the most powerful way of connecting with audiences since ancient Greek times. But as we've evolved to a more conversational mode of public speaking, thanks to television, we...
| Автор | Nick Morgan |
“Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” — From the IntroductionThe trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each—and how we can learn to tell the difference ahead of time.In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives—yet few...
| Автор | Michael J. Mauboussin |
Are you just playing—or playing to win?Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future—something that doesn’t happen in most companies.Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get to the heart of strategy—explaining what it’s for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. And they use one of the most successful...
| Автор | Roger L. Martin |
Introducing the Four Components That Make Innovation RepeatableEven the best-performing companies eventually stall. Sustaining momentum—and remaining a great growth company—takes a system.Scott Anthony and David Duncan call this system a “Growth Factory.” They’ve seen it work in a small set of elite companies that have created environments where innovation is both repeatable and reliable, not relegated to an off-site or isolated division that has no...
| Автор | David S. Duncan |
The war for talent is heating up in emerging markets. Without enough “brain power,” multinationals can’t succeed in these markets. Yet they’re approaching the war in the wrong way—bringing in expats and engaging in bidding wars for hotshot local “male” managers.The solution is hiding in plain sight: the millions of highly educated women surging into the labor markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the United Arab Emirates....
| Автор | Sylvia Ann Hewlett |
There are only two ways that humans work together: they cooperate with one another, or they coerce one another. And once you realize this fundamental fact, it will change how you see the world. In this myth-busting book, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan display their wisdom and talent for explaining complex topics, which have attracted a devoted audience to their weekly podcast, Words & Numbers, and made them popular speakers around the country. By looking for cooperation and coercion...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era presents the first book-length examination of flak as a form of political harassment, authored by a seasoned researcher on political discourse and mass media. Flak against news media was a component of the Edward Herman-Noam Chomsky seminal «Propaganda Model.» However, in the thirty years since the model was introduced, flak has become an increasingly significant and prevalent sociopolitical force in its own right, in large part for the...
| Автор | Brian Michael Goss |
If you are human, you are biased . From this fundamental truth diversity expert Howard Ross explores the unconscious biases we each carry within us, working to inform every decision we make on a daily basis. Far from simply being malicious prejudgments of others and situations, these biases define what kind of decision makers we become, in the workplace, in the classroom, at the ballot box, and in our relationships with others. Incorporating anecdotes from today’s headlines alongside...
| Автор | Howard J. Ross |
Each state's physical environment, economy, and politics demands a unique approach to environmental enforcement. In some states, industry works closely with regulators to construct rules that protect state economic interests. In other states, regulators are more at odds with industry, arguing that there can be no cost placed on access to clean air and water. While we have long-considered powerful legislatures and governors the pilots of environmental enforcement behavior in the states,...
| Автор | JoyAnna Hopper |
Make money planning events with style and impress your clients – from weddings to meetings! Start & Run an Event Planning Business shows you how to start and run a successful enterprise by planning events of all kinds – from weddings and private parties to corporate events, meetings, conferences, and sporting events. This book will show you not only how to organize events, but also how to run the business. Keeping track of all the many details involved in putting on a successful event is...
| Автор | Mardi Foster-Walker |
On average, North Americans spend more money on their pets annually than they do on toys, candy, movies, video games, and recorded music! With increased interest for careers involving pets, Start & Run a Pet Business provides the knowledge needed to create a successful, ethical business working with animals. With topics ranging from various business opportunities in the pet sector today, managing your start-up costs, key demographics of the pet industry, how to generate clientele, and...
| Автор | Heather Mueller |
Anyone interested in genealogy, personal history and memoirs can turn their passion into a business. Communities, families, and even corporations are increasingly seeking out professional writers and historians to record their stories. For anyone who is interested in personal history and writing, this is an essential resource for turning your passion into an income source. Written by experienced personal historian and entrepreneur Jennifer Campbell, it covers topics such as: how to actually do...
| Автор | Jennifer Campbell |