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Business Chemistry
Practical Magic for Crafting Powerful Work Relationships
by Kim Christfort, Suzanne Vickberg
Business Chemistry will help you grasp where others are coming from, appreciate the value they bring, and determine what they need in order to excel.
Game-Changer
Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
by David McAdams
Game-Changer develops six basic ways to change games—commitment, regulation, cartelization, retaliation, trust, and relationships—enlivened by countless colorful characters and unforgettable examples from the worlds of business, medicine, finance, military history, crime, sports, and more.
The 80/20 Manager
The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More
by Richard Koch
Bestselling author Richard Koch demonstrates how managers can be much more efficient and effective by applying the 80/20 Principle - the idea that just 20 percent of our time, effort and key decisions generate 80 percent of our success. The 80/20 Manager can help managers to focus on the issues that really matter, ask the right questions, find the right connections and realize meaningful achievement for their businesses and themselves.
Taking People with You
The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen
by David Novak
There are countless leadership books, but how many will actually help a Taco Bell shift manager, a Fortune 500 CEO, a new entrepreneur, or anyone in between? David Novak's new book Taking People with You will. Novak knows that managers and leaders can make things happen by one skill: getting people on their side. He offers a step-by-step guide to setting big goals, getting people to work together, blowing past your targets, and celebrating after you shock the skeptics. And then doing...
The Wal-Mart Effect
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works –– and How It's Transforming the American Economy
by Charles Fishman
The company Sam Walton built and incorporated in 1969 has become the world's number one retailer amplified by diversification into grocery (Wal-Mart Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets), international operations and membership warehouse clubs (Sam's Clubs). Award-winning investigative and magazine journalist Charles Fishman examines this phenomenon. The Wal-Mart Effect, Fishman's first book, made the bestseller lists of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and
How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First-Century Corporation: Lessons from Lincoln Electric's Unique Guaranteed Employment Program
by Frank Koller
While factories across the Midwest shutter their doors, Cleveland-based manufacturer Lincoln Electric has thrived for more than a century. In addition to being profitable and technologically innovative, through good times and bad, the company has fulfilled its unique promise of "guaranteed continuous employment." Workers are viewed as assets — not liabilities. Through flexible hours and job assignments, as well as a merit-based bonus system, Lincoln Electric's employment...
Tough Management
The 7 Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow Business in Good Times and Bad
by Chuck Martin
Faced with shrinking budgets, smaller staffs, shorter deadlines, more demanding customers and an unrelenting call for innovation and growth, many executives need a fresh, bottom-line approach designed for what really works in today's business environment. This new approach is what business strategist and CEO of NFI Research Chuck Martin offers in Tough Management. Based on more than two years of surveys of more than 2,000 senior executives and managers, this summary provides managers wi
Jack: Straight from the Gut
by Jack Welch
Follow the career of General Electric CEO Jack Welch from his beginnings as a stuttering, competitive kid from working-class Salem, Massachusetts, to his early days as a GE engineer, to his ascension to CEO and a 20-year reign at the top. In his own words, Welch stresses the importance of people, originality, creativity, and common sense while sharing his thoughts on what it takes to be a great leader.
The Quest For Global Dominance
Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage
by Vijay Govindarajan, Anil K. Gupta
Worldwide market opportunities are available and the authors say that establishing a global presence is not enough. Describing how a global mindset is necessary to rethink who target customers are and what value should be delivered to them, The Quest for Global Dominance explains howcompanies can identify and develop the opportunities for value creation to gain competitive advantage.