Strategic innovation

embedding innovation as a core competency in your organization

Offering a flexible, customizable template, authors Duarte and Snyder bring innovation to a practical level and provide readers with tools to craft a strategy for embedding innovation across their enterprise as a core competence. Instead of innovation for innovation's sake, they offer a very ...

Encouraging the heart

a leader's guide to rewarding and recognizing others

All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlooked and under utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart shows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they work with by helping them find ...

Credibility

how leaders gain and lose it, why people demand it

Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people don't believe in you, they won't believe in what ...

Performance-based management

what every manager should do to get results

Everyday first-line managers and supervisors struggle with deficiencies and inequities in their organization, their leadership, and their people. Performance-Based Management recognizes that deficiencies exist and focuses on those things that first-line managers and supervisors can do to be more effective. It helps managers not only ...

Managing risk in organizations

a guide for managers

Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. In this comprehensive resource, David Frame# a leading expert in risk management# examines the risks routinely encountered in business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various risks, and ...

Designing solutions for your business problems

a structured process for managers and consultants

This text shows that good solutions do not emerge on their own, but are designed, refined and executed with a clear, client- centered objective in mind. The author provides a toolbox to help build skills in developing realistic goals and valid hypotheses, planning the solution ...

Competing in a service economy

how to create a competitive advantage through service development and innovation

DESCRIPCION Competing in a Service Economy is a hands-on guide to creating services, with illustrative examples from service-oriented companies including Disney, Ericsson, IKEA, National Association of Convenience Stores, Ritz Carlton, Scandinavian Airline Systems, Sterling Pulp Chemicals, and Telia Mobile. This practical resource for executives, general ...

Authentic leadership

rediscovering the secrets to creating lasting value

In the wake of continuing corporate scandals there have been few, if any, CEOs that have stepped forward as models of "doing things right" -- except the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, Bill George. George has become the unofficial spokesperson for responsible leadership -- in business ...

Managing projects in organizations

how to make the best use of time, techniques, and people

In this third edition of Managing Projects in Organizations, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands on his classic book to provide an accessible introduction to the field of project management. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of consulting and training experience, Frame's most current ...

E-learning strategies

how to get implementation and delivery right first time

As more than 90% of spending on the Internet comes from brick and mortar companies it is these operations that will form the client base for e-learning. This book shows those companies how to get e-learning implementation right first time. Don Morisson explores and explains ...

Reframing organizations

artistry, choice, and leadership

In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situation from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factoires, families, jungles, and theaters of temples.

High-involvement innovation

building and sustaining competitive advantage through continuous change

Provides a framework for thinking about and organizing a culture of continuous innovation. Based on ten years of research with over 200 organizations.

The partnering imperative

making business partnerships work

There is no shortage of strategic reasons for taking partnering seriously in today's converging and colliding marketplace. However, there certainly is a lack of credible explanations as to why so many fail. This book provides the ingredients for successful business partnerships. It identifies the ...

Designing effective organizations

how to create structured networks

Winner of the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2002 'Goold and Campbell, leading thinkers on corporate-level strategy, have turned their attention to corporate-level organization design. They bring a rigor to this topic that will help managers wrestling with multiple reporting dimensions, decentralization and cross-unit co- ...

Corporate boards that create value

governing company performance from the boardroom

The boundaryless organization

breaking the chains of organizational structure

In 1995 The Boundaryless Organization showed companies how to sweep away the artificial obstacles-such as hierarchy, turf, and geography-that get in the way of outstanding business performance. Now, in this completely revised edition of their groundbreaking work, management experts Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick ...

Managing project risk and uncertainty

a constructively simple approach to decision making

This title confidently puts forward a practical, new approach to decision making in an uncertain business world. Many variables are accounted for and the authors are innovative in integrating previous types of decision-making approaches with a more fluid, and therefore realistic model that can be ...

The leadership challenge

When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner-- two of ...

The five dysfunctions of a team

a leadership fable

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns ...

Work naked

eight essential principles for peak performance in the virtual workplace

Managing the unexpected

assuring high performance in an age of complexity

High reliability organizations (HROs) such as ER units in hospitals or firefighting units are designed to perform efficiently under extreme stress and pressure. Using HROs as the model for the 21st century organization, Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe show readers how to respond to unexpected ...

Coaching for leadership.

how the World's greatests coaches help leaders learn

Executive coaching is dramatically increasing in popularity. Leaders around the world are both using coached and becoming coaches. But, the understanding of what executive coaching is and how it can increases leaders' effectiveness has not grown as fast as the application of this process.