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Yale professors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres engage readers in an intriguing oxymoron. They believe invention can be automated. Why Not? outlines a populist high-octane approach to creative problem solving. “We aspire for this book to change the way people think about their own ability to change the world.” The authors’ ideas [...]
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This is not your typical business book. You won’t find academic remedies to your business challenges or exhortations to create a warmer and fuzzier workplace. In fact, you’ll find the opposite-tips on how to be a tougher, take-no-prisoners-style manager. It’s time to stop letting workplace political correctness push you around and get [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
Firms that take ideas seriously take their employees’ thinking seriously, and employees who think are employees who are alive. Thus argue Robinson and Schroeder, management academics and corporate creativity consultants. Ideas are the life force of corporations, they say, and managers who recognize this [...]
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A Hands-on manager’s guide to making the most of today’s product development breakthroughs
A quarter century after MRP first transformed the global manufacturing arena, Next Generation Product Development stands poised to similarly impact new product development. This movement-defining book gives R&D professionals an in-depth explanation of the ways in which companies are able to achieve [...]
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When new-car developers at Ford Motor Company wanted to learn why the original Taurus design team was so successful, no one could tell them. No one remembered or had recorded what made that effort so special; the knowledge gained in the Taurus project was lost forever. [...]
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“Engaging…. Reframes the ideals and issues of leadership…. Draws lessons from this teacher and prophet of antiquity for all who aspire to leadership today.” — Mary C. Boys, coauthor of Christians and Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the [...]
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The short text includes approximately 30 real cases on manufacturing businesses. The text presents Terry Hill’s well-known Order Winner Criteria. This is his strategy for manufacturing.
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The Enron debacle, the demise of Arthur Andersen, questionable practices at Tyco, Qwest, WorldCom, and a seemingly endless list of others have pushed public regard for business and business leaders to new lows. The need for smart leaders with vision and integrity has never been greater. Things need to change—and it will [...]
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From Booklist
Gerber has had great success with his previous E-Myth books, and this is the sixth in the series. The E-Myth posits that, because most professional business owners are successful in their field, they assume they are going to be successful entrepreneurs as well, and this [...]
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“These incisive and witty essays bring the turbulent decade into sharp perspective.”
“I have known and admired the Marathon investment team for over a decade. They are among the best in the world: fiercely independent, often contrarian and always thought-provoking. their Global Investment Review is [...]
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