Posted by admin on 28 Oct 2009 at 11:04 pm under Business
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The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today’s managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Oct 2009 at 10:55 am under Business
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Peter Drucker’s classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship
This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America’s new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service [...]
Posted by admin on 29 Jul 2009 at 10:39 pm under Business
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“Our debt to Peter Drucker knows no limit.” — – Tom Peters
“The dean of this country’s business and management philosophers.” — – Wall Street Journal
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” The dean of this country’s business and management philosophers.” (Wall Street Journal [...]
Posted by admin on 08 Jul 2009 at 11:56 am under Business
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“Essential.” — – Library Journal
“He covers a great deal of ground. His style is crisp, often arresting…. A host of stories and case histories from Sears Roebuck, Marks & Spencer, IBM, Siemens, Mitsubishi, and other modern giants lend color and credibility to the [...]
Posted by admin on 04 Jul 2009 at 12:53 am under Business
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles: Peter F. Drucker
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“A remarkable book about the economic futre of the United States.” — –National Review
“A remarkable book about the economic future of the United States.” — National Review
“By far the most trenchant analysis of a phenomenon that, if [...]
Posted by admin on 03 Jul 2009 at 1:25 am under Business
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From Publishers Weekly
The 49 contributors to this collection?an eclectic mix of executives, academics, management experts and consultants?offer highly accessible, often conversationally written essays intended as thought-provoking goads to action or change in today’s business environment. The emphasis is on creating flexible organizational structures that can [...]
Posted by admin on 29 Jun 2009 at 11:46 am under Business
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From Booklist
Already this year, in Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value through Business and Social Sector Partnerships, Shirley Sagawa and Eli Segal outlined the benefits of partnerships between businesses and nonprofit organizations. There they profiled seven successful examples of such relationships. Now Austin, author of [...]
Posted by admin on 13 Jun 2009 at 11:48 pm under Business
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What Management Is, by former Harvard Business Review editors Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, identifies management as the driving force behind key innovations of the past century and presents a jargon-free look at the way its core principles work. Designed to promote “managerial literacy” up and down the business food chain, [...]
Posted by admin on 05 Mar 2009 at 2:04 am under Recommended
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From Booklist
Touted as the longtime business analyst’s last book, this is a compilation of essays culled from previously published material. In these pieces, which are not arranged in chronological order, Drucker covers trends, emerging industries, and management and sociological changes that can adversely affect or [...]
Posted by admin on 30 Nov 2008 at 1:35 pm under Recommended
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“The strategy process Mike Freedman so ably discusses has been put to work at La-Z-Boy. You will come away from The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership better equipped to not only think more incisively about future competitive advantage, but your organization will have greater strategic focus at every level, beginning with the [...]
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