Posted by admin on 04 Jul 2009 at 1:23 am under Business
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A very thoughtful and valuable book. It offers a superb kaleidoscope of the dynamics of the family business. — Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD, France and Singapore
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“Of great use to family businesses that, rather [...]
Posted by admin on 14 Apr 2009 at 10:43 pm under Recommended
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“John Carver is a revolutionary of the very best kind. Carver’s Policy Governance model has provided the means for trustees to live out Greenleaf’s challenge to boards to act as both servant and leader.” –Larry C. Spears, CEO, The Greenleaf Center for [...]
Posted by admin on 01 Mar 2009 at 3:02 am under Recommended
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The authors claim that between 65 to 80 percent of all businesses worldwide are family owned or managed, including up to 40 percent of the Fortune 500. Yet most of what we read about family businesses are sensational accounts of blood feuds and internecine [...]
Posted by admin on 17 Feb 2009 at 12:24 am under Recommended
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“…is the perfect business book, because it examines how misguided thinking patterns can cause business leaders to fail spectacularly, and Nightingale provides plenty of these relevant examples as well.” (BizEd Magazine, March/April 2008)
“…is the perfect business book, because it examines how misguided thinking patterns can [...]
Posted by admin on 30 Jan 2009 at 4:34 am under Recommended
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From Booklist
The authors claim that between 65 to 80 percent of all businesses worldwide are family owned or managed, including up to 40 percent of the Fortune 500. Yet most of what we read about family businesses are sensational accounts of blood feuds and internecine [...]
Posted by admin on 26 Jan 2009 at 11:36 pm under Recommended
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“…is the perfect business book, because it examines how misguided thinking patterns can cause business leaders to fail spectacularly, and Nightingale provides plenty of these relevant examples as well.” (BizEd Magazine, March/April 2008)
“…is the perfect business book, because it examines how misguided thinking patterns can [...]
Posted by admin on 23 Jan 2009 at 10:24 pm under Recommended
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“John Carver is a revolutionary of the very best kind. Carver’s Policy Governance model has provided the means for trustees to live out Greenleaf’s challenge to boards to act as both servant and leader.” –Larry C. Spears, CEO, The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership; editor, [...]
Posted by admin on 21 Jan 2009 at 3:29 pm under Recommended
A must-have for first-time and experienced board members alike, who will benefit from William G. Bowen’s decades of experience.Former Mellon Foundation and Princeton University president William G. Bowen has served on the boards of some of the United States’s biggest corporations and nonprofits, including American Express, Merck, the Smithsonian, and TIAA-CREF. In The [...]
Posted by admin on 04 Dec 2008 at 11:03 pm under Recommended
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“The GRC Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the key strategies, tools and best practices that can help companies build and manage a proactive, integrated cross-enterprise GRC strategy. This is a must-have resource for any manager tasked with aligning GRC activities to drive business performance and [...]
Posted by admin on 01 Dec 2008 at 7:07 pm under Recommended
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A revision of the bestselling book that shows IT departments how to take on new challenges As technology becomes more mainstream and accessible, companies must develop new ways to use their IT resources in order to compete. In this extensive revision, IT expert Bernard Boar provides a methodology that [...]
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