Strategic Management in Action (2nd Edition): Mary Coulter

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(Pearson Education) A guide integrating the most current strategic management theories and practices, with an array of interactive features. Includes comprehensive cases at the end of each chapter, of companies such as Levi-Strauss and Starbucks, a companion Web site giving students access to online study guides, Internet resources, and more. Softcover. [...]

How to Make Smart Decisions About Training: Save Money, Time, & Frustration: Paul Whitmore

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“Trainers will value this book as a resource for planning, outlining, and developing a comprehensive Criterion-Referenced Instruction program.” — Training & Development Magazine, April 2002
Clear, easy-on-the-eyes guide to assessing the value of proposed training programs and choosing the ones most likely to get … results. [...]

Money Ain’t Free: The True Cause of the Crisis in Corporate Responsibility: Will Marshall

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As their financial security, dreams and peace of mind became victims of the crisis in corporate responsibility, friends of investment banker, Wendy Stevens, sought her help in understanding what was happening and who to trust. Try as she might, she was at a loss to find a believable cause or solution [...]

Capital for Our Time: The Economic, Legal, and Management Challenges of Intellectual Capital (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 448.): Nicholas Imparato

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Capital For Our Time is among the first to bring together experts from widely different fields to address the challenges of intellectual capital. It includes essays by cutting-edge academics, economists, attorneys, researchers, intellectual capital managers, and CEOs as well as representatives of the venture capital, government, and trade association communities. [...]

Destination Z: The History of the Future: Robert Baldock

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“His exposition is clear and concise, his writing elucidated with examples and laced with humour. This book is more than selling ideas: it is selling you a vision of the future.” (Changi International, Singapore)
Baldock, global managing partner with Andersen Consulting, claims that change will accelerate [...]

Leading Your Business into the Future with the Internet: Danielle Vallee

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“This well-written primer is a good starting place for anyone completely unfamiliar with the Internet and basic computer technology” -N. Gersony, Choice, January 2000 Promo Copy
This well-written primer is a good starting place for anyone completely unfamiliar with the Internet and basic computer technology-N. Gersony, [...]

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking: Malcolm Gladwell

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Blink is about the first two seconds of looking–the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, [...]

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School): William Duggan

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“The best strategy book of the year.” — David Newkirk, Strategy+Business “A concise and entertaining treatise on human achievement.” — William Easterly, Wall Street Journal “This book might just change how you look at human thought and strategy, and influence how [...]

The Art of High Stakes Decision Making: Tough Calls in a Speed Driven World: J. Keith Murnighan, John C. Mowen

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A highly readable guide with a method for avoiding mistakes when making decisions that will affect the future of your business The Art of High Stakes Decision Making takes readers to the most important crossroads in business with dozens of real-life scenarios. Engaging “you are there” stories teach [...]

Trust Your Gut: How the Power of Intuition Can Grow Your Business: Lynn A. Robinson

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In businesses big and small, making decisions comes with the territory. But how do you routinely make decisions that enhance, not diminish, the bottom line? According to major thought leaders like the authors of Blink, Megatrends and Winning, “intuition” is the answer. But those books are all about the “what” of [...]