Posted by admin on 27 Oct 2009 at 4:24 am under Business
Editorial Reviews
Streamline the processes vital to optimum performance
With over 100,000 copies sold worldwide, Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap between organization strategy and the individual. Now, in this revised and expanded [...]
Posted by admin on 22 Sep 2009 at 5:47 am under Business
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Since its release in 1990, Peter M. Senge’s bestselling The Fifth Discipline has converted readers to its innovative business principles of the “learning organization,” personal mastery, and systems thinking. Published nearly a decade later, Dance of Change provides a formidable response to businesspeople wondering how [...]
Posted by admin on 09 Aug 2009 at 12:44 am under Business
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One of today’s most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from McDonald’s to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children. The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has something that works right — things that give it life [...]
Posted by admin on 01 Jul 2009 at 12:28 pm under Business
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“. . . competition, we see now, is destructive. It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management.” In this book W. [...]
Posted by admin on 18 Jun 2009 at 11:54 pm under Business
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From Booklist
In spite of dozens of recent articles in the popular business press and professional journals and several newer books all detailing the duties and responsibilities of members of boards of directors, the perception of what boards are for or what they do can still [...]
Posted by admin on 13 Jun 2009 at 9:58 pm under Business
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Another entry in the small but growing management library that suggests purposely slowing down and smelling the roses could actually boost productivity in today’s 24/7 world, Tom DeMarco’s Slack stands out because it is aimed at “the infernal busyness of the modern workplace.” DeMarco writes, “Organizations sometimes [...]
Posted by admin on 03 Apr 2009 at 11:08 pm under Recommended
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A step-by-step guide to establishing learning organizations within existing companies functions as a participative workbook, with exercises for both individuals and teams, suggested approaches and ideas, and success stories. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
From the Publisher
Senge’s best-selling [...]
Posted by admin on 01 Apr 2009 at 9:48 am under Recommended
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A rich resource that guides students through the rational and emergent approaches to strategic management. Thoroughly updated references and 27 brand new cases ensure that students will actively learn the core topics and how to apply them in practice.
From the Back Cover
Corporate [...]
Posted by admin on 01 Apr 2009 at 8:58 am under Recommended
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A revised edition of this bestselling primer on empowerment. This modern-day fable explains what managers and organisations must do to create and maintain an empowered workforce, dedicated to continual improvement in quality, output, sales and customerA revised edition of this bestselling primer on empowerment. This [...]
Posted by admin on 05 Mar 2009 at 11:36 pm under Recommended
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From Booklist
Bazerman and Watkins, faculty at the Harvard Business School, define predictable surprises as “an event or set of events that take an individual or group by surprise, despite prior awareness of all of the information necessary to anticipate the events and their consequences.” They [...]
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