Competing Against Time : How Time-based Competition is Reshaping Global Markets: George Stalk

Editorial Reviews

The ways leading companies manage time represent the most powerful new sources of competitive advantage. With hundreds of detailed examples from companies that have put these strategies in place, the authors show exactly how reducing elapsed time can make the critical difference in success or failure. 40 line drawings.
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Discovering the Leader in You: A Guide to Realizing Your Personal Leadership Potential: Robert J. Lee, Sara N. King

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“In the considerable literature on leadership, this book focuses on something new-how individuals can identify the key attributes of great leadership and link them to their own unique vision, values, and personal strengths. The authors provide a roadmap to self-knowledge that becomes a guide to maximizing effectiveness [...]

Get It Done!: A Blueprint for Business Execution: Ralph Welborn, Vince Kasten

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“A challenge businesses always face is how to get more value out of their IT organization. Another is how to infuse business with technology so that both the business and the technology people appreciate their differences as they deliver on their commitments-to each other. Get [...]

Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done: William A. Malek, Mark Morgan, Raymond Elliot Levitt

Why do businesses consistently fail to execute their competitive strategies? Because leaders don’t identify and invest in the full range of projects and programs required to align the organization with its strategy. Moreover, even when strategy makers do break their plans down into doable chunks, they seldom work with project leaders to prioritize [...]

Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done: William A. Malek, Mark Morgan, Raymond Elliot Levitt

Editorial Reviews
Why do businesses consistently fail to execute their competitive strategies? Because leaders don’t identify and invest in the full range of projects and programs required to align the organization with its strategy. Moreover, even when strategy makers do break their plans down into doable chunks, they seldom work with project leaders to [...]

Measuring the Value of Partnering: How to Use Metrics to Plan, Develop, and Implement Successful Alliances: Larraine Segil

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Creating alliances is a lot easier than deciding whether they will add real value to an organization’s activities. Measuring the Value of Partnering provides the tools readers need to maximize the advantage of any alliance. Using real-life examples, the book explains which measurements to use at each stage of the alliance life [...]

Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations: Constance E. Helfat, Sydney Finkelstein, Will Mitchell, Margaret Peteraf, Harbir Singh, David Teece, Sidney G. Winter

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Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change, firms must develop the “dynamic capabilities” to create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its resource base is vital.
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Measuring the Value of Partnering: How to Use Metrics to Plan, Develop, and Implement Successful Alliances: Larraine Segil

Editorial Reviews
How does one accurately measure an alliance? With all the factors involved — productivity, decision making, team performance, the number of new customers, and damage control — getting a precise measurement can be a complex and daunting task. Knowing which measurement to use, and at what stage of [...]

Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done: William A. Malek, Mark Morgan, Raymond Elliot Levitt

Editorial Reviews
Why do businesses consistently fail to execute their competitive strategies? Because leaders don’t identify and invest in the full range of projects and programs required to align the organization with its strategy. Moreover, even when strategy makers do break their plans down into doable chunks, they seldom work with project leaders to [...]