DescriptionOne of the world's top management consulting firms, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, offers a comprehensive strategy for business survival. Corporations can suffer from over-control, over-structuring, and over-management. Miscalculated leadership lacks imagination and flexibility in creating new executive roles that will facilitate growth and cope with complexity. What's needed is a radically new organizational model: the Centerless Corporation. Devised by two of the most respected thinkers in today's business world, this model presents solutions to maintaining focus, maximizing effectiveness, and becoming a more effective global organization.
DescriptionStudy on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from VangoNotes for Management, 9/e and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are - whatever you're doing - you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook: Big Ideas: Your "need to know" for each chapter Practice Test: A gut check for the Big Ideas - tells you if you need to keep studying Key Terms: Audio "flashcards" to help you review key concepts and terms Rapid Review: A quick drill session - use it right before your test VangoNotes are flexible ; download all the material directly to your player, or only the chapters you need. And they're efficient . Use them in your car, at the gym, walking to class, wherever. So get yours today. And get studying.
DescriptionStudy on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Strategic Management, 1/e and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are - whatever you're doing - you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook: Big Ideas: Your "need to know" for each chapter Practice Test: A gut check for the Big Ideas - tells you if you need to keep studying Key Terms: Audio "flashcards" to help you review key concepts and terms Rapid Review: A quick drill session - use it right before your test VangoNotes are flexible ; download all the material directly to your player, or only the chapters you need. And they're efficient . Use them in your car, at the gym, walking to class, wherever. So get yours today. And get studying.
DescriptionPeter Drucker, "the father of modern management", records his insights here on the management of non-profit human-service institutions. Speaking from knowledge gained over the last 35 years through working with such clients as the American Red Cross and the Girl Scouts, Drucker illustrates how the "third sector", made up of not-for-profit organizations, is not only larger and more important than most people realize, but is also the fastest growing part of American society. Here, the author provides strategies for appraisal, innovation, and growth through discussions with top professionals from leading non-profit human-services institutions. But being mission focused, rather than procedure focused, Peter Drucker feels, it's easier to gauge performance, set standards, evaluate effectiveness, and see the bottom line when there is no bottom line.
DescriptionThe blockbuster #1 international best-selling phenomenon is back...not that it ever really went away. The One-Minute Manager is an easy to absorb story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques. It also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help listeners to understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people.
DescriptionTo succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone. Using straight talk laced with wry humor, top business consultant Susan Marshall highlights skills every businessperson can learn and sharpen to become stronger, more confident, and more influential on the job.
DescriptionWhat do Barbie dolls, Nokia phones, and American Express credit cards have in common? They all represent a powerful business model called pyramid profit. How about Intel, Microsoft, and Stephen King? They all exploit another model called value chain posit…
