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  • Real Time Strategic Change

    How to Involve an Entire Organization in Fast and Far-Reaching Change

    Real time strategic change is a way of redesigning how organizations change-a mindset and accompanying methodology-that ensures that • Change occurs at a fast pace and in real time throughout an organization. • Change occurs simultaneously within the whole organization. • Buy-in, commitment to, and ownership of a change effort is a natural by-product of involving people in the process of change. • ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Beauty of the Beast

    Breathing New Life Into Organizations

    THE WAYS WE GO about changing organizations usually don't work, asserts Geoff Bellman. Our underlying assumptions predetermine the results and preclude the broad success we so desperately seek. Change efforts often end up off-track because of small expectations. What is needed are grand expectations, so big that they cannot be realized in many lifetimes. It is only when people awaken to and work ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Whole-Scale Change

    Unleashing the Magic in Organizations

    PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONs of all types-public and private, large and small-have for years had to wrestle with the formidable challenge of successfully planning and implementing changes in how they do business. Today, the demand for faster approaches is increasing across a broad spectrum of organizations in business and society, as they are faced daily with an array of change mandates-new business ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Change Monster

    The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change

    A brilliant, original, and powerful look at corporate change--mergers, reorganizations, transformations--and why it succeeds or fails.The Change Monster is the first book on the central issue that blows so many change efforts out of the water: the human interactions and emotional dynamics of the people involved. It is also an unusual book about business, one written from the heart as well as the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Effective Work Breakdown Structures

    At last - the first comprehensive and practical guide to the work breakdown structure (WBS) in 45 years! This book offers vital new perspectives on how to apply the WBS to today's different types of projects that produce products, services or results. You'll learn how to use WBS throughout the project lifecycle to plan, control and communicate. Your new insights into the WBS principles, plus ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Designing Dynamic Organizations

    A Hands-on Guide for Leaders at All Levels

    Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a business reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact?Every executive grapples with problems of restructuring--and most need hands-on guidance to solve them. Based on Jay Galbraith’s world-renowned approach to organization design and featuring a broad selection of practical tips and tools ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Change Is Everybody's Business

    Change Is Everybody's Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie, or redirect change. Pat McLagan draws on her thirty years of experience consulting on change projects worldwide to outline the beliefs, character traits, and actions that will enable anyone to welcome change and take advantage of it rather than fear and resist it. Taking a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Responsible Restructuring

    Creative and Profitable Alternatives to Layoffs

    Firms that restructure through downsizing are not more profitable than those that don't, and often end up hurting themselves in the long run. Responsible Restructuring draws on the results of an eighteen-year study of S&P 500 firms to prove that it makes good business sense to restructure responsibly-to avoid downsizing and instead regard employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Technological Change and Organizational Action

    Edited by Juha Laurila, David Preece ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
    In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for organizational action and researchers have begun to draw inspiration from a wider spectrum of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Seven-Day Weekend

    Changing the Way Work Works

    Ricardo Semler thinks that companies ought to put employee freedom and satisfaction ahead of corporate goals.Imagine a company where employees set their own hours; where there are no offices, no job titles, no business plans; where employees get to endorse or veto any new venture; where kids are encouraged to run the halls; and where the CEO lets other people make nearly all the decisions. This ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Institutional Approach to Labour and Development

    Series series Routledge Research EADI Studies in Development
    Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists in research programmes in a number of European institutions concerned with development, this collection analyses how social institutions contribute to an understanding of development.It shows how labour markets, labour relations and employment patterns respond to institutional forces, and thereby shape development paths and determine how ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Competition Demystified

    A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy

    Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his hugely popular course at Columbia Business School, Greenwald and his coauthor, Judd Kahn, offer an easy-to-follow method for understanding the competitive structure of your industry and developing an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Shocking Velocity!

    Srikanth Srinivas has helped companies like Del Monte, Disney, Dole, FritoLay, Microsoft and Target Rapidly Achieve More With Less - More Revenues, Margins and Cash Flow, With Less Costs, Assets and Inventory. In "Shocking Velocity!" he will show you how you can create similar results for your organization. It is like having the best consultants from McKinsey, Accenture and IBM guiding you towards ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Top Performer's Guide to Change

    Overcoming Fear to Turn Change into Opportunity

    Series series Top Performers
    Top performers just like you face change every day. In our fast-paced business world, you must know how to adapt to change quickly and seamlessly.The Top Performer's Guide to Change is your essential change handbook, giving you the tools you need to manage change and come out on top. Discover:Why you must know how to handle changeHow to increase your "luck" in changing timesWhat dangers lurk in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Strategy Paradox

    Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)

    A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t even realize it. The reason? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Sales Machine

    Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

    NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDThe bestselling business playbook for turbocharging any organization, updated for modern audiences with new and never-before-seen materialEvery single day 3,076 businesses shut their doors. But what if you could create the finest, most profitable and best-run version of your business without wasting precious dollars on a thousand different strategies? When The Ultimate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • No Man's Land

    Where Growing Companies Fail

    by Doug Tatum ...
    If starting a company is difficult, leading a company once the business has caught fire is infinitely more so. Thousands of startups each year approach the dangerous transition that Doug Tatum calls No Man's Land—when they are too big too be considered small but still too small to be considered big.Rapid growth is every entrepreneur's dream, but it never comes easily and is usually rife with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Complexity Crisis

    Why too many products, markets, and customers are crippling your company--and what to do about it

    Management consultant John L. Mariotti shows you how to evaluate your cost and management systems so you can clear away complexity—and conquer your competition.Many companies today are in crisis. In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, they have created dozens of new products and services while increasing their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Change Cycle

    How People Can Survive and Thrive in Organizational Change

    Dealing with organizational change is about getting through the emotion and commotion with minimal damage to your blood pressure, career, relationships, and confidence. In The Change Cycle, Ann Salerno and Lillie Brock help readers cope by explaining the six predictable and sequential stages of change—loss, doubt, discomfort, discovery, understanding, and integration—and offer examples, tools, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Working for the Japanese

    This book is an exploration into the relations between Americans and Japanese at the Mazda-Flat Rock plant.The presence of Japan Inc. looms larger than ever for millions of American managers and workers, as hundreds of Japanese companies open plants and offices in local communities across the United States. What is it like to work for the Japanese? Can Americans, with their strong tradition of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Going Lean

    How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits

    Efficient operations and powerful innovations are not limited to seasons of growth and high demand. Going Lean introduces the powerful yet unexpected mind-set that’s reshaping the rules for business competitiveness: Lean Dynamics ™. This approach, based on the now-famous Toyota Production System--empowers companies to thrive in virtually any environment--even when sudden shifts occur or they ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises

    Become an Expert on the Work Breakdown Structure!The basic concept and use of the work breakdown structure (WBS) are fundamental in project management. In Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises, author Gregory T. Haugan, originator of the widely accepted 100 percent rule, offers an expanded understanding of the WBS concept, illustrating its principles and applications ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Beyond Reengineering

    How the Process-Centered Organization Will Change Our Work and Our Lives

    Reengineering has captured the imagination of managers and shareholders alike, sending corporations on journeys of radical business redesign that have already begun to transfigure global industry. Yet aside from earning them improvements in their business performance, the shift into more-process-centered organizations is causing fundamental changes in the corporate world, changes that business ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Managing Executive Transitions

    A Guide for Nonprofits

    by Tim Wolfred ...
    The Essential Guide for Managing Leadership Turnovers A leadership transition can be a time of high vulnerability for a nonprofit organization. On the other hand, an executive turnover offers unique opportunities for renewal and fresh thinking. Managing Executive Transitions shows how this state of transition can give board and staff members a chance to put things back together in new and creative ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus