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Aims to provide practical synthesis of the cognitive sciences. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and linguistics, this title combines academic rigor with real-world results to provide research tools - metaphor elicitation, response latency, and implicit association techniques. It demonstrates how innovators can use these tools.

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Aims to issue a challenge to HR professionals: define the value you create and institute measures for your performance, or face the inevitable outsourcing of your function. This book provides hands-on tools that show HR professionals how they can operate in all four areas simultaneously.

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

No organization can survive without iconoclasts - innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Though indispensable, true iconoclasts are few and far between. This title explains why. It explores the constraints the human brain places on innovative thinking.

(Hardback, First Trade Paper Edition)

No organization can survive without iconoclasts--innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Neuroscientist Berns describes practical ways to understand and unleash an individual's potential to think differently.

(Hardback)

Examines the pivotal role that technology development has played in South Korea's dramatic transformation - from an economy based on subsistence agriculture to a highly-industrialized global competitor. This work explores the roles of public policy and the sociocultural environment in setting the stage for Korea's technological evolution.

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In challenging times, companies must serve their customers faster and more efficiently. This book helps you learn key steps for carrying out a business process improvement initiative, including how to: plan a business process improvement initiative; analyze and redesign a current process that needs improvement; and, more.

(Hardback)

Examines the role that social capital plays in organizations. This book argues that social capital is integral to business life and that without it cooperative action isn't possible. It identifies the social elements that contribute to innovation and productivity, and reveals the benefits that derive from investments in social capital.

(Hardback)

This book reveals that classic economic principles can still offer real strategic value in a marketplace that depends on information technology, and offers the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age.

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(Hardback)

Argues that the real reason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formal system in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. This book shows that companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investments are made effectively.

(Hardback)

An assessment of the real work of leaders. This work helps us better understand what leaders-real leaders-do. It helps readers learn become more effective leaders as they explore pressing issues such as power, influence, dependence, and strategies for change.

(Hardback)

Provides a simple, research-based method - identical to the one taught at Babson College - for achieving success in an uncertain world. This title explains how smart steps can help move you forward on your path of acting, learning from that action, and building off that learning to create a productive cycle of iteration.

(Hardback)

Helps you develop the analytical skills needed in today's world of work, no matter your role or experience. This title offers the tools to enhance your thinking and decision-making.

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(Hardback)

Identifies the conditions that a leader can put in place to increase the likelihood of team success. The book describes five conditions that set the stage for performances: a real team, a compelling direction, an enabling team structure, a supportive organizational context, and the availability of competent coaching.

(Hardback)

Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies. This book lays out the disciplines that PE firms use to attain their edge.

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"Lords of Strategy, The: The Secret History of the New Corporate World".

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Contends that companies can extract a profit potential of 1 - 3 per cent of revenue by pursuing a profit, rather than a market share, orientation. Based on consulting work, this book lays out a practical, proven program for making significantly more money by reconfiguring the marketing mix to sell existing products and services in different ways.

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"Originally published in Harvard Business Review in March 1999 and June 2004"--Title page verso.

(Paperback, 20-Minute Manager Series)