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Believe or not - climate change is one of the pressing challenges facing the world. Most of all, it is quickly becoming a crucial business issue. But how will you and your company respond This title gives you a look at how world-class thinkers would react to this pressing issue if they were in your shoes.

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Offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching. Managers learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

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Most managers coach employees by giving them feedback and evaluating their performance, right Wrong. Coaching differs markedly from other managerial functions. With its tips, worksheets, and self-assessments, this guide shows managers how to use coaching - not only to strengthen direct reports' skills but also to rev up their performance.

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With funding for nonprofits shrinking and global markets shaky, our business and social sectors are confronting an increasingly uncertain future. This book argues that forward-looking businesses and social sector organizations can solve many of their problems by working together - while serving the common good in the process.

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Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges This work includes 12-14 essays by some of the top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.

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Argues that we've grossly underestimated the power of the Internet to change the way companies behave. This book asserts that managers and their companies must embrace and exploit the very technologies that have upended their jobs and their businesses.

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Develops a coherent model for how modern executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. This blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.

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Presents a collection of essays, which reveal that the key to success for companies competing in the digital world will not be to engineer big technological breakthroughs, but rather to develop products and services by creatively combining technologies with innovative managerial approaches.

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Essays discuss technology, manufacturing, marketing, finance, capital, government policies, coalitions, competition, and leadership in the global marketplace, and look at specific cases.

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Explores why - despite long-standing evidence that a committed work force is essential for success - firms continue to attach little importance to their workers. The answer resides in a complex web of factors based on perception, history, legislation, and practice that continues to dominate management thought and action.

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This text demonstrates why today's competitive environment demands a new approach to marketing, in which sales take on increased strategic significance. It shows companies how to realign a range of internal structures, and presents new ideas on the nature of selling.

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Analyzes the increasing interdependence of the world's markets, politics, and technology, showing how the progress of global connectedness depends on the advance of individual freedom across the world.

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Written by the former India head of two US multinational corporations, Cummins and Microsoft, this title offers a practical, inside, and on the ground look at how CEOs of multinational companies tackle the challenges of the Indian market. It gives an insider view on how to tackle the very unique challenges of the Indian market.

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In the business world, imitation gets a bad rap. We see imitating firms as 'me too' players, forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. This book reveals how imitation - the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation - is as critical to prosperity as innovation. It shows how savvy imitators generate huge profits.

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Examines the impact of financial restructuring on corporate priorities and performance. This book views that many companies have successfully restructured voluntarily. It draws on field studies, with examinations of General Mills, Burlington Northern, and CPC International, to show how firms have effected change through an internal discipline.

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Demonstrates how the principles of activity-based costing and other advanced cost management techniques, such as target and kaizen costing, can drive business performance. This book describes systems which assist front-line employees in their learning and improvement activities and make better product mix and capital investment decisions.

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One of the ways to revitalize established firms is through internal corporate venturing. Recognizing that traditional management principles are often at odds with innovation, this work addresses the problems of corporations whose policies and procedures discourage entrepreneurial effort.

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Highlighting the research on team development and dynamics - and including hands-on tools for improving communication, resolving conflicts, promoting interdependence, and more - this guide helps managers at various levels to motivate teams to achieve higher performance. It is part of "The Harvard Business Essentials Series".

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Tells the story of Georges Doriot who created the venture capital industry. This book traces the events in Doriot's life, including his experience as a decorated brigadier general during World War II; as a professor at Harvard Business School; and as the architect and founder of the first venture capital firm, American Research and Development.