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Thanks to accelerating change and intensifying competition, organisational work takes the form of projects - large and small, complex and straight forward. This book presents the guidelines and tools you need to enhance this core competency - including assembling a project team, keeping projects on schedule and within budget.

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Explains how and why we use deep metaphors. Focusing on the seven metaphors - balance, connection, container, control, journey, resource, and transformation - this book shows how deep metaphors unconsciously pervade and shape our lives.

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Offers a provocative, and informative view of modern microeconomics - using the lens of online dating. The author states that the behaviors driving online dating mimic those driving any other market - and so should be central to how business people at every level analyze their critical interactions.

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A provocative look at the human side of the digital era from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling expert on change management.

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This work aims to offer a framework for understanding the key opportunities and risks associated with deregulation and privatization. It explains complex governmental issues, using examples drawn from different industries and countries.

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

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Tough objectives require more than smart thinking; they require effective follow-through. This book helps you understand what strategy is and how to translate that knowledge into the elements of a strategic plan. It helps you to execute those plans and ensure that they remain aligned with corporate strategy in the long term.

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Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. This book shows how to master the combat mentality, emotional maelstrom, and confusion that poison difficult conversations. It explains why we turn to ineffective tactics when the heat is on; and how to avoid the pitfalls of such conversations.

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Bringing together 14 articles from the "Harvard Business Review", this book presents ideas on successfully managing business change. It includes contributions from both scholars and practitioners, including Peter Drucker, John Kotter, Michael Hammer and Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

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Calculating and assessing the financial health of business is an important part of any managerial position. From reading and deciphering financial statements, to understanding net value, to calculating return on investment, this book provides the fundamentals of financial literacy.

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Lays out a five-step process for recovering from setbacks. This book explores strategies for surmounting common barriers to career recovery, including tricky corporate cultures and psychological stresses. It is anchored in research and studies across multiple fields, and contains stories and accounts from CEOs and executives from various firms.

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This work features 13 first-person accounts of management. It focuses on the human side, with stories of risk-taking, personal sacrifice and accomplishment in a variety of industries, and explores the vision and purpose that drives both the entrepreneur and the CEO to achieve.

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What will count among the urgent strategic issues facing your organizations in the 5-10 years And what should you be doing - today - to get ready This title answers these questions.

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We live in a time of vast changes. And those changes call for fresh ways of learning and thinking. This book provides insights for those charged with training and developing organizational leaders.

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Reveals the culprit behind the sorry state of American capitalism: our deep and abiding commitment to the idea that the purpose of the firm is to maximize shareholder value. This title advocates seizing American capitalism from the jaws of the expectations market and planting it firmly in the real market.

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A how-to guide to designing and implementing forced ranking system, including how to categorise A, B and C players and manage and reward players differently. This book highlights advantages firms and their employees can reap by doing so.

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To survive in hypercompetitive climate, businesses must innovate constantly. Innovation hinges on creativity generating novel and useful ideas. By fostering creativity in your team, you help unleash your company's innovative powers. This book reveals strategies for unlocking your team's creative energies.

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The franchise phenomenon is largely undocumented and poorly understood. This book presents a look at the key factors that shape a franchise's success. Using examples from restaurant chains, including KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, and Jack in the Box, it aims to extract the ingredients that make for a thriving enterprise.

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