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A much-needed road map that looks at all the decisions leaders need to make: choosing the right strategies, capabilities, structure, culture, management tools, and leadership to deliver radically greater value in fast-moving markets.

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Unlocking the hidden value of intellectual property as a major lever of value creation.

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Leadership requires many attributes besides intelligence and business savvy-courage, character, compassion, and respect are just a few. This book gathers lessons on balancing the personal and professional responsibilities of leadership from faculty members of Harvard Business School. It imparts lessons learned not in business, but in life.

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In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former competitors into collaborators.

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Talking about the leadership discussion, this work provides a hands-on program that helps executives succeed with leadership challenges. This book argues that it is not enough to gauge leaders by personal traits such as character, knowledge, style, and values. It tells that effective leaders know how to connect their attributes with results.

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What can you, as a manager, do to attract top talent and keep your company's high-performing employees This title helps you learn ways to stay competitive in the war for talent by using creative and effective retention strategies, including: managing or removing common obstacles to retention, such as burnout and work-life imbalance.

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Documents a chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from interviews with deans and executives, and from an analysis of curricula and trends in graduate business education. This title provides case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better.

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You took on the establishment. Why not take on retirement Good news: there is no need to retire. Why With the widen gap between the number of workers and demand for talent, employers are looking to keep smart, productive workers in the workplace. This work shows you how to think about what you want, and how to get it.

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Drawing on examples from companies including Google, Disney, IBM, and Microsoft, this title explains six business tools leaders use, and shows how HR can apply these tools to talent management. It is suitable for HR professionals seeking to sharpen their decision-making prowess.

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Aims to prepare you for the task of navigating an organization's strategy, politics, and culture.

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Features the history of brand innovation at Procter & Gamble, one of the most successful consumer goods companies in the world. This book presents the secrets of longtime success of dozens of superstar brands. Case study sections in it offer lessons in: business reinvention, building new markets and capabilities, brand excellence, and more.

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Gives managers a mental model, along with tools to manage risks. This book contains a model that divides risks into two categories: knowable and therefore learnable, and unknowable and therefore difficult to prepare for. It shows readers how to analyse their knowable risks, helping them appreciate the quality and utility of their own analysis.

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What it takes to make your meetings productive, not painful. About the series: Get up to speed "fast" on essential business skills. Whether you're looking for a crash course or a brief refresher, you'll find just what you need in HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Advice you can quickly read and apply, from the most trusted source in business.

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Meetings are unavoidable--but they don't have to be unproductive. This tool-packed guide will help readers transform meetings from time-sinks to springboards for effective action by learning how to: - Set smart agendas - Keep meetings on track - Handle problem behaviors and time-wasters - Motivate participants to take action.

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Presents prescriptions for companies, investors, and policy makers seeking ways to improve biotechnology industry's performance. This book argues that the biotech industry's problems stem from its special character as a science-based business.

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Widely regarded as an innovative, successful biotech firm, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. This book reveals the highs and lows it experienced in the race to develop drugs. It takes readers from the time Amgen had just three months of capital in the bank and no viable products in the pipeline to its success.

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Business model innovators have reshaped entire sectors - including retail, aviation, and media - and redistributed billions of dollars of value. With road-tested frameworks, analytics, and diagnostics, this book gives executives what they need to reshape their businesses and achieve transformative growth.

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Shows managers how to recognise The set-up-to-fail syndrome (SUTFS) relationships, and how to reverse them before it's too late. This book also shows how managers can stay balanced and prevent this dysfunctional set-up-to-fail dynamic from the start, triggering positive performance spirals with their employees.

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Offers suggestions to help you - define unit and individual goals and express them according to five crucial criteria; set the stage for successful achievement of the goals you've defined; surmount obstacles and monitor progress toward your goals; and, extract lessons you can use to define and achieve future goals.

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Includes the seven critical questions that every executive must answer about their business strategy the ultimate checklist for successful planning and execution. This title shows executives the questions they must ask themselves and their senior managers in order to tighten and implement the strategy already in place.

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Offers a First 90 Days-based framework, along with tools and advice, to help leaders get up to speed in their roles through negotiation. This book provides ways of thinking about and practicing negotiation once you're in them.