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Offers ideas and provides an outlook on critical economic issues facing businesses and governments around the world. Consisting primarily of articles originally published in "The McKinsey Quarterly", each volume combines provides the insights that leaders need to operate effectively in the global economy.

(Hardback)

Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable. This book overturns these assumptions. It demonstrates that lower-skilled employees in call centers, repair services, product assembly aren't expendable.

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"Profit over Privacy gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising"--

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A professional guide to publishing success for the new and struggling author. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, it can help you to understand more about the publishing industry, write the right book for the right audience, build promotion into your book, write a successful query letter and book proposal, and get your book into bookstores.

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(Paperback)

"A no-budget, brass tacks guide to starting a business with examples from subcultural movements"--

(Hardback)

Shaken by the dramatic inroads made by Japanese competitors into high-tech electronics, a number of US electronic firms joined forces in 1982 to form the first US for-profit research consortium: MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.). This book describes MCC's formation and the problems it encountered.

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(Hardback)

Reveals the patterns through which innovation occurs in established companies, and identifies the managerial competencies firms need to make radical innovation happen. This book distills an interdisciplinary approach to mastering challenges. It features evidence from a study of innovation projects within ten corporations including IBM and DuPont.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s--1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.

(Hardback)

Shows you how to accomplish successful transformational change in your firm in just 90 days. Based on ten years of research into more than 500 leading companies - including 3M, IBM, GE, Nissan, Apple, Bay Networks, Verisign, HP and Best Buy - this book demystifies fast, effective change and lays out a roadmap for achieving it.

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(Paperback)

In this illuminating book, Stephen Barber redefines the Fourth Industrial Revolution for our politics, our societies and those who seek to lead.

(Paperback)

The scale and speed of change is unprecedented in our lifetime. When the SHIFT Hits Your Plan exposes how massive change will impact the way work gets done and how organizations recruit, manage, and retain talent. The book will inspire new ideas and challenge assumptions about business and help lay out a game plan to make change work.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Why do so many global strategies fail - despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages Seduced by market size, the illusion of a borderless, "flat" world, and the allure of similarities, firms launch one-size-fits-all strategies. The author explains that the cross-border differences are larger than we often assume.

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(Hardback)

Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialisation. Based on a study of more than 600 projects in a variety of businesses and organisations across the globe, this title provides an adaptive model for planning and managing projects to achieve superior business results.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)