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Argues that boards are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties given their traditional structure, processes, and membership. This book proposes a strategic redesign of boards - making them attuned to their oversight, decision-making, and advisory roles - to enable directors to meet twenty-first century challenges.

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Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrat

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Argues that companies must abandon traditional budgeting contracts in favor of a radical new model that links performance measurement to evolving competitive benchmarks - and shifts the firm's focus from controlling employee behavior to delivering customer value. This book offers a case for breaking free from the budgeting trap.

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This work shows executives how to grow profitably by finding and focusing on their core business. It shows how they can increase the odds of successful expansion once their core business no longer provides sufficient new growth.

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Examines the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. This title investigates the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be.

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Harvard Business Review shares today's most essential thinking on blockchain, explaining how to get the right initiatives started at a company and how to seize the opportunity of the coming blockchain wave.

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The authors changed the field of strategy and the language of business forever with their "blue ocean strategy"--a new model for creating uncontested markets that unlock all new demand and growth. This book brings together three of their classic Harvard Business Review articles that upend traditional thinking for creating and capturing lasting value.alue.

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Is it a simple differentiator of the cereals in our cupboards, a manipulative brainwashing tool forced on us by corporations, or a creative triumph as capable as any art form of stimulating our emotions and intellect Suitable for those who grapple with these questions on a daily basis, this book elevates the discussion to the level of revelation.

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Written for large multinationals and emerging firms alike, this book offers a framework and process to help you answer the perennial question of whether you should grow new capabilities internally, access them through licensing or other partnership arrangements, or acquire them by purchasing other companies.

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You've got a good idea. How do you move forward and get it through to actually make a positive change How do you keep your good idea from getting shot down by naysayers, obfuscators, and other critics This book distils the various ways that people criticize and undercut good ideas.

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Originally published: How to buy & sell a business -- New York: Warner Business Books, c2003.

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Offers insights into the fundamental nature of outstanding performance. This title also offers practical guidance to individuals on how to manage their careers strategically, and to companies on how to identify, develop, and keep talent.

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How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need This book shows managers how to get collaboration right through 'disciplined collaboration'. It delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate for real results.

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From two pioneers in business analytics, an update of the classic book on how analytics and business intelligence are transforming competition and how leading organizations build and compete on an analytical capability.

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Unstable markets, fierce competition, and relentless change are the only certainties in this chaotic business world. The authors contend that to prosper in such volatile conditions, standard survival strategies must be tossed aside in favor of a revolutionary paradigm - competing on the edge.