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Master performance coach Achim Nowak teaches readers howto create profound interpersonal connections for explosive business...

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Master performance coach Achim Nowak teaches readers howto create profound interpersonal connections for explosive business...

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Introduces a 3-D mapping tool - the brand portfolio molecule - that lets managers visualize elements of a brand and how they interact to create new value. This book argues that a company's brand portfolio must reflect how the target customer actually views the brand.

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Drawing on stories and examples, this book shows how companies of every stripe have overcome the barriers to successful, profitable innovation. It includes parts on topics such as how to organize the discovery process, generate strategic insights, enlarge innovation pipeline, and maximize return on innovation.

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A guide for anyone who wants to engage the Chinese in cooperative endeavor. It reveal the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. It provides an insider's perspective on how to work, compete, and cooperate successfully with Chinese companies around the globe.

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This work analyzes all critical junctures chronologically in the software company Intuit's growth from a marketing and a leadership perspective.

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Presents a series of apparent contradictions in Japanese business conduct. This book shows why behavior that appears inconsistent to the Westerner is perfectly congruous to the Japanese way of framing the context of the situation or using a particular model to guide behavior.

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Most executives lead with a purpose. Yet many lack self-knowledge, failing to recognize the limitations that accompany their strengths. They drive forward too boldly, unwittingly creating the potential for one slip or bump along the way to diminish their work and the respect of those they lead.

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Argues that to succeed in a market where consumers demand customized goods and services, you cannot rely on any one formula. Providing examples from companies such as Taco Bell, Dell Computer, Xerox, and Merrill Lynch, this book reveals how managers can determine the best path of change for their company by assessing its existing knowledge base.

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Helps companies focus on the most pressing risks and leverage the upside that comes with vigilance. This work outlines a model for integrated risk management, which identifies three core areas you can develop to eliminate the problems that silo strategies create.

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Introduces an approach to competition that shows companies how to win against imposing odds. This book demonstrates how managers can translate the core principles of judo - a martial art that prizes skill not size - into a winning business strategy. It presents a form of "sumo strategy" - for companies facing judo attacks.

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Juxtaposes the stories of inventors with a fresh breed of innovators, such as hypersonic sound inventor Woody Norris, genomics pioneer Lee Hood, mechanical whiz Dean Kamen, and business systems inventor. This work reveals the strategies including pinpointing problems to crossing knowledge boundaries, to visualising results, to applying analogies.

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Too many companies think creativity means throwing money into marketing efforts and giving lip service to "out of the box" thinking. But such efforts rarely have a positive impact on the bottom line. This work outlines a disciplined approach to building creativity actively into the organizational culture and leveraging that to deliver results.

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How do an elite few companies, such as Samsung, P&G, and, Porsche achieve enduring and sustained out-performance of their peers The authors share key insights from their multi-year study of high performance businesses. They show how companies manage the three pre-requisites to become high performers relative to their peers.

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This book helps professionals implement better knowledge management strategies in their firms, introduces them to the fundamentals, and provides them with practical strategies and tools.

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The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. This book tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century onwards.

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Laying Off Employees

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