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Offshoring is an issue full of minefields and developments. It is a business tool and an economic phenomenon with significant potential to increase the world's wealth. This anthology aims to help decision makers manage offshoring better. It attempts to give decision-makers and business an understanding of the scope and economics of offshoring.

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Whether you re looking to improve a management style or inspire others, this book is an invaluable tool. Bill Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority...

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Explains how to make money in an open innovation landscape. This book provides a diagnostic instrument enabling you to assess your company's current business model, and explains how to overcome common barriers to creating a more open model. It also offers examples of companies that have developed such models - including Procter and Gamble and IBM.

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The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of technologies. Companies that don't use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them.

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Aims to tackle the fundamental business issue facing managers: how to continue to create value as competition intensifies.

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

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This up-to-the-minute manual clearly explains the technical side of drug testing as well as how workers can exercise their legal rights to decline tests or dispute results.

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From launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy - this title reveals how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.

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Offers a way to think about and manage innovation that improves the odds of success. This book offers advice on when to pursue cash flow indirectly by first pursuing other benefits, such as brand and knowledge. It also presents a list of decisions and activities to achieve a high return on innovation.

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Highlights the various sources of emotional energy unique to organizations and the discipline companies need to follow their chosen paths. This book provides guidelines for managers seeking to reshape their practices to achieve better performance from their own workforces and gain the resulting competitive edge.

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Designed to provide advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the relevant topics in business. This title is suitable for managers seeking to expand skills and a professional looking to broaden knowledge base, and helps them prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan.

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Breaks down the key components of the Emerson management process and shows how this core process enables Emerson to address and overcome major challenges ranging from technological discontinuities to intense global competition. This book covers leadership, management and competitiveness that can be applied in various companies or industries.

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A guide for managers, consultants, and business students. For nearly half a century, Peter Drucker has inspired and educated managers - and influenced the nature of business - with his landmark articles in the "Harvard Business Review". This work gathers together a collection of his work.

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Recommends a useful agenda for CEOs - one that not only require them to rebuild their tarnished reputations, but to partner with government in charting a course. It contains understandings for anyone who wants to understand better the context for the changes sweeping over our country. and our world, and the role private enterprises must play.

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A budget is a financial action plan for an organization. This guide will teach you how to: - Forecast future business results, such as sales volume, revenues, and expenses - Reconcile those forecasts to organizational goals - Obtain organizational support for your proposed budget - Fine-tune your budget over time

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Subjects covered in this book include: the treatment of agency in economics literature; institutional responses to the generic problems of agency; fiduciary duties, insider trading, and employment contracts; and the means by which an agency facilitates subordinates' autonomy and managers' control.

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"It can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems. Where do you start ... Whether you are deciding between colleges, navigating a career decision, helping your aging parents find the right housing, or expanding your business, [this book suggests using the] AREA Method to make complex personal and professional decisions"--Amazon.com.

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Aims to prove that business process improvement is not a fad. This book addresses the backlash against process movements like reengineering, by explaining why businesses can decline even as process reform is creating dramatic efficiencies and savings. It presents an economic model for deciding which business processes are worth the investment.

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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.

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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.