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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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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

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

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)

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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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)

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

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. This work serves as an indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

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.

(Hardback)

The question for all managers the one that separates great managers from the rest is how to get the most from your people. This book offers a five step process that leads to peak performance. It gives managers a simple framework for getting the best out of people: Selection; Connection; Play; Progress; and, Recognition.

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(Hardback)

Goldsmith offers this how-to guide to prepare for a leadership transition andpresents leaders with a resource to help them through this process.

(Hardback)

Examines the talent management problem through a radical lens. Drawing from supply chain management and numerous company examples, this book presents four principles for ensuring that your organization has the skills it needs - when it needs them. It gives you the ideas and tools you'll need to match the supply of talent to your demand for it.

(Hardback)

With a culture of individual accountability and self-reliance pervading executive suites, few management groups ever function as real teams. This title offers guidelines for increasing leadership capacity at the highest executive levels. It explains how to recognize when a team effort at the management level is preferable.

(Hardback)

Examines six of the oldest, largest, and most visible R&D consortia in America. This comparative study sheds light on the dynamics of consortium management, exploring such issues as mission, organizational structure, strategic planning, technology transfer, and leadership.

(Hardback)

Illustrates the process of technology integration at the managerial and strategic levels and reveals the evolution in the structure of research and development in the modern corporation. This book provides a framework for managing the space between the creation and the application of technology.

(Hardback)

Discusses both the theory and practice of process development. The book finds that process innovation, not just product innovation, can be the key to a competitive advantage. Its findings are based on an in-depth study of process development projects in a rapidly evolving, high-profile industry.

(Hardback)

Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio This book recommends that you manage your workforce like a portfolio - with disproportionate investments in the jobs that create the most wealth.

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From reading financial statements to mastering budget forecasts to measuring human capital, this book explains what readers need to know to make wise financial decisions for the HR department and the organization. It covers areas such as negotiation, decision making, change management, and finance.

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