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This book is for guidance on building successful businesses, entrepreneurship, and growing generational wealth!

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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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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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Laying Off Employees

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Addresses the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. It includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. Contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value adding are also addressed.

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Uses stories from a range of top companies to illustrate why building loyalty is more important than ever - and how to do it.

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Designed for a senior-level or first-year MBA course on organizational behaviour and human resource management, this text examines contemporary issues facing management such as drugs in the workplace, ethnic diversity, family and career and women in management.

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Describes the opportunities that a rapidly expanding older workforce offers employers, the challenges that stand in the way of full engagement and productivity particularly with respect to their younger managers, and the specific strategies and practices that organizations and managers can adopt to manage older workers more effectively.

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The Internet, globalization, and hypercompetition are dramatically reshaping markets and changing the way business is done. This work describes the next transformational imperative for marketing. It calls for a fundamental rethinking of corporate strategy to enable the ongoing creation and delivery of superior value for customers.

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Far-reaching changes in attitudes and family structures have been redefining the workforce over the years - yet the workplace has remained much the same. During this time, many companies have learned that personalising the customer experience is good for business. The authors argue to extend this concept to the workplace.

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Explains mass customization in its historical context and demonstrates why mass production cannot work in turbulent industries. This work also presents an analysis on when and how managers in both service and manufacturing industries can make the transition to mass customization.

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Argues that the relationship between employees and employers - an association that both defines and drives the American workplace - is in a state of profound transition. This book explores various developments in employment relationships and causes us to rethink our long-held assumptions about managing people.

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A coaching guide to teach four personal self-management skills to employees and managers in need of workplace behavior improvement.

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This workbook teaches four personal self-management skills with numerous exercises for employees and managers in need of workplace behavior improvement.

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What can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway This work answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst and Young, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, General Electric and others, it identifies what works and why.

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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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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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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