What's the difference between organizations and managers that fail and those that succeed? It's simple: successful managers and organizations do a better job of implementing those basic management practices that get results. In this book, Clint Longenecker and Jack Simonetti draw on the wisdom of over two thousand high-performing managers to show you how to improve not only your own performance…
At the end of the twentieth century, international business functioned in an environment dominated by the triad of economic power formed by the USA, Japan and the European Community. Multinational corporate strategies had to be formulated within the context of intense global competition between these three economic blocs. This book, first published in 1990, analyses the interplay between the tr…
The Physics of Business Growth helps readers understand how to create growth in today's business environment, providing them a roadmap and a set of practical tools to navigate its challenges. The book lays out a three step formula that will prove invaluable to professionals who have the opportunity to influence growth now, as well as to tomorrow's growth leaders, guiding them in (1) creating th…
How winning companies make their competitors irrelevant by changing the rules of the game. As the CEOs of leading companies explain in this singular book of proved corporate strategy-making, Michel Robert's Strategic Thinking turned their companies around. And, to their surprise, they learned to ignore the competition while they were developing their own success-making distinctive strategy. Wh…
Answers for why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year, why are they always far ahead of competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry, and why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone are provided in this book. It reveals the profit strategies of twelve of todayÂ’s great success stor…