The first book to introduce to the business world the proven skills and techniques that have worked for years in other professions to help people manage change, THE SOLUTIONS FOCUS defies conventional wisdom that suggests that searching for the cause is a sure path to uncovering a solution. Instead, in the spirit of such change management models as Appreciative Inquiry and NLP, Jackson and McKe…
It explains the rules of this new game, and gives invaluable tips and pointers for teaming with employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. Let the two dozen rules and guidelines in this quick-hitting manual show the best ways to: * Delegate * Review performance * Think strategically * Lead great meetings * Give and get results-oriented feedback * Provide dir…
At a time when business bestsellers such as Six Sigma are touting scientific management, The Visionary's Handbook desires to be different. Authors Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor, and Howard Means forgo the nuts-and-bolts approach for a philosophical look at management, examining nine broad trends, or "paradoxes," they say are shaping business today. At the heart of these paradoxes lies change--change…
The turbulent stock market, worker migration, an overhaul of the traditional methods of strategic planning–todayÂ’s global business environment has undergone dramatic changes and there are more changes on the way. How can organizations stay on top during this perilous new phase of global transformation? In this groundbreaking book, Mary O’Hara-Devereaux–an internationally renowned…
Author, consultant, and businessman Haines provides step-by-step instruction to strategic management, planning, and change. His approach puts equal emphasis on planning, strategies, and management processes in achieving customer satisfaction. This book includes his advice on strategizing, implementation, follow-up, measuring success, leadership development, and including stakeholders in the pla…
The 5th Edition of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation by Burgelman, Christensen, and Wheelwright continues its unmatched tradition of market leadership, by using a combination of text, readings, and cases to bring to life the latest business research on these critical business challenges. Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation takes the perspective of the general manag…
How can great companies do everything right - identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market - and still fail? The sad truth is that many companies fail because they focus too intensely on their own innovations, and then neglect the innovation ecosystems on which their success depends. In our increasingly interdependent world, winning requires m…
How can great companies do everything right—identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market—and still fail? The truth is that many companies fail because they focus too intensely on their own innovations, while neglecting the ecosystems on which their success depends. In our increasingly interdependent world, winning requires more than just del…