Phelan dissects a whole range of consulting treatments for unhealthy companies and shows why theyÂ’re essentially fad diets: superficial would-be fixes that donÂ’t result in lasting improvements and can cause serious damage. With a mix of clear-eyed business analysis, heart-wrenching stories, and hard-won lessons for both consultants and the people who hire them, this book is impossible t…
Finally, a book that brings the vision of truly good governance down to earth. Ram Charan, expert in corporate governance and best-selling author, packs this book with useful tools and techniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level of performance. Charan puts his finger on a growing problem for boards: the disconnect between directors' efforts and their results. The a…
Founded in the early 1980s, SSA is a general, retained search firm with exclusive allegiance to client organizations, affiliated with a network of powerful international resources and has a division devoted to corporate boards, helping companies, public and private, small and large, structure, strengthen, diversify and benchmark their statutory and advisory boards. Board of directors can spe…
IBM reports $15 billion of annualnew revenues from 22 EmergingBusiness Opportunities. In 2008, $4 billion in revenues fromcompanywide innovation efforts allowedWhirlpool to maintain its top line, despiteglobal recession and the steep dropin housing markets. A DuPont business group leader,Ellen Kullman, backed an ambitious newbusiness creation program and laterbecame DuPont’s CEO. Eac…
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Ch. 1 The Promising World of Mergers and Acquisitions Ch. 2 Strategic and Financial Objectives: The Drivers of Integration Ch. 3 Laying the Groundwork: Managing the Transaction Stage Ch. 4 Assessing Key Target People Ch. 5 Preparing Stakeholder Communications and Value Preservation Ch. 6 Preparing for Integration: Managing the Transition Sta…
Corporate Financial Strategy is a practical guide to understanding the elements of financial strategy, and how directors and advisors can add value by tailoring financial strategy to complement corporate strategy. The book sets out appropriate financial strategies over the key milestones in a company’s life. It discusses the practicalities behind transactions such as: * Raising venture ca…
Today's marketplace is fueled by knowledge. Yet organizing systematically to leverage knowledge remains a challenge. Leading companies have discovered that technology is not enough, and that cultivating communities of practice is the keystone of an effective knowledge strategy. Communities of practice come together around common interests and expertise- whether they consist of first-line man…
Good employees are your organization's most valuable resource. But attracting, developing, and retaining talented people requires and environment where people are energized and connected to their work, and where they take the initiative the often difficult journey to real empowerment at all levels of the organization and create a kind of "volunteer employee" workforce--employees who choose to w…