Discusses the ten key management issues of the information age. Provides comprehensive guidelines and an integrated agenda for sparring with today's most agile, knowledge-driven, and technosavvy firms. DLC: Industrial management - Communication systems. (text cited from www.amazon.com)
Cynicism and distrust are rampant in today's business environment. Eighty percent of employees want nothing to do with their organizations, or the managers who run them. Great management principles, always the backbone of truly excellent companies, are now often used and manipulated by corporate leaders for their own gain. If left unchecked, these formerly great principles turn into malpract…
The management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Management.Includes how to:• Build a goal-oriented team• Successfully manage individuals, teams and projects• Set clear goals and give quality feedback• Get things done on time and on budget• Deal with difficult situations
Flaherty (management, Pace U.) synthesizes and analyzes the work of management and business writer Drucker. The account explores three main themes: the formation of Drucker's theory culminating in the 1954 publication of , Drucker's views on strategy and entrepreneurship, and multiple perspectives on executive effectiveness. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Corporate Strategy and Sustainability is a substantially updated, detailed overview of sustainability issues for business and economics students. Built to teach the evolution of the history of sustainability practices, this edition has expanded coverage of social sustainability issues, non-Western perspectives and sustainable supply chains. Rich in cases, these too have been updated to demonstr…
It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and d…
The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. As a result, the global dynamics of innovation are changing. No longer will innovations traverse the globe in only one direction, from developed nations to developing ones. They will also flow in reverse. Authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth explain where, when, and why reverse i…
Designed for courses within MBA engineering and executive education programs, The Human Side of Managing Technical Information, Second Edition, provides a variety of approaches and perspectives on issues critical to the effective leadership of technical professionals and cross-functional teams throughout the innovation process. Updated throughout, the second edition's collection of articles cov…
How good are your communication skills? Do you always convey the correct message, or do you sometimes feel that you are not fully understood? What this book provides is a ten-lesson course that will transform you into a consistently excellent communicator. Drawing on psychology, linguistics and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), it teaches you how best to interact with colleagues, bosses, offi…