Data is your most valuable leadership asset—here's how to use it The Data Driven Leader presents a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics. This engaging book shows you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs. opi…
A fresh perspective on the HR function, High-Impact HR challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate assets - people and organizational processes. High-Impact HR not only challenges HR's traditional role, but also provides practical strategies for transfo…
Designed from the perspective of program managers, this book uses a “how-to” approach in examining the basic techniques and practices of human resource/personnel management. Each technique/practice is set within a strategic framework focusing on achieving organizational goals, and corresponds to exercises that provide action learning, hands-on experience for readers. Chapter topics cove…
This strategic HR text is organized into two sections. The first section, Chapters 1-7, examines the context of strategic HR and develops a framework and conceptual model for the practice of strategic HR. The second section, Chapters 8-14, examines the actual practice and implementation of strategic HR through a discussion of strategic issues that need to be addressed while developing specific …
Digital marketing made easy by Jason McDonald of Stanford Continuing Studies. This book explains how to BUILD YOUR BRAND and SELL MORE STUFF via the THINK / DO / LEARN methodology.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success. Now reis…
Does keeping up with all the business gurus and their latest theories make your head spin? Do you suffer “management theory overload” every time you walk into the business section of the bookstore? The marketplace is flooded with management experts claiming that if you apply their methods, your business will become spectacularly successful. But how can all of them be right? And how can …