This book is addressed to non-Japanese who want to understand the Japanese business insiderÂ’s point of view by focusing on business behavior in the large Japanese corporation. In this book you will experience Japanese business life by looking over the shoulder of a salaryman. The author supplemented his experiences and researches by conducting over fifty interview with salarymen from a wide…
Knowledge Management is a mission critical concern for all managers of today and tomorrow. In a world where political borders are becoming less significant than organizational borders, we face more competition from regions that never before entered our concerns. Unfortunately, with a global market we are also beginning to suffer under a deluge of data and information, the mass volume of which c…
In this often unexamined story of the new American work ethic and why the U.S. will remain a future global force, Partnership HR demonstrates the innate ability of today's workforce to do whatever it takes to catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Author Irving Buchen challenges organizational leaders and human resource professionals alike to make changes in traditional HR functions as he documents …
A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies showed his manager how to repair an error that was costing the company $30 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to pull the company's website to the top of search engines. These are just two of many examples in Ideas are Free that highlight the single best resource in a company - tho…
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…
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…
Culture. We blithely use the term for just about anything--a vibrant culture, a dominant culture, a corporate culture. But do we really know what we're saying, what culture really means? Or do we most often assume that the term is just a convenient way to group those with a common purpose or goal and a method for achieving it? Isn't a corporate culture, for example, just "the way we do things a…