A guideline on how to set out a good business plan, an essential requirement for any new business. The first section is an easy-to-follow guide setting out a logical business plan. The second section is a detachable "blank" business plan which can be filled in by the reader. Ron Johnson also wrote "How to Manage People", "Company Training Policy and Practice" and "Building Success through People".
This fine book gives a good introduction to why you need to consider the "invisible" resources in an organisation, and how to focus on building them. The text is very readable, and far away from typical american "verboseness" in mega-sized textbooks. I think this is a textbook that should be read by all business students, to understand more about the issues of resources and assets that go into…
What better place to start a book on implementing new corporate strategy than with AT&T during its landmark breakup in 1984. Amid this grand upheaval, Wharton management professor Hrebiniak had an enlightening conversation with colleague Randy Tobias, then a division head at AT&T and later CEO of Eli Lilly. Tobias confided that his biggest leadership challenge was not in coming up with a new st…