Is downsizing the answer to solving corporate woes? Why is my company not growing? Why do companies fall sick, recover and subsequently succumb to the same ailments? If these questions sound familiar, chances are your company is in a slump and it does not seem like the situation will improve any time soon. Like many companies, yours has fallen sick due to corporate viruses such as global econom…
This is packed with practical, action-oriented principles, tools, and techniques for making your strategic plan a reality. At its core, the book pinpoints and explains the 18 keys to strategy implementation. Derived from both the author's extensive experience and in-depth interviews with CEOs, these are the essential steps for developing and enacting the strategic plan tasks - and for successfu…
Answers for why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year, why are they always far ahead of competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry, and why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone are provided in this book. It reveals the profit strategies of twelve of todayÂ’s great success stor…
Either create less clutter or make more sense of it faster than the competition-and you win. But how do you make sense of the clutter? In Simplicity, Bill Jensen offers a highly engaging and practical approach to competing in the fast-paced information age. Drawing on a ground-breaking study of over 2,500 people in more than 450 companies, Jensen presents new tools and strategies for applyin…
Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as they continue delivering the goods and services that keep them in business today. "Unstoppable" s…
The Balanced Scorecard has risen to the performance measurement challenge of the private sector and is equally well-equipped to facilitate a rapid and dramatic transition of twenty-first-century nonprofit and public organizations." —from Chapter Two The emphasis today on demonstrated organizational performance is not limited to private-sector corporations. Public and nonprofit agencies a…
In this book, author illustrates the real-life impact of a fired-up workforce on financial performance and shows how to manage and leverage knowledge and emotion to drive positive change and lasting business success. (barnesandnoble.com)
Disney's imaginative storytellers offer guidance and techniques to help aspiring screenwriters add Disney magic to their movie ideas.From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Bambi, from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King, the animated films created by The Walt Disney Company are renowned for stories that amuse, astound, and inspire the viewer. Now, for the first time, the story artists and scre…