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Building Strategy Maps Best Price: $6.95 Balanced Scorecard strategy maps help organizations see their strategies in a cohesive,...	Strategy Maps Best Price: $6.95 This is a comprehensive book on the concept of strategy mapping. It deals with strategy maps as...	Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return: Accounting for Time Best Price: $6.95 This chapter introduces you to financial decision-making tools that account for time value:...	Competencies for HR Professionals Best Price: $6.95 If HR professionals are going to take full advantage of the lessons in this book on implementing...	Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning: A Harvard Business Press Book Summary in Partnership with getAbstract Best Price: $6.95 I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and...



Creating Synergies through Shared Services Best Price: $6.95 Beyond aligning the business units that sell products and services to external customers,...	Creating an HR Scorecard Best Price: $6.95 A comprehensive HR Scorecard, though unique to each company, should cover four major themes: key...	Building an Innovation Democracy: W.L. Gore: Management Innovation in Action Best Price: $6.95 This chapter profiles W.L. Gore & Associates--an organization built around a set of radical...	The Future of Management: A Harvard Business School Press Book Summary in Partnership with getAbstract Best Price: $6.95 What really fuels long-term business success? According to Gary Hamel, world renowned management...	Knowing "What" to Do Is Not Enough: Understanding the Knowing-Doing Gap Best Price: $6.95 This chapter outlines the many facets of the knowing-doing problem--the challenge of turning...



Organizational Traps: The Madness--and the Wisdom--of Crowds Best Price: $6.95 Groups can sometimes take on characteristics and dynamics that impede individual decision...	Marketing Myopia Best Price: $6.00 Theodore Levitt was lecturer in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School when this...	Guidelines for Implementing an HR Scorecard Best Price: $6.95 What are the challenges involved in implementing a strategically focused HR architecture and HR...	Stage IV: Integrating ABC with Enterprise-Wide Systems Best Price: $6.95 Today, many companies are investing not only in stand-alone Stage III ABC (activity-based...	Closing Gaps and Improving Performance: The Basics of Coaching Best Price: $6.95 When performance gaps are identified, effective coaching can often close these gaps. The skills...

Beyond Traditional Mentoring: Peers and Networks Best Price: $6.95 Moving away from the traditional model of an experienced manager offering sage advice to a lower...	Blue Ocean Strategy: Analytical Tools and Frameworks Best Price: $6.95 This chapter offers analytical tools and frameworks to make the execution of blue ocean strategy...	The Framing Challenge: What Is the Real Problem? Best Price: $6.95 Properly framing a problem in terms of the reality of the situation and the objectives of the...	Blue Ocean Strategy: Build Execution into Strategy Best Price: $6.95 A company does not consist solely of top and middle management. A company is everyone from the...	Analyzing a Case Best Price: $6.95 A case is a text that refuses to explain itself. How do you construct a meaning for it? This...

Contingency Planning: Preparing Today for Tomorrow's Problems Best Price: $6.95 Some crises are unavoidable. For those, you must practice contingency planning or organizing and...	Delegation: Gaining Time for Yourself Best Price: $6.95 Delegating tasks is the transferring of a specific duty from one person to another and includes...	Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth Best Price: $6.00 Why are some companies able to sustain high growth in revenues and profits--and others are not?...	Linking the Balanced Scorecard Measures to Your Strategy Best Price: $6.95 The objective of any measurement system should be to motivate all managers and employees to...	Delegating with Confidence: Avoid Being Overworked and Overwhelmed Best Price: $6.95 Delegation is one of the most important skills demonstrated by successful managers and the one...

Managing Customer Retention Best Price: $6.95 Although initial promotions may lead to first-time purchases, a crucial factor in determining...	Competing on Analytics with External Processes: Customer and Supplier Applications Best Price: $6.95 Because externally focused processes require cooperation from outsiders, as well as their...	Competing on Analytics with Internal Processes: Financial, Manufacturing, R&D, and Human Resource Applications Best Price: $6.95 This chapter focuses on internal business processes and the challenge not only of identifying...	The Architecture of Business Intelligence: Aligning a Robust Technical Environment with Business Strategies Best Price: $6.95 While improvements in technology's ability to store data can be astonishing, most organization's...	The Hiring Process: Attracting the Best People Best Price: $6.95 Like most activities undertaken by organizations, hiring is a business process in which inputs...

Creating a Community of Purpose: Whole Foods Market: Management Innovation in Action Best Price: $6.95 This chapter provides a portrait of Whole Foods Market and its game-changing business model, in...	Writing a Business Plan: The Basics Best Price: $6.95 Every entrepreneur is encouraged to write a business plan; those who don't quickly learn that...	The Ten Rules Explained Best Price: $6.95 Using the story of Analog Devices and its efforts to develop a new technology for automotive...	Organization: Aligning Stars and Strategy Best Price: $6.95 In professional service firms, where power and influence are more widely distributed than in...	How to Avoid Commoditization Best Price: $6.95 What causes commoditization, and is it the inevitable fate of all companies in competitive...

Activity-Based Costing: Introduction Best Price: $6.95 Properly constructed activity-based costing (ABC) systems provide more accurate cost information...	Evaluating Adjacency Moves: Balancing Desire with Data Best Price: $6.95 The companies best able to pursue growth opportunities are equally aware of the need to impose...	Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership Best Price: $6.95 How well does the case-in-point approach teach the art of adaptive leadership on behalf of the...	The Alexander Problem (Successfully Growing by Developing Adjacent Businesses) Best Price: $6.95 The second element of a sustainable growth strategy is adjacency expansion from the core. This...	Give the Work Back (The Importance of Empowering Others to Achieve Difficult Goals) Best Price: $6.95 Often a leader's tendency is to take problems or challenges onto him- or herself and come up...

Think Politically (Nurturing Relationships Is Key to Successful Leadership) Best Price: $6.95 One of the distinguishing qualities of successful leaders is the emphasis they place on personal...	The S-Curve: A Concept and Its Lessons Best Price: $6.95 Whatever type of innovation you pursue will come up against some sort of constraint that will...	Avoiding the Pitfalls (Learning from Failed Balanced Scorecard Programs) Best Price: $6.95 Many organizations have successfully implemented Balanced Scorecard programs, but not all...	Your Leadership Legacy--Why Looking Toward the Future Will Make You a Better Leader Today: A Harvard Business School Press Book Summary in Partnership with getAbstract Best Price: $6.50 This is a summary of a book, not a real book. It costs $1/page, and is not worth it.	Budgeting: Forecasting Your Company's Financial Future Best Price: $6.95 Budgeting can be stressful and very time consuming. But a good budget is worth the time and...

Healing the 800-Pound Gorilla: The Future of Health Care Best Price: $6.95 This chapter examines whether theories of innovation apply to health care. One possible root...	Turning Knowledge into Action: Reducing the Knowing-Doing Gap Best Price: $6.95 This chapter summarizes the many sources of the knowing-doing gap and some ways of addressing it.	The Time Value of Money: Calculating the Real Value of Your Investment Best Price: $6.95 This chapter introduces you to the financial decision-making tools that account for time value:...	Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Best Price: $6.95 An organization's measurement system strongly affects the behavior of people both inside and...	Pricing Information: How to Customize Both the Product and Its Price Best Price: $6.95 This chapter examines the market structure of information goods and its implications for...

Innovation Intermediaries: Enabling Open Innovation Best Price: $6.95 This chapter discusses the rise of innovation intermediaries, or firms that help companies of...	The Marketing Mix Best Price: $6.95 In contrast to the traditional marketing paradigm of segmentation, targeting, and positioning,...	Crisis Resolution: The Road to Recovery Best Price: $6.95 A crisis has implications for the future of a business. A proper plan for crisis resolution will...	When Fear Prevents Acting on Knowledge: Understanding the Knowing-Doing Gap Best Price: $6.95 According to the authors, fear is an enemy of the ability to question the past or break free...	Strategy: A Primer Best Price: $6.95 Operational efficiency is about doing things right; strategy is about doing the right things....

Why Should Anyone Be Led by You: A Harvard Business School Press Book Summary in Partnership with getAbstract Best Price: $6.50 Too many companies are managed not by leaders, but by mere role players and faceless...	Money: Understanding the Macro Economy Best Price: $6.95 This chapter provides a compact introduction to one of the fundamental pillars of...	Managerial Problem Solving: A Congruence Approach Best Price: $6.95 Unless managers and their teams clearly understand the roots of today's barriers to achieving...	Setting Goals that Others Will Pursue: Committing to an Outcome Best Price: $6.95 By setting goals and measuring their achievement, you can focus on what is most important, waste...	Alpha Male Syndrome: A Harvard Business School Press Book Summary in Partnership with getAbstract Best Price: $6.50 The business world abounds with alpha powerhouses who take charge, produce results, and bring...

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