Business Management / Economics / Administration / Public Relations Majors: Preparing for leadership positions? These books will help you take your company to the next level.
Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan (BOOK): by Michael Blyth
"Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Management Plan very effectively details how and what a company should include in composing and executing a crisis management plan. This book is a must read for both laymen and experts alike because it itemizes the most relevant facts within silos that are comprehensive enough for the expert to find value in, yet written in a manner that a layman can derive tangible value. The incident response guidelines, broken down by the event type, provide an extremely useful tool that bring immediate value to the reader."—Robert G. Molina Jr.Global Security Manager Lyondell Basell
Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen (BOOK): by Michael A. Roberto
“Dr. Roberto has skillfully managed to blend in-depth research with his straightforward and enjoyable style and, in doing so, painted a masterpiece that should be considered by any institution or individual looking to detect or solve problems. Presenting cases and their lessons from multiple venues, he offers wisdom readily applicable to any arena.”—Duane Deal, Retired
“Solving problems is one thing; finding them early enough to do something about it is quite another. In this entertaining book full of insight and examples, Michael Roberto provides managers with hands-on recommendations on how to avoid falling into decision-making traps by getting a step ahead.”—Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, author: Why Smart Executives Fail and Think Again
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times (BOOK): by Ram Charan
In Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, Ram Charan helps you steer your business through the minefield of contracting markets, cash shortages, and ongoing uncertainty. No matter what your leadership role, Charan's insight will help ensure that your business emerges leaner, stronger, and well in front of the competition.
"We will not know when we have turned the corner, and we cannot envision the shape and scope of the world that will emerge," Charan writes. "What we can be sure of is that this is a time of tumultuous change, and with change come both danger and opportunity."
In this concise and highly accessible guide, the author provides practical actions you can execute immediately to:
- Protect cash flow vigilantly, even daily, and use cash more effi ciently
- Use ground intelligence to survive the storm and position your business to thrive in the aftermath
- Develop a better understanding of your customers
- Reevaluate your pricing strategy and capital expenditures.
- Use cost cutting strategically
Leading in Times of Crisis: Navigating Through Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty to Save Your Business (BOOK): by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo, Steph
Leaders today are grappling with complex choices, diverse customers and employees, and unprecedented uncertainty in the economic environment. Business models are becoming obsolete, cost and performance pressures are growing, regulatory requirements are changing, and trust in institutions is declining. Tackling these and other growing demands requires every leader to radically rethink what constitutes effective leadership.
Leading in Times of Crisis presents a new approach and concrete steps to compete in this complex, diverse, and uncertain marketplace. Drawing on compelling research and more than twenty interviews with CEOs and top-level executives, former executives and professors David Dotlich, Peter Cairo, and Stephen Rhinesmith highlight the growing urgency to evolve from a traditional, one-dimensional leadership model to what they term “whole leadership.” Whole leadership allows leaders to act in three ways that are important now but absolutely essential to their business in the future:
- Rethink Your Business
- Connect with Stakeholders
- Live Your Values
Project Management: Case Studies (BOOK): by Harold Kerzner
Compiled by Harold Kerzner, the leading authority on project management, Project Management Case Studies, Third Edition presents the most comprehensive collection of project management case studies available today. Featuring more than 100 case studies, this essential book illustrates both successful implementation of project management by actual companies as well as the pitfalls to avoid in a variety of real-world situations.
This new edition: Contains case studies illustrating successful and poor implementation of project management
· Represents a wide range of industries, including medical and pharmaceutical, aerospace, manufacturing, automotive, finance and banking, and telecommunications
· Covers cutting-edge areas of construction and international project management plus a new "super case" on the Iridium Project, covering all aspects of project management
· Follows and supports preparation for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam
Project Management Case Studies, Third Edition is a valuable resource for students, as well as practicing engineers and managers, and can be used on its own or with the latest edition of Harold Kerzner's landmark reference, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling.
Renewal Coaching: Sustainable Change for Individuals and Organizations (BOOK): by Douglas B. Reeves and Elle Allison
Renewal Coaching provides a series of personal assessments that will guide individuals and teams through the seven stages of renewal. Each assessment includes both survey and narrative responses, and readers can use the journal pages in the text or convenient on-line formats to respond. The Renewal Coaching framework consists of these seven elements: Recognition Finding patterns of toxicity and renewal; Reality Confronting change killers in work and life; Reciprocity Coaching in harmony; Resilience Coaching through pain; Relationship Nurturing the personal elements of coaching; Resonance Coaching with emotional intelligence; Renewal Creating energy, meaning, and freedom to sustain the Journey.
The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff (BOOK): by Clara Shih
Shih is singularly qualified to write this book: One of the world’s top business social networking thought leaders and practitioners, she created the first business application on Facebook and leads salesforce.com’s partnership with Facebook. Through case studies, examples, and a practical how-to guide, Shih helps individuals, companies, and organizations understand and take advantage of social networks to transform customer relationships for sales and marketing. Shih systematically identifies your best opportunities to use social networks to source new business opportunities, target marketing messages, find the best employees, and engage customers as true partners throughout the innovation cycle. Finally, she presents a detailed action plan for positioning your company to win in today’s radically new era: The Facebook Era.
The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance (BOOK): by Gerald J. Langley
This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.
The Innovation Manual: Integrated Strategies and Practical Tools for Bringing Value Innovation to the Market (BOOK): by David Midgley
The Innovation Manual provides a solution to the problems faced by those at the forefront of innovation. It takes you through the seven topics that have the highest impact on the success of value innovation, be this innovation a new product, a new service or a new business model. The seven topics are:
- Creating advantage in the minds of many
- Chartering innovation within the organization
- Preparing, developing and supporting the right team
- Placing customers at the centre of innovation
- Changing the organization to deliver the innovation
- Motivating the right partners and sharing the returns
- Building momentum in the market
Each topic is linked to an organized toolkit that allows managers to apply this knowledge immediately. The tools sit within an overall framework to show how they build on and reinforce one another. Along with this, the book guides busy managers on applying the tools properly, detailing the relevance of each for specific industries, and how to customize them when necessary.
When Growth Stalls: How it Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It (BOOK): by Steve McKee
When Growth Stalls demonstrates that sluggish growth is generally produced not by mismanagement or strategic blundering but by natural market forces and management dynamics that are often unrecognized--and widespread. The book presents seven characteristics that commonly correlate with stalled growth and what to do about them. Some are external forces to which countless companies have fallen victim: economic upheavals, changing industry dynamics, and increased competition. What McKee points out, however, is how often they catch companies off-guard. More surprising are four subtle and highly destructive internal factors that conspire to keep companies down: lack of consensus among the management team, loss of nerve, loss of focus, and marketing inconsistency. McKee makes the case that, regardless of what's going on outside of an enterprise, it's what's inside that counts.
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