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221. |  By: William J. Rothwell Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 30-APR-2010 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
As baby boomers continue to retire en masse from executive suites, managerial offices, and specialized or technical jobs, the question is—who will take their places? This loss of valuable institutional memory has made it apparent that no organization can afford to be without a strong succession program. Now in its fourth edition, Effective Succession Planning provides the tools organizations need to establish, revitalize, or revise their own succession planning and management (SP&M) programs. The book has been fully updated to address challenges brought on by sea changes such as...
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222. |  By: Aswath Damodaran Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 20-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Damodaran on Valuation
"Aswath Damodaran is simply the best valuation teacher around. If you are interested in the theory or practice of valuation, you should have Damodaran on Valuation on your bookshelf. You can bet that I do."
-- Michael J. Mauboussin, Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management and author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
In order to be a successful CEO, corporate strategist, or analyst, understanding the valuation process is a necessity. The second edition of Damodaran on Valuation stands out as the most reliable book for answering...
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223. |  E-Banking Management: Issues, Solutions, and Strategies By: Mahmood Shah; Steve Clarke Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 19-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Banking Management: Issues, Solutions, and Strategies
E-Banking Management: Issues, Solutions, and Strategies focuses on human, operational, managerial, and strategic organizational issues in e-banking. A cutting-edge reference source written by a collaboration of international experts, this book provides new theoretical constructs currently underpinning research and practices within the field.
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224. |  Program Management for Improved Business Results By: Dragan Z. Milosevic; Russ Martinelli; James M. Waddell Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-APR-2007 Insert Date: 08-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Program Management for Improved Business Results
The need for information on program management is more critical now than ever before. PMIs development of a new standard on program management is driving even greater interest. At the same time, there are few books covering the subject, which provide practical answers, benchmarks, and case studies, however, this book fills the gap. The authors focus on both the macro level of integrating projects and portfolios into the business strategy and the micro level of managing a single program. It contains 6 issue-oriented cases weaved throughout the text, and an additional 5 comprehensive cases...
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225. |  Strategic Value Management: Stock Value Creation and the Management of the Firm Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 05-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 08-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategic Value Management: Stock Value Creation and the Management of the Firm
Innovative strategic management solutions for today's market
Strategic Value Management addresses common problems among business managers and other professionals involved in thinking about developing and managing organizations. In it, author Juan Pablo Stegmann integrates all strategic management and business strategy into an innovative standard that introduces key metrics to strategic management and stock value creation. He argues that most complex business issues can be reduced to the three dimensions of stock value creation-profits, sales growth, and capital-that are linked to three...
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226. |  Business Plans For Dummies®, 2nd Edition By: Paul Tiffany; Steven D. Peterson; Colin Barrow Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 30-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 07-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Plans For Dummies®, 2nd Edition
A full updated and extended second edition of an established UK bestseller Business Plans For Dummies 2nd Edition features new and updated information on formulating a solid business plan to build a secure business – even in an economic downturn. Complete with a brand new business plan template to get you started this expert guide offers fresh advice on reading the competitive marketplace and assessing your business in the current economic climate. It walks you step-by-step through every aspect of planning achievable business goals and diversification strategies, identifying trends,...
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227. |  By: Stuart L. Hart - Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall Publication Date: 15-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 07-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Today’s era of economic crisis has
sent a powerful message: The age of "mercenary" capitalism is
ending. We must finally embark on a new age of sustainable,
stakeholder-based capitalism. While enlightened executives and
policymakers understand the critical need for change, few have
tangible plans for making it happen. In Capitalism at the
Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis
World, Third Edition, Stuart L. Hart presents new strategies
for identifying sustainable products, technologies, and business
models that will drive urgently needed growth and help solve...
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228. |  When Growth Stalls: How It Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It By: Steve McKee Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: When Growth Stalls: How It Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It
One of the toughest lessons every business leader learns is how hard it is to generate sustained growth. Stalled growth is the rule, not the exception--even for the best-managed companies. That's especially true in unpredictable economic environments such as the one we're experiencing today.
McKee has a unique understanding of what happens when growth stalls. His firm commissioned a study of 700 companies that had at one time been among the nation's fastest-growing businesses. Developed in concert with Decision Analyst, a leading national research and consulting firm, the study probed...
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229. |  How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 20-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business
Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn’t set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing and reversing strategies, and looking into the future by deconstructing the past.
As a founder of NetApp, a data storage firm that began as an idea scribbled on a placemat and now takes in $4 billion a year, Hitz has seen his company go through every major cycle in business—from the Jack-of-All-Trades mentality of a start-up, through the...
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230. |  Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action By: John Spence Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 24-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
The six core strategies to elevate any business-and how to implement them-made simple
What do the world's most successful companies and organization have in common? And what can you actually take away and use from their examples? Distilling the best fundamental business strategies, trusted advisor and strategist John Spence helps you take a hard look at your business and together develop specific plans and action steps that will allow you to dramatically improve the success of your company.
Delivered in Spence's approachable and straightforward manner, Awesomely Simple reveals the six...
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231. |  Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
The proven business principles of Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is one of the most admired and prolific investors and managers in corporate America. Warren Buffett on Business is a timeless guide to strategies that can help you run a successful business. This book is a one-of-a-kind collection of Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway written over the past few decades, and in a clear, simple style distills the basic principles of sound business practices.
Through Buffett's own remarkable words, this practical management handbook shares valuable insights on...
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232. |  Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach By: John Morecroft Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach
John Morecroft's book is an ideal text for students interested in system modelling and its application to a range of real world problems. The book covers all that is necessary to develop expertise in system dynamics modelling and through the range of applications makes a persuasive case for the power and scope of the approach. As such it will appeal to practitioners as well as students.
Robert Dyson, Professor of Operational Research, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School.
Much more than an introduction, John Morecroft's Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics uses interactive...
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233. |  Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World By: Michael H. Hugos Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 10-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World
The relentless pursuit of industrial efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability that no longer exists. Instead, the Internet and global video and telecom systems provide a massive and continuous flow of data that causes the whole world to behave like a giant stock market, with all the volatility and uncertainty that goes along with such markets. Responsiveness now trumps efficiency.
By being responsive to the evolving needs and desires of specific groups of customers, companies can wrap their products and services in a...
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234. | Overview: Bear Bryant’s Winning Ways Like a young entrepreneur with nothing but
an idea, the iconic Alabama football coach Paul “Bear”
Bryant used his will and talent to escape hardscrabble poverty and
invent himself as an American monument. His secret: He was able to
learn from his mistakes, adapt to change, and earn the devotion of
his players.
Bear Bryant's life was football, and he once
predicted that he would "probably croak in a week" if he ever
stopped coaching. In an ending that no self-respecting scriptwriter
would have concocted, Bryant died of heart failure at 69, just a
month after announcing his retirement and 37...
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How Intuit Turned Feedback into a Comeback By: New Word City Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 02-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How Intuit Turned Feedback into a Comeback At Intuit Inc., the path to innovation and
domination in financial software has been paved with customer
feedback. To ferret out problems and test progress on products in
development, the company sends its engineers out for face-to-face
encounters with consumers and entrepreneurs. But the company has
struggled to adapt its business from software sold on disks to
online financial services. Perhaps the most valuable feedback:
Intuit relies on volunteers for improvements and new product
ideas.
For almost an hour, the 14 Canadian
entrepreneurs–owners of businesses ranging from a bakery to...
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236. | Overview: Henry Luce’s Way In Time, Life, and
Fortune, Henry Luce invented three entirely new forms of
journalism. They changed our country, largely for the better, and
made Luce a very wealthy man. But his patriotic zeal and his
obsessions with China, Communism, and Republican Party politics led
him to ignore and distort inconvenient facts to make his case,
irreparably tarnishing his legacy. His stunning successes, and his
self-inflicted wounds, hold lessons for every leader.
He invented the modern news magazine and
named it Time, revolutionized the coverage of business with
a publication he called Fortune, captured...
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237. | Overview: J.P. Morgan’s Way There is no arguing J.P. Morgan’s
monumental influence. As both the guardian of America’s
financial sturdiness and a well-appointed exploiter of the
system’s regulatory shortcomings, Morgan’s actions
raised questions that still resonate: What does it mean for Wall
Street to be out of control? How best can government and business
collaborate when it comes to buttressing a fragile economy? Should
financial interests be allowed to profit from government bailouts?
By delving into Morgan’s attitudes and way of thinking, we
can begin to understand the motivations and limitations of
modern-day...
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238. | Overview: How Lego Built a Comeback With children growing up faster than ever
and pop culture running rampant, Lego's little plastic bricks were
inexorably losing appeal. The Danish toymaker lost its way when it
tried to recast itself as a lifestyle brand, but a new leader
brought a different vision of the future--and forced his idealistic
managers to focus on the bottom line. Here’s what you can
learn from their experience.
Today it seems almost unthinkable that as
recently as 2004, the Danish toy colossus Lego was mired in debt,
hemorrhaging losses, and fearful of a hostile takeover. After
three-quarters of a century, how...
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Crowdsourcing Markets: Birds of a Feather Buy Together Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 15-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 02-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Crowdsourcing Markets: Birds of a Feather Buy Together This Element is an excerpt from We Are
Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your
Business (9780132244794) by Barry Libert and Jon
Spector. Available in print and digital formats.
Content and beyond: enabling your customers
to create your products for you!
Our focus here is on the role of communities
in manufacturing companies’ products or content. The
advantages over traditional business models are huge. At iStock,
for instance, contributors create the product, deliver it in
market-ready format, and even list it in the appropriate category.
With little inventory expense...
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240. | Overview: How Kraft Crafted a Comeback When Irene Rosenfeld took the reins at Kraft
Foods in 2006, she found a company weakened by excessive cost
cutting and a hidebound, inward-facing management structure. She
wanted to move decision-making closer to Kraft’s individual
business units and their customers, but that meant she would have
to make wholesale changes. Here are the lessons that apply not only
to her business but yours: Get the facts. Get real. Get holistic.
Get your people involved. Get the incentives right. Get local. And
get organized.
In the beginning, it was all about cheese,
sold door-to-door in Chicago from a...
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