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The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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Does the job you have (or the job you want) require customer interactions? Do you want to handle difficult customers with ease? Do you long for recognition of your customer service skills? Do you know what it takes to be a customer service professional? Every business has customers, and employers are seeking to hire, retain and reward employees who have the skills, the knowledge and the motivation to provide a consistently superior level of service...
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Americans have long been ambivalent toward foreign direct investment in the United States. Foreign multinational corporations may be a source of capital, technology, and jobs. But what are the implications for US workers, firms, communities, and consumers as the United States remains the most popular destination for foreign multinational investment? Theodore H. Moran and Lindsay Oldenski find that foreign multinational firms that invest in the United...
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"Captures the basic laws of growth companies and creates a new formula for success." -Richard A. D'Aveni, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Organic business growth is governed by its own natural laws-underlying truths that set the stage for growth and innovation, much in the way that Einstein's theory of relativity accounts for the movement of objects in the space-time continuum. The most fundamental law is that uncertainty is the only...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 All pies start out as worthless ideas. They are essentially worthless in the beginning. If you can produce an idea for less than people are willing to pay for it, then you have built value.
#2 The value of the pie is based on the amount of income it is able to generate. The future is uncertain, so the value of a pie can vary dramatically depending on who is looking...
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When Hazem Mulhim was starting out in life, his father presented him with two brown envelopes: one bulging with money, the other flat with some dollar bills. Only one-and its contents-would be his. After a brief but memorable discussion, his father made the decision that would influence the rest of Hazem's life.
Two Brown Envelopes offers a refreshingly candid account of the ups and the downs of building a business in the age of globalization. Hazem...
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To succeed in business and in life, you must be focused and committed. But it also takes serendipity and a certain amount of alchemy.
Stephen Gillett went from part-time technology specialist at an Office Depot to one of the youngest CIOs of a Fortune 500 company by keeping himself fully present and open to all possibilities. In From Simi Valley to Silicon Valley, he shares his remarkable journey and the valuable lessons he learned while working...
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Many corporations have slick, flashy mission statements that ultimately do little to motivate employees and less to impress customers, investors, and partners.
But there is a way to share your excitement for the future of your company in a clear, compelling, and powerful way and entrepreneur and business growth expert Cameron Herold can show you how.
Vivid Vision is a revolutionary tool that will help owners, CEOs, and senior managers create inspirational,...
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Innovation is just 4&1/2 steps away! Would you like to solve problems, exploit opportunities, create new ideas, and innovate? Do you need to lead a team, organization or yourself to be more innovative? This book is a diamond - an Innovation Diamond. In 4.5 steps it will help you, your team and your organization: Streamline your processes; Invent whole new products; Find new ways to market; Overcome long-standing challenges; Succeed; Grow; Enjoy the...
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Creativity is magic. Workers need this magic to flourish in the future of work. Reema Nakra, the founder of TSMC and author of the "Future of Work: The Complete Blueprint," provides the answer to the question, "Why is creativity the skill of the future?" in this book that traverses the new job landscape, explores the radical changes and offers the panacea for workplace problems caused by the avalanche of AI technologies.
The best way to stop AI from...
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The businesses behind Dubai Sports City, the branding of David Beckham, and the presence and popularity of fantasy sports leagues on the internet are unmistakable indicators that the sports and the entertainment industries are quickly becoming one and the same. But, you needn't travel far or be a hard core sports fan to appreciate this fact. Whether you play Madden NFL on the Wii, use Nike+ along with your iPod to monitor your workouts, or channel...
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In today's market place, establishing efficient, effective solutions to shifting trends creates challenges for every organization. Apart from finding the right solution, organizations have to implement them successfully while building upon existing solutions. Now, David G. Peterson proposes a roadmap to the management of solutions through the alignment of people, processes and best practices. His new book, Handling the Remedy: Alignment, was created...
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This self-help guide Get on the Path to Wealth Through Your Own Business is an original how-to book on establishment and promotion of your own business as the only legitimate opportunity to achieve wealth in a relatively short period of time. Unlike most of the books in this field, which reflect different isolated matters on this subject, the originality of my book lies in the fact that it gives an expert view of various aspects of business as an...
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We hear every day about the flashy twenty-five-year-old wunderkinds who have hit it big in the tech world and celebrated CEOs who have flourished in public companies. But we rarely hear about the majority of successful men and women who, at the average age of forty-one, start their own company. The author was forty when he founded Homax Corporation in 1981.
He is an eclectic award-winning entrepreneur who would like to share what he learned in business...
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Start a business networking group that will be unique, giving you a massive competitive edge. Do so and create your own sales force of other professionals who actively look for opportunities to refer you business. A Service Provider's Guide to Starting a Unique Business Networking Group can help you exponentially increase your new business originations. Unlike the vast number of ordinary networking groups available to you as a service provider, J.B....
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Do you know the seven compelling questions prospects should ask to truly understand your value? Can you articulate your answers with confidence, passion, and speed? If you are a Financial Entrepreneur, and you had answered "no" or "not sure", after reading Mirror Mirror On The Wall Am I The Most Valued Of Them All?, you will answer a resounding "yes." The book reveals the seven powerful questions every prospect and client will ask you or will be thinking...
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Ce livre a été écrit dans le but d'aider ceux et celles qui veulent s'aider eux-mêmes à utiliser tout le potentiel niché au fond d'eux. Il s'agit de croire en cette formule gagnante et de suivre la route tracée par quelqu'un qui sait de quoi il parle. Pour réussir dans la vie, il faut absolument croire que notre état d'esprit est de la plus haute importance et l'entretenir pour rester alerte, positif et énergique.
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Land a lighthouse deal to catapult your startup over the chasm of early adopters and into the land of new opportunities with trillion-dollar companies. Navigate to the Lighthouse explains how to do that, using strategic business development as a competitive advantage.
When you approach the chasm and look at lighthouses shining on potential trajectory-changing deals, two questions likely cross your mind: Should I invest the time and resources to pursue...
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In this groundbreaking new book, the Showkeirs take something people typically think of as merely functional-ordinary conversations-and show the power they have to create, sustain, and change the very nature of workplace culture. Conversations can lead to an engaged and energized workforce, or to one that is alienated and uninspired. If you want to change the culture you must change the conversations. All too often workplace conversations-between...
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The book provides ways to introduce design thinking into enterprises. It provides guidelines to engage stakeholders by showing how spontaneous discussions can lead to creativity and ideas for innovation, and providing guidelines on the tools and visualizations needed to describe and build on these ideas, the kind of leadership needed in interdisciplinary teams, and the ways people at different levels of an enterprise are brought together to create...