... examined and used to justify the variety of techniques which can be used to find insights into difficult management problems. Contents include: * paradigm shift and the need for creative thinking in management * blocks to creativity and how to overcome them * defining and redefining problems * Extensive ... more »

Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong in ... more »

While more than a quarter of its traditional competitors were going out of business, John Hancock, under the direction of marketing wizard David D'Alessandro, transformed itself from a sleepy old life insurer into a leading financial services giant, with a sustained 20% annual rate of growth. In Brand ... more »

... relations. This book reviews different types of small-business network, illustrated by an international selection of case studies, including: * Chinese family business networks * ethnic minority business networks * Japanese and South Korean business group networks * Taiwan's subcontracting networks ... more »

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Renowned media executive Robin Wolaner delivers the 80 Naked Truths businesswomen need to develop presence, seize power, and achieve success. Straight-talking and sensible, Naked in the Boardroom explains how to achieve more: more opportunities, more money, more notches on the corporate belt without ... more »

Today's successful managers are negotiators who are judged on their ability to foster, coach, and support collaborative relationships -- and manage conflict -- with peers, workers, bosses, suppliers, customers, regulators, competitors, and stakeholders. Here is essential reading for every manager who ... more »

If you're wondering what happened after a company without assets acquired a company without a clue, as Kara Swisher wryly writes, it's time to crack open this trenchant book about the doomed merger of America Online and Time Warner. On a quest to discover how the deal of the century became the messiest ... more »

The best secrets to successful writing come from successful writers. If you want information straight from pros in the field, check out Writers Exchange 2000: Writing Advice by Writers. With more than seventy articles designed to inform, educate and entertain writers of all experience levels, Writer ... more »

Product Info This innovative text provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of quality in the context of 20th century management thinking. more »

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From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist-an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple's future survival in today's roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that ... more »