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If the defining goal of modern-day business can be isolated to just one item, it would be the search for competitive advantage. And, as everyone in business knows, it's a lot harder than it used to be. On the one hand, competition is more intense than ever--technological innovation, consumer expectations, government deregulation, all combine to create more opportunities for new competitors to change the basic rules of the game. On the other hand, most of the old reliable sources of competitive advantage are drying up: the hallowed strategies employed by GM, IBM, and AT&T to maintain their...

New Tools for Challengng the Status Quo

Immensely readable, this work bolts together the image or theory and the reality of what is required to change the performance of an enterprise. Whether the challenge is renewal or fundamental change, this book delivers real-life depictions that will help all who invest the time.
--Richard A. McGinn, president and COO, Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Stand on the front lines of innovation with today's top business leaders. Throughout this page-turner, archconsultant David Nadler leverages twenty years of work with many of the...

Based on over ten years consulting with such organizations as AT&T, Citicorp, Corning, American Express and PepsiCo, the authors reveal techniques for dealing with the range of strategic issues facing organizations.

Change - the rule rather than the exception in organizational survival and success. But what is the inside story? How have companies like AT&T, Corning, Lever, Weyerhauser, and Xerox successfully managed to transform the way they operate? How have CEOs and managers created change-adaptive organizations that deliver sustainable competitive advantage? In Discontinuous Change, authors David A. Nadler, Robert B. Shaw, A. Elise Walton, and their colleagues share their insights into the dynamics of organizational transformation and offer a diagnostic framework for leading organizations through...

Praise for Building Better Boards

-Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation.-
--Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation

-Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful boards.-
--Marty Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

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There have been greater advances in our knowledge of the visual function and its disabilities in the past 50 years than had accumulated in all of the previous years. This applies not only to the basic science of biochemistry, physiology, physiopathology, and cytopathology but also to the diagnosis and treatment of visual dysfunction and ocular disease. These advances have been aided by a proliferation of ingenious instruments. When I began my residency in ophthalmology at The Wilmer Institute in 1938, one was supposed to learn not only the physiology of vision but also how to diagnose and...

Facing an explosion of workplace complexity, many executives choose a team-supported approach to organizational leadership over more traditional leadership models. Executive Teams provides both CEOs and senior team members themselves with an unprecedented set of insights and strategies they can use to build and maintain teams that live up to their full potential. Team members get ideas for: **Implementing strategy **Leading transformations **Changing organizational culture . . . and much more - I strongly recommend this book] to all those in charge of, on, or involved with executive...