Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Decision Making & Problem Solving

A course in family-business entrepreneurship, taught through a narrative about four frustrated people taking a seminar that changes their lives.

In the second book in the Entrepreneurial Edge series, frustrated individuals, immersed in family businesses, enroll in a two-week course on entrepreneurship that will change their lives.

For ten years Mary has been an office manager at her brother's business only to see her younger brother join the company and receive shares while she gets none. Plagued by doubts about her ability to change the culture in the family...

Who can solve these global problems? Corporations.

Never before have corporations been so large, so wealthy, so powerful, and so rich in human creativity and endeavor. Organizational change expert Professor Lynda Gratton shows that it is now critical that these corporations step up to play a more positive role in the world by building inner resilience, actively anchoring themselves in their communities and supply chains, and leveraging their unique capabilities to address complex global challenges such as climate change and...

Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial evaluation criteria and the presence of alternative investment opportunities. In particular, it discusses the evolution of these methods, presents new methodological advances and illustrates their use across several application domains.

The book offers a many-faceted treatment...

What people are saying about The New How

-How are you going to get rid of your Air Sandwich if you don't even know what it is? Provocative and practical at the same time.-
--Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

-The New How is informative and provides exciting insights because the suggestions are practical and doable. Merchant gets the new reality--leadership fails not so much from flawed strategy as it does from failed processes of engagement from those responsible for implementing the strategy. In high-performing organizations,...

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can't resist

Value Proposition Design helps you tackle a core challenge of every business -- creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to succeed.

Using the same stunning visual format as the authors' global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the -Value Proposition Canvas- a...

Industrial sociologists for many years have been limited almost entirely to studies of Western factories. For the Communist world they have been compelled to advance hypotheses based upon the assumption that political ideology determines the character of management-labor relations. Now for the first time, Mr. Kolaja's pioneering examination of worker participation in the management of a textile factory in Lodz, Poland, provides specific evidence for testing these theories.

For eight weeks in the summer of 1957, while the liberal atmosphere of the "Polish October Revolution" of 1956...