Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Structural Adjustment

What does it take to guarantee success and profitability over time? Authors Christopher G. Worley, a senior research scientist, Thomas D. Williams, an executive advisor, and Edward E. Lawler III, one of the country's leading management experts, set out to find the answer. In The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance the authors reveal the factors that drive long-term profitability based on the practices of successful companies that have consistently outperformed...

Extreme events such as accidents, crises and disasters occur in organizations of all types. Sometimes these hit the headlines, but they also occur regularly beyond the public gaze. What follows is normally an investigation in which 'lessons will be learned' and the event 'must never happen again'. These produce recommendations to limit the damage from a future event, or to prevent it altogether. In many cases, this doesn't happen, and the changes are not implemented. Why should this be the case?

Containing a unique collection of cross-sector and international case studies, this...

With the rate of change in organizations at an all-time high, the need for strong organization design has never been more pressing." Organization Design" provides a complete road map to building successful organizations through good organization design. It presents a practical process; a robust, broad-based model and a set of tools and techniques that all link together. Part One and Two together provide you with the knowledge of how to establish and run an organization design programme. Part Three covers how to respond to three perennial challenges in designing organizations.

This...

"Disruption Revolution" starts with big trends in innovation such as 3D printing, wearable technology, the evolution of social media and the new collaborative economy, and then goes into the best practices and...

Red Bull to Buddha is a story about how mindfulness creates hope, helps solve problems, and allows us to coexist together. Part spiritual autobiography and part cultural essays, it explores the tension between how...

As a professional, this book will help you maximize your creative potential - learning that successful creative expression is a function of hard work and discipline rather than innate talent or genius. The author explains more in his video below.

Fostering Creativity in Self and The Organization: Your Professional Edge helps individuals, and their organizations, learn to maximize creative potential. The book explodes the myth that creative people are born rather than developed through practice and hard work. All people are creative and have the ability to be innovative, not...

Change is a constant, and leaders must do more than keep up--they must innovate and accelerate to succeed. Yet people are often unnerved by change. As a leader during a time of transformation, you may stand up before teams that are indifferent, or even hostile, and need to convince them that change is necessary and urgent. More than money, time, or resources, the ability to lead these people determines your ultimate success or failure. What does it take to be an effective change leader and increase the odds of success?

Stacking the Deck offers a proven, practical approach for...

• Outsmart Your Rivals by Seeing What Others Don't, Jim Champy
• Organization Is Not Structure but Capability, Dave Ulrich & Norm Smallwood
• The Leader's Mandate: Create a Shared Sense of Destiny, James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
• A Different Kind of...

The new environmental hero is the capitalist, the entrepreneur. Self-confessed environmental capitalist Carl Hall argues that we need changes on a large scale and the only system that can reliably deliver that is capitalism. A bad conscience or wanting to be "green" will never create scale. People will continue to say they want an environmental solution and then still pick the cheapest goods in the supermarket. We need to turn to self-interest and the invisible hand. Treating environmental questions as something that can be solved by appealing to people s good nature is a red herring. In...

Key Features:

• Synthesizes what is known about change in organizations and then provides practical ways of sustaining it
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Key Features:

• Synthesizes what is known about change in organizations and then provides practical ways of sustaining it
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