Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Structural Adjustment

Inequality is a choice.

The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story--the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations in measures of inequality and economic mobility. For decades, wages have stagnated for the majority of workers while economic gains have disproportionately gone to the top one percent. Education, housing, and health care--essential ingredients for individual success--are growing ever more expensive. Deeply rooted...

They're invisible; but don't be fooled. As they walk unnoticed through the halls of your small business, they're doing a number-a negative number-on your bottom line. They slow productivity, treat your customers rudely, and infect other employees with their poor morale and shoddy work ethic. In a small business, one zombie-one employee not pulling his or her share of the workload-can make all the difference.

In his second book, Zombies Ate My Business, Jamie Gerdsen returns to help traditional business owners-plumbers,...

Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management was the first book to integrate innovation management with both change management and creativity to form a guide to innovation as a tool for survival in rapidly changing market conditions. Treating creativity as the process, and innovation the result, Goodman emphasise the importance of a strategic approach to management through fostering creative processes.

Revised and updated for a second edition, this groundbreaking book now includes:

• A new section on contemporary themes in innovation management, such as the...

Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management was the first book to integrate innovation management with both change management and creativity to form a guide to innovation as a tool for survival in rapidly changing market conditions. Treating creativity as the process, and innovation the result, Goodman emphasise the importance of a strategic approach to management through fostering creative processes.

Revised and updated for a second edition, this groundbreaking book now includes:

• A new section on contemporary themes in innovation management, such as the...

Corporate culture pioneer Edgar H. Schein updates his primer on corporate culture. Packed with practical advice, Schein separates the sense from the nonsense regarding culture change theory and practice and tells in plain terms how readers can assess their organization to determine if its current culture fits its people and products. He then examines corporate culture on three levels--behaviors, values, and shared assumptions--and shows how each factors into change initiatives. Framed around the questions managers ask most often, the book uses case studies to show what successful change...

The parameters of competition in business today are changing -- big does not necessarily beat small anymore; fast is beating slow. Agility, speed, and flexibility are the key elements of a successful strategy and execution in the corporate world as wells as in government agencies, health care, and education..

How well will your firm execute its strategy? What barriers exist that inhibit your execution? Are you keeping one eye on tomorrow's customers, while you manage those of today? These are all key questions as we strive to deliver value on an ongoing basis.