Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Leadership

Instead of deliberately pausing to take a fresh look at entrepreneurship, we continue to repeat the same errors:
We seek a formulaic answer, a recipe, for how to make an entrepreneurial undertaking succeed. There isn t one.
We believe the story of the individual entrepreneur tells us the story of entrepreneurship. It doesn t even come close.
And narrower still than looking to one story, we look to one source, one time, or one form of entrepreneurship in our search for its secrets. Why?
Ironically, approaching entrepreneurship this way is the opposite of what entrepreneurs...

Strategy is the most central issue in management. It has to do with defining the purpose of an organization, understanding the market in which it operates and the capabilities the firm possesses, and putting together a winning plan. There are many influential frameworks to help managers undertake a systematic reflection on this issue. The most dominant approaches are Michael Porter's "Competitive Strategy" and the "Resource-Based View of the Firm," popularized by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. Arnoldo Hax argues there are fundamental drawbacks in the underlying hypotheses of these...

In business, sports and life, it takes more than knowledge and good technique to achieve great performances with consistency. The challenges you need to win aren't always terrific plays, perfect golf shots, record sales or great new ideas. Instead, in any arena in life, it is command of the emotional challenges that separates winners from wannabes, contenders from pretenders.
Contenders who achieve consistently outstanding results all demonstrate key characteristics and practice specific winning techniques that you can learn. The inconsistent performance of pretenders in business,...

This book combines management theory with ethical theory on a chapter by chapter, topic by topic basis. The volume bridges the theoretical, empirical and practical gap between management and ethics. It will be of interest to a cross disciplinary group of students, researchers and managers in business, management, organizational behavior, IO psychology and business ethics.