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Author: James D. Spina
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2020-06-03
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1839099968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarnessing Change to Develop Talent and Beat the Competition explores how organizations can formulate effective corporate level and business level strategies to achieve competitive advantage, earn above average profits, build and retain talent, and sustain financial strength.
Author: Peter Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-12-30
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0470597577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPraise for Harnessing America's Wasted Talent "President Obama offered America and the world renewed hope for a better tomorrow. With decades of experience in alternative forms of higher education, Peter Smith grabs that optimistic spirit and seizes the moment to reveal to us the exciting age of Web-based teaching and learning, which is opening access to untold numbers of learners while harnessing the previously wasted talents of millions of people in America and billions around the world. Those seeking insights, a vision of the future, and a chance to join this educational revolution should look forward to Harnessing America's Wasted Talent." Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University, and author, The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education "Anyone who wants to understand where American higher education is headed should read Harnessing America's Wasted Talent. Peter Smith's vision of the future of higher education is based on several decades of experience at the national, state, and international levels. He brings a rare perspective that will interest students, educators, politicians, and those American business leaders who are worried about the future of our workforce and the health of our democracy." Charles Kolb, president, The Committee for Economic Development "Harnessing America's Wasted Talent is a must-read for those of us concerned about the increasing economic and education gaps in our country. Peter Smith takes on an important American disconnect: the need for an educated workforce and the fact that most working Americans lack a college degree. Drawing upon his experience in higher education and politics, Smith dissects the problem and presents a contemporary, practical plan to enhance the learning capacity of our country." Joseph B. Moore, president, Lesley University
Author: Michael C. Mankins
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1633691772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManaging Your Scarcest Resources Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage them, but most of it focuses on individual actions. What's really needed are organizational solutions that can unleash a company's full productive power and enable it to outpace competitors. Building off of the popular Harvard Business Review article "Your Scarcest Resource," Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, Bain & Company experts in organizational design and effectiveness, present new research into how you can liberate people's time, talent, and energy and unleash your organization's productive power. They identify the specific causes of organizational drag--the collection of institutional factors that slow things down, decrease output, and drain people's energy--and then offer a pragmatic framework for how managers can overcome it. With practical advice for using the framework and in-depth examples of how the best companies manage their people's time, talent, and energy with as much discipline as they do their financial capital, this book shows managers how to create a virtuous circle of high performance.
Author: Kevin Uphill
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Published: 2016-02-03
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0749474408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economic environment is global, highly sophisticated and in continuous fast flux. The challenge for business leaders, executives and strategists is to read and respond agilely to trends and underlying movements to stay ahead of dynamic market flow and change. Creating Competitive Advantage sets out a compelling case for the business benefits of better market anticipation, and provides tools and approaches to develop a forward-looking strategy that will deliver these. Through theory, case studies and practical insights, the book demonstrates how better analysis of market trends and scanning of the environment combined with business model change and confident leadership can gain and maintain competitive advantage. With the right approach, game-changing strategy can be highly accessible for all business strategists and owners, rather than as today, the almost exclusive reserve of a few brave and instinctive entrepreneurs. With tools, assessments and models to get more value out of the business data you already have and take your strategy to the next level through analytically-supported intuition, Creating Competitive Advantage gives business leaders and strategists the toolkit to move from a responsive mindset to a leading one. Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable figures and tables from the book.
Author: William R. Dodson
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1801171904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirtually International introduces readers to basic project management principles that will shorten learning curves and curtail the costs of managing international teams; this book lays out ways that virtual project managers can support productivity and enhance the well-being of geographically distributed team members.
Author: Emily Nagle Green
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2009-09-25
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0071638814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUbiquitous connectivity is the biggest revolution in business since the Internet—and this is the first strategic guide to harnessing its power Anywhere examines the far-reaching impact of what can only be termed a business revolution, and it explains how to build a strategy using global connectivity to generate new streams of revenue and, ultimately, dramatic business growth. President and CEO of Yankee Group, the industry authority on the business impact of global connectivity, Emily Nagle Green describes how best to steer business initiatives, partnerships, product development, customer service, target markets, and virtually every other aspect of a business in order to succeed in the Anywhere business environment. With Anywhere, businesses now have the ability to remain connected to customers 24/7, but only those that take advantage of this “ubiquitous connectivity” in a strategic way today will remain standing tomorrow. Anywhere combines extensive background information, tactical tools, and high-level advice that every forward-looking company needs in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive business environment.
Author: Michael E. Porter
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Stayer
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1633691381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre your employees like a synchronized "V" of geese in flight-sharing goals and taking turns leading? Or are they more like a herd of buffalo-blindly following you and standing around awaiting instructions? If they're like buffalo, their passivity and lack of initiative could doom your company. In How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead, you'll discover how to transform buffalo into geese-by reshaping organizational systems and redefining employees' expectations about what it takes to succeed. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Author: Jeff Hartman
Publisher: MotorBooks International
Published: 2004-02-13
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0760315825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience and a background of more than 1,000 magazine articles on the subject, engine control expert Jeff Hartman explains everything from the basics of engine management to the building of complicated project cars. Hartman has substantially updated the material from his 1993 MBI book Fuel Injection (0-879387-43-2) to address the incredible developments in automotive fuel injection technology from the past decade, including the multitude of import cars that are the subject of so much hot rodding today. Hartman's text is extremely detailed and logically arranged to help readers better understand this complex topic.
