Managing Performance in Turbulent Times

Managing Performance in Turbulent Times

Author: Ed Barrows

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-10-21

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1118161688

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Straightforward playbook for executing world-class strategy for tangible results Designed with three key ideas: leverage the tools that are working, simplify the model, and make the content readable for managers, Managing Performance in Turbulent Times is a road map for the modern strategy manager. Through their simplified execution process the authors—performance management experts—show executives how to get results and execute even in the most difficult conditions. Addresses importance of adaptability to change within today's business environment Explores the environmental turbulence that constantly confounds virtually all organizational systems, with workable solutions Provides a streamlined execution process any organization can use to improve business results Managers need tools to do their jobs better. Filled with proven solutions, this book reveals how to get results through successful strategy execution, presenting a process that will help your organization execute strategy in a simplified, efficient manner.


Medical Group Management in Turbulent Times

Medical Group Management in Turbulent Times

Author: Paul A. Sommers

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780789004871

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Medical Group Management in Turbulent Times: How Physician Leadership Can Optimize Health Plan, Hospital, and Medical Group Performance stresses the importance of physician leadership and proactive participation to enhance health care delivery, health products, and related services to patients and other consumers. This book contains strategies that will help physicians and health care managers provide quality health care now and into the future. This book includes recommendations, sample plans on how to market health services and better serve your patients, and suggestions on how to enhance quality care.


Managing in Turbulent Times

Managing in Turbulent Times

Author: Peter Drucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1136009140

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Managing in Turbulent Times tackles the key issues facing managers in the 1990s: how to manage in rapidly changing environments. This seminal and prophetic book laid the foundation for a generation of writers on change management. This book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. The one certainty about the times ahead, says Drucker, is that they will be turbulent times. In turbulent times the first task of management is to make sure of the organizations capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strength and soundness, its capacity to survive a blow, to adapt to sudden change and to avail itself of new opportunities. The author is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis. It aims at being a practical book for the decision maker, whether in the private or the public sector.


Managerial Strategies for Business Sustainability During Turbulent Times

Managerial Strategies for Business Sustainability During Turbulent Times

Author: Leon, Ramona-Diana

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1522527176

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As the economy fluctuates, so does the need for resilient business practices. If organizations can remain strong and steady during difficult times, they will be more fruitful during successful periods as well. Managerial Strategies for Business Sustainability During Turbulent Times is a crucial resource that discusses successful methods and techniques for building sturdy company practices. Featuring pertinent topics such as sustainable supply chains, knowledge management, information sharing, and performance evaluations, this is an ideal scholarly reference source for CEOs, managers, business students, and researchers that would like to discover more unique and engaging ways to build a strong business foundation.


Evaluation and Turbulent Times

Evaluation and Turbulent Times

Author: Jan-Eric Furubo

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1412851742

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Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can evaluation contribute in times of turbulence? Examining the state of evaluation today, the volume's editors cover a broad range of topics, including post-hoc evaluation; shifting economic paradigms; the World Bank Group's response to the global economic crisis; challenges in evaluating financial literacy; evaluating counter-terrorism programs; evaluation in the context of humanitarian crises; and why civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa matter in evaluating poverty interventions. The contributors explore the role of evaluation in the search for solutions to global instability. They recognize, however, that in order to address unprecedented crises, evaluation itself needs to be evaluated and updated as part of the process of change and reform. This volume is the latest in Transaction's well-respected Comparative Policy Evaluation series.


Winning in Turbulence

Winning in Turbulence

Author: Darrell Rigby

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2009-08-24

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1422136469

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The current downturn may prove more brutal than most previous recessions. It's already hammering companies in markets around the globe. It will test businesses to their fullest-many won't survive. But downturns present strategic opportunities, too. In fact, many more companies achieve dramatic gains during recessions than in normal times. How to ensure your company emerges successful? In Winning in Turbulence, a new volume in the Memo to the CEO series, Bain & Company downturn strategist Darrell Rigby provides the playbook. He presents a powerful framework and diagnostic tool (available in the book and online) for assessing three dimensions of your situation: Your industry's sensitivity: How hard is it hit by this downturn? Your company's strategic position: Are you an industry leader or follower? Your firm's financial position, including cash reserves. The author then explains how to craft an action plan tailored to the situation you've diagnosed, providing tools for: Cutting costs intelligently-sustaining your margins and brand Boosting revenue by refocusing your sales force on the right customers Channeling resources into your core businesses Preparing for bold moves, such as game-changing acquisitions Timely and practical, this book positions you to survive a downturn and emerge stronger once the recovery begins.


Ruthless Execution

Ruthless Execution

Author: Amir Hartman

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0133410773

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Today's business leaders must know how to lead through adversity while also positioning their companies to reignite growth. Doing both requires exceptional deftness, deep insight, and a relentless focus on the leadership, capability, and governance areas that matter most. This guide shows how exceptional business leaders successfully navigate through the inevitable times when performance flattens and everything gets tougher. If you haven't faced this challenge, you will-and your response may make or break your business. Amir Hartman and Craig LeGrande offer up-to-the-minute guidance on sharpening focus, optimizing "return on strategy," and balancing investments in performance and growth. They introduce new ways to capture more value at the board level, resurrect lost customer loyalty, leverage "cloudification," and use performance metrics without overwhelming people in trivia. Getting past "the wall" is today's most urgent and underappreciated executive challenge, and this second edition of Ruthless Execution includes brand-new examples and case studies to provide further insight. Read this book, and be ready. Book jacket.


Managing in Turbulent Times

Managing in Turbulent Times

Author: Peter Drucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1136009132

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Managing in Turbulent Times tackles the key issues facing managers in the 1990s: how to manage in rapidly changing environments. This seminal and prophetic book laid the foundation for a generation of writers on change management. This book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. The one certainty about the times ahead, says Drucker, is that they will be turbulent times. In turbulent times the first task of management is to make sure of the organizations capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strength and soundness, its capacity to survive a blow, to adapt to sudden change and to avail itself of new opportunities. The author is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis. It aims at being a practical book for the decision maker, whether in the private or the public sector.


Managing Democracies in Turbulent Times

Managing Democracies in Turbulent Times

Author: Eran Vigoda-Gadot

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 3642540724

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This book discusses some of the main challenges that arise in the management of modern democracies, with a focus on the role of citizens and their perceptions of government. A theoretical and practical framework is suggested for dealing with some of the most urgent problems that governments face today: the balance between bureaucracy and democracy and between political and administrative concerns; the pressing economic concerns in a market-based, globalized knowledge society and the changes in the relationship of trust amongst the players. At the heart of the analysis is the idea that running governments effectively means settling the potential conflicts between all those who are involved in the governmental process and in the making of public policy and public actions. The authors suggest approaches for strengthening the trust in democratic institutions and cooperation between the main actors in the democratic sphere, without compromising on the need to ensure effective governance.


Business Planning for Turbulent Times

Business Planning for Turbulent Times

Author: Rafael Rami ́rez

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1849770646

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The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects. These range from the impacts of warfare in the Middle East on energy futures, investment and global currencies to the vast and unpredictable impacts of climate change. All this threatens established strategic planning methods.This book is for business and organizational leaders who want and need to think through how best to deal with increasing turbulence, and with the complexity and uncertainty that come with it. The authors explain in clear language how future orientation and, specifically, modern scenario techniques help to address these conditions. They draw on examples from a wide variety of international settings and circumstances including large corporations, inter-governmental organizations, small firms and municipalities. Readers will be inspired to try out scenario approaches themselves to better address the turbulence that affects them and others with whom they work, live and do business. A key feature of the book is the exchange of insights across the academic-practitioner divide. Scholars of scenario thinking and organizational environments will appreciate the authors' conceptual and methodological advances. What has previously remained jargon only accessible to the highest level of corporate and government futures planners here becomes comprehensible to a wider business and practitioner community.