A Business History of the Swatch Group

A Business History of the Swatch Group

Author: P. Donzé

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1137389087

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This book offers a detailed and full analysis of the strategy which enabled the Swatch Group to establish itself on the world market. In particular, it tackles the issues of production restructuring, with the opening of subsidiaries in Asia, and the implementation of a new marketing strategy, characterized by the move towards luxury.


Snapshots of Great Leadership

Snapshots of Great Leadership

Author: Jon P. Howell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1351614959

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Snapshots of Great Leadership describes leaders who have either accomplished amazing feats or brought destruction. Although the goals of these individuals were often quite different, the leadership processes they used were frequently similar. The opening chapter explains the latest theories of leadership. Each leader snapshot adds an important "reality check" to the theories and models described in most introductory leadership textbooks, making this a key text for students taking leadership courses. This new edition features additional women and international leaders, a new "You Decide" section, and a Conclusion that clarifies the differences between good and bad leaders.


Swiss Made

Swiss Made

Author: R. James Breiding

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2013-01-10

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 1847658091

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Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons others can learn and benefit from? Can the Swiss continue to perform in a hyper-competitive global economy? Swiss Made offers answers to these and many other questions about the country as it describes the origins, structures and characteristics of the most important Swiss companies. The authors suggest success is due to a large degree to sound entrepreneurial thinking and an openness to new ideas. And they venture a surprising forecast on the country's ability to keep pace in an age of globalisation.


The Innovation Factory

The Innovation Factory

Author: Gilles Garel

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1498740227

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The Innovation Factory takes a fresh look at the fine art of breakthrough innovation. What makes it unique is that it brings together an experienced scholar and a serial entrepreneur who share the same passion for understanding the processes and theories needed to innovate over and over again. The book marries theory with practical examples focusin


Auguries

Auguries

Author: Russell Fox

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0595368964

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CATTER LIVES! An improbable classic of rural American literature, AUGURIES is the harrowing tale of fourteen year-old Catter Knopfler, who is removed from his home in the farm town of Vesuvius and institutionalized-until he escapes into the winter city streets, a hunchbacked fugitive in a stolen purple confessional curtain. First offered for publication in 1986 as "an uplifting story of incest, murder, and grotesque suffering," AUGURIES met with a chilling reception. No publisher would touch it. But like its doughty narrator, AUGURIES endured. Photocopied, passed from hand to hand, and advertised only by word of mouth, the rejected typescript of AUGURIES became an almost instant rarity of the American underground press. While reportedly widely pirated abroad in an unauthorized Chinese translation, the corporate-controlled publishing industry in the United States conspired for years to keep AUGURIES off bookstore shelves. By the time CATTER LIVES! began to appear emblazoned on the walls of the New York City subway, AUGURIES had transcended censorship, critical indifference, and its own gnomic title to become a mythic literary phenomenon.


Mister Swatch

Mister Swatch

Author: Jürg Wegelin

Publisher: Free Association Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781853432088

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But how did this self-made man's flamboyant career begin? How did he go about the challenge of achieving his extraordinary success? What precisely is his relationship with the Swatch Group? All these questions, and more, are explored in a biography by Jurg Wegelin that is as critical as it is entertaining. --


Historians on Leadership and Strategy

Historians on Leadership and Strategy

Author: Martin Gutmann

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3030260909

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This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures. Through a collection of highly compelling case studies spanning two millennia, it looks beyond the classic leadership parable of men in military or political crises and shows that successful leadership cannot be reduced to simplistic formulae. Written by experts in the field and based on rigorous research, each case provides a rich and compelling account that is accessible to a wide audience, from students to managers. Rather than serving as a vehicle for advancing a particular theory of leadership, each case invites readers to reflect, debate and extract their own insights.


Killing Mister Watson

Killing Mister Watson

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-08-22

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 0307819663

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Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.


No More Mister Nice Guy

No More Mister Nice Guy

Author: Linda Randall Wisdom

Publisher: Silhouette

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1459279638

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Undercover lover THE DESPERATE HOURS Jed Hawkins had lost the only woman who'd ever meant anything to him because he couldn't give her the soul-deep commitment she longed for. His closed and shuttered heart wouldn't let him open himself up to anyone—and neither would his deadly and dangerous secret life as a government agent…. But now Shelby Carlisle was in danger herself, and he had to make the ultimate commitment—putting his life on the line to save hers. And as he tracked her desperate kidnappers high into the Colorado mountains, he was coming to understand that he had always loved this woman more than life itself….