THE MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS is packed full of razor-sharp business advice that will keep you on your toes and ahead of the game. There are five sections to get your teeth into, which cover the personal values and skills needed to be a brilliant manager, how to create a happy team that will go the extra mile, the all-important financials, common challenges and how best to deal with them and finally the low-down on getting ahead and standing out from the crowd. THE MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS gives you practical, no-nonsense advice, delievered in a way that will help you climb the greasy pole, help others as you ascend and have fun on the way up. If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of the most up-to-date business practice, you need to read this book.
THE LEADERSHIP MASTERCLASS is business advice at its very best. Insightful, intelligent, thought-provoking and counter-intuitive, it will force you to rethink all aspects of your approach to leading your team or your company.There are five sections to chew over, which cover how to develop your very own leadership style, what the expected behaviours of the finest leaders are, the all-important strategy and how to initiate turnaround, change and set a vision, managing the reputation of yourself and your company and finally some lessons from those that have been there and done it. THE LEADERSHIP MASTERCLASS provides practical, no-nonsense advice for the incumbent or aspiring leader, particularly if you are eager to use fresh ideas to stake your claim as one of the next generation of great leaders. If you want to inspire those around you, stand out from the crowd and make a positive contribution, you need to read THE LEADERSHIP MASTERCLASS.
This book differentiates between the diverse types of decisions from strategic to operational, understanding decision-making structures and theories, using frameworks for difficult moral or ethical decisions, understanding the factors that lead to wrong decisions, implementing decisions.
This textbook provides a hands-on introduction to enterprise architecture management. It guides the reader through the applications of methods and tools to typical business problems by presenting enterprise architecture frameworks and by sharing experiences from industry. The structure of the book represents the typical stages of the journey of an enterprise architect. Chapter 1 addresses the central question of what to achieve with the introduction of an enterprise architecture. Chapter 2 then introduces concepts and visualizations for business architecture that help with understanding the business. In chapter 3 the development of an application architecture is outlined, which provides transparency on information systems and their business context. Next, chapter 4 presents visual tools to analyze, improve and eventually optimize the application landscape. Chapter 5 discusses both traditional organizational as well as collaborative approaches to enterprise architecture management. Eventually, several established enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF, Zachmann, ArchiMate, and IAF are described in chapter 6. The book concludes with a summary and an outlook on future research potential in chapter 7. Based on their experiences through several years of teaching, the authors introduce students step-by-step to enterprise architecture development and management. Their book is intended as a guide for master classes at universities and includes lots of exercises and references for further reading.
This is a highly structured & fully developed practical companion to Fifield's successful 'Marketing Strategy'. It can however stand alone for those executives whose needs are for guidance on implementing marketing strategy rather than doing the background thinking and covering the key conceptual issues.
This book aims to make leading edge ideas more accessible. For quick reference, the Glossary includes an A-Z of key management thinkers with details of their main ideas and publications.
A study of the fundamental concepts, frameworks and ideas of strategic management. This second edition of Strategic Management MBA Masterclass has been updated and expanded to cover areas such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate parenting, defining business purpose and contrasting schools of thought.
The eight basic - but critical - lessons that everyone should know in order to lead others successfully. In any job, there will come a time when you are asked to lead other people. But while people are often well trained in the skill set of their particular profession, few people are ever taught how to lead. As such, those first steps into leadership can seem daunting – what do you actually do? How do you really lead? How do you build an effective team? And how do you lead colleagues who used to be your peers? How to Lead Others is the second book in the John Adair Masterclass Series, and it conveys the basics of leadership in a way that is concise, relevant and practical by breaking down leadership into eight simple lessons: · Defining the task; · Effective planning; · Briefing; · Controlling; · Motivating; · Organizing; · Evaluating; and · Leading by example. Aimed at those who, regardless of industry or business sector, are about take their first steps on the leadership path, or who are at an early stage in their career and realise that leadership responsibilities lie ahead of them, How to Lead Others is the essential handbook to one of the most important and challenging aspects of professional life.