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The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table. Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful....
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"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The complexity of managing a business today has increased exponentially due to rapid technological advancement and global events. This implies that the solutions of yesterday may not be applicable today or in the near future.
Some of the major problems faced by businesses today include financial management, competition, strategy, change and innovation. Business managers must therefore development a comprehensive understanding of business organisations...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's declining steel industry. The Business of America... is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworkers conventional faith in private enterprise with the actual strategies and priorities...
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Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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How do you start and run a successful business, despite the odds? This unique guide to entrepreneurship teaches you practical math and management skills alongside the emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and coping skills that you need in order to overcome internal barriers to success no matter what type of business you are in. Joe Biel, author of A People's Guide to Publishing, draws on 26 years of business ownership and management experience...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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What kind of leadership is needed when innovation is your competitive advantage? From her research on companies that have achieved breakthrough innovations, Professor Hill found a common leadership approach. Leaders at Pixar, eBay Germany, Google, HCL Technologies, and IBM, among others, build communities of people who are both "willing and able to innovate." They develop willing teams by pulling people together with a shared purpose, values, and...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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Español
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"5 Factories" provides a penetrating look at the Bolivarian socio-economic project designed to challenge the dominant neo-liberal development model. 5 Factories provides a penetrating look at the Bolivarian socio-economic project designed to challenge the dominant neo-liberal development model. Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998, the Venezuelan government has implemented reforms to transform the nation into what Chávez and his supporters...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2007]
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English
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Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library Series Getting It Right: Business Requirement Analysis Tools and Techniques, presents principles and practices for effective requirements analysis and specification, and a broad overview of the requirements analysis and specification processes. This critical reference is designed to help the business analyst decide which requirement artifacts should be produced to adequately analyze requirements. Examine...
15) The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
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Right now, the number of people living on $2 or less a day is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world's greatest challenge; they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically and effectively, businesses can earn handsome profits while helping to solve one of the world's most intractable problems. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based...
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AMACOM
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[2013]
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English
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"Shifting priorities, budget cuts, unexpected interruptions... The obstacles that project managers face on a daily basis are sometimes relentless and always burdensome. And the average project is only growing more complicated! Now in its third edition, The Project Management Tool Kit is a must-have strategic partner for project managers of every industry, filled with step-by-step guidance that will enable managers to complete even the most complex...
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HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell's New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition. Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He...
18) Clockwork
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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English
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One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightened competition. Clockwork shows how Frederick Taylor and his followers attempted to meet these challenges through "scientific management," a radical program to organize every aspect of production under a regime of quantitative measures and systematic planning. Clockwork is the only film on Taylor's work...
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En esta nueva década, viviremos la Cuarta Revolución Industrial, un entorno sin precedentes, acelerado por la pandemia del COVID-19. Según el Foro Económico Mundial, esta transformación hará desaparecer, aproximadamente, el 50 % de los puestos de trabajo actuales; esto obliga a los profesionales a desarrollar nuevas habilidades y características si quieren sobrevivir en este entorno altamente cambiante. En este libro, lleno de historias, anécdotas...
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Times are fundamentally changed. Hierarchical management according the Taylorian model is outdated. Companies can no longer survive by going on with what they've always done. There is a great need to answer the question how it should go on with our companies and industries. This book offers such an answer. It goes deep into the Monozukuri philosophy and explains how people in production and management, can achieve mastery. It covers a wide range of...
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