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Inspirational Library Tag: Business
Blue Blood & Mutiny
The inside story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street’s most prestigious financial institution. What began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d’etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrated a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley, the venerable and - until recently - most successful financial services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the entire behind-the-scenes story in Blue Blood and Mutiny, a real-life business thriller exposing the tale that shook high finance.
Building a Better Business
This volume aims to reveal how to build a better business by one of today’s most influential business thinkers.
Fish!
Fish! aims to help employees find their way to a fun and happy workplace. A good dose of worthwhile motivational management techniques. FISH’s philosophy will help people in any business regain their energy and passion for their lives and work.
Forbes - Greatest Business Stories of All Time
Theirs are just a few of the stories collected in this anthology of commercial ingenuity.
Futurewise - Six Faces of Global Change
It has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the future environment in which they will be operating. In this highly acclaimed book, Patrick Dixon brings us up-to-date on what the future holds and shows us how things are becoming Faster, more Urban, more Tribal, more Universal, more Radical, and more Ethical.
Games Foxes Play
Clem Sunter extends the model into the game of business and shows how one needs to understand the game and how it is changing before identifying the correct tactics to win.
Good to Great
In what Collins terms a prequel to the bestseller Built to Last he wrote with Jerry Porras, this worthwhile effort explores the way good organizations can be turned into ones that produce great, sustained results. To find the keys to greatness, Collins’s 21-person research team (at his management research firm) read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts and created 384 megabytes of computer data in a five-year project. That Collins is able to distil the findings into a cogent, well-argued and instructive guide is a testament to his writing skills. After establishing a definition of a good-to-great transition that involves a 10-year fallow period followed by 15 years of increased profits, Collins’s crew combed through every company that has made the Fortune 500 (approximately 1,400) and found 11 that met their criteria, including Walgreens, Kimberly Clark and Circuit City. At the heart of the findings about these companies’ stellar successes is what Collins calls the Hedgehog Concept, a product or service that leads a company to outshine all worldwide competitors, that drives a company’s economic engine and that a company is passionate about. While the companies that achieved greatness were all in different industries, each engaged in versions of Collins’s strategies. While some of the overall findings are counter-intuitive (e.g., the most effective leaders are humble and strong-willed rather than outgoing), many of Collins’s perspectives on running a business are amazingly simple and common sense. This is not to suggest, however, that executives at all levels wouldn’t benefit from reading this book, after all, only 11 companies managed to figure out how to change their B grade to an A on their own.
Playing for Keeps
Based on case studies from such top companies as GE, 3M, American Express and Microsoft, this trailblazing book offers a complete set of guidelines for measuring, adjusting and implementing core values to maintain competitive advantage. Enables readers to understand how to make the most of the relationship between personal and corporate goals.
The Buzz
Organisations that excel at service - BUZZ! Their people are switched on and they make it happen for customers. It is down to all the little things they get right. They focus on what counts and in the world of commerce as well as in public service there is only one person that counts, and that is the customer!
The Culture of Success
See how close client-contact, teamwork and focus on long-term profitability over short-term goals brought the firm to a financial pinnacle
The R Factor
This introduction to relational thought argues that personal and corporate relationships need to be restored socially, politically and economically. The authors claim that the spiral of loneliness, violence and environmental damage in our society can be brought under control. They also argue that real quality of life can be restored, and that a relationship-centred economy is viable.
The Silver Lining - An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
Experts agree that the turbulence triggered by the economic shock of 2008 constitutes the ‘new normal’. Unfortunately, too many managers have become paralyzed by it, capable only of slashing costs indiscriminately. Though examining spending during recessions makes sense, the smartest executives do much more. As Scott Anthony reveals in The Silver Lining , these leaders continue innovating by stopping ineffective initiatives, changing key business processes, and starting more productive behaviors. Result? Their companies emerge from downturns stronger than ever. Providing a wealth of ideas, tools, and examples from diverse industries, Anthony explains how to safeguard your company’s profitability during even the toughest recessions. In today’s brutal economic climate, executives must pare costs to the bone while planting and nurturing seeds for tomorrow’s growth. The Silver Lining explains how to master this seemingly impossible challenge.
Values at Work
How many companies create a fancy vision statement, hang it on the wall and never refer to it again? For all the hype, identifying company values is worthwhile only if management then refer to these values in all business -decisions and motivate employees to do the same. Values at Work seeks to help managers identify company values, coach staff to implement these values, and support staff in identifying their own personal values and comparing them to those of the company.
Who Moved My Share Price?
If you are interested in the business of business whether as studant, employee, manager, director, or shareholder, you will gain some startling insights from Simon’s story. Like all parables, it tells the “truth”. It descibes how an intrepid young student, bravely challenges a chairman about the economic performance of his global company long before any better qualified people do.
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