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In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is morecrucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in thisarea--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, orputting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures,companies realize just a fraction of the financial performancepromised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and DavidNorton in The Execution Premium. Building on their breakthroughworks on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe amultistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits fromyour carefully formulated business strategy. This book shows youhow to: Develop an effective strategy--with tools such as SWOT analysis,vision formulation, and strategic change agendas Plan execution of the strategy--through portfolios of strategicinitiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards Put your strategy into action--by integrating operational toolssuch as process dashboards, rolling forecasts, and

The motivations behind today's most successful leaders and entrepreneurs come to a simple yet decisive explanation: there are people who give, people who take, people who match, and people who fake. Our world is filled with these givers, takers, matchers and fakers. Amazingly, those who succeed (not only personally but for their clients and companies) don't take or match. They give. (Although they're not necessarily philanthropic.) GIVE AND TAKE presents the fascinating secrets to givers' success. The results are unequivocal: givers gain big. Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Jon Huntsman Sr. - all of them are givers. In a world in which so many takers such as Bernard Madoff and Raj Rajaratnam have ruined lives and reputations, this book will reassure readers that the real power lies in becoming a giver. Since the vast majority of people aren't born givers, Grant not only presents the case for why givers win, he also offers their hidden strategies for winning.

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles.We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articleson leadership and selected the most important ones to help youmaximize your own and your organization's performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to: - Motivate others to excel - Build your team's self-confidence in others - Provoke positive change - Set direction - Encourage smart risk-taking - Manage with tough empathy - Credit others for your success - Increase self-awareness - Draw strength from adversity

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The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazing book explains why. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the remarkable findings of their massive in-depth study of great managers across a wide variety of situations. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial companies. Whatever their situations, the managers who ultimately became the focus of G

The creators of the revolutionary performance management toolcalled the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makesstrategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, butby everyone. In this book, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share theresults of ten years of learning and research of more than 200companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard. Theseorganizations have used the scorecard to create an entirely newperformance management framework that puts strategy at the centerof key management processes and systems. Kaplan and Nortonarticulate the five key principles required for buildingstrategy-focused organizations; 1)translate the strategy intooperational terms 2) align the organization to the strategy, 3)make strategy everyone's everyday job, 4) make strategy a continualprocess, and 5) mobilize change through strong, effectiveleadership. The authors provide a detailed account of how a rangeof organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors havedeployed the

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