McKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business readers just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey. Now, hot on the heels of his acclaimed international bestseller The McKinsey Way, Ethan Rasiel brings readers a powerful new guide to putting McKinsey concepts and skills into action The McKinsey Mind. While the first book used case studies and anecdotes from former and current McKinseyites to describe how "the firm" solves the thorniest business problems of their A-list clients, The McKinsey Mind goes a giant step further. It explains, step-by-step, how to use McKinsey tools, techniques and strategies to solve an array of core business problems and to make any business venture more successful. Designed to work as a stand-alone guide or together with The McKinsey Way, The McKinsey Mind follows the same critically acclaimed style and format as its predecessor. In this book authors Rasiel and Friga expand upon the lessons found in The McKinse

So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had.

"Lencioni's theory around alignment is simple and powerful, and could apply to any type of organization, large or small." —Gary C. Kelly, vice chairman and chief executive officer, Southwest Airlines Co. "An incisive and insightful look at how companies can recognize and remedy infighting. The tone of Patrick's writing is as warm and readable as the advice itself is sound." —Michael A. George, chief marketing officer, Dell Inc. "Lencioni is a master at creating real and tangible company alignment. We're using these principles to rally our people around building a global brand. Huge applause from our entire organization." —Brian Scudamore, founder & CEO, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Other Best-Selling Leadership Books by Patrick Lencioni The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive The Five Temptations of a CEO Death by Meeting

Increase efficiency while saving money with 'on-demand'computing. The biggest game-changing force in business since thecreation of the Internet, cloud computing simplifies and lowers thecost of operations while providing flexibility and power you neverdreamed possible. Make your strategic move now, with "ManagementStrategies for the Cloud Revolution"! "Management Strategies forthe Cloud Revolution is an important work that captures theconcepts and technological advances fueling the rapid adoption ofcloud computing today. It illuminates how specific coretechnologies have led to the emergence of those patterns as thefoundation for the next generation of IT-managed infrastructure."(Rich Wolski, Chief Technology Officer and cofounder of EucalyptusSystems, Inc., and Professor of Computer Science at the Universityof California, Santa Barbara). "Explains in marvelously plainEnglish how clouds will change our world...If the potential ofcloud computing doesn't excite you now, it will after you read thisbook. Buy a co

Harvard Business Essentials The Reliable Source for Busy Managers The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world class business school. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking for a personal resource, these solution-oriented books offer reliable answers at your fingertips. Effective marketing can mean the difference between runaway successes and costly flops. Covering everything from customer programs to ad campaigns to sales promotions, this is every marketer’s hands-on guide to turning opportuniti

This book details the leadership principles used by MotherTeresa in building one of the world’s largest and most successfulorganizations, with this as its central lesson: leaders mustarticulate a simple vision, and execute it with absolutepracticality. Bose—who spent eight months working with MotherTeresa in 1992-3—and Faust have distilled Mother Teresa’sleadership style into nine essential principles. Each principleshows readers how to apply Mother Teresa’s wisdom in their livesand businesses. Much has been written about Mother Teresa. She is an actualsaint, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, as well as thewinner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, This book is the first toview her in another light—as a pragmatic, realistic leader who over47 years raised billions of dollars and helped millions of people.This often meant making tough decisions—such as accepting adonation from Saddam Hussein. This book has the principles thatguided those decisions. These are universal principles that

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources； Building quality into workplace systems； Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology； Producing in small quantities； Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector.

“With good judgment, little else matters. Without it, nothingelse matters.” Whether we’re talking about United States presidents, CEOs, MajorLeague coaches, or wartime generals, leaders are remembered fortheir best and worst judgment calls. In the face of ambiguity,uncertainty, and conflicting demands, the quality of a leader’sjudgment determines the fate of the entire organization. That’s whyjudgment is the essence of leadership. Yet despite its importance, judgment has always been a fairlymurky concept. The leadership literature has been conspicuouslyquiet on what, exactly, defines it. Does judgment differ fromcommon sense or gut instinct? Is it a product of luck? Of smarts?Or is there a process for making consistently good calls? Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis have each spent decades studying andteaching leadership and advising top CEOs such as Jack Welch andHoward Schultz. Now, in their first collaboration, they offer apowerful framework for making tough calls when the sta

Leaders Talk Leadership is an impressive collection of interviews with some of the world's most respected corporate leaders and management scholars. Edited by Ashby and Miles of the preeminent executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles, this compilation of thought leadership spanning industries and geographies addresses the key issues facing executives today such as governance, leadership and strategy, how to lead in volatile times or through a corporate transformation, how to best leverage human capital and how to achieve competitive advantage in today's environment. Some of the CEO's featured in the book include Ken Chenault, of American Express, Steve Reinemund of PepsiCo, Heinrich von Pierer of Siemens, Ken Lewis of Bank of America, Edward Tian of China Netcom, Fred Smith of FedEx, Hank McKinnell of Pfizer, A.G. Lafley of Proctor and Gamble, Klaus Zumwinkel of Deutsche Post World Net, William Haseltine of Human Genome Sciences, Linda Sanford of IBM, Larry Weinbach of Unisys and Michael Dell of Dell Comp

A no-nonsense guide to closing the deal—that makes senseto everyone. Jim Hennig’s winning negotiating philosophy is basedon finding and meeting the real needs of the other party throughthe use of questions, effective listening, honesty, integrity,sincere caring, and building partnerships. His approach ispredicated on the idea that when people like you, they want to workwith you, are likely to concede more often, become more sensitiveto your needs, and are more inclined to meet them. Through dozens of proven strategies, tips, power words, phrases,and real-life dialogues, How to Say It : Negotiating toWin will help readers bring every negotiation to a happy closeand meet their bottom line—while cultivating repeat clients who’llenjoy doing business with them.

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Trump University books are practical, straightforward primers on the basics of doing business the Trump way-successfully. Each book is written by a leading expert in the field and includes an inspiring Foreword by Trump himself. Key ideas throughout are illustrated by real-life examples from Trump and other senior executives in the Trump organization. Perfect for anyone who wants to get ahead in business without the MBA, these streetwise books provide real-world business advice based on the one thing readers can't get in any business school-experience. In Trump University Real Estate 101, you'll learn how to: * Develop the entrepreneurial skills to succeed in real estate investing * Make money in any market at any time * Convert properties for new uses and make more money * Create instant equity in any property * Determine how financing will affect the cash flow and value of your property * Use options and assignments to buy and sell properties you don't own * A

From the man the Wall Street Journal hailed as "theguru of Revenue Management" comes revolutionary ways to recoverfrom the after effects of downsizing and refocus your business ongrowth. Whatever happened to growth? In Revenue Management, RobertG. Cross answers this question with his ground-breaking approach torevitalizing businesses: focusing on the revenue side of the ledgerinstead of the cost side. The antithesis of slash-and-burn methodsthat left companies with empty profits and dissatisfiedstockholders, Revenue Management overturns conventionalthinking on marketing strategies and offers the key to initiatingand sustaining growth. Using case studies from a variety of industries, smallbusinesses, and nonprofit organizations, Cross describes no-tech,low-tech, and high-tech methods that managers can use to increaserevenue without increasing products or promotions; predict consumerbehavior; tap into new markets; and deliver products and servicesto customers effectively and efficiently

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At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Mark Zuckerberg, turned instead to his natural talents, hacking into the university's computer system to create a rateable database of every female student on campus. Narrowly escaping expulsion after 80% of Harvarda's population voted in just two hours, crashing the entire computer system, Mark and Eduardo together refocused the site into something less controversial - The Facebook - which spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country. Within months hundreds of thousands of college kids had signed up. Suddenly Eduardo and Mark were getting nods not just from the female population, but from venture capitalists too. It was then, amidst the dizzying levels of cash and the promise of unbelievable power, that the first cracks

One of the most popular and respected style guides ever written,this handbook by a seasoned writer with more than forty years ofexperience offers ten principles and seven axioms that professionalwriters use to express their thoughts clearly and effectively. Thislatest edition is expanded to include an extensive glossary ofAmerican idiomatic expressions, developed to assist users fromother backgrounds and cultures; new chapters with tips onlittle-known facts of usage, such as compound words, hyphenation,numeration, and capitalization; and explanations of technicalproblems encountered in writing and editing with tips and exercisesto help solve them. For anyone faced with the challenges of writtenEnglish, Writing with Precision can help readers write moreclearly, more effectively, and more precisely than they everhave. Previous editions of Writing with Precision have beenselected by the Writer's Digest , McMillan , Fortune , and Reader's Digest book clubs.

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of ''outliers'' the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. De*ion in Spanish: Que diferencia a quienes hacen algo especial en la vida de quienes no lo hacen? Fueras de serie explora las curiosas historias de los grandes jugadores de futbol; bucea en la peculiar infancia de Bill Gates; busca que convirtio a los Beatles en el mejor grupo de rock; y se pregunta que distingue a los pilotos que estrellan aviones de los que no. A traves de su viaje por el mundo de los ''fueras de serie'', los mejores, los mas brillantes y famosos, nos convence de que nuestro modo de pensar en el exito es erroneo. Pr

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Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to bemanaged like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker,Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time andmoney on low performers, while high performers aren't getting thenecessary resources, development opportunities, or rewards. In "TheDifferentiated Workforce", the authors expand on their previousbooks, "The HR Scorecard" and "The Workforce Scorecard", andrecommend that you manage your workforce like a portfolio - withdisproportionate investments in the jobs that create the mostwealth. Based on two decades of academic research and experienceworking with hundreds of executives, "The Differentiated Workforce"gives you the tools to translate your talent into strategicimpact.

Mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated businessleaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story thatreveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur. In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager), Don Hutson,CEO of U.S. Learning, and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning,tell the inspiring story of one man’s challenges in creating hisown business. Through a powerful and engaging narrative, weconfront many of the typical problems all entrepreneurs face instarting up their business, from finding new sources of revenue tosecuring the commitment of their people and the loyalty of theircustomers. More important, we learn the secrets to becoming asuccessful entrepreneur, including how to build a firm foundation,how to ensure a steady cash flow, and how to create legendaryservice. In addition, the book offers invaluable advice, deliveredthrough One Minute Insights, from such entrepreneurs and t

The No Asshole Rule was awarded a Quill Award as the Best Business Book of 2007. When Robert Sutton's "No Asshole Rule" appeared in the Harvard Business Review, readers of this staid publication were amazed at the outpouring of support for this landmark essay. The idea was based on the notion, as adapted in hugely successful companies like Google and SAS, that employees with malicious intents or negative attitudes destroyed any sort of productive and pleasant working environment, and would hinder the entire operation's success. Now using case studies from these and many more corporations that have had unquestioned success using variations of "The No Asshole Rule," Sutton's book aims to show managers that by hiring mean-spirited employees - regardless of talent - saps energy from everyone who must deal with said new hires. FEATURING A NEW CHAPTER ON THE RULE AND ITS SURPRISING IMPACT! In this new version of The No Asshole Rule, Bob Sutton provides an uproarious account of the world-wide reaction to his best-se

A successful business culture is not created by the CEO or HR department but by one manager at a time. A nationwide statistical study by the Jackson Organization, unveiled here for the first time, reveals that managers rated as very effective" at recognition by their employees were also recognized as communicators, team-builders, and goal setters. Bottom line: the most successful business leaders use carrots, not sticks. The Carrot Principle illustrates how ordinary organizations can make themselves extraordinary. Based on case studies from some of the worlds most successful companies, such as DHL, Avis, and Pepsi, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton demonstrate how praise and recognition lead to improved employee commitment and bottom line results. Filled with practical how-tos and real-life examples of the carrot principle in action, this modern day classic shows managers how they can make themselves not just better liked, but more effective. 作者简介： New York Times bestselling author ADRIAN GOS