No More Headaches, Hypertension, or Heartburn If your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It willshow every company owner and project manager--at businesses largeand small--how to run projects differently. You'll benefit ifyou've ever: - been over budget on a project - exceeded a timeline on a project - worked on a project that completely stalled as you neared thefinish line - lost money on a sure-thing project and had no idea why - noticed that scope and feature creep held you back - watched a project take three times as long as planned - felt too embarrassed to perform a review of your successes andfailures - wondered whether your project actually made any money By the time you finish the book, you'll be ready to implementProject Management for Profit in your own company--and be preparedto keep your projects on track and on budget.
Making persuasive presentations isn't just amatter of charisma and fancy charts: it requires concrete skillsthat are vital to keeping your audience engaged and involved. Thishandy guide contains key information on how to customize yourpresentations to keep people focused and produce the results youwant.
If you're ever favored enough to catch a few minutes of a corporate CEO's time, and feel bold enough to ask what their job entails, chances are you'll hear something lofty about developing strategy, empowering employees, seeing the big picture. But if you ask to see their calendar for the past month, you'll probably find they've spent very little, if any, time doing those things. The look-at-last-month's-calendar trick was devised by Donald Laurie, a Boston-based management consultant, to help top executives figure out how best to lead their companies. Laurie sees a leader as the person who climbs out on the balcony and sees the company from above, the one who sees how all the parts connect to make a smoothly running machine. At the same time, if the leader stays up on that balcony for too much of the day, he or she can't hear the grumbling below. And what's being grumbled about is often the information that could save the CEO's job. As an example of this, Laurie relates the story of Xerox Corp. when it
In this visionary book, C. K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamyexplore why, despite unbounded opportunities for innovation,companies still can't satisfy customers and sustain profitablegrowth. The explanation for this apparent paradox lies inrecognizing the structural changes brought about by the convergenceof industries and technologies; ubiquitous connectivity andglobalization; and, as a consequence, the evolving role of theconsumer from passive recipient to active co-creator of value.Managers need a new framework for value creation. Increasingly,individual customers interact with a network of firms and consumercommunities to co-create value. No longer can firms autonomouslycreate value. Neither is value embedded in products and servicesper se. Products are but an artifact around which compellingindividual experiences are created. As a result, the focus ofinnovation will shift from products and services to experienceenvironments that individuals can interact with to co-constructtheir own experiences. The
Creative folks often know all too well that the muse doesn’talways strike when you want it to, or when the deadline for yournext brilliant project is creeping up on you like an ill-fittingturtleneck. Originality doesn’t follow a time clock, even when youhave to. While conventional time management books offer tons ofinstruction for using time wisely, they are traditionally organizedin a linear fashion, which just isn’t helpful for the right-brainmind. In Time Management for the Creative Person , creativityguru Lee Silber offers real advice for using the strengths ofartistic folks—like originality and resourcefulness—to adoptinnovative time-saving solutions, such as: * Learning to say no when your plate is just too full * How to know when a good job, not a great one, is goodenough * Making “to do” lists that include fun stuff, too—that way youwon’t feel overwhelmed by work * Time-saving techniques around the house that give you more timeto get your work done and more time to spend with your
