In clear, simple terms Leadership and the One Minute Manager teaches managers the art of Situational Leadership--a simple system that refutes the conventional management mandate of treating all employees equally, tlere, you'll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; why knowing when to delegate, support, or direet is critieal; how to identify the leadership style suited to a partieular person; and how consistent use of the One Minute techniques will produce better management and enhanced motivation on all levels. This remarkable, easy-to-follow book is a priceless guide to creative,personalized leadership that elicits the bestperformance from your staff and the best bottom line for any business.

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The international bestseller The Toyota Way explained the company's success by introducing a revolutionary 4P model for organizational excellence-Philosophy, People, Process, and Problem Solving. Now, in Toyota Culture, preeminent Toyota authorities Jeffrey Liker and Michael Hoseus reveal how Toyota selects, develops, and motivates its people to become committed to building high-quality products-and how you can do the same for your company. Toyota Culture examines the “human systems” that Toyota has put in place to instill its founding principles of trust, mutual prosperity, and excellence in its plants, dealerships, and offices around the world. Beginning with a look at the evolution of the Toyota culture and why its people are the heart and soul of the Toyota Way, the authors explain the company's four-stage process for building and keeping quality people: Attract, Develop, Engage, and Inspire.

American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilouspattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, andongoing bad behavior by executives. And it's getting worse. Sincethe turn of the twenty-first century, we've seen two massivevalue-destroying market meltdowns and a string of ethics breaches,including accounting scandals, options-backdating schemes, and thesubprime mortgage debacle. Just what is going on here? Is it theinevitable decline of the American economy? Is it the new normal ina technology-enabled global marketplace? Or is it possible that thevery theories we've embraced to underpin our capital markets areactually producing these crises? In "Fixing the Game", Roger Martinreveals the culprit behind the sorry state of American capitalism:our deep and abiding commitment to the idea that the purpose of thefirm is to maximize shareholder value. This theory has led to amassive growth in stock-based compensation for executives and,through this, to a naive and wrongheaded linkin

The first installment in a new series offering straightforward,practical wisdom from a top business guru John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Management is thefirst in a new series of titles from the noted business expert.Focused on concise, practical, and straightforward business wisdom,the series offers the kind of real-world insight that businessleaders thrive on. Short, punchy, and packed with real solutions, this bookprovides 100 proven and effective ideas for business managers,whether they manage a few people or a few hundred, and whether theywork for a small firm or a Fortune 100 giant. Proven, practical business wisdom for managers The first in a new series from renowned business authority JohnAdair Quick bites of business wisdom for everyday managementsuccess For real management wisdom from a proven expert, John Adair's100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Management offers everything youneed to be your brilliant best.

Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new, radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.

A top business consultant and speaker lights the path to a positive, productive work environment What do the best leaders do to achieve greatness in the modern workplace that is muddled by fear, pressure for productivity, overwork? Inspire! offers business leaders a clear vision of what a positive, productive, inspiring organization looks like in these challenging and chaotic times, and how to get there. The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in a transformational commitment to inspiring people rather than motivating them. Lance Secretan's Higher Ground Leadership concepts have been widely used to increase profits and quality, slash staff turnover, and achieve record organizational and personal performance. Inspire! describes Lance's breakthrough thinking, often in the words of the pace-setting leaders who are implementing them and building legacies. Countless examples, stories, and case studies demonstrate the magic of these brilliant ideas. Six essential values form the foundation of posi

Discover how your net worth can be worth more "The Ten Roadsto Riches" takes an engaging and informative look at some ofAmerica's most famous (and infamous) modern-day millionaires (andbillionaires) and reveals how they found their fortunes.Surprisingly, the super-wealthy usually get there by taking justone of ten possible roads. And now, so can you Plenty of books tellyou how to be frugal and save, but "The Ten Roads to Riches" tellsyou how you can, realistically, get super-rich. Throughout thesepages, renowned investment expert and self-made billionaire KenFisher highlights amusing anecdotes of individuals who havetraveled (or tumbled) down each road, and tells you how to increaseyour chances of success. Whether it's starting a business, owningreal estate, investing wisely, or even marrying very, very well,Fisher will show how some got it right and others got it horriblywrong. Find out the right questions to ask when starting your ownbusiness-the richest road of all Learn what Mark Cuban, RupertMurdo

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

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

A wise manager knows that success only comes with operational excellence that is properly aligned with strategy. The challenge is knowing what actions to take and when to take them-navigating without knowing the impact of your actions on the bottom line is a risk you can't afford to take. Profit Mapping delivers a forward-looking management decision tool that allows you to proactively navigate business strategy and execution. The authors' exclusive ProFITMAP method is a navigation system for operations that has been used successfully with leading businesses such as Ford Motor Company and General Motors. It enables you to test the impact of any number of factors on operational execution-from product demand and mix changes to process and technology changes to resource limitations-prior to taking any action. ProFIT-MAP helps you make informed process and product decisions and reach your operational and product objectives by answering the following questions: Can it be done? Is it possible? If not, then wha

Discover how to access your creative power to boost yoursuccess in business Success in business demands constantcreativity. Generating fresh solutions to problems and the abilityto invent new products or services for a changing market are partof the intellectual capital that gives a company its competitiveedge. "Business Innovation For Dummies" gives you practical,easy-to-follow information for generating new ideas, usingcreativity to boost sales, solving problems creatively, masteringthe art of invention, honing creative thinking skills, andidentifying new opportunities. Advice on how to apply creativity tothe workplace Ideas for spicing up presentations Shows you howinnovation leads to more productive business "Business InnovationFor Dummies" is a must-have guide for anyone in business who islooking to harness their creativity to boost productivity andrevenue 9780470438541 Discover the ins and outs of constructing agreat business plan When you're establishing, expanding, orre-energizing a business, t

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of socialtechnologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customersdiscuss products and companies, write their own news, and findtheir own deals but how do you integrate these activities into yourbroader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable groundswell thataffects every industry -- yet it's still utterly foreign to mostcompanies running things now. When consumers you've never met are rating your company'sproducts in public forums with which you have no experience orinfluence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Josh Bernoffand Charlene Li explain how to turn this threat into anopportunity. In this updated and expanded edition of Groundswell, featuring anall new introduction and chapters on Twitter and social mediaintegration, you'll learn to: · Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge · Determine how different groups of consumers are participatingin social technology arenas · Apply a four-step

IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from adorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one ofthe fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of thesocial life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions ofadults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it createssurprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protestsfrom Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the fullcooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching thisfascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives.Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it hasflourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successesand missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessmentanywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure inthe company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story thatcan be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company thathas transformed the

You have only an instant to connect with consumers. In a few heartbeats, your brand image must gain traction and begin the process of enticing and persuading your audience. Only the best images survive this process, so every advantage counts. Building Brands and Believers is designed to help you succeed in this hyper-demanding environment. It puts forward a simple but powerful idea: namely, that by understanding the subconscious workings of the mind, you can better motivate consumers. Kent Wertime, a veteran advertising and communications expert, explores the DNA of contemporary commercial images. He explains in clear, simple terms the source code of images and provides steps you can take to improve your chances for success. Read Building Brands and Believers to understand the dynamics of archetypes that: Underlie all commercial images Help in successful brand building in advertising, marketing and entertainment Work across borders and cultures to effectively enhance consumer beliefs Enab

Finally, top executives across the global financial services industry are catching on-and catching up-to what the world's most successful corporations have known for more than a decade: The performance improvement principles of Six Sigma, Lean, and Process Management can be applied to all aspects of any company's operations-with remarkable results. If you want to take advantage of these proven, performance-enhancing methods, tools, and techniques, this reference helps you to use Six Sigma and other tools in a wide range of financial service applications: commercial or savings banks, diversified financials, securities, insurance firms, and more. Six Sigma for Financial Services delivers a complete and groundbreaking model specifically for financial services created by two experts of Six Sigma deployment and Process Management. Clear, concise, and comprehensive, this hands-on guide features actual experiences from frontline managers and executives in financial services firms all around the world. Yo

With tips on eye contact, asserting oneself in uncomfortable situations, speaking directly, and giving constructive criticism, this is the essential guide to using the spoken word more effectively. Fast and actionable tools and strategies for improving critical management skills—culled from Harvard Business School Publishing’s respected newsletters Harvard Management Update and Harvard Management Communication Letter

The essential guide to seamless product management for today’sfluid, unpredictable business world Long considered the most useful and insightful guide of its kind,The Product Manager’s Handbook has been fully revised and updatedto give you the edge in today’s challenging business landscape. Itfeatures expanded coverage of product development processes,intelligence-gathering techniques (including social media), and agreater emphasis on international issues. This indispensable resource proves that the techniques and toolsproduct managers use are similar—regardless of what industry theywork in and what kind of products they manage. Simply put, thisbook has everything you need for superior job performance—whetheryou manage consumer or business-to-business products created by anorganization that is hierarchical or horizontal. The Product Manager’s Handbook shows you how to integrate yourorganization’s disparate segments into a cooperative,results-focused unit that produces sa

The path to your professional success starts with a criticallook in the mirror. If you read nothing else on managing yourself,read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of HarvardBusiness Review articles to select the most important ones to helpyou maximize yourself. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself willinspire you to: - Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year worklife - Tap into your deepest values - Solicit candid feedback - Replenish physical and mental energy - Balance work, home, community, and self - Spread positive energy throughout yourorganization - Rebound from tough times - Decrease distractibility and frenzy - Delegate and develop employees' initiative

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An updated edition of the ultimate guide to understandingbiology Ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your bodyneeds to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans andchimps descended from a common ancestor, but does it tell us howand why? We humans are insatiably curious creatures who can't helpwondering how things work— starting with our own bodies. Wouldn'tit be great to have a single source of quick answers to all ourquestions about how living things work? Now there is. From molecules to animals, cells to ecosystems, Biology ForDummies, 2nd Edition answers all your questions about how livingthings work. Written in plain English and packed with dozens of illustrations,quick-reference Cheat Sheets, and helpful tables and diagrams, it cuts right tothe chase with fast-paced, easy-to-absorb explanations of the lifeprocesses common to all organisms. More than 20% new and updated content, including a substantialoverhaul to the organization of topic

Your plain-English guide to navigating a financial accountingcourse Despite the economic landscape and job market, demand foraccountants remains strong, and accountants will continue to seehigh demand for their services as the economy rebounds andbusinesses grow. Additionally, one of the effects of the economicdownturn is a greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, andcontrols in financial reporting. With easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples,Financial Accounting For Dummies provides students who are studyingbusiness, finance, and accounting with the basic concepts,terminology, and methods to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actualcorporate financial statements. Covers traditional introductory financial accounting coursematerial Explores concepts accountants and other business professionalsuse to prepare reports Details mergers and acquisitions purchase and pooling, free cashflow, and financial statement analysis Whether you're a student on y