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

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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.

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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

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An updated and revisedversionof the bestselling The LeadershipPipeline – the critical resource for how companies can growleadersfrom the inside. In business,leadership at every level is a requisite for companysurvival. Yet the leadership pipeline –the internal strategy togrowleaders – in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Drawing on theirexperiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors show howorganizations can develop leadership at every level by identifyingfuture leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planningtheir development, and measuring their results. New to this edition is 65 pages of new material toupdate themodel, share new stories and add new advice based on the ten moreyears of experience. The authors have also added a "FrequentlyAsked Questions" section to the end of each chapter.

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Whether you call it "harvesting intangible assets" or"intellectual property management," organizations must make themost of everything they have to offer if they want to remaincompetitive. Yet, the majority of companies are oblivious to thewealth of revenue-producing opportunities hiding just below thestrategic surface. In this thought-provoking book, author Andrew J.Sherman shares insights and expertise gleaned from his work withsome of the world's leading companies who have capitalized onintellectual assets such as patents, trademarks, customerinformation, software codes, databases, business models, home-grownprocesses, and employee expertise. Featuring instructive examplesfrom organizations including Proctor Gamble, IBM, and Google,the book reveals how companies large or small can implementIP-driven growth and licensing strategies, foster a culture ofinnovation, turn R D into revenue, and much more. Smartcompanies reap what they sow. This book gives readers the toolsthey need for a profitable harvest.

The acclaimed bestseller about visual problem solving-now bigger and better "There is no more powerful way to prove that we know something well than to draw a simple picture of it. And there is no more powerful way to see hidden solutions than to pick up a pen and draw out the pieces of our problem." So writes Dan Roam in The Back of the Napkin, the international bestseller that proves that a simple drawing on a humble napkin can be more powerful than the slickest PowerPoint presentation. Drawing on twenty years of experience and the latest discoveries in vision science, Roam teaches readers how to clarify any problem or sell any idea using a simple set of tools. He reveals that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, even those who swear they can't draw. And he shows how thinking with pictures can help you discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve your ability to share your insights. Take Herb Kelleher and Rollin King,

The core of the lean model remains the same in the new edition. All businesses must define the "value" that they produce as the product that best suits customer needs. The leaders must then identify and clarify the "value stream," the nexus of actions to bring the product through problems solving, information management, and physical transformation tasks. Next, "lean enterprise" lines up suppliers with this value stream. "Flow" traces the product across departments. "Pull" then activates the flow as the business re-orients towards the pull of the customer's needs. Finally, with the company reengineered towards its core value in a flow process, the business re-orients towards "perfection," rooting out all the remaining muda (Japanese for "waste") in the system.

This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of "take away" best practices in each area—an executive summary in reverse—that will serve as a quick reference for those who might want to peruse chapters, but still extract the best practices, as well as a summary for those who thoroughly read each chapter. "Jay Alden Conger and Ronald Riggio have brought together a galaxy of sophisticated yet practical experts on leadership, stressing both the complexity and indispensability of both transactional and transforming leadership, with the blessing of the pioneering student of leadership, Bernie Bass." —James MacGregor Burns, professor emeritus, Willams College, and Pulitzer Prize winner

To what does the title of this book refer? According to theco-authors, Bill Jensen and Josh Klein, "Today's top performers aretaking matters into their own hands. They are bypassing sacredstructures and breaking all sorts of rules just to get their workdone...Every day in every workplace, benevolent rule breakers likethese are ensuring that business succeeds despite itself. They arereinventing how to approach productivity and how to consistentlyachieve morebetterfaster results." Jensen and Klein urge theirreader to start hacking: "Start taking the usual ways of doingthings and work around them to produce improved results. Bend therules for the good of all. That's what benevolent hackers do." In his book Iconoclast, Gregory Berns explains, "Theoverarching theme of this book is that iconoclasts are able to dothings that others say can't be done, because iconoclasts perceivethings differently than other people." Berns goes on to explainthat the difference in perception "plays out in the initial sta

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The greatest motivational book of all time! Napoleon Hill's thirteen step programme will set you on the pathto wealth and success. Think and Grow Rich reveals the money-makingsecrets of hundreds of America's most affluent people. By thinkinglike them, you can become like them. This powerful 1937 classic,with analysis from self-development authority Tom Butler-Bowdon,will continue to be read through the decades of economic boom andbust, proving that the magic formula for making money neverchanges.