How to Plan and Execute Strategy walks professionals through 24 essential steps for creating and executing sound，profit-driven corporate strategy，understanding strategic options，implementing plans and measuring performance。 How to Plan and Execute Strategy provides you with 24 practical steps for devising， implementing，and managing market-defining， growth-driving strategies。 Encompassing every stage of the strategic process， this tactic-filled handbook tells you what you need to do to: Define your businesses * Understand your opportunities and threats * Set feasible goals and objectives * Create the strategies to achieve your objectives * Identify and set priorities * Write your business plan * Communicate the strategy and obtain commitment * Integrate across functions * Monitor results，evaluate，and react Successful corporate strategy must be strong enough to meet the needs of the marketplace，yet flexible enough to quickly adapt when that marketplace changes。How to

Smith won more games (875) than any other coach in college-basketball history. His teams at North Carolina were characterized by unselfishness, preparedness, and basketball intelligence. It's not surprising that Smith has a few cogent thoughts to offer on the matter of leadership. He begins by explaining what leadership means to him. Then former players comment on the concept as Smith applied it during their careers. Next, he tailors his lesson to a business application. Among the topics he explores are teamwork, winning, losing, planning for the future, building confidence, and setting goals. "Successful-coach-offers-business-advice" books are a publishing staple, but too often they consist of little more than commonsense platitudes mixed with some playing-field anecdotes. Smith breaks the pattern here, thanks in large part to his understanding that business isn't basketball, and direct correlations between sport and real life are often specious. It's apparent that Smith would have found success in virtually

Project Management reviews the steps in organizing and managing projects, from how to build a realistic schedule to how to measure both success and failure. Project Management discusses team building, timing, the planning process, estimating project costs, managing project interfaces, risk management, and more. 作者简介： Gary R.Heerkens,P.M.P,C.B.M.,P.E.,is president of Management Solutions Group,Inc.,a provider projict management educational solutions and organi-zational support.He is also the author of Project Management in McGraw-Hill's Briefcase Books series.

From setting goals and breaking them down into tasks to creating a manageable schedule and putting it into action, this user-friendly guide outlines proactive ways to focus on mission-critical tasks, eliminate or delegate non-priority projects, control interruptions, and avoid distractions. It is the essential guide to maximizing every manager's most valuable commodity. Key features Instructs readers how to: Set goals and focus on high-priority tasks Organise your space and save your time Use scheduling tools that really work for you Avoid distractions and control interruptions Delegate effectively Get more done in less time

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession?regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren?t managing their knowledge workers? careers. Instead, you must be your own chief executive officer. That means it?s up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. And it?s up to you to keep yourself engaged and productive during a career that may span some 50 years. In Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker explains how to do it. The keys: Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself?by identifying your most valuable strengths and most dangerous weaknesses. Articulate how you learn and work with others and what your most deeply held values are. Describe the type of work environment where you can make the greatest contribution. Only when you operate with a combination of your strengths and self-knowledge can you achieve true?and lasting?excellence.

Joyce believes that global competition, rapid advances in technology, and new workplace values are necessitating profound changes in the way organizations manage their workforces. He argues that successful managers recognize that people today are demanding job satisfaction, which is a vastly different situation from 20 years ago, when surveys found that 95 percent of workers didn't expect to be satisfied with their work. "We must be competitive, but we must do it in a way that recognizes the desire--perhaps the demand--for meaningful and valuable work, the recognition of family and personal satisfaction." Joyce calls for igniting change in four ways: empowering the workforce, improving policies, creating organizations that engage people, and sharpening strategy. MegaChange is for managers searching for innovative ways to save their organizations from stifling bureaucracies and engage their employees in a culture that is both productive and significant. --Dan Ring .

When was the last time you heard a politician use words that rang with truth and meaning? Do your eyes glaze over when you read a letter from your bank or insurance company addressing you as a valued customer? Does your mind shut down when your employer starts talking about making a commitment going forward or enhancing your key competencies? Are you enervated by in terms of, irritated by impactful, infuriated by downsizing, rightsizing, decruiting, and dejobbing? Does business process re-engineering and attriting fail to give you ramp-up—in terms of your personal lifestyle? Today’s corporations, news media, education departments—and, perhaps most troubling, politicians—speak to us and to each other in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless babble. Toni Morrison has called it the “disabled and disabling” language of the powerful, “evacuated language,” and “dead language.” Orwell called it “anesthetic” language. In Death Sentences, Don Watson takes up the fight against it: the pestilen

Business 2.0 magazine publishes an annual cover story called "The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business." Featuring 101 hilarious items about the year’s most unbelievably stupid business blunders, it’s hugely popular with its more than half a million print subscribers—and with the two million people who read it on the Web this year. In The Dumbest Moments in Business History, the editors of Business 2.0 have compiled the best of their first four annual issues plus great (or not so great, if you happen to be responsible) moments from the past. From New Coke to the Edsel, from Rosie magazine to Burger King’s "Herb the Nerd," the book’s highlights include: a Romanian car plant whose workers banded together to eliminate the company’s debt by donating sperm and giving the proceeds to their employer； the Heidelberg Electric Belt, a sort of low-voltage jockstrap sold in 1900 to cure impotence, kidney disorders, insomnia, and many other complaints； the time Beech-Nut sold "100% pure apple

Stephen R. Covey has helped millions of readers attain professional success and personal fulfillment. With penetrating insight Dr. Covey reveals a pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Now, as a succinct introduction to Dr. Covey's revolutionary thinking or as a reminder of key principles, Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People provides an inspirational recharge that will bring you closer to a holistic sense of personal effectiveness and purpose.

Here's a practical, step-by-step system that helps managers improve every area of their business through the concept of Circle-4 Quality. This revolutionary approach shows how to focus on the needs of employees, suppliers, shareholders, and end-users to achieve lasting quality in all company functions -- from product planning and design to manufacturing and customer service. Plus, you'll also find useful sample policies and plans, workable process models, checklists, charts, and numerous other tools to help you create a "Circle-4" Quality System in your own company.

From recruiting and motivating members to setting ground rules and mediating problems, Leading Teams arms managers with a step-by-step plan and practical tools for maximising productivity in any team setting. Instructs readers how to: Organise a team with complimentary skills； Foster trust, creativity, and risk-taking； Get teams back on track after a setback.

Jack Welch became one of history's most admired and successful CEOs by rewriting the rules of leadership and letting hands-on, frontline employees--instead of bureaucrats --tell him what needed to be done. The Welch Way distills Welch's management style into a fast-moving, hard-hitting plan for leadership success, one that will help anyone reach the top in virtually any professional setting.

For the past 15 years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fundamental understanding of competition and competitive strategy. Presented here for the first time as a collective whole are a dozen articles: two entirely new articles and ten of Porter's articles from the "Harvard Business Review". The collection includes a framing introduction from Porter. As a collection, these essays assume a new strength and significance, with each piece augmenting and supporting a complete picture of Porter's perspective on modern competition. To read through this collection is to experience Porter at work: we see first hand as his important theories take shape, deepen, and evolve over time. Organized around three primary categories: Competition and Strategy: Core Concepts, The Competitiveness of Location, and Competitive Solutions to Societal Problems, these articles develop the building blocks that define competitive strategy as we know it. With his unique ability to bridge economics with management, Porter addresses the

"Managing for the Short Term is about flexibility within a sustained strategy. Chuck Martin has developed a framework that turns this into a skill for every executive." “His blueprint for aligning urgent action with a constant focus on strategy will help spur organizations to faster and higher levels of achievement.” "A must read for any business leader who wants to maximize their effectiveness in today's business environment." "Martin's book is packed with helpful insights to do the right things to get you through today, to stay alive for a prosperous tomorrow." "A much needed strategic plan for our increasingly chaotic business landscape." "An instructive guide to creating an intense focus and alignment throughout your organization." "Managing for the Short Term is about flexibility within a sustained strategy. Chuck Martin has developed a framework that turns this into a skill for every executive." His blueprint for aligning urgent action with a constant focus on strategy

Six Sigma for Managers is a practical overview on how to implement Six Sigma practices in everyday business. Emphasizing straightforward explanations instead of complex charts and statistics, it shows managers how to map processes, measure smart, and follow other Six Sigma principles. 作者简介： GREG BRUE is president and CEO of Six Sigma Consultants,Inc.and has implemented Six Sigma methodologies for some of the world's most recognized companies.