This analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since In Search of Excellence。The authors，James C。Collins and Jerry I。 Porras，spent six years in research， and they freely admit that their own preconceptions about business success were devastated by their actual findings--along with the preconceptions of virtually everyone else。 Built to Last identifies 18 “visionary” companies and sets out to determine what's special about them。 To get on the list，a company had to be world famous，have a stellar brand image，and be at least 50 years old。 We're talking about companies that even a layperson knows to be，well，different：the Disneys，the Wal-Marts，the Mercks。 Whatever the key to the success of these companies，the key to the success of this book is that the authors don't waste time comparing them to business failures。Instead，they use a control group of “successful-but-secon

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees. The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands. The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits. That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

The Art of Great Training Delivery is designed to help trainers move their training and facilitation skills to the next level of performance.?Written by Jean Barbazette--an expert in the field of training and development--this vital resource is filled with down-to-earth advice and illustrative examples for selecting and using a variety of training?methods. Her advice helps trainers create the best learning experience that will improve learner retention.?The book covers a wealth of topics including how to use case studies, conduct inventories, exercises, games, and simulations, facilitate role plays, as well as conduct effective and safe demonstrations and administer tests. The Art of Great Training Delivery is a volume in The Skilled Trainer series.Praise for The Art of Great Training Delivery "What a gift to the training profession! Once again Jean has packaged valuable tips, tools, and techniques to make every trainer's life easier and more complete. From setting a learning climate to administering te

A fresh look at vital lessons from "The Father of ModernManagement"-exploring Peter Drucker's teachings on leadership As weapproach what would have been his 100th birthday, the late PeterDrucker's management principles continue to be studied and appliedby managers all over the world. Though many seek his lessons on thecentral element of management-leadership-he in fact wroterelatively little under this actual subject heading. Now, for thefirst time, William A. Cohen, a former student of Drucker's and aleadership expert and author in his own right, brings togetherDrucker's reflections on leadership, culled from his 40 books andhundreds of articles. Explaining why there is so little know aboutDrucker's ideas on leadership, this book is a must-read forstudents and fans alike looking to lead better in today'sworld.

Praise for "Banker to the World" ""Rhodes's recollections are lively and richly detailed, repletewith glimpses of top-ranking personalities from the world ofbanking and government interacting under pressure, and they providea rare window into how these important but normally secretiveoperations of high-level international finance actually work. . . .Whether America's bankers will run their firms more responsibly inthe future remains an open question. They would do well to havepeople like William Rhodes in their senior management--and, nexttime around, to listen to them."" --The New York Review of Books ""Mr. Rhodes was one of the few members of the financialestablishment to sense that the world was on the brink of acalamity in 2007 (most of the prophets of doom were either academictheoreticians or maverick financiers) . . . . In "Banker to theWorld" . . . Mr. Rhodes succeeds in hammering home three lessonsthat we need to take to heart if we are to have any chance ofnavigating t

By exploring measures that have transformed businesses, DavidParmenter has developed a methodology that is breathtaking in itssimplicity and yet profound in its impact. Now in an updated andexpanded Second Edition, Key Performance Indicators is a proactiveguide representing a significant shift in the way KPIs aredeveloped and used, with an abundance of implementation tools,including: The four foundation stones that lead the development and use ofKPIs A 12-step model for developing and using KPIs withguidelines A KPI resource kit including worksheets, workshop programs, andquestionnaires A new and pragmatic approach to finding critical successfactors Over 300 performance measures Implementation variations for small to medium enterprises andnot-for-profit organizations New implementation short cuts How to brainstorm performance measures Templates for reporting performance measures A resource kit for a consultant who is acting as a coach /facilit

This title presents a practical approach to fuel game changinggrowth through business model innovation. Transformational newgrowth remains the Holy Grail for many organizations. But a deepunderstanding of how great business models are made can provide thekey to unlocking that growth. This landmark book describes howcompanies can achieve transformational growth in new markets Or,simply put, how they can seize the white space. To step out intothe unknown and seize the white space requires a new language - anda framework with which to understand an existing enterprise and thewhite space it hopes to conquer. This book - from ClayChristensen's firm Innosight - is devoted to making game-changingbusiness model innovation a possibility. Leaving the rhetoric toothers, it provides the building blocks for creating business modelinnovation: first, by showing executives how to discover newbusiness models and then by showing them how to bring theseinnovations to market. With road-tested frameworks, analytics, anddia

This earnest guide to career transition periods-when a new job or promotion puts an employee in an unfamiliar role-asserts, reassuringly, that navigating the all-important first 90 days is a "teachable skill." Business professor Watkins, co-author of Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role, lays out a "standard framework" for leadership transitions, based on "five fundamental propositions," "ten key challenges," and a four-fold typology of situations that new managers find themselves in. Fortunately, Watkins balances the theorizing with practical steps managers can take to get on top of things and initiate changes, including elaborate self-assessment checklists, planning exercises and meticulous guidelines on how to have conversations with underlings and bosses. His advice, if not very original, is sound. He warns managers not to assume that their existing skills will suffice for new roles, advises them to pursue small-scale "early wins" to boost credibility, and admonishes workplace Mach