Whatmakesaneffectiveexecutive? Themeasureoftheexecutive,PeterF.Druckerremindsus,istheabilityto"gettherightthingsdone."Thisusuallyinvolvesdoingwhatotherpeoplehaveoverlookedaswellasavoidingwhatisunproductive.Intelligence,imagination,andknowledgemayallbewastedinanexecutivejobwithouttheacquiredhabitsofmindthatmoldthemintoresults. Druckeridentifiesfivepracticesessentialtobusinesseffectivenessthatcan,andmust,belearned: Managingtime Choosingwhattocontributetotheorganization Knowingwhereandhowtomobilizestrengthforbesteffect Settingtherightpriorities Knittingallofthemtogetherwitheffectivedecision-making Rangingwidelythroughtheannalsofbusinessandgovernment,PeterF.Druckerdemonstratesthedistinctiveskilloftheexecutiveandoffersfreshinsightsintooldandseeminglyobviousbusinesssituations. 《卓有成效的管理者》论述了现代企业组织的管理者应具备的素质和才能。管理者要做到卓有成效，光靠天资聪明、工作努力是不够的，还要有创造力、创新精神和组织能

“Applicants looking for the competitive edge in gettingaccepted at the business school of their choice may want to perusethis book.” –Security Traders Handbook Every year, thousands apply for a finite number of places inbusiness schools. With similar grades, backgrounds, and goals,sometimes the only thing that can make an applicant stand out isthe application essay. It’s the best chance you have to shine andtip the balance in your favor. Essays That Worked for Business Schools shows that the bestessays are brief, sincere, and personal. Some are off the wall,some are bold, all are unique to their creator. One applicantwrites about starting his own airline. Another tells about thecorruption in his job as a defense contractor. And a third reflectson his license plate. From the thousands submitted each year, theforty essays in this book were considered some of the best byadmissions officers at the nation’s top business schools. As thiscollection demonstrates, with creativity and effor

"It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we workthat makes it magic." The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, ourorganizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—thekind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achievesextraordinary business results. No one knows more about this kind of leadership than LeeCockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World Resortoperations for over a decade. And in Creating Magic, he shares theleadership principles that not only guided his own journey from apoor farm boy in Oklahoma to the head of operations for amultibillion dollar enterprise, but that also soon came to form thecultural bedrock of the world’s number one vacation destination.But as Lee demonstrates, great leadership isn’t about masteringimpossibly complex management theories. We can all becomeoutstanding leaders by following the ten practical, common sensestrategies outlined in this remarkable book. As straightforward asthey are profound, th

To succeed in today’s ever-accelerating world, speed is the nameof the game. Forget “slow and steady wins the race.” The key togetting ahead is not fighting or hiding from speed, but embracingspeed and using its power to your advantage. As Vince Poscentedemonstrates in this rewarding and, yes, fast-paced book, speed hasa unique ability to enrich your life. He empowers you to takecontrol of your time, your tasks, your priorities, and yourtalents, and start making life everything you want it to be. Twentynew tips–exclusive to this paperback edition–show you how to:?recognize the difference between repetitive chores and passionatepursuits, and assign the appropriate amount of time and energy toeach? mentally shatter the outdated idea that work, home, andleisure should be completely separate, and create a new,purpose-driven model of organizing your time? discover how tocontrol interruptions, including how and when to accept them–bylearning when to multitask and when to focusSpeed provides amazingbene

At age seven, Cameron Johnson sold tomatoes door-to-door fromhis family’s farm. Pete Amico quit his job on his first day becausehe didn’t feel like taking orders from his boss.Greg Herro built asuccessful business selling diamonds made from the carbon extractedfrom ashes. If any of these people remind you of yourself, you justmight have the kind of personality to take the small business worldby storm. In 8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs, BrentBowers reveals the eight patterns that highly successfulentrepreneurs share—and what we can learn from them. In coveringsmall business for decades at the Wall Street Journal and the NewYork Times, Bowers has chronicled the rise and fall of hundreds ofstart-ups. In this book, he draws on extensive interviews andresearch, as well as on the experiences and expertise of businessconsultants, venture capitalists, academia, and the entrepreneursthemselves, to describe the key characteristics shared by dozens ofsuccessful small-business owners and their

Subroto Bagchi is Vice Chairman and Co-founder of MindTree Ltd.Till 2008, he was its Chief Operating Officer, a role he steppeddown from to become it Gardener. He is also Chairman of MindTree'sInnovation Council . His earlier books, The High-PerformanceEntrepreneur and Go Kiss the World were best-sellers and receivedcritical acclaim. Visit www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi.

在线阅读本书 Managers at all levels strive to develop effective teams while avoiding the pitfalls so common in team management. This invaluable collection of articles explores teamwork from a variety of angles, including emotional intelligence, creativity,

Welcome to the world of high-powered investment banking. Please check your soul at the door. Meet John and Peter, two young business school graduates, grabbing their chance to become lords of the investment universe, as they run willingly into the open arms of one of Wall Street's giants, DLJ. Frustrated foot soldiers in a designer white-collar army, the two find themselves embedded in the strata of overworked and overlooked lemmings furiously trying to spin straw into gold. It's a high-stakes pressure cooker fueled by 20-hour days, inflated salaries, senseless prospects, outlandish characters, and strip club lap dances. Suddenly, escaping with their sanity seems like the wisest investment of all -- if it's still on the market.

Themosttrustedresourceonbecomingaleaderisnowupdatedandrevisedforanewgeneration. Thisleadershipclassiccontinuestobeabestsellerafterthreeeditionsandtwentyyearsinprint.Itisthegoldstandardforresearch-basedleadership,andthepremierresourceonbecomingaleader.Thisnewedition,withstreamlinedtext,moreinternationalandbusinessexamples,andagraphicredesign,ismorereadableandaccessiblethaneverbefore. TheLeadershipChallenge,FourthEdition,hasbeenextensivelyupdatedwiththelatestresearchandcasestudies,andoffersinspiringnewstoriesofrealpeopleachievingextraordinaryresults.Theauthors'centralthemeremainsthesameandismorerelevanttodaythanever:"LeadershipisEveryone'sBusiness."Their"fivepractices"and"tencommitments"havebeenprovenbyhundredsofthousandsofdedicated,successfulleaders.Thisedition,withalmostone-thirdnewmaterial,emphasizestheglobalcommunityandrefocusesonbusinessleaders. 《领导力（第4版）》讨论的是领导者如何激励他人自愿地在组织中做出卓越的成就；讨论的是领导者如何通过实际行动

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In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed authorHoward Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" and anaftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminalepisode in America’s history that would spark national debate anddraw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusadinglawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W.Griffith. "Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . AmericanLightning throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, forus today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here." –LosAngeles Times "A fast-moving, skillfully constructed account . . . Blum’s styleis cinematic." –Chicago Sun-Times "Compelling . . . a tense detective story." –Seattle Times "A thumping-good drumroll of narrative history . . . thecross-country manhunt reads like a great mystery novel . . . Blumblows the dust off a page of America’s own incendiary past andbrings it to pulsating life." –Dallas Morning News

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From the profit-minded managers who make up the brain trust atThe Atlanta Consulting Group comes a simple new method hailed as arevolutionary management practice: learning to care.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis ofbusiness and American-style capitalism. Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set ofcompanies using their power not only for profits and sustainablegrowth but also social good. If you think business corporations are doomed to be lumbering,bloated, and corrupt, think again. Based on an extraordinary three-year investigation, interviewingmore than 350 key people at major companies around the world,Rosabeth Moss Kanter provides encouraging and astounding evidencethat this assumption is completely outdated. The businesses thatare agile, keeping ahead of the curve in terms of market changesand customer needs, are the businesses that are also progressive,socially responsible human communities. Take IBM. When the tsunami and earthquake struck Asia, IBM didn’tjust cut a check for relief funds and call it a day. The companyused its technological expertise and skilled people to create whatgovernment and relief agencies could not: infor

The author of the national bestseller Making aDifference presents the indispensable characteristics everytwenty-first century leader needs. In A New Breed of Leader , Dr. Sheila MurrayBethel-global leadership expert, bestselling author, andaward-winning speaker-will show readers how to develop theessential qualities needed to become an effective leader: ? Competence-building purpose ? Accountability-fostering trust ? Openness-generating integrity ? Humility-inspiring authenticity ? Language-connecting relationships ? Values-forging community ? Perspective-establishing balance ? Power-mastering influence Filled with stories about and interviews with successful leaderssuch as golf legend Arnold Palmer; Andrea Young, CEO AvonCorporation; Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks; and David Neeleman, CEOJetBlue; this book offers valuable insights and teaches readers howto take advantage of the immediately usable action steps.

Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman started themultimillion-dollar franchise College Hunks Hauling Junk when theywere just twenty two, and they’ve been having the time of theirlives ever since. What’s their secret? That's just it--there isn't one. There's no fancy software orcomplicated business schemes. No outside investors or quirky marketniche. They just followed 10 common-sense commandments to buildinga straightforward, fun, and successful business that does a simplejob well. Anyone can understand it, and anyone can doit.

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The book that catches the crest of Web 2.0 and shows how anybusiness can harness its power by increasing whuffie, the store ofsocial capital that is the currency of the digital world. Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebookand Twitter, and has heard about someone who has used them to growa huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grassroots,and interactive, but what does this mean? And more to the point,how do you do it? As one who has actually launched a company using the power ofonline communities, and who now advises large and small companies,Tara Hunt (named by the San Francisco Chronicle, along withluminaries Jimmy Wales and Tim O’Reilly, as a digital Utopian) isthe perfect person to do this book. While The Whuffie Factor will traverse the landscape of Web 2.0and show how to become a player, it is not just another book aboutonline marketing. People see the huge business potential of theonline world and the first impulse is: Let’s throw a bunc

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws morevisitors than any other museum in the world—90,000 a day in thesummertime—and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in thisunique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rarearchival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history.The posters—most of them never before published—featurebarnstormers, gliders, and flying boats, the earliest passengerflights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and muchmore. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular artand the commerce of their eras, with both explored in theentertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air andSpace Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offeringrides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-centuryairliners, the posters provide a fascinating illustrated history offlight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only byvisionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets andfrequent flye

Your Map for a Brave New Real-Estate World The days of real-estate mania—when you really couldn’t go wrongwith buying a home, then selling it in a few years for a lot morethan you paid for it—are over. Inflated prices and the “subprime”mortgage crisis have finally burst the bubble. Now, more than ever,it’s important for current and prospective home buyers tounderstand just what they’re getting into when they take thatplunge—and to think smarter when it comes to making the most oftheir biggest asset. The Wall Street Journal. Complete Home Owner’s Guidebook showsreaders how to become savvy home buyers—and eventually owners—notonly in this new, uncertain era but in any market: ? Understand the benefits and pitfalls of owning versusrenting ? Make sense of the housing market—ask the important questions,factor in the unforeseen costs, and explode the big myths of homeownership ? Take advantage of current opportunities if you’re a first-timehome buyer

So you're standing naked in front of a classroom. Or you'rebeing chased by a one-legged man. Or maybe you're standing naked infront of a classroom and kissing a one-legged man. Dreams can be mysterious, exhilarating, and terrifying but theydon't have to be confusing. With Field Guide to Dreams, you'llunravel the hidden meanings behind these mysterious subconsciousmessages. Organized by dominant symbol (animal, falling, flying,mother, and so on), each section provides helpful interpretationsfrom Freud, Jung, and other psychologists and dream experts. You'llalso learn when you're most likely to have these specific dreams,and whether you should interpret them positively or negatively.With Field Guide to Dreams at your bedside, you'll never wonder ifthat cigar was just a cigar!

An innovative business book positioning ethical practice asthe cornerstone of success “Business ethics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?” As a lecturer inethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School ofManagement and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, LeighHafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don’t mix.In The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics inBusiness, Hafrey draws on fifteen years of conversations withbusinesspeople at all stages of their careers, from MBA to Chairmanof the Board, to articulate five steps that generate ethicalpractice: 1. Speak Up, Speak Out: define your managerial style 2. See the Big Picture: recognize the forces that affect yourpractice 3. Break the Rules, Make the Rules, Absorb the Costs: drivechange, and know it 4. Tell Good Stories: find stories that bring out the best inyour people and yourself 5. Test for Truth: distinguish fact from fantasy in yourstory-telling Hafrey illust

Too many people assume the timeless principles of trueleadership—of helping others achieve their full potential—don’tapply Monday through Friday during work hours or in anycircumstance where a paycheck is involved. In GREATER THAN YOURSELF, Steve Farber proves them wrong: in thispowerful and inspiring story, Farber shows that the goal of agenuine leader is to help others—teammates, employees, andcolleagues—become more capable, confident, and accomplished thanthey are themselves. Through the actions of a forward-thinking andextraordinarily successful CEO, Farber reveals the three keys toachieving this: Expand Yourself, Give Yourself, and ReplicateYourself. Filled with actionable principles and innovative ideas, GREATERTHAN YOURSELF is perhaps the most powerful message today’s businessleaders can learn.