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The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.
Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and revised their milestone work for the New Economy they helped...
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Reengineering has captured the imagination of managers and shareholders alike, sending corporations on journeys of radical business redesign that have already begun to transfigure global industry. Yet aside from earning them improvements in their business performance, the shift into more-process-centered organizations is causing fundamental changes in the corporate world, changes that business leaders are only now beginning to understand. What will...
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Your Company Isn't Fast Enough. Here's How to Change That.
The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models--the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few--have emerged, but leaders need to know what really works. How do you build an organization that is responsive to fast-changing markets? What kind of organization delivers both speed and scale, and how do you lead...
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The must-read summary of Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy's book: "Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profit in Any Market".
This complete summary of the ideas from Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy's book "Now, Build a Great Business!" shows that now is the perfect time to start building a great business that will rise to the top of its industry. Why? Because companies that are forged during times of upheaval, intense competition and...
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The must-read summary of John Warrilow's book: "Built to Sell: Creating a Business that Can Thrive Without You".
This complete summary of the ideas from John Warrilow's book "Built to Sell" shows how difficult it can be for business owners to become less involved in their business. In his book, the author explains an eight-step process that entrepreneurs can use to ensure that the business can run without them and become a valuable asset that can...
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The must-read summary of Obed Shenkar's book: "Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge".
This complete summary of the ideas from Obed Shenkar's book "Copycats" banishes the myth that innovation is the only way to gain success. According to Shenkar, imitation is the key and is at the heart of the biggest businesses in the world. In his book, the author explains how companies should approach imitation in a systematic and...
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The must-read summary of Gary Hamel's book: "Leading the Revolution".
This complete summary of the ideas from Gary Hamel's book "Leading the Revolution" shows how, in today's economy, sustainable competitive advantage is derived from just one source - the ability to develop innovative and radical new business concepts. In his book, Gary Hamel explains how successful companies reinvent themselves, attracting new customers as well as retaining the...
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The must-read summary of Robert Tucker's book: "Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures".
This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Tucker's book "Driving Growth Through Innovation" shows how the best and only way to actually grow a company is to innovate — to offer customers something new. In his book, the author explains how innovation increases revenue as new and existing customers will buy more...
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The must-read summary of Andrew S. Grove's book: "Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career".
This complete summary of the ideas from Andrew S. Grove's book "Only the Paranoid Survive" explains that sooner or later, every successful company will face a strategic inflection point - a point at which the fundamental rules for business success change - and how hard decisions and drastic actions...
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The must-read summary of Daryl Conner's book: "Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization".
This complete summary of the ideas from Daryl Conner's book "Leading at the Edge of Chaos" shows that being nimble is now a key element of any sustainable competitive advantage that an organisation may attempt to secure and defend. Nimbleness is not just about flexibility or adaptation, it's all about execution. In his book, the author...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Gary Neilson and Bruce Pasternack's book "Results" shows that in just the same way as DNA forms the basic building blocks of all living organisms in nature, business organisations are similarly built as unique combinations of four basic building blocks: decisions, motivators, information and structure. In their book, the authors explain that whatever an organisation achieves is the combined result of the daily...
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The must-read summary of Bill Davidson's book: Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them".
This complete summary of the ideas from Bill Davidson's book "Breakthrough" shows how the most successful companies get to the top and stay there by consistently challenging themselves to achieve goals that may seem unreasonable or even outrageous. In his book, Bill Davidson explains how it is this process of setting challenging...
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The must-read summary of Ricardo Semler's book: "The Seven-Day Weekend: Finding The Work/Life Balance".
This complete summary of the ideas from "The Seven-Day Weekend" exposes the origins of ingrained habits in the business world and explains how changing them might be for the better. This useful summary provides you with the tools necessary to identify said habits in your company and to implement changes that will benefit both your business and...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Susan Annunzio's book "Contagious Success" shows that an in-depth study of 3,000 knowledge workers around the world was carried out to attempt to identify the management behaviors which accelerate profitable growth. Although 77% of these respondents claimed they belonged to a high-performing work group, only 10% of them actually belonged to work groups that generated profitable new products, services or processes....
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