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Millions revere Drucker as "the father of modern management"-this is the first book to share his reflections on self-management; Based on Bruce Rosenstein's 20 years-plus study of Drucker's life and thought and Helps you construct a complete life plan through exercises, questions, and illustrative anecdotes and quotes. How can we have a rich and fulfilling life? For Peter Drucker, one of the most influential thinkers of modern times, the secret was...
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The book discusses relevant information on factors affecting sales of independent drugstores on a historical perspective. Readers are to be critical to which principles and insights can still be applicable in the present context. The author believes there are, hence, the book.
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The "Distinguished Country Club: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimal Operations" serves as a beacon for navigating the intricate landscape of exclusive enclaves. This comprehensive guide delves into the historical context, modern significance, and future trends of country clubs, emphasizing the delicate balance between tradition and innovation. The purpose of the book is multifaceted, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency, elevating member experiences,...
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Companies struggle dramatically in building new businesses from innovation. 85-90 percent of corporate startups die after the "Minimum Viable Product" stage.
Why is this so? What is the solution? How can companies improve?
This book provides the answers.
It is written by Frank Mattes, who has decades of experience in corporate innovation. It has been, co-written with more than 20 practitioners and 2 business schools as a practical guide for practitioners,...
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Advances in software, auction-based media, analytics, and big data have made it possible for the average marketer to compete with marketers with 100 times the spending power. “Taking Down Goliath” profiles, the ways in which digital marketing can level the playing field, if you know how to use it.
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The Earned Value Management Maturity Model® gives you the fundamental tools needed to build an effective Earned Value Management System (EVMS). This must-have resource makes earned value management easy by defining a maturity model and describing metrics to measure the health and efficiency of your EVMS. Discover valuable ways to improve your EVMS and achieve project success. Through point by point discussions, you will:• Gain fundamental knowledge...
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Learn how to create a measurement-oriented program for your unique organization. With new insights on measurement as a communications tool, this book offers step-by-step guidance on how to use specific quantitative actions-and-results assessments to ensure the success of key initiatives. You'll master the new skills needed to incorporate stakeholder requirements into the structure and operation of the measurement program. You'll also learn how to...
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An Easy Approach to Using Surveys to Elicit Requirements!Surveying is an excellent way to elicit requirements, but reliable resources that examine survey methods are hard to find - until now. Surveying Fundamentals for Business Analysts presents the basics of developing and executing efficient and effective surveys. It offers detailed descriptions of the different types of surveys and guidance on how to choose the right survey for your task as well...
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Introducing the Four Components That Make Innovation Repeatable
Even the best-performing companies eventually stall. Sustaining momentum-and remaining a great growth company-takes a system.
Scott Anthony and David Duncan call this system a "Growth Factory." They've seen it work in a small set of elite companies that have created environments where innovation is both repeatable and reliable, not relegated to an off-site or isolated division that...
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The Practical, Precise, and Proven Approach to Integrated Cost and Schedule Control!
This trusted project management resource, now in its second edition, includes expanded coverage of how integrated cost and schedule control works within the federal government. With the renewed emphasis on transparency in government, the processes detailed in this book are particularly relevant.
Building on the solid foundation of the first edition, this updated...
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Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools.
The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues who are in charge of the management of a new...
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Emotional Branding is the bestselling revolutionary business book that has created a movement in branding circles by shifting the focus from products to people. The "10 Commandments of Emotional Branding" have become a new benchmark for marketing and creative professionals, emotional branding has become a coined term by many top industry experts to express the new dynamic that exists now between brands and people. The emergence of social media, consumer...
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Find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. CEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization--large or small, and regardless of industry--can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent.
Nincompoopery--terrible customer service, idiotic business processes, and soul-crushing management practices--surrounds all of us. We lose time, patience, and profits...
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Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of experimentation is limiting. New technologies--including computer modeling and simulation--promise to lift that constraint by changing the economics of experimentation. They amplify the impact of learning, creating the potential for higher R&D performance and innovation and new ways of...
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Social media is changing the way people buy. What started just a few years ago as a quirky new way to find people, discuss events, and connect has since woven itself into the fabric of our lives. Two billion plus people now use social media on a regular basis as their single source for news, to research everything from cars to homes to burritos, to find, meet, and marry, and to connect and become part of the communities behind their favorite brands...
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The must-read summary of Guy Kawasaki's book: "How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit".
This complete summary of the ideas from Guy Kawasaki's book "How to Drive Your Competition Crazy" shows that the best business strategy is to actively take on your competition, and diminish any advantages they have. In his book, the author highlights four strategies which will take you from the initial groundwork to how to...
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The past few years have seen the utilization of integrated software packages (ERP type) in numerous enterprises. We can thus speak of a large-scale diffusion of the integrated enterprise resource management approach, which induces a growing interest in mastering techniques and approaches put in place in the production planning field, notably collaborative sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, material requirements planning,...
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Family Business Conflict Archetypes, Frames, Roles, and Tactics are discussed in this book with a view toward educating readers to the common conflict cycles that family businesses encounter. More specifically the book will address twelve conflicts that are common in family owned businesses, how to spot them and how to resolve them.
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Nowadays, the Internet plays a significant role in the advertising of goods and services. Almost every business that can afford it has experimented with running online advertisements in addition to print, radio, and television ones.
But how can you be certain that your advertisement will be viewed by your target audience and that your leads will be followed by these users when there are millions of websites out there being visited by millions of...
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Only 7 percent of communication is verbal and 38 percent is vocal (pitch, speed, volume, tone of voice). The largest chunk then, 55 percent, is visual (body language, eye contact). People form 90 percent of their opinion about you within the first 90 seconds of meeting you. Understanding body language is a skill that can enhance your life. This understanding can be a plus in the workplace. You can know what an employee or co-worker thinks and feels...
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