Management
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Futurize Your
Enterprise by David Siegel |
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dispatched in 24 hours John Wiley and Sons Hardcover - 318 pages (21 October, 1999) John Wiley and Sons |
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| Two years after its release, the second edition of David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites remains a best-selling guide to building sites that are driven by design aesthetics rather than technological prowess. Now, in Futurize Your Enterprise, Siegel takes off his Web designer hat and turns his... Read more | |||
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Funky Business by Jonas Ridderstrale, Kjell Nordstrom |
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dispatched in 24 hours Financial Times Prentice Hall Paperback - 256 pages (January 2000) Financial Times Prentice Hall |
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| Oh dear--a book called Funky Business by two Swedish academics. At first glance it has all the allure of Benny and Bjorn's (from Abba) sadly never released concept album about life as a middle manger in a multinational conglomerate. There is something very earnestly hip about the way that Kjell... Read more | |||
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The 80/20 Principle:
The Secret of Achieving More With Less by Richard Koch |
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dispatched in 2-3 days Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 312 pages (31 May, 1998) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd |
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| The 80/20 principle - that 80 per cent of results flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is a principle adopted by many effective people and organizations. This text shows how you can achieve more with less effort, time and resources, by concentrating on the that 20 per cent. The pattern of... Read more | |||
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The New
Organizational Wealth : Managing & Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets by Karl Erik Sveiby |
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dispatched in 24 hours Berrett-Koehler Publisher's Hardcover - 275 pages (April 1997) Berrett-Koehler Publisher's |
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| This study shows how some of the fastest-growing, most profitable companies are discovering that potentially limitless revenues can flow from their firm's intangible assets - the ability of employees, customers, and even suppliers to create new concepts, models, products and services. Read more | |||
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Directors' Dilemmas by Patrick Dunne |
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dispatched in 24 hours Kogan Page Paperback - 200 pages (30 September, 2000) Kogan Page |
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| Whatever the size or nature of the organization, its directors are constantly faced with a myriad of problems and dilemmas: whether it's financial failure, fraud, succession issues, directors' indiscretions, a personality clash, a hostile takeover or low staff morale. This work provides a glimpse... Read more | |||
| 6. | Organizational
Learning by Chris Argyris, Donald Schon |
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dispatched in 2-3 days Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co Paperback - 200 pages (16 November, 1995) Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co |
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| This text provides coverage of the three crucial types of organizational learning: single-loop learning, double-loop learning and duetero-learning. The book features examples to help develop effective ways to diagnose and intervene at two levels: organizational and individual. Read more | |||
| 7. | Maslow on Management by Abraham Maslow, Warren Bennis |
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dispatched in 2-3 days John Wiley and Sons Hardcover - 235 pages (21 August, 1998) John Wiley and Sons |
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| Anyone who has sat through a psychology course has seen Abraham H. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a pyramid capped by the highest human need of all, the need for, what Maslow famously termed, self-actualization. Since his death in 1970, Maslow's voluminous writings have made him one of the most... Read more | |||
| 8. | Forecasting by Spyros Makridakis, et al |
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dispatched in 24 hours John Wiley and Sons Hardcover - 656 pages (January 1998) John Wiley and Sons |
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| Book Description Known from its last editions as the "Bible of Forecasting", the third edition of this authoritative text has adopted a new approach-one that is as new as the latest trends in the field: "Explaining the past is not adequate for predicting the future". In other words, accurate forecasting requires... Read more |
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| 9. | Managers and Mantras by John Keary, Charlotte Butler |
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dispatched in 24 hours John Wiley and Sons Hardcover - 356 pages ( 7 January, 2000) John Wiley and Sons |
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| Supply Management 6th April 2000 "Managers & Mantras sets out to faithfully recount a fascinating tale, and does so in a readable style." Read more |
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| 10. | Breakthrough
Technology Project Management by Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn Rea |
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dispatched in 24 hours Academic Press Inc Paperback - 360 pages (30 October, 1998) Academic Press Inc |
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| Synopsis Providing tangible guidelines through examples and suggestions, this text aims to help people participate in and manage projects more effectively. It illustrates how to carry out collaborative scheduling and planning for large-scale computer systems projects, and offers direction on how to deal with... Read more |
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| 11. | Birth of the
Chaordic Age by Dee Hock |
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out of stock Berrett-Koehler Publishers Hardcover - 350 pages (November 1999) Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
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| Birth of the Chaordic Age is a compelling manifesto for the future, embedded within the intriguing story of a personal odyssey. An engaging narrator, Dee Hock is the man who first conceived of a global system for the electronic exchange of value, becoming the founder and CEO of VISA International.... Read more | |||
| 12. | The Executive's
Guide to Supply Management Strategies : Building Supply Chain Thinking into All Business
Processes by David A. Riggs, Sharon L. Robbins |
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dispatched in 1-2 weeks AMACOM Hardcover - 256 pages (January 1998) AMACOM |
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| Supply chain management is the range of activities from obtaining materials through to creating products. This text aims to explain to executives how to strategically manage the process to maximum advantage. Read more | |||
| 13. | The Smart
Organization : Creating Value Through Strategic R&D by David Matheson |
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dispatched in 1-2 weeks Harvard Business School Press Hardcover - 292 pages (December 1997) Harvard Business School Press |
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| This text aims to help managers improve their research and development management and decision-making. It discusses "best practices", as well as nine principles of "smart R&D", and includes a section on testing how good an organization's R&D is. Read more | |||
| 14. | Project Management
in the Fast Lane by R.C. Newbold |
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dispatched in 2-3 days St Lucie Press Paperback - 284 pages (December 1998) St Lucie Press |
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| A manual detailing proven methods for turning around chronically late, overbudget, and underperforming projects-skills students need in their management careers. Project Management in the Fast Lane explains how Theory of Constraints tools can be applied to achieve effective, breakthrough solutions... Read more | |||
| 15. | The Principles of
Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor |
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dispatched in 1-2 weeks Dover Publications, Inc. Paperback - 76 pages (January 1998) Dover Publications, Inc. |
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| The Best Management Book Ever
Written Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management is unsurpassed by any other in its' understanding of the job of management and the worker. Taylor's book shows what good quality critical thinking applied to industry can accomplish. Taylor placed the burden of management totally on management and not the...Read more |
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| 16. | The Mafia Manager :
A Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli by V |
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dispatched in 1-2 weeks St. Martin's Press Paperback - 96 pages (June 1997) St. Martin's Press |
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| Entertaining guidelines not to
follow outside the Mob Using most of the clichés on how the mob is managed this entertaining little book gives practical advices on how these theories are applicable to business life. Or is the author using the mafia management practice as a metaphor to give a new perspective on how business management actually IS...Read more |
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| 17. | Navigating
Complexity by Arthur Battram |
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out of stock Industrial Society Paperback - 288 pages (September 1999) Industrial Society |
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| Complexity theory is changing the way leading management thinkers are looking at organizations - they are now being recognized as living systems. This text introduces the key language and concepts of complexity, and how they relate to the new world of work. Read more | |||
| 18. | Management of the
Absurd : Paradoxes in Leadership by Richard Farson |
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dispatched in 24 hours Touchstone Press Paperback - 176 pages (March 1997) Touchstone Press |
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| Challenging managers to reexamine their assumptions about effective leadershi a study of organizations and human relations explores paradoxical situations and the impact of effective leadership. --This text refers to the audio cassette edition of this title Read more | |||
| 19. | How to Be an Even
Better Manager (How to Be a Better... Series) by Michael Armstrong |
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| Temporarily
out of stock Kogan Page Paperback (March 1997) Kogan Page |
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| This revised and updated guide for managers and supervisors explains how readers can develop their personal management skills effectively. The text has been used as recommended reading on many business management courses. Read more | |||