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Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership))
Ancella B. Livers , and
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Many blacks in the workplace face a set of dynamics unique to being African American in a traditionally white, male-dominated world. In this landmark book, authors Ancella Livers and Keith Caver— co-facilitators of the Center for Creative Leadership's African-American Leadership Program for the past five years— explain how the leadership experience for blacks is radically different from the experiences of their white colleagues. These differences, of which most white managers are unaware, can lead to miscues and distortions in communication and ultimately get in the way of effective performance and optimal productivity for organizations. In Leading in Black and White, the authors not only clearly explain how things go wrong, they also provide sensible solutions for both the white manager and the black manager on how to make them right.
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Corporate Memory: Strategies For Knowledge Management
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Examines the ways in which companies are more reliant than ever on information and knowledge. Knowledge is a corporate asset which needs to be identified, guarded and shared. This book shows the reader how to value the knowledge in their company and establish what is important to the company's success.
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Egocentric author who puts little value on Experts.......2001-08-10
I thought the author was high on herself and down on anybody with a little knowledge. She presents Knowledge Management with a "black and white" attitude. This is right and that is wrong. It's very simple minded conversation about an extremely complex subject matter. Also, she uses generic and vague statements like "Know who needs to know what in the Orgnaization." That's obvious, tell me how to do that. What tools, work processes? She doesn't give much details on this. In summary, the book provides very little insight to solving a very complex matter. It's merely a gather of vague, wonderful proverbs!
"Critical Knowledge Can be Transient".......2001-02-20
Annie Brooking writes, "In order to manage knowledge within the organization some decisions have to be made. What knowledge is important? Where do we start? Should we manage the knowledge of all employees or just a select few. Which select few? Should we get everyone to document what they know? Wait a minute...if they are documenting everything they know when do they have time to do their jobs? It's a conundrum, let's not even get into whether or not it's possible to document all the types of knowledge a company must be interested in. The solution is as usual to focus; to look at the types of knowledge which are essential to the company in order to enable it to achieve its corporate goals."
In this context, in Chapter 3, she shows some examples of types of knowledge which can be critical in a company as following:
1. Knowledge of a particular job such as how to remove the wings from an aircraft or how to clean out a boiler.
2. Knowledge of who knows what in a company.
3. Knowledge of how to get things done in a company-using the culture to maximum effect.
4. Knowledge of who is best to perform a particular job or task.
5. Knowledge of corporate history, why the company works the way it does.
6. Knowledge of a particular customer account.
7. Knowledge of a geography, country and its business customs.
8. Knowledge of how to put together a team that can achieve a particular task.
9. Knowledge of how to approach a particular problem which is difficult to solve.
Finally, she writes about critical knowledge that "it's important not to fall into a false sense of security when considering critical knowledge in the organization, as it may be the case that know-how which is important today, this month or this year is not important next year. Understanding the dynamics of the business is important in manipulating the organization to perform as best it can every day."
Highly recommended.
A great introduction and a great value.......1999-09-09
Brooking provides a concise description of the collection, organization, and management of corporate knowledge. This book is economical in its description, as well as its price. Good examples of the concepts throughout the text.
Technologies for knowledge management will come and go. This book focuses on the human element, understanding how we know what we know, and the processes needed to elicit, capture, and maintain knowledge.
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Executive Reports: Going Public: The Financial, Legal, and Communications Aspects of an Initial Public Offering (IPO) (Executive Reports)
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This 80-page research report written for startup executives and their advisors considering an initial public offering, examines all obvious and underlying aspects of going public. From determining whether an IPO is the right move, to the first things you need to line up to get started; from the essential advisors in the process, to understanding how they all must work together; and from the pre-filing, to the waiting and post-effective periods, this report covers the ins and outs of the IPO, touching on the important and highlighting the essential.
Some areas explored include:
1) characteristics of the successful IPO candidate;
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5) structuring the offering and compensating the underwriter;
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This report outlines the important strategies and best mindset for approaching an IPO and how to do so effectively.
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Raising the Corporate Umbrella: Corporate Communications in the Twenty-First Century
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Corporate Communications is now in the success of companies and organizations. Raising the Corporate Umbrella is a review of the key issues that are critical to master if your corporate communications and public relations strategy is to be a success. The authors introduce the theoretical framework necessary to analyzing corporate communications strategies, but throughout they draw also on the experiences and opinions of leading practitioners worldwide and provide clear practical guidelines for successful implementation. Cases and examples from internationally recognized companies, such as Body Shop, Texaco, Johnson amp; Johnson, iMAC, BP Oil, and British Airways keep the style lively and relevant. A must for anyone involved in corporate communications, public relations or public affairs, especially those working in multi-national or global organizations.
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Comeback : How Seven Straight-Shooting CEOs Turned Around Troubled Companies
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Martin Puris, head of the Ammirati Puris Lintas advertising agency, believes halting the downward spiral of a once-successful business is far more difficult than starting a company from scratch. And the lessons learned from such experiences, he proposes in Comeback , are applicable to those charged with the ultimate success or failure of any business. Through a series of well-crafted profiles of the remarkably effective top executives of Honeywell, Adidas, UPS, Compaq, Continental, Chrysler, and U.S. Surgical, Puris shows how keeping one's finger on the corporate pulse and continually winning employees' trust--all activities practiced by these leaders--can manifest themselves in different ways to rescue a declining operation from certain catastrophe. "It seems to me that the lesson, despite an endless river of books, articles, lectures, seminars and wilderness retreats testifying to the contrary, is that there is no one true path to leadership," he writes. "The qualities of intellect and character touched upon here will, I hope, offer a kind of touchstone to those who wish to exercise positive leadership themselves." --Howard Rothman
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The seven leaders profiled in Comeback have two things in common: They brought their companies back from the dead, and they did it by seeking out the truth and sharing it with their employees.
Martin Puris believes that this instinct for the truth is essential to leadership. And he should know. He has built one of the best advertising companies in the country, having led campaigns for BMW, Burger King, UPS, and Club Med. In addition to being a writer and a CEO, Puris was an adviser to President George Bush. Now, he's gained rare access to seven inspiring leaders and their stories about thriving under extreme business pressure.
Puris presents intimate portraits of chief executives at Compaq, Continental Airlines, Honeywell, Adidas, Chrysler, U.S. Surgical, and UPS. All these companies had veered dangerously off course, and it took the efforts of these seven straight-shooting CEOs to set them right. Oz Nelson did it by convincing UPS to embrace new technologies. Gordon Bethune did it by giving across-the-board bonuses to Continental employees for improvements in customer satisfaction. Michael Bonsignore did it with a level of candor most executives never approach: He told Honeywell employees their company would be sold out from under their feet if things didn't change. Martin Puris takes us inside the offices of these talented executives to present seven intimate stories of resurrection and leadership at its best.
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the will to survive.......1999-12-26
I really liked this book..it's less of a business book than it is an adventure story. The characters are interesting...some downright exciting...and the plots carry you right along through what could have been just another series of "Business Case Studies" (read, dry). But, no, this book moves.
heros for our time.......1999-12-17
The third world war will be fought in the market place...and CEOs are the Pattons of the new economy. These are fascinating stories of coroporate heros...warts and all. I read it in one night.
the longest yard.......1999-12-04
The most difficult job in the world is that of turning around a troubed business. The CEOs involved in this fascinating saga of renewal faced the devil and beat him. An admirable bunch and a well written chronicle of their efforts!
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I find that most books about business are slow going, the messages obvious and I hardley ever read through to the end. I found Comeback interesting, readable and, yes, instructive...but with enough sugar coating for me to be able to eat my way through it. I have my favorite chapters...but all in all..good reading, well done.
a worthwhile read.......1999-11-26
Fast and interesting...the characters are bigger than life with a bit of Greek drama thrown in. The lessons are clear, the delivery, entertaining. My favorite was Gordon Bethune of Continental...it's almost a novel.
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Competing in the Third Wave: The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age
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So many gurus, so little time. In the third wave, innovative ideas and authoritative advice can come from anywhere and anyone at anytime-and many managers find themselves suffering from what the Tofflers called overchoice, an inevitable condition of the information age. What should managers really be doing these days?
Jeremy and Tony Hope cut through the management fads, the media hype, and the data clutter to present the top ten issues facing managers of thirdwave organizations. Surveying and synthesizing both classic and cutting-edge management ideas,
Competing in the Third Wave provides comprehensive guidelines and an integrated agenda for sparring with today's most agile, knowledge-driven, and techno-savvy firms.
In the context of the new economy-and using real business stories from hundreds of companies all over the world-the authors discuss these critical success factors:
* Strategy
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In the third wave, real players need best business practices more than ever. This book brings managers up to speed quickly so that they can apply their time-tested managerial tools to the all-new challenges of growth in the third wave.
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Substantive and Throrough.......2006-02-16
The authors use Alvin Toeffler's term, "the third wave" to describe the change currently taking place in the economy which some have called the Digital Revolution and others the Information Age. The first two waves were the Agricultural and the Industrial, both of which radically changed the way we worked and lived. In the Information Age most products have become little more than packaged knowledge and technology plays a pivotal role by storing and distributing knowledge to the employees who need it. The change to the Information Age has raised significant issues for management. Jeremy and Tony Hope have addressed the ten most vital issues facing managers in the third wave.
1. Strategy: Adopt strategic planning, a continuous process of planning carried out at all levels of the corporation. Focus on the core competencies of your company.
2. Customer Value: Match your core competencies to the right customers. Build your operating model around which customers you can best serve.
3. Knowledge Management: Harness knowledge contained at all levels of the organization and find ways to make it move through the organization quickly.
4. Business Organization: Organize the business around networks and processes, not hierarchies of power. Disperse authority to those who can make things happen.
5. Market Focus: Focus on the most profitable customers, and try hard to keep them.
6. Management Accounting: Use accounting techniques like activity-based costing or target costing that allow you to identify opportunities for improvement.
7. Measurement and Control: Keep managers moving toward strategic goals, not strict budgetary targets.
8. Shareholder Value: Find ways to measure the value of the company's intellectual assets, not just its book value.
9. Productivity: Increasing productivity depends on increasing the quality of your work force. Use training and incentives to increase quality.
10. Transformation: Encourage changes in culture, management style and employee attitudes to totally reengineer your business model.
A Book With Real Management Substance.......2000-01-29
One of the better books with thoughts on strategies and management concepts sustainable in the age of technological innovation and globalization. Certainly more substance than some of the .com and other e-commerce/customer-centric titles, with application across industries.
A book one returns to.......1999-01-18
This book focus on one issue, how to stay alive and prosper in the new network based competitive environment. The authors look at this issue from ten different perspectives, and contrary to many other "overwiev" books, they come to a coherent conclusion from all standpoints.
This book doesn't have all the answers (nobody does), but it does a very good jobb of explaining why some old truths ain't true anymore and it does point out the general directions where you should look for the new truths for the new era.
/Rasmus Larsson, Internet Business Strategist at W O G N U M
This book is a must read!.......1998-11-20
Highly recommended for individuals that wish to be current on management principles of the information age. Very readable, and informative.
Examine the top ten issues facing 'third wave' companies ..........1998-11-20
The two authors examine the top ten issues facing 'third wave' companies i.e. organisations of the information age and knowledge economy. In 'second wave' organisations (industrial economy), competitive advantage is built around efficient use of factors of production - land, labour, and capital. Third wave companies, on the other hand, compete firmly on the basis of knowledge deployment and the imaginative use of technology. According to the authors, 'second wave' managers and 'second wave' organisations (Editors note: and those teaching 'second wave' management principles and strategy) are at the crossroads. One road will lead to slow decline; the other to the prospect of long-term success. Achieving this success will require total organisational transformation in the areas of strategy; customer value; knowledge management; business organisation; market focus; management accounting; measurement and control; shareholder value; productivity and reward systems.
A good example of the main argument developed is in the area of customer value. 'Third wave' organisations are those who use information technology to understand the needs of customers and to match highly focused customer segments with their own core competencies thereby building long-term relationships. This emphasis on one-to-one relationships contrasts with the approach of 'second wave' companies who have an unbending faith in increasing scale and market share, despite a wealth of evidence showing that market share and net profits are not strongly correlated. While building market share has been the one of the primary driving forces of 'second wave' companies, 'third wave' managers will be more concerned with attracting the right customers; customers that represent a close strategic fit with the company or who have the potential to grow and therefore to be highly profitable. This has major implications for assessing company value. Traditional accounting statements show only results, but seldom tell how these results were achieved or how performance compares with competitors, and are a very poor guide to future performance because they give few clues to the changes in key processes and capabilities that determine business strength.
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Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation (The Learning History Library)
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Shaping the Corporate Image: An Analytical Guide for Executive Decision Makers
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Much of the literature on corporate reputation examines the topic from a narrow perspective--for example, from a marketing or public relations point of view. However, reputation is really a topic that spans multiple fields of endeavor--economics, finance, management, marketing, and public relations, among others. Clearly an interdisciplinary approach is needed and is provided by this volume written by two university professors and a public relations specialist. Shaping the Corporate Image discusses how a corporate reputation is acquired, maintained, and nurtured. The authors conclude that corporate leaders possess the power to "mold" investor perceptions and evaluations of their firms, and the authors provide the latest information on the issues. Central to the analysis of corporate reputation are numerous examples of drastic changes in reputation ranking as reported in Fortune magazine. Discussions of these articles combine with an academic look at past trends and commentary collected from interviews with current CEOs and public relations executives to yield a valuable review of strategies that were either spectacular successes or dismal failures. Shaping the Corporate Image provides the reader with valuable input for the future--for developing reputation building in the 1990s and beyond. This volume should be of particular interest to CEOs and public relations specialists concerned with defining, enhancing, and nurturing the corporate image. It is also suitable for supplemental reading in courses in advertising, public relations, business strategy, and marketing, as well as a valuable resource for academics interested in the latest theoretical and practical developments in this field.
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The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations
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What causes conflict among high-level American corporate executives? How do executives manage their conflicts? Based on candid interviews with over two hundred executives and their support personnel, Calvin Morrill provides an intimate portrait of these men and women as they cope with problems usually hidden from those outside their exclusive ranks.
Personal and corporate scandals, compensation battles, budget worries, interdepartmental rivalries, personal enmities, and general rancor are among everyday challenges faced by executives. Morrill shows what most influences the way managers handle routine conflicts are the cultures created by their company's organizational structure: whether there is a strong hierarchy, a weak hierarchy, or an absence of any strong central authority. The issues most likely to cause conflict within corporations Morrill identifies as managerial style, competition between departments, and performance evaluations, promotions, and compensation.
Among the people whose day-to-day lives we get to know are Jacobs, a divisional executive whose intuitive understanding of the corporate hierarchy enables him to topple his incompetent superior without direct confrontation; Fuller, who through a mix of brains, guile, and connections rises from staff executive secretary to corporate vice president in a large bank; Green, an old-fashioned accounting partner in a firm being taken over by management consultants; and the "Princess of Power," "Iron Man," and the "Terminator"—executives fighting their way to the top of a successful entertainment company.
Unprecedented in its direct access to top managers, this portrayal of daily life and conflict management among corporate elites will be of interest to professionals, scholars, and practitioners in organizational culture and behavior, managerial decision making, dispute, social control, law and society, and organizational ethnography.
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Canadian telephone company enhances corporate dialogue with CEO mailbox.(case in point): An article from: Communication World
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Title: Canadian telephone company enhances corporate dialogue with CEO mailbox.(case in point)
Author: Mary Pat Barry
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Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21
Issue: 4
Page: 50(2)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Books:
- Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To Ask
- Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success
- Managing Assertively: How to Improve Your People Skills: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2nd Edition
- Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
- National Electrical Code 1999
- National Electrical Code 1999
- Never Be Boring Again: Make Your Business Presentations Capture Attention, Inspire Action and Produce Results
- Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2007 (Novel and Short Story Writer's Market)
- Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception 05-07
- Practical Business Ethics
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