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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 Keith A. Caver Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787957240 |
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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
Annie Brooking Manufacturer: Int. Cengage Business Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1861522681 |
Book Description
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.Customer Reviews:
Egocentric author who puts little value on Experts.......2001-08-10
"Critical Knowledge Can be Transient".......2001-02-20
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
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)
Aspatore Books Manufacturer: Aspatore Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1596224886 |
Book Description
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;
2) disadvantages of listing;
3) the role and responsibilities of the lawyer;
4) the role of the SEC and other regulators;
5) structuring the offering and compensating the underwriter;
6) the basics of disclosure;
7) the role of strategic communications;
8) how to determine IR program parameters;
9) mistakes and risks;
10) facts of life as a public company.
This report outlines the important strategies and best mindset for approaching an IPO and how to do so effectively.
This research report is written by:
1. Bruce A. Machmeier, Partner, Corporate Finance & Transactions Group Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP - "A Lawyer's Perspective on the IPO Process"
2. Margery Kraus, President and CEO APCO Worldwide - "The Art of the IPO
3. Mary A. Dunbar, Senior Vice President, Dix & Eaton" Chairman of the Board, National Investor Relations Institute - "How Investor Relations Can Help You Ensure That the Market Values Your Company Fairly"
About Executive Reports:
Executive Reports offer focused, hard-hitting advice from the leaders of some of America's top companies, packaged in a concise, readable format. Each research report provides readers with 3 to 5 strategies that will have a direct financial impact on their business. While not meant as a comprehensive guide, each report includes quick-hit items that can immediately impact specific business strategies. Executive authors drill down to the central issues surrounding each topic area and dispense expert advice in concise, direct language. Executive Reports feature leading professionals selected by the Aspatore Editorial Board based on their experience, research, and standing within the professional community.
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Raising the Corporate Umbrella: Corporate Communications in the Twenty-First Century
Philip J. Kitchen , and Don Schultz Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0333926390 |
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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
Martin Puris Manufacturer: Crown Business ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0812931270 Release Date: 1999-01-26 |
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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 RothmanBook Description
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.Customer Reviews:
the will to survive.......1999-12-26
heros for our time.......1999-12-17
the longest yard.......1999-12-04
edible lesons.......1999-11-29
a worthwhile read.......1999-11-26
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Competing in the Third Wave: The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age
Jeremy Hope , and Tony Hope Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0875848079 |
Book Description
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
* Customer value
* Knowledge management
* Business organization
* Market focus
* Management accounting
* Measurement and control
* Shareholder value
* Productivity
* Transformation
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
A Book With Real Management Substance.......2000-01-29
A book one returns to.......1999-01-18
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
Examine the top ten issues facing 'third wave' companies ..........1998-11-20
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)
Art Kleiner , George Roth , Ann Thomas , Toni Gregory , and Edward Hamell Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0195134877 |
Book Description
Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the second book in the new Oxford series The Learning History Library. Each book gets inside a company at a crucial time of change, offering a unique opportunity to see innovation from the inside out. Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the story of major corporate change undertaken by OilCo, a pseudonym for a major international oil company, just after a time of layoffs and cutbacks. Key people within the company tell the story, using a technique developed at MIT's Center for Organizational Learning. One hundred and fifty employees were interviewed at all levels of the company, from hourly workers to the executive council. They worked in all primary OilCo businesses: exploration and production, refining and retail, chemical and oil consulting. During this time, all the firms values came into question, including its business practices, corporate governance structure, team management, and leadership style. Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation gives students an inside look at what OilCo learned collectively.
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Shaping the Corporate Image: An Analytical Guide for Executive Decision Makers
Marion G. Sobol , Gail E. Farrelly , and Jessica S. Taper Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0899305644 |
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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
Calvin Morrill Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0226538737 |
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Canadian telephone company enhances corporate dialogue with CEO mailbox.(case in point): An article from: Communication World
Mary Pat Barry Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ATRIR4 Release Date: 2005-08-11 |
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This digital document is an article from Communication World, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1117 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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