The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures Frans Johansson

This book has several objectives: ? One is to give voice to the frustration felt by countless people working in organizations, who see their energies blocked, squandered, and misused every day by mindless bureaucracies. ? Another is to plant some seditious ideas in the minds of people who work and manage in organizations. A third is to make as many CEOs and other senior executives as possible permanently uneasy about their leadership, and permane...

The Encyclopedia of Management, 5th Edition is an alphabetical reference book covering a comprehensive slate of management concepts. if the reader has little knowledge of a term, after referring to the Encyclopedia of Management, 5th Ed. , he or she will be in possession of the basics of the subject—objective, scope, implementation, current usage in practice, and expected future usage.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Framing the Problem 2. Designing the Analysis 3. Gathering the Data 4. Interpreting the Results 5. Presenting Your Ideas 6. Managing Your Team 7. Managing Your Client 8. Managing Yourself Appendix A: Data-Gathering Resources Appendix B: Lessons from The McKinsey Way Appendix C: Implementation Lessons Index

Profile Books, 2008. - 322 Pages. Good management is a precious commodity in the corporate world, and good ideas are even more rare. Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus gathers the most influential ideas and thinkers that have defined modern management into one compact guide. This new book builds on Guide to Management Ideas (2003) and adds entries on the most influential business thought leaders of the past and present. Topics covered range fro...

John Wiley & Sons 2005, c. 227. The intent of this book is to be useful for the executive responsible and concerned with governance. It offers useful advice to those with process ownership responsibility, as well as to users of those processes. Although the book explores the issue of responsibility for governance, it does so primarily from several angles: first from the inside looking inside, then from the inside looking outside and finally f...