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BEST PRACTICE
Management in the 21st Century
Action Learning
Making Recognition and Rewards a “Whole-Person” Experience
Downsizing with Dignity
Managing Stress
Making Performance Appraisals a Win–win Experience
Viewpoint: Fons Trompenaars
Boosting Business Success through Diversity
Making the Workplace Flex, Not Break
Viewpoint: David MacLeod
Finding and Keeping Top Talent
Viewpoint: Christopher Locke
Viewpoint: Christopher Bartlett
Tackling Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Managing Intellectual Capital
Viewpoint: John Mullins
Culture Clashes
Viewpoint: Philip Kotler
Tom Brown
George Boulden
R. Brayton Bowen
Alan Downs
Cary L. Cooper and Susan Cartwright
Patrick Forsyth
Debbe Kennedy
Ken Murrell
Philip Sadler
Anne Covey and Michael S. Morris
Leif Edvinsson
Tim Hindle
Marketing Managing 1:1 Marketing
On Writing as an Essential Business Skill
How to Plan Marketing
Marketing: The Importance of Being First
The New Marketing
Gaga to Guggenheim: Find the “Genius” in Your Business
Creating Powerful Brands
Managing the Customer
Viewpoint: Patty Seybold
Viewpoint: B. Joseph Pine II
On Value and Values: How a Blended Values Strategy Drives Sustainable Performance
How to Get Lucky
Viewpoint: Charles Handy
Viewpoint: C. K. Prahalad
Strategy in Turbulent Times
Viewpoint: Paul Ormerod
Organic Growth Versus Acquisition
Why Mergers Fail and How to Prevent It
Maximizing a New Strategic Alliance
Viewpoint: Jean-Claude Larréché
Outsourcing
The Supply Chain
The Power of Identity
Switching Strategies
Corporate-level Strategy
Strategic Agility
Viewpoint: Vijay Govindarajan
Toward a Total Global Strategy
The Human Value of the Enterprise
Human Capital
Return on Talent
Building an Empowered and Adaptive Organization
Creating Value through People
Allocating Corporate Capital Fairly
Intrapreneurial Warriors Versus Traditional Managers
Why EVA Is the Best Measurement Tool for Creating Shareholder Value
Viewpoint: Michael Green
Enterprise Information Systems
Developing an Internet-era Mindset throughout the Organization
Integrating Real and Virtual Strategies
The Business Web
Making B2B Your New Operational Standard
Creating a Company Web Site That Delivers Real Value
Blogs and Business: What You Must Know
Intellectual Capital
Drayton Bird
John Simmons
Malcolm McDonald
Al Ries and Laura Ries
Seth Godin
Peter Fisk
Paul Stobart
Merlin Stone and Liz Machtynger
Douglas K. Smith
Donald N. Sull
Costas Markides
Peter Bebb
Susan Cartwright
Peter Killing
Ronan McIvor
Peter Day
Wally Olins
Louis Patler
David R. Sadtler
John Wells
George Yip
Andrew Mayo
Edward E. Gordon
Subir Chowdhury
Jeremy Hope, Peter Bunce, and Franz Röösli
David H. Maister
John L. Mariotti
Gifford Pinchot
Erik Stern
Thomas H. Davenport
John Nirenberg
David Stauffer
Don Tapscott
Michael J. Cunningham
Gerry McGovern
Andy Wibbels
Thomas A. Stewart
Systems
Project Management
Managing by Individual Objectives
The True Total Quality
Designing Corporate Systems for Success
Working from the Outside In
Lean Manufacturing
Managing the Challenge of E-service
The Critical Factors That Build or Break Teams
Retaining Employees
Keeping Control in Nonhierarchical Organizations
Viewpoint: Lynda Gratton
Improving Company Performance with an Older Work Force
Viewpoint: Tammy Erickson
Viewpoint: Henry Stewart
Managing in a 24/7 Organization
Self-managed Teams: How They Succeed or Fail
Workers without Borders: Creating Bonds When Workers Have No Loyalty
Viewpoint: Francis Fukuyama
Viewpoint: Andrew Kakabadse
Reorganizing the Company Without Destroying It
Viewpoint: Warren Bennis
Viewpoint: Gary Hamel
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Viewpoint: Tom Brown
Viewpoint: John Kotter
Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
Deciding Key Operational Questions
The One Thing You Need to Know
Leadership
Viewpoint: Manfred Kets de Vries
Viewpoint: Howard Gardner
Viewpoint: Jim Collins
Transcending the Glass Ceiling
Viewpoint: Kate Sweetman
Viewpoint: Henry Mintzberg Corporate Social
Responsibility: Are You Giving Back or Just Giving Away?
Corporate Responsibility: A Leadership Approach
CSR: More than PR, Pursuing Competitive Advantage in the Long Run
Business Ethics
Boardroom Roles
X-engineering Success
Sustainability Management
Change Management
Creating Strategic Excellence
Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Value Innovation: A Theory of Strategy
Core Versus Context: Managing Resources in a Downturn
Snapping Managerial Inertia
The Future of Money
Competitor Analysis: From Data to Insight
Now! The Role of Urgency in Creating Positive Change
Scenario Planning
Viewpoint: Bernd Schmitt
The End of Growth: Why Does It Always End? What Can You Do About It?
Creating Corporate Creativity
Managing Product Innovation Portfolios
Viewpoint: Clayton M. Christensen
Building Great Internal Partnerships
Raising the Bar: Setting Effective Targets
New Yardsticks for Performance and Productivity in an E-world
Making Loyalty Work
From Crisis Management to Crisis Leadership
Benchmarking
Improving Corporate Profitability Through Accountability
Organizational Learning and Performance
The Balanced Scorecard
Setting Objectives for a Business
Viewpoint: Paul Hawken
Profiting From Prices
Viewpoint: Jim Kouzes
Preventing Your Work Problems from Causing You Stress
Brainstorming
Urbane Renewal: Trusting Your Own Wisdom—A Competitive (and Satisfying) Advantage
Viewpoint: William Bridges
Taking Charge of Your Career
Mentoring
Coaching
Response Ability—How Managers Stay Up When Times Are Down
Choosing the Best Training Curriculum for You
Developing Exceptional Problem-solving Skills
How NLP Can Contribute to Best Management Practice
Robert Buttrick
Richard S. Handscombe
Masaaki Imai
Leslie L. Kossoff
Bill Jensen
Daniel T. Jones
Chris Voss
Meredith Belbin
Sharon Jordan-Evans and Beverly Kaye
Karin Klenke
Beverly Goldberg
Thomas M. Koulopoulos
Andrew Leigh and Michael Maynard
Perry Pascarella
Colin Price
Rick Lash
Don Blohowiak
Mark Brown
Marcus Buckingham
Peter de la Billière
Katherine Hammer
Jim “Gus” Gustafson Ph. D.
Giles Gibbons
John Surdyk
Sue Newell
Adrian Cadbury
James Champy
John Elkington
Klaus Doppler
Mike Freedman
Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Geoffrey A. Moore
Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
Bernard Lietaer
Liam Fahey
John Reh
Gill Ringland
Robert M. Tomasko
Edward de Bono
Robert G. Cooper and Scott J. Edgett
Chip R. Bell
Matthew Budman
Peter S. Cohan
John Frazer-Robinson
Ian I. Mitroff
Paul Spenley
Marc J. Epstein and Priscilla S. Wisner
Jerry W. Gilley and Ann Gilley
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Allan A. Kennedy
Michael de Kare-Silver
David Allen
Jules Goddard
Cliff Hakim
Andrew Lambert
Max Landsberg
Max Landsberg
Paul G. Stoltz
Daniel R. Tobin
Christopher Hoenig
Joseph O’Connor
ACTIONLISTS
Developing Presence
Managing Perceptions
Communicating Assertively in the Workplace
Getting Your Message Across
Prepare Presentations
Delivering Presentations
Presentations: Surviving Worst-case Scenarios
Using Slides and Visuals in Your Presentation
Boosting Your Message With Your Body Language
Structuring and Writing Good Reports
Integrating email with Other Forms of Communication
Maintaining a Healthy Work–Life Balance
Managing Your Time
Delegating without Guilt
Making Sound Decisions
Solving Problems
Negotiating with Confidence
Coping in Difficult Negotiations
Negotiating With People from Other Cultures
Coping with Information Overload
Managing Meetings Effectively
Delivering Difficult or Bad News
Breaking the News about Redundancy
Choosing the Right First Job
Creating a Career Plan
Entering an Entirely New Field
Making the Decision to Take a Risky Career Move
Knowing When It’s Time to Move On
Researching the Job Market
Networking and Marketing Yourself
Building an Awesome Contact List
Using Social Networking
Getting the Most from a Professional Career Consultant
Finding and Working with Search Organizations
Identifying Your Marketable Skills
Revitalizing Your Résumé
Writing Great emails
Making an Impact in Interviews
Handling Inappropriate Questions in an Interview
Answering Tricky Interview Questions
Preparing for Different Types of Interview
Understanding Psychometric Tests: A Survivor’s Guide
Negotiating the Best Deal in Your New Job
Moving Sideways: Benefiting from a Lateral Move
Making Yourself Promotable
Getting the Raise You Deserve
Surviving the First Week in a New Job
Coping with Job Burnout
Managing Dual Career Dilemmas
Returning to Work After a Career Break
Managing Your Career in Turbulent Times
Reapplying for Your Own Job
Leaving with Style: Exiting with Dignity
Handling Resignations—The Employer’s Perspective
Surviving Job Loss
Reinventing Yourself
Marketing Yourself in a Diminishing Market
Using the Downturn to Up-skill
Networking to Find Job Opportunities
Creating and Balancing the Portfolio Career
Managing Your Time Effectively in a Portfolio Career
Freelancing: Setting Up As a Free Agent
Establishing and Maintaining Your Home Office
Working As Part of a Virtual Team
Coping with a Nightmare Boss
Handling Office Politics
Dealing with Bullying or Harassment
Turning Around a Poor Hiring Decision
Managing Skills Shortages
Transforming Poor Performance
Managing Unmotivated People
Benefiting from NLP Techniques in the Workplace
Developing Your Creativity
Giving and Receiving Feedback Well
Managing a Volunteer Workforce
Understanding Nonverbal Communication
Managing Others’ Creativity
Developing Your People
Succeeding As a New Manager
Downshifting: Working Less and Enjoying It More
Managing Upward: Making Your Boss Your Strongest Ally
Preparing for Retirement Gracefully
Assessing Your Entrepreneurial Profile: Do You Have What It Takes?
Deciding Whether to Start a Business
Profiling Your Target Market
Understanding Business Models
Evaluating an Existing Business
Financing a New Business
Preparing a Successful Business Plan
Franchising Your Business
Buying a Franchise
Succession Planning
Understanding the Basics of Project Management
Building a Cross-functional Team
Working with a Project Sponsor and Stakeholders
Planning, Scheduling, and Budgeting During a Project
Improving Marketing Measurement
Improving Communication with Resellers
Planning an Advertising Campaign
Preparing an Advertising Brief
Measuring Advertising Performance
Getting Better Results from Your Agency
Improving Your Marketing Performance
Selecting and Working with an Advertising Agency
Setting Advertising Objectives
Building One-to-one Relationships
Building Partnership with Business Customers
Getting Closer to Customers
Enhancing the Contact Center Experience for Customers
Exploring Intelligent Displays
Closing the Gap between Lead Generation and Sales
Profiting from a Business Ecosystem
Communicating Customer Service
Handling Customer Problems
Handling Customer Inquiries
Increasing Customer Lifetime Value
Running a Customer Loyalty Program
Building a Mailing List
Creating Impressive Direct Mail Material
Improving the Response to Direct Mail
Planning a Cost-effective Direct Marketing Campaign
Planning a Customer Event
Running a Sales Force Incentive Campaign
Generating More Leads
Converting Leads into Sales in a Small Business
Conducting Market Research
Profiling Your Competitors
Involving Customers in Product or Service Development
Making Better Use of Customer Data
Sustaining Competitive Advantage
Profiling Decision Makers
Branding a Business Product
Raising Awareness of Your Brand
Creating Product Literature
Extending a Product with Service
Introducing a New Product to Market
Planning a Corporate Public Relations Campaign
Creating an Effective Online PR Strategy
Producing a Corporate Brochure
Producing Press Material
Running a Product Public Relations Campaign
Planning Promotions
Running a Price Campaign
Supporting Campaigns with Telemarketing
Dealing with Press Inquiries
Managing Retailer Marketing Programs
Offering Customers Self-service
Pricing In a Downturn
Creating More Persuasive Features and Benefits
Developing Mobile Marketing Strategies
Implementing an E-commerce Strategy
Exploring Digital Media
Implementing Multi-channel Communications
Delivering Good Quality Online Customer Service and Support
Setting Up a Basic Web Site
Designing a Web Site Effectively
Implementing Web Site Accessibility
Managing a Web Site
Maintaining a Web Site
Developing a Personalization Strategy for a Web Site
Developing Effective Web Site Landing Pages
Getting the Most from Web Site Product Pages
Enhancing the Online Buying Experience
Developing Personalized Welcome Pages
Generating Customer Loyalty Through Smart Cards
Managing Payments Online in a Small Business
Adding New Online Payment Processes
Implementing Customer Product Configuration
Dealing Effectively With Computer Viruses and Spyware
Implementing Effective Internet Security
Using the Internet to Create Content Collaboratively
Outsourcing Your Web Site and IT Operations
Hosting or Selecting a Hosting Company
Understanding the Key Principles of Content Management
Making Sure Online Content Is Professionally Created, Edited, and Published
Implementing an Effective Search Process for a Web Site
Developing Appropriate Metadata and Classification for a Web Site
Making a Web Site Easy to Navigate
Applying a Viral Marketing Approach on the Internet
Setting Up Newsletter and Web Site Subscription Processes
Writing Well for the Web
Understanding the Key Principles of Internet Marketing
Collecting Consumer Data on the Internet
Legal Issues in E-commerce
Delivering the Benefits of Affiliate Marketing on the Web
Getting the Best from Loyalty Programs on the Web
Adding Value Through E-alliances
Generating Content and Building Loyalty Through Online Communities and Weblogs
Harnessing User-generated Content
Promoting Your Web Site Effectively
Using email Marketing Effectively
Getting the Best from E-marketplaces
Setting Up an Extranet
Making the Most of an Intranet
Using Videoconferencing Effectively
Exploring Peer-to-peer (P2P) Commerce
Implementing Effective E-learning Within the Organization
Establishing an Enterprise Portal
Delivering Products and Services Electronically
Calculating Annual Percentage Rate
Calculating Asset Turnover
Calculating Bond Yield
Calculating Book Value
Calculating Contribution Margin
Calculating Conversion Price
Calculating Conversion Ratio
Calculating Days Sales Outstanding
Calculating Debt-to-Capital Ratio
Calculating Creditor and Debtor Days
Calculating Debt-to-Equity Ratio
Calculating Efficiency and Operating Ratios
Calculating Payback Period
Calculating Elasticity
Calculating Expected Rate of Return
Calculating Future Value
Calculating Internal Rate of Return
Calculating Marginal Cost
Calculating Net Present Value
Calculating Rate of Return
Calculating Return on Sales
Calculating Return on Assets
Calculating Return on Investment
Calculating Return on Shareholders’ Equity
Calculating the Alpha and Beta Values of a Security
Calculating the Future Value of an Annuity
Calculating Working Capital Productivity
Calculating Risk-adjusted Rate of Return
Calculating Economic Value Added
Calculating Exchange Rate Risk
Calculating Total Return
Calculating Price/Earnings Ratio
Calculating the Current Price of a Bond
Calculating Accounts Receivable Turnover
Calculating Asset Utilization
Calculating a Capital Asset Pricing Model
Calculating Current Ratio
Calculating the Reserve Ratio
Calculating Capitalization Ratios
Calculating Acid-test Ratio
Calculating Convertible Preferred Stock
Creating a Balance Sheet
Creating a Profit and Loss Account
Creating a Cash Flow Statement
Reading a Balance Sheet
Reading a Profit and Loss Account
Reading a Cash Flow Statement
Defining Assets
Calculating Cost of Goods Sold
Calculating Working Capital
Calculating Goodwill and Patents
Calculating Yield
Reading an Annual Report
Calculating Depreciation
Calculating Enterprise Value
Calculating Amortization
Calculating Activity Based Costing
Calculating Price/Sales Ratio
Distinguishing between a Capital and an Operating Lease
Calculating Borrowing Costs and Capitalization
Reading the Financial Pages
Calculating EBITDA
Calculating Payout Ratio
Calculating Interest Coverage
Calculating Earnings Per Share
MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
Action Learning
Administrative Behavior
The Age of Discontinuity
The Age of Unreason
All the Right Moves
The Art of Japanese Management
The Art of War
Barbarians at the Gate
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Blur
The Book of the Five Rings
The Borderless World
Built to Last
A Business and Its Beliefs
Capital
The Change Masters
The Changing Culture of a Factory
Competing for the Future
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Competitive Strategy
Complexity
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Co-opetition
Corporate Strategy
Corporate-level Strategy
The Dilbert Principle
Dynamic Administration
Emotional Intelligence
The E-Myth Revisited
The Fifth Discipline
The Functions of the Executive
General and Industrial Management
The General Theory of Employment
Getting Things Done
Getting to Yes
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The HP Way
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization
The Human Side of Enterprise
In Search of Excellence
Information Rules
Innovation in Marketing
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Intellectual Capital
Jack: Straight from the Gut
The Knowledge-creating Company
Leaders: Strategies For Taking Charge
Leadership
Leadership
Leading Change
Liar’s Poker
The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment
Living on Thin Air
The Long Tail
The Machine That Changed the World
Made in Japan
Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail
The Managerial Grid
Managing
Managing Across Borders
Managing on the Edge
Managing Transitions
Marketing Management
Megatrends
The Mind of the Strategist
Moments of Truth
Motivation and Personality
The Motivation to Work
My Life and Work
My Years with General Motors
Natural Capitalism
The Nature of Managerial Work
The New Corporate Cultures
The New New Thing
New Patterns of Management
Now, Discover Your Strengths
No Logo
On Becoming a Leader
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
The One Minute Manager
On War
Onward Industry
The Organization Man
Organizational Culture and Leadership
Organizational Learning
Out of the Crisis
Parkinson’s Law
The Peter Principle
Planning for Quality
The Practice of Management
The Prince
Principles of Political Economy
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
The Principles of Scientific Management
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable
Quest for Prosperity
Reengineering the Corporation
Relationship Marketing
Riding the Waves of Culture
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
Six Thinking Hats
Small Is Beautiful
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Strategy Safari
Strategy and Structure
Du système industriel
Tableau économique
The Theory of Economic Development
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
Theory Z
The Third Wave
The Tipping Point
Toyota Production System
Up the Organization
The Wealth of Nations
What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
The Will to Manage
The Wisdom of Crowds
The World Is Flat
Reg Revans
Herbert Simon
Peter Drucker
Charles Handy
Constantinos C. Markides
Richard Pascale
Sun Tzu
Bryan Burrough
Richard Cyert
Stan Davis
Miyamoto Musashi
Kenichi Ohmae
James Collins
Thomas Watson
Karl Marx
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Elliot Jaques
Gary Hamel
Michael Porter
Michael Porter
M. Mitchell Waldrop
David Ogilvy
Barry J. Nalebuff
Igor Ansoff
Michael Goold
Scott Adams
Mary Parker Follett
Daniel Goleman
Michael E. Gerber
Peter Senge
Chester Barnard
Henri Fayol
John Maynard Keynes
David Allen
Roger Fisher
Dale Carnegie
David Packard
Elton Mayo
Douglas McGregor
Tom Peters
Carl Shapiro
Theodore Levitt
Clayton M. Christensen
Thomas Stewart
Jack Welch
Ikujiro Nonaka
Warren Bennis
James MacGregor Burns
Rudolph Giuliani
John P. Kotter
Michael Lewis
Arie de Geus
Charles Leadbetter
Chris Anderson
James P. Womack
Akio Morita
R. Meredith Belbin
Robert Blake
Harold Geneen
Christopher Bartlett
Richard Pascale
William Bridges
Philip Kotler
John Naisbitt
Kenichi Ohmae
Jan Carlzon
Abraham Maslow
Frederick Herzberg
Henry Ford
Alfred P. Sloan
Paul Hawken
Henry Mintzberg
Terrence Deal
Michael Lewis
Rensis Likert
Marcus Buckingham
Naomi Klein
Warren Bennis
Charles Babbage
Kenneth Blanchard
Karl von Clausewitz
James Mooney
William Whyte
Edgar Schein
Chris Argyris
W. Edwards Deming
C. Northcote Parkinson
Laurence Peter
Joseph Juran
Peter Drucker
Niccolò Machiavelli
John Stuart Mill
David Ricardo
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Seth Godin
Konosuke Matsushita
James Champy
Regis McKenna
Fons Trompenaars
Henry Mintzberg
Edward de Bono
E. F. Schumacher
Bethany McLean
Henry Mintzberg
Alfred Chandler
Henri de Saint-Simon
François Quesnay
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Max Weber
William Ouchi
Alvin Toffler
Malcolm Gladwell
Taiichi Ohno
Robert Townsend
Adam Smith
Mark H. McCormack
Marvin Bower
James Surowiecki
Thomas Friedman
MANAGEMENT GIANTS
John Jacob Astor
Jeffrey Bezos
Warren Buffett
Andrew Carnegie
Michael Dell
Walter Elias Disney
George Eastman
Thomas Alva Edison
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Harold Geneen
King Camp Gillette
Andrew S. Grove
William Randolph Hearst
Milton Snavely Hershey
Soichiro Honda
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
Lee Iacocca
Steve Jobs
Ingvar Kamprad
Herb Kelleher
Ray Kroc
Estée Lauder
Henry Robinson Luce
Konosuke Matsushita
Louis B. Mayer
Cyrus Hall McCormick
J. P. Morgan
Akio Morita
Rupert Murdoch
David Ogilvy
Jorma Jaakko Ollila
Pierre Omidyar
David Packard
John H. Patterson
Arthur Rock
John D. Rockefeller
Anita Roddick
Julius Rosenwald
David Sarnoff
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Eiji Toyoda
Robert Edward Turner III
Theodore Newton Vail
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Samuel Walton
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Jack Welch
Oprah Winfrey
Robert Winship Woodruff
Frank Winfield Woolworth
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