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  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Winning the Innovation Race
  An Inside Look at the Process of Innovation-and How to Make it Work for your Business While the need for innovation is widely recognized, the practices that nurture it elude many executives. Winning the Innovation Race examines the three dimensions of innovation-people, processes, and technology-an...
• The First 90 Days
  Whether challenged with taking on a startup, turning a business around, or inheriting a high-performing unit, a new leader's success or failure is determined within the first 90 days on the job. In this hands-on guide, Michael Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions, offers proven strateg...
• The Alchemy of Growth
  From experts at McKinsey & Company's world-renowned growth practice comes a highly practical, field-tested approach to initiating and sustaining growth in companies of all sizes. . Growth unleashes benefits beyond the economic. It revitalizes organizations and invigorates the people in them, cr...
• The Handbook of Large Group Methods
  Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems. The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes ...
• The Complexity Crisis
  In companies' quest to attain double-digit growth in single digit markets, companies have frantically created more products, customers, markets, suppliers, services and locations. Yet all this complexity adds cost causing topline revenue to go up, and bottomline profits to go down.This title shows ...
• Reframing Organizations
  Become a More Versatile Manager and a More Artistic Leader In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of reframing. The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situatio...
• Can Two Rights Make a Wrong?
  "This is the book for people who never get past page two of a management book--it is as close as the genre comes to being a compulsive page turner. Its main thesis is built on at least three big ideas that are individually persuasive and cumulatively compelling. They naturally fit into an alignment...
• Change Management Excellence
  In a constantly changing environment, businesses need to innovate and re-generate if they are to remain competitive. This book is intended to provide practical guidance on how to manage change successfully, be it large scale, such as cultural change, or slower, incremental change. Using the compass...
• Coaching for Change
  Coaching for Change is an essential tool for anyone who wants to transform performance through the development of a coaching environment. Drawing upon the author's experience, this book looks at how to create, develop and manage the process of change whether it be in one-to-one situations, team bas...
• Corporate Entrepreneurship
  With an established body of literature on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship, this volume of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth turns to some of the leading and most promising scholars in the field to map out where we have been and provide some direction on where scholar...
• The Change Leader's Roadmap
  This book aims to be your roadmap to transforming an organization! In this companion volume to Beyond Change Management, the authors provide you with specific how-to guidance for putting their breakthrough change theory into practice, offering detailed tools, techniques, and step-by-step processes....
• Double-Digit Growth
  The bestselling author of The Discipline of Market Leaders reveals how companies can achieve sustained growth. In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema explained how great companies dominated their markets by offering superior value propositions...
• The Heart of Change
  John Kotter's international bestseller Leading Change, struck a powerful chord with legions of managers everywhere. It acknowledged the cynicism, pain, and fear they faced in implementing large-scale change - but also armed them with an eight-step plan of action for leaping boldly forward in a turb...
• The Heart of Change Field Guide
  The practical implementation guide to John Kotter's revolutionary 8-step change process and the See-Feel-Change approach as introduced in Leading Change and The Heart of Change. John Kotter's change bible Leading Change has sold nearly 490,000 copies since publication in 1996 and The Heart of Chang...
• Journey to Newland
  With an animated fable, the Journey to Newland storybook provides readers with a cast of memorable characters, a captivating story, and a common language to deal with difficult and often emotionally sensitive issues in negotiating change within their organizations. The allegory follows a group of a...
• Leading Change
  "[An] important new book . . .Mr. O'Toole puts soul and values squarely back into a vital topic, leadership." —Tom Peters The New York Times Book Review "A deeply philosophical and eminently practical study of leadership as change." —James MacGregor Burns ...
• Making Sense of Change Management
  Written for academics and professionals alike, this book is an attempt to make change easier. It is aimed at those who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome, rather than a dreaded concept....
• Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures
  Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business. It shows how to shape high-performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment. As the natural su...
• Managing Change to Reduce Resistance
  These are timesaving guides to sharpen your skills, improve on the job and gain a competitive advantage. "The Results-Driven Manager" series - These concise and action-oriented books bring together the best and most current business thinking, advice, and practices that managers can put to use today...
• Managing Innovation
  Managing Innovation provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage, innovation at the operational and strategic levels. Specifically, it integrates the management of market, organizational and technological change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectivenes...
• Managing Organizational Change
  Managing Organizational Change, by Palmer/Dunford/Akin, provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their suc...
• Open Business Models
  In his landmark book Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organisations, business leaders must adopt a new, open model of innovation. Using this model, companies look outside their boundaries for ideas and intellectual...
• The Elusive Lean Enterprise (2nd Edition)
  In today's fast-paced and volatile business environment, customers are demanding increased flexibility and lower cost, and companies must operate in a waste-free environment to maintain a competitive edge and grow margins. Lean Enterprise is the process that companies are adopting to provide superi...
• Reinventing Organization Development
  'A hard hitting yet hopeful look at a field concerned with renewal that is in need of renewal itself. This book is full of intelligent questions, provocative appraisals, and prescriptions for action that they serve' - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, chaired professor, Harvard Business School author, Confiden...
• Appreciative Inquiry
  Originally part of Berrett-Koehler Communication's Collaborating for Change series, this short introduction to Appreciative Inquiry is the best way for organisations to be introduced to AI by the originators and leaders of the movement itself. Now with a new introduction and updated with revisions ...
• Creativity at Work
  Although many leaders acknowledge and invest in creativity, we seldom see it hold a credible place in the business development process. Creativity at Work takes a practical approach to creativity, showing how to select practices to produce results and add value. The authors explain how to: Understa...
• Does IT Matter?
  This series of essays represents philosopher Alan Watts' thinking on the confounding problems of our relation to our material environment. In it, Watts argues that modern people confuse symbol with reality, as well as ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself. Thus we put our...
• Structural Adjustment
  The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are key players in the global economy, but their role often goes unnoticed. The Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) they introduce in the wake of financial crises aim to reform economies and ensure a flow of revenue for debt repayment. While th...
• Harvard Business Review on Change
  This book presents leading minds and landmark ideas in an easily accessible format. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, The Harvard Business Review paperback series delivers the fundamental inform...
• The Truth About Thriving in Change
  The Truth About Thriving in Change offers real solutions for the tough challenges faced by every business leader who needs to drive and sustain successful change. You'll discover: which skills you need most, and how to develop them; how to lead change without eroding employee motivation, commitment...
• High Involvement Innovation
  Concerned with the creation of an environment in which the workforce as a whole can contribute their creativity and experience to help build a culture of continuous innovation....
• Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations
  How does evaluative inquiry contribute to organizational learning? How can we practice evaluative inquiry in ways that maximize individual and team learning? This book provides a data-based approach to organizational learning and change and focusses on the use of evaluative inquiry processes with o...
• Process Mapping
  A business organization, like a human body, is only as effective as its various processes. Pretty obvious, right? Yet, as V. Daniel Hunt demonstrates in this groundbreaking book, the failure to appreciate this obvious fact is the reason most reengine...
• The Road to Organic Growth
  Achieve solid growth from within through measurement and performance. A two-year study of more than 800 companies found that the successful ones had a passion for measurement, customer service, and an employee-centric organization. "The Road to Organic Growth" shows you how to develop this kind of ...
• Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators
  Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That's what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. With no proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enou...
• Transformational Learning
  An invaluable hands-on guide to developing the knowledge and capabilities of every person in an organization The concept of the learning organization has been a major theme in corporate America ever since Peter Senge's 1990 classic The Fifth Discipli...
• Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies
  Emerging technologies such as the Internet and biotechnology have the potential to create new industries and transform existing ones. Incumbent firms, despite their superior resources, often lose out to smaller rivals in developing emerging technologies. Why do these incumbents have so much difficu...
• Beyond the Core
  This book provides proven approaches - and guidance on how and when to use them - for achieving profitable growth away from your core business. Now, in Beyond the Core, Zook explains how executives can increase the odds of successful expansion once their core business no longer provides sufficient ...
• Big Change
  This text offers practical advice on implementing, leading and sustaining corporate change. It tackles the practicalities of change draws on Coopers & Lybrand's corporate transformation experience with international firms such as Phillips, NatWest and Levi Strauss Europe and offers practical advice...
• Big Ideas
  Innovate, and Grow Rich!What does it really take to create an amazing, ultimately market dominating product?Attorney and business writer Steven Strauss goes behind the scenes to find out. Strauss believes that the best way to learn and understand what it takes to innovate is by looking at people wh...
• Bigger Isn't Always Better
  Genuine business growth has more to do with reaching maximum potential than reaching maximum size. Bigger Isn't Always Better, based on ten years of research and dozens of personal interviews by the author, examines how the key to achieving growth is...
• Breaking the Code of Change
  Organizational change may well be the most oft-repeated and widely embraced term in all of corporate America-but it is also the least understood. The proof is in the numbers: nearly two-thirds of all change efforts fail, and they carry with them huge human and economic tolls. Lacking any overarchin...
• Breakthrough!
  Breakthrough will help executives lead their teams to peerless, unsurpassed performance by helping them define a grand goal and engage the organization to pursue and achieve that goal, no matter how difficult the challenge seems. Based on a ten-year landmark study of more than seventy bold, breakth...
• Built for Change
  Don't manage change, create a change. Ready company Renowned management expert Ed Lawler and coauthor Chris Worley: show how to create an organization that encourages experimentation, learning about new practices and technologies, monitoring the environment, assessing performance, and a commitment ...
• Changing Organizational Culture
  How do people react to significant organizational change? Do we see ourselves as helping change to come about, or allowing change to happen around us? How can we adapt more easily to change? Based around an illuminating extended case-study, this important new text uncovers the reality of organizati...
• The Change Handbook
  The Change Handbook is the only book that provides a view into a wide variety of change methods from around the world. This new edition is updated with the latest change methods - including cutting-edge technologies that have emerged since the first edition was published....
• Deep Change
  This book is about deep change. In a series of research reports and commentaries, it mainly features case studies of powerful reform for the most part in local districts and in individual schools. They are set within the constraints of obvious political realities, essentially the recently legislate...
• Designing Dynamic Organizations
  A practical guide for executives and managers who need to make restructuring decisons. This book shows business leaders at all levels how to examine their choices by leading them systematically through some fundamental questions: should we restructure to meet our strategic goals? what are the best ...
• Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
  Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. Authors, Cameron and Quinn focus on the methods and mechanisms t...
• Enterprise-wide Change
  Leave piecemeal strategic change approaches behind and learn how to plan, facilitate, and integrate your change efforts for lasting success. Enterprise Wide Change takes you through the Rollercoaster of Change, showing you how to deal with resistance, regard skeptics as your best friends, and build...
• The Global Brain
  Innovation is a key concept for business development, and yet there is no right way to master it. As the concept of network-centric innovation becomes more diverse and more confusing, there is a desperate need for people to better understand the different models used in network-centric innovation. ...
• How the Paper Fish Learned to Swim
  How the Paper Fish Learned to Swim presents a fable as a springboard to unlocking creativity and innovation in the workplace In a Japanese fishing village, an origami master's creation begs to live in a real ocean. Sure she is making the wrong choice, the master releases her paper fish, and amazing...
• Intelligent Innovation
  This superb volume explains the importance of the application of innovation throughout the lifecycle of a product or service, from initial development to end of line customer delivery. Using extensive worldwide studies of blockbuster products and successful business models, this volume provides an ...
• The Improvement Guide
  Improve quality and productivity in most any organization Based on W. Edwards Deming's model, this guide offers an integrated approach to testing and improvement one that is designed to deliver quick and substantial results. Using simple stories to illustrate core ideas, the authors all active cons...
• The Innovation Killer
  This book presents the idea of using outsiders - people who are not a permanent part of a particular group or constrained by its preconceptions - to stimulate innovation. The author reveals how to find and work with the right people - employees from different departments or divisions, consultants, ...
• Managing in Times of Change
  In this book, managers learn a three-step method to help their employees deal with change in the workplace. They will learn how to face change head-on and be honest with their employees about the current situation and offer desirable outcomes. This book offers lessons in a three-step method for man...
• The Making Six Sigma Last
  Making Six Sigma Last is the most practical and helpful resource that I have seen on this subject. George's charisma and charm spill over into this interesting and entertaining book. Using one of George's many analogies, 'this is an upper--deck shot,' and combined with his first book should become ...
• The Medici Effect
  Innovation is an evergreen topic because it is such an essential ingredient for successful growth - and this book provides a new and fascinating perspective on how new innovations can best be found and developed Managers from all kinds of companies will find this book of interest. This book is so w...
• Practicing Organization Development
  Since it was first published in 1995, Practicing Organization Development has become a classic in change management. Now completely revised and updated, editors Rothwell and Sullivan, leaders in the field of OD, and numerous expert practitioners, walk you through each episode of change facilitation...
• The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
  The Power of Appreciative Inquiry describes a revolutionary new change strategy that inspires people and brings about a higher performance level in any organization. This method encourages people to study, discuss, learn from, and build on what works well when they are at their best, rather than fo...
• Stretch!
  Learn how to achieve sustained business growth even in the toughest economic times. Author A.T. Kearney surveyed some 29,000 global companies over fourteen years and studied more than eighty companies in depth, in order to determine how the best comp...
• The Seamless Organization
  There have been a number of titles on organizational theory and design but this is the only one that distils the essence of the analysis and research for the benefit of practising managers. This fourth edition manages to bridge the gap between analysis and action, making it a valuable reference too...
• Ten Steps to Innovation Heaven
  Innovation (that combination of invention and exploitation) has for the past 10 years been seen as vital to the success of businesses around the world. The amount of time devoted to discussing innovation at the recent World Economic Forum held at Davos clearly shows its continued importance. Innova...
• Terms of Engagement
  The current twenty-year-old approach to change management is failing, producing cynicism, resistance, and resentment - in short the Dilbert Organization. Terms of Engagement exposes the inherent weakness in the widely accepted Change Management Paradigm and provides leaders with a powerful new alte...
• The Two Minute Drill
  Authors Clinton Longenecker, Greg Papp, and Timothy Stansfield reveal that all too often business organizations are defeated while the clock is still ticking. Bogged down by sluggish business practices that stifle change, they are unable to pick up the pace when necessary to score and win. The Two ...
• Transformational Boards
  Organized as a quick and user-friendly roadmap for board members and chief executive officers as they reflect on their roles and duties together, Transformational Boards offers an engagement framework for board leadership designed to help boards lead...
• Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them
  This book shows how to keep your company from being blinded by its own success - and how to put a firm on the path to sustained greatness. Organisations must change to survive. But a blind commitment to success "formulas" that worked in the past often render companies unable to adapt when new compe...
• At Your Own Risk
  Based on over thirty years of experience, recognized industry leader Gary Lynch reveals in this essential guide a game plan to identify and manage a range of risks faced in this brave new globalized world of changing market dynamics and complex high-tech value networks. This groundbreaking book art...
• Beyond Booked Solid
  In Beyond Booked Solid, Michael Port returns with new tactics for growing your business even bigger. Port's Book Yourself Solid was a huge hit among professional service providers and small business owners who learned to master the art of attracting clients and keeping them happy. In this book, he ...
• Big Ideas to Big Results
  "This book is a must read for leaders building focused and strategically driven businesses. Mike and Bob, the knowledge practice leaders in transformation leadership, here provide important insights for managers who aspire to impact the direction of their organizations." --John W. Spiegel, Chairman...
• Business Genius
  At last, a more inspired approach to business. Business Genius describes how to grow your business more effectively through intelligent strategy and imaginative leadership, radical innovation and sustained change. Combining the entrepreneurial passion of a start-up with the commercial rigour of lar...
• Grabbing Lightning
  Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are often hamstrung by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. Based on years of research, Grabbing Lightning shows how twelve companies have tried to develop a capability for sustainable breakthroug...
• Harvard Business Review on Innovation
  Harvard Business review is the place to learn about important management issues, bringing today's managers and professionals the information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefin...
• Harvard Business Review on Turnarounds
  Harvard Business Review is a brand name recognized throughout the world. * The volumes cover "hot" topics and perennial favorites. * Books help readers understand the fundamental issues, concerns, and controversies associated with each of the respective topics. * Readers can use the books to brush ...
• Innovation to the Core
  If you're like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success. In Innovation to ...
• Management of Technological Innovation
  The Management of Technological Innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations. The first edition of this book has become one of th...
• Out of the Ashes
  Take a management journey to the heart of the restructuring of SN Brussels Airlines, sharing the dos and don'ts of Jean-Frederic Mognetti's three years of hands-on experience as restructuring catalyst to the company. In 2002 SN rose out of the ashes of Belgian airline SABENA, witnessing a remarkabl...
• Rapid Transformation
• Growing Pains
  From start-up enterprise to mature corporation, this latest edition of the best-selling original explores the seven predictable stages of organizational growth. It also identifies what must be accomplished in each stage to ensure continued development and provides practical guidance for implementin...
• Diagnosis for Organizational Change
  Organizational diagnosis produces the road maps that guide and direct organizational change interventions. To generate better understanding and appreciation of the diagnostic process, this unique volume illustrates methods and models used by prominent behavioral science practitioners demonstrates t...
• Quick Hits
  The various techniques used to improve business process performance are often such large undertakings that they end up involving more work and time than they're worth. This guide shows how readers can make specific, targeted improvements on specific areas without turning the company upside-down....
• Bottom-Line Organization Development
  Organization development practitioners have, for over half a century, engaged with organizations to help them grow and thrive. The artful application of Organization Development (OD) has helped business leaders articulate vision, rethink business processes, create more fluid organization structures...
• Understanding Change
  Change is now so commonplace that people no longer talk in terms of the 'whitewater epoch'. Every sector of the economies of the developed world has experienced huge swathes of change in the last decade of the twentieth century alone. Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technological...
• Dynamics Of Organizational Change And Learning
  This handbook focuses on the complex processes and problems of organizational change and relates current knowledge of individual and group psychology to the understanding of the dynamics of change. Complementary and competing insights are presented as overviews of theory and research Offers helpful...
• Managing Business Change for Dummies
  Managing Business Change For Dummies gives you practical step-by-step advice for evaluating your organization's change effort from start to finish. This friendly guide brings you specific techniques and tools for each step of the change process -- from how to pinpoint potential problems and resolve...
• Dealers, Healers, Brutes and Saviors
  Former American Motors Chairman and CEO Gerald Meyers takes readers behind the scenes at Texaco, Lucent, Intel, and other top companies for an up-close look at different leadership styles in action during times of crisis. Meyers is on a first-name basis with the leaders profiled, each of whom candi...
• Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management
  The Third Edition of Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management enables readers to manage the design, development, and engineering of systems effectively and efficiently. The book both defines and describes the essentials of project and systems engineering management and, moreover, sh...
• The Power of Alignment
  Misaligned companies, like cars out of alignment, can develop serious problems if not corrected quickly. They are hard to steer and don't respond well to changes in direction. This groundbreaking book shows you how to get -and keep -all the vital elements of your organization aligned and headed in ...
• The Six-month Fix
  If you're the CEO of a struggling business, let's hope we never meet. I'm Gary Sutton, a turnaround guy. When I arrive you leave. Results usually get better and fast. - from the Introduction to The Six-Month Fix Lessons on how to save a sick company from a top turnaround CEO. One of the business wo...
• Driving Growth Through Innovation
  Based on rigorous research of twenty-three real companies - and the unique practices they are using to encourage innovation and spur growth - Driving Growth Through Innovation by bestselling author Robert Tucker offers a practical but comprehensive approach for designing and implementing an enterpr...
• The Everchanging Organization
  If you are: overwhelmed by the amount of change and the difficulty in making it happen, finding failure - or limited success - with the implementation of changes, disappointed in the growth or financial performance of your organization, and are looking for a strategy for improving your organization...
• Organization Development and Transformation
  Organization Development and Transformation is a paperback collection of 46 readings that focuses on how people function with and within organizations, and how to make the working relationship function best. This edition includes coverage of classic OD articles, coverage of topics such as self-dire...
• Organizational Change and Innovation Processes
  In a world of organizations that are in constant change, scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of...
• The Seeds of Innovation
  This is a practical guide to getting profitable and strategic creative contributions from every employee....
• The Truth About Innovation
  The Truth About Innovation transforms today's most important innovation research into 50 proven "truths". Max Mckeown delivers plain, powerful advice on how to: *increase creativity *encourage collaboration *co-create with customers *overcome indifference *make ideas into money *thrive on change......
• The Age of Heretics
  In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic as a visionary who creates change in large-scale companies, balancing the contrary tr...
• Changing the Essence
  Reveals the strategies and leadership behaviors required to manage and integrate fundamental change. Uses illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully led radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, vision, and the very structure and functions of the organization itself....
• The Change Cycle
  The Change Cycle offers a tested, six-stage approach for successfully navigating common work-life transitions so that you not only get through them but emerge stronger and better able to face the next challenge....
• Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
  This book discusses a holistic approach to organizations. It explores alternative organizational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information systems, evolving skill requirements, the innovative power of information technology, the creation of knowledge, and the reshaping of in...