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Generative Collaboration

Releasing the Creative Power of Collective Intelligence

by Robert Brian Dilts ...

Series Book 2 - Success Factor Modeling
Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashionThe fruit of effective collective ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashionThe fruit of effective collective
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Renew Where You Are: How to Diagnose a Stalled Job, Test What Can Change, and Know When to Leave

by Casey M. Bennett ...

When work stops feeling like progress, quitting and enduring are not your only choices.You may be underused, overloaded, poorly managed, blocked by the organization, or moving toward a career that no longer fits. From inside a stalled job, those explanations can feel identical—and an immediate exit may be constrained by income, benefits, family, immigration status, timing, or the labor market ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

When work stops feeling like progress, quitting and enduring are not your only choices.You may be underused, overloaded, poorly managed, blocked by the organization, or moving toward a career that no longer fits. From inside a stalled job, those explanations can feel identical—and an immediate exit may be constrained by income, benefits, family, immigration status, timing, or the labor market
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The Patient Priority: Solve Health Care's Value Crisis by Measuring and Delivering Outcomes That Matter to Patients

by Stefan Larsson, Jennifer Clawson, Josh Kellar ...

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as ... Read more

$23.99 USD

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as
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Collaborate or Perish!

Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World

by William Bratton, Zachary Tumin ...

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and groups who can collaborate, Bratton and Tumin argue ... Read more

$15.99 USD

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and groups who can collaborate, Bratton and Tumin argue
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IT Governance

How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

by Peter Weill, Jeanne W. Ross ...

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and ... Read more

$28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and
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Business Model Book, The

Design, Build And Adapt Business Ideas That Drive Business Growth

by Adam Bock ...

Adam Bock is a research academic, serial entrepreneur, and professional financier and venture consultant. As an academic, he has studied business models globally, from the US and UK to Russia and India, and has published highly cited articles about business models, including the first large-scale global study of business model innovation. As Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at The University of ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Adam Bock is a research academic, serial entrepreneur, and professional financier and venture consultant. As an academic, he has studied business models globally, from the US and UK to Russia and India, and has published highly cited articles about business models, including the first large-scale global study of business model innovation. As Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at The University of
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The Interviewer's Book

Hiring the Right Person

by Mary Hanson, Brian McIvor ...

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions.The Interviewer’s Book:Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a ... Read more

$10.00 USD

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions.The Interviewer’s Book:Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a
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Startup Myths and Models

What You Won't Learn in Business School

by Rizwan Virk ...

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the
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Enabling Next Generation Legacies

35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask

by Peter Jaskiewicz, Sabine B. Rau ...

Answering the most pressing thirty-five questions of Next Generation members in a short and concise, yet competent way—leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to empower Next Generation legacies.Masterfully detangling the intricate dynamics of the family, ownership, business, and wealth, the authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Answering the most pressing thirty-five questions of Next Generation members in a short and concise, yet competent way—leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to empower Next Generation legacies.Masterfully detangling the intricate dynamics of the family, ownership, business, and wealth, the authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions
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Productive Tensions

How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

by Christopher B. Bingham, Rory M. McDonald ...

Series series Management on the Cutting Edge
How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation
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Acclimated to Africa

Cultural Competence for Westerners

by Debbi DiGennaro ...

Series Book 45 - Publications in Ethnography
Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. ... Read more

$10.79 USD

Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West.
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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy

Classic Concepts and New Perspectives

Edited by Carl W. Stern, Michael S. Deimler ...

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, ... Read more

$23.00 USD

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers,
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Business Model Innovation

Concepts, Analysis, and Cases

by Allan Afuah ...

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals ... Read more

$125.99 USD

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals
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On Trust and AI

A Blueprint for the Intelligent Enterprise

by Alexander Feick ...

AI can't guarantee its own reliability. Trust in its decisions depends on you.Artificial intelligence is moving into core business processes faster than most organizations can govern it. Leaders are being asked to rely on systems that behave intelligently but fail unpredictably-systems that make opaque decisions, accumulate silent privileges, and drift out of alignment long before anyone notices ... Read more

$9.99 USD

AI can't guarantee its own reliability. Trust in its decisions depends on you.Artificial intelligence is moving into core business processes faster than most organizations can govern it. Leaders are being asked to rely on systems that behave intelligently but fail unpredictably-systems that make opaque decisions, accumulate silent privileges, and drift out of alignment long before anyone notices
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AI-Born

The Machine Core

by Mehran Granfar ...

The job title is dying. What comes next will define how we build.We are witnessing a lineage break as profound as the Industrial Revolution - but this time, it's happening at machine speed. A three-person team now orchestrates the productive capacity that once required 30,000 employees. AI agents don't just assist with work; they are the workforce, executing, learning, and adapting faster than any ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The job title is dying. What comes next will define how we build.We are witnessing a lineage break as profound as the Industrial Revolution - but this time, it's happening at machine speed. A three-person team now orchestrates the productive capacity that once required 30,000 employees. AI agents don't just assist with work; they are the workforce, executing, learning, and adapting faster than any
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Good Decisions for Strange Situations

A guide to making the right choices

by Dr Sheheryar Banuri ...

Good decisions are hard to make - agreed? Whether it's deciding what kind of take-away to order, what brand of shampoo to buy, or what to do in a crisis, we've all been in situations where we panic or overthink.And now, more than ever, we are in unfamiliar territory. Our routines and norms have been completely disrupted, replaced by stress and anxiety and making a good decision is harder than ever ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Good decisions are hard to make - agreed? Whether it's deciding what kind of take-away to order, what brand of shampoo to buy, or what to do in a crisis, we've all been in situations where we panic or overthink.And now, more than ever, we are in unfamiliar territory. Our routines and norms have been completely disrupted, replaced by stress and anxiety and making a good decision is harder than ever
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The Value Flywheel Effect

Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

by David Anderson ...

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to ... Read more

$14.99 USD

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to
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Demand Forecasting Best Practices

by Nicolas Vandeput ...

Lead your demand planning process to excellence and deliver real value to your supply chain.In Demand Forecasting Best Practices you’ll learn how to:Lead your team to improve quality while reducing workloadProperly define the objectives and granularity of your demand planningUse intelligent KPIs to track accuracy and biasIdentify areas for process improvementHelp planners and stakeholders add ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Lead your demand planning process to excellence and deliver real value to your supply chain.In Demand Forecasting Best Practices you’ll learn how to:Lead your team to improve quality while reducing workloadProperly define the objectives and granularity of your demand planningUse intelligent KPIs to track accuracy and biasIdentify areas for process improvementHelp planners and stakeholders add
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The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook: 50+ Frameworks and Prompts to Automate Your Decision Making

AI leadership, #1

by Pierce Sterling ...

Series Book 1 - AI leadership
Master the future of management with The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook.In an era where speed and precision define success, staying ahead means integrating artificial intelligence into your core leadership strategy. This essential guide provides over 50 actionable frameworks and ready-to-use prompts specifically designed to help executives, managers, and entrepreneurs automate complex decision-making ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the future of management with The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook.In an era where speed and precision define success, staying ahead means integrating artificial intelligence into your core leadership strategy. This essential guide provides over 50 actionable frameworks and ready-to-use prompts specifically designed to help executives, managers, and entrepreneurs automate complex decision-making
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The Mini-Book on Use Cases: All You Need but Short

The Simplifying Series

by Alistair Cockburn ...

Series series The Simplifying Series
Get moving fast on use cases.This book opens with a dozen examples ranging from simple to complex, low-level to "kite"-level. By page 38, you've finished the core explanations and are already slicing, refining, and applying the 7 key concepts to improve your writing. It's fast, focused, and designed to get readers productive immediately.A concise, practical introduction to use cases, from the ... Read more

$8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get moving fast on use cases.This book opens with a dozen examples ranging from simple to complex, low-level to "kite"-level. By page 38, you've finished the core explanations and are already slicing, refining, and applying the 7 key concepts to improve your writing. It's fast, focused, and designed to get readers productive immediately.A concise, practical introduction to use cases, from the
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Positive Leadership

Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

by Kim Cameron ...

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Beyond Success Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron ... Read more

$15.99 USD

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Beyond Success Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron
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Hiring Smart!

How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game

by Pierre Mornell ...

Now in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today'¬?s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"-observing a candidate'¬?s behavior and predicting what they'¬?ll be like in the workplace-that virtually guarantee hiring the best possible candidate for any job.An ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Now in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today'¬?s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"-observing a candidate'¬?s behavior and predicting what they'¬?ll be like in the workplace-that virtually guarantee hiring the best possible candidate for any job.An
... Read more
Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition

Managing for Shareholder Value in Any Economy

by Geoffrey A. Moore ...

The fault line -- that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where powerful innovations and savage competition meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it.In the original edition of Living on the Fault Line, Geoffrey Moore presented a compelling argument for using shareholder value (or share price) as the key driver in management decisions. ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The fault line -- that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where powerful innovations and savage competition meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it.In the original edition of Living on the Fault Line, Geoffrey Moore presented a compelling argument for using shareholder value (or share price) as the key driver in management decisions.
... Read more
The Imagination Machine

How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future

by Martin Reeves, Jack Fuller ...

In this fascinating and practical guide, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller break down the science of imagination and offer tools, tactics, games, and strategies for helping teams and organizations expand the art of the possible.A six-step process for increasing imagination. A how-to book, through and through.Fascinating learnings from the fields from neuroscience, computer science, evolution, ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this fascinating and practical guide, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller break down the science of imagination and offer tools, tactics, games, and strategies for helping teams and organizations expand the art of the possible.A six-step process for increasing imagination. A how-to book, through and through.Fascinating learnings from the fields from neuroscience, computer science, evolution,
... Read more

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