Download or read book Executive Turned Consultant written by Scott A. Mason and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a road map for executives contemplating a move into management consulting. It walks readers through key considerations and includes firsthand accounts of executives who have navigated the transition"--
Download or read book Getting the Most Out of Your Consultant written by Gordon W. Fuller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consultants are a dominant force in the business world. At their best, they can pinpoint a company's shortcomings and suggest improvements-but many executives and managers do not know how to work with consultants in the most efficient and profitable ways. Let a corporate executive-turned-advisor explain about Getting the Most Out of Your Consultant, with solid advice on how to select, hire, and build a constructive relationship with a consultant.
Download or read book Inventing Equal Opportunity written by Frank Dobbin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination. Dobbin shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel. He traces how the first measures were adopted by military contractors worried that the Kennedy administration would cancel their contracts if they didn't take "affirmative action" to end discrimination. These measures built on existing personnel programs, many designed to prevent bias against unionists. Dobbin follows the changes in the law as personnel experts invented one wave after another of equal opportunity programs. He examines how corporate personnel formalized hiring and promotion practices in the 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s they answered Ronald Reagan's threat to end affirmative action by recasting their efforts as diversity-management programs; and how the growing presence of women in the newly named human resources profession has contributed to a focus on sexual harassment and work/life issues. Inventing Equal Opportunity reveals how the personnel profession devised--and ultimately transformed--our understanding of discrimination.
Download or read book CEO Excellence written by Carolyn Dewar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on extensive interviews with today's . . . corporate leaders, this look at how the best CEOs do their jobs focuses on the mindsets and actions that foster an environment of excellence"--
Download or read book Marketing in the 21st Century and Beyond written by Bruce D. Keillor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively addresses the key facets of marketing strategy and provides cutting-edge direction for organizational success—all in a single volume. Marketing in the 21st Century and Beyond: Timeless Strategies for Success contains invaluable information written by leading business experts, successful entrepreneurs, and recognized scholars. The book is organized around four key areas of marketing: company and customer relations, integrated marketing communications, interactive and multi-channel marketing, and global marketing. Each of these broad categories is addressed in a manner that allows the reader to thoroughly explore the subject or hone in on a specific topic covered in the individual chapters. The work is particularly unique in its treatment of interactive marketing and social media. A valuable resource in its entirety or as a topical academic reference, this book is invaluable to business professionals of all levels and appropriate for an MBA-level course text.
Download or read book Success and Betrayal written by Sarah Hardesty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987-11-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Success and Betrayal offers the groundbreaking insight into the myth of the unlimited potential, the mystique of power, and the elusive path to the top. In their hard hitting book, two successful corporate managers describe a classic series of "landings" that women must confront both to thrive in the corporate environment and to achieve a guiltless balance between career and personal life.
Download or read book How to Get a Job in Consulting written by Stephen Pidgeon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fully updated second edition of the best-selling book that has helped hundreds of MBAs, undergrads and experienced hires get jobs in consulting. It gives candidates an in-depth, insider look at the entire process of recruiting, including how to get the most out of on-campus events, how to network, how to prepare for interviews, and how to succeed in interviews.
Download or read book Microslices written by John Dillard and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WAY EXECUTIVES USE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IS DYING. Are you ready to get the most out of what comes next? The longstanding business model of professional services is facing change unlike any other in its century-long history. Over the next 15 years, unrelenting advances in technology, data science, and corporate culture will fundamentally disrupt your “trusted advisors.” Exciting opportunities lie ahead for forward-thinking organizations, while disastrous threats await any buyer that’s unprepared to adopt a new service delivery model. MICROSLICES is a timely, eye-opening look at the changes that are already revolutionizing the professional services industry. It provides specific steps you must take as a buyer of those services to protect your organization from wasted consulting fees, outdated advice, and generic solutions. Consulting is dying. Your top adversaries will react to the future; will you? “Microslices is a great dive into understanding exactly why the boom in data sciences will completely change the way you use professional services. It’s, quite simply, a must-read.” Keith Ferrazzi author of Never Eat Alone and the #1 NY Times bestseller Who’s Got Your Back “The book provides an excellent view into the future for everyone that provides or utilizes professional services. It predicts the changes coming to the industry and how to embrace the changes in order to increase productivity and profitability.” Major General Steven W. Smith (Ret.) CEO of S.W. Smith & Associates For more information about Big Sky, visit www.bigskyassociates.com.
Download or read book All Services All the Time written by Doug McDavid and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the position that organizations, such as businesses and government agencies, form a special class of living system. As such, they come into being, live through lifecycle stages, and can experience organizational health and various forms of organizational illness along the way. If the latter is frequent or extended, such organizations often die an untimely death. A services perspective can go a long way to combat this outcome and assist in maintaining organizational health. Allowing this perspective to permeate, an organization induces a consideration of its genuine value and leads to a greater understanding of the breadth of stakeholders who are the beneficiaries of it.
Download or read book Strength for Service to God and Commmunity written by J. Richard Peck and published by Strength for Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Responder Edition
Download or read book Higher Education A Critical Business written by Ronald Barnett and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1997-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education: A Critical Business is a bold statement about higher education in the modern age. It continues Ronald Barnett's thinking of his earlier books but offers a completely new set of ideas in a challenging but engaging argument. A defining concept of the Western university is that of critical thinking, but that idea is completely inadequate for the changing and unknowable world facing graduates. Instead, we have to displace the idea of critical thinking with the much broader idea of critical being. In this idea, students reflect critically on knowledge but they also develop their powers of critical self-reflection and critical action. This critique is transformatory. An education for critical being calls for a new approach to the process of higher education. It also has implications for the organization and management of universities, and for the relationship of universities to the wider worlds of work, professionalism and intellectual life. "Barnett reviews what the academy customarily means when it talks about critical thought, explains why that talk is so often shallow and pessimistic, and holds up for contemplation a positive conception of a 'very wide self' formed through education.... He breathes completely new life into the dead notion of academic as intellectual" - Professor Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Anyone interested in understanding how we might develop universities and higher education for the modern world should read this important book.
Download or read book Management Consultants and Clients written by Stanley Charles Hollander and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modern Trusted Advisor written by Nancy MacKay and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best and the brightest use advisors and experts. In fact, one could say that they are the best and the brightest because they utilized trusted advisors throughout their careers. Whether in business, sports, entertainment, academia, or politics–expert help is a fundamental enabler of success. That means that the demand for expert advice will grow and the competition will increase for such help. This isn’t a matter of “certificates” and “universities,” it’s a matter of specific skill and behavioral sets that create a trusting bond and reliance. Trusted advisors are beyond coaches—they are comprehensive resources and supporters. The Modern Trusted Advisor employs important mastery traits, such as subordinating ego, applying shared experiences, and managing emotional, mental, and intellectual health. We are entering a world of “no normal” today and leaders must inspire others daily. This is the book that prepares you to inspire those leaders.
Download or read book The Executive s Guide to Consultants How to Find Hire and Get Great Results from Outside Experts written by David Fields and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximize Your Return on Expertise Research shows a high proportion of consultants fail to deliver results on time, on budget, and on target. Rare is the project that exceeds your expectations. But help is here. The Executive's Guide to Consultants explains how to ensure that every project delivers measurable benefits every time. This book will help you find experts, invest wisely, accelerate change, and achieve your most important goals by tapping into the genius of others. The Executive's Guide to Consultants contains breakthrough ideas covered by no other book, including: Sophisticated new contract structures that maximize your ROI Essential methods for reducing project risk Cutting-edge techniques for making change stick after the consultant leaves You will also learn to: Spot "chameleons" and other low-quality consultants who peddle tired ideas and deliver disappointing outcomes Get better results faster, while lowering fees Find the ideal consultant, coach, agency, or advisor for your precise situation Enforce accountability with outside experts and your own internal team Imagine if you could collect the wisdom of dozens of the country's top CEOs, combine it with the experience of a hall-of-fame consultant, and add a bucketful of unconventional thinking. You'd have The Executive's Guide to Consultants. Easy to read and packed with examples, checklists, templates, and guidelines, this book is the ultimate toolkit for maximizing your ROI from outside experts. Get extraordinary results from every consultant you hire "An extraordinary book. Clear, comprehensive, and eminently readable, it is THE book on how you can extract true business value from outside experts." -- Scott Cotherman, Chairman, TBWA\WorldHealth, subsidiary of Omnicom Group, Inc. "This is the Master Class for those who are smart, innovative, ahead of the pack, and who intend to stay that way. If you're not yet in that league, you should read this book twice." -- Alan Weiss, author, Million Dollar Consulting and The Consulting Bible "A terrific guidebook, with much of the advice equally applicable in managing your organization's internal talent. It's an easy, engaging read with a wealth of insights and detailed action steps--I highly recommend it." -- Brian Walker, President and CEO, Herman Miller, Inc. "A powerful antidote to the strained relationship between consultants and clients." -- Garry Ridge, CEO, WD-40 Company "This book shows you how to make your consultants' work stick. No more major investments in experts or programs that evaporate after only a few months or years." -- De Lyle Bloomquist, President, Tata Global Chemicals "Fields's messages are delivered in the way that all executives would like our outside resources to do it: capably, with straight talk and incredible insight." -- Ralph Scozzafava, Chairman and CEO, Furniture Brands
Download or read book How to be Your Own Management Consultant written by Calvert Markham and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical step-by-step guide, written by experienced management consultants, to identifying problems in your business and then designing and implementing effective solutions. The work also sets out tried and tested techniques for implementing change. Many managers and directors use management consultants to sort out the problems in their organizations. Although management can often identify these problems, they need the help of consultants to go about solving them. This practical step-by-step guide, which has been written by experienced management consultants, offers to show how to go about identifying the problems and then how to design and implement effective solutions. The tips and tools contained in every chapter can be used again and again by businesses. The work also sets out tried and tested techniques for implementing change. It should help the reader to: stimulate thinking; prompt new ideas; change thinking; improve performance levels; implement change effectively; and analyze and solve problems.
Download or read book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy written by William H. Janeway and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the digital revolution, sponsored by government and funded by speculation, now challenges the authority and legitimacy of the state.
Download or read book Managing the Insider Threat written by Nick Catrantzos and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the Insider Threat: No Dark Corners and the Rising Tide Menace, Second Edition follows up on the success of – and insight provided by – the first edition, reframing the insider threat by distinguishing between sudden impact and slow onset (aka “rising tide”) insider attacks. This edition is fully updated with coverage from the previous edition having undergone extensive review and revision, including updating citations and publications that have been published in the last decade. Three new chapters drill down into the advanced exploration of rising tide threats, examining the nuanced complexities and presenting new tools such as the loyalty ledger (Chapter 10) and intensity scale (Chapter 11). New explorations of ambiguous situations and options for thwarting hostile insiders touch on examples that call for tolerance, friction, or radical turnaround (Chapter 11). Additionally, a more oblique discussion (Chapter 12) explores alternatives for bolstering organizational resilience in circumstances where internal threats show signs of gaining ascendancy over external ones, hence a need for defenders to promote clearer thinking as a means of enhancing resilience against hostile insiders. Coverage goes on to identify counters to such pitfalls, called lifelines, providing examples of questions rephrased to encourage clear thinking and reasoned debate without inviting emotional speech that derails both. The goal is to redirect hostile insiders, thereby offering alternatives to bolstering organizational resilience – particularly in circumstances where internal threats show signs of gaining ascendancy over external ones, hence a need for defenders to promote clearer thinking as a means of enhancing resilience against hostile insiders. Defenders of institutions and observers of human rascality will find, in Managing the Insider Threat, Second Edition, new tools and applications for the No Dark Corners approach to countering a vexing predicament that seems to be increasing in frequency, scope, and menace.
