Download or read book The Self Destructive Habits of Good Companies written by Jagdish N. Sheth and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many good companies engage in self-destructive behavior? This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim to–and helps you diagnose and break these habits before they destroy you. Through case studies from some of yesterday’s most widely praised corporate icons, you’ll learn how companies slip into “addiction” and slide off the rails...why some never turn around...and how others achieve powerful turnarounds, moving on to unprecedented levels of success. You’ll learn how an obsession with volume leads inexorably to rising costs and falling margins...how companies fall victim to denial, myth, ritual, and orthodoxy... how they start wasting vital energy on culture confl ict and turf wars...how they blind themselves to emerging competition...how they become arrogant, complacent, and far too dependent on their traditional competences. Most important, you’ll find specific, detailed techniques for “curing”–or, better yet, preventing–every one of these self-destructive habits. The “cocoon” of denial Find it, admit it, assess it, and escape it The stigma of arrogance Escape this fault that “breeds in a dark, closed room” The virus of complacency Six warning signs and five solutions The curse of incumbency Stop your core competencies from blinding you to new opportunities The threat of myopia Widen your view of your competitors–and the dangers they pose The obsession of volume Get beyond “rising volumes and shrinking margins” The territorial impulse Break down the silos, factions, fiefdoms, and ivory towers

Download or read book Inverting the Paradox of Excellence written by Vivek Kale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing lessons from one of the best models of success, the evolutionary model, this book explains why an organization must actively monitor the market environment and competitors to ascertain excellence and reconfigure and reframe continuously. It introduces the patterns and anti-patterns of excellence and includes detailed case studies based on different variations, including structure variations, shared values variations, and staff variations. The book includes case history segments from Toyota, Acer, eBay, Cisco, Blackberry, Samsung, Volvo, Charles Schwab, McDonalds, Starbucks, Google, Disney, and NUMMI; as well as detailed case histories of GE, IBM, and UPS.

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Download or read book Win Business with Relationships written by May Gao and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity. This business development “guidebook” illustrates relationship building and leadership strategies with quotations from entrepreneurs, communication theories, business case studies, Taoism metaphors, and real-life stories. Businesspeople and students can apply ideas from this book for career success and work-life harmony.

Download or read book Why Do Good Companies Go Bad written by Jagdish N. Sheth and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies...and How to Break Them (9780131791138) by Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth. Available in print and digital formats. Why don’t “great,” “excellent” companies stay that way? Why do so many falter--and how can you keep it from happening to your company? Why do good companies go bad? Of the 62 “excellent” companies praised by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in their early 1980s bestseller In Search of Excellence, many--including stalwarts like Sears, Xerox, IBM, and Kodak--have faced serious hardships in the 20-odd years since. Some recovered. Some are struggling mightily to recover. Some are dead or, in all likelihood, soon will be. Why?

Download or read book The Executive Guide to Business Process Management written by Peter Plenkiewicz Ph. D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EXECUTIVE GUIDE TO BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT has been written primarily for business executives, decision makers, informal leaders, and managers to provide a highlevel comprehensive overview of the powerful family of Business Process Management (BPM) methodologies. It is also for people who want to build the wealth of their organizations by applying sound, effective, and sustainable improvement strategies. The book provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of specific strategies to achieve continuous improvement objectives by applying Business Process Management methodologies. The author strongly believes that implementation of Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies based on BPM paradigms significantly transform organizations, and dramatically increase their efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to achieve faster business goals and meet customer expectations. The hope is that this book will not only change the way you think about your organization, how it functions, and how it can excel, but that it will also have a profound impact on your life by making it equally successful. Many of the techniques and tools described here can dramatically improve your professional or even private life.

Download or read book Chindia Rising written by Jagdish N Sheth and published by Incore Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chindia Rising, Dr. Jagdish Sheth introduces the concept of Chindia, which captures the re-emergence of the two Himalayan demographic neighbors as economic powers. This thoroughly researched and detailed work analyzes the impact of these nations' re-emergence on global economies, both advanced and emerging. The primary topics of discussion are: -The enormous business implications of the rising economies of China and India on other nations, particularly in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and Southeast Asia; -Major obstacles inhibiting the rise of Chindia, including need for natural resources, poverty, environmental damage, and substandard education among the impoverished; and -Real world examples demonstrating the trends and techniques behind this economic rise, including the Lenovo PC Company in China and Mittal Steel in India. Distinguished author and Professor of Marketing Jagdish Sheth has produced a thoroughly detailed yet approachable text that suggests a hopeful future for world economies in relation to the Chindia economic boom. Chindia Rising is a highly useful guide to national and international economics for students and practitioners of both business and politics.

Download or read book Return on Strategy written by Michael Moesgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that many companies meticulously following recipes on management and strategy fail? Did Google, Skype, Ryanair, Huawei and a number of other successful companies buy into a well thought out strategy and adhered to that over time? How do companies deliberately opting out of the recipe game and opting into the out-of-the-box-thinking fare? In short, why is it that some companies achieve a higher Return on Strategy than others? Whereas Return on Investment (RoI) has attracted increased attention over the last couple of decades, little, if any, attention is being paid to whether companies do at all achieve Return on Strategy (RoS) and how. This book provides an overview of contemporary strategy literature and recipes brushed up with a view to identifying explanations as to how recipes has seldom worked as intended. One out of several reasons rests on the fact that recipes do not take the so-called X-factor into account. With the X-factor as the starting point the book examines a sample of 50 global companies of which some has achieved a remarkable high Return on Strategy and others failed. The 50 companies covers most continents as some are from the North America, some are from the European continent and others are from different parts of the emerging Asian region – threatening companies from the Western hemisphere. The book explains the reason behind success and failures and provides practical tools as to how companies may increase their Return on Strategy. In the toolbox, you will find a framework on how to increase the Return on Strategy as well a number of dynamic positioning tools, road maps and bearing points. Invariably, more and more companies - including consultants, business leaders and MBAs - now work diligently in order to increase their Return on Strategy and the best of them are here to stay successfully – are you?

Download or read book The Six Secrets of Change written by Michael Fullan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Michael Fullan, wisdom for thriving in today's complex environment Successful organizations adjust quickly and intelligently to shifts in consumer tastes, political climate, and economic opportunity. How do they do it? The Six Secrets of Change explores essential lessons for business and public sector leaders for thriving in today's complex environment. Fullan draws on his acclaimed work in bringing about large-scale and substantial change in education reform in both public school systems and universities, as well as engaging in major change initiatives internationally. This book is filled with lessons that are insightful, actionable, and concisely communicable. "Fullan has an uncanny ability to produce what is needed at the time it is needed. The six secrets are based in theory, grounded in practice, powerful in their relationship to each other, and described in ways that enable deep understanding. It is a refreshing change from the surface lists of leadership and change ideas that all too often permeate education and business literature." —Vicki Phillips, director of education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Includes so-called leadership "secrets" that are decoded to be accessible and useful Offers illustrative examples from a variety of businesses, health organizations, and public education systems Lays out the six factors to organizational success: collegiality, long-range plans allow for the unknown, nurture employees, learning, leadership at all levels, and positive pressure must be inescapable Michael Fullan is the author of the acclaimed best-seller Leading in a Culture of Change Fullan convinces us that a leader who attends to all six key factors will have an organization that is constantly learning, growing, and thriving.

Download or read book The Perfect Pill written by Gauri Chaudhari and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can I build my brand when it is just another me-too? is the quintessential question asked by pharma and healthcare marketers operating in the branded generic markets. In highly saturated markets with hundreds of similar brands, establishing a competitive edge and building a strong brand is often a challenging task. The Perfect Pill propagates a robust 10-step healthcare brand-building model that helps you create much-needed differentiation and a unique value proposition for patients and physicians. The steps suggested in the book help establish an ultimate win-win situation for patients, physicians, and sales and marketing professionals. A must-read for pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic, over-the-counter, surgical, hospital, nutrition, and wellness brand marketers.

Download or read book Management from the Masters written by Morgen Witzel and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The belief that everything is changing led to the disasters of the dotcom era. This book reminds us that some fundamental rules do still apply by taking readers through 20 imperatives derived from the thinking of great leaders and management theorists including Peter Drucker, Henry Fayol, Andrew Grove and bankers and financiers such as Thomas Gresham and Warren Buffet. This entertaining run down of the fundamental laws, rules and principles business professionals should break at their peril is complemented by case studies that document the consequences of ignoring these key laws. Management from the Masters is a book to be read and re-read to reinforce the fundamental rules of business for all successful managers.

Download or read book Management Frameworks written by Jacques Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how much of the complexity of businesses, particularly large ones, can be smoothed away via the introduction of overarching management frameworks that are complete, consistent and comprehensive; bringing all the various parts of the organization together as a single system.

Download or read book Management of Corporate Greatness written by Pradip N. Khandwalla and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A masterpiece....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner,Saturday Review). Daniel Martin's eponymous protagonist returns to England after a sojourn in Hollywood -- and sets out to rectify the sins and omissions of his past.

Download or read book The Business School in the Twenty First Century written by Howard Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three world experts share their insights on designing the business school of the future, and how to make it work.

Download or read book Managing for Success written by Morgen Witzel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The damage that incompetent managers do is incalculable. Every year they wipe tens of billions off the value of companies around the world. But the routinely incompetent behaviour that leads to failure is often covered up, incompetent managers are paid off and the causes of failure are swept under the carpet. Yet, most of these failures could have been avoided if only we knew how to spot the signs of incompetence in advance, and take steps to prevent it happening. Prevention is always better, and cheaper, than cure. Morgen Witzel tackles the problem of incompetence in the round by exploring the political, cultural, psychological and personal factors that lead to incompetency at every level of business. Arrogance, excessive reliance on formal plans and metrics, lack of professional pride, and poor and misguided business education and training are among the problems that drag businesses down. Using international case studies from Ford Motor Company, Royal Ahold and Lehman Brothers, practical solutions are provided for avoiding incompetence by changing the culture within organizations and the ways in which managers are trained and developed to truly manage for success and minimise failure.

Download or read book Beyond Strategy written by Michael Moesgaard Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that some companies turn out to be more successful when doing the opposite of what is prescribed in many of the current books on management and strategy? Interestingly, many of the companies depicted as very successful companies in the standard literature end up not faring well over time - probably because they somehow end up in a dangerous autopilot mode. What this suggests is that the conventional literature cookbook isn’t telling us the whole story. Even if companies have temporarily developed from an ugly duckling to a white swan, the popular recipes for success may be clipping such companies’ wings. Conversely, companies adhering to disruptive business models are seen to be more agile and to possess a higher degree of actionability. Such next generation companies are labeled black swans. They thrive because they are bold and embrace the great unknowns of tomorrow with open minds and eyes. At the same time, they are able to take advantage of incumbents’ fears, risk-aversion and blindness to what’s coming. Beyond Strategy delves into the inner workings of such black swans as Apple, Aravind, Emirates, Huawei, Natura, Ryanair and Tata and addresses the rise and fall of Nokia. The authors provide explosive evidence of black swan companies working against the norms to enter unchartered waters, determined not to adhere to the best practice of others, but rather to create a genuine next generation practice. Next generation companies and their underlying philosophies are here to stay – are you?

Download or read book When the Penny Drops written by R Gopalakrishnan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable source of inspiration to help leaders understand themselves and overcome their barriers to success For centuries, we have learnt what’s not taught through our own experiences and the stories of others. Even today, only 3 per cent of leadership development occurs due to classroom training. In fact, for most managers, ‘the penny drops’ only when we are at the end of our careers. In this book, R. Gopalakrishnan shares some valuable learnings from his decades of corporate experience, through a series of engaging stories. When the Penny Drops encourages you to reflect on yourself, and will help you learn by identifying the success mantras embedded in you.