Craft of General Management

Bower, Joseph L.

Harvard Business School Press

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Harvard Business Essentials

Essays discuss technology, manufacturing, marketing, finance, capital, government policies, coalitions, competition, and leadership in the global marketplace, and look at specific cases.

Competition in Global Industries

Porter, Michael

Age of Unreason

Business & Money

Charles B. Handy

Management & Leadership

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

Economics

Marketing Research the Right Way

Press, Harvard Business School

<p>Business firms & public organizations have long struggled with the task of evaluating the performance of their managers & creating reward structures that truly motivate them to pursue organizational goals. Success in this vital task has been elusive. This volume presents a number of field studies by top scholars that address three key issues: 1) alternative methods of rewarding managers; 2) reward mechanisms across organizations & cultures; & 3) implementing performance evaluation schemes. Unlike most of the research done in this area, these studies look beneath the highly visible arenas of the CEO to the large, unexplored realm of middle management</p>

Performance Measurement, Evaluation, and Incentives

<p>Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. Yet today's business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork or sharing. In this book, two senior McKinsey & Co. partners argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead, from total quality to customer service to innovation, without teams. The authors talked with hundreds of people in more than fifty different teams in thirty companies to discover what differentiates various levels of team performance, where and how teams work best, and how to enhance their effectiveness. Among their findings: formal hierarchy is actually good for teams; successful team leaders fit no ideal profile; commitment to performance goals is more important than commitment to team-building goals; top management teams are often smaller and more difficult to sustain; and team endings can be as important to manage as team beginnings. The wisdom of teams lies in recognizing their unique potential to deliver results and in understanding their many benefits.</p>

The Wisdom of Teams Creating the High-Performance Organization

Katzenback, Jon R. , Smith, Douglas, K.

After describing three basic philosophies of leadership, Badaracco and Ellsworth demonstrate how leaders who hold certain prejudices or predispositions can resolve some of the most pressing daily dilemmas that managers face: Should a problem be solved through confrontation or compromise? When setting goals, is clarity or flexibility more important? To what extent should a decision reflect top-down or bottom-up influence? Through extensive interviews with prominent executives, the authors reveal why the best leaders act in a consistent, unadorned way that reflects their personalities, fundamenal beliefs, and judgments. "In its unique synthesis of practical experience and sound conceptual analysis, this book will provide stimulus, insight, and vision even to the accomplished and successful executive."-Peter F. Drucker

Leadership and the Quest for Integrity

Harvard, Business Review

Glossary of essential tools and concepts for today's manager. Brings down the barriers to understanding the fundamental language of strategy. Paper. DLC: Strategic planning Terminology.  

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