The primary purpose of this book is to enable you to implement a strategic KM program in your business and derive business results from it. The contents of this book are relevant to any business-manufacturing or service, and also in education, not-for-profit, government, and other types of organizations. This book is written for business leaders and executives. It is particularly addressed to CEOs and senior management to help them understand how...

The author appreciates that managers are busy people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and distilled its essence into this shortened text. The essence of the book remains the same: what the author has learned from observing twenty-nine managers in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. The book considers the intense dynamics of this job as well as its inescapable conundrums, for example: How is...

In today's business world, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. This hands-on guide introduces you to the principles of project management and show you how to put them to use so you can successfully manage a project from start to finish.

The strength of any organization is determined by the quality of its managers. What they do and how they do it is the key determinant of corporate success. Luckily, great managers are made ... not born. In this concise book, success expert Brian Tracy reveals how to become invaluable to your company by boosting your managerial skills. You'll learn how to set performance standards; delegate productively; define key result areas; concentrate attention...

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation-new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more...

This book presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Organizations typically manage risks through traditional tools such as insurance and risk mitigation; some employ enterprise risk management, which looks at risk holistically throughout...

Quality has been around for years, why would it need to be unleashed? The truth is, the power of quality comes from actions that stem from behaviors, behaviors that apply to every department within a company. In other words, a company's culture. For years, these behaviors have been restrained. Quality has been focused in segments of a company's population, rather than applied to every department from top to bottom. This is where most companies fail...

Discover an accessible and comprehensive overview of credit risk management In the newly revised Second Edition of The Handbook of Credit Risk Management: Originating, Assessing, and Managing Credit Exposures, veteran financial risk experts Sylvain Bouteillé and Dr. Diane Coogan-Pushner deliver a holistic roadmap to credit risk management (CRM) ideal for students and the busy professional. The authors have created an accessible and practical CRM...

As a leadership consultant, author BH Tan has spent the last few decades working alongside leaders around the world. Many flounder when faced with tough judgment calls. But there are those who learn and emerge wiser than before. What accounts for this difference? We are witnessing the ascendancy of humble, inclusive, curious and adaptive leaders. Such leaders embrace the power of the paradox in the way they think, feel and behave. In today's pressure-cooker...

Key topics: Human resources, Sainsbury's General Mills, Soft HRM, Hard HRM, HR Strategy. What's meant by a human resources strategy? How does it work in practice?