Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called ''lean thinking'' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's COMPETITIVE STRATEGY has transformed the theory, practice and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.
An essential guide to thinking strategically in a complex, ever-changing world.
'Valuable insights, unique lessons and practical steps to achieve your goals.' JAY SHETTY'Rob Dial's work has already helped millions of people transform their mindset and achieve their goals. By reading Level Up, you will know exactly how to create the life you've always wanted.' HAL ELROD, author of The Miracle Morning'Your key to a brighter future.' LEWIS HOWES, author of The Greatness Mindset-----Level Up will revolutionize the way you approach your life and your goals.World-renowned high-performance coach, Rob Dial, presents a ground-breaking roadmap to unlock your full potential and transform your life. Drawing from cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology, he unveils the science behind mental focus and motivation, cracks the code to peak performance and shows how to apply these secrets to your own life.Whether you're struggling with distractions, overwhelmed by your schedule, or simply seeking a path to achieve your goals, Level Up is the game-changer you've been waiting for.
Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win. The NetPromoter System shines as their guiding star.Fewmanagement ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS).Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru FredReichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopteditfrom industrial titans such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to techgiants like Apple and Amazon to digital innovators such as Warby Parker andPeloton.Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again. InWinning on Purpose, he demonstrates that the primary purposeof a business should be to enrich the lives of its customers. Why? Because whencustomers feel this love, they come back for more and bring their friendsgeneratinggood profits. This is NPS 3.0 and it puts a new take on the age-old GoldenRuletreat customers the way you would want a loved onetreatedat the heart of enduring business success. As the compellingexamples in this book illustrate, companies with superior NPS consistentlydeliver higher returns to shareholders across a wide array ofindustries.But winning on purpose isn't easy. Reichheld alsoexplains why many NPS practitioners achieve just a small fraction of the system'sfull potential, and he presents the newest thinking and best practices fordoing NPS right. He unveils the Earned Growth Rate (EGR): the first reliable,complementary accounting measure that can truly leverage the power ofNPS.With keen insight and moving personal stories, Reichheldadvances the thinking and practice of NPS. Winning onPurpose is your indispensable guide for inspiring customer lovewithin your own teams and using Net Promoter to achieve both personal and businesssuccess.
Get to better, more effective strategy.In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these companies achieve more by doing less. At a time when rapid technological change and global competition conspire to upend traditional ways of doing business, these companies pursue radically simplified strategies. At a time when many managers struggle not to drown in vast seas of projects and initiatives, these businesses follow simple rules that help them select the few ideas that truly make a difference.Better, Simpler Strategy provides readers with a simple tool, the value stick, which every organization can use to make its strategy more effective and easier to execute. Based on proven financial mechanics, the value stick helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen the competitive advantage of their business.How does the value stick work? It provides a way of measuring the two fundamental forces that lead to value creation and increased financial success—the customer's willingness-to-pay and the employee's willingness-to-sell their services to the business. Companies that win, Oberholzer-Gee shows, create value for customers by raising their willingness-to-pay, and they provide value for talent by lowering their willingness-to-sell. The approach, proven in practice, is entirely data driven and uniquely suited to be cascaded throughout the organization.With many useful visuals and examples across industries and geographies, Better, Simpler Strategy explains how these two key measures enable firms to gauge and improve their strategies and operations. Based on the author's sought-after strategy course, this book is your must-have guide for making better strategic decisions.
The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field.
Meet Syd and Shea McGee, the powerhouse couple behind Studio McGee, the fastest-growing interior design studio in the country. This uplifting guide, filled with insights and wisdom from Syd and Shea's ongoing journey, shows readers how classic interior design principles can be used to build an authentically beautiful life.
A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it.In Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. One of today's preeminent voices on inclusive workplaces, Williams explains how leaders can use standard business tools—data, metrics, and persistence—to interrupt the bias that is continually transmitted through formal systems like performance appraisals, as well as the informal systems that control access to career-enhancing opportunities. The book presents fresh evidence, based on Williams's exhaustive research and work with companies, that interrupting bias helps every group—including white men.Comprehensive, though compact and straightforward, Bias Interrupted delivers real, practical value in an efficient and accessible manner to an audience that has never needed it more. It's possible to interrupt bias. Here's where you start.
In diesem bahnbrechenden Buch stellt der Autor Morten Münster eine Reihe von Regeln vor, die Einzelpersonen und Unternehmen befolgen können, um notwendige Veränderungen herbeizuführen. Mit Hilfe von Verhaltensdesign und einer leicht zugänglichen Vier-Schritte-Methode zeigt er, wie Menschen dazu gebracht werden können, das Eine statt des Anderen zu tun und damit Erfolg zu haben. Anhand einer Reihe von Beispielen aus Wirtschaft, Regierung, verschiedenen öffentlichen Gruppen und Institutionen zeigt er auf, wie die Regeln gelernt und in verschiedenen Kontexten angewendet werden können.
How to apply the famous KonMari Method to your work life - for better work/life balance, creativity, productivity and focus.
Who is the most important person in your organization to lead your teams through these changes? Gallup research reveals: It's your managers.
A realist's guide to management, the authors capture the complex life of organizations, providing not only an account of theories, but also an introduction to their practice with examples from everyday life and culture discussing the key themes and debates along the way.
Business mentor and international speaker Brian Tracy offers proven methods to develop beneficial habits for entrepreneurs' business and personal life.
THE NEW QUESTIONTen years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not?
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.Its a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it doesbut not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift back to the default status.Why is this scenario so frequently repeated in industries and organizations across the world? In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership and change management expert, and best-selling author, John Kotter provides a fascinating answerand a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption.Kotter explains how traditional organizational hierarchies evolved to meet the daily demands of running an enterprise. For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Kotter advocates a new systema second, more agile, network-like structure that operates in concert with the hierarchy to create what he calls a dual operating systemone that allows companies to capitalize on rapid-fire strategic challenges and still make their numbers.Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight Accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling. And perhaps most crucial, the book reveals how the best companies focus and align their peoples energy and urgency around what Kotter calls the big opportunity.If youre a pioneer, a leader who knows that bold change is necessary to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, this book will help you accelerate into a better, more profitable future.
You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common? How do they achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? The old checklist of P's used by marketers - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity - aren't working anymore. The golden age of advertising is over. It's time to add a new P - the Purple Cow.Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat-out unbelievable. In his new bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.
A strong business model is the bedrock to business success. But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated models that are no longer delivering the results we need. The brains behind The Business Model Navigator have discovered that just 55 business models are responsible for 90% of the world's most successful businesses. These 55 models from the Add-On model used by Ryanair to the Subscription model used by Spotify provide the blueprints you need to revolutionise your business and drive powerful change. As well as providing a practical framework for adapting and innovating your business model, this book also includes each of the 55 models in a quick-read format that covers: What it is Who invented it and who uses it now When and how to apply itAn excellent toolkit for developing your business model.Dr Heinz Derenbach, CEO, Bosch Software Innovations
The expert authors of this leading text present a thorough introduction to HRM by exploring a variety of perspectives, styles and arguments. It takes a rigorous, critical approach that makes contemporary developments in Human Resource Management accessible to students. They explore the most pressing and topical themes and debates of today the effects of HRM on organisational performance, management and leadership development, performance management and employee reward whilst covering in depth the theory and practice of the operational aspects of HRM. The final part of the text compares trends in HRM around the world, with a particular focus on India and China, as well as the influence of multinational corporations. Human Resource Management is written for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students, as well as those studying for the CIPD qualifications.
Målrettet ledere, direktører, og HR-medarbejdere, introduceres bogen "#Youngster - 5 dogmer til at tiltrække og fastholde millennials". Din virksomheds evne til at tiltrække og fastholde unge talenter vil med garanti blive udfordret. Forfatterne bag bogen, Mikkel Sandal Hansen, Patrick Walther Thomsen, Andreas von der Recke og Jacob Harlev, har stiftet rådgivningsvirksomheden YoungConsult, som i dag drives af Andreas og Mikkel. Baseret på et studie af 500+ studerende, 45+ dybdeinterviews og case-studier af Deloitte, Les Deux og SOUNDBOKS, giver "#Youngster" dig fortællingen om unge, fortalt af unge. De unge talenter i klassen marcherer netop nu med sine dovne skridt ind i dansk erhvervsliv. I folkemunde bliver vi kaldt Millennials, Generation Y og Generation Z. Kært barn har mange navne, men én ting er sikkert: Vi er en generation som er vores helt egen, og vi får sjældent de store roser med på vejen. Om man er enig i kritikken eller ej, kommer vi ikke udenom, at os og resten af vores fucked generation inden for få år udgør en stor del af arbejdsmarkedet. Hvis du har været online inden for det seneste år, så er du formentlig stødt på en undersøgelse, et debatindlæg eller en artikel der behandler generationsskiftet på arbejdsmarkedet. Enten kritiseres eller lovprises vores generation. Nogle indlæg er bare sure opstød. Andre indlæg er baseret på internationale studier, gennemført af anerkendte og respekterede forskere eller konsulenthuse. Fællesnævneren er, at kommentarer eller undersøgelser ofte oprinder fra Xere eller Boomere. Folk der har læst og studeret sig til, hvordan det er at være ung med de unge. Vi oplever ofte, at disse studier er gode forsøg, men ikke rammer hovedet på sømmet. De er ikke dybdegående nok. Den primære årsag er, at de er biased af negative holdninger, eller fordi, de ikke stiller det vigtige, nysgerrige spørgsmål: "Hvorfor?". Det har vi gjort. Det er blevet til 5 dogmer. Og de er sgu blevet gode. Det siger vores forældre selv. Dogmer i sig selv lyder jo fandens gammelt, og det er det jo også. Dogmeidéen er at lade historien træde frem i modsætning til mediet. Som da Lars Von Trier og Thomas Vinterberg redefinerede filmindustrien med deres manifest Dogme 95. Vi redefinerer, hvad talenter i virkeligheden vil have på en arbejdsplads. Du kan bruge vores dogmer som rettesnor, inspiration eller optænding på en kold vinteraften i sommerhuset. Du bestemmer - vi kræver bare at du lytter.
Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don't agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration-that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it's going, how it's going to get there, and who needs to do what-is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation-which is exactly what Kahane provides in this groundbreaking and timely book.
Shay was still angry but shrugged nonchalantly as if to say, it's not that big of a deal. "So, what am I wrong about?""You're not going to want to hear this, but I have to tell you anyway." Liam paused before finishing. "You might be working hard, but you're not doing it for the company.""What the hell does that mean?" Shay wanted to know.Knowing that his adversary might punch him for what he was about to say, Liam responded. "You're doing it for yourself."New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni has written a dozen books that focus on how leaders can build teams and lead organizations. In The Motive, he shifts his attention toward helping them understand the importance of why they're leading in the first place.In what may be his edgiest page-turner to date, Lencioni thrusts his readers into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs. Shay Davis is the CEO of Golden Gate Alarm, who, after just a year in his role, is beginning to worry about his job and is desperate to figure out how to turn things around. With nowhere else to turn, Shay receives some hard-to-swallow advice from the most unlikely and unwanted source--Liam Alcott, CEO of a more successful security company and his most hated opponent.Lencioni uses unexpected plot twists and crisp dialogue to take us on a journey that culminates in a resolution that is as unexpected as it is enlightening. As he does in his other books, he then provides a straightforward summary of the lessons from the fable, combining a clear explanation of his theory with practical advice to help executives examine their true motivation for leading. In addition to provoking readers to honestly assess themselves, Lencioni presents action steps for changing their approach in five key areas. In doing so, he helps leaders avoid the pitfalls that stifle their organizations and even hurt the people they are meant to serve.
Your business success is now forever linked to the success of your customers Customer Success is the groundbreaking guide to the exciting new model of customer management. Business relationships are fundamentally changing. In the world B.C.
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