Business

Entrepreneurship has many potential rewards, and also carries unique challenges. Learn what works and what doesn't, along with scores of tips and hints in an easy-to-read compendium from one of the nation's foremost authorities on small business. more...

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What is business strategy? How will it help me create a competitive advantage? Looks at developing strategies and strategic plans, vision, mission and values, analysing the business environment, people and leadership, implementing strategies. Contents include: What is Business Strategy? Business strategy defined The aim of strategy Levels of strategy Key concepts Formulating strategy The business environment Identifying organisational culture SWOT analysis Environmental climate Skills of the firm Assessing strategic capabilities Strategic capabilities Developing a strategic plan Vision, mission and values A competitive checklist Pricing activities Naming activities Developing a strategic plan Gap analysis The Y model Effective leadership Implementing strategy Ultrapreneurial goal achievement Leadership qualities Perception and managers Operating philosophies Implementing strategy Strategic options Business strategy and value creation Planning functional strategies Corporate strategy alternatives Strategies for family businesses Why do some businesses diversify? Business strategy options Pricing strategy Quality Integrating quality into strategic management McKinsey 7-S model Service Successful implementation Avoiding pitfalls Anticipating your rival’s response more...

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Writing in a personal and engaging style, Cook, a leadership development consultant, shows readers how to lead and navigate change by employing business, political, spiritual, and emotional intelligences. Numerous activities and checklists will help readers gain insight on everything from supplier analysis and negotiation skills to defining a perso more...

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Covers the key areas of coaching and mentoring, from conducting a training needs assessment and reinforcing quality performance and employee accountability to empowering top performers and applying mentoring to succession planning and diversity management. Examples and lessons from some of the world?s most successful organizations, including Saturn, Arthur Andersen, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Royal Dutch Shell, the World Bank and Analog Devices Inc, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, Douglas McGregor, Peter Drucker and Jack Welch. more...

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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. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment. More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing. Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century. more...

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