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The
Agenda: What Every Business Must Do to Dominate
the Decade
by Michael Hammer
"Suddenly," writes Michael Hammer
in the opening to his confidently but aptly
named new book The Agenda, "business
is not so easy anymore." He then sets out
an ambitious plan for righting what many businesses
are doing wrong, much as he did a decade ago
in his bestselling Reengineering the
Corporation. In all, another provocative
and practical tract that will surely attract
old fans as well as new believers.
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Good
to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...
and Others Don't
by James Collins
This book
offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence
that any organization would do well to consider.
Like Built to Last, Good to Great
is one of those books that managers and CEOs
will be reading and rereading for years to come.
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Enlightened
Leadership : Getting to the Heart of Change
by Ed Oakley, Doug Krug (Contributor)
Authors show why most efforts at change
fail, and they provide leaders with proven methods
for getting their people moving in the right
direction. This is a practical program
managers can use to create "change-friendly"
environments .
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First, Break All
the Rules : What the World's Greatest Managers
Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
These two consultants for the
Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held
notions about management, such as "treat
people as you like to be treated"; and
"people are capable of almost anything". This
book will take you inside the minds of great
managers to explain why they have toppled conventional
wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged
in its place.
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Management Challenges
for the 21st Century
by Peter Ferdinand Drucker
No single person has influenced the
course of business in the 20th century as much
as Peter Drucker. He practically invented management
as a discipline in the 1950s, elevating it to
a necessary institution that "reflects
the basic spirit of the modern age." Now,
Drucker looks at the profound social and economic
changes occurring today and considers how management
should address these new realities.
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Lean
Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your
Corporation
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
In their landmark book two of the top
industrial analysts in the world, explained
how companies can dramatically improve their
performance through the "lean production"
approach pioneered by Toyota. Lean Thinking
extends these ideas to provide a rallying cry
for today's corporate leaders.
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High
Tech, High Touch : Technology and Our Search for
Meaning
by John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt, Douglas Philips
The great irony of the high-tech age
is that we've become enslaved to devices that
were supposed to give us freedom. That's why
in High Tech/High Touch, John Naisbitt decided
to revisit a chapter from Megatrends, his 1982
bestseller, in which he discusses the split
between high tech and what he dubs "high
touch."
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Growing
Up Digital : The Rise of the Net Generation
by Don Tapscott
Don turns his attention to the
way young people--surrounded by high-tech toys
and tools from birth--will likely affect the
future. He offers predictions on how today's
2- to 22-year-olds might reshape society. His
observations about this enormously influential
population range from the kind of employees
they may eventually be to how they could be
reached by marketers
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