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Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti Publisher: H B S Press ISBN: 9781578517800 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 216
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For executives, strategists, and students of technology-driven industries, this is a powerful playbook for the high-stakes innovation game. Chakravorti provides a new framework for interconnected choice built on concepts from game theory and carried out using hands-on, go-to-market strategies.
Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti Publisher: H B S Press ISBN: 9781578517800 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
For executives, strategists, and students of technology-driven industries, this is a powerful playbook for the high-stakes innovation game. Chakravorti provides a new framework for interconnected choice built on concepts from game theory and carried out using hands-on, go-to-market strategies.
Author: Carl Honore Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061907316 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 334
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We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has pushed us to a breaking point. Consider these facts: Americans on average spend seventy-two minutes of every day behind the wheel of a car, a typical business executive now loses sixty-eight hours a year to being put on hold, and American adults currently devote on average a mere half hour per week to making love. Living on the edge of exhaustion, we are constantly reminded by our bodies and minds that the pace of life is spinning out of control. In Praise of Slowness traces the history of our increasingly breathless relationship with time and tackles the consequences of living in this accelerated culture of our own creation. Why are we always in such a rush? What is the cure for time sickness? Is it possible, or even desirable, to slow down? Realizing the price we pay for unrelenting speed, people all over the world are reclaiming their time and slowing down the pace -- and living happier, healthier, and more productive lives as a result. A Slow revolution is taking place. Here you will find no Luddite calls to overthrow technology and seek a preindustrial utopia. This is a modern revolution, championed by cell-phone using, e-mailing lovers of sanity. The Slow philosophy can be summed up in a single word -- balance. People are discovering energy and efficiency where they may have been least expected -- in slowing down. In this engaging and entertaining exploration, award-winning journalist and rehabilitated speedaholic Carl Honoré details our perennial love affair with efficiency and speed in a perfect blend of anecdotal reportage, history, and intellectual inquiry. In Praise of Slowness is the first comprehensive look at the worldwide Slow movements making their way into the mainstream -- in offices, factories, neighborhoods, kitchens, hospitals, concert halls, bedrooms, gyms, and schools. Defining a movement that is here to stay, this spirited manifesto will make you completely rethink your relationship with time.
Author: Michael E. Raynor Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 038552191X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 322
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A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t even realize it. The reason? Managers feel they must make choices with far-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices on assumptions about a future they cannot predict. It is this collision between commitment and uncertainty that creates THE STRATEGY PARADOX. This paradox sets up a ubiquitous but little-understood tradeoff. Because managers feel they must base their strategies on assumptions about an unknown future, the more ambitious of them hope their guesses will be right – or that they can somehow adapt to the turbulence that will arise. In fact, only a small number of lucky daredevils prosper, while many more unfortunate, but no less capable managers find themselves at the helms of sinking ships. Realizing this, even if only intuitively, most managers shy away from the bold commitments that success seems to demand, choosing instead timid, unremarkable strategies, sacrificing any chance at greatness for a better chance at mere survival. Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the bestselling The Innovator's Solution, explains how leaders can break this tradeoff and achieve results historically reserved for the fortunate few even as they reduce the risks they must accept in the pursuit of success. In the cutthroat world of competitive strategy, this is as close as you can come to getting something for nothing. Drawing on leading-edge scholarship and extensive original research, Raynor’s revolutionary principle of Requisite Uncertainty yields a clutch of critical, counter-intuitive findings. Among them: -- The Board should not evaluate the CEO based on the company’s performance, but instead on the firm’s strategic risk profile -- The CEO should not drive results, but manage uncertainty -- Business unit leaders should not focus on execution, but on making strategic choices -- Line managers should not worry about strategic risk, but devote themselves to delivering on commitments With detailed case studies of success and failure at Sony, Microsoft, Vivendi Universal, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T and other major companies in industries from financial services to energy, Raynor presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today’s opportunities while simultaneously preparing for tomorrow’s promise.
Author: Stephen M. R. Covey Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1847396224 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 499
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From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son come a revolutionary book that will guide business leaders, public figures and their organizations towards unprecedented productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M. R. Covey, is the very basis of the 21st century's global economy, but its power is generally overlooked and misunderstood. Covey shows you how to inspire immediate trust in everyone you encounter - colleagues, constituents, the marketplace - allowing you to forego the time-killing and energy-draining check and balance bureaucracies that are so often relied upon in lieu of actual trust.
Author: Maggie Berg Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442645563 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 126
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In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education.
Author: Robert W. Jacobs Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 9781576750308 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 362
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With Real Time Strategic Change, Robert Jacobs advocats a complete redesign of the way organisations change, and provides a practical guide through the entire change process.
Author: Gary E. Marchant Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400713568 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 233
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At the same time that the pace of science and technology has greatly accelerated in recent decades, our legal and ethical oversight mechanisms have become bogged down and slower. This book addresses the growing gap between the pace of science and technology and the lagging responsiveness of legal and ethical oversight society relies on to govern emerging technologies. Whether it be biotechnology, genetic testing, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, computer privacy, autonomous robotics, or any of the other many emerging technologies, new approaches are needed to ensure appropriate and timely regulatory responses. This book documents the problem and offers a toolbox of potential regulatory and governance approaches that might be used to ensure more responsive oversight.
Author: Arun Kumar & N. Meenakshi Publisher: Vikas Publishing House ISBN: 8125942599 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 969
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Marketing is a way of doing business. It is all pervasive, a part of everyone’s job description. Marketing is an expression of a company’s character, and is a responsibility that necessarily belongs to the whole company and everyone in it.
Author: World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0195204603 Category : Capital movements Languages : en Pages : 302
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Long-term needs and sustained effort are underlying themes in this year's report. As with most of its predecessors, it is divided into two parts. The first looks at economic performance, past and prospective. The second part is this year devoted to population - the causes and consequences of rapid population growth, its link to development, why it has slowed down in some developing countries. The two parts mirror each other: economic policy and performance in the next decade will matter for population growth in the developing countries for several decades beyond. Population policy and change in the rest of this century will set the terms for the whole of development strategy in the next. In both cases, policy changes will not yield immediate benefits, but delay will reduce the room for maneuver that policy makers will have in years to come.
Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti
Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti
Author: Carl Honore
Author: Michael E. Raynor
Author: Stephen M. R. Covey
Author: Maggie Berg
Author: Robert W. Jacobs
Author: Gary E. Marchant
Author: Bruce Larkin
Author: Arun Kumar & N. Meenakshi
Author: World Bank