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Collaborative Leadership

We all live in an interconnected world and for business leaders the last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the speed and scale of this interdependence. But while increased connectivity is inevitable, increased collaboration is not. To succeed in today’s environment, leaders need to be able to build relationships, handle conflict and to share control in order to promote effective collaboration where it is needed most.Archer and Cameron have been working in this field for over 10 years and were amongst the first business authors to define and explain Collaborative Leadership in their 2008 book. This 2nd edition draws on interviews, examples and additional cases studies of the new collaboration challenges that leaders face such as; working together to deal with the consequences of financial contagion in the Eurozone or elsewhere, responding to the growth in use of social networks by their staff and customers, and managing global supply chains to reach new growth markets.This fully revised, updated and re-structured text provides an easily accessible ‘how-to’ guide for leaders in today’s interconnected world. It will give both experienced and aspiring leaders the techniques and confidence to manage complex collaborative relationships in a sustainable way. It also acts as a guide for leadership development professionals, coaches and consultants who have to build leadership and collaboration capability within organizations.

Creating Shareholder Value

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Economist, consultant, and Wall Street Journal contributor Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools and tests for a corporate strategy that creates shareholder value.The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders. After a decade of downsizings frequently blamed on shareholder value decision making, this book presents a new and indepth assessment of the rationale for shareholder value. Further, Rappaport presents provocative new insights on shareholder value applications to: (1) business planning, (2) performance evaluation, (3) executive compensation, (4) mergers and acquisitions, (5) interpreting stock market signals, and (6) organizational implementation. Readers will be particularly interested in Rappaport's answers to three management performance evaluation questions: (1) What is the most appropriate measure of performance? (2) What is the most appropriate target level of performance? and (3) How should rewards be linked to performance? Through the lens of high-stakes case studies, like the notable acquisition of Duracell International by Gillette, Rappaport dissects the intricate decisions and risks inherent in the merger and acquisition process. The shareholder value approach presented here has been widely embraced by publicly traded as well as privately held companies worldwide. Brilliant and incisive, this is the one book that should be required reading for managers and investors who want to stay on the cutting edge of success in a highly competitive global economy.

The Spartan W@rker

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The field of Organizational Psychology and Occupational Stress is complex and multifaceted. Many efforts have been made by several authors to write books that would have assisted employees in becoming more satisfied, relaxed and thus happier with their work, but such a result seems difficult and complicated to achieve.In The Spartan W@rker, the authors approach the research of Organizational Psychology and Occupational Stress from a fresh and different perspective. It compares the modern work environment with the features and way of life of the famous Greek Spartan warriors. Spartan warriors embraced a unique lifestyle which made them become more resilient, engaged, committed and efficient in their everyday lives, both in times of peace and war. The book proposes that in an increasingly demanding work environment, such an approach would be very beneficial for workers who want and need to learn how to become more resilient and thus remain unaffected from the daily stresses of modern life. This book dedicates itself to explaining in detail the mechanisms through which occupational stress negatively affects our lives as well as in proposing techniques that will help individuals to enhance their coping skills in dealing with stress.This book will appeal to a broad range of professionals looking to understand and reduce the occurrence of occupational stress with its playful style, which is nevertheless grounded in scientific literature and research.

La buona governance

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La buona governance è ormai un imperativo. Tuttavia, in concreto, in che cosa consiste e quali sono i suoi benefici? Questo libro risponde a entrambi i quesiti con l’ancoraggio di una base empirica estremamente significativa, data dalla popolazione delle imprese sopra i 50 milioni di euro di fatturato monitorata dal Corporate Governance Lab di SDA Bocconi School of Management. Ne deriva una rappresentazione, per vari aspetti inedita, degli elementi distintivi della buona governane, del suo impatto positivo su strategie e performance e dei percorsi che hanno condotto le imprese indagate a compiere progressi rilevanti, pur con una strada ancora lunga e impegnativa di fronte a sé. Come percorrerla con successo? Combinando studi, analisi quantitative ed esperienze dirette, il libro propone a imprenditori e imprenditrici e, in generale, a chi ha responsabilità apicali in imprese non quotate, riflessioni e indicazioni su come disegnare la governance corporate e proprietaria, superare ostacoli e trappole e ricoprire al meglio i ruoli chiave. Un’attenzione speciale è riservata alle imprese familiari ma con uno sguardo anche sulle imprese a controllo di coalizione, finanziario e statale e con testimonianze dei tre operatori partner del Lab. La prospettiva aziendale dei curatori si combina con quella giuridica grazie a due contributi di autori esperti di diritto societario.

An Essay on the Principle of Population: Vol. 2, Sixth Ed.

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First published anonymously, this influential 19th-century work is one of the first economic texts to deal with the problem of population growth.

Breakthroughs in Sustainable Business Education

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Around the globe, faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world. This book shares how to transition to programs and courses that teach sustainable business management practices critical for success.Students are demanding more than the same business courses taught for half a century. Faculty are wondering if they have the expertise to include sustainable business practices. Easy to read and relatable, this book provides tactical ideas for transitioning from current business curriculum to courses for a sustainable future. It compiles insights and recommendations from 28 global experts who have put ideas into practice. Each chapter addresses integration of sustainability topics into existing subject areas and offers ideas for adding new courses or concepts to ground business in the context of the global socio-environmental community.The book offers actionable ways that administrators and faculty can immediately begin transitioning their business curriculum to one that is socially and environmentally sustainable.

Violence and Abuse In and Around Organisations

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This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations. The collection documents the causes, specifically from the perspective of human relations and of the workplace conditions. It also highlights the specific risks associated with high-risk professions or working environments.The first section considers types of violence and abuse, their relative frequencies, potential individual and workplace antecedents, costs to individuals, family’s organisations and societies, the fact both are increasing in frequency with new types (e.g., terrorism) appearing, and why addressing these has become increasingly important for individuals and organisations. The second section considers violence in interpersonal relationships such as bullying, incivility, bias and harassment, and toxic leadership. The third section examines unsafe workplaces, accidents, injuries, and deaths. The fourth section considers exploitive work conditions and arrangements such as precarious employment, the exploitation of immigrants, and human slavery. The final section offers suggestions on ways to address violence and abuse in and around organisations. These include aggression preventative supervisor behaviours in health care, suicide prevention in the workplace, dealing with disgruntled employees and former employees, and workplace interventions that address stress reduction more broadly.As with other titles in the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk Series, this research-based collection is firmly grounded in the boundary between work and society and offers important insights into how social and cultural problems are manifest in the workplace and how poor and abusive workplace practice, in turn, spills out into wider life.

Selecting Stocks for a Hedge Fund

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The popularity of hedge funds grew in the volatile markets surrounding the technology bubble. Hedge funds take both long and short investment positions in the market, attempting to achieve reliable gains while insulating the fund’s assets from market fluctuations. The challenge facing hedge fund managers is to demonstrate that investing in a combination of long positions, short positions and cash matching the strategy of the fund can, at an agreed level of risk, provide a higher return than that of traditional mutual funds.

IDEApreneur

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“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin WilliamsWelcome. Congratulations to you for carving time out of your busy schedule to discover how to make a mint from your mind.I agree with Robin Williams that words and ideas can change the world and your world for good.If your goal is to produce one-of-a-kind ideas you can monetize, you’re in the right place.You’re about to discover how to generate commercially-viable ideas (what I call “equity ideas”) that are so interesting, unique and bottom-line beneficial, people will gladly pay for them.Most importantly, you’ll learn how to act on your ideas and turn them into income.The premise of this book and my approach to this topic is that ideas in our head help no one.Ideas themselves don’t have the power to change the world and become a profitable reality until we turn them into a tangible product, service or business.That’s why this book provides you with a step-by-step SYSTEM on how to become an IDEApreneur who consciously and strategically:a.increases your flow of ideasb.assesses your ideas for uniqueness and money-making potentialc.positions, packages and communicates your ideas so they get noticed, respected and boughtd.markets, merchandises, monetizes your ideas through a variety of strategic business activitiesBest-selling author Kurt Vonnegut was asked, “What’s the secret to writing a great book?” He thought about it for a moment and then said, “You’ve got to be a good date for the reader.”My goal is to be a good date for you.I promise not to waste time on abstract theories that don’t work in the real world. You’re about to learn proven techniques and tools you can use immediately to generate marketable, memorable, merchandisable ideas that get noticed and get bought.Ready to get started?Read on!

The Discussion Book

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Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the box Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations, The Discussion Book is your go-to guide for improving any group process. Each of the concrete techniques and exercises is clearly described with guidance on selection and implementation, as well as advice on which pitfalls to avoid. All of the techniques: Offer new ways to engage people and energize groups Get employees, students, colleagues, constituents, and community members to participate more fully in deliberative decision-making Encourage creativity and openness to new perspectives Increase collaboration and build cohesive teams Keep groups focused on important topics and hard-to-address issues Derived from the authors' decades of experience using these exercises with schools, colleges, corporations, the military, social movements, health care organizations, prisons, unions, non-profits, and elsewhere, The Discussion Book will help you guide discussions that matter.

Say Yes to Project Success

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Are you under pressure to deliver? Is your life made tough by shortened schedules, tight budgets, skills gap, incomplete scope, and demanding stakeholders? Do you need help in the form of proven practical tips and techniques to help you confidently deliver project success? This book will certainly help you. What’s inside? • Superb set of 52 proven project success keys • Unbeatable breadth of insights: 108 experts, 2000+ projects, 119 countries • Comprehensive solutions to the top 20 global project failure factors • Coverage of waterfall, hybrid and agile methodologies in 54 industries • Extensive discussions on soft skills, leadership and communication • Situation, impact, and resolution presentation technique • Storytelling approach for easy understanding Read on to get your project off to a flying start and deliver in style!

Open Innovation

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Henry Chesbrough and his collaborators investigate the phenomenon of 'Open Innovation', in which firms draw on research and development outside their boundaries. The book's contributors link the practice of innovation to the established body of innovation research, showing what's new and what's familiar in the process.

Vytec Corporation: Warehouse Layout Planning

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Vytec Corporation is a subsidiary of Owens Corning and is a leading manufacturer of vinyl siding. The operations analyst wanted to determine if there was a more efficient way to organize the company's warehouse. After finding some high demand products being stored a long distance from the shipping dock, his first reaction was to move the product closer to the shipping area, reducing the time and distance required to retrieve the product for shipping. Doing so, however, would displace another product that should also be near the docks. Further research into the problem revealed many other issues. Two files are available - the case data file, product 7B03E013 and the solver model 5B03E13.

L'arte della truffa

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Il primo caso di truffa sugli appalti pubblici è testimoniato dalla Bibbia. Spett a invece a Demostene l’onore di essere diventato famoso contrastando le frodi. Vince la palma della balla più sensazionale dell’Ottocento Sir Gregor MacGregor: riuscì a vendere terreni e concessioni di una nazione inesistente nell’America centrale.Mentre nel dopoguerra Anthony De Angelis, il «re dell’olio dell’insalata», dominava il mercato internazionale spacciando barili immaginari di olio di soia. E se Ponzi è passato alla storia con la sua truffa a piramide, i suoi eredi continuano a promettere agli incauti facili ricchezze investendo nei campi più bizzarri, dagli aspirapolvere all’allevamento di piccioni.La verità è che la storia dell’economia è, anche, la storia delle truffe che l’hanno da sempre accompagnata. I trucchi per arricchirsi in maniera illegale possono essere genialmente semplici, inutilmente complicati, più o meno rischiosi, ma secondo Dan Davies sono tutti sintomi di falle e debolezze nei sistemi che regolano il mondo economico.Non è così difficile sfruttarle, abusando dell’altrui ducia e dell’impossibilità di controllare ogni passaggio di una transazione per creare una falsa realtà – una ditta, un prodotto o un’intera miniera d’oro – allo scopo di fregare il prossimo e fare soldi sulla sua pelle.Armato di una scrittura ironica e avvincente, Dan Davies con L’arte della truffa svela i retroscena e il funzionamento delle frodi più celebri, ripercorre le vicende, non certo esemplari, dei loro arte ci e mostra come i meccanismi economici che stanno alla base della nostra società sono proprio gli stessi che permettono ai truffatori di prosperare.

Witness to a Prosecution

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In 1986, the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York began an investigation into Michael Milken, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and its High Yield and Convertible Bond Department, a department Michael created and was head of. Michael was the most successful and innovative financier of his time. Drexel, an upstart investment bank was also the most successful securities firm on Wall Street, thanks to Michael.What was the investigation into Michael Milken going to focus on, other than his innovation in the financial markets? Mike was democratizing access to capital for the 99% of companies that could not previously access the public market and created a financial revolution that continues to this day. The high yield bond market grew rapidly from the end of the 1970’s from $70 billion to over $2.2 trillion dollars in 2022. He created an industry that gave new businesses and investors the opportunity to create value by financing companies that were too small to access the markets.Richard Sandler decided to represent Michael as his personal lawyer, and to be responsible for working with the lawyers they hired as well as overseeing the defense. But they could never have dreamed of the chaos that lay ahead.Neither of them could understand why the government thought it had a compelling reason to investigate Michael. Or why the media would be interested in building the investigation up into a firestorm. Of course, prosecutors want to win in high-profile cases, and prosecutorial witch-hunts and media hype can easily spin out of control, destroying the defendant in search of headlines and publicity as well as personal gain. Whenever the prosecution determines it will have the outcome it wants, no matter what, there is no escape.But the injustice that Michael Milken faced was to be on a biblical scale. Richard Sandler has, after 36 years, decided to set the record straight. With never-before-seen transcripts of court documents, and a sharp analysis of each move and countermove, Witness to a Prosecution: The Myth of Michael Milken, is difficult to put down. Whether you are someone interested in understanding the criminal investigative process, or you just want to understand who Michael Milken is and what really happened to him, you will find that this is an eye-opening and important book that will be read and discussed for years to come.

Approaches to Exchange Rate Policy

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External sector policies and exchange rate policy are central to a country's economic performance and to the IMF's surveillance functions. The papers in this book, edited by Richard Barth and Chorng-Huey Wong, were presented at a seminar on Exchange Rate Policy in Developing and Transition Economies held by the IMF Institute. They analyze choices of exchange rate regimes, issues affecting management of exchange regimes, and specific types of regimes, including case studies from the former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

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Now in its third edition, this Handbook is essential for students and researchers in Strategic Management and Organizational Theory and Behaviour. The Strategy as Practice approach moves away from the disembodied and asocial study of firm assets, technologies and practices, towards the study of strategizing as an activity. Strategy is understood as something people do rather than something a firm has. This perspective explores how strategizing contributes to an organizations' daily operations at all levels. Through detailed empirical studies of the everyday activities and practice of people engaged in strategizing, the Handbook investigates who strategists are, what strategists do, how they do it, and what the consequences of their actions are. Featuring new authors and additional or fundamentally updated and revised chapters, this edition provides a state-of-the-art overview of recent reflections and works in this rapidly growing stream of strategic management, whilst also presenting a research agenda for the next decade.

Place Branding

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Place branding as a field of research is still in a state of infancy. This book seeks to address this, offering a theory of place branding based on the tourist experience, keeping in mind the roles of stakeholders, both public and private organisations and DMOs in managing the place brand.Place Branding: Connecting Tourist Experiences to Places seeks to build a customer-based view of place branding through focusing on the individual as a tourist who travels to undertake a memorable experience. The place is the key creator of this experience, which begins well before the travel-to and ends well after the travel-back. Individuals choose the places where to go, collect information on them, ask for advice and suggestions from fellow travellers, give feedback when they come back and talk a lot about their experience, spreading word-of-mouth. The book enables readers to understand how the tourist experience can be managed as a brand. Readers are exposed to a variety of problems, methodological approaches, and geographical areas, which allows them to adapt frames to different contexts and situations.This book is recommended reading for students and scholars of business, marketing, tourism, urban studies and public diplomacy, as well as practitioners, business consultants and people working in public administration and politics.

Competitive Advantage, Strategy and Innovation in Africa

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The competitiveness of companies plays an important role in developing their effectiveness. But technology provides a strong competitive advantage to the companies and helps in achieving the sustainable development. This edited collection discusses various methods by which a firm can create a competitive advantage in a dynamic situation. The book highlights the strategies in global decisions related to changing business models and processes in the innovation era. The contributions by authors take readers through emerging trends in innovation that can support managers in making more strategic decisions, while reducing reconciliation and report preparation.In a hyper-competitive environment, this book will assist researchers and management practitioners in appreciating new strategic sources. Radical strategies and competitive innovation, sustainable development, competitiveness, SMEs, direct and indirect investment, delocalization of businesses, and value creation will all be discussed in depth. Overall, this volume will help readers understand the importance of real-time smart business sources to gain a competitive advantage.Competitive Advantage, Strategy and Innovation in Africa provides essential information on contemporary issues and challenges in management and change strategies. It will serve as a reference for academicians, researchers, and practitioners interested in the rapid transformation in the management sector due to technological advancement and high competition between companies.

HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set with Bonus Emotional Intelligence (7 Books) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

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Seven bestselling Harvard Business Review collections—in one convenient set.You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them—in a set of HBR’s 10 Must Reads, available as a 7-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on change, leadership, strategy, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance. The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Boxed Set includes seven bestselling collections: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (ways you can transform yourself from a good manager into an extraordinary leader); HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (the path to your own professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror and what you see there—your greatest strengths and deepest values—are the foundations you must build on); HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (will help galvanize your organization's strategy development and execution); HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change (70% of all change initiatives fail, but the odds turn in your company's favor once you understand that change is a multi-stage process—not an event—and that persuasion is key to establishing a sense of urgency, winning support, and silencing naysayers); HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (will help you determine what really motivates people, how to deal with problem employees, and how to build an effective team); HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials (which brings together the best thinking from management’s most influential experts); and HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (the trait that is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership). HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set with Bonus Emotional Intelligence also makes a smart gift for your team, colleagues, or clients. The ebook set is available in PDF, ePub and mobi formats.

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