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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

A book about how we think without thinking - about how choices that are made in the blink of eye aren't really as simple as they seem.

Blue Ocean Stratgy

          How to create uncontested marketspace and make your competition irrelevant.

Innovator's Dilemma

          A set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of distruptive technologies.

The Wisdom of Crowds

Why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economics, societies and nations.

Seeing What's Next

A framework showing how executives, investors, and analysts can assess the impact of innovation.

A seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill.

Why Hard-nosed Executives Should Care About Manangement Theory

Because experience is solely about the past, solid theories are the only way managers can plan future actions with much confidence. This article brings good theory into world of management - and explains how you can too.

The High Cost of Accurate Knowledge

This article argues that for senior managers the right amount of accuracy about the environment may be less than one thinks.

The Future of Work

Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance From Knowledge Workers

Insight into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them. Maximize the brain power that fuels organizational success.

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future

Daniel Pink argues the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right-brain qualities.

The Rise of the Creative Class

This book examines how and why we value creativity more highly than ever and how to cultivate it more intensely.

The Flight of the Creative Class

The global landscape of creative talent is shifting. This book outlines how "technology, talent, and tolerance" are essential for companies' and economies' competitive advantages.

Orgaizational Strategy

Strategy as Simple Rules

Competitive advantage often comes from successfully seizing fleeting opportunities, and "simple rules" can provide the guidelines within which managers can pursue such opportunities.

Making Strategy: Learning by Doing

Assistance for managers in developing a creative strategy and a proficiency in strategic decision making.

Strategy Under Uncertainty

How to make crucial distinctions among the levels of uncertainty managers face and how to choose a strategic posture appropriate for that level.

Strategic Planning in a Turbulent Environment: Evidence from the Oil Majors

This article sheds light on strategy in highly uncertain situations and aims to reconcile the "design" and "process" approaches to strategy formation.

The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning

Why the strategic planning process so often falls short - and how to fix it.

Strategy Bites Back

A readable book offering insightful reflections on the component parts of business strategy.

Strategic Positioning

          Gaining a sustainable competitive advantage by performing different activities from rivals
          or performing similar activities in different ways. 

Scenario-based Planning

The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

A guidebook for a scenario-planning approach to managing uncertainty and predicting the future of your marketplace.

Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation

Considered by some the definitive work in the field of scenario planning, Scenarios provides in-depth analysis and application of the concept of the "strategic conversation."

Communication

Powerful Conversations

         How conversations can be used to develop relationships and facilitate future exchanges.

Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams

Trusting your virtual organizational members halfway around the globe.

These two forces are operating in a way that tends to pull our world together as well as dismantle it and are able to be seen simultaneously in the same places.

Comparing the American quick fix approach in down sizing to Japanese restructuring that uses their 12 stage approach.

Will organizations last into the future? The globally and technologically driven new economic age and industrial revolution that will greatly change the organization.

Technology has helped English to become a global language, and we have yet to see whether this trend will continue.

How safe is your virtual organization? Ways to elevate some risks commonly experienced ensuring great success.

With globalization and technological advances, competitive advantage has "tended to shift away from firms with large size and long experience toward firms with unique knowledge and swift response capabilities" - how global start-up companies are successful.

A case study that suggests solutions to the problem of stagnant information flow.

Global Enterprise 101 - a look at what defines a global enterprise and ways that these companies can fail.

There is no such thing as a universal management theory - ways that management differs culturally around the world.

The need and importance for transnational firms to have corresponding transnational human resources management systems - managing HR effectively in a global forum will bring a lagging organization up to speed.

As virtuality becomes more common, trust can falter, so organizations must take measures to make sure that this does not occur.

Open Space Technology

         Open Space is a means of conducting events, meetings, and workshops.  

Leadership 

NEW Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?

We assume leaders need vision and energy, but these authors discovered great leaders share four unexpected qualities.

A Little Leadership, Please? 

Four small acts of leadership are uncovered that exert a great influence on followers - a substitute for the current problem with large leaders. 
 

The composition of the individuals who are seated on the board of directors may have direct results to a company's financial performance.

This study discovers if men and women's leadership behaviors are perceived the same by their subordinates.

A video game simulation, work teams, and leaders - an experiment that discovers the impact of leadership on work team effectiveness.

Women outperformed their male managerial colleagues in almost all categories of executive skill sets, not just in providing warm fuzzies in the workplace.

Five powerful forces are converging to profoundly alter the traditional model of an industrial leader - and how successful companies are led.

The ways in which leaders can master change by defining a clear vision to organizational members is explained.

Discover the differences in men and women managers who use different styles for leading organizational members.

Here's how to get the results you want from the change you're leading.

Test your leadership quotient, turn goals into results, and inspire success in yourself and others.

Pushing the thinking about people and organizations into a new dimension.

Leading others requires one to undergo a personal transformation first to becoming a leader to and for oneself.

Using trust and integrity in order to achieve business goals.

Good to Great

Learn how to become a "Level 5 Leader" to help your company move from good to great.

What Leaders Do

Undestand the difference between managers and leaders and how to create a culture of leadership.

What Makes a Leader?

Discover how emotional intelligence can play into your leadership development.

The Extraordinary Leader

Excel as a leader by building on strengths and capitalizing on powerful combinations of core leadership competencies.

Leadership: Perspectives in Theory and Research

A summary of four major categories that capture the heart of major leadership research findings.