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Organizations are struggling for greater return on their multibillion-dollar technology and project-related investments. This work provides a scalable framework and practical tools for better aligning a company's: project portfolio with its objectives; individual projects with each other; and portfolio and objectives with the volatile environment.

Offers a blueprint for companies ready to embrace the globalization challenge. This book introduces a different kind of company - the metanational. It outlines how managers can build a metanational advantage for their own organizations and draws from the experiences of metanationals such as, ARM, Acer, and Nokia.

From hiring and retaining good people to motivating and developing team members, from understanding key financial statements to delegating work effectively, and from setting goals for others to managing your own career, this guide walks readers through various aspects of managing in a complex business world.

When it comes to project management, success lies in the details. Part of the "The Harvard Business Essentials Series", this book walks managers through every step of project oversight from start to finish. It offers information on everything from planning and budgeting to team building and after-project reviews.

Argues that how a firm creates and uses talent is more important than how the firm attracts talent. This book features case studies of various organizations including Southwest Airlines and Cisco Systems. It illustrates how long-term success comes from value-driven, interrelated systems that align good people management with corporate strategy.

Talking about the leadership discussion, this work provides a hands-on program that helps executives succeed with leadership challenges. This book argues that it is not enough to gauge leaders by personal traits such as character, knowledge, style, and values. It tells that effective leaders know how to connect their attributes with results.

Offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching. Managers learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

Reveals the patterns through which innovation occurs in established companies, and identifies the managerial competencies firms need to make radical innovation happen. This book distills an interdisciplinary approach to mastering challenges. It features evidence from a study of innovation projects within ten corporations including IBM and DuPont.

With advice and tools for improving a wide array of communication skills--from delivering an effective presentation to drafting proposals to the effective use of e-mail--Business Communication helps managers deliver information effectively.

The Entrepreneurial Mindset offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principles you can use personally to transform the arenas in which you compete. The authors present simple but powerful ways to stop thinking and acting by the old rules and start thinking with the discipline of a habitual entrepreneur.They show how to: eliminate paralyzing uncertainty by creating an entrepreneurial frame that shapes a shared understanding of what is to be accomplished; create a richly stocked opportunity register to redesign existing products, find new sources of differentiation, resegment existing markets, reconfigure market spaces, and seize the huge upside potential of breakthroughs; build a dynamic portfolio of businesses and options that continuously move your organization toward the future while simultaneously leaving the past behind; execute dynamically your ideas so that you can move fast, with confidence and without undue risk; and develop your own way of leading with an entrepreneurial mindset to create a vibrant entrepreneurial climate within your organization.

Unstable markets, fierce competition, and relentless change are the only certainties in this chaotic business world. The authors contend that to prosper in such volatile conditions, standard survival strategies must be tossed aside in favor of a revolutionary paradigm - competing on the edge.

Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present a groundbreaking framework for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry. Based on proven theories outlined in Christensen's landmark books The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution, Seeing What's Next offers a practical, three-part model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive battles, and assess whether a firm's actions will ensure or threaten future success. Through in-depth case studies of industries from aviation to health care, the authors illustrate the predictive power of innovation theory in action.

Building anti-racist companies by design creates great places to work for all.Business leaders ready to take a bold stance to make the world better for employees, for consumers, and for the greater community: Read this book.As leaders, you have the unique ability to reach thousands of employees and millions of consumers. It's time for you to build a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and, by extension, a more just society.This book provides a comprehensive plan for leaders who are ready to get serious about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and to create an anti-racist company culture.As a Black man at the highest levels of corporate America for over thirty years, James D. White has built a deep understanding of how to operationalize and integrate DEI agendas. As CEO and Chairman of the global smoothie chain Jamba Juice, he led a remarkable turnaround to make the company a model of strong performance built on a foundation of a diverse, anti-racist culture. He also draws on the experiences of other leaders at the vanguard of DEI. White writes with his daughter, Krista White, who brings to this book the heart and sensibilities of a younger generation devoted to equity and inclusion and intent on justice.Practical lessons and real-world examples of techniques used by seasoned experts will empower leaders who, at this urgent moment, are asking themselves what so many have asked James White: What can I do?You can start by reading this book.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to use radical adaptability to win in a world of unprecedented change.You've shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage?If not, it's not too late to learn from the best.New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work:Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the futureReveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemicDefines the new model of leadershipradical adaptabilityfor sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformationCompeting in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.

Learn. Leap. Repeat.Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward.But how do we grow? It turns out it happens in a predictable way, which means we can understand where we are in our growth and chart a way forward. In this compact, complete guide, Whitney Johnson dives more deeply than ever into the S curve of growth and learning so that you can envision how growth happens and direct yourself and others in your organization to create a culture that fosters it.The growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and the High End, and within each phase, individuals play roles that keep us moving up the curve toward our goals. Compelling examples of successful people will show you when and why growth is slow, how to keep going, what to do when growth and learning are almost too fast to keep up with, and how to leap from one growth journey to another.As individuals grow, so do organizations and societies. Growth is learning put into action, ideally action that betters the world as we better ourselves and our small niches, both personal and professional, within it. Growth occurs when learning is internalized, when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do to something we are.

Twoworld-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives fortransforming companies in the new digitalera.Digital transformation is critical. Butwinning in today's world requires more than digitization. It requiresunderstanding that the nature of competitive advantage has shiftedandthat being digital is not enough.In BeyondDigital, Paul Leinwand and Matt Mani from Strategy&, PwC's globalstrategy consulting business, take readers inside twelve companies and how theyhave navigated through this monumental shift: from Philips's reinvention from abroad conglomerate to a focused health technology player, to Cleveland Clinic'sengagement with its broader ecosystem to improve and expand its leading patientcare to more locations around the world, to Microsoft's overhaul of its globalcommercial business to drive customer outcomes. Other case studies includeAdobe, Citigroup, Eli Lilly, Hitachi, Honeywell, Inditex, Komatsu, STC Pay, andTitan.Building on a major new body of research, the authorsidentify the seven imperatives that leaders must follow as the digital agecontinues to evolve:Reimagine your company's place in theworldEmbrace and create value via ecosystemsBuild a systemof privileged insights with your customersMake your organizationoutcome-orientedInvert the focus of your leadershipteamReinvent the social contract with your peopleDisruptyour own leadership approachTogether, these sevenimperatives comprise a playbook for how leaders can define a bolder purpose andtransform their organizations.

Named the Best Management Book of 2021 by strategy+businessNamed one of this month's top titles in the Financial Times in September 2021Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Management & Culture categoryA plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being.Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Collaborative work consumes 85% of employees' time and is drifting earlier into the morning, later into the night, and deeper into the weekend.The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. But conventional wisdom on teamwork and collaboration has created too much of the wrong kind of collaboration, which hurts our performance, health and overall well-being.In Beyond Collaboration Overload, Babson professor Rob Cross solves this paradox by showing how top performers who thrive at work collaborate in a more purposeful way that makes them 18-24% more efficient than their peers. Good collaborators are distinguished by the efficiency and intentionality of their collaborationnot the size of their network or the length of their workday.Through landmark research with more than 300 organizations, in-depth stories, and tools, Beyond Collaboration Overload will coach you to reclaim close to a day a week when you:Identify and challenge beliefs that lead you to collaborate too quicklyImpose structure in your work to prevent unproductive collaborationAlter behaviors to create more efficient collaborationIt then outlines how successful people invest this reclaimed time to:Cultivate a broad networknot a big onefor innovation and scaleEnergize othersa strong predictor of high performanceConnect with others to reduce micro-stressors and enhance physical and mental well-beingCross' framework provides relief from the definitive problem of our agedysfunctional collaboration at the expense of our performance, health and overall well-being.

Explores the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs on their way up the executive ladder. Based on research that spanned eight years, this work compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 black and white female managers in the American business arena.

Kids deserve a better digital future. Help them create it.When it comes to raising children in a digital world, every parent feels underprepared and overwhelmed. We worry that our children will become addicted to online games, be victims of cyberbullying, or get lost down the rabbit hole of social media. We warn them about all the things they shouldn't do online, but we don't do nearly enough to teach them the skills of digital well-being.It's time to start a new conversation. In Digital for Good, EdTech expert Richard Culatta argues that technology can be a powerful tool for learning, solving humanity's toughest problems, and bringing us closer together. He offers a refreshingly positive framework for preparing kids to be successful in a digital world—one that encourages them to use technology proactively and productively—by outlining five qualities every young person should develop in order to become a thriving, contributing digital citizen:Be balanced: understand when and how much tech use is healthyStay informed: discern between true and false informationBe inclusive: treat others with respect and kindness onlineBe engaged: use tech to strengthen family relationships and community connectionsStay alert: exercise caution and create safe digital spaces for othersThis practical guide will help parents and children discover the path to becoming effective digital citizens, all while making our online world a better place.