Business Books imprint: 119 books
Serial Innovators
How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new products in large, mature organizations. These employees are organizational powerhouses who solve...
Learning From the Global Financial Crisis
Creatively, Reliably, and Sustainably
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
This book is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver lining—that political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitated...
Achieving Strategic Excellence
An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
This is the Center for Effective Organizations’s (CEO) fourth national study of the human resources (HR) function in large corporations. It is the only long-term national study of this important function. Like the previous studies, it focuses on measuring whether the HR function is changing and...
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management
An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) fifth study of human resources in large corporations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this text compares data from CEO's earlier studies to data collected...
Effective Human Resource Management
A Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Effective Human Resource Management is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) sixth report of a fifteen-year study of HR management in today's organizations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this book compares the findings from CEO's earlier studies to new data collected in 2010. Edward...
Human Resource Excellence
An Assessment of Strategies and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US,...
Hard Times
Leadership in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private sector leaders are widely seen as greedy to the point of being corrupt. Public sector leaders are viewed as incompetent to the point of being inept. And,...
by Jeffrey L. Funk
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Technology Change and the Rise of New Industries explores why new industries emerge at specific moments in time and in certain countries. Part I shows that technologies which experience "exponential" improvements in cost and performance have a greater chance of becoming new industries. When...
The Soul of Design
Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
What makes the Apple iPhone cool? Bang & Olufsen and Samsung's televisions beautiful? Any of a wide variety of products and services special? The answer is not simply functionality or technology, for competitors' products are often as good.
The Soul of Design explores the uncanny power...
by Peter Dahler-Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Evaluation—whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others—is an important social activity. Any organization that "lives in public" must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation?...
Peer Coaching at Work
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
When it comes to mentoring, peer coaching is an undervalued workhorse. It's effective, inexpensive, widely applicable, and relatively easy to implement. Many coaches consider it to be the next wave in professional development. Peer Coaching at Work draws on research and practice to deliver a hands-on...
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies
Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population,...
Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and Covert Collectives
Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Many of today's organizations "live in public"; they devote extensive resources to branding, catching the public eye, and capitalizing on the age of transparency. But, at the same time, a growing number of companies and other collectives are flying under the radar, concealing their identities...
Secrecy at Work
The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order—a hidden...