According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management’s failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of
David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. Lifehack calls it “The Bible of business and personal productivity.” Today, “GTD” is shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of
Solid business strategy is more important than ever in our world of stiffening competition. Despite that, most organizations struggle—not so much with formulating a strategy but with executing it—putting it into action. The result is that many companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance their plans promise. Robert Kaplan and David describe a
Jack Stack’s revolutionary system of Open-Book Management suggested that every employee in a business should be able to understand the company’s key figures, act on them, and should have a real stake in the business. As Stack, himself said: “When employees think, act and feel like owners … everybody wins.” As a management strategy, ‘the
Bossidy and Charan reframe their empowering message for a world in which the old rules have been shattered and radical change is becoming routine. They postulate that for the foreseeable future, growth will be slower. Yet companies that execute well will have the confidence, speed and resources to move fast as new opportunities emerge. This
This book looks not only at the ‘what’ but also ‘how’ effective execution is achieved using numerous examples of companies that have done that repeatedly. The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind. By following the
Fifty years ago many businesses made plans without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. In The Lords of Strategy, Walter Kiechel tells the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy, as we know it
“Outthinkers” are entrepreneurs and corporate leaders that see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Outthink the Competition proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during such revolutions, outthinkers beat traditionalists. Krippendorff uses the examples
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins began to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty and even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research and buttressed by rigorous analysis and engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly
Performance is key in business and when you’re looking at performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. The Exponential Organizationhas revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new
