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Achieving excellence in management: identifying and learning from bad practices
- 2010
- A. Kilner
- Business Expert Press
Explores the practice of good management with guidance on how an individual can improve his or her own management understanding and performance.
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Anyone can do it: building Coffee Republic from our kitchen table
- 2004
- Sahar Hashemi, Bobby Hashemi
- Capstone
Follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Takes the reader step by step through every aspect of starting and growing a business as an entrepreneur, from asking 'why?' and writing the plan to hiring staff and letting go.
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Boardroom realities: building leaders across your board
- 2009
- Jay A. Conger
- Wiley
A guide to the key issues facing boards. Includes the latest trends in board leadership and performance as well as talent management for the board and the C-suite. Also includes a chapter on CEO succession and the challenges and opportunities this can present. Improving a board's performance and impact is also covered.
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Building a resilient organisation
- 2014
- James Crask, Charley Newnham, Jack Armstrong, Paul Robertson
- ICSA Publishing
How to design your business strategy to build a prosperous and sustainable business. The book helps readers to understand resilience within organisations and how it can be measured, assessed and enhanced.
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Business and the beautiful game
- 2005
- Theo Theobald, Cary Cooper
- Kogan Page
This book applies the analogy of football to the world of business and in doing so compares and contrasts the key elements in the world of commerce to the parellels of the beautiful game. It provides a framework for a fresh way of thinking about business management in a lively and entertaining way.
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Business plans that work
- 2004
- Jeffry Timmons, Andrew Zacharakis, Stephen Spinelli
- McGraw-Hill
Provides practical guidance and insights for entrepreneurs or small business owners on writing a successful business plan. Each chapter introduces different components of the planning process. Also includes a model to analyse potential business opportunities.
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Corporate strategy
- 2006
- Richard Lynch
- Financial Times Prentice Hall
The book shows how to create business strategies based on the nature and needs of an organisation. It aims to be a comprehensive guide to strategic management theories for students and business leaders.
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Designing the networked organisation
- 2011
- Ken Everett
- Business Expert Press
The book makes the case for networks as the dominant model for business management. It argues that business management works better without conventional hierarchies, and that networked organisations are more resilient, adaptable, and better-suited to the modern global economy. It provides real life examples showing how to build the necessary communities within an organisation and operate with distributed management authority.
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Developing leadership talent
- 2008
- Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi
- Pfeiffer
The book offers guidance on talent management with particular attention to succession planning. It includes chapters on business strategy and organisational needs, leadership skills and competencies, identifying talent gaps, and implementing a strong talent management strategy.
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Driven to the brink: why corporate governance, board leadership and culture matter
- 2017
- Alicia Micklethwait, Patricia Dimond
- Palgrave
A collection of stories about how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value. The book draws lessons from in-depth case studies of the Libor scandal, Olympus, Co-op, Kids Company and others. It also examines the large, emerging and less widely understood world of Corporate China with detailed discussion of the Lixel and Glaxo frauds.
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