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The Corporate Diplomacy Challenge: A Leader's Guide to Navigating this Important Career Transition
Watkins, Michael D.Book Chapter HBS-5340BC-EMany leaders are used to wielding authority and making executive decisions with their place in the hierarchy in mind. But what happens when leaders move into positions where getting things done suddenly depends more on influence and the ability to build coalitions of support than on authority? Whether your new role involves navigating within a "matrix" organization, negotiating with powerful external partners, such as government agencies, or lead...Starting at €8.20
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Taking Stock: Generation X Today--Making the Most of Your Position in the Workplace
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5679BC-EIf you've ever felt sandwiched between the demands of Boomers and Gen Y's in the workplace, you're not alone. Fortunately, there is hope for Generation X, and for you. Jam-packed with practical tips, this chapter delves into what it means to be a Generation X'er and how you can use your generation's unique attributes to your advantage. You will learn how you can use an economic recession to your benefit, how you should adjust your goals and miles...Starting at €8.20
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Trading Up: Making the Organization You Work for Work for You--Turning Generation X into Generation Success
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5680BC-EFor you, work probably involves an organization, whether you work within an organization or are an independent contractor who works regularly with other businesses. For the vast majority of Generation X, success, no matter how you define it, requires navigating the complexities of an enterprise and balancing your preferences with the often-conflicting priorities of other people. This chapter is about working more effectively with others, within a...Starting at €8.20
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The Proliferation Trap: How to Manage Multiple Threats to Your Competitive Position
D'Aveni, Richard A.Book Chapter HBS-5690BC-EStrategyThe fragmentation of markets and new, more focused business models have created many narrower markets where there once were a few broad ones. If rivals are using these new, narrower positions to slice away slivers of your market, you have become a victim of the proliferation trap. But you cannot fight everyone, everywhere, all the time. In this chapter, Richard A. D'Aveni shows how to go into battle. He first describes the telltale signs of the p...Starting at €8.20
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Data: The Prerequisite for Everything Analytical--How to Manage Your Data for More Effective General Management
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.; Morison, RobertBook Chapter HBS-5741BC-EStrategyFor too long, managers have relied on their intuition or their "golden gut" to make decisions. Important decisions have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision maker. Sometimes intuitive and experience-based decisions work out well, but all too often they go astray, end in disaster, or result in money being left on the table. If you think that your organization ought to make more decisions based on facts...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership: The Deciding DELTA Factor--The Human Element Behind Analytical Mastery
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.; Morison, RobertBook Chapter HBS-5745BC-EStrategyThere is no doubt that to be a full-fledged analytical competitor, you need the CEO in your corner. However, there is also no doubt that almost any employee can move an organization in a more analytical direction. In this chapter you will learn how you can make your organization more analytical, advocate for more fact-based decision making, and encourage your employees to become analytical leaders themselves, regardless of your position. By descr...Starting at €8.20
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Embed Analytics in Business Processes: A How-To Guide
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.; Morison, RobertBook Chapter HBS-5751BC-EStrategyIf you really want to put analytics to work in your organization, you need to make them an integral part of everyday business decisions and business processes. A cross-functional process perspective enables you to appreciate how different parts of the business work together (or fail miserably in doing so) and to identify all the ways analytics might be used to create a better outcome for the enterprise. In this chapter, the authors of Competing o...Starting at €8.20
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The White Space Between: Dealing with Industry Discontinuity--Finding Opportunities in Tectonic Industry Change
Johnson, Mark W.Book Chapter HBS-5771BC-ELeadership and People ManagementUnpredictable, revolutionary forces from outside the market can alter the course for everyone in the race. But tectonic industry change-when whole industries suffer an unforeseen shock, collapse, or form anew-opens up uncharted territory for companies between what was and what is to be, or what company transformation experts call the "white space between." In this chapter, chairman of Innosight and strategic innovation thought leader Mark W. John...Starting at €8.20
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Designing a New Business Model: Finding an Ordered Structure to Unlock Creativity
Johnson, Mark W.Book Chapter HBS-5776BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWe're all familiar with stories of visionary leaders whose brilliant insights revolutionize the market. But all of these inspiring stories can be downright depressing. No one wants to depend on something as fickle as inspiration to create a new business. And you shouldn't have to, says strategic innovation expert Mark W. Johnson. Indeed, conceiving of a truly innovative new business model does not need to be a matter of imagination and serendipit...Starting at €8.20
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Important Accounting Concepts: The Rules that Shape Financial Statements
HBS Press; Harvard Business School PressBook Chapter HBS-5801BC-EFinanceAlthough many managers are proficient in reading financial statements, most are not yet masters of the accounting concepts and processes from which this data is derived. This chapter examines seven key accounting issues that affect your performance as a manager: GAAP, accrual vs. cash accounting, accounting for inventories, accounting for depreciation, the account treatment of leases, the principle of historic cost, and cost accounting. This cha...Starting at €8.20