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Managing Oneself
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-R0501K-ELeadership and People ManagementThroughout history, people had little need to manage their careers--they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, relied on their companies to chart their career paths. But times have drastically changed. Today we must all learn to manage ourselves. What does that mean? As Peter Drucker tells us in this seminal article first published in 1999, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. We have to place ourselves where ...Starting at €8.20
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What Makes an Effective Executive (Spanish version)
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-R0406CLeadership and People ManagementListen first, speak last. Effectiveness is a discipline. And, like every discipline, it can be learned and must be earned.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Oneself (Spanish version)
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-R0501KLeadership and People ManagementWhat are my strengths? How do I perform? What are my values? Where do I belong? What should my contribution be? Don't try to change yourself, Drucker cautions. Instead, concentrate on improving the skills you have and accepting assignments that are tailored to your individual way of working. If you do that, you can transform yourself from an ordinary worker into an outstanding performer. Today's successful careers are not planned out in advance....Starting at €8.20
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Lenovo Adquiere los PC de IBM: desafios de integración
Fubini, David G.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-418S10Leadership and People ManagementEn diciembre de 2004, el fabricante de computadoras chino Lenovo anunció la compra de la división de PC de IBM. En ese momento, algunos observadores de la industria se mostraron optimistas sobre la fusión de estas entidades con las culturas de las empresas aparentemente opuestas. ¿Cómo deben las dos entidades plan para integrar?Starting at €8.20
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How to Make People Decisions (Spanish version)
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-85406Leadership and People ManagementPeople decisions are long lasting in their consequences and difficult to unmake. At most one third of such decisions come out right. Executives who take their people decisions seriously will find the following principles helpful: 1) take responsibility for the decision--if the person the executive places in a position does not perform, the executive has made a mistake; 2) it is the duty of managers to make sure that the responsible persons in the...Starting at €8.20
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They're Not Employees, They're People (Spanish version)
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-R0202ELeadership and People ManagementIn this essay, business thinker Peter Drucker examines the changing dynamics of the workforce--in particular, the need for organizations to take just as much care and responsibility when managing temporary and contract workers as they do with their traditional employees. Two fast-growing trends are demanding that business leaders pay more attention to employee relations, Drucker says. First is the rise of the temporary, or contract, worker; 8 mil...Starting at €8.20
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Faber-Castell (B)
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-417030-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to case 417010.Starting at €5.74
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Wake Up Call
Fubini, David G.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-418001-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 1993, three consultants at different stages in their careers must decide how to respond to what they considered to be unethical behavior from a partner at their firm. They each considered the potential consequences of reporting a senior colleague and the impact it could have on their careers.Starting at €8.20
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New Society of Organizations (Spanish version)
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-92503Leadership and People ManagementManagers must build change into their organization's structure. This means being prepared to abandon everything that the organization does as well as constantly creating the new. Without this creation and abandonment, the organization will lose performance and with it the ability to attract and hold the people on whom its performance depends. The nature of the organization drives the imperative of change. Every organization exists to put knowledg...Starting at €8.20
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Faber-Castell
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-417010-ELeadership and People ManagementBy 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell through waves of technological change. The pocket calculator decimated Faber-Castell's slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology undermined the company's manual drafting tools in the 1980s. With each new threat the Count had to decide whether to adapt to new technologies, or maintain focus on the company's core p...Starting at €8.20