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Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results (Center for Creative Leadership)

Pfeiffer, 2007

Influence is an essential component of leadership. Your position in an organization and the power it gives you aren’t always enough to motivate people to do what you ask. Developing your influence skills can help you gain commitment from people at all levels: direct reports, peers, and bosses.

This book includes an assessment tool...

Leading Dispersed Teams (Center for Creative Leadership)

Pfeiffer, 2007

This is a book about leading dispersed teams—teams that are made up of people who don’t work in the same geographical area. Such teams don’t often meet face-to-face. Usually their members are separated by time and distance, and they often bring different cultural views to bear on their work. Solving potential communication...

Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009

All over the world we are witnessing a revolution in organizing. Just as the industrial revolution created its new form of organization (bureaucracy), the information revolution is creating its own new form of organization. We are moving from command and control to collaboration, from organizing based on a few leaders telling...

Maintaining Team Performance (Center for Creative Leadership)

Pfeiffer, 2007

Between the time a team is launched and the time it delivers results, managers need to know that the team is on course. Whether they have launched a team to achieve a business objective or have inherited a team, they need to monitor effectiveness on an ongoing basis and make course corrections that keep small problems from becoming major...

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Anything can be measured. This bold assertion is the key to solving many problems in business and life in general. The myth that certain things can't be measured is a significant drain on our nation's economy, public welfare, the environment, and even national security. In fact, the chances are good that some part of your life...

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Antivirus Industry

Temple University Press, 2008

In Technological Turf Wars, Jessica Johnston analyzes the tensions and political dilemmas that coexist in the interrelationship among science, technology and society. Illustrating how computer security is as concerned with social relationships as it is with technology, Johnston provides an illuminating ethnography that...

Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots

Harvard Business School, 2004

In this text, the author outlines an expansion strategy based on putting together combinations of adjacency moves into areas away from, but related to, the core business, such as new product lines or new channels of distribution.

Growth is not a choice—it’s an imperative. But the risks are substantial. Only a quarter of all...

Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, Vol. 2

Idea Group Publishing, 2003

Advanced Topics in Global Information Management includes original material concerned with all aspects of global information management in three areas: Global Information Systems in Business Functions, Information Technology in Specific Regions of the World, and Management of Global Information Resources and Applications. The focus of volume two is...

Discrimination at Work: The Psychological and Organizational Bases

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination. Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination held at Rice University in May 2000. The idea came...

Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications

IGI Global, 2007

Semantic Web is here to stay! This is not really a marketing campaign logo, but it is a truth that every year is becoming more and more relevant to the daily life of business world, industry and society. I do not know how it happened, but the last years, through our activities in the Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems in...

Organization Theory and Design (with InfoTrac)

South-Western College, 2006

My vision for the Ninth Edition of Organization Theory and Design is to integrate contemporary problems about organization design with classic ideas and theories in a way that is interesting and enjoyable for students. Significant changes in this edition include updates to every chapter that incorporate the most recent ideas, new...

The Language of Design: Theory and Computation

Springer, 2008

The Language of Design: Theory and Computation articulates the theory that there is a language of design. This theory claims that any language of design consists of a set of symbols, a set of relations between the symbols, features that key the expressiveness of symbols, and a set of reality producing information processing behaviors...

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