Authors: Robert P. Miles. Tom Osborne.
Hardcover, 308 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2001-10-15
Edition: 1st

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    "Everyone knows Warren is the greatest investor of our time. . . .This book for the first time captures his genius as a manager."
—Jack Welch

The first book to reveal the investment and management strategies of the Berkshire Hathaway all-star management team. Much has been written about Warren Buffett and his investment philosophy; little has been made public about the inside management of Berkshire Hathaway. With a market cap exceeding 100 billion , Berkshire Hathaway has a market value surpassing many icons of American business such as Dell, AT&T, Disney, Ford, Gillette, American Express, and GM. Drawing on his personal experiences as well as those of Berkshire's chief executives, officers, and directors interviewed for this book, Berkshire insider Robert P. Miles provides a unique look at the Berkshire Hathaway culture and its management principles....

Authors: Jeremy T. Miner. Lynn E. Miner.
Paperback, 268 pages
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Publication Date: 2005-04-30
Edition: 1

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    Models of Proposal Planning & Writing illustrates, in intimate detail previously unpublished, an integrated process of planning and writing persuasive proposals. The grantseeker will see the questions that the authors asked of themselves and those asked of sponsors before they developed a complete grant application. Grantseekers will read the actual proposals the authors submitted to private and public sponsors, including paragraph-by-paragraph analyses of the key features that made them persuasive. The authors provide the reader with a verbatim examination of reviewer comments and grant award notification letters they received back from the sponsors. As a whole, these annotated models serve as a springboard from which grantseekers can begin to develop their own fundable proposals....

Authors: Robert Porter Lynch.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 1993-02-22
Edition: 1

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    Presents a map of the various options one has on the journey through an alliance; the principles of design; new insights into what has been missing in order to understand alliances; how to find the right partners; purchaser-supplier alliances; some of the consequences that occur when certain principles are violated; how to improve the chances of obtaining excellent results from an alliance and much more....

Authors: Claes Fornell.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2008-11-25


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Authors: Robert Slater.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 1999-11-23
Edition: 1

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    "If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter."
- BusinessWeek

Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch’s groundbreaking programs—including Six Sigma and Work-Out—along with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency.

Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE’s top-level corridors of power—including a never-before-published full-length interview with Jack Welch—veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on, applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook will you find:

• "The Boca Raton Speeches"—Never-before-seen excerpts taken from Jack Welch’s internal speeches to GE employees
• More than 100 exercises, overheads, and exhibits from the files of Jack Welch and GE
• The most complete treatment of GE’s Six Sigma program ever published
• Step-by-step action plans that are blueprints for implementing Six Sigma and Work-Out—and creating the boundaryless organization

The fieldbook has become one of today’s most popular, effective teaching tools—but never before has one focused on the inner workings and strategies of a specific company. The GE Way Fieldbook gives you an inside look at the stunningly successful Jack Welch era at GE, provides the techniques and tools you need to focus every worker in your organization on progress and growth, and outlines a strategic roadmap for implementing GE’s business practices—and removing the boundaries to success—within your own organization....

Authors: Barbara Peterson.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Publication Date: 2004-11-18


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    Five years ago, an unknown entrepreneur named David Neeleman uprooted his wife and nine kids from Utah to New York to start a revolutionary airline that would make jaded travelers fall in love with flying again. Against all odds, Neeleman has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. JetBlue Airways has already reached $1 billion a year in sales, is consistently profitable despite the worst downturn in aviation history, and has the highest consumer ratings in the business.

Barbara S. Peterson has been reporting on JetBlue since before its first plane took off. She’s the only book author to gain full access to all the major players in the story, including the CEO and his inner circle. She even got to participate in flight attendant training for a rare inside look at JetBlue’s unusual corporate culture.

Blue Streak is the definitive book on what makes this hot company tick and why JetBlue’s customers are so fiercely loyal. (It’s not just the leather seats and individual TV screens.) This is a fun, exciting narrative about a tight band of true believers who dared to try a new approach to a tough business. Blue Streak also offers a fascinating look at the decline of American, Delta, and the other airlines that used to be on top....

Authors: John C. Beck. Mitchell Wade.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 2004-10


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    "Got Game" shows how growing up immersed in video games has profoundly shaped the attitudes and abilities of this new generation. Though little-noticed, these ninety million rising professionals, through sheer numbers, will inevitably dominate business - and are already changing the rules. While many of these changes are positive - such as more open communication and creative problem-solving - they have caused a generation gap that frustrates gamers and the boomers who manage them. "Got Game" identifies the distinct values and traits that define the gamer generation - from an increased appetite for risk to unexpected leadership skills - and reveals management techniques today's leaders can use to bridge the generation gap and unleash gamers' hidden potential....

Authors: John E. Prescott.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2001-02-15
Edition: 1st

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    Tested-in-the-trenches competitive intelligence techniques used at today's top companies

This book brings together the best thinking and practices in competitive intelligence (CI) currently being used at many of today's most successful companies. Featuring contributions from leading industry executives, it covers CI strategies across a wide range of business functions, including marketing and sales, market research and forecasting, product development, and teams.

• The only book on the subject offering a comprehensive view of CI, from the CEO down to the tactical CI team
• Numerous case studies vividly illustrating cutting-edge CI techniques in action

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Authors: Randall E. Stross.
Paperback, 332 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1997-08-17


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    "Stross's "The Microsoft Way" shows us the inside of the software giant's decision-making processes. The author had unlimited access to Microsoft's archives and employees, including CEO Bill Gates".--"The Wall Street Journal". "Lucid and entertaining . . . Microsoft-haters who read Stross will be unpleasantly surprised by what he found".--"The Boston Globe"....

    Stross, an academic business historian, was given unlimited access to interview Microsoft employees and managers and to rifle through most of Microsoft's corporate records. His main conclusion? That Microsoft's phenomenal success is due in large part to its consistent insistence on hiring the smartest people, and that much Microsoft bashing is reflective of an anti-intellectual strain in American culture. Whether you idolize or despise Microsoft, this book is well worth reading--especially if you are in any way responsible for hiring the best and the brightest for your company....

Authors: Michael Treacy.
Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Portfolio Trade
Publication Date: 2004-12-28


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    The bestselling author of The Discipline of Market Leaders reveals how companies can achieve sustained growth.

In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema explained how great companies dominated their markets by offering superior value propositions. Now Treacy is back with an equally groundbreaking book-revealing how great companies master growth each year and how all businesses can identify and exploit opportunities for increased revenues, gross margins, and profits.

Treacy's main point is simple-it really is possible to grow your business by 10 percent or more, year after year, in good times and bad, without cheating. Great companies already know how to do it, and the rest of us can learn their strategies and do the same thing. Using case studies from industry leaders such as Dell Computer, Home Depot, and GE, he shows the five steps that are imperative to ensure growth:

€ keep the growth you have already earned
€ look for growth where it's likely to be found
€ take business from your competitors

Treacy believes that any business can grow at a consistent double-digit rate, and with Double-Digit Growth, managers and investors now have the tools to achieve that lofty goal and maintain corporate success....

    After Michael Treacy finished writing his bestseller, The Discipline of Market Leaders, he continued to track the companies profiled to answer one major question: how do market-leading companies foster growth? In Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It—No Matter What the MIT Management Professor addresses this problem with a five-part portfolio of management disciplines. He offers case studies of well-known and little-known companies that have achieved growth year after year based on this diversified approach.

His first three disciplines--"keep the growth you have already earned," "take business from your competitors," and "show up where the growth is going to happen"--may seem obvious, and even beyond the control of the average executive. But Treacy provides frameworks for applying each as business practice, not just wishful thinking. His fourth and fifth disciplines, "invade adjacent markets" and "invest in new lines of business," are perhaps the most controversial. Here, though, he is not advising rampant conglomeration. Rather, he stresses the need for acquisitions and expansions made based on reliable data predicting long-term growth with risk spread over diversified investments.

Treacy is not presenting a step-by-step formula for success. Through his quick, readable prose he offers instead a course in mental re-training for executives. A management team must construct tools for tracking and measuring its success against each of the five growth disciplines, and it must build a corporate culture that instills growth as a core goal. While he offers no guarantees, his arguments are compelling, and the nuanced management strategies he suggests seem a plausible base for attaining predictable growth. --Patrick O’Kelley...