Browse Summaries

March 2005Remove
August 1997Remove
May 1997Remove

Filters

Subject

Competency

Publication Date

Browse by subject:

Management Leadership Career & Self Development Marketing Sales Human Resources Economics Entrepreneurship Finance Technology Innovation All Subjects

View

ListGrid

Sort

The New Mainstream

How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business

by Guy Garcia

A new America is emerging. As the multiculturalism of Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and new immigrants comes together, they forge a New Mainstream-based culture and economy that will soon overcome the Anglocentric “Old” Mainstream. Corporations, politicians, institutions and the media will not only have to accept and understand the New Mainstream, but they will have to embrace it and become part of it. In The New Mainstream, journalist and multimedia entrepreneur Guy Garcia ...

View Details
Renovate Before You Innovate

Why Doing the New Thing Might Not Be the Right Thing

by Sergio Zyman

Many companies rely too heavily on innovation to solve their problems, and they attempt to start over with something fresh to revive old and tired businesses. Innovation sounds great. But it is often the lazy approach to marketing, and it typically doesn’t work. In Renovate Before You Innovate, Sergio Zyman preaches the power of renovation to accelerate and sustain top-line growth. It starts with recapturing the essence of your existing brands, products and core competencies and doing m

View Details
Lion Taming

Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses, and Other Tough Customers

by Steven Katz

Lions are the people all around us with power, responsibility, authority and talent — as well as the people who may simply be preoccupied with gaining more power and authority. According to Steven L. Katz, a right-hand executive and senior adviser to leaders and executives across many types of organizations, lions are never tame, and you need strategies to deal with that. In Lion Taming, Katz explains that lion taming is really lion teaming, and helps get you inside the minds of the lea

View Details
Stress for Success

by James Loehr

Don't moan about stress; make it work for you. Here's an optimistic, productive approach to a growing problem in industry.

View Details
Intellectual Capital

The New Wealth of Organizations

by Thomas Stewart

Stewart says too many firms today think only of physical and financial assets. They ignore their intellectual capital, the talents of their employees, their information about customers and suppliers, their patents. He will show you how to evaluate them-- and make them grow.

View Details
Going Solo

Developing a Home-Based Consulting Business from the Ground Up

by William Bond

Ready to be a consultant? Read this and you'll have the foundation for building your own home-based business.

View Details
Banishing Bureaucracy

The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government

by Robert Plastrik, David Osborne

Here's a thoughtful approach to "reinventing government," from city hall to the Pentagon.

View Details
Business Wisdom of the Electronic Elite

COMPAQ, Sun, Hewlett-Packard, and Other Top Companies

by Geoffrey James

James shows how corporate culture based on respect, service, and cooperation underwrote the success of some of today's biggest high-tech companies. Learn from it.

View Details