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“laurence prusak”

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  • Judgment Calls

    Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right

    by Brook Manville, Thomas H. Davenport ...
    Your guide to making better decisionsDespite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today-and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions-many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights.In Judgment Calls, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Smart Mission

    NASA’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects

    by Edward J. Hoffman, Matthew Kohut, Laurence Prusak ...
    EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT, ACCORDING TO NASA: Three project management experts reveal why human skills and expertise—not technical tools—are what make projects succeed.The project is the basic unit of work in many industries. Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready spacecraft: all were produced by a team and managed as a project. Project management emphasizes control, processes, ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Creating Value with Knowledge

    Insights from the IBM Institute for Business Value

    Edited by Eric Lesser, Laurence Prusak ...
    The mid-1990s saw the rise of an important movement: a recognition that organizational knowledge, in its various forms and attributes, could be an important source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. Knowledge management has become one of the core competencies in today's competitive environment, where so much value in companies resides in their people, systems, and processes. Creating ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Knowledge in Organisations

    by Laurence Prusak ...
    First Published in 1997. The second in the readers' series, Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge In Organisations gives an overview of how knowledge is valued and used in organisations. It gives readers excellent grounding in how best to understand the highest valued asset they have in their organisations. ... Read more

    $74.19 CAD

  • Storytelling in Organizations

    by Laurence Prusak, Katalina Groh, Stephen Denning, John Seely Brown ...
    This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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    How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge

    by Oded Shenkar ...
    In the business world, imitation gets a bad rap. We see imitating firms as ?me too? players, forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. We pity their fate: a life of picking up crumbs discarded by innovators striding a path paved with fame and profit.In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. He reveals how imitation?the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation?is ... Read more

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  • Strategy-in-Action

    Marrying Planning, People and Performance

    by Thomas D. Zweifel, Edward J. Borey ...
    The meltdown of stalwart companies from AIG to JAL to Lehman and government crises from Greece to Spain make it abundantly clear: With economic uncertainty and rapid innovation, empowered consumers and free agents, and the constant pressure to be faster, better and cheaper, the established wisdom on strategic planning works no more. Once hailed as “brilliant” by experts, it is the very approach ... Read more

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  • Extreme Productivity

    Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

    by Robert C. Pozen ...
    “Required reading for professionals—and aspiring professionals—of all levels.”—Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Former Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionRobert C. Pozen, one of the business world’s most successful—and productive—executives, reveals the surprising secrets to workplace productivity and high performance.It's far too easy for working ... Read more

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  • Change by Design

    How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

    by Tim Brown ...
    In Change by Design, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the celebrated innovation and design firm, shows how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business. Change by Design is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders who seek to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The End of Competitive Advantage

    How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business

    by Rita Gunther McGrath ...
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  • The Adventures of an IT Leader, Updated Edition with a New Preface by the Authors

    by Robert D. Austin, Shannon O'Donnell, Richard L. Nolan ...
    What does it take to lead and manage your company’s tech?Becoming an effective IT leader and manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technologies, to managing relationships with senior executives, vendors, and employees, to communicating with the board. A good IT leader must also be a strong business leader.This book-now thoroughly updated with a new preface by the authors ... Read more

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  • The Leader's Guide to Radical Management

    Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

    by Stephen Denning ...
    A radical new management model for twenty-first century leadersOrganizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep ... Read more

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