Business Organization

How did Ford Motors use Lean development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles. In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business.

With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success.

Business leaders are continually told they need to embrace digital disruption wholeheartedly to thrive in the 21st century. Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. False! Nothing in life or business is ever that simple.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on legal teams in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on legal teams in organizations. It describes how these teams are assembled, examines their objectives, discusses their value, shows how to manage them, and suggests methods for their improvement. The text is informative and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels. If you are interested in learning about legal teams in organizations, then this book is for you.

In 2010, Tim Clark helped create Business Model Generation, a groundbreaking global bestseller on how enterprises deliver value customers. In 2012, Clark and partner Bruce Hazen followed up with Business Model You, pioneering the personal business model technique for individuals. In their new book, Clark and Hazen turn this sights on teams, showing managers how much better their enterprises function when individuals and teams know their role in creating value for customers.

Technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability.

"As a transformation guru, Nick Jankel's ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public institution." Head of White House Office Of Social Innovation; Special Advisor to President Obama A tour de force that brings together, in one book, the essential science, wisdom, and tools to become a truly transformational leader—from one of the world’s preeminent theorists and practitioners of transformational leadership. Whether you are a leader in a bold multinational, an ambitious start-up, a purposeful social enterprise, a determined government department, ...

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on accounting in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book examines accounting in organizations by introducing the concept, describing its major fields, accessing the value of CPAs working within it, analyzing its job functions, defining its methods of application, suggesting ways it can be improved, and looking at its future. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy understanding at all reader levels. If you are interested in learning ...

Maverick marketing whiz Mike Veeck offers you his simple, no-fail formula for business success!

Drawing on his own experience and the success stories of clients and others who have benefited from his philosophy, Veeck shows how fun, creativity, and passion can bring out the best in an organization and an individual.

The "Fun Is Good" philosophy applies to everyone, whether you're the CEO or lower on the totem pole.

This audiobook distills the leadership lessons and stories from a lifetime of leadership experiences into an easy-to-follow roadmap for your own journey in Becoming a Leader Worth Following.

This book is great for beginners and no seeking general knowledge. It explores green business, social responsibility, organizational ethics, and nonprofit organizations as they relate to business, employees, society, and the environment. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels.

Change within organizations is disruptive, making people feel less in control of their work and lives. With every passing day, organizational change becomes more complex. It’s no surprise that efforts for change encounter resistance. Jan Kaderly knows that managing change is managing resistance. In Change Killers, Kaderly takes you on a deep exploration of resistance. Dive into decades of research on the very human reasons why we resist change and discover how you can manage resistance while building the support needed to evolve and grow.

The way we work is broken. It takes forever to get anything done. Meetings and emails are incessant. Bureaucracy stifles talent and creativity. After decades of management theory and multiple waves of technological and societal change, is this really the best we can do? Aaron Dignan teaches companies how to eliminate red tape, tap in to collective intelligence and rethink long-held traditions that no longer make sense. In Brave New Work, he shows you how to revolutionize the way your company works forever.

While writers, designers, editors, and other creative professionals spend years learning and refining creative craft skills, those skills do nothing to prepare us for the human, organizational, and operational challenges that come with promotions to leadership. And as your responsibility grows, it’s those organizational and leadership skills that will hold you and your team back.

Tom Peters has, for the past 12 years, been telling American business that the rules have changed. Now he goes farther in The Tom Peters Seminar, the first in an exciting new series aimed at helping everyone, Fortune 500 chairmen, middle managers trying to hold onto their place on the ladder (a mistake!), and hotel housekeepers, thrive in the brave new world of business in the 90s.

A deployed nuclear submarine operates alone - hundreds of miles from any support and hundreds of feet below the surface. An emotionless and indifferent enemy constantly surrounds the crew. Thousands of pounds of sea pressure sit right over their heads, waiting to crush them like a tin can and send them to the bottom of the ocean. Even the most junior sailor’s mistake can result in loss of the submarine and everyone on it.

A team of pioneering decision and AI strategists delivers a digestible and hands-on resource for professionals at every part of the decision-making journey. The book discusses the latest technology and approaches that bridge the gap between behavioral science, data science, and technological innovation. Discover how leaders from various industries and environments are using data and AI to make better future decisions, taking both human as well as business factors into account.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on Information overload, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on information overload in organizations. It introduces the topic, explores it causes, examines it consequences, suggests methods for its reduction, and discusses its future. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy understanding at all reader levels. If you are interested in learning about Information overload in organizations, then this book is for you.

After a period of tremendous upheaval, it is necessary for organizations to transform alongside their employees and welcome new ways of working. While it is impossible to predict which changes will be successful, it is crucial for leaders to now ask: what should work look like to achieve productive, healthy, and safe organizations? In Brave New Workplace, Julian Barling argues that we should focus on creating environments in which employees can flourish, rather than relying on the resiliency of workers to withstand difficult working conditions.

With reasoned insight, new data, real-world cases, and practical guidance, Code Halos shows seasoned executives, entrepreneurs, students, line-of-business owners, and technology leaders how to master the new rules of the Code Halo economy.