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Crucial techniques for business and finance managers making e-business alliances Alliances and mergers are coming fast and furious for dot.com and Internet-enabled companies-and in fact are a key strategy for any savvy digital business. In this book, Larraine Segil reveals her proven approach to business development in the Internet world-what Segil has trademarked "fastalliances.com." This is the first book to dissect the unique aspects of e-alliances, from identifying deliverables to providing tools proven to cement swift and decisive relationships in Internet time. Key points are illustrated with both positive and negative examples from companies that include Compaq, Sun, Disney, Go, Kodak, MP3, and Stamps.com. Alliances are a crucial part of any Internet business-both dot.com and brick-and-mortar-and an important topic for business and finance managers whose companies are making use of the Web. The approach, author credentials, and unique message of FastAlliances create a package that has bestseller potential.
Features an author who is a regular commentator on CNN and has built a reputation as a top expert on innovative strategies. Explains how to use Network Leadership to create a networked organization structure of internal and external alliances and flexible decision processes. Shows readers how to self-diagnose the personal and organizational characteristics of their company; how to effectively communicate and to forge relationships internally within the company and externally; and ways to use an assessment to implement Network Self-Leadership through an eight-step plan. Present case illustrations of a diverse range of corporations, including Shell Oil Co. Esquire magazine, Southwest Airlines, Amazon.com, and Xerox.
Biography of Larraine Segil, currently Member of the International Advisory Council (IAC) at APCO Worldwide, previously Member of Board of Directors at Frontier Communications and Member of Board of Directors at Frontier Communications.
Firms all over the world are entering into strategic alliances. Successful alliance management, however, requires corporations to adapt their management models to the demands of this new mode of organization. New tools, techniques and ideas need to be introduced in order to fully benefit from the potential advantages of alliances.Firms are becoming embedded in alliances to such an extent that the autonomous firm no longer exists. Instead, the allianced enterprise has emerged as a viable form of organization. To guide managers in developing their allianced enterprise, this book provides an overview of the latest in alliance thinking. It describes such key issues as how to position a company i...
In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexity and crisis, overcoming blind spots, managing knowledge workers, coaching tomorrow's leaders, increasing value, retaining customers, and much more.
"MAHAMANTRA-The essence of Leadership, inculcating the theme of the DASHAVATARA-10 AVATAR SPIRITS, for young and budding leaders to imbibe the same for improvising themselves to transform into true leaders exhibiting the skill sets of a competent professional. This book will give you an insight as to why he has drawn inspiration from the 10 Avatar spirits with a wholesome view in designing with emphasis on creating various initiatives for a successful leadership. With his determination, verve and fire to impart diversified education, this will also help in developing one’s skills to adopt the core of these spirits in their personal as well as professional lives."
Leading Organizational Learning brings together today’s top thinkers in organizational learning—including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledge sharing within their organizations. This one-of-a-kind volume is filled with chapters that directly address the most current ideas, concepts, and practices on the topic of organizational learning. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned thought, global, and industry leaders, managing directors, and presidents of leading organizations have contributed their ori...
Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy is intended for managers who have practiced the best of quality and re-engineering management techniques and are ready to transform their organizations with the systematic notions of knowledge creation and application. It is for organization leaders who prefer to be inspired with innovation strategy than hit over the head with change management techniques. It does not deal with barriers, hurdles, or conflicts to be resolved; rather, it paints a possible vision of how we can take advantage of our collective learning to move an enterprise forward. This book provides the reader with a sound, practical framework for instituting innovation strategy be...
The number one cause of failure on the people side of project management stems from ineffective or inadequate leadership. Leading High Performance Projects explains how project managers can adopt the most appropriate style under a given set of circumstances, encourage greater teaming, become more effective decision-makers, reduce incidences of negative conflict and eliminate opportunities for 'negative energy' to permeate a project. Ralph L. Kliem, President of Practical Creative Solutions, is an accomplished author of hundreds of articles and 12 books primarily in project management.