Management: Books

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  What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works (144 pages)

  

  By Ram Charan. Ram Charan learned about business from his family's shoe shop in India before attending Harvard Business School and going on to advise senior executives in companies large and small. His experiences taught him that universal laws apply "whether you sell fruit from a stand or are running a Fortune ...

   
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  Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business : 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning (208 pages)

  

  By Ram Charan. The coauthor of the international bestseller *Execution *has created the how-to guide for solving today’s toughest business challenge: creating profitable growth that is organic, differentiated, and sustainable.For many, growth is about “home runs”—the big bold idea, the next new thing, the ...

   
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  Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (312 pages)

  

  By Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony. When a disruptive innovation is launched, it changes the entire industry and every firm operating within in This book argues that it is possible to predict which companies will win and which will lose in a specific situation-;and provides a practical framework for doing so. Most books on ...

   
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  The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (368 pages)

  By Peter F. Drucker. Ever since his first book was published some six decades ago, Peter Drucker has been essential to everyone serious about the "management of an enterprise (and) the self-management of the individual, whether executive or professional, within an enterprise and altogether in our society of managed ...

   
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  First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (255 pages)

  

  By Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in _First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently_. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as ...

   
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  The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers (13 pages)

  

  By Robert A. Cooke. You're 36 hours away from mastering finance... Expense reports... balance sheets... budgets... financial statements... are you one of the myriad managers and entrepreneurs who dread trying to decipher-or, worse, prepare-baffling documents like these? To the rescue comes The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour ...

   
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  The Art of Project Management (392 pages)

  

  By Scott Berkun. "'The Art of Project Management' covers it all--from practical methods for making sure work gets done right and on time, to the mindset that can make you a great leader motivating your team to do their best. Reading this was like reading the blueprint for how the best projects are managed at ...

   
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  The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More than 50 Business Legends (256 pages)

  

  By . Pearls from The LITTLE BOOK OF BUSINESS WISDOM "The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."-JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER "Think about the customer, not the competition: Competitors represent your industry's past, as, over the years, collective ...