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.Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
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by: W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

February 03, 2005
This book helps focus the reader on looking at their business, competition and offerings in different and exciting ways. If you are considering a new business venture or product offering, you really should read this book.
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.The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
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by: Michael Watkins

September 18, 2003
This is a well written guide with a quite a few useful tips. It is well worth the purchase price.
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.Leading Change
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by: John P. Kotter

January 15, 1996
This book is what I needed and I enjoy the book. I received fast service.
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.Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
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by: Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee

2004-03
Great book! Can be used to take an assessment of yourself inside and outside of the business world. A must read.
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.Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
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by: Martin Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz

April 18, 2002
Leadership on the line is a must read for all new managers. The authors clearly and logically review the strategic positions that in which leaders may find themselves and options for moving forward. Maps are provided of various minefields and this book may just save your job/career.


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.The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
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by: John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen

August 01, 2002
Your heart allows you to thrive...right? So a book entitled "The Heart of Change" probably should show signs of life! And that it did! I felt that this book was very well written and offered some life-changing information! The real-life stories only encouraged the reader to pursue more and more of what we all want. And that is to FEEL in our HEART that what we are doing is WORTHWHILE and PURPOSEFUL! Page 11 and it's diagram of the concept of See-Feel-Change is terrific! Terrific, not only because it matched the content, but because it met the visual reader as well as the logical reader as well as the emotional reader. The script them backed up it's information with the 8 stages of successful large-scale change. This worked becuase we all know that you usually experience ... Read More:
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.The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth
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by: Fred Reichheld

March 02, 2006
As the owner of a very small business I am not going to be implementing any type of large-scale statistical analysis to determine NPS as the book suggests - it is just too expensive for my company. However, this book does provide a lot of fodder for thinking about customer service, what your company is doing, what it could and should be doing better and how you can keep in contact with your customers to keep honest and proactive in making their interactions with your firm as positive as possible. I think that tracking your Net Promoter Score is less important than making the Golden Rule a "philosophical cornerstone" of your business. I don't know if companies like USAA, Amazon and E-Bay track their NPS, but they would be delighting their customers and receiving tons of word-of-mouth ... Read More:
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.Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
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by: Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris

March 06, 2007
I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior consultant, a manager looking for Business Intelligence ideas, an expert looking for tools to sell analytics, or Business Intelligence, to your top managers.
If you are experienced in using analytics, design and use data collection tools, or using Business Intelligence, the book might bring you little value. I was constantly reading it and looking forward for the real meat, but it didn't really appeared. I certainly will keep it to use as a reference in the future, but still looking for books ... Read More:
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.The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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by: Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

2003-09
I assume you're interested in this book because it's a shortcut: we hear that a business can be undermined by [initially] unattractive innovations, aka the innovator's dilemma. But what do we do about it?

The answer is to create those innovations, of course. The proposal is to create small business units, since the initial returns will be small, then make sure they rapidly become _profitable_. Even better, create a new market instead of improving an existing product. A crappy sounding transistor radio lets lots of kids listen to music outside their house, compared to the old vacuum tube model that was stuck in the den.
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.The Future of Management
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by: Bill Breen, Gary Hamel

September 10, 2007
I just finished Gary Hamel's latest book, The Future of Management. It is absolutely the most inspiring business book I have ever read. Hamel accurately makes the case that management theory has hardly evolved in the past 50 years. There are plenty of reasons why, but the heart of the problem is that restructuring the organization must go through senior executives who are (a) afraid of change, (b) unfamiliar with innovative approaches, and (c) unwilling to relinquish the command and control power they have so deliberately "earned." So it is, quite literally, business as usual.

The book carefully dissects examples of companies that have dared to take a radically different approach and been rewarded with extraordinary results. Gore, Whole Foods and Google were all born from visionary founders ... Read More:
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