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William Duggan. Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation (Columbia Business School Publishing)

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Year:2012
Pages:176
ISBN:0231160526

William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches with what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help you and your company put that same method to work for your own innovations. Duggan's book solves the most important problem of how innovation actually happens. Other methods of creativity, strategy, and innovation explain how to research and analyze a situation, but they don't tell you how to take the next step: a creative idea for what to do. Or they rely on the magic of "brainstorming" -- you toss out ideas off the top of your head. Instead, Duggan shows how creative strategy follows ...

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Madhu Viswanathan, S. Gajendiran, R. Venkatesan. Enabling Consumer and Entrepreneurial Literacy in Subsistence Marketplaces (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects)

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Year:2008
Pages:224
ISBN:1402057687

This book describes research on low-literate, poor buyers and sellers in subsistence marketplaces, the consequent development of an innovative marketplace literacy educational program that enables consumer and entrepreneurial literacy, and implications of the research and the educational program for business, education, and a variety of disciplines and functions. There are two important resources that individuals living in subsistence need to function in the economic realm: finances and know-how. The book describes an educational program that focuses on enabling generic skills about the marketplace. This program uses the “know-why” or an understanding of marketplaces as a basis for the know-how of being an informed buyer or seller. This volume discusses implications of the research ...

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Jon R. Katzenbach, Ballantine Bookst Harvard Business School Pr, Edited, an Introduction by Jon R. Katzenbach. The Work of Teams

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ISBN:0875848680

Managers are seizing on teamwork as an easy solution for meeting aggressive goals, only to meet with frustration when their teams prove difficult to predict and control. In The Work of Teams, bestselling author and team expert Jon Katzenbach gathers together articles from the Harvard Business Review that address the challenges and rewards that await every successful team. This thoughtful collection examines the conditions that encourage--or inhibit--the work of teams, and offers guidance for overcoming the problems that can derail even the best work groups.

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Harvard Business School Press. Harvard Business Essentials: Performance Management: Manage and Improve the Effectiveness of Your Employees

Publisher:Harvard Business Press
Year:2006
Pages:152
ISBN:1591398428

Today’s competitive workplace demands that managers evaluate employee performance, and provide coaching. Performance Management will help managers prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan to increase employee productivity. The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Whether you are a new manager seeking to expand your skills or a seasoned professional looking to broaden your knowledge base, these solution-oriented books put reliable answers at your fingertips.