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The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
Robert Steven Kaplan, David P. Norton
In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area–not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans.
It doesn’t have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and David Norton in The Execution Premium. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy. This book shows you how to:
- Develop an effective strategy–with tools such as SWOT analysis, vision formulation, and strategic change agendas
- Plan execution of the strategy–through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards
- Put your strategy into action–by integrating operational tools such as process dashboards, rolling forecasts, and activity-based costing
- Test and update your strategy–using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data
Drawing on extensive research and detailed case studies from a broad array of industries, The Execution Premium presents a systematic and proven framework for achieving the financial results promised by your strategy.
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Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies
Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies
Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies 2010 Edition
In today’s business world, your bottom line isn’t measured by your company’s financial performance alone. Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies shows you how to implement social responsibility to your business plan in order to increase your bottom line.This book helps any social entrepreneur gain the necessary skills needed to change the system and spread the solution, while providing explanations of the most successful business tools being used today.
- A complete reference on the ideas and processes associated with social entrepreneurship
- Provides a foundation and business plan for those looking to create their own socially oriented business venture
Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies gives you the trusted and friendly advice you need to get on your way toward social responsibility!
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Teaching Smart People How to Learn
Teaching Smart People How to Learn
by Chris Argyris 
Competitive success depends on learning, but most people, including professionals in leadership positions, are not very good at it. Learning is a function of how people reason about their own behavior. Yet most people engage in defensive reasoning when confronted with problems. They blame others and avoid examining critically the way they have contributed to problems. Companies need to make managers’ and employees’ reasoning patterns a focus of continuous improvement efforts.
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading.
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Microsoft Excel and Access Integration With Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Excel and Access Integration With Microsoft Office 2007
Although many people rarely go from Excel into Access or vice versa, you should know that Microsoft actually designed these applications to work together. In this book, you’ll discover how Access benefits from Excel’s flexible presentation layer and versatile analysis capabilities, while Access’s relational database structure and robust querying tools enhance Excel. Once you learn to make the two work together, you’ll find that your team’s productivity is the real winner.
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Outliers, The Story Of Success
Outliers, The Story Of Success
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the “10,000-Hour Rule”, claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.
The publication debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, holding the position on the former for eleven consecutive weeks. Generally well-received by critics, Outliers was considered more personal than Gladwell’s other works, and some reviews commented on how much Outliers felt like an autobiography. Reviews praised the connection that Gladwell draws between his own background and the rest of the publication to conclude the book. Reviewers also appreciated the questions posed by Outliers, finding it important to determine how much individual potential is ignored by society. However, the lessons learned were considered anticlimactic and dispiriting. The writing style, deemed easy to understand, was criticized for oversimplifying complex sociological phenomena.
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iPhone 4S All in One For Dummies
iPhone 4S All in One For Dummies
This book covers the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS
