Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Business & Economics

Text and Cases

Strategic Management: Text and Cases, sixth Edition, by the prestigious authors Dess/Lumpkin/Eisner and new co-author Gerry McNamara provide solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management as well as thorough coverage of contemporary topics such intellectual assets, entrepreneurship, innovation, knowledge management, Internet strategies, crowdsourcing, environmental sustainability, businesses' use of blogs and social networking sites and more. The text is rounded off by rich, relevant, and teachable cases. This text's accessible writing style and wealth of new and updated illustrations, which clarify the most difficult topics, make this text the best resource for your students. The new case selections emphasise variety, currency, and familiar company names. The cases are up-to-date in terms of both financial data and strategic issues. This group of cases gives both instructors and students unparalleled quality and variety. Based on consistent reviewer feedback, these selections combine comprehensive and shorter length cases about well known companies.

Strategic Management

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Uncensored Tactics From a Woman at the Top

Seducing the Boys Club

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Lessons of a Corporate Director

Betsy Atkins, former CEO and experienced corporate director has candid and very practical advice for those who serve on the boards of big, complex enterprises. This collection of her writing on boards includes the now-legendary "My 16 Days on the HealthSouth Board," with the details of her brief, turbulent stint as a director of a company facing (but not facing up to) massive criminal fraud charges. She discusses problems from an executive trying to bribe a world leader to a marketing VP's porn site, traditional concerns of strategy, CEO compensation and succession, shareholder lawsuits, and up-to-the-minute issues of ESG and social media.

Behind Boardroom Doors

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#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #management #change #leadership 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

An a-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives.

Who Moved My Cheese?

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Valerie I. Sessa

Richard J. Campbell

Oklahoma

An Annotated Bibliography

In this era of rapidly changing organizational environments, the task of executive selection is critical. Practitioners clearly need help with such essential questions as: What does it mean to be successful in today's organizations? How can we select executives who are more likely to perform successfully in them? This book seeks to address those questions by providing an introduction to what recent literature says about selection at the top of organizations (chief executive officer and two levels down) and how it relates to the selected executive's success and to the organizational goals. The book contains an annotated bibliography of over 100 sources of the literature on executive selection. The annotations are organized to provide information about selection at the top; the effect of organizational context on selection; the characteristics of jobs at the top; the characteristics of executives; methods for selecting higher level personnel and predicting their success; executive performance after selection; and organizational outcomes. The bibliography includes scientific journal articles, technical reports, articles from the popular press, books, book chapters, and viewpoints of practitioners and experts in the field. An author index is included. (LMI)

Selection at the Top

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Improve Revenue and Create Organizational Excellence

"This book provides a guide to the Baldridge Criteria for executives or managers new to quality, or to organizations interested in introductory information. National, regional, state, and local quality award organizations will particularly benefit from this book by providing it as a resource to their examiners and to companies wanting to become involved in the Baldridge award process. Companies that have internal quality awards or self-assessments will also find this to be an invaluable resource." "The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing the Baldridge Criteria can also be used as a guide or reference during training courses such as self-assessment and award application writing workshops, continuing education classes, or colleges and universities with business courses that focus on or discuss the Baldridge Criteria. Portions of this book are based on research from a nationwide Delphi study group assembled for the purpose of evaluating the benefits, considerations, and disadvantages of implementing the Baldridge model. This research effort evaluated the steps involved in adoption and implementing the Baldridge Criteria," "So that this book is a complete guide to the Baldridge Criteria, the authors have provided the criteria, outline, and values in appendices for the reader's convenience."--BOOK JACKET.

The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing the Baldrige Criteria

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#healthcare #quality #cost #economics #reform #management #LEAN #Toyota #paperback 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

38 Steps for Improvement

What differentiates this book from other healthcare improvement books is that it is the only one currently available that presents a simple recipe of 38 lean steps for healthcare providers to reduce cost and improve quality. By taking these straightforward steps, healthcare providers can adopt the same lean methods which have enabled companies like Toyota to become so successful. The reader will learn to understand and implement a 38-step recipe to reduce healthcare costs and improve quality at healthcare providers by using Toyota Lean Production methods; understand cost and quality issues facing healthcare in the U.S.; and implement a permanent organizational structure to continuously improve quality and cost within a healthcare organization.

Stop Rising Healthcare Costs Using Toyota Lean Production Methods

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Maddie Grant

Jamie Notter

* written inscription on title page.  See picture. 

Massachusetts

How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World

"Knowing the tools of social media is a must for successful marketing these days, but the real promise of social media is the way it can teach us a whole new way of doing business. Humanize takes the principles underlying social media's growth and applies them to the way we lead and manage our organizations"--Back cover.

Humanize

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#business #self-employed #career #tabathacoffey #entrepreneur #management

Maryland

Be the Boss of Your Life--At Home and in the Workplace

From the straight-shooting breakout star of Bravo’s Tabatha Takes Over and author of It’s Not Really About the Hair, Tabatha Coffey shares the secrets of her success in Own It!

On television, Coffey is known for using tough love to overhaul failing businesses and help owners take charge of their future. In Own It!, Coffey takes her trademark no-nonsense style and business expertise to the page to provide small business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to “own their lives” with the keys to success. Combining her own experiences with those of everyday people who have faced challenging transitions, Own It! will help readers reach their goals.

Own It!

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Patrick M. Lencioni

This has only been read once and is in great condition. Just has some slight wear and tear to the paper cover (see pics above). 

California

How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

The Ideal Team Player

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Turning Confrontation into Collaboration at Work

From the bestselling author of Carrots and Sticks Don't Work--proven communication techniques for turning workplace confrontations into respectful, successful collaborations

In the workplace, the most common approach to what we believe will be a difficult or emotionally charged conversation can be summed up in one word: avoidance. Most of us will do anything to skirt conflict, but not only does that fail to resolve important issues, it typically harms our relationships and undermines productivity. In Let's Talk About It, bestselling author and top consultant Dr. Paul Marciano presents a powerful collection of proven communication and relationship strategies that will transform your difficult conversations into healthy conversations. You'll learn how to:

 * Identify and shed the cognitive biases that hinder you from viewing situations from other people's perspectives
 * Recognize and address your own emotional triggers
 * Use verbal and nonverbal communication to reduce conflict and foster collaboration
 * Deal effectively with different personality types
 * Navigate the course of a critical conversation from beginning to end
 * Build, restore, and maintain healthy relationships

Filled with ready-to-use sample scripts, real-world scenarios of common workplace disagreements, and proven psychological methods for diffusing conflicts effectively, Let's Talk About It delivers everything you need to deal with the most challenging people and situations--confidently, competently, and collaboratively.




SIGNED—Let's Talk about It

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Oregon

A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees)

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

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Ned Hallowell

Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People


Your job as a manager is getting harder all the time. But your most critical responsibility--especially in today's world of intensifying competition--is how to help your people shine their brightest.

How do you inspire solid contributors to strive for more? What should you do if a star player falls off their game?

In Shine, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and ADD expert Edward Hallowell draws on brain science, performance research, and his own experience helping people maximize their potential to present a proven process for getting the best from your people:

-Select--put the right people in the right job, and give them responsibilities that "light up" their brain.
-Connect--strengthen interpersonal bonds among team members.
-Play--help people unleash their imaginations at work.
-Grapple and Grow--when the pressure's on, enable employees to achieve mastery of their work.
-Shine--use the right rewards to promote loyalty and stoke your people's desire to excel.

Brimming with Hallowell's trademark candor and warmth, Shine is a vital new resource for all managers seeking to inspire excellence in their teams.


Shine

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Jim Collins

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Sandy Wight

Mick Hager

Steve Tyink

Wisconsin

7 Laws of the Jungle for Becoming the Best of the Bunch

Monkey Business: 7 Laws of the Jungle for Becoming the Best of the Bunch by Sandy Wight, Mick Hager, and Steve Tyink With a Foreword by Jill Lajdziak, General Manager of the Saturn Corporation Welcome to the jungle where in a clever metaphor of today's business climate the authors have spun a light-hearted tale of Leader Monkey and his entrepreneurial exploits. Driven by his passion for his work and desire to be the best, Leader branches out from his banana-picking job where he is undervalued and his outstanding achievements underappreciated. He embraces change and creates his own successful monkey business based upon such simple, sound business principles as: Monkeys should be treated and rewarded according to how well they perform; treating customers like royalty breeds loyalty; hire for attitude; fix the systems and the processes, not the animals; and more. Marketing and Public Relations platform to include: Corporate speaking engagements 5-city tour National business magazine articles National radio campaign Regional television campaign Major national newspaper coverage

Monkey Business

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#hardcover #business #nonfiction #economics #selfhelp #management #change #leadership #changeyourlife 

Florida

#paperback #management #humanresources #personnelmanagement #educational #business 

A down-To-Earth Guide for Frontline Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors

Are you a frontline manager, team leader or supervisor with big responsibilities? Do you have a low budget, little autonomy, or haven't had the training you think you need?Whether you are new to management or you have been in management roles for years, this book will help guide you through some of the most common problems faced by all managers, and all in the time it takes to drink a few cups of coffee.Full of case studies from managers around the world and examples from the author's own career, you will learn from the experience (and mistakes) of others, including how to¿ Get the best out of your team¿ Confidently face the day to day challenges of management¿ Develop powerful, positive and productive relationships with your colleagues¿ Expand your own skills¿ Become the best possible manager you can.

Always Time for Coffee

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Stephen C. Lundin

John Christensen

Harry Paul

Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life

Fish! told the story of a fictional company which transformed itself by applying lessons learned from Seattles famous Pike Place Fish market. Now, with Fish! Tales, readers can learn how real-life businesses and individuals energized their workplaces--and their lives--by implementing the lessons from Fish! Best of all, the book stands on its own for newcomers to the Fish! philosophy.

Fish! Tales focuses on diverse companies, such as a bustling Sprint regional customer service center, a quiet neuro-surgical unit at a major hospital, and a brilliant car dealership. It features dozens of short takesquick and easy ways to apply the Fish! philosophy right now. And it includes a detailed program with specific steps and action plans.

Fish! Tales

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Spencer Johnson

Kenneth Blanchard

Jack Welch

Suzy Welch

Pennsylvania

A champion manager of people, Jack Welch shares the hard-earned wisdom of a storied career in what will become the ultimate business bible

With Winning, Jack Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don'ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the four most important principles that form the foundation of his success.

Chapters include: How to Get Promoted, How to Think about Strategy, How to Write a Budget that Works, How to Work for a Jerk, How Find Work-Life Balance and How Start Something New. Enlivened by quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, it's a tour de force that reflects Welch's mastery of execution, excellence and leadership.

Winning

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Paul Falcone

Randi T. Sachs

Simple solutions for busy people 

Productive Performance Appraisals gives readers all the easy-to-use tools they need to conduct an effective review, including sample dialogs, checklists, and forms. Readers will find guidance on developing career plans, keeping consistent records, communicating changes in roles, how reviews are used when determining layoffs, and much more.

Productive Performance Appraisals

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F. Robert Jacobs

Richard B. Chase

Some wear on corners as pictured. No other flaws.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Rev. ed. of: Operations and supply management.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Ken Blanchard

Colorado

A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged with the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Across the street from her office is Seattles very real Pike Place Fish Market, world famous and wildly successful thanks to its fun, bustling, joyful atmosphere and customer service. By applying ingeniously simple lessons learned from the actual Pike Place fishmongers, our manager learns how to energize those who report to her and effect an astonishing transformation in her workplace. Addressing todays work issues (including employee retention and burnout) with an engaging metaphor and an appealing message that applies to any sector of any organization, Fish! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profoundthe hallmarks of a true business classic. Based on a bestselling ChartHouse training video which has been adopted by corporations including Southwest Airlines, Sprint, and Nordstrom.

Fish!

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Ram Charan

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Kentucky

The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't

Discusses the essential skills people need to accomplish their goals, linking eight important skills of know-how to the psychological traits of a successful leader.

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Selection at the Top

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