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Best Business Books for 2006 pdf file. Or html
This year’s reviews, written by
prominent thinkers in their field, identify books to help leaders navigate
the changing economic, social, technological, and political landscapes that
affect the way people do business. The list features dozens of book reviews
in 11 subjects:
the Future,
Economics,
Marketing,
Media,
Negotiation,
Strategy,
Governance,
Management,
the Business of Defense,
Fiction, and
Leadership.
Read on...
Best
Buy's 70 Percent Solution
By Michael Linton
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The
Future of Advertising Is Now
By Christopher
Vollmer, John Frelinghuysen, and Randall Rothenberg
Marketers take heed: After years of over-hype, digital media are
finally mainstream. Influential companies, like Procter & Gamble,
DaimlerChrysler, and Unilever, have already joined the revolution.
Read on...
Beyond
Brand Management
By Richard
Rawlinson
The marketing profession is undergoing its most significant
transformation in more than 50 years.
Read on...
Growth
Champions
By Edward Landry,
Andrew Tipping, and Jay Kumar
What distinguishes a truly great marketer? In an era of unlimited opportunities
but constrained resources, the only metric that matters is growth.
Read on...
CEO
Succession 2005:
The Crest of the Wave
By Chuck Lucier, Paul Kocourek, and Rolf Habbel
It was another record year for CEO turnovers in 2005, according to Booz
Allen Hamilton’s annual study. Changes in corporate governance have ended
the reign of the “imperial CEO” and raised demand for chief executives who
can deliver.
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The
Neuroscience of Leadership
By David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz
Change is pain, behaviorism doesn’t work, focus is power, and the key
to leadership is attention density. New research in cognitive science shows
how organizational change initiatives can finally succeed.
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Knowledge
Review:
Engines of Change
By John Wormald
Sources for making sense of fossil fuel scarcity, the oil endgame, and
the automotive future.
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Management Strategies
Rethinking the Value of Talent
Classifying employees by their roles in the success
of their business rather than by their function can improve recruiting,
staff development, and deployment.
The Innovators
Complementary Genius
Sometimes “sticking to your knitting” is exactly the
wrong way to build your business.
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Sharpening
Your Business Acumen
By Ram
Charan
How do executives at leading companies like Thomson Corporation, GE, Apple,
and Verizon anticipate external trends and craft their strategies
accordingly? They follow a six-step thinking process.
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The
Hidden Costs of Clicks
By Tim Laseter, Elliot Rabinovich, and
Angela Huang
02/28/06 Internet retailers are finally learning why books and luggage
make money online — while shoes and toys don’t.
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Results-Driven
Marketing: A Guide to Growth and Profits
By Johannes Bussmann,
Gregor Harter, and Evan Hirsh 01/31/06
The changing world requires a more rigorous approach to marketing. But that
doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice creativity to analysis.
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strategy+business
- Spring 2006
Yossi
Sheffi: The Thought Leader Interview By
Amy Bernstein
Truly resilient companies
treat security as an integral part of their strategy, says MIT’s leading
supply chain expert.
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Manufacturing
Myopia by Kaj Grichnik, Conrad
Winkler, and Peter von Hochberg
Instead
of drifting into decline and irrelevance, producers of goods have a chance
to seize the future.
Money Isn’t Everything
Lavish R&D budgets don’t guarantee
performance. A new Booz Allen Hamilton study of the world’s
1,000 biggest spenders reveals the value of an innovation
dollar — and the basics of a better strategy.
Reining in Outsourcing Risk
Exporting business processes raises
the potential for trouble, but companies can do much to
reduce the threats.
Building a Better Matchmaker
How a “customer-sensing capability”
can connect people to the cars — and other purchases — of
their dreams.
China’s Five Surprises
In the world’s fastest-growing
economy, the last 10 years are not the best guide to the
next 10 years.
When Art Meets Science: The Challenge of ROI Marketing
These days, there’s more pressure than
ever to make marketing more of a quantifiable science than
an ephemeral art. In response, a new management discipline
called ROI marketing is emerging to help businesses attain
the highest possible return on their marketing investments.
S+B 10 Most Enduring Ideas
From Strategy+Business Magazine on their 10th
Anniversary by Art Kleiner. Thus, for their
10th-anniversary issue, they took the question head-on: Of
all the ideas strategy+business has covered, which
are most likely to endure for (at least) another 10 years?
After reviewing the magazine’s back issues (all available
free on their Web site, www.strategy-business.com), Deputy
Editor Amy Bernstein and Art Kleiner winnowed out a
manageable list of 35 key contenders.
Larry Bossidy: The Thought Leader Interview
Ram Charan: The Thought Leader Interview
Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview
“The Living Company,” by Arie de Geus
An Interview with John Seely Brown
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning
Organization
How the Auto Industry Should Embrace CRM
A New Window onto CRM Success
Can We Really Train Leadership?
The 7 Types of Organizational DNA
The Four Bases of Organizational DNA
Format Invasions: Surviving Business’s Least
Understood Competitive Upheavals
The Cat
That Came Back
by Gary L. Neilson and Bruce A. Pasternack
How the world's largest heavy
equipment manufacturer rebuilt its organizational DNA.
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