Management & Leadership
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Denial and Defensiveness, Part 3
 Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
I am hardly the first to make these points. Indeed, for the past thirty years, ever since the publication of Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, they have become part of the conventional wisdom.
Denial and Defensiveness, Part 2
Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
Then everything changed. Apple introduced more user-friendly computers that ate into their market share. They lost the battle with Microsoft for control over the personal-computer operating system.
Denial and Defensiveness
Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
If the future is so predictable, why do so many businesses and organizations have difficulty putting the facts together? One would think that many people would be well practiced by now, for discontinuities have been a regular fact of life.
The Nature of Predetermined Elements
Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
How do I know all this? Because I have one of the most interesting jobs in the world. I lead Global Business Network (GBN), the world's preeminent research and consulting firm focused on scenario planning.
Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence
Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
In a world of surprises, what can we count on? As I write this, in early 2003, the question has never seemed so relevant. Some have lost their life savings in the economic turmoil of the last few years.
Efficiency
 If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Judith Rapoport of the National Institute of Mental Health believes that efficiency is the lesson learned by people who raise children and manage households. Rapoport has found this to be an enormous asset in directing collaborative research.
The Maternal Advantage
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Psychologists have known for some time that the female brain is different from the male. Women tend to gather in more details of the world around them, and integrate that data into a more holistic picture of the world.
Multitasking and the Rise of the Life Manager
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Madeleine Albright, whose career trajectory went from stay-at-home mother to Secretary of State of the United States, has described multitasking as the essential parenting skill, the 'ability that comes from having one eye on the child while you try
Leadership Begins at Home
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Most mothers and fathers know in their bones that raising a child is the hardest job they've ever had. And, even if child-rearing is not that difficult for some, it is certainly comparable to dealing with adults, whether they are superiors, clients
One Good Mechanism Beats a Hundred Good Plans
 The Other 90%
by Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D.
A distinctive, learning-filled life results from a succession of small, specific choices made each day. There's a world of difference between imagining such a fulfilling life and actually living it.
Be An Original
The Other 90%
by Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D.
I got off to a bad start in school. When I arrived for my first day, inside was a desk that had an index card on top with my name on it. I walked over and sat down. Lots of kids were milling around.
Powerful Phrases to Help You Conquer the Working World
 Magic Words at Work
by Howard Kaminsky, Alexandra Penney
So what is the point of these Magic Words? They're a reminder that if we're like most people we've chosen to acknowledge a fairly harmless flaw and may be letting something far more serious get in the way of our success.
Leading the Future
 Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D.
The acclaimed author of Flow provides a much-needed blueprint for bringing meaning and values into the workplace. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair
The Growth Crisis
 How to Grow When Markets Don't
by Adrian Slywotzky, Richard Wise, Karl Weber
In a world of product saturation and market turmoil... Can your company achieve double-digit growth? Absolutely! Even as you read this, old-line companies are creating new profits through 'demand innovation.'
The Gentle Art of Feeding Back-or, a New Way to Grow & Hate Yourself
 House of Lies : How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
by Martin Kihn
Once upon a time Corporate America paid a group of men and women huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong and how to improve themselves. These men and women really knew next to nothing, trashed businesses and destroyed careers
The Lure of Knowing What Other People Think
Frank Newport, editor in chief of The Gallup Poll tells the skeptics why polls matter... and explains to the rest of us exactly how polling works. Proving that polls are not to be feared but to be used wisely
Why Do You Need a Code of Honor?
 Rich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins : The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns Them Into a Ch
by Blair Singer
Great champions have one thing in common: They know how to work as a team. The ABCs of Building a Business Team That Wins offers a set of simple, powerful rules to govern the internal behaviors of businesses, organizations, families, and individuals
Working in the Bubble
What's the key to a successful company: the market for its product or the people who run it? Could you pass the elevator test--the ability to explain your company's business on a single ride between floors? Before you follow the herd, how can you make
Introduction
 Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
by Bill Gates, Collins Hemingway
As the cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Microsoft, the world's leading provider of software for personal computers, Bill Gates played a prominent role in launching the Information Age. Now this modern visionary reveals how expanding
Have the Courage to Admit You Don't Know
Lessons From the Heart of American Business: A Roadmap for Managers in the 21st Century
by Gerald Greenwald, Charles Madigan
The age of shortcuts is over. Hitting the jackpot is passé. In today's business world, everyone knows that there is simply no substitute for hard work and hard-won knowledge. But listening to and learning from the 'war stories' of American
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