Mckinsey S Marvin Bower

Author : Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118040147

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McKinsey's Marvin Bower by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim Pdf

"I had the privilege of working closely with Marvin and McKinsey for many years. This book makes Marvin come to life and perpetuates him as a role model." -Peter F. Drucker "A wonderful book about a wonderful man. In many ways, Marvin's McKinsey framed the hypotheses in our own search for excellence-for example, passion for values, belief in people as the prime resource, and willingness to let people experiment. As well as I thought I knew Marvin, however, this remarkable book, drawing on the collective memories of those who worked most closely with him, taught me a ton about how extraordinary the man really was and what made him that way. Many have called Drucker the man who invented management; I think history will conclude that both he and Marvin Bower share that pedestal." -Bob Waterman, coauthor of In Search of Excellence "Marvin Bower became a legend, not just within McKinsey & Company, but within professional services and the business world more broadly. In everything he did and said, he embodied the professional approach and the importance of values. This book sheds remarkable insight on a remarkable man and on the power of constancy of purpose." -Ian Davis, Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Co. "It is as Marvin would have wanted it-simple, honest, fact-based, wonderful stories with a long-term perspective. An insightful read about the father of management consulting." -Lois Juliber, retired COO, Colgate-Palmolive "This book provides fascinating insight into the early days of modern management consulting. It is an extremely enlightening look at the origin of one of America's most important professions and one of America's most innovative leaders." -Thomas H. Lee, founder, Chairman, and President, Thomas H. Lee Partners L.P.

Author : Duff McDonald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439190982

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The Firm by Duff McDonald Pdf

A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of the controversial consulting firm traces its decades-long influence in both business and political arenas, citing its role in the establishment of mainstream practices and modern understandings about capitalism while evaluating the failures that have compromised its reputation. 60,000 first printing.

Author : Marvin Bower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:654127391

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Perspective on McKinsey by Marvin Bower Pdf

Author : Marvin Bower
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0875847587

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The Will to Lead by Marvin Bower Pdf

The aim of this book is to teach managers how to lead people to work together effectively, efficiently, and enthusiastically.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368625451

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The Will to Manage - Corporate Success Through Programmed Management by Anonim Pdf

Management development guide on programme planning in the USA, with particular reference to top management Motivation for improved efficiency - covers managerial behaviour and leadership, decision making, systems design, the importance of management information systems, business organization, personnel management, management attitude toward performance record, etc. Annotated bibliography pp. 266 to 271 and references.

Author : Paul N. Friga
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071641487

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The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving by Paul N. Friga Pdf

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world’s most respected consulting firms. Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual. True to its stated goal of arming consultants and corporate problem solvers with a blueprint for achieving consistently phenomenal results, The McKinsey Engagement is short on theory and long on action. Each chapter focuses on one element in the celebrated TEAM FOCUS problem-solving model and features a concise discussion of a key concept or principle, followed by: Clear rules of engagement A set of operating tactics Sophisticated problem solving tools Easy-to-follow action steps Exercises, checklists, and training tips War stories and best practices case studies A toolkit for bringing clarity, discipline, and purpose to all your problem-solving and change management initiatives, The McKinsey Engagement is an indispensable guide for consultants, as well as for executives, managers, students, and corporate trainers.

Author : Matthew Stewart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393072746

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The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong by Matthew Stewart Pdf

"A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting…A serious and valuable polemic." —Wall Street Journal Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies. In narrating his own ill-fated (and often hilarious) odyssey at a top-tier firm, Stewart turns the consultant’s merciless, penetrating eye on the management industry itself. The Management Myth offers an insightful romp through the entire history of thinking about management, a withering critique of pseudoscience in management theory, and a clear explanation of why the MBA usually amounts to so much BS—leading us through the wilderness of American business thought.

Author : Stuart Crainer
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814423684

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The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made by Stuart Crainer Pdf

The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made is a pithy compendium that celebrates pinnacles of decision-making that have shaped management through the ages - and left their indelible impressions on business and society.

Author : Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071631112

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The Definitive Drucker by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim Pdf

Final advice from the great Peter Drucker for driving growth and profitability in the 21st Century—with a new foreword from the author "We need a new theory of management. The assumptions built into business today are not accurate." - Peter Drucker Based on multiple interviews and working sessions with Peter Drucker during the last year of his life, The Definitive Drucker reveals the management luminary’s most important concepts and applies them real-life business risks and opportunities. The book sheds light on the most pressing management issues, such as the role of the CEO, why so many leaders fail, and the fragility and interdependencies of our economic and social systems, and it imparts Drucker's views on current business practices, technological, economic, and social changes, and trends—many of which Drucker predicted decades ago. A celebration of this extraordinary man’s life and work, The Definitive Drucker offers a unique opportunity to use Drucker's final business lessons to strategize, create, and succeed in any market.

Author : Vijay Govindarajan
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633690158

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The Three-Box Solution by Vijay Govindarajan Pdf

How to Innovate and Execute Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader’s innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization’s energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls “the three boxes”: • Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability • Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation • Box 3: The future—Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.

Author : Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472936387

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Age of Discovery by Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna Pdf

'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress? Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour. Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how.

Author : Carolyn Dewar,Scott Keller,Vikram Malhotra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982179670

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CEO Excellence by Carolyn Dewar,Scott Keller,Vikram Malhotra Pdf

"Based on extensive interviews with today's . . . corporate leaders, this look at how the best CEOs do their jobs focuses on the mindsets and actions that foster an environment of excellence"--

Author : Vijay Govindarajan,Chris Trimble
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250022240

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How Stella Saved the Farm by Vijay Govindarajan,Chris Trimble Pdf

How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about making innovation happen. Written by the authors of the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, the story resonates in organizations of all types—public sector, private sector, and social sector, from mammoth corporations to small organizations employing just a few dozen people. The parable is about a farm in trouble. Bankruptcy, or the grim prospect of being acquired by a hostile competitor, threaten. The farm succeeds only if the team pulls together and innovates. The main characters in the story—Stella, Deirdre, Bull, Mav, Einstein, Rambo, Maisie, and Andrea—are all like people you know, maybe even yourself. The tale includes an unexpected leadership challenge, an ambitious call to action, a bold idea, countless internal obstacles and conflicts, fears, joys, triumphs, and even a love interest. It's a story that can be enjoyed by anyone. How Stella Saved the Farm delivers eight simple lessons to guide innovation initiatives to success. It prepares business leaders to avoid some of innovation's most toxic myths, teaches how to build the right kind of team, and shows how to learn quickly from experience.

Author : Vijay Govindarajan,Chris Trimble
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466835412

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Beyond the Idea by Vijay Govindarajan,Chris Trimble Pdf

The New York Times bestselling authors of Reverse Innovation and How Stella Saved the Farm distill more than a decade of exclusive research into one short, powerful, action-oriented book. Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world's best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble are the world's leading authorities on the successful management of innovation. In Beyond the Idea, they distill more than a decade of research and insight into a practical, accessible, read-at-one-sitting handbook that offers invaluable guidance for anyone charged with making innovation happen: executives, managers, consultants, project leaders, and teams. By offering specific action steps, Beyond the Idea extends the elegant conceptual insights from How Stella Saved the Farm, Govindarajan and Trimble's parable. Beyond the Idea shows exactly how to: - Build a team with a very particular structure, one that makes it possible to simultaneously build something new and sustain what exists. - Manage any innovation initiative as a disciplined experiment. - Implement three distinct models for moving from ideas to action. Beyond the Idea is an essential book for any business that recognizes that innovation always has been, and always will be, the key to long term growth and vitality.

Author : John K. Shank,John H. Shank,Vijay Govindarajan,Shank Govindarajan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cost accounting
ISBN : 9780029126516

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Strategic Cost Management by John K. Shank,John H. Shank,Vijay Govindarajan,Shank Govindarajan Pdf

An indispensable guide for managers concerned with cost, strategy, and business re-engineering. Experts on the strategic use of cost data, the authors show how stategic cost management is revolutionizing accounting practices in leading companies. Includes numerous examples. 120 line drawings.