Category Archives: Management

Thrive on Pressure: Lead and Succeed When Times Get Tough

Be the Leader Who Is Cool, Calm, and in Control–Even in the Worst of Situations “This book is a great guide for helping you thrive on pressure and use it to your advantage.” — Bill Vit, President and COO, Aon … Continue reading

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Leadership Without Excuses: How to Create Accountability and High-Performance (Instead of Just Talking About It)

IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE ACCOUNTABILITY—NO EXCUSES! “Very engaging! Grimshaw and Baron provide practical coaching points on how to translate leadership intentions into results.” DAVE HILFMAN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES “A timely collection of valuable lessons on … Continue reading

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Decision-Making in Committees: Game-Theoretic Analysis (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Political and economic institutions are typically governed by committees that face the challenge to reconcile the preferences of their members. How should decision rules be designed to generate fair and sustainable agreements, for example if committee members represent groups of … Continue reading

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Innovation performance accounting: Financing Decisions and Risk Assessment of Innovation Processes

For successful innovation in business the responsible managers need a consistent view of the individual processes as well as an assessment of key projects in all phases of the development. Generating new ideas, fast examination of its feasibility requires skilled … Continue reading

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The Cooperative Game Theory of Networks and Hierarchies (Theory and Decision Library C)

The book brings together an overview of standard concepts in cooperative game theory with applications to the analysis of social networks and hierarchical authority organizations. The standard concepts covered include the multi-linear extension, the Core, the Shapley value, and the … Continue reading

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The Myths of Innovation

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Innovate the Future: A Radical New Approach to IT Innovation

A Proven, Step-by-Step Method for Consistently Creating Revolutionary Products, Services, and Processes When it comes to entering, creating, or dominating markets, disruptive innovation is the most powerful tool you have. Unfortunately, most companies find disruptive innovation difficult to achieve and … Continue reading

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Construction Stakeholder Management

This book captures best practice in construction stakeholder management using a range of international case studies. It demonstrates stakeholder mapping, presents the power/interest matrix and analyses a model for the timely engagement of stakeholders. The increased use of partnering and … Continue reading

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Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age: Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow’s Electricity Infrastructure (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

The electricity infrastructure is one of society’s most critical infrastructures. The complexity of the electricity infrastructure system is increasing quickly, due to the increasing intensity of market-based power exchanges between electricity systems, the associated market restructuring and an increasing share … Continue reading

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Essential Guide to Operations Management: Concepts and Case Notes (Wiley)

This book is a novel treatment of Operations Management. It takes a fresh insight to this increasingly important topic, exploring fundamental principles equally applicable to service and manufacturing situations. The book adapts a strategic stance by providing a framework for … Continue reading

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