Discover how functional managers can apply the Kerzner Approach to project management.

As a functional manager today, you need to become more involved in project management. That doesn't mean you need to become a project manager, but rather you need to know how to perform specific project-related tasks, work with project team members, understand each other's priorities and problems, and resolve issues jointly. Now here's the book that gives you everything you need to know about your role in project management clearly and succinctly.

Discover how executives can apply the Kerzner Approach® to improve project management.

As an executive today, you need to become more involved in project management. That doesn't mean you need to become a project manager, but rather you need to know how to set the stage for a project's success, oversee its execution, and intervene directly at key strategic moments. Here's the book that gives you everything you need to know about your role in project management clearly and succinctly.

Over the years, Donald Trump has written many bestselling books, and he has also written short pieces that summarize his singularly successful tenets on how to live the good life, both personally and professionally. These have been personally selected by Donald Trump for this book, giving his special perspective in what amounts to an “informal education” on how to succeed in business and life. The pieces are engaging, informative, and educational, presenting the clearest picture yet into the mind and heart of an extraordinary individual.

Editors Nohria (administration, Harvard Business School), Khurana (leadership development, Harvard Business School), and 42 contributors on the responsibilities and components of leadership. The book is based on the Harvard Business School Centennial Colloquium Leadership: Advancing an Intellectual Discipline. This multidisciplinary treatment includes work from professionals in psychology, economics, history, sociology. Topics include development of leadership as a discipline, the directions leadership research should take to grow as a subject, development of individual leaders, challenges leaders face, and framing a research agenda for future leadership researchers.

When Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart was published in 1990, it was lauded as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. This was the book that first detailed an approach that bridged the gaps between organization strategy, work processes and individual performance. Two decades later, White Space Revisited goes beyond a mere revision of that groundbreaking book and refocuses on the ultimate purpose of organizations, which is to create and sustain value. This book picks up where Improving Performance left off and shares what we have learned about process in the past 15 years since it was published and how the reader (primarily practitioners) can capitalize on these notions in their own pursuit of process excellence. White Space Revisited is a comprehensive resource that offers process and performance professionals a conceptual foundation, a thorough and proven methodology, a set of remarkable working tools for doing process work in a more significant way, and a series of candid observations about the practice of Business Process Management (BPM). The book's time-tested methods, models, tools, and guidelines serve to align people, process, and technology White Space Revisited includes information on a wealth of vital topics and Describes the difference in impact of focusing on single processes vs. large scale improvements Provides an integrated step-by-step blueprint for designing, implementing, and sustaining process management Offers a detailed methodology for strategic and tactical process definition and improvement Spells out how to leverage the power of IT to optimize organizational performance Shows how to integrate the energy and value of Six Sigma, Process Improvement and Process Management into an effective Process Excellence Group.

Go Green While Making Green You already know "why" your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process--from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress. Nuts-and-bolts guidance helps you make continuous, cost-effective improvements and shift the prevailing business culture by infusing green practices into your organization's very DNA. Through illustrative examples from a wide variety of industries, this book shows how to: - Design sustainable products - Green your facilities - Find green vendors - Use renewable energy - Reduce harmful emissions - Recycle waste products, and more The emphasis is on practicality--stand-alone chapters you can read when you need them and tools you can use to implement change in any area of your organization.

In Strategy Power Plays, Karen McCreadie and Tim Phillips combine some of the greatest political and military strategic concepts from their interpretations of these two classics: Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Here, in one handy volume McCreadie and Phillips interpret the key ideas in these classics for the modern world of business and life.

Developed for courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an accessible introductory text written primarily for students of business and management studies. The book is also suitable for engineering students studying courses in business and management. Contemporary issues in both innovation and entrepreneurship are used to engage and excite students, and lead them to the relevant theory, models and lessons.

Managing Innovation is an established best-selling text for MBA, MSc and advanced undergraduate courses on management of technology, innovation management and entrepreneurship. It is also widely used by managers in both the service and manufacturing sectors.

The 4th edition will continue to offer a complete framework for thinking about innovation across technological, market and organizational perspectives, while integrating the latest developments in the management of innovation field.
Building on extensive user feedback, the new edition features new globally-focused case illustrations, expanded discussion of contemporary issues in innovation and improved online lecturer support.

Through My Lenses is collection of photographs taken by Malaysia's most prominent premier, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. It contains over 300 personal photographs captured by Dr. Mahathir's own lenses in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Ukraine, Japan, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Dubai, and, naturally, destinations around Malaysia.

This coffee-table book is intended to create new understanding and share the borderless vision of the former Prime Minister. Rich in portrayals of indoor and outdoor images, it illustrates the visuals and views by Malaysia's statesman.

Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing worlds most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West.

Documents some of the practices, tools, and attitudes that can be used to define, plan, and execute projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment that creates synergy between process and creative freedom and is supportive of change. The author reviews the roles of the project manager and project team, uses a project data sheet to define an executive summary of a project, employs a risk management process, and describes a manual implementation of an operational project management infrastructure.

In the face of soaring energy prices and decreasing inventories of natural resources, businesses are taking steps to control their costs. They are implementing eco-friendly practices to manage risk and to appeal a growing number of consumers who care about the environment.

Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation, a maker of natural household and personal care products, and Breen, editorial director at Seventh Generation, draw on their experience building the green company to offer six essential principles for creating sustainable businesses that benefit society and employees as well as shareholders. Part manual and part manifesto, the book presents insider case stories that hold ideas for building financially, socially, and environmentally sustainable organizations. Some of the companies profiled began as members of the corporate responsibility and sustainability tribe, and others had change forced upon them and now use sustainability as a force for innovation. The book will be of interest to investors, entrepreneurs, consumers, and policy makers, as well as general readers. Hollender is also director of Greenpeace USA and Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, and former director of the Social Venture Network.

The soul of this book is profoundly practical. “Deen” means “path” or “way” in Arabic. Abdul-Matin focuses on how Muslims and Muslim communities can and already are following a Green Deen in four areas: waste, watts, water and grub (food). For example, the Saudi Arabian government has issued a religious ruling making it acceptable to use treated wastewater in the holy cities of Makkah and Medina for performing the ritual washing required of all Muslims. Oakland, California’s Light House Mosque has banned the use of paper plates, Styrofoam and plastic bottles during the evening feast that breaks the daily Ramadan fast. In Chiapas, Mexico there is a Muslim community that lives entirely off the grid—manufacturing its own solar energy and growing its own organic, halal food.

The book is accessible and actionable, with its signature, crisp design and lively text. Each page contains a single tip for reducing waste, making it easy for anyone in any job to take small steps toward a healthier planet. Suggestions run the gamut, from obvious recycling to innovative strategies that encourage sustainability.

The overarching aim of the book is to identify, define, and explore the implementation of talent management strategies aimed at facilitating effective knowledge management in an organization. The contributors provide a valuable fusion of two important areas of emphasis for current research and practice in human resource management: talent management and knowledge management. They illustrate the immense significance of the latter to competitive advantage and organizational success in our rapidly changing global knowledge-based economy. The generation and acquisition of ideas and knowledge, their internal transfer and application throughout the organization, and the cross-border transfer of knowledge – all through the effective management of human talent – have become integral to contemporary management. The contributors examine planning and staffing, training/coaching, performance management, and organizational learning and development.

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.

In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. Discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars (faster than Microsoft, Google and Amazon) and how Richard is the only person in the world to have built eight billion-dollar companies from scratch in eight different sectors.