Authors:George S. Day, Paul J. H. Schoemaker,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: signals, company, weak, detecting, vision, peripheral
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1422101541
ISBN-13: 9781422101544

From emerging technologies to changes in consumer tastes, tremendous opportunities and threats often begin as weak signals from the periphery. How good is your organization at sensing, interpreting, and acting on these signals? George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker call this capability peripheral vision—and their research shows that less than 20 percent of firms have developed it in sufficient capacity to remain competitive. In this book, they reveal a systematic process for developing peripheral vision and offer practical tools and strategies for building "vigilant organizations" that

Author: Malcolm A. M. Birkin
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
Keywords: company, integrated, building
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2000-03
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 056607950X
ISBN-13: 9780566079504

Based on the maxim that to be an above average company, an above average ratio of above average people performing at above average levels is needed, the author offers a model for exploiting potential within companies. The first part of the book describes and contrasts the similarities and differences of American, Japanese and European management and then describes the characteristics of the Integrated Company, which has absorbed and perfected the best systems and philosophies from around the world. Anyone seeking to follow this lead needs to be able to distinguish the realities of these manage

Author: Thomas J. LaBonte
Publisher: ASTD
Keywords: vision, performance, new, building
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2001-05-11
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 156286291X
ISBN-13: 9781562862916

Help your organization shake the silo mentality that stands in the way of real strides in performance improvement. Explore how to create a single unified performance approach that brings together separate functions to share business goals. Step-by-step instructions, tools, tips, and job aids help you organize and champion a unified approach.

Author: Patricia W. Atallah
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: company, construction, successful, building
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1419528114
ISBN-13: 9781419528118

Building a Successful Construction Company by Patricia W. Atallah is a straightforward, conversational guide that emphasizes how strategic thinking is essential for starting and running a construction company today.  With over 10 years of experience consulting on construction business practices, Atallah has worked with hundreds of companies and knows the tricks of the trade that continually prove successful.  In Building a Successful Construction Company, the 2.7 million new and experienced contractors in the U.S. alone will welcome a practical, easy-to-read book that lays out the facts need

Author:
Publisher: Friedl Business Information
Keywords: directory, company, construction, building, china
Published: 1999
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9628559206
ISBN-13: 9789628559206

Author: Brian Mackay-Lyons
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: vision, architectural, building, ghost
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1568987366
ISBN-13: 9781568987361

"Architecture is a social art. If the practice of architecture is the art of what you can make happen, then I believe that you are only as good as your bullpen the builders, the engineers, the artisans, the colleagues, the staff who collaborate with you; those who become possessed by the same urge to build, by the same belief that we are working on something exceptional together." Brian MacKay-Lyons For two weeks each summer, architect Brian MacKay-Lyons uses his family farm on the east coast of Nova Scotia for a special event. Among the stone ruins of a village almost four hundred years old,

Author: Laura Klepacki
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: company, women, premier, world, building, avon
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-04-11
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0471710261
ISBN-13: 9780471710264

A Winning Formula for Selling to Women Around the World Avon has come a long way since handing out its first perfume sample back in 1886. The company, long famous for ringing customer doorbells, is now the world’s largest direct sales organization-with almost five million representatives in more than 140 countries. AVON: Building the World’s Premier Company for Women is the first book ever to show how this cosmetics juggernaut achieved such incredible success, while revealing secrets any business can use to effectively market products of all kinds-especially to women.