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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
Competitive strategy
This is a great tool for people in the industry, graduate students, anyone wanting to climb the corporate ladder. Read it times over and you'll find interesting points, applicable to personal career as well as corporate strategy. Straight forwward analytical set of ...
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Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Michael Porter of Innovation
Just as Michael Porter is the authority on Strategy, Clayton Christensen has become the authority on Innovation. He has not only created a great business theory, he has created an institution that defines our modern understanding of disruptive innovation. The ...
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
Collins, 2004
A Classic
"Built to Last" is an enlightening and interesting classic on business strategic management. The authors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras spent six years in research and compared the practices of 18 visionary companies in the USA to those of a matched set of good, though ...
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Review
I am taking a Health Care Management Strategy class and this book was recommended by our professor.
Very well thought and comprehensive book.
Some comclusions can be challenged, but the book bringing a new look on Health Care and provide solutions for ...
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Wooden on Leadership
John Wooden
McGraw-Hill, 2005
A Man of Character on Leadership
It is one thing to read a successful coach's leadership story written by the coach, but it is quite another experience to read the personal accounts of a coach that other coaches look up to, and to have those accounts reinforced and complemented by commentaries from ...
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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives
Wiley, 2006
Outstanding Book
This is an outstanding book on various ideas on strategy. The book provides some classical and new insights, concepts, tools and perspectives for effective strategy formulation and implementation.
The Boston Consulting Group has been responsible for a number of ...
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Wooden
John Wooden
McGraw-Hill, 1997
Wooden
I bought this book for my student/athlete son. I had him read the book and find five things that he could immediately apply to his life. The book is written in such a manner that the parallels between sports and life are seamlessly interwoven. By using sports as a ...
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Blue Ocean is a must Read
Good Book and a must read for anyone starting a Business or a new venture.
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Simplified Strategic Planning: A No-Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast!
Robert W. Bradford, J. Peter Duncan, ...
Chandler House Press, 2000
Don't just read the book use it!
Yes the book "simplifies" a difficult process, but the real proof of its worth is actually using the plan set forth by the authors. We are well into year one of following the instructions and our 38 year old company has never communicated to the level it is now. We ...
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
Using IT for Competitive Advantage
In his 1985 book titled Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance Free Press 1985 Management and IT (information Technology) author Michael Porter set fourth some very useful ideas about creating competitive advantage with IT (e.g. building a ...
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The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth
J.C. Larreche
Wharton School Publishing, 2008
Good reasons for Reading and Not Reading this book !
A lot of companies and agencies are pushing buzz words such as Customer Centric approach or Marketing 360°. The book from Jean-Claude Larreche is a great balance between strategy perspective and operational implications. It demonstrates that the success in creating ...
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Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Harvard Business School Press, 1994
The ability to influence behavior, events and people
Jeffrey Pfeffer is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, California. Previously he has been at the University of Illinois, the University of California at Berkeley, and as a Visiting Professor at the Harvard ...
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The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook: 1,001 Questions & Answers to Help You Win Again and Again!
Matthew T. Rosenberg, Jennifer E. Rosenberg, ...
Three Rivers Press, 2002
Great choice!! Lots of information about Geography bees & what to expect
My son started showing an interest in Geography in the 3rd grade so we bought him several books & this was one of them!! He is now a walking text book! watch out!! He has won several Geography bees & this is one of the books he has studied from!! Plus he just loves ...
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Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the ...
Jay Abraham
St. Martin's Griffin, 2001
Zen
This book is simply amazing! After reading this book I have been able to implement new powerful strategies to my business and my personal life. I have experienced such a great benefit from reading this book that am requiring all of my employees to read it. This book is ...
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What High Schools Don't Tell You: 300+ Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year
Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
Hudson Street Press, 2007
HE LOVES IT !!!
Bought as a gift for a 9-year-old nephew who doesn't enjoy reading all that much. He began reading it the instant he saw it and was very excited about the possibilities.
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