24 Books found for subject: Industry Specific

In what amounts to a vigorous defense of management consultants, Kiechel explains how business became an intellectual endeavor over the last half century, maturing from commonsense practice to theory-driven discipline, and how ideas now underpin the way corporations function today. “What companies didn’t have before the strategy revolution,” he writes, “was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate.”

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Content: Book | Author: Walter Kiechel | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Industry Specific, Strategy | Industry: Consulting

The sports business is unlike any other. In traditional businesses, for example, cooperation among competitors is regarded as collusion and is illegal, but in the multi-billion-dollar sports industry, rivals must cooperate in order to make profits. In The Business of Sports, Wharton professors Scott R. Rosner and Kenneth L. Shropshire present a range of readings about such issues and highlight the unique challenges that leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Kenneth L. Shropshire, Scott R. Rosner | Subject: Industry Specific

The second edition of Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting gracefully updates what many consider the best resource of its kind. New chapters on implementation, “whole-system” strategies, and ethics are included, but in general it simply fine-tunes Block’s proven advice to match the transformations that business and society have undergone since initial publication two decades ago. “The days of long studies and expert-driven answers are passing,” the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter Block | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Industry Specific | Industry: Consulting

Following on the heels of the best-selling Flawless Consulting comes The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion. Whether you work as a consultant or you work with consultants, this relentlessly practical guide will be your best friend as you discover how consulting influences your business- and real life-decisions and those of others.

The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion is packed with:
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Content: Book | Authors: Andrea Markowitz, Peter Block | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Industry Specific | Industry: Consulting

This expose is sure to incite envy and lust for the power and influence consulting entails, while simultaneously inciting dismay at the underhanded tactics consultants apparently use as a matter of course. Pinault, an international player in a number of major consulting organizations, narrates the story of his life as a participant in a number of corporate takeovers, reengineerings and project startups. The book is … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Lewis Pinault | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Consulting

With sharp wit, consultant Kihn tears down myths surrounding the highly profitable and revered management-consulting industry. Presenting stories from his own career in a large management-consulting firm, this tell-all book sketches a picture of a consulting firm with teams of brilliant professionals who are hired by companies that pay millions of dollars in fees for an analysis of their organization and its processes. The author … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Martin Kihn | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Consulting

The second edition of Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting gracefully updates what many consider the best resource of its kind. New chapters on implementation, “whole-system” strategies, and ethics are included, but in general it simply fine-tunes Block’s proven advice to match the transformations that business and society have undergone since initial publication two decades ago. “The days of long studies and expert-driven answers are passing,” the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter Block | Subjects: Industry Specific, Personal Development | Industry: Consulting

Despite its inflated title, this volume is a worthy jeremiad against corporate excess, especially the kind hastened by the mutual fund industry that Bogle, former CEO of low-cost Vanguard, knows well. Among the problems: inflated executive compensation and creative accounting that allows companies to claim profits even when they’re in the red. Mutual fund companies, Bogle charges, care more about short-term results than long-term value, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: John C. Bogle | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Finance / Banking

In World Class Manufacturing, Schonberger tells the success stories of nearly 100 American corporations — including Hewlett-Packard, Harley-Davidson, General Motors, Honeywell, and Uniroyal — that have adopted the famed just-in-time production and “total quality control” strategies. Based on his firsthand experience as a major consultant to American industry, he examines how they did it — and illustrates how the same concrete, specific steps used by … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Richard J. Schonberger | Subjects: Industry Specific, Operations | Industry: Manufacturing

Jay Conrad Levinson’s Guerrilla Marketing revolutionized the way marketers do business by defying the conventional wisdom that effective marketing means spending big bucks. He devised highly successful marketing strategies that rely on creativity, imagination, and energy-instead of money-to get the job done. Now, Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants applies the power of guerrilla marketing to the hypercompetitive business of consulting.

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Content: Book | Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael W. McLaughlin | Subjects: Industry Specific, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Consulting

A must read for any consultant or more importantly any one who works with or hires consultants. Perhaps most importantly from a financial perspective, Romaine lays out a new conflict within the nexus of contracts: the shareholder vs. the consultant. While not necessarily against each other, the consultant has a much shorter time frame and hence differing incentives and we know that incentive … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Steve Romaine | Subjects: Industry Specific, Miscellaneous | Industry: Consulting

Need an antidote to the gloom and doom surrounding the high-tech market? Read Peter J. Hugill’s Global Communications Since 1844 and share its long-term perspective with your team. Contrary to the popular view that wireless is a late 20th century phenomenon, Hugill points out that wireless is 100 years young this year (happy birthday), and that global digital communications have been around for 150 years. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter J. Hugill | Subjects: Industry Specific, Miscellaneous | Industry: Telecommunications

An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America’s most famous and admired women — a book that is, as its title suggests, both personal and history. It is the story of Graham’s parents: the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post; the aggressive, formidable, self-absorbed mother, known in her time for her … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Katharine Graham | Subjects: Industry Specific, People | Industry: Publishing

First-novelist Bronson takes on modern business in a black comedy about a group of money-crazed and eccentric bond traders in San Francisco.

Regardless of how you feel about investment banking (“It’s a complete scam!”; “It’s a great way to make a killing!”), this non-stop novelistic indictment of the shark-infested financial world–and by extension, much of the corporate world–is bound to make you laugh uproariously–and think … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Po Bronson | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Investment Banking

As the advertising industry’s Dave Barry, Garfield has written the influential ad criticism column “AdReview” for Ad Age for 17 years and is cohost of NPR’s On the Media. His first book, aimed at advertising pros, is a brazenly funny take on the industry practices that Garfield loves to hate. “Most advertising is unnecessarily terrible,” he writes, proceeding to enumerate the reasons why: a misguided … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Bob Garfield | Subjects: Advertising, Industry Specific | Industry: Advertising

Harvard Business School professor Alfred Chandler continues the story of the modern corporation in his sequel to The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. In this history we find much about the past that can teach us about the future.

Content: Book | Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | Subjects: History, Industry Specific | Industry: Consumer Electronics

Nothing rivals oil as the world’s most strategic commodity. Yergin’s deftly recorded history of the industry, which seems particularly relevant at the moment, culminates in Saddam Hussein’s attempt to take over Kuwait’s oil resources in 1990 and the resulting gulf war. An important read, because for the last 150 years or so, oil has equaled mastery, an equation unlikely to change-at least while SUVs roam … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Yergin | Subjects: History, Industry Specific | Industry: Petro / Chemical

In an effort to determine why people buy, Paco Underhill and his detailed-oriented band of retail researchers have camped out in stores over the course of 20 years, dedicating their lives to the “science of shopping.” Armed with an array of video equipment, store maps, and customer-profile sheets, Underhill and his consulting firm, Envirosell, have observed over 900 aspects of interaction between shopper and store. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Paco Underhill | Subjects: Industry Specific, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Retail

Content: Book | Author: Eric Schlosser | Subjects: Industry Specific, Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Food Products/Service

Content: Book | Author: Josh Lerner | Subjects: Industry Specific, Venture Capital