high-growth competitive professional breakthrough

books:

Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books.)

9 reviews
Robert Austin, Lee Devin

FT Press, 2003

Reconceive your engineered perceptions!
Austin and Devin present a truly innovative approach to help us in the software industry to reconceive our traditionally engineered world. I have a bias toward metaphors and this one really hit home. It not only brings out the soft-science (human) side of developing software, it helps displace the perceptions that artful productions are anything but a disciplined, impeccable process requiring as ...

Analysis Without Paralysis: 10 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions
Babette E. Bensoussan, Craig S. Fleisher

FT Press, 2008

The Art of Asking: Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers
Terry J. Fadem

FT Press, 2008

The Alignment Effect: How to Get Real Business Value Out of Technology (Financial Times (Prentice Hall))

14 reviews
Faisal Hoque

FT Press, 2002

Quick Read
A quick pass through this book gives you a sense of issues for IT departments. Credibility is down, budgets squeezed, half finished projects. IT is in the dumps these days. I get the feeling Faisal Hoque thinks IT departments area stupd. They should be closely monitored by business leaders at all times. I agree. The book gives you a good sense of issues. It falls short on presenting solutions. ...

BIG Ideas to BIG Results

2 reviews

FT Press, 2008

"Vision without execution is hallucination." (Thomas Edison)
First some background. More than 25 years ago, C-level executives from major corporations (individuals as well as members of a management team) gathered for two weeks at the Harvard Business School, met with members of its faculty, and helped each other to formulate a game plan to respond effectively to their respective organization's most formidable business challenge. Within a year, they ...

Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future
Moshe A. Milevsky

FT Press, 2008

Advantage-Makers, The

6 reviews

FT Press, 2008

Simply outstanding, a must read for anyone wanting to create an advantage
Steven Feinberg knocks one out of the park when it comes to understanding how high-performing individuals separate themselves from others by how they see and interact with conditions around them. The author gives real life examples of leaders and situations that illustrate how individuals become "advantage-makers." Both insightful and enjoyable to read, I looked forward to every ...

The 60-Second Commute: A Guide to Your 24/7 Home Office Life

5 reviews
Erica Orloff, Kathy Levinson

FT Press, 2003

professional advice
Mazny years ago the famed author Dr. Alvin Toefler predicted that more of us would be working from our homes. That projection came true leaving a space for advice as to how to do it. The authors Kathy Levinson and Erica Orloff not only provide a solution but valuable advice about issues we may not have considered. This book is tastefully and professionally crafted. Following my reading of the ...

Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy

7 reviews
Oren Harari

FT Press, 2006

Great book!
Everywhere, products and services are being imitated. Whatever an organization is doing and providing today is right now becoming imitated and commoditized, and, therefore, will inevitably require significant change. To sustain a competitive advantage in this "Copycat Economy," companies must break from the pack by differentiating themselves from their competitors. They must build cool, ...

Convergence Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the New Hybrid Consumer

1 review
Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Vijay Mahajan

FT Press, 2001

Finally
An "After The Dust Has Settled" realistic and compelling read on exactly how we all use the web, and several terrific examples of how real businesses - pure play web and brick & mortar - connect. The research, examples, and questions as to how to apply this methodology to every business' day-to-day operations is invaluable for anybody seeking to reach the Centaur in all of us.

Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology ...for ...

2 reviews
Nicholas D. Evans

FT Press, 2002

How to create new ways to extract new forms of business value
The best business books develop a core concept or respond to a question of compelling importance. Nicholas Evans does so in this volume, responding to two separate but related questions: 1. Which emerging and disruptive technologies will not only be the next differentiators and sources of competitive advantage but also be the next sources of solid business value for enterprise operations? ...

Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses

3 reviews
Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, ...

FT Press, 2008

Authors' credibility speaks volumes
Here, in one book, you will find the collective wisdom of five leading academics on the subject of women entrepreneurs and high growth businesses. This incredibly well-researched book is the culmination of years of work on the gold standard of studies of women in business called "The Diana Project". While women entrepreneurs have forged their own path and now account for over 50% of all new ...

The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won

47 reviews
Peter Navarro

FT Press, 2006

politics aside - this book makes you think
Try to look past the author's political bias and you'll find that it really is an in-depth analysis. It is very very well researched. Regardless of how we feel about the country, facts are facts. This book should be read by everyone who wishes to understand China's challenges as it is about to enter and lead the modern world. The country is obviously quite complex and I imagine there will be ...

Business Agility: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage through Mobile Business Solutions

1 review
Nicholas D. Evans

FT Press, 2001

Marvelous Mobile Masterpiece
Nick Evans has a great sense of the mobile marketplace. This book is a solid balance of the high level trends in the mobile industry and practical examples of businesses deploying these technologies.

Capital Market Instruments: Analysis and Valuation (Prentice Hall Professional Finance)

7 reviews
Moorad Choudhry, R Pienaar, ...

FT Press, 2001

Excellent for market professionals
This is a detailed, complex and focused guide to the analysis of financial market instruments. It is great for market professionals such as myself - I work in a hedge fund of funds team and its overview approach to all finance instruments, debt and equity, is great.

Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods

1 review
Craig S. Fleisher, Babette E. Bensoussan

FT Press, 2007

Competitors...Beware!
Whether a branding consultant, senior line manager or strategic planner, (the Bensoussan/Fleisher book) "Business and Competitive Analysis" provides a multitude of analytical techniques that can help one think about, build and successfully drive implementation of a winning operating roadmap. For example, with `hard' assets...e.g. buildings, plant and equipment...almost `nil' vs. that of their ...

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