Strategy & Competition

Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained them. Some of the key concepts discerned in this study, comments Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some pe... More

The coauthor of the bestselling "Built to Last" now presents a blueprint for transforming good companies into great ones. Charts & graphs throughout.The Challenge "Built to Last," the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained ... More

The best-selling Built to Last answered the question of what it takes to build an enduring, great company from the ground up. Good to Great answers an even more compelling question: can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a... More

>Rich Dad, Poor Dad will explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich. >Challenge the belief that your house is an asset >Show parents why they cannot rely on the school system to teach their kids about money >Define once and for all an asset and a liability >Teach you what to t... More

This landmark work upends traditional thinking about strategy, and explains how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant while charting a new path to capture new market space that is ripe for growth.A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, and ch... More

"This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ideas that you can use to develop your own approach to business."--Gary Convis, Managing Office of ToyotaFewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing ... More

The "BusinessWeek" bestseller, now in paperback. "Pour Your Heart Into It" tells the story of how small-company values, passion, and integrity turned six local coffee stories into the Starbucks chain.--"Fortune".A clear illustration of the principles that created the Starbucks phenomenon.... More

Is a concise, practical guide to the essential techniques for better team work. Whether you are a team leader, facilitator, team member or a manager working with a team on improvement projects, this useful guide will help to ensure success every time.... More

There isn't a business that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products and processes. In The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, general manager of the Silicon Valley-based firm IDEO, developer of hundreds of innovative products including the Palm hand-held, takes readers behind the scene... More

Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a... More

New in paperback--the bold new strategy for reinventing competition, written by the authors of the popular Reengineering the Corporation. Treacy and Wiersma describe in detail how companies such as Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, Charles Schwab, and Intel are creating havoc for their competitors by ra... More

The authors of "The Balanced Scorecard" and "The Strategy-Focused Organization" present a blueprint any organization can follow to align processes, people, and information technology for superior performance.Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of "The Balanced Scorecard and "The Strategy-F... More

The Six Sigma reveals how GE, Motorola, and numerous other companies are successfully using Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, and increase profits. The Sega Sigma Way will help you develop an approach customized for your company's need and the challenges of the twen... More

Understanding and implementing the problem-solving tools and management techniques of the world's top strategic consulting firm.Taking a step-by-step approach, The McKinsey Mind looks at the McKinsey mystique from every angle. Owners, executives, consultants, and team leaders can look to this compr... More