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Six Books to Add to Your Audible List
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on February 27, 2020 at 02:45:11 PM
Strategy and StructureAlfred ChandlerChandler shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealth with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the previous hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies--General Motors, Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears, Roebuck.Out of CrisisW. Edwards DemingIn Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service....
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5 Books to Jumpstart your Business Goals
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on February 07, 2020 at 07:50:08 PM
A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBMThomas Watson Jr.This newly published edition reintroduces Watson's ideas to a new generation of decision-makers in search of IBM-style standards for their own organizations. A to-the-point examination of the values and beliefs that built and sustained IBM, its message is as valuable today as it was four decades back--and will once again strike a resounding chord with executives everywhere.The Theory of Social and Economic OrganizationMax WeberThis volume contains a full and representative statement of Max Weber's sociological theory, drawn from important publications never previously translated. The book opens with a discussion of the analytical methods of sociology and an application of these methodological conclusions to the broadest classification of social relationships and groups. Nearly half the volume is devoted to a further elaboration of this scheme in the field of economic activity. The typology is copiously illustrated...
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7 Books to Get Snowed In With This Winter
by Sheri Pintarelli | Category: Book Review
Posted on February 02, 2020 at 07:41:00 PM
Buck Up, Suck Up, And Come Back When You Foul UpJames Carville and Paul BegalaThe political strategists who directed the Clinton campaign's War Room reveal the lessons and secrets from their hard-fought battles -- and how to use these highly effective strategies for success in business and everyday life. Whether you are a senior executive or a secretary, a political junkie or the president of the United States, the rules to live by can be found in Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When You Foul Up.The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired: A Performance-based Hiring HandbookLou AdlerThis book is written for everyone involved in the hiring process. It will help hiring managers and recruiters find and hire more top-notch people for any job, from entry-level to senior executive. Using the two-question Performance-based Interview, anyone who is involved in assessing candidates will quickly be more effective and more accurate. Just as important, it will help job-seekers find better jobs...
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