Beyond the Quick

Beyond the Quick
Author: Ralph H. Kilmann
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1587982188

The necessary non-quick fix for creating and maintaining organizational success. A reprint.

Quick Fix

Quick Fix
Author: Linda Grimes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429956453

QUICK FIX—the second installment of LINDA GRIMES's original urban fantasy series starring human chameleon Ciel Halligan. Ciel Halligan, an aura adaptor with a chameleon-like ability to step into the lives of her clients and fix their problems for them—as them—is working a job at the National Zoo with her boyfriend, Billy, and his ten-year-old sister, Molly. It's supposed to be a quick fix, giving her time to decide if it's wise to pursue the romantic relationship her charming scoundrel of a best friend wants, or if she should give Mark, the CIA spook she's crushed on since hormones first rattled her pubescent brain, a chance to step up to the plate. Molly has already begun to show signs of being an adaptor herself. She's young for it, but she's always been precocious, so it's not impossible. What is impossible is her taking on the form of the baby orangutan she touches—adaptors can only project human auras. Until now, apparently. Worse, Molly is stuck in ape form. She can't change herself back. Escaping from the zoo with their new baby orang, Ciel and Billy head for New York City and the only person they know can help: Ciel's brother James, a non-adaptor scientist who's determined to crack the aura adaptor genetic code. But when Billy winds up in jail, accused of attempted murder, Ciel begins to suspect Molly's unusual adapting ability is more than just a fluke. Who's been experimenting on Molly, and what do they hope to gain? And will Ciel survive to find out? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It

Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It
Author: Jody Thompson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118559282

Change the way you think about work (and life) by focusing on results—and only results Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It shows how the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) mindset can make you or your organization more entrepreneurial, more connected with the broader trends in your industry, and more willing to take smart risks. It explains how to set clear expectations and focus on the endpoint as opposed to managing the process that gets you there. With eyes set on getting rid of distractions, long meetings, and unnecessary updates, this book offers quick, everyday strategies to experience huge increases in productivity (without adding resources) and dramatic drops in turnover. Authors Ressler and Thompson began their work together at Best Buy where they are credited with revolutionizing the workplace Reframes thinking away from counting on general availability (Where's Bob?) to creating clear expectations (Does Bob know exactly what's expected of him?) Explains how to reduce the number of meetings while increasing their quality Shows how to eliminate scheduled events in order to increase critical thinking and improve communication ROWE is a bold, cultural transformation that permeates the attitudes and operating style of an entire workplace, leveling the playing field and giving people complete autonomy—to manage their measurable results using adult common sense.

Implementing CRM

Implementing CRM
Author: David Finnegan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470065265

Firms are continually seeking new ways to forge close relationships with their most valuable customers. With recent advances in networking and database management, firms have both the motivation and the means for improving their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategies. This book focuses on the actuality of implementing CRM. It is about the organization's ability to provide a seamless and personalized experience to each customer rather than a transactional or product-focused approach where the future of the relationship is not an over-riding consideration. This book connects CRM systems implementation with organizational change for the first time. It looks into the factors that distinguish firms which connect with their customers and gain customer loyalty with firms that are not as successful. It also describes the micro-processes that occur on a daily basis in a company and all the small decisions managers and employees take during the implementation of change and the creation of knowledge. Finnegan and Willcocks note that CRM implementation is not the straightforward process that many of the trade publications would have us believe. They state the failure rate of large CRM projects may be as high at 70%. Through the lens of two detailed case studies, the authors investigate why CRM is no panacea.

Popular Management Books

Popular Management Books
Author: Staffan Furusten
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1999-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134615973

The growing interest in management knowledge has generated an enormous literature and brought great success for a number of management gurus. This book is a timely and radical critique of the quick-fix solutions offered by popular management books. Features include: *Detailed criticism of the ideological hegemony of North American managerial discourse *An interrogation of books by leading populist management gurus such as Tom Peters, Richard Normann and Robert Waterman *An institutional approach to the creation, diffusion and consumption of management knowledge *The implications for organisations of acting on popular managerial discourse Popular Management Books is a much needed corrective to the under-researched truisms of many management books.

The Quick Fix

The Quick Fix
Author: Jesse Singal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: PSYCHOLOGY
ISBN: 9780374604080

"How popular psychology fails to solve problems facing society and draws attention and resources away from more effective structural fixes"--

Managing Beyond the Quick Fix

Managing Beyond the Quick Fix
Author: Ralph H. Kilmann
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1989-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Provides guidelines for promoting lasting and positive change by identifying and showing how to effectively manage the five essential elements of organizational success--organizational culture, management skills, team building, strategy structure, and the reward system.Position your organization for the long haul. In this thoughtful volume, author Ralph H. Kilmann provides guidelines for promoting lasting, positive change by identifying and showing how to effectively manage the five essential elements of organizational success--culture, management skills, team building, strategy structure, and reward systems. Basing his conclusions on first-hand consulting experience with such companies as AT&T, Ford, General Electric, and Xerox, the author clearly demonstrates how this approach can help companies move beyond Band Aid solutions to competitive challenges and initiate changes that aptly support long-term business goals.