With Virtuoso Teams you can transform any enterprise. This is a book about effectively managing and leading teams that are catalysts for big change and breakthrough performances.
Whether you’re launching an innovative new product or service, entering into challenging new markets or simply trying to transform the way you operate, Virtuoso Teams can make the difference between achieving remarkable success, or just another modest result.
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<li>Teams is a steady area in business, but there is nothing out there with this kind of punch or invention. </li>
<li>The case studies are absolutely fascinating and take center stage. While the primary market will be executives and managers who assemble teams (and the team members themselves) the tertiary market will be serial business book buyers who can¿t believe they can have a book with such fabulous and wide-ranging stories. </li>
<li>The stories of the great teams are unbroken by commentary. The authors weigh in with the management commentary and tips at the end of each chapter, and provide readers with questions that get readers thinking about the steps they need to take to build VT¿s. </li>
<li>The authors are consultants and Professors at one of the world¿s finest executive education centres: IMD in Switzerland.</li>
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Virtuoso Teams: Lessons From Teams That Changed Their Worlds

Business & Money

Boynton, Andy

Fischer, Bill

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

A different way of discovering and developing the best business ideasJack Welch once said, "Someone, somewhere has a better idea." In this myth-busting book, the authors reveal that great business ideas do not spring from innate creativity, or necessarily from the brilliant minds of people. Rather, great ideas come to those who are in the habit of looking for great ideas all around them, all the time. Too often, people fall into the trap of thinking that the only worthwhile idea is a thoroughly original one. Idea Hunters know better. They understand that valuable ideas are already out there, waiting to be found - and not just in the usual places.
· Shows how to expand your capacity to find and develop winning business ideas
· Explains why ideas are a critical asset for every manager and professional, not just for those who do "creative"
· Reveals how to seek out and select the ideas that best serve your purposes and goals and define who you are, as a professional
· Offers practical tips on how to master the everyday habits of an Idea Hunter, which include cultivating great conversations
The book is filled with illustrative accounts of successful Idea Hunters and stories from thriving "idea" companies. Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Mary Kay Ash, Twitter, and Pixar Animation Studios are among the many profiled. Amazon.com Exclusive from the Authors: 10 lessons for anyone embarking on the Idea Hunt, the search for ideas that make a difference Co-Author Bill Fischer 6. Understand that failure isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, you’ll want to build failure into your Hunt for the best ideas, with the prolific use of prototyping (getting your ideas initially into some rough form). The point is to test your ideas as frequently as possible and to learn rapidly, before committing to a product or program. 7. Get the room right. Arrange your physical workspace in ways that will help you collide with and generate useful ideas. For example, store your hot ideas in folders or piles that are visible. Make sure that the books and materials closest at hand are the ones you need for your current projects. 8. Push the Hot Buttons. Link your idea to something that keeps the boss or client up at night. If you can do that, your idea will have a much better chance of getting noticed and winning acceptance. 9. Think compatibility, or “one revolution at a time.” Be ready to explain how your breakthrough idea fits into “the way we do things around here.” An idea that requires too much change in an organization may never see the light of day. 10. Focus on “Try-ability.” Make it easy for people to try out your idea, before buying into it. Think like Apple, which lets people listen to 30-second snippets of music on iTunes before they buy a track or CD. Customers and colleagues are far more likely to sign on if they’re less worried about making a decision they’ll come to regret.

The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen

Jossey-Bass

A compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor Chinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies. This book offers a compelling profile of the most ambitious of these emerging Chinese competitors, the Haier Corporation (the world's largest manufacturer of home appliances), and shares insights on how one organization has repeatedly reinvented its business model and corporate culture in an effort to sustain its success. Reinventing Giants provides an exclusive look within the Haier Corporation and shows how managerial accountability and responsibility have been repositioned at every level of the organization, with the core value of market-centricity, while aligning strategy on each level of management. It includes actual work reports that show this process in detail from the ground up. The authors emphasize how a belief in the liberation of employee talent has consistently been the driving force underlying Haier's success. <ul>
<li>Includes the remarkable story of Haier's turnaround and how these lessons can be applied to other organizations</li> <li>Contains information for any company grappling with competition in the global marketplace</li> <li>Shows how to liberate employees' talent to drive business success</li> <li>Written by Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management at IMD in Switzerland, Umberto Lago, Professor of Management at Bologna University, Italy, and Fang Liu, Research Associate of IMD</li> </ul>
Reinventing Giants helps global managers rethink their own business models and accompanying corporate cultures in order to be able to apply Haier's lessons directly to their own organizations.

Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform

Liu, Fang

Lago, Umberto

A Warrior’s Promise

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Xlibris US

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