How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like People Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts? In Changing the Game, Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle, two leading management consultants, reveal that the key to success lies in how you transform your organization. Virtually all organizations face critical transition points in their life cycle, when they must change how they play the game, or perish. Flamholtz and Randle focus here on three critical moments: the move from entrepreneurial to professional management, when a firm reaches a stage of growth where it can no longer operate in an informal, unstructured way; the revitalization of an established business that is losing ground to competitors; and a radical change in a business vision. The authors show, for instance, how American Century Investors made the transformation from a $50 million entrepreneurship to a professionally managed company with a market value of $2 billion; how IBM, one of the great American corporations, was forced by the proliferation of PCs in the 1980s to overhaul its business to survive; and how Starbucks Coffee, originally a Seattle coffee-bean store, was inspired by Milans romantic coffee bars to recreate itself and transformed an entire industry. The book concludes with a look at how one company--Bell Carter Olive Company--pulled together all the concepts and tools presented in the book and successfully changed the game. Changing the Game provides a comprehensive framework and a set of tools for the strategic management of organizational transformation. It will help managers meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive business environment.

Changing the Game: Organizational Transformations of the First, Second, and Third Kinds

Business & Money

Yvonne Randle

Eric G. Flamholtz

Howard Schultz

Economics

Oxford University Press

From The Ground Up: A Journey To Reimagine The Promise Of America

Joanne Gordon

Random House]

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

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.

Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Bt Bound

The chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks tells how he and his team built a small Seattle company into a nationwide business phenomenon through such anti-corporate principles as community-mindedness and employee-ownership. $300,000 ad/promo. Tour."

Dori Jones Yang

Biography & History

Hyperion

In Pour Your Heart Into It, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shares the passion, values, and inspiration that drive this fascinating company.

Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today--as viewed through the intimate lens of one man's life and work. What do we owe one another? How do we channel our drive, ingenuity, even our pain, into something more meaningful than individual success? And what is our duty in the places where we live, work, and play? These questions are at the heart of the American journey. They are also ones that Howard Schultz has grappled with personally since growing up in the Brooklyn housing projects and while building Starbucks from eleven stores into one of the world's most iconic brands. In From the Ground Up, Schultz looks for answers in two interwoven narratives. One story shows how his conflicted boyhood--including experiences he has never before revealed--motivated Schultz to become the first in his family to graduate from college, then to build the kind of company his father, a working-class laborer, never had a chance to work for: a business that tries to balance profit and human dignity. A parallel story offers a behind-the-scenes look at Schultz's unconventional efforts to challenge old notions about the role of business in society. From health insurance and free college tuition for part-time baristas to controversial initiatives about race and refugees, Schultz and his team tackled societal issues with the same creativity and rigor they applied to changing how the world consumes coffee. Throughout the book, Schultz introduces a cross-section of Americans transforming common struggles into shared successes. In these pages, lost youth find first jobs, aspiring college students overcome the yoke of debt, post-9/11 warriors replace lost limbs with indomitable spirit, former coal miners and opioid addicts pave fresh paths, entrepreneurs jump-start dreams, and better angels emerge from all corners of the country. From the Ground Up is part candid memoir, part uplifting blueprint of mutual responsibility, and part proof that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. At its heart, it's an optimistic, inspiring account of what happens when we stand up, speak out, and come together for purposes bigger than ourselves. Here is a new vision of what can be when we try our best to lead lives through the lens of humanity. "Howard Schultz's story is a clear reminder that success is not achieved through individual determination alone, but through partnership and community. Howard's commitment to both have helped him build one of the world's most recognized brands. It will be exciting to see what he accomplishes next."--Bill Gates

From the Ground Up

Business Culture

BOOKS ON TAPE]

Pour your heart into it = Sutabakkusu seiko monogatari [Japanese Edition] [Ta...

Pour your heart into it = Sutabakkusu seiko monogatari [Japanese Edition]

Nikkei BP Sha

Onward

Optimist

Korean edition of ONWARD: How Starbucks Fought for its Life Without Losing Its Soul by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz & Joanne Gordon. Inspiring, honest and first-hand account on his two years (after an eight year absence since he had stepped down in 2000) of extraordinary leadership, innovation and challenges that overcame the losses and struggles from the economic recession. Translated by An Jin Hwan & Jang Sei Hyeon.

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul (Korean Edition)

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Howard Schultz. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Howard Schultz