18 books like Effective Executive

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Thriving on chaos Thomas J. Peters · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment. Shares: Industry, Leadership, Industrial management, Management

The leadership challenge James M. Kouzes · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the… Shares: Administrative Personnel, Leadership, Management, Business

Rework Jason Fried · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the… Shares: Organization & administration, Industrial management, Management, Business

Up the organization Townsend, Robert · 1970 · ★ 4.1 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."… Shares: Administrative Personnel, Management, Business

The Practice of Management Peter F. Drucker · 1954 · ★ 4.1 · 401p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone wanting information about the developments and place of management, and it is as relevant today as when it was first written. This is a practical book, written out of many years of… Shares: Executives, Decision making, Industrial management, Management

Who Is Michael Ovitz? Michael Ovitz · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. For most of the past two decades he has been a private investor and an advisor to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This is his first book"-- Shares: Executives, Business

Creative problem solving for managers Tony Proctor · 1999 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This text provides an essential introduction to the ideas and skills of creative problem solving. It shows how and why people are blocked in their thinking, how this impairs the creative problem solving process, and how creative problem solving techniques can help overcome these difficulties. Theories of creative thinking are critically examined and used to justify the variety of techniques which… Shares: Decision making, Management, Business

Las cinco disfunciones de un equipo Patrick Lencioni · 2002 · ★ 4.1 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO,… Shares: Organization & administration, Leadership, Management, Business

Business Ricky W. Griffin · 1989 · ★ 3.7 · 736p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Business is the practice of making ones living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Shares: Industrial management, Management, Business

Modern business administration Robert C. Appleby · 1969 · ★ 5.0 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate [512]p. : 23cm Shares: Industrial management, Management, Business

Business William M. Pride · 1988 · 735p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Business is the practice of making ones living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Shares: Industrial management, Management, Business

The Mormon Way of Doing Business Jeff Benedict · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Founder of JetBlue. The former CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The former Dean of the Harvard Business School. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who spend their Sundays exclusively with their families, never work long hours, and always put their spouses and children first. How do they do it? Critically acclaimed author and investigative journalist… Shares: Executives, Leadership, Business

The goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1986 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Alex Rogo is the manager of a failing manufacturing plant who receives an ultimatum from corporate headquarters: Turn the situation around in three months or the plant will be scrapped. With help from a mysterious mentor, Rogo discovers a revolutionary new way to do business—a way for people in any field of endeavor to increase productivity, profitability, and personal fulfillment. A business… Shares: Industry, Industrial management, Business

Managing for Results Peter F. Drucker · 1964 · ★ 4.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic, The Practice of Management. The earlier book was chiefly concerned with how management functions; this volume shows what the executive decision-maker must do to move his… Shares: Decision making, Industrial management, Management, Business

Lean In Sheryl Sandberg · 1799 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root… Shares: Leadership, Business

Leadership and Self Deception The Arbinger Institute · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This phenomenal bestseller over 700,000 copies sold changes readers? lives and helps them transform their organizations. In this new edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout to make it even more readable and powerful and a new section has been added that details the many different ways that people are using the book. Shares: Leadership, Management, Business

Marketing and Management Models Helen Strong · 2014 Modern business practice, especially in the field of marketing, depends on the integration of creative and analytical thinking. One of the tools in this process is the use of management models to guide business decisions. However, the inherent power of the models is only released when the people applying them have the ability to gather relevant information and interpret the relationships between… Shares: Industrial management, Business

Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin S. Sharma · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate An absorbing, insightful story from Robin Sharma, bestselling author and internationally-renowned life coach, which unfolds the secrets to living a loving, successful and fulfilled life.Catherine, a top businesswoman with a young family, is the sister of Julian Mantle, the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. After being involved in a life-threatening accident, Catherine realises that, regardless of how… Shares: Leadership, Industrial management, Business

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