Widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on leadership, John Kotter has devoted his remarkable career to studying organizations and those who run them, and his bestselling books and essays have guided and inspired leaders at all levels. Here, in this collection of his acclaimed Harvard Business Review articles, is an astute assessment of the real work of leaders, as only John Kotter can offer. To complement the HBR articles, Kotter also...

Powerful institutions do not change until compelled to. The catalyst of change is a crisis which threatens the society's life. Such a crisis now confronts the West. Louis Kelso and co-author Mortimer J. Adler saw this crisis coming more than fifty years ago. In The Capitalist Manifesto (Random House, 1958) they warned that if we continue our ever more futile efforts to distribute through labor the income which is increasingly earned by the other income-producing...

In a business climate marked by escalating global competition and industry disruption, successful mergers and acquisitions are increasingly vital to the growth and profitability of many corporations. If history is any guide, 60 to 70 per cent of new mergers will fail — and will destroy shareholder value. To date, analyses of the M&A failure rate tend to focus on individual causes — e.g., culture clashes, valuation methods, or CEO overconfidence...

Notre livre vous donnera les cles pour attirer et fideliser les bons clients, batir des offres irrésistibles et votre proposition de valeur.Vous y découvrirez comment monétiser votre savoir faire. Monter une entreprise de coaching est une véritable aventure. Notre livre vous fournit quelques balises pour votre chemin.

When a tragic mountain-climbing accident left business professor Denis Shackel stranded on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, he turned to the leadership principles he'd been teaching for years to survive the longest night of his life. Alone, with temperatures plunging to -30 degrees Celsius, Shackel managed to stay alive. He broke the night into five thousand five-second intervals, and chose to deal with only one interval at a time -- a strategy based...

Participate in the Lessons of Experience of a boy born in Bellevue, Kentucky, continuing through high school in Pinellas County, Florida, and then the University of Cincinnati. Follow the twenty-three years of experiences as he joins the Financial Management Program and then goes on the fast track program of corporate audit staff, and increasingly more responsible positions to become the chief financial officer (CFO) of two of GE's industrial businesses...

Presenta a nivel teórico y aplicado los principales desarrollos que han consolidado la teoría moderna de portafolio. Para ello, se presentan los elementos fundamentales del modelo media-varianza introducido por Markowitz en 1952 para la construcción de portafolios óptimos, así como sus principales extensiones mediante la incorporación de otras medidas de riesgo como: las medidas de semivarianza, el VaR o CVaR, entre otros; así como diferentes...

This book is largely written in a Frequently Asked Question and Answer format augmented by the historical context for Employee Stock Ownership Plan law, basic corporate finance mathematics used in ESOPs and also has a section of "plays" i.e. common business scenarios with text and illustrations showing how the ESOP structure can elegantly address the desired outcome of these various problems requiring a solution other than selling the company to outside...

Un libro imprescindible para conocer los entresijos de ese mundo financiero que domina la economía y el discurso político. Más de cuatro años después del inicio de la crisis financiera, se han recuperado con dinero de los contribuyentes los negocios lucrativos de la banca, pero las consecuencias socioeconómicas (cierres de empresas, desempleo, ahorros evaporados, rebajas salariales...) se dejan sentir sobre los ciudadanos, amedrentados o indignados....

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "COMT0211. ACTIVIDADES AUXILIARES DE COMERCIO". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.