Strategy execution has far more potential for val... more

Strategy execution has far more potential for value creation than does strategy formulation. This book offers a complete tool kit to help firms achieve world-class strategy execution status. It focuses on initiative management, aligning executive, operating, and support processes with market rhythms, the seven stages of business growth, and time-phasing initiatives with the competitive realities of the firms environment. It also demonstrates how to track the ripple effects of change throughout the organization.Numerous exhibits portray tools that can be used by firms to develop world-class strategy execution prowess. A glossary of new terms and new definitions of familiar terms is included, along with a diagnostic survey that a firm can use to assess its current status regarding its world-class strategy execution abilities. The authors also provide a 10-S model of management imperatives that updates the McKinsey 7-S model from the 1980s. If a firm has been bogged down for too long in strategy formulation, now is the time to begin the execution phase using this book as a starting point will give any organization the advantages it needs to launch this initiative successfully.... less

Whether you are Chief Executive of a Fortune 500 ... more

Whether you are Chief Executive of a Fortune 500 company or a professional or a working mother or a Generation Next youngster, it is practical wisdom that ultimately sees you through all the ups and downs in both professional and personal lives.The Street-Smart Parables is a collection of fourteen entertaining and enlightening parables, each of which takes only a few minutes to read but the practical and commonsensical insights it offers will strike a responsive chord with everyone.Whether it is dealing with turbulence, living your dreams, making tradeoffs, being customer-centric or being resilient, this book will impact your thinking on all aspects!... less

Tickling the funny bones is known to produce chuc... more

Tickling the funny bones is known to produce chuckles, giggles and hearty laughsall tonics for healthy living.Day is Night is a tickler capsule packed with 62 ingredients, aimed at clearing hazy vision, lifting sagging moods and keeping despair at bay.Illustrations are added to hasten the action and enhance the effect.Caution: Side effects such as sharp pain, a burning sensation, uneasiness and prickly pinpricks have been observed. Dont, however, panic; these are indications that the medicine is working.... less

This text was developed specifically to meet the ... more

This text was developed specifically to meet the needs of a self- paced course. The book provides basic mathematical tools needed to analyze and synthesize an important class of switching network. In addition to the standard reading material and problems, study guides and other aids for self study are included in the text. It is suitable for both engineering and computer science students. The text attempts to achieve a balance between theory and application. For this reason, the text does not over-emphasize the mathematics of switching theory; however it does present the theory which is necessary for understanding the fundamental concepts of logic design. After completing this text, the student should be prepared for a more advanced digital system design course which stresses more intuitive concepts like the development of algorithms for digital processes, partitioning of ditigial system into sub-systems, and implementation of digital systems using currently available hardware.... less

Despite the critical role played by the Supreme C... more

Despite the critical role played by the Supreme Court of India, the lives of the judges have never been studied before. This seminal book presents biographical essays for each of the first ninety-three judges who served on the Court from 1950 through mid-1989. The essays in the book are based on interviews the author conducted with sixty-four of the sixty-eight judges who were alive in the 1980s, and on meetings and correspondence with family members or relatives, friends, and associates of the deceased judges. An attempt is made to account for why certain judges rather than others were chosenthe selection criteria employed and, to the extent possible in a secretive selection environment, to identify those who selected them. It concludes with a collective portrait of these judges, paying particular attention to changes in their background characteristicsfathers occupation, education, pre-SCI career, caste, religion, state of birth, and region, over four decades. The essays also embrace their post-retirement activities.... less

7 Principles For Creating Your Future provides a ... more

7 Principles For Creating Your Future provides a pathway to a more productive, fulfilling life by showing you how to balance both a satisfying career and a meaningful personal life. Not only do these principles illustrate how to become a successful entrepreneur or intrapreneur, they also show you that the key to a dynamic career is a healthy balance between work and personal time.These 7 Principles will help you to: discover your strengths and dreams through self-examination choose a low risk, high value-added business to pursue cast a vision for your life lead a conservative lifestyle while leveraging your time and money for good integrate work with family into a harmonious balance adhere to your values and ethics in your business regularly measure your successThrough the application of these principles, you will discover how to create your dream life, enriched with purpose, meaning, and personal satisfaction.... less

Valuation and Risk Management, by David A. Dubofs... more

Valuation and Risk Management, by David A. Dubofsky and Thomas W. Miller, Jr., enables students to acquire a strong working Knowledge and thorough understanding of the rapidly growing field of financial derivatives. Students will learn essential risk management skills, such as how markets in these securities can be used to shift risk away from or toward the user.... less