Values are fundamental to organisations. Considered key determinantsof attitudes, work behaviour and decision-making, values in organisa-tions have emerged as a topic of growing interest among organisationalscholars and practitioners. By signifying what is desirable or appropriate,values guide the choice of action. However, they do not offer precise orstandardised prescriptions of actions. Orga…
The space age dawned in 1957 with the successful orbiting of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, and it surged forward with the Apollo moon land-ings, ushering in the era of satellites and deep space probes. This situation in which space business relied on space science probes, space shuttle flights, and satellite launches largely persisted until the…
Rapid advances in AI technologies have generated intense interest and debate about their potential to reshape industries and societies. This book compiles academic papers from "The Economic Perspective of Artificial Intelligence (EPEAI)" conference held at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences in Germany, in March 2023. The authors explore the economic dimensions of AI, shedding light on…
The starting point for this book is that digitisation works as a catalyst for society and the organisations therein. A catalyst is something that increases the speed of a process without itself being consumed. It simply produces results faster. Digitisation, if used in the wrong way, can also make a bad situation worse. And it can make wh…
Why do some people appear to obtain a disproportionate share of income and wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, frames the problem in a rather old-fashioned way as a tussle between capital and labour. His main thesis is that inequality is rising because the rate of return on capital, held disproportionately by the wealthy, exc…
Writing inThe New York Timesduring the midst of the Covid-19 crisis,Thomas Friedman said that, from the time the Coronavirus appearedonward, “There is the world B.C.—Before Corona—and the worldA.C.—After Corona.” This is definitely an After Corona book, and I amcertain there will be many others. Most thinking people recognize theCovid-19 crisis as a turning point in our human affairs,…
But what many people are no longer aware of today is that predicting this devel-opment 70 years ago would have been a risky bet. To understand this better, let ustake a moment to look back at the country’s situation in 1949. After 12 years(1933–1945) of the totalitarian, criminal and aggressive Nazi dictatorship, Germanywas literally in ruins at the end of the Second World War. Not only had…
Australians retire with millions of dollars. It’s not that Australia is necessarilywealthier than any other country, although they certainly rank high on a per capitabasis. Rather, they happen to reach the traditional retirement age with millions ofdollars in their retirement savings accounts. The source of (and credit for) theirwealth is the Australian government who forces workers to save c…
The energy sector accounts for three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions presently, and consequently, efforts to mitigate the consequences of climate change rely massively on improving the condition of our energy consumption, production and transportation. While many declarations for net-zero futures have been made, it requires a lot of efforts at …
After 50 years of debate on this crucial question, the evidence is increas-ingly strong in favor of “yes.” In the well-known study “Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance,”1 Gartenberg, Prat and Serafeim demonstrate, with a large data sample from more than 900 companies and half a million employees, that companies can achieve better results if they inc…
Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Achieving this clarity takes a sharpness of focus that only exceptional companies have mastered…
Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were desig…
There’s a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization’s strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance. But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while m…
Make every minute count. Your calendar is full, and yet your meetings don’t always seem to advance your work. Problems often arise with unrealistic or vague agendas, off-track conversations, tuned-out participants who don’t know why they’re there, and follow-up notes that no one reads?or acts on. Meetings can feel like a waste of time. But when you invest a little energy in preparing y…
History, not ideology, holds the key to growth. Brilliantly written and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton’s first, foundational redesign. This book does not rehash the sturdy and long-accepted arguments that to thrive, entrepreneurial economies need a broad range of freedoms. Instead, Steve Cohen an…
Think big, buy small. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards?as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put y…
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to: stay engaged throughout your fifty-plus-year work life; tap into your deepest values; solicit candid feedback; replenish physical and mental energy; balance work, home, community, and self; spread positive energy throughout your organization; rebound …
Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their compani…
If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.
A competitive advantage just isn't enough. Your company is turning in regular profits every year, and its market share is only getting bigger. Competitors can’t touch you. So why is your stock price so sluggish? The answer is as simple as it is cruel: investors aren’t interested in history, and they already know you’re profitable and competitive?that knowledge is baked into your stock …
Pilot Jarle Gimmestad sat in the cockpit at Oslo Airport one late even-ing, waiting for takeoff. “The flight was already delayed by one hour, and I was eager to get onto the runway. As usual, I was in dialogue with the co-pilot to make final adjustments before takeoff. Suddenly, the driver of the pushback tractor on the ground drew our attention to a wet sub…
This book is about purpose or rather the achievement of purpose, whichis the realization of the highest form of aspiration of any organization orindividual.It is the argument of this bookthat the real battle our globalized worldis facing today is not between liberalism and protectionism, or betweenChina and the United States, or between globalization and nationalism,but rather between a sense o…
Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today?in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It’s the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In The Little Black Book…
Business process management has received considerable attention recently by both business administration and computer science communities. Members of these communities are typically characterized by different educational backgrounds and interests. People in business administration are interested in improving the operations of companies. Increasing customer satisfaction, reducing cost of doing b…
his interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universit…
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations”in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not on…
Huawei pursues sustainable and profitable growth, rather than maxi-mizing the interests of its shareholders or employees. Huawei only exists to serve its customers. Financially speaking, this refers to the value created for the company. For Huawei, a non-public company, value is not the same as capital market valuation. Rather, it relates to the deeper essence of value, ref…
In this volume, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical development of space - social, territorial and conceptual - the book examines the forces that drove people to ignore their surroundings by distancing culture from place and b…
This open access book explains how leading business organizations attempt to achieve the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced information technologies. These technologies can produce tremendous insights and benefits. But they can also invade privacy, perpetuate bias, and otherwise injure people and society. To use these technologies successfully, organi…
Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t have to be an ace electrician or a coding prodigy to develop your own game-changing invention. All you need is curiosity, a desire to fix a common problem, and the determination to see your ideas become reality. And it won’t hurt to have this book handy—a volume full of vital tips, skills, and strategies that will take you from zero to inventor. …
The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers, and four years of fieldwork across Australia, this book offers a unique insight into the motivations informing those who seek to …
Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know. The most important thing I learned is an approach to life based on principles that helps me find out what’s true and what t…
“There’s probably no better sport than Formula E to present and study the science and practice of innovation within (motor)sport, and this book is a must read for those active within this fascinating area”. - Dr. Kristof de Mey, Sports Technology, Innovation & Business Developer at Ghent University, Belgium This book provides novel insights on management innovation and sustainability in m…
Accounting for a substantial amount of economic activity in the United States, not-for-profits are an undeniable force in the business world, even though their focus on goals other than profit falls outside the traditional model of a for-profit business. But it is this shift away from a focus on profit that allows them to pursue missions of social improvement and contributions to society as a w…
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