The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas
G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa know what it takes to drive new ideas through complex organizations. They have advised thousands of executives from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and General Electric to organizations like the World Bank and even the FBI’s hostage rescue training program. In The Art of Woo, they present their systematic, four- step process for winning over even the toughest bosses and most skeptical colleagues.
Is there a way of managing organizations such that we can benefit both the members of traditionally disadvantaged groups and the organizations in which they work?
Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness
This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations - an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task - for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product - for an ex ante limited period of time.
Diversification Strategy: How to Grow a Business by Diversifying Successfully
Diversification is a topic that raises its head in tough and turbulent economic times and is seen as an important option for growth. Out of necessity it is now back in the management agenda.
Diversified organizations are everywhere - in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. With diversification comes complication, and if the varied activities of these organizations are not carried out effectively, their very diversity can lead to major inefficiency or even corporate failure.
Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking. New writers included in the Third Omnibus Edition are: Lex Donaldson, Stewart Clegg, Richard Whitley, Michel Foucault and Kathleen Eisenhardt.
