Eamonn Kelly’s Powerful Times asserts that competitive nations operating in a global economy are essentially engaged in learning races, and the society that can most rapidly adapt its skills, knowledge, and capacities to a changing world wins.
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Commonly referred to as "The Bible of Pricing," The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing provides a comprehensive overview of pricing strategy in an easy to read, pragmatic style, featuring walk-through examples, illustrating how companies successfully implement pricing strategies.
Management scholar Chris Argyris tackles an important problem in Reasons and Rationalizations: the pervasiveness of defensive reasoning prevents people in organizations from understanding when and why they are skillfully incompetent.
Argyris contends that management advice rests upon discrepancy and appealing as the ideas for creative change may be, most are simply not workable.
Future Wealth forecasts an imminent economic transformation that promises to revolutionize the economic lives of everyone, not just the wealthy – changing the rules of business and affecting the investments of our society.
Competitive Advantage shows managers how to evaluate their competitive position and implement improvement.
“Using scenarios is rehearsing the future,” says Peter Schwartz. Emphasizing the need to make better decisions for the future through scenario planning, he asserts that it is not the tangibles of life but the intangibles that make a difference: our hopes and fears, our beliefs and dreams.
Competitive Advantage extends Michael E. Porter's proven analytical techniques to the discrete activities of the individual firm. Analyzing the basis of competitive advantage, Porter presents the “value chain” as a framework for evaluating and improving companies’ competitive position.