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The Gillette Company has literally defined the world shaving market since its founding in 1901 by legendary salesman and inventor King Camp Gillette. But more than that, Gillette serves as a model for today's managers of how to maintain a commitment to innovation, how to advertise creatively against competitors, and above all, how to translate a consistent vision of global growth into superior results in the world marketplace. Drawing on extensive...
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"Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist goes behind the scenes to uncover the actions and motivations of a handful of men and a few dozen companies who worshipped at the altar of corporate greed - and for the most part got away with it! Through interviews with numerous industry insiders and real-world stories, investigative reporter Om Malik follows the money trail to reveal the events that all but destroyed an industry and decimated...
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In this film, HR consultant Peter Wallbridge provides personal experiences of shaping the business and culture to accommodate mergers, acquisitions and divestment. He discusses how merging businesses must quickly create a new structure and leadership and clear roles, and communicate a new vision to employees. After getting a structure in place, the new company must create a new culture; most mergers fail due to cultural differences.
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In this film, human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage the challenges and sensitivities of an organizational restructuring. He explains how to communicate with staff about reorganization, policy options for moving people into new roles, laying people off, and providing for voluntary resignation.
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Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the United States' economy. This book explores the causes of the mergers, arguing that there was nothing natural or inevitable about turn-of-the-century combinations. Despite this conclusion, the author does not accept the view that they were necessarily a threat to competition. She shows that most of these consolidations were less efficient that the new rivals...
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Read All About It! is a searing indictment of how the corporate owners of American newspapers have sacrificed the ideals of the free press at the altar of profit and how democracy has suffered as a result. Jim Squires comes to this subject with unimpeachable credentials: from 1981 to 1989 he was the editor of the Chicago Tribune, where he saw firsthand how the shortsightedness of corporate managers can divert a newspaper's journalistic mission and...
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Human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage layoffs. He discusses genuine redundancies versus redundancies as an excuse to fire someone. He recommends flexible employment contracts. The human resources director should be objective and factual in laying someone off, and not assume the person should react a certain way. Wallbridge discusses how to balance the company's and the worker's priorities.
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"In 1994, Jean-Marie Messier, a French businessman, had a dream: to transform a 150-year-old French water company into one of the world's leading media empires. Over the next eight years he would spend more than $100 billion building Vivendi Universal, the only serious European challenger to the US giants of the media industry." "Messier would become the first French media mogul, a CEO superstar for the twenty-first century. At the height of his triumph,...
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This book recounts the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988. It is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms--giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.
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