San Antonio College Library

"Organizational Pathology draws an extended metaphor that the life cycle of an organization is akin to the biological life cycle. Like all living things, organizations will encounter problems that lead to decline and eventual failure. This work discusses the basic problems and life-threatening diseases responsible for organizations' failure and death, including organizational politics, organizational corruption, and organizational crime. The book...

Bacon and Pugh (consultants) describe how successful companies differentiate themselves from competitors and gain a strategic advantage by doing so. Advocating a "Behavioral Differentiation" approach to competitive strategy, they present case studies and executive interviews, drawing lessons for the operational, interpersonal, customer-service, and symbolic aspects of management. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

If you're interested in understanding the (not-so) ethical underpinnings of business today, this book is both a must-have tool and a fascinating window into today's business world.

This book is for people who: Have the task of creating new KPIs for their organization; Have been asked to improve or enhance existing KPIs; and Need help implementing a measurement system. Using brief explanations and practical checklists, this book will help you deliver meaningful measures that work, create reports that support decision-making and deploy the tools you need to engage the rest of your organization. This book will help you: Avoid strategy...

"An unstoppable business revolution is under way--and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything & all the time. They can deliver instant, intimate, frictionless value on a large scale. Agile began emerging many decades ago, but truly took off in the software development industry. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement is now spreading quickly...

"What are the timeless truths on which great institutions are built? Which beliefs and stratagems separate the best organizations from the rest?" "Jac Fitz-enz and the prestigious Saratoga Institute explored those questions during the four years of in-depth research at more than 1,000 companies. The result is this extraordinary book documenting the most enduring "best practices" in human asset management." "Fitz-enz takes you inside successful organizations...

A guide for managers on how to increase productivity without adding headcount or other overhead costs offers advice on how to promote efficiency, keep track of budget dollars, and use technology and automation.

Skyhooks for Leadership offers you an all-new model for leadership that really works. Based on the enduring concepts of 19 business luminaries of the last 5 decades (including Peter Senge, Tom Peters, Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, James M. Kouzes, Barry Posner, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter), this is business alchemy at its best - a bold melding of well-established leadership principles into a practical, 7-step process for successfully leading change...

As a manager, what you need is a completely new set of tools and techniques to expose and eliminate the problem of dysfunction. And you'll find them in this insightful and innovative guide. If It's Broken, You Can Fix It synthesizes the author's own original strategies and models with the best concepts and ideas drawn from other leading writers and thinkers. In addition to overcoming dysfunction and improving performance among your staff, you'll...

The vast majority of small businesses stay small--and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent--a tiny one tenth of one percent--break through to annual sales above $250 million. Here, consultant McFarland pinpoints how breakthrough success is associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate. McFarland spent five years building and analyzing the world's largest growth-company performance...