Customer Review: With the increased scrutiny on company accounting practices, executive compensation, and the Board's role in setting strategy, this book on corporate governance is an extremely timely and important one. The authors thoughtfully detail the issues Boards face, how best to work with CEOs and plan for... more info
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Customer Review: An excellent collection of essays that examines the reasons for and dynamics of executive teams. Explores the organization, chemistry and purposes of the team. Some topics include: the jobs of the CEO and COO; governance, importance of trust, conflict resolution, feedback, developing strategy, and... more info
Customer Review: Introduction In the book Discontinuous Change the authors use anecdotes of prestigious organizations to enhance the understanding of the theoretical and practical ideology concerning organizational change. The authors begin the text by identifying the precursors of organizational change. The... more info
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Customer Review: This book focuses on the basic techniques and knowledge on collecting data in the sphere of organization. For greenhands, it might be a great resource; but those who have the basic knowledge upon qualitative research skills and techniques, it might be a book of common sense. To be as objective as... more info
