The Practice of Management

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John T. Willig

Many of the best and most successful companies are no longer content to do the minimum required to achieve compliance with environmental regulations. Instead, a new standard of environmental excellence has arisen. A high-quality environmental system is now seen both as a means to regulatory compliance and as a very cost-effective way of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of operations in general. In this way, the environmental audit often serves as a significant driver for improvement within the overall management system. Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership details these new techniques and practices in environmental auditing and shows how their place in a Total Quality Environmental Management System can help companies achieve environmental excellence and a competitive advantage.

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William Seidman and Richard Grbavac

In every company, a select few produce more, sell more, and deliver better results. These stellar performers consistently outshine their peers-and achieve more than most would believe possible. If only these people could be cloned! The Star Factor delivers the next best thing: a unique system for unlocking their wisdom, transforming that knowledge into actionable steps, and helping other employees internalize these new attitudes and behaviors, bringing much-needed change to the whole organization. The book's proven Affirmative Leadership methodology has produced astonishing results for companies in a range of industries: The world's largest semiconductor manufacturer doubled its accuracy rate for inventory management forecasting; and a top fast food chain dramatically reduced its employee turnover. Supported by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, including research on motivation, learning, and achievement, The Star Factor presents a sustainable, people-centered system to build a culture of greatness that starts with the stars and spreads to every corner and every level of the organization.

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Tony Fu-Lai Yu

This is the first systematic economic study of the nature, operation and contribution of entrepreneurship to the growth of Hong Kong. From a new entrepreneurial perspective of economic development, the author argues that the success of Hong Kong is attributable principally to adaptive entrepreneurship: * product imitation, * small scale enterprise, * subcontracting, * spatial arbitrage. Using these entrepreneurial strategies, local manufacturers learned from foreign firms and imitated their products. By selling improved commodities at lower prices, they competed against the original suppliers from more advanced countries. Being alert to opportunities and responding rapidly to change, Hong Kong's entrepreneurs shifted their production activities from one product to another; from higher cost to lower cost regions; from traditional fishing and agriculture to manufacturing, and then to finance and other services. These entrepreneurial activities have brought about structural transformation in Hong Kong's economy, enabling the country to compete with advanced economies. This study concludes that any policy recommendation on economic development should be based on analysis that incorporates entrepreneurship and provides a reappraisal of the role of government in economic development.

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Nicola McHale

Only 26% of leaders create a high performing culture - that is why so many fail to achieve their targets! Leaders today are facing unprecedented change, huge challenges and uncertainty. Organizations expect the achievement of stretching targets, putting even more focus and pressure on the leader and their teams to perform. Everyone has to succeed with fewer and fewer resources. It is vital that Leaders use everything they have available within them and their teams to ensure success. Nicola McHale has been transforming Leaders and Teams for over 20 years with Global Organizations as they lead dramatic and sensitive change. With proven success internationally she now shares her philosophy and approach with an engaging and motivating guide which will enable Leaders to: achieve amazing results, transform themselves and their Leadership potential, engage the hearts, minds and spirit of their Organizations, communicate with passion and presence. Transforming Teams is a superb guide full of practical exercises, real life examples and anecdotes. Written by an experienced and highly successful facilitator who is recommended and referred throughout the world for her integrity and expertise, because what she does is proven to work.