Product Description: Featuring a foreword by Deepak Chopra and interviews with dozens of leadership pioneers, this book provides a seven-step prescription for creating a compassionately competitive work culture. This groundbreaking strategy shows how collaborators, not controllers, dare to create success by reshaping the workplace in unexpected ways, with a focus on topics such as humility, compassion, inclusiveness, and values-based decisiveness...read more

Product Description: More timely than ever, this volume features interviews with 80 of the most successful innovators of the past decade from the Chicago region, showing how the key to unlocking economic growth and recovery is through innovation. Each example highlights the consumer need being met, pinpoints the uniqueness of the innovation, covers the fascinating background story, reveals the extent of the impact on society, and takes a glimpse into what is in store for the future...read more

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Product Description: The right new products program can produce exponential growth..if all the pieces are in place. And that's what this all-new edition of Tom Kuczmarski's landmark book does. It broadens and deepens the message of previous editions with the introduction of a new approach whose greatest strengths are its simplicity, effectiveness, and proven results...read more

Product Description: Recognizing the decline of employee commitment and motivation and the corresponding effect on corporate performance, this text offers a model to re-invigorate companies and restore the heart and soul of organizations. The "Anomic Management" model helps organizations replace prevalent feelings of drift, powerlessness and an "I don't care" attitude with a renewed sense of commitment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Provides a plan to remedy the decline of values and sense of detachment among workers

Product Description: This work focuses on effective practices that the author has used with companies to increase new product success. This second edition has been updated to include information on how to manage new products through economic cycles and on the power of new products to increase shareholder wealth...read more

Discusses the importance of market research, product development, and marketing strategy, and summarizes guidelines developed from interviews with numerous companies