The reality test : still relying on strategy? /: still relying on strategy?. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Rowland Smith.
• Authors: Smith, Robert Rowland
• Contents: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part 1: In the grand scheme of things; Introduction; 1. Who are you?; 2. What's your organisation for?; 3. When will your business die?; 4. Will your organisation go to heaven?; 5. Did the past never happen?; 6. Are you a vertical or a horizontal organisation?; 7. Are you sure you're adding any value?; 8. Would you rather suffer than change?; 9. Do you love money?; 10. How much is enough?; 11. What disasters are being born as you read this?; 12. What are the unintended consequences?; Part 2: In the market; Introduction. 13. Is your business an only child?14. Is your brand a mask or a window?; 15. What are your pheromones?; 16. Would you buy what you sell?; 17. Are your customers as real as you are?; 18. Is all your networking on expenses?; 19. Is your business a sign of the times?; 20. Are you making enough of your weaknesses?; 21. Why aren't you predictable?; 22. Are you searching for innovation where you expect to find it?; 23. Do you want others to fail?; 24. Do you even know what the market is?; Part 3: In your organisation; Introduction; 25. Why isn't everything perfect? 26. Does your organisation face upwards, inwards or outwards?27. What's the itch?; 28. Is your organisation dumber than its people?; 29. Do you have to play the game to fit in?; 30. Is your business a happy family?; 31. Which lies are acceptable?; 32. What do you do with the spies?; 33. How much dead wood should you carry?; 34. Are you thinking too much about your culture?; 35. How do you deal with the high-performing bad citizens?; 36. Which card would cause the house to fall?; Part 4: In your head; Introduction; 37. How much more valuable than your staff are you? 38. Whose love do you need?39. Would you go down with your ship?; 40. Shouldn't you be paranoid?; 41. When you shout, how high do they jump?; 42. Are you 100% productive 100% of the time?; 43. Are you lonely enough?; 44. Does the autopilot need a rest?; 45. Are your decisions a science or an art?; 46. What do you tell yourself?; 47. What would you tell your therapist?; 48. What will they say when you've gone?; Epilogue; Further Reading; Reader's Notes; Acknowledgements; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Profile Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.4012; Strategic planning; Business enterprises; Interorganizational relations; Management; Business enterprises; Interorganizational relations; Management; Strategic planning; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847659187; 1847659187
• Related ISBNs: 9781781251782; 9781781250792
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 29, 2014).
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