Extreme Management What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program,9780446678292

Extreme Management What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program

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ISBN13: 9780446678292
ISBN10: 0446678295
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-03-01
Publisher(s): Business Plus
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Summary

For the first time, the closely guarded secrets of Harvards AMP will be available to executives and management personnel everywhere. The book offers the chance to master the work models, the strategic perspectives, and visioning exercises that will turn good managers into revolutionary managers. Readers will learn how to create and sustain a competitive market, manage for the future, negotiate global transactions, establish enduring brand, and much more.

Author Biography

Mark Stevens is president of MSCO, Inc., He has appeared on Lcuis Rukeyser's Business, CNN Business Report, and CNBC

Table of Contents

Prologue xiii
Introduction: A History of the Advanced Management Program xvii
The Principles of the Advanced Management Program xxvi
About This Book xxxii
The Inner Sanctum: Behind the Curtain of the Advanced Management Program xxxiv
First Strike Leadership: Mastering the Art and Science of Making Decisions and Motivating People
1(30)
Avoiding the Trap of Management by Fashion Trend
5(6)
Private Lists Can Provide Road Maps for Managerial Action
11(2)
Good Leaders Rewrite the Rules of Their Leaders
13(3)
Micromanagers Beware: Self-Protection Is Really Self-Limitation in Disguise
16(4)
In Business, Even War Heroes Have to Put Away the Sword
20(3)
The Quest for Perfection Is a Sure Sign of a Small Thinker
23(2)
First Find Your Comfort Zone-Then Find a Way Out
25(2)
Enlightened Leadership: The Power of the Perpetual Student
27(4)
Tuning the Stradivarius: Building World-Class Organizations
31(37)
Leveraging the Change Equation: D x M x P > Cost
33(4)
Bottom-up Learning: How Employee Criticism Can Make You a Better Manager
37(1)
Place Yourself in a Fishbowl: Emerge a Better Leader with the Organizational Fitness Profile
38(8)
Evolution + Revolution = Solution
46(3)
Leadership 101: The Jack Welch Way
49(6)
Three-Point System for Linking Strategy to Action
55(3)
Draw a Straight Line from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
58(2)
Make Lists to Target Organizational Goals
60(4)
Motivate Subordinates to Embrace Change
64(4)
The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword: Competitive Strategies and Tactics That Win
68(51)
Quality Is Good-Strategy Is Better
69(7)
In the Art and Science of Negotiating, the Heavyweights Start at the End and Work Backward
76(5)
War Games Make Your Business Battle-Ready
81(3)
Leveraging the Power of Critical Opposites
84(2)
Competing the Hewlett-Packard Way
86(5)
The Power of Organizational Strategy: Mastering the 7-S Model
91(11)
How to Pick and Manage Markets Competitors Can't Penetrate
102(10)
The Art of Making Your Business Stand Out from the Crowd
112(3)
Action Plan for Leveraging the Power of Learning
115(4)
The Discipline of SWAT Team Service
119(21)
The Ultimate Synergy: Leveraging the Service-Profit Chain
121(5)
In Poorly Managed Companies, People Are Problems In Well-Managed Companies, People Are Problem-Solvers
126(6)
How to Turn Angry Customers into Loyal Patrons
132(3)
The Paradox of the Satisfied Customer
135(5)
Unlocking the Black Box of Finance
140(18)
Mastering the DuPont Formula and Other Tricks for Decoding Financial Statements
142(3)
Exploring the Apple Tree Analogy
145(5)
When It Comes to Global Currency Hedging, the One Sure Way to Lose Money May Be to Insure Against It
150(2)
In Business, the Best Time to Perform an Autopsy Is When the Patient Is Still Alive
152(2)
Creating Successful Business Models: It's All in the Numbers
154(4)
Epilogue 158(3)
A Global Perspective-Recent Advanced Management Program Sponsoring Companies 161(2)
Advanced Management Program Commanders 163(4)
Sources 167(4)
Index 171

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