Friday, October 2, 2015

What RamP's Reading: Oct'15

 


Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
One of the key determinants of success for today’s high-technology companies is product strategy―and this guide continues to be the only book on product strategy written specifically for the 21st century high-tech industry. More than 250 examples from technological leaders including IBM, Compaq, and Apple―plus a new focus on growth strategies and on Internet businesses―define how high-tech companies can use product strategy and product platform strategy for competitiveness, profitability, and growth in the Internet age.


Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
John Wooden’s goal in 41 years of coaching never changed; namely, to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. Wooden on Leadership explains step-by-step how he pursued and accomplished this goal. Focusing on Wooden’s 12 Lessons in Leadership and his acclaimed Pyramid of Success, it outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, and shows you how to develop the skill, confidence, and competitive fire to “be at your best when your best is needed”--and teach your organization to do the same.


Thresholds of Motivation: Nurturing Human Growth in the Organization
This book explores a fundamental question for managers in today's rapidly changing, and often perplexing, business environment: What truly motivates people to function and perform at their highest capabilities within the framework of an organization? Is it man's "intrinsically" competitive nature, as Western society has believed since Darwin's time? Is it a purely materialistic craving for money, power, and status - a view that seems a lot less compelling in the 1990s than it did in the 1980s? Or is it something else - something that reveals human nature in a new and entirely different light?

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