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Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today
by Meena Surie WilsonToday's large business organizations in India have a voracious need for effective managers and talented leaders; but demand far exceeds supply. This timely and practical book offers thoroughly-researched pointers on how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders. The leadership development curriculum proposed in these pages is based on extracting lessons from on-the-job experience. Given that the workplace is the medium through which the essentials of leadership are learned, executives and managers at all levels need to know which experiences matter, what are the foremost lessons learned, and how learning occurs. Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today offers a complete template for effective leadership, including: The seven experiences vital for developing leadership ability The 11 lessons in leadership essential for managerial effectiveness Over 50 stories and 100 wise quotations from today's senior executives that portray how leadership acumen sharpens over time Reflective exercises, self-assessments, and guidelines for self-improvement The underlying research was conducted in cooperation with the Tata Management Training Center in Pune, India, and captures the experiences and leadership lessons learned by over 100 senior Indian business leaders. As such, it offers readers both a compass and a map for traversing the terrain of leadership development. In these pages, early and mid-career managers will find a roadmap for steering their careers towards the higher echelons of executive leadership. Senior executives, at the top of their game, will find a systematic and proactive approach to cultivating the leadership talent that their organizations will require in the future. Global executives operating in India will find out how leadership and management are practiced in India.
Developing Transferable Skills: Enhancing Your Research and Employment Potential (Success in Research)
by Julie Reeves Pam Denicolo'PhD students and young researchers increasingly find employment outside the world of education. This book is an excellent guide to the skills they will need as they make that move.' - Professor Nigel Vincent, Vice-President for Research & HE Policy, The British Academy 'This book should be required reading for researchers embarking on a research career, particularly those on doctoral training programmes, and academics in their roles as supervisors or managers of researchers.' - Dr Janet Metcalfe, Chair and Head Vitae This book provides a succinct guide for doctoral and early career researchers about the nature of transferable skills, why they are needed and how they can be acquired, evidenced and marketed. In the UK, possession of a doctorate is no longer the rarity it once was and the competitive economic climate makes it even more critical that doctoral graduates and early career researchers can convince prospective employers of both their specialist and generic skills. In this context, institutions are also required to provide well organised, relevant training in skills development if they are to attract and retain doctoral candidates. Thus, the book also has value for those charged with developing the transferable skills of others. With coverage of project management, team working, communication, leadership and technical skills, this book is an essential guide for researchers who want to make the most of the skills you have and acquire the skills they need. The authors' work engages them daily in the development of researchers' skills and they made a substantial contribution to the development of Vitae's Researcher Development Framework. The Success in Research series, from Cindy Becker and Pam Denicolo, provides short, authoritative and accessible guides on key areas of professional and research development. Avoiding jargon and cutting to the chase of what you really need to know, these practical and supportive books cover a range of areas from presenting research to achieving impact, and from publishing journal articles to developing proposals. They are essential reading for any student or researcher interested in developing their skills and broadening their professional and methodological knowledge in an academic context.
Developing University Social Responsibility: A Business Ethics Approach to Information Disclosure in Japan
by Keikoh RyuThis book analyzes the growing importance of information disclosure in Japanese universities in the context of the country’s changing circumstances from both a macroscopic and microscopic perspective, with a focus on the concept of universities as organizations. This macroscopic analysis is based on available data concerning the various information disclosure practices of Japanese universities and includes a discussion of their strengths and weaknesses. As for the microscopic analysis, questionnaires and various other quantitative methods have been used to study overall satisfaction with the level of disclosure among students and teachers in public and private universities, including differences between Japanese and Chinese students. The results of these surveys have then been analyzed to identify the main factors informing students’ views on the subject. Finally, additional insight into the practice of information disclosure in Japanese universities has been provided in a series of representative case studies, which should help promote further study concerning the practical applications of such disclosure. Based on the above analysis, this book proposes a social responsibility-based approach to university information disclosure, which incorporates stakeholder theory-based identification of public information content, an underlying focus on disclosure as a means to realize universities’ social responsibilities, identification of the types of information that universities should seek to disclose, recommendations for developing a framework for the systematic disclosure of such information, and recent disclosure trends. As part of this approach, recommendations concerning the arrangement of different sources of information, thoughts on building a publicly accessible platform for sharing university information, and key points underlying the systematic disclosure of information within universities are also proposed. Finally, this book is helpful in identifying further areas of research, including but not necessarily limited to the ideas and legal principles underlying the construction of a university information disclosure system, the development of information disclosure systems based on social responsibility, and the development of various standards for the disclosure of information. The ideal approach would ensure that all stakeholders are provided with meaningful access to relevant information, and that transparency takes precedence over any competing considerations as part of an overriding effort to improve university administration and oversight.
Developing Windows-Based and Web-Enabled Information Systems (Data-Enabled Engineering)
by Nong Ye Teresa WuMany professionals and students in engineering, science, business, and other application fields need to develop Windows-based and web-enabled information systems to store and use data for decision support, without help from professional programmers. However, few books are available to train professionals and students who are not professional progra
Developing Your Career: And Theirs
by Richard LueckeCareer development is the process of assessing where you are in your work life, deciding where you want to be, and then making the changes necessary to get there. It's a process you can manage and an opportunity for you to lead by example. This chapter gives you practical ideas for managing your career and mentoring the careers of those who work for you--whether you are both just beginning or well along the road.
Developing Your Conflict Competence
by Runde Craig E. Flanagan Tim A.A practical resource, this book combines tips, checklists, exercises, and stories to outline concrete processes that improve the way leaders, managers, and anyone within an organization responds to conflict. Beginning with a series of questions and self-diagnostics, the authors show you how to: maintain emotional balance in the face of conflict; implement constructive communications techniques; help others deal with conflicts that are causing organization problems; establish norms for handling conflict; use specific approaches for addressing conflict more effectively. "A must-have guidebook for the new age of global business. This book shows every leader how to turn feelings of fear into feelings of safety, suspicion into trust, and competitiveness into collaboration. " --Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling book The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University "Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan use their vast experience to give us Developing Your Conflict Competence. Move beyond negative workplace conflict to positive and constructive outcomes with the simple tools and suggestions in this must-read field guide!" --Marshall Goldsmith, best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Succession: Are You Ready?, and the upcoming MOJO "I've read the authors' first two books, Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader and Building Conflict Competent Teams. Their latest book pulls it all together by providing models, examples, and thought-provoking insight. It will be required reading for my senior management team. " --Deborah Jallad, president/chairman, Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc.
Developing Your Enterprise Selection Capability: Balancing Build, Borrow, and Buy Decisions Across Your Organization
by Will Mitchell Laurence CapronChapter 7 of "Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma" explains how to create an organizational capability around the decision to build, borrow, or buy the resources your firm needs in order to grow. The chapter lays out a process for managing your organization's resources by bringing the topics discussed in the rest of the book together into a repeatable framework that can be applied across your organization indefinitely. The authors use networking giant Cisco Systems to illustrate how expert leadership and the skillful use of all three growth pathways can create a powerful, enterprise-wide discipline--strategically coordinated building, borrowing, and buying. *About the book:* How should you grow your organization? It's one of the most challenging questions an executive team faces--and the wrong answer can break your firm. The problem is, most firms' strategies emphasize just one type of growth--for example, some focus on organic growth, others on M&A. When these strategies falter, the common response is simply to try harder. Instead, firms need to find the pathway that is right for them, argue INSEAD's Laurence Capron and coauthor Will Mitchell, of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The result of a decade of research and teaching, their "resource pathways framework" helps organizations find that path. It is built around three strategic questions: (1) BUILD: Are your existing internal resources relevant for developing the new resources that you have targeted for growth? (2) BORROW: Could you obtain the targeted resources via an effective relationship with a resource partner? and (3) BUY: Do you need broad and deep relationships with your resource provider? Written for managers of large multinationals and emerging firms alike, "Build, Borrow, or Buy" will help solve a perennial question and guide you through change, while priming your organization for optimal growth.
Developing Yourself and Others (Institute of Learning & Management Super Series)
by Institute of Leadership & ManagementSuper series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).
Developing a Blueprint for Changing Companies and Lives: A Ten-Step Plan for Improving Working Conditions for All--and Boosting Your Company's Profitability
by Jody HeymannIt's becoming apparent that companies that invest in and improve the quality of life for those at the bottom of the corporate ladder can increase the quality, quantity, and value of their products and services by doing so. Companies that invest in their low-level employees see short-term gains like increased productivity, as well as long-term gains like having built a loyal and educated workforce. This chapter summarizes the authors' fifteen years of research on policies and programs implemented at hundreds of companies from around the world that were designed to improve conditions for the lowest-level employees, providing a definitive blueprint for effective change. The plan includes ten important steps: five ways in which corporate leaders need to adapt their strategic approaches, and five practical steps firms should take right now to improve conditions-and increase company profits. This chapter also examines some of the barriers to change, like the challenges public companies face in implementing compensation restructuring, and the need for governments to take a more direct role in childcare. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 10 of "Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce."
Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise: Lessons from the Trenches, Third Edition
by Mba Pmp Bryan P. Bergeron Hamad Al-Daig Fadwa Saad AlBawardi Md Ma Osama Alswailem Enam Ul Hoque CphimsThis third edition to the award-winning book is a straightforward view of a clinical data warehouse development project, from inception through implementation and follow-up. Through first-hand experiences from individuals charged with such an implementation, this book offers guidance and multiple perspectives on the data warehouse development process – from the initial vision to system-wide release. The book provides valuable lessons learned during a data warehouse implementation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – a large, modern, tertiary-care hospital with an IT environment that parallels a typical U.S. hospital. <P><P>This book also examines the value of the data warehouse from the perspectives of a large healthcare system in the U.S. and a corporate health services business unit. Special features of the book include a sample RFP, data warehouse project plan, and information analysis template. A helpful glossary and acronyms list are included.
Developing a National STEM Workforce Strategy: A Workshop Summary
by Engineering Medicine Policy Joe Alper Board on Higher Education Workforce National Academies of Sciences Global Affairs Planning Committee for the National Summit on Developing a STEM Workforce StrategyThe future competitiveness of the United States in an increasingly interconnected global economy depends on the nation fostering a workforce with strong capabilities and skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). STEM knowledge and skills enable both individual opportunity and national competitiveness, and the nation needs to develop ways of ensuring access to high-quality education and training experiences for all students at all levels and for all workers at all career stages. The National Science Foundation (NSF) holds a primary responsibility for overseeing the federal government’s efforts to foster the creation of a STEM-capable workforce. As part of its efforts in this endeavor, NSF’s Directorate on Education and Human Resources asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a workshop that would contribute to NSF’s preparation of a theoretical and evidence-based STEM Workforce Development R&D Core Framework. Participants discussed research themes, identified gaps and emerging research opportunities, and recommended refinements in the goals of the framework. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Developing a Path to Data Dominance: Strategies for Digital Data-Centric Enterprises (Future of Business and Finance)
by Arthur Langer Arka MukherjeeMost existing companies struggle currently because they lack the tools and strategies to move product departments into independent platforms that can be retrofitted to form dynamic new products based on consumer demands. This book provides managers and professionals with the necessary approaches for designing software and hardware architectures to support data platform organizations. Specifically, it demonstrates how to automate the decomposition of existing platforms into smaller parts that can be reused to form new variations. This task requires significant analysis and design methodologies and procedures to create an infrastructure based on data as opposed to products. These new knowledge bases allow data-centric professionals to pursue actions that can better predict and respond to the unexpected. Featuring case examples from companies such as Lego, FedEx, General Electric (GE), Pfizer, P&G and more, this book is appropriate for C-level executives engaged in the digital transformation of their firms; entrepreneurs of digital platform companies; and senior software engineers that need to design Internet of Things (IoT) devices and integrate them with block chain and multi-cloud architectures. In addition, this book is also useful for graduate-level coursework in data science.
Developing a Poly-Chronic Care Network: An Engineered, Community-Wide Approach to Disease Management
by MPHM, Pierce StoryAlthough much has been achieved in care coordination and accountable care, healthcare leaders need additional, game-changing innovations to deal with constraints in clinical resources, care capacity, and cost that have not yet been fully addressed. This need for innovation is especially great in the care of the chronically ill: the most costly, hig
Developing a School Finance System for Ka-12 Reform in Qatar
by Louay Constant Jeffery C. Tanner Titus Galama Gabriella C. Gonzalez Cassandra M. GuarinoReform-minded leaders of Qatar, who have embarked on a sweeping reform of their nation's education system, asked RAND to evaluate their education finance system and offer suggestions for improvements. The authors analyze the system's evolution and resource allocation patterns between 2004 and 2006 and develop analytic tools for performing the evaluation, including a framework that allows assessment of the system in light of six main objectives.
Developing a Successful Subsidiary Strategy: A Step-by-Step Toolkit for Managers
by Paul LyonsMost books on business strategy approach the subject from a corporate perspective – covering topics such as the vision for the business, the marketplace, competition, differentiation etc. However, the reality is that most managers work in sub-units or subsidiaries of the business and they are not involved in corporate strategy formulation. Their strategic concerns are with the positioning and future trajectory of their own units within the complex internal ecosystem in which they exist. If these units are to survive and grow, the middle managers responsible for them must plan their future, maximize their value-add, and compete for resources within the internal market of their corporations. Such internal markets are becoming increasingly volatile due to general economic conditions, but also given the questioning of globalization and increasing corporate concerns about the frailties of international supply chains as brought into sharp focus by the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine. This book provides practical perspectives for these business unit managers, and a step-by-step toolkit that can be used by management teams to develop a successful subsidiary strategy that acknowledges these challenges while maximizing their contribution to corporate objectives. It is based on the authors 30 years of experience as an executive in a complex multinational (IBM) organization, supplemented by academic study at Masters and PhD level. The material covered has been verified through workshops over a 3-year period with the senior leadership teams of 25 multinational subsidiaries operating from Ireland.
Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Management Education (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series)
by Isabel Rimanoczy Kerul KasselWith an expanding awareness of the challenges of sustainability, featured more in the daily news than in higher education textbooks, scholars and faculty have been called to connect their syllabi to the ‘real world’. This book doesn’t just offer the ‘why’; it offers the ‘how’ through presenting the definition and model of the ‘sustainability mindset’ to help educators frame curricula to facilitate broad and deep systemic learning among current and future leaders. A sustainability mindset is intended to help individuals analyze complex management challenges and generate truly innovative solutions. The sustainability mindset breaks away from traditional management disciplinary silos by integrating management ethics, entrepreneurship, environmental studies, systems thinking, self-awareness and spirituality within the dimensional contexts of thinking (knowledge), being (values) and doing (competency). This book is aimed at professors, faculty members, instructors, teaching assistants, researchers and doctoral students in higher learning management education programs. Chapter contributors are all teaching professionals from programs around the world, who have been doing research and creating curricula, assessments, tools, and more for the students in their classes, and the book will be globally applicable.
Developing a Talent for Science
by Ritsert C. JansenWant to make the most of your talent for science? This practical guide for students, postdoctorates and professors offers a unique stepwise approach to help you develop your expertise and become a more productive scientist. Covering topics from giving presentations and writing effectively to prioritising your workload, it provides guidance to enhance your skills and combine them with those of others to your mutual benefit. Learn how to maintain your passion for science, inspire others to develop their abilities and motivate yourself to plan effectively, focus on your goals and even optimise funding opportunities. With numerous valuable tips, real-life stories, novel questionnaires and exercises for self-reflection, this must-read guide provides everything you need to take responsibility for your own personal and professional development.
Developing a Teaching Case (Abridged)
by Michael J. RobertsProvides an overview of the case development, interviewing, and case writing process.
Developing a Turnaround Business Plan: Leadership Techniques to Activate Change Strategies, Secure Competitive Advantage, and Preserve Success
by Norton PaleyDeveloping a Turnaround Business Plan is an ideal resource for managers currently facing a competitive crisis as well as those who wish to avert one and must set a turnaround plan in motion before the situation results in irreversible losses.Whereas the book helps readers develop a sound turnaround plan, the focus of the book is on the actual proce
Developing a Virtue-Imbued Casuistry for Business Ethics
by Martin CalkinsCasuistry, Virtue and Business Ethics brings together three important processes for business ethics: casuistry, virtue ethics and the business case method. In doing so, it considers the overlap and synergy of casuistry and virtue ethics, the similarities and differences of casuistry and the business case method and the relationships between emerging and well-established cases. The goal of the book is twofold: to provide a distinctly practical method for moral decision-making within the context of business and to illustrate how contemporary vexing issues are similar to those of the past and how they might be resolved satisfactorily.
Developing a Vision and Strategy: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change
by John P. KotterLeading change successfully requires a basic vision, or a picture of the future with some implicit or explicit commentary on why people should strive to create that future. A strong vision clarifies the general direction of change, motivates people to take action in the right direction, and helps coordinate the actions of different people in a fast and efficient way. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of "Leading Change."
Developing a Yoga Home Practice: An Exploration for Yoga Teachers and Trainees (Yoga Teaching Guides)
by Joe Taft Alison LeightonThis book is ideal for all yoga teachers and trainees looking to create a consistent and personal home yoga practice. Whether you're newly qualified and looking for ways to establish a home practice routine, or have been teaching for a long time and are in need of fresh inspiration, this book is packed with tried-and-tested advice.Alison Leighton and Joe Taft provide logical and practical guidance in how to successfully use a home environment as an effective platform for teaching. They also show how a deep engagement with your own practice can nurture understanding, creativity and intelligence to the benefit of your students. This book also coaches teachers and trainees to engage in rejuvenating exercises in order to avoid the burnout well-known to many yoga teachers.
Developing an App for That
by Joshua Gans Nathaniel Burbank Hanna HalaburdaAt a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party apps as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose which mobile development software platform to invest in. Written from the perspective of an established consumer bank that is about to commence development on its first downloadable application for mobile devices, the case surveys the state of the smartphone market in 2010 and considers the challenges of a platform landscape that includes significantly varying installed device base sizes, growth rates, application distribution models, and hardware device profiles. Focusing on Apple's market-leading iOS platform and App Store, for iPhones and other devices and on Google's developing Android OS and associated Android Market, the case considers potential benefits and pitfalls of each and touches on the reasons that other longer-standing platforms, such as RIM's BlackBerry platform, are less appealing to modern-day application developers.
Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System: An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry
by Ilkka JuusoDeveloping an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System: An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry details the lessons learned from a real-world project focusing on building an ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System (QMS) from scratch and then having it officially certified. It is a practical guide to building or improving your existing QMS with tried and tested solutions. The book takes a hands-on approach–first teaching the top 25 lessons to know before starting to develop a QMS and then walking you through the process of writing the quality manual and the standard operating procedures, training the staff on the QMS, organizing an internal audit, executing a management review, and finally passing the necessary external audits and obtaining certification. It helps you to progress from one task to the next and provides all the essential information to accomplish each task as quickly and efficiently as possible. It does not attempt to replicate the standard but instead drills into the standard to expose the core of each section of the standard and reorganize its contents into a practical workflow for developing, maintaining, and improving a Lean QMS. The book includes a wealth of real-world experience both from the author's personal dive into quality management, and from the experiences of other companies in the field and provides handy checklists for ensuring key documents and processes are fit for use–the emphasis here is to help ensure you have considered all relevant aspects. In addition, the book is not intended as a “cheat sheet” for the standard or as a review of the standard that only adds lengthy commentary on each of the clauses. Instead, the book fixes easy misunderstandings regarding QMS, provides insight into why the various clauses are written the way they are, and provides a great base to both understanding ISO 13485 QMS and developing your own QMS. The book is intended to serve both experts and novices audiences–it provides special insight on the most crucial and effective aspects of QMS.
Developing and Branding the Fashion Merchandising Portfolio
by Phyllis Borcherding Janace E. BuboniaA career in fashion merchandising means working in a fast-paced, creative industry-and a highly competitive one. Developing and Branding the Fashion Merchandising Portfolio is a guide to creating a portfolio and brand for yourself that will stand out. <p><p>Portfolios provide immediate visual evidence of what you can do, and they communicate hands-on experience more explicitly than a résumé can on its own. Whether you're interested in design, product development, buying, textile design, or trend forecasting, this book provides activities to help you identify and focus your skills. <p><p>Step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to gather examples of your work, how to choose a design and layout, and ways to incorporate drawings, sketches, and CAD-generated material into a consistent, streamlined portfolio that reflects your personality. User friendly and above all visual, this is the guide for creating a portfolio that will get you hired-and keep your career on track.