From England to Wyoming via Germany and New York. Yramiris Paul Tracy rebelled against traditional norms to forge the life she wanted to live—life on a ranch in the west. As she told her NYC lawyer in 1957, “My children will know the sky, the sunshine, the mountains, the prairie sage! My children will play on the back of a horse, not in a grimy alley.”Yry was not just a unique individual, she was elusive. And she was a study in contrasts: a romantic dreamer, yet hard-headed and tou...

From England to Wyoming via Germany and New York. Yramiris Paul Tracy rebelled against traditional norms to forge the life she wanted to live—life on a ranch in the west. As she told her NYC lawyer in 1957, “My children will know the sky, the sunshine, the mountains, the prairie sage! My children will play on the back of a horse, not in a grimy alley.”Yry was not just a unique individual, she was elusive. And she was a study in contrasts: a romantic dreamer, yet hard-headed and tou...

Ken Rogers and Errol Chadwick draw on their decades of experience as executive managers, and as consultants to large corporations in this guide to achieving enduring corporate success. Drawing on their experience with the executives of hundreds of companies across multiple continents, they conclude that with rare exceptions, corporations tend to preserve the status quo – even when it is manifestly not working. But by following the recipe in this guide, corporate leaders will be able to: se...

PEDALING ON PURPOSE recounts an unimaginable, unprecedented journey never before accomplished-- by anyone. A journey intending to change two lives, instead transforming scores of thousands around the world. A journey, whose underlying life lessons resonate even more so today, for readers of all ages.It was 1982. Ken Rogers and friend Steve Anderson quit their jobs for an ultimate adventure of incomprehensible challenge: to bicycle not just across America, but through every single o...

Great marketing just got easierMarketing is about the relationship between an organization and its marketplace, and in particular its customers and potential customers. Customers are the lifeblood of a business; without customers a business has no future. In order to succeed and make a profit, a business must therefore aim to identify and satisfy the needs of its customers. The purpose of marketing is to help the business achieve these aims. In this book you will le...

Organisations increasingly look to project management to deal with short timeframes, tight budgets, changing requirements and risk management in everyday operations, as well as for major strategic projects. Project management knowledge and skills are now essential for professionals just about everywhere, from teachers, social workers and lawyers, to engineers, builders and accountants.Stephen Hartley's Project Management is based on the recognised global standard for proje...

A comprehensive reference presenting the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master, The AMA Handbook of Project Management compiles essays and advice from the field’s top professionals. Compatible with the most recent edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge® and featuring new data on the Project Management Office, the completely revised third edition shows readers how to: • Establish project goals • Implement planning on both the strategic and operational ...

With the rate of change in organizations at an all-time high, the need for strong organization design has never been more pressing. Organization Design provides a complete road map to building successful organizations through good organization design. It presents a practical process; a robust, broad-based model and a set of tools and techniques that all link together. Part One and Two together provide you with the knowledge of how to establish and run an organizat...

How can we ensure our strategy will succeed, especially in changing and uncertain times? The answer, as explained in Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations, is to become a more responsive organization - one that captures its strategy in strategy maps, learns from that strategy and can adapt to deliver results. For anyone involved in managing strategy and performance, applying the powerful strategy mapping techniques will move your balanced scorecard from an operational tool to one of ...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book AwardsWhy do some businesses thrive, while many more struggle and fail? A key reason – and the focus of this book – is strategic alignment. This is the careful arrangement of the various elements of an enterprise – from its business strategy to its organisation – to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. The best-aligned enterprises are the best performing.Most executives recognise that their e...

Published in its "Lessons from experience series" by Lightbearer publications, "How to achieve exceptional organisational performance" is a practice-oriented book written for executives and managers interested in creating sustainable value and tapping into the collective genius, creativity and insight of their employees to create world-class companies fit for people.This book demonstrates and revives the vital and often forgotten relationship between everyday business activities, c...

With a huge proportion of any organization’s expenditure invested in human resources and economic pressures demanding that companies become leaner than ever, it has never been more important for HR professionals to think and act strategically to turn their people planning into profit.Focusing on HR as a key driver of competitive advantage and sustainable success, HR Strategy, second edition, demonstrates how to create a winning human resource strategy by predicting...