organizational change

Presents a comprehensive guide designed for strategists, politicians, activists, managers, and entrepreneurs, that focuses on strategies and scenarios for decision-making and planning for the future in an uncertain world.

Describes the labor shortage that will create a tight labor market for the rest of this century.

Howard Schultz, chairman, president, and CEO of Starbucks, details the problems that began to plague the company as sales fell and stock prices shrank in the years leading up to 2008. Schultz discusses how he and others worked to reform the company and put it back on the right track and details the decision-making process that allowed the company to be put back on the path to profitability and growth.

Author believes that most attempts to transform companies into stronger competitors fail because the implemented changes do not alter employee behavior. In this book he presents an eight-step process designed to provide the leadership and positive role models needed to accomplish positive, productive change.

Peter Schwartz examines the innovations and dynamic forces that are shaping the world today and discusses how they may impact the future, encouraging people to look towards the future so they can fully comprehend the consequences of their own actions and their link to changes in society, the economy, government, and the environment.

The author offers over two hundred observations and thoughts on how to get ahead and stay ahead in business and in life.

Presents the findings of a long-term study on a group of companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained those results for at least fifteen years, looking at how those businesses compared with organizations that failed to achieve high performance, and identifying the factors that make the difference.