Butterworth Heinemann, 2002, [Business] Grade 2
This is an over ten-year-old book on a subject – relationship marketing - that has grown in importance with the spreading of the Internet, e-commerce and of what’s become know as “big data”. Evert Gummesson is Professor Emeritus of Service Marketing and Management at the... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
Jossey-Bass, 2014, [Business] Grade 3
The first word that strikes me when I think of The Soft Edge is Infotainment. Rich Karlgaard, entrepreneur, columnist and publisher of Forbes magazine is a genuinely skilled writer and this book is a pleasure to read. The set up is a string of coherent short stories on different topics... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2013, [Business] Grade 4
In the second half of the 1980’s shareholders were waking up to the enormous waste inflicted by managements who instead of acting as trustees for the owners milked the companies for perks, money and social benefits. This pawed the way for the corporate raiders of the day, but also... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2007, [Business] Grade 4
If you are interested in applied management theory, this is probably the book for you. At first, however, I was not impressed. I thought I had read more updated and sophisticated theory, but after a while the book became more and more fascinating. Suddenly I realized that Koch... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
Prentice Hall, 2009, [Surrounding Knowledge] Grade 3
According to Daniel Pink’s latest bestseller To Sell is Human we are all in sales now. Shaun Varga would probably agree and this book will help you excel in one specific sales process, the pitch. Varga - after a long career in advertising, PR and marketing - manages a consultancy... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2005, [Business] Grade 4
The old ceremonial type of passive board that rubber-stamped CEO’s decisions are gone in most parts of the world. Boards nowadays have a real say in how a company will conduct its business. At the same time institutional investors, NGOs and other parties have increased their... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Wiley & Sons, 2010, [Business] Grade 3
Here’s the scenario: Exactly one decade into a successful, industry-transforming journey as a housebuilder of the future – in the booming housing market of the U.S. in the 1960s – the company suddenly decides to acquire a sleepy, family-owned life insurer, using up a considerable... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2010, [Business] Grade 4
After reading the terrific first chapter of this stylish book on understanding and developing innovative business models I was ready to give the book the highest grade. I changed my mind though. The text is something of a crowd-sourcing project with 470 co-authors but the foundation that the text... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Innovation Press, 2012, [Business] Grade 4
Did you know that there are consultants consulting on how to become a consultant? The competition to get employed at BCG, Bain or McKinsey is murderous so the applicants who prepare ahead of the interview obviously have the upper hand. This book aims to prepare the hopeful... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Crown Business, 2005, [Business] Grade 3
The first hundred days has become an ingrained feature of business management perception, vocabulary and subsequently real practice. In media often referred to as a grace period, the days in question are hardly ever graceful. The first hundred days are the first few months for... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, [Business] Grade 4
I am often reminded, thru disparaging remarks - not seldom summarized as “fluff” - that corporate strategy is not a popular concept by many, maybe even the majority of us. Strangely enough, it still surprises me. Strategy is about making choices, about improving your odds. Obviously, you need... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Crown Publishing Group, 2008, [Business] Grade 3
In this part biography, part political appeal, the reader gets to familiarize himself with one of the most infamous persons of the 1980’s corporate America. T. Boone Pickens is most famous as a corporate raider. He has enjoyed equal success as an oil baron and a... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2001, [Business] Grade 3
The 20th century saw a shift away from family owned and managed companies to a model with dispersed ownership and corporate management as a profession, not an inheritance. The split between ownership and control opened up for the conflicting interests that are... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Jossey-Bass, 2013, [Business] Grade 5
“Self-made leader and social entrepreneur Morton Mandel is likely the most successful person you have never heard of… until now. No matter where you are on your leadership path, this book will make an enormous difference in your outcomes. Get your copy today”. A cardinal rule of a... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Simon & Shuster, 2002, [Business] Grade 4
The scene is a hotel bar in Hong Kong. The cast is a group of relatively seasoned portfolio managers from various Scandinavian countries - amongst them myself. The PM:s don’t really know each other but after a nice dinner the general feeling is that the other ones are quite nice... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2013, [Business] Grade 5
This is a collection of strategy models like Porter’s 5 Forces or the BCG Matrix but it’s more than that. The author has written a strategy handbook on how to use these models as practical tools. Strategy models are a diverse bunch and they relate to anything from how to set up a... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2009 2nd ed, [Business] Grade 3
If you’re a fundamental long term equity investor or an analyst, a part of your job is probably to discuss the future prospects of companies with the purpose of figuring out if the future looks different than what the equity market is pricing. Most often this then means discussing strategy... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
McGraw-Hill, 2009, [Business] Grade 3
This is the latest, best but to be frank - hopefully the last of a trilogy of books on the methods used by the management consulting firm McKinsey (The McKinsey Way and The McKinsey Mind being the prior two). It offers a methodology, a toolkit to run a high performing project team and... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
McGraw-Hill, 2002, [Business] Grade 3
This is the second book of a trilogy on the project management methods of the consultancy giant McKinsey. The book presents a project methodology on how to solve business problems in a structured project form and also to manage the project team meanwhile. It does not cover The... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
McGraw-Hill, 1999, [Business] Grade 2
This is a dual tail. The McKinsey Way on the one hand gives an account of the work that the consultants at “the Firm” perform. On the other hand it describes the character and corporate culture of the world’s most prestigious management consultant firm. Unfortunately everything is... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
