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Strategic Executive Development-- written by three leaders in the field of executive development, James F. Bolt, Michael McGrath and Michael Dulworth--shows how world-class companies use executive development to drive business strategy and affect growth. This important resource presents five strategic uses of executive development that produce demonstrable business impact. Based on empirical data gathered from their extensive research and consulting, and a comprehensive survey of executive development in leading organizations, this book answers the key What are the investments in executive development that have the biggest impact? Using illustrative case studies, the authors clearly demonstrate how executive development is being successfully implemented at some of the world's most recognizable and enduring companies, including Texas Instruments. These cases describe what is working and why, offer insights into the key process steps, and show how companies have measured and validated the effects of executive development. Strategic Executive Development offers the framework needed to create an executive development strategy and program that will help your organization achieve measurable business results and develop the executive capabilities needed to win in the marketplace.

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.

A text designed to provide students of management with practical skills which emphasize the development of leadership qualities. The text discusses eight basic roles that persons in positions of organizational leadership often play, conveyed through a five-step learning model.