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More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the Balanced Scorecard into action.

Now, using their ongoing research with hundreds of Balanced Scorecard adopters across the globe, the authors have created a powerful new tool-the "strategy map"-that enables companies to describe the links between intangible assets and value creation with a clarity and precision never before possible.

Kaplan and Norton argue that the most critical aspect of strategy-implementing it in a way that ensures sustained value creation-depends on managing four key internal processes: operations, customer relationships, innovation, and regulatory and social processes. The authors show how companies can use strategy maps to link those processes to desired outcomes; evaluate, measure, and improve the processes most critical to success; and target investments in human, informational, and organizational capital.

Providing a visual epiphany for executives everywhere who can't figure out why their strategy isn't working, Strategy Maps is a blueprint any organization can follow to align processes, people, and information technology for superior performance.

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Written for those who are trying to nurture authentic faith communities and for those who have struggled to retain their faith, The Tangible Kingdom offers theological answers and real-life stories that demonstrate how the best ancient church practices can re-emerge in today's culture, through any church of any size. In this remarkable book, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay "two missional leaders and church planters" outline an innovative model for creating thriving grass-roots faith communities..
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Stop the World shows you how to use your spiritual power in the quest for practical results. James Arthur Ray combines the potent ingredients of material goals and mysticism, demonstrating how you need both to get the most out of life. Stop the World makes applying ancient wisdom and the latest discoveries about how our world works--in the realm of physics and beyond--something you can do today. You get:

- Actionable, clear principles to achieve tangible success without sacrificing spirituality, and vice versa

- Straight talk to put you on the true path of power so you can avoid the mistakes most people make

- Ways to break out of the mass hypnosis of our time and become completely free from cultural conditioning

This is a must-read and a must-do for anyone who is truly committed to becoming his or her own person in a world where most people just follow along. It's time to wake up and Stop the World!.
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Managing government employees presents unique challenges Government managers may feel that stringent and convoluted regulations mean they "can't do that." Some others may use that perception as a crutch. But the truth for all of them is, yes, they can "do that" -- and they'd better. "That" means managing employees as proactively and decisively as their corporate counterparts, and holding their staffs, teams, and departments accountable for productivity and results. Managing Government Employees offers dozens of techniques for meeting the challenges and stressful situations supervisors face on a daily basis. Major topics include how to:

* get maximum dedication and productivity from employees
* improve results of poor performers and discipline or fire them when necessary
* deal with union and EEO issues
* cut through the red tape of government employment systems

For managers frustrated by government bureaucracy, this book lets them know they have more power than they may think..
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Global Investing is based on the authors' award-winning research on investment returns. It gives extensive treatment to the returns on all major asset categories--many found nowhere else--and relates these returns to risk, marketability, taxation, and information costs. Supplementing this wealth of information is sound financial advice on building and maintaining diversified portfolios, based on field-tested economic analysis and historical evidence of capital markets throughout the world--including the boom of 1986-1987 and the subsequent crash, as well as recent developments in Europe and on the Pacific Rim. To expand investment choices and help readers get the greatest return in investment markets, Global Investing pinpoints where money has been made in stocks, bonds, cash and cash equivalents, real estate, gold and silver, tangible assets, options, and futures. What's more, it covers the introduction of new financial instruments and opportunities, including asset allocation and derivative securities. Incisive, intelligent, and packed with charts, tables, and graphs, Global Investing helps investors and financial professionals track broad global trends, identify the risks associated with investments in various assets, and select the right investment opportunities..
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How can you roll your corporate strategy into action so it delivers on its promise? Strengthen the organizational capabilities--intangible assets such as top-notch leadership, a high-performance culture, and innovation prowess--that directly support your strategy. Defining what your firm does best, your organizational capabilities reflect your workforce's collective talents--and are hard for rivals to copy. A variety of capabilities can put your company at the head of the pack. But don't try to excel at all of them. Instead, select the essential few that most enable you to implement your strategy. Next, determine how your organization measures up on them, inviting executives, employees, investors, suppliers, and customers to rate your firm's performance. Finally, devise an action plan for assets that need enhancing, including who will do what when and which metrics you'll monitor. This Harvard Business Review Article Collection helps you identify capabilities most crucial to your strategy and describes techniques--capabilities audits and the latest Balanced Scorecard tools--to assess your performance on each. HBR Article Collections include an overview and three full-text HBR articles, each with a synopsis and annotated bibliography. The three articles: "Capitalizing on Your Capabilities" by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood (HBR reprint R0406J), "What Really Works?" by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce, and Bruce Robertson (HBR reprint R0307C), and "Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets" by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (HBR reprint R0402C)..
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