Value-Led Organizations (Express Exec) (Paperback)

by Eleanor Bloxham (Author)
Key Phrases: transaction consummation, value metrics, value based management, New York, Shareholder Value Magazine, United Technologies (more...)

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Product Description
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.

ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:

01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work

ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

From the Inside Flap
Fast track route to understanding value led organizations

Covers the key areas of value leadership, from developing critical measurement and compensation practices to evaluating changing environmental, global, and social impacts and establishing sound corporate governance

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Berkshire Hathaway, Odey Asset Management, Halma, and Honda and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Warren Buffet, Richard Brealey, Peter Koestenbaum, William Mahoney, and Roger Raber

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

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Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: Capstone (April 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841123102
• ISBN-13: 978-1841123103
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,940,637 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredibly timely book - bears rereading many times, August 25, 2002

By A Customer

This is an incredibly timely book. In the wake of many corporate scandals, this book points the way out of this mess. But it isn't a preachy ethics book - it's practical and hardnosed when it comes to making money. Every business person should read it - twice!

It isn't just for business people, however. It's about anyone who works in an organization and wants that organization to be more effective, more responsible, and more sustainable. I'm on the board of a non-profit, and I'm going to buy it for all my fellow board members. I think it will also make a great secret-Santa gift for my boss!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Valur-led Organizations - A Review, September 8, 2002

By	Eugene Hunter (Georgetown,SC) - See all my reviews

This short and concise book should be on the required reading list for all business school students and faculty,accountants, lawyers,CEO"s,CFO"s, corporate directors and shareholders. It emphasizes thhe view that there are other measurements of corporate responsibility than the "bottom line".

Such ideas as openbook accounting,executive pay for performance,independent outside directors,workforce diversity,and shareholder rights are advocated.

[...]"Value-led".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Business Wisdom in a Portable Package, September 8, 2002

By	Brooke Sheldon (Tucson, Arizona) - See all my reviews

An extremely thoughtful, timely and portable book, very well documented. Should have been required reading for some very prominent business executives,accountants, investors who lacked perspective on what a value led organization could be. This is also important reading for the person who runs or is starting a small business, or not-for-profit organization. Particularly interesting is the chapter on E Dimension or the role the internet will play in the company's strategies. Carefully computing and comparing the cost benefits of various implementation modes is stressed. Hundreds of important issues are discussed, as for example, the efficacy of having workers tele-commute. Bloxham points out the pros and cons of these arrangements, and notes that a value led organization must weigh these factors before making a decision. Another key area is the discussion on globalization-must reading for a business person hoping to expand across national borders. If the book has a flaw, it is that the topic raised could all be greatly expanded and this reader feels a certain frustration in not being able to contact the author and discuss an issue in depth. But of course the book is intended to be an overview. On the basis of this I would also recommend the book to business students, because it will lead them to fruitful and in depth study of the more important issues facing entrepreneurship today.