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The Inventor's Notebook is an indispensible companion for the purposeful or even accidental inventor.
Includes creative problem solving techniques, patent information as well as many quotes to inspire children to draw from their abundant imaginations. Contact TLE to order. |
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Entrepreneur's Blueprint: Strategies and Lessons for Success
Finally a book for Singaporeans. Ten very different Singapore enterprises are explored in this book with stories told from the real life experiences of the entrepreneur's themselves. Includes insightful business lessons, applicable principles and practical advice for new and would be entrepreneurs. With useful addresses, website listings, a book list and index. By: Claudine Lim & Kathleen Yao |
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Complacent
establishment giants and one-strategy start-ups are on the same
side of the fence--the wrong side.
The key to thriving in today's world of business: a deeply embedded
capability for continual, radical innovation. |
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Today's
firms need to excel in delivering 'value expectations': operational
excellence (best value); customer intimacy (service); and product
leadership (innovation). |
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Business
leaders who maintain that emotions are best kept out of the
work environment do so at their organization's peril.
Emotional intelligence (EI) theorists have radically altered
common understanding of what "being smart" entails.
This book presents the case for cultivating emotionally intelligent
leaders. |
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Peter
Drucker gave us the thought that "the purpose of a business
is to create a customer" a thought that can get lost by
entrepreneurs pulled in many directions at once. You will find
this book to be a good reference for the principles that will
always determine whether or not your focus is proper. |
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Kotter's
thesis is that strategies for change often fail in corporations
because the changes do not alter behavior. He identifies the
most common mistakes in effecting change, offering eight steps
to overcoming obstacles. |
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Execution
is "the missing link between aspirations and results,"
and as such, making it happen is the business leader's most
important job. While failure in today's business environment
is often attributed to other causes, Bossidy and Charan argue
that the biggest obstacle to success is the absence of execution. |
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Everyday
leadership is not so dramatic, and daily leadership decisions
are rarely carried out at the top of an organization. Badaracco
focuses here is on helping the middle- and senior-level managers
who make the ordinary decisions that ultimately determine an
organization's success. As he puts it: "What usually matters
are careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts by people
working far from the limelight.
In short, quiet leadership is what moves and changes the world." |
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A
mother's creative response to the question, "What can we
do?" is the starting point for a Michigan wreath making
business.
This reallife story describes how, with the help of family,
friends, and the local townspeople, three entrepreneurial siblings
created the College Fund Company. Precise and decoratively detailed
watercolors chronicle the children's efforts, along with the
people and places important to their success. |
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Over
50 nifty businesses are explored in this book. Some ideas such
as leaf raking, snow shovelling as well as what to charge may
not be applicable to Singaporeans but there's birthday party
planner, comparison price shopper, photograph organizer, and
lots more. Special hints are also given to kids to help make
their possible venture a success. |