Author Richare P. Rumelt
Publisher Crown Business
Call Number HD30.28.R854 2011
Synopsis from Publisher
Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a school, or a government official. Richard Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” He debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.”
Title Real Leadership: How Spiritual Values Give Leadership Meaning
Author Gilbert W. Fairholm
Publisher Praeger
Call Number HD57.7.F3523 2011
Synopsis fro Publisher
Aperson's values are the most powerful factor defining his or her actions; everyone has a value system or a spiritual component that triggers their behaviour. Our personal values are a more powerful force upon individual action than corporate policy, procedures, tradition or peer pressure. Since the work environment is where the typical worker will spend the most time - more than at home with family, with friends, or at church - it is reasonable that workers will have spiritual demands as well as eco Real Leadership argues that values-based (i.e. spiritual-leadership) is the only way to do leadership in today's globalized, multi-differentiated world. The author traces the development of real leadership through five generations of theory, then builds a strong case for the values leadership strategy because of its ability to unify workersż and because it allows them to find personal meaning in the workplace task at hand. Details correct at time of going to print and subject to change without notice nomic needs from their work lives. Unfortunately, this is a task managers are not prepared to meet
Author Eric G. Flamholtz & Yvonne Randle
Publisher /Stanford
Call Number HD58.7.F585 2011
Synopsis from publisher
Organizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we know Southwest Airlines as laid back and friendly. We think of Google as innovative. To almost every well-known company we can assign a character. It is now well recognized that corporate culture has a significant impact on organizational health and performance. Yet, the concept of corporate culture and culture management is too often tantalizingly elusive.
Title More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting
Author Thomas A. King
PublisherWiley
Call Number HF5616.U5 K53 2006
Synopsis from Publisher
The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too-little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later.
Somehow, over a one-hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud. How this happened makes for a good business story. This book is not another description of accounting scandals. Instead it offers a history of ideas.
Title The Accountant's guide to the Universe: Heaven and Hell by the Numbers
Author Craig Hovey
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Call Number HF5636.H68 2010
Synopsis from Publisher
This is an entertaining book on accounting written for a general audience. It opens with a wild premise: Heaven and Hell have been outsourced to a giant company in a distant galaxy and they are now in charge of determining who goes where after death. The entire universe is scoured for an objective system that can be adapted to the task, and it is found, in the form of accounting, in the least civilized backwater of the universe, Earth! The book is also a morality tale. It demonstrates how financial scandals (a la Bernie Madoff and many others) can be pulled off with "creative accounting," and how much a person adds or subtracts from the universe by their actions. Written for anybody who has taken an accounting class, practices it for a living, or is simply interested in seeing how a system designed to record finances can also be used to judge the entire universe will be enlightened by this book.
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