Insead Business Press
INSEAD and Palgrave Macmillan Publishers have launched a new series of management books under the imprint INSEAD Business Press. Our ambition is to provide corporate leaders , thoughtful business executives, professionals in consulting firms, and students and management scholars with thought provoking books that combine conceptual rigour with practical and actionable relevance to companies and organizations.
The Global Business Leader
Practical Advice for Success in a Transcultural Marketplace
J. Brown
This book introduces up and coming leaders to the skills and techniques needed to succeed in todays, and tomorrows, organizations. Covering areas such as networking, building teams, crisis management and the work/life balance, this is a practical and accessible guide. Written with 25 years of leadership experience, this is an invaluable guide for success.
September 2007 £20.00
9780230522152
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Coach and Couch
The Psychology of Making Better Leaders
M.De Vries; H. Korotov; E. Florent-Treacy
The INSEAD Global Leadership Centre was founded and is directed by Professor Kets de Vries. This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics. Drawing upon substantial research the book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders.
' Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders’ is a powerful reminder that Leadership, very much like Art, blends irrationality and rationality. This book explores the clinical perspective and applies it to the business context. I have found that this approach, which focuses on self-reflection and the observation of others, is particularly helpful in confronting the challenges of leadership. ' - Edward Dolman , CEO, Christie's
May 2007 £25.00
9780230506381
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The Marking Enterprise
Business Success and Societal Embedding
J. Thoenig; C. Waldman
Enterprises such as Ikea, First Direct, Apple, Royal Canin or Starbucks are models not only because of their economic performances, but also because they leave a mark on society. Marking enterprises are special and think and act in a specific manner. Marking enterprises succeed because they invent alternative approaches about branding, marketing and strategizing. This challenging book makes them explicit and replicable. It offers a ground breaking new framework to business practices and to management sciences.
October 2006 £25.00
9780230001879
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Service is Front Stage
Positioning services for value advantage
J. Teboul
This book contains a simple but powerful definition of services based upon a separation between back-stage and front-stage activities. Services deal with front interactions, production and manufacturing with back-stage operations. Teboul uses this distinction systematically to explore the important issues of the field within a coherent set of concepts and maps, including the service mix, the service triangle and the service-intensity matrix. This is a novel approach to services that challenges the traditional view.
September 2006 £25.00
9780230006607
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Mergers
Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health
D. Fubini; C. Price; M. Zollo
How can CEOs and other senior managers define a merger leadership role for themselves that adds significant value to the work of integration teams? While merger catastrophes continue to grab headlines, a small but growing number of companies have learned to avoid the common mistakes and to reliably achieve respectable outcomes for their mergers and acquisitions.
This book looks at long-term solutions to integration, preserving the health of the organization beyond short-term goals. The authors of the present volume have thoroughly researched this critical but widely neglected need. Drawing on their own extensive integration experience, on that of almost thirty executives, on the systematic analysis of 167 mergers, and on cutting edge academic research, they identify five common leadership challenges to be tackled for the achievement of what we call “corporate health”, the most thorough and sustainable test of merger success.
September 2006 £25.00
9780230019720
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