Jacqueline Doyle

"How to Plan and Execute Strategy" provides you with 24 practical steps for devising, implementing, and managing market-defining, growth-driving strategies. Encompassing every stage of the strategic process, this tactic-filled handbook tells you what you need to do to: define your businesses; understand your opportunities and threats; set feasible goals and objectives; create the strategies to achieve your objectives; identify and set priorities; write your business plan; communicate the strategy and obtain commitment; integrate across functions; and, monitor results, evaluate, and react. Successful corporate strategy must be strong enough to meet the needs of the marketplace, yet flexible enough to quickly adapt when that marketplace changes. "How to Plan and Execute Strategy" outlines a field-proven framework you can follow to design and implement such a strategy and strengthen your organization's competitive advantage while ensuring buy-in and implementation by every worker, at every level.

Corporate Governance delivers vital information on the smooth and transparent running of yourbusiness, with a high-level analysis of key governance aspects,from board selection and directors’ legal obligations to board andcorporate organization. It covers the board’s role in strategy formulation,business planning, and gaining necessary new financing.

A comprehensive overview of one of today's most important and controversial topicsThe need for sound corporate governance is the #1 item on many people's agendas today, from corporate directors and decision makers to investors looking to shield themselves from the next Enron-type disaster. But what exactly constitutes sound governance? And what should directors and managers do to ensure they can meet their governance responsibilities--whether legal, moral, or both?What Is Corporate Governance? provides readers with concise yet comprehensive coverage of this hot-button subject.