NEW BUSINESS DVD TITLES at the Lake County Public Library
DVD 658.812 WHAT
WHAT DRIVES PHENOMENAL SUCCESS?
50 minutes
Colleen Barrett explains the success of Southwest Airlines in simple terms. Employee satisfaction is the starting point for customer satisfaction. She describes a hiring process that selects on individual attitudes, sets expectations, and empowers employees from the beginning to do the right thing.
DVD 658.046 WIKI
WIKINOMICS
49 minutes
Dale Tapscott, CEO of New Paradigm, describes how winning companies innovate and succeed using the knowledge, resources and computing power of millions of people self-organizing into a massive collective force. The Age of Collaboration has changed business through blogs, wikis, chat rooms, peer-to-peer networks and personal broadcasting.
DVD 658.4012 EXEC
EXECUTING YOUR STRATEGY
53 minutes
Dr. Raymond Levitt of Stanford University emphasizes the critical need to revise your strategic portfolio to fit the demands of a dynamic environment. He details the imperatives that enable you to do the right projects, and to do these projects right. Dr. Levitt is the Academic Director of Stanford University’s award-winning Advanced Project Management executive program.
DVD 658.4013 DRIV
DRIVE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
55 minutes
With examples from Fortune 500 companies, Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts provide a six-stage approach for developing a culture of performance, including increasing visibility into operations, moving away from a gut feel to a more data-driven decision-making and articulating future success. Mr. Aziza and Mr. Fitts are both associated with Global Business Intelligence Sales Strategy for Microsoft.
DVD 658.4 LEVE
LEVERAGING THE SPOTLIGHT OF LEADERSHIP
54 minutes
Professor Jay Conger describes how the natural spotlight that managers and executives find themselves in can have both pros and cons. He explains how to use its power to set direction, lead your people and guide their decision making. Dr. Congers serves as Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
DVD 370.1309 LEAV
LEAVING MICROSOFT TO CHANGE THE WORLD
49 minutes
While John Wood was a top executive at Microsoft he made a decision to found Room to Read, a non-profit organization which now provides educational access to 1.3 million children in developing nations. Mr. Wood speaks to the subject of corporate social responsibility, and explains how to build a world-class non-profit organization.
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