Playing for Keeps: How the World's Most Aggressive and Admired Companies Use Core Values to Manage,Energize, and Organize Their People, and Promote,
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More About This Title Playing for Keeps: How the World's Most Aggressive and Admired Companies Use Core Values to Manage,Energize, and Organize Their People, and Promote,

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FREDERICK G. HARMON is the founder of Synthesis Consulting, whose clients have included Prudential Insurance, GE, the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Mr. Harmon has been President of the International Division of the American Management Association and Editor in Chief of McGraw-Hill's International Management magazine. His previous books include The Executive Odyssey: Secrets for a Career Without Limits (Wiley); and The Vital Difference: Unleashing the Powers of Sustained Corporate Success (with Garry Jacobs). Mr. Harmon lives in Annandale, Virginia.

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Partial table of contents:

CORE VALUES: THE ONCE AND FUTURE FRONTIER.

Behind the Numbers.

The Other Side of the Balance Sheet.

TOWARD VALUES-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP: ISSUES AND STRATEGIES.

Three Modes of Leadership.

The Next Management Synthesis.

Adding Value to Systems.

SIX STEPS TO A VALUES-DRIVEN COMPANY.

Implementing Step One: Commitment.

Implementing Step Two: Communicate!

Communicate!

Communicate!

Implementing Step Three: Educating Champions.

Implementing Step Five: The Empowered Organization.

VALUES IN ACTION: APPLICATIONS.

At the Creation: Entrepreneurial Values.

Crossing the Frontier: Global Values.

33 Common Questions About Values.

The Leader with a Thousand Faces.

Notes.

Index.
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