Most Popular Books by Richard Koch

"Most CEOs claimed that they wanted to spend about a third of their time on strategy. That's about 80-days in a typical working year". McKinsey Research, 2003. A strategy is an essential tool in business. How do you know what you're doing without one? But what exactly is a good strategy? How do you get one? What are the options? Which are the key concepts and models you need to know about? In the third edition of this easy-to-read and logically structured guide, Richard Koch leads the reader through each critical step in creating, delivering and understanding successful strategy. Beginning at the level of the business unit, where most everyday business activities are carried out, he shows us which questions to ask, how to go about answering them and what action to take as a result. With an updated section on corporate strategy and an A-Z reference of strategy concepts, the FT Guide to Strategy is your guide to corporate success!

Being a new boss is difficult. All bosses have to make their mark and have to learn how their team operates best. They need to satisfy difficult staff and customers, cope with encroaching competitors and deal with their own expectations, hopes, fears and self doubts. shows the new boss how to successfully lead their team for the first one hundred days. It guides you through the options and pitfalls that await you at each pursuit and helps you to reach your goals. important issues in ten-day chapters, each chapter includes a checklist to measure how things are going, describes how to advance your interests and that of your unit and company.

Running a business–any business–is a risky proposition. It often seems that we are being buffeted by random variables in the economy and the marketplace that are not only beyond our control, but impossible to foresee with any true certainty. But in the groundbreaking The Natural Laws of Business, businessman and entrepreneur Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle, reveals a unique and remarkably accurate way in which managers and executives can use fundamental principles of science to anticipate and dramatically improve their chances of success. From Newtonian physics and Mendelian genetics to cutting-edge chaos theories, science explains how and why the world–including the business world works the way it does. Now, Richard Koch provides fascinating, completely accessible explanations of key scientific and economic theories, including their history and development. Through real-life examples and practical instructions he shows us how to successfully incorporate these natural laws into daily business decisions. For instance, drawing on four centuries of scientific progress, Koch explains how Darwin’s theory of natural selection can become the key to enhancing a company’s competitive advantage; how Einstein’s theory of relativity can hold the secrets to improving time management; how the insights of evolutionary psychology can help managers improve their relationship with their employees; and how a Plague Theory formula can help predict the impact of technology or product innovation on your business. First published in the United Kingdom, where it has garnered praise from noted academics, critics, and business leaders, The Natural Laws of Business is a groundbreaking, highly insightful examination–for science lovers and business leaders alike--of the essential tools and techniques for analyzing and dealing successfully with the ever-changing business environment of the twenty-first century.

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Interviews conducted by Charles B. Hosmer with 54 persons involved in American historic preservation (used in preparation for his book Preservation Comes of Age) and restoration in the United States. Among the topics discussed are the development of the National Park Service, Williamsburg, National Trust, and projects in California, Charleston, S.C., Illinois, Missouri, New Orleans, La., Newport, R. I., New York State, San Antonio, Tex., and Wisconsin. A 98 p. index to the transcripts is included.

That Americans are driven by wealth and the pursuit of material markers of financial achievement is anything but new. "We who are without kings"--As Arthur Miller famously termed Americans in "Tragedy and the Common Man" (1949)--have always granted de facto status of nobility to those with the means to show it off. However, this study harmonizes apparently dissonant American notes by dissecting the nation in order to establish a unified voice in Nineteen Twenties Fiction. By juxtaposing the canonical with the obscure, the seemingly conservative with the assumed liberal, the minority with the majority, and the South with the North, the true consistency and complexity of the American economic consciousness comes into greater light. Furthermore, although the Twenties presents a unique historical and literary moment for American writers, the decade ultimately showcases a phenomenon of economic obsession and discomfort that has only expanded and become more defined in contemporary American culture. The primary argument within "The Troubled Economic Consciousness" is that concerns over fiscal identity, labor, and materialism are so overwhelming in the American fiction of the Twenties that even many texts that seemingly share little with the subject of economy are actually engulfed by this overarching discussion. The chapters are organized along geographic delineations that highlight critical examples of the fiction arising in particular regions. The first chapter presents Nineteenth Century precursors to Modernism that evince a vague but perceptible awareness of the developing importance of labor to personal identity. Following this look back at the previous century, the next four chapters each involve a different physical region of Twenties fiction and include the South, the Midwest, the Harlem Renaissance, and expatriate writings. These disparate regions serve to collectively prove the assertion that a common thread of economic anxiety overwhelms literary discourse and cannot be removed from Twenties fiction. Finally, the conclusion asserts a context for the Modernist fiction of the Twenties that is ultimately consistent with the economic consciousness of contemporary American culture. Economic trepidations are ubiquitous in Twenties fiction, but in contemporary American culture, discussions and displays of wealth have become audacious and explicit.

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Sinopsis 80/20 Prinsip Pareto, atau disebut juga aturan 80/20, yang telah terbukti dalam dunia sains, bisnis, dan ekonomi, menyatakan bahwa 80 persen hasil atau efek disebabkan oleh 20 persen upaya atau kausa. Sekadar contoh, 20 persen pelanggan umumnya berkontribusi pada 80 persen keuntungan perusahaan; 20 persen bintang media mendominasi 80 persen pemberitaan; 20 persen penulis menghasilkan 80 persen buku yang terjual; dan kurang dari 20 persen ilmuwan menghasilkan lebih dari 80 persen terobosan ilmiah. Prinsip 80/20 yang berlaku dalam semua aspek kehidupan ini sangat mengejutkan sekaligus menakjubkan. Tidak seperti yang kita bayangkan, ada ketimpangan besar antara kausa dan hasil. Sekarang, Pichard Koch, dengan gagasan bahwa aturan 80/20 memungkinkan siapa pun mendapatkan hasil luar biasa tanpa usaha yang luar biasa, menunjukkan cara menerapkan prinsip itu dalam hidup kita. Kita selalu bisa meraih lebih banyak yang kita inginkan dengan lebih sedikit waktu, tenaga, dan kekhawatiran. Gagasan ini, bahwa kita tidak hanya bisa memperbaiki keadaan secara dramatis tetapi juga melakukannya dengan lebih sedikit usaha, sangat revolusioner dan bertentangan dengan pandangan yang selama ini didengungkan, seperti "no pain, no gain" atau "apa pun yang layak dicapai membutuhkan kerja keras". Mencurahkan waktu pada hal-hal yang paling penting berarti menghilangkan dan mengurangi semua aktivitas yang tidak perlu, kemudian berfokus pada beberapa aktivitas krusial yang memberi Anda keberhasilan dan kebahagiaan terbesar. Informasi Lainnya Judul: 80/20 Prinsip Pareto Untuk Mendapatkan Hasil Luar Biasa Tanpa Usaha Yang Luar Biasa Cerita: Richard Koch Tebal: 268 Halaman Tanggal Terbit: Maret 2020 Format: Soft Cover