Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Innovation and Efficiency -- 1. Measuring Efficiency in the Innovation Process -- 2. Economic Effects of Basic and Improvement Innovation -- 3. Industrial Organizations and Efficiency -- 4. Lighting Industry. A Classical Case of Innovation --...

Discusses persistence as a basic characteristic of successful leadership. The thematic focus is “leaders don’t give up”. Defines persistence as a process beyond technical competence. Persistent people stick to an idea or to a task and see it through to its logical conclusion. Successful...

Counselling can be seen as “soft” by many managers and personnel professionals, but is actually one of the best ways of improving performance at work. Shows how counselling significantly improved a sales woman’s performance by identifying the underlying problem. Looks at how some of the...

Aims to clarify the logic on which current action learning variants are based in order to better inform practitioners and aid them in making methodological choices appropriate to need rather than faddishness. First attempts to identify what it is Revans and other practitioners are trying to...

The just‐in‐time (JIT) production and inventory philosophy coupled with manufacturing automation in the form of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and its related facets are considered by many as great competitive weapons. The birth of JIT and its positive influence on the global...