Two senior members of the world-renowned executive search firm, Spencer Stuart, provide a detailed best-practices roadmap for ensuring continuous leadership in corporate America, based on personal interviews and their work with CEOs.

"Lasting change in the modern organisation has less to do with massive 'communication to all' programmes and more with the creation of an internal epidemic of success led by a small number of people focused on a small set of non-negotiable behaviours. This is the basis for Viral Change, an unconventional approach to the management of change for any company."--Cover.

This report covers seed stage financing for high growth companies in OECD and non-OECD countries with a primary focus on angel investment.

KEY BENFIT:David's Strategic Managementoffers a skills-oriented, practitioner perspective that has been updated with modern cases to reflect current research and strategy. This text covers strategy formulation issues such as business ethics, global vs. domestic operations, vision/mission, matrix analysis, partnering, joint venturing, competitive analysis, and includes a brand new cohesion case on the Walt Disney Company. For management professionals, small business owners and others involved in business.

Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.

INDICE: La planificación de empresa y estratégica y su integración con la planificación de recursos humanos. Organización y planificación de tareas en una organización productiva. La cultura corporativa vista estratégicamente. Directivos: definiendo funciones y actuaciones orientadas al éxito. Planificación estratégica de la sucesión y desarrollo directivo. Sistemas para el desarrollo estratégico directivo. La planificación de resultados, la gestión y el marco estratégico.Métodos de desarrollo directivo. Desarrollo de carrera directiva. Bienestar, estrés y envejecimiento. Una visión estratégica de la información y los ordenadores. Estrategias de puesta en práctica. Un programa resultante para el desarrolloestratégico directivo.