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For Your ReferenceFor Further StudyBooz Allen employees recommend the following books for prospective hires:1. The Advice Business, by Charles Fombrun and Mark D. Nevins (PearsonEducation, 2003).2. Marketing and the Bottom Line, by Tim Ambler (Financial Times/PrenticeHall; 2nd edition, 2004).3. Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation, byAnnabelle Gawer and Michael A. Cusumano (Harvard Business SchoolPress; 1st edition, 2002).The Human Factor: Leadership in the E-economyRolf Habbel (Uberreuter Wirtschaft, 2001).“If the company’s executives do not manage to convince the employees thatthe enterprise is going in the right direction, that it will last, that it must beinnovative in order to win its future, and that it actually depends on its customersto survive, the company has no chance of being successful in the longterm,” writes Booz Allen Vice President Rolf Habbel in the preface to hisbook. Unless you read German, you may not be able to actually read this book,but you might want to be familiar with the message of its author, Habbel, aMunich-based partner at Booz Allen. “This book tries to elaborate and demonstratethat man—often overlooked as a ‘small wheel’ in the greatness of newmanagement methods and concepts—is more and more critical to beingsuccessful in this change,” Habbel writes. His message is that even though wemay be armed with the best ideas and most advanced technology tools, thebiggest barrier to the successful implementation of change is that we too oftenignore the “the human factor.” For more, visit www.boozallen.com.82
The Entertainment Economy:How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our LivesFor Your ReferenceMichael J. Wolf (Times Books, 1999).Here’s a book about how mass media rules our lives that won’t tell you to destroyyour television set. Instead, it’ll tell you to turn it on and learn some lessons aboutwhat sells and what doesn’t in today’s economy. It’s written by Michael J. Wolf, aformer senior partner at Booz Allen who jumped ship for McKinsey in 2001. Ina nutshell, Wolf’s thesis is that to get ahead in today’s media-saturated marketplace,consumer businesses in all industries have to win and retain an audience byfeeding it fresh, engrossing content. The influence of entertainment in all aspectsof business and society is what he calls the “e-factor.”Balanced SourcingTimothy M. Laseter (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998).Written by Booz Allen insider Timothy Laseter, this book explores a fundamentaloperational issue affecting all kinds of businesses: sourcing. Now that reengineeringhas gone out of favor, optimizing supplier relationships is one of thehottest cost-cutting strategies in use today. If your interests lie in businessprocesses, read this book for some tips on helping your future clients maximizetheir bottom line by profitably outsourcing their assembly lines.Smart Alliances: A Practical Guide to Repeatable SuccessJohn Harbison and Peter Pekar, Jr. (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998).Written by Booz Allen consultants, Smart Alliances examines the familiar “buyor build” dilemma that has faced CEOs of all stripes at one time or another.Does it make more sense to acquire an outside business or to create one’s own?Harbison and Pekar’s proposed solution gives some compelling evidence infavor of a third alternative: forging strategic alliances with competing orcomplementary businesses for mutual benefit.83
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At a Glance“We look for good stru
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