Books in the Microsoft Executive Leadership Series series

Drive Business Performance explains the competitive advantage experienced by organizations which create and manage a "culture of performance". The book includes firsthand accounts from Fortune 500 companies who are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decisions making into their organizational DNA.

How empowered customers and employees can be great for your business When employees can leap tall hierarchies in a single click, it not only flattens their org chart, but also elevates the importance of your corporate culture, transforming it into a management tool and a competitive advantage.

Listening to the Future: Why It's Everybody's Business explores the challenges and opportunities facing organizations, the transformations that will ripple through the political, economic, and social environments, and the implications for different industries in the 21st century workplace. Written by Microsoft forecasters Daniel W.

Lead change through strategic alignment of project and process performance Practical and filled with expert advice, Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization presents a clear framework for your organization to complete impactful strategic projects.

Remain competitive by offering more accessible, affordable, and relevant information technologies that meet mass-market needs Technology at the Margins demonstrates that by making IT more accessible, affordable, and relevant, new mass markets can be opened.

An effective framework for strengthening competitiveness by learning from past deals and applying insights derived from them. Every sales opportunity, whether won or lost, has useful nuggets of information that can be harvested and used to improve performance.

The relentless pursuit of industrial efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability that no longer exists.

>How to understand and attain the attributes and skills required to be a successful leader in the new digital ageRapidly evolving changes in the way that we work have led to the need for a new model of leadership.

Praise for Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap "There is no more important issue facing today's enterprise than the digital age gap. To avoid a generational clash and exploit the power of intergenerational collaboration and knowledge sharing, every organization needs to think differently.