Bottom Line Management

• Main Author: Fields, Gary (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Organization.; Planning.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Bottom Line Management presents a new approach to management. It will help you if you are a senior manager in an organization and have a seat at the table where key decisions are made. It will help you be a valued employee recognized as doing the good work of the organization. What makes you valuabl...

Table of Contents:

• Bottom Line Management: An Introduction
• Purposeful Behavior: What Are We Working Toward?
• Five Types of Organizational Bottom Lines
• Benefits, Costs, Profits, and the Good Work of the Organization
• Making Decisions to Maximize the Bottom Line
• Three Good Decision Rules and Many, Many Bad Ones
• Making Investment Decisions: Rate of Return and Net Present Value
• Making Interdependent Decisions: People, Process, and Technology
• Bottom Line Management: An Executive Summary.