Top Stakeholder Management books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of Stakeholder Management

Understanding the concepts of Stakeholder Management starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Unternehmensethik: Grundlagen und praktische Umsetzung

3. überarb. u. aktual. Aufl., Wie kann die Unternehmensethik als Management der Verantwortung praktisch umgesetzt werden? Eine stärkere Orientierung der Unternehmensführung am Leitbild einer lebensdienlichen Wirtschaft wird mehr und mehr gefordert.
Elisabeth Gödel erörtert zunächst die philosophischen Grundlagen der Ethik und klärt dann das Verhältnis von Ethik und Ökonomik. Im Vordergrund …

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A Practical Guide to Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders

All project stakeholders have different needs, objectives, responsibilities and priorities. For many project managers it is disturbing to realise that, for any number of personal or professional reasons, some of their stakeholders may not be as co-operative and helpful as they expect. It could be a negative and powerful sponsor (the 'Anti-sponsor'), a demotivated team, low-maturity or unrealis…

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Sozialmarketing als Stakeholder-Management

Beziehungsorientiertes Marketing-Management von Nonprofit-Organisationen in 25 Beiträgen: Das von den Herausgebern skizzierte Berliner Managementmodell war Anlass zur Einladung an Wissenschaftler, Praktiker, Kreative und Nachwuchsautoren das bisherige Marketingverständnis zu hinterfragen und Horizonte zu erweitern. Das Ergebnis ist ein breites Spektrum an Beiträgen, die sich mit Sozialmarketin…

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Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to Harness People Power

Engaging stakeholders on projects provides an in-depth examination of the topic covered in the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition. It gives project professionals detailed tips, tools and practical steps to help improve ways of working and shows how harnessing the power of people is key to improving project success.

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Stakeholder Power: A Winning Plan for Building Stakeholder Commitment and Driving Corporate Growth

A Winning Plan for Building Stakeholder Commitment and Driving Corporate GrowthIn today's environment of fierce and unrelenting competition, the most powerful weapon in any company's arsenal is not its products or services but the assets that can never be replicated-its relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, investors, and the communities it serves. Balancing conflicting agendas w…

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Stakeholder Management

This Stakeholder Management Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Stakeholder Management challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.

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Additional Stakeholder Management Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Stakeholder Management, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together

This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, "How to Lead in Product Management" offers a wealth of practical tips and s…

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Project Stakeholder Management

Carrying out a project as planned is not a guarantee for success. Projects may fail because project management does not take the requirements, wishes and concerns of stakeholders sufficiently into account. Projects can only be successful through contributions from stakeholders. And it is the stakeholders that evaluate whether they find the project successful - an evaluation based on criteria t…

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Practical People Engagement: Leading Change Through the Power of Relationships

From research into high performers and from his own experience, Patrick Mayfield concludes that many of us leading change have prioritised and focused on the wrong things. Great change leaders understand this. Could their focus and different behaviours be the reason for their achievements? Patrick believes the evidence has been 'hiding in plain sight'. Practical People Engagement provides a be…

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