Value Based Management: Developing a Systematic Approach to Creating Shareholder Value
James Knight's new book is a thoughtful step-by-step analysis and implementation guide, emphasizing the critical factors any company can follow to achieve improved value based management. --Richard Ferry, Chairman, Korn/Ferry InternationalJim Knight convincingly tells why corporate governance ought to be focused on shareholder value; more importantly, he reveals how those responsible for setting the corporate direction can infuse value maximization considerations into all of their decision-making activities.  --Dennis E. Logue, Steven Roth Professor of Management, The Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth CollegeJim Knight eloquently dismisses the 'magic bullet' school of shareholder value creation while convincingly laying out the key linkages between investor demands, strategy, measurement systems, and incentives. Value Based Management fully describes the imperative for challenges, and rewards of its subject more fully and accurately than any of its competition.  --Douglas B. Stotz, Director of Corporate strategy, Fleet Financial GroupJim Knight is right on! To maximize shareholder value, business processes must be aligned from the CEO down to the shop floor. Everyone on the team has to be focused, measured, and incented to pull in the same direction.  --Lou Rupnick, SVP of Business Development, Xerox