Released Last 90 Days

It is a marketing truism that products should be shaped around the preferences of customers, not designers, and that a design or advert that is effective with one personality type may not be effective with another. Since purchasing intent can be...

How can I use insights from people data to develop an inclusive, engaged, high-performing workforce? What data is available and how do I collect it ethically? Data-Driven Talent Management is a practical guide for HR professionals which answers these...

Through inspiring stories illustrating the diverse application of coaching within Asian contexts, this data-rich volume dives into the theory and practice of Solution Focused coaching offering numerous tools and techniques that can be used immediately...

This is the book that helps managers maximise the business value brought by data to their organisation. Book InformationISBN 9781292462141Author Andrea De MauroFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint FT Publishing InternationalPublisher Pearson Education...

How to Hedge Metals is an important resource for all traders, whether new graduates or seasoned directors, and is written in simple, precise, and clear terms. It is engaging and accessible – a good read rather than a reference book – and provides...

Personal Goals for Your Golden YearsPlanning to retire soon? Already retired? Wondering what to do next? Former CEO Larry Jacobson shares how to set the best personal goals for your next chapter in life. Turn your dreams into achievements. After years of...

Is the University as we know it dead? Monika Kostera thinks not, but across the globe universities are under attack, be it by external forces or from within. Will they survive? Our civilisation requires that they must: planetary survival and...

You know inclusion matters: what you need is a simple, intuitive, practical way to define, quantify and measure it. The book introduces an entirely new way of thinking about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, showing how inclusion is the key to...

Artificial intelligence has deeply impacted our understanding of creativity and the human ability to generate creative outputs. New applications for creative tasks are rapidly evolving, and new tools are constantly being developed with much greater...

Technology failures, data loss, issues with providers of outsourced services, misconduct and mis-selling are just some of the top risks that the financial industry faces. Operational risk management is, simply, a commercial necessity. The management...

This book explores the phenomena of school tours and tourism. It explores tensions of authenticity and artificiality in the school site being both a place of community learning and a spectacle for tourism consumption.Through the example of a school in...

Venture Clienting provides a practical, step-by step guide to how organizations can drive innovation and unlock value through venture clienting. Venture clienting enables companies to tap into new technologies, business models and ideas and foster a...

Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. But the economics and business of supplying energy to Europe has a long and rich history going...

In recent years events such as a global pandemic, huge technological changes, and war in Europe have demonstrated how organizations manage risk is more important than ever. Plans, models and ideas to mitigate disruptive situations are needed to ensure...

Unlock the Power of Partnerships to Achieve Exponential GrowthIn Partnering Success: The Force Multiplier to Achieve Exponential Growth, Theresa Caragol and the AchieveUnite team present a groundbreaking approach to building strategic alliances that...

How businesses can and are acting to redress social and environmental issues is a question of growing academic interest. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, this insightful Research Agenda evaluates the current state of the art...

In this thoroughly revised edition of The Chinese Strategic Mind, Hong Liu underscores how the distinctive foundations of Chinese and Western thought lead to divergent focuses, objectives, and approaches. He aptly introduces a framework for comprehending...

'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders’ competing desires. Some argue that corporations must simply generate profit; others suggest that we must make them create social change. Leading organization studies scholar Timothy Kuhn...

Happiness at work matters. But what does happiness mean? How can managers measure it and have more of it? And what happens to organizations when they get happiness right? Ask anyone. Happiness and wellbeing are important for all organizations, because...

The business benefits of lower energy consumption are clear: lower energy costs, energy tax avoidance, selling excess CO2 credits, immediately adding savings to the bottom line and improved competitiveness. However, with a need to focus on day to day...

Security Officers and Supervisors: 150 Things You Should Know presents an array of relevant topics, including addressing “Tips of the Trade” in how to manage a team of professionals and serve as an effective supervisor. This includes both keeping...

Security Officers and Supervisors: 150 Things You Should Know presents an array of relevant topics, including addressing “Tips of the Trade” in how to manage a team of professionals and serve as an effective supervisor. This includes both keeping...

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave...

The priorities and values of Gen Z are not always aligned with the priorities and values of earlier generations. Gen Z are viewed as fundamentally different from those who have gone before and by 2025, they will make up 30% of the workplace...

Safe assets constitute an essential component of the contemporary, international financial system and are vital to its stability. As they are perceived as risk-free assets, they are a special type of financial instrument. Although the vast majority of...

Managers are key people in building the success of any organization. Business results depend on their efficiency in the implementation of the power entrusted to them. This efficiency, on the other hand, largely depends on psychosocial competences and...

Our economies currently encourage excessive consumerism, weakening social ties, and depleting natural resources. Unfortunately, this is just the way economies have been developing. However, it is neither inevitable nor necessary. It takes a fresh...

This book aspires to establish a dialogue among the studies of sustainable development, global environmental politics, comparative regionalism, and area studies of Eurasia. The chapters in this book reflect deep knowledge of the authors of the main...

There's a very real opportunity for those leaders who want to rebel. Rebellious leaders are agents of change and leaders of reconciliation. Leadership today isn't working. Despite loud and boisterous leaders in business, politics and not-for-profit...

Embedded in and interrelated with its broader socio-economic and political context, the tourism system currently faces profound challenges. Against this backdrop, the book Tourism Policy-Making in the Context of Contested Wicked Problems offers a...

Physical Security Assessment Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Securing a Business, Second Edition has been fully updated to help you identify threats to your organization and be able to mitigate such threats. The techniques in this comprehensive book...

Within The Craft of the Secure Base Coach, the authors take a new and combined approach to the professions of coaching and counselling to provide a guide for professionals wanting to better assist individuals and teams in periods of transition.Based on...

Uncover the opportunities web3 offers marketers whilst avoiding the potential pitfalls with this all-encompassing guide to the metaverse, AI and the future of digital marketing strategy written by industry expert Simon Kingsnorth. Do you feel confident...

In the early twentieth century, wage loans became a major source of cash for workers all over the United States. From Black washerwomen to white foremen, Illinois roomers to Georgia railroad men, workers turned to labor income as collateral for borrowing...

In International Multi-Unit Leadership, Chris Edger builds on his earlier Effective Multi-Unit Leadership. First - showcasing up-to-date, contemporaneous case studies of market-leading international organisations - the book takes a cross-border...

Luxury Fashion Marketing and Branding offers a comprehensive analysis of the key theories and concepts needed to understand the promotion of luxury fashion products. It covers subjects including luxury fashion retailing, digital marketing and...

Governments around the world are under pressure to do more with less. Dispelling the conventional wisdom that government is the enemy of innovation, this book argues that the promise of innovation addressing the most compelling societal problems will...

Buchanan believed that individuals are fundamentally willing to cooperate with others. It was at the center of his works in public finance in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and also crucial to his work in public choice in the 1960s. The purpose of this...

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities. Traditionally, degrowth theorising has focussed on reduction and non‑growth. While the ecological...

Governments around the world are under pressure to do more with less. Dispelling the conventional wisdom that government is the enemy of innovation, this book argues that the promise of innovation addressing the most compelling societal problems will...