Management

The Third Edition of the field-defining book Originated by Reg Revans in the 1940s, the Action Learning Model was refined and then reintroduced by lead author Michael Marquardt to organizations globally as a powerful tool for improving organizational...

Foreword by Richard Hytner, Deputy Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide We've all worked with one--a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? He's an awful teammate. So as a leader, do you...

Managing change has become an increasingly critical capability for today's turbulent and disruptive environment. Nevertheless, research indicates that failure rates of change initiatives remain high. In Six Batteries of Change, the authors propose a...

Part of SAGE's Mastering Business Research Methods Series, conceived and edited by Bill Lee, Mark N. K. Saunders and Vadake K. Narayanan and designed to support researchers by providing in-depth and practical guidance on using a chosen method of data...

Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do--and, what can we learn from companies that have endured...

The mining industry faces distinct challenges. Mines have long lives, companies have little control over the prices at which they sell, prices are volatile, and the environmental impacts of mining are often not well managed. Despite this, the mining...

This expanded second edition of a classic career guide offers fascinating insight into the publishing environment for the management discipline, drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experiences from leading scholars and top-level journal editors...

In this lively and entertaining book, Robin Wensley guides the reader through the basic analytical approaches to decision making required for more effective management practice. Packed with diagrams, anecdotes and examples which bring the book to life,...

Do you need to deliver an effective service to challenging and unreasonable internal or external clients? Do you worry that you'll lose business or take a reputational hit if you don't do so well enough? This book introduces a valuable set of tools...

The spa industry is currently the fastest growing segment of the hospitality and leisure industry with revenues exceeding those from amusement parks, box office receipts, vacation ownership gross sales and ski resort ticket sales.Understanding the Global...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERPut yourself at the center of your team's learning and growth In The Beekeeper, a team of renowned management and leadership professionals deliver an insightful and engaging exploration of what it means to place oneself...

Meet your next crisis head on and get through it stronger than ever by using the hard-earned strategies and core principles from Marc Polymeropoulos, a highly decorated, 26-year operations officer with the CIA.Marc Polymeropoulos has had to live with the...

Revised for 2009 and beyond, The Black Book of Outsourcing is a comprehensive guide and directory for the evolving field of outsourcing, including expert advice on how to operate an outsourcing program. Valuable governance checklists, offshoring...

A new edition, based on new research and double the survey data, Engagement MAGIC provides an expert approach to increasing organizational success using five key elements of engagement. Readers discover how to engage employees effectively. Most leaders...

It's time to make performance management work. We've moved on from antiquated tools like typewriters or checkbooks, but bosses still rely on the same annual performance review process to manage employees the same way they did 70 years ago. It fails our...

There are a limited number of intelligence analysis books available on the market. Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals is an introductory, accessible text for college level undergraduate and graduate level courses. While the principles outlined in the...

How could one company-General Motors-meet disaster on one continent and achieve explosive growth on another at the very same time? While General Motors was hurtling towards bankruptcy in 2009, GM's subsidiary in China was setting new sales and profit...

Over the last 40 years, the leadership industry has grown exponentially. Yet leadership education, training, and development still fall far short. Moreover, leaders are demeaned, degraded, and derided as they never were before. Why? The problem is...

'MAD3' is the third and latest edition of the influential Manual of Archival Description, revised to take account of a decade of developments in national and international descriptive practice. Many improvements have been made as a result of wide...

The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence brings together the writing of one of the best-known academics in the field of decision making and organizational theory.About the AuthorJames G. March is Professor of Organizational Theory, Emeritus, Graduate...

A compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor Chinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to...

Wall Street Journal bestsellerHave you ever struggled to feel worthy at work? Do you know or lead people who do? When Amelia Dunlop first heard the phrase "elevating the human experience" in a leadership team meeting with her boss, she thought, "He is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937120224Author Ichak, Adizes Ph.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Adizes Institute PublicationsPublisher Adizes Institute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544324302Author Christopher P NeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SAGE Publications IncPublisher SAGE Publications Inc

Global Project Management describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in business environments which require distributed skills, around-the-clock operations and virtual team environments.The book goes beyond simple...

Design Works is a second-edition collection of best practices that serves as a leader's guide to driving innovation within the enterprise through the strategic and design-inspired practice of Business Design. It is well recognized that enterprise success...

In life and business, change is the only constant. Read Dragon Tactics and learn how to thrive in uncertainty! In business, change is the only constant. Dragon Tactics demonstrates that Chinese entrepreneurs know how to thrive in uncertainty. The book...

This book examines the factors involved in the social mediation of risks, the social construction of reality, and professionals' attempts to re-design how social reality appears. It looks at single-issue politics, the mass media and how corporations can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789527303580Author Vox DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Castalia HousePublisher Castalia HouseWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

In this book, author Nate Furuta, former chair and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America Inc., shares the story of his decades of experience directly leading the establishment of Toyota cultures outside Japan. Furuta was the first Toyota employee on the ground...

Lean Six Sigma is a powerful methodology that reduces waste and variation in an organization and ultimately minimizes operating costs, optimizes productivity, and maximizes customer satisfaction. The success stories speak for themselves, but not all LSS...

Identity-based approaches to understanding thoughts, feelings, and actions in organizations have produced, particularly in recent years, an array of rich insights that have broadened the domain of organizational behavior. This book brings these insights...

A description of the nature and scope of operational research, this book is suitable for students studying for professional stage accountancy examinations and Degree and Diploma courses in the business area. It contains a range of worked examples...

If you buy a new BMW you may be surprised as much by the owner's manual as by the car itself. Thin, personalized, and containing information only on the features you have selected in the language you speak, it is the result of a year's collaboration with...

It is, of course, commonplace for corporations to operate sophisticated identity programmes. But identity has now moved way beyond the commercial area. We live in a world in which cities, charities, universities, clubs - in fact any activity that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993387739Author Mike GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Gavisus MediaPublisher Gavisus MediaWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730345374Author Sebastian SalicruFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia...

Enter the matrix . . . and discover a whole new reality for your organization. In today's global business world, many organizations are shifting away from decentralized, vertical structures-with silo functions such as finance, HR, or operations-to a...

The development of technical leadership capabilities is often overlooked as a training requirement in organisations but these are key to business success. In this book, management experts Brian Sutton and Robina Chatham describe six management...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475965643Author Hap KloppFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm