Management & Strategy

This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. He presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can.

Providing the necessary background information and hands-on tools to build compelling business cases, this book will increase the reader's capability to champion new business development ideas, take them to senior management, and facilitate the decision process by understanding the key theories and practices of finance and corporate investments.

The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world. The author in this book draws on extensive microeconomic studies of thirteen nations - conducted over twelve years by the Institute itself - to counter virtually all prevailing wisdom about how best to ameliorate economic disparity.

Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying professional organizing business from your home.

Integrates the industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm to give you an understanding of how businesses use strategic management to establish a sustained competitive advantage. This book provides the understanding you need to apply strategic management tools and techniques for increased performance.

This is the first textbook on international business strategy that combines analytical rigour and true managerial insight on the functioning of large multinational enterprises (MNEs). With unique commentary on 48 seminal articles, the book shows how these can be applied to businesses engaged in international expansion, especially in high-distance markets.

"A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." -Paul Polman

The first practical guide to the theory and practice of embodied leadership techniques.

How people succeed - and how you can, too. How do sports stars excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve their ambition? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning mindset something we can all develop? This book examines how winners tick. It shows how they build great teams.

Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staff

Emotional Intelligence Coaching describes how to assess and manage the emotions of one's self, or others. The authors present the skills necessary to use EI as a powerful tool to help coach for enhanced performance.

A breakthrough guide to leadership written by an author who has been a CEO and now coaches business leaders.The first leadership guide to focus properly on the psychological keys to leadership success.

Taking an international perspective Business Ethics covers the complex and fascinating ethical challenges faced by businesses from across the globe. Their experiences are described in detail and students are provided with the concepts, tools, and theories needed to analyse the issues raised and develop their own decision-making skills.

Strong teams can be one of the greatest strengths of an organization just as poor teams can spell disaster. Group Dynamics and Team Interventions brings research and practice together to offer proven application and intervention techniques to help optimize team functioning in the workplace.

This work develops the idea of cultural intelligence and examines its three essential facets: cognition - the ability to develop patterns from cultural cues; motivation - the desire and ability to engage others; and behaviour - the capability to act in accordance with cognition and motivation.

The proven business principles of Warren BuffettWarren Buffett is one of the most admired and prolific investors and managers in corporate America. Warren Buffett on Business is a timeless guide to strategies that can help you run a successful business.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an essential means to cope with the challenges of global competition. This is the first English-language book on PLM that introduces the reader to the basic terms and fundamentals of PLM.

Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long-term competition and performance. The authors have drawn upon examples and case studies to develop a new model for scenario planning that is closely integrated with strategy and innovation.

An integrated, accessible and humorous guide to why research methods are the way they are and how they do what they do.

The management of technological innovation is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation is now the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors. The first edition of this book has been one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management.

The book every small-business owner should own

Helps readers to enhance the probability of success in winning bids at the desired margins and to set up and run effectively a bid management team. This book leads readers through various stages of planning for, producing and delivering a bid. It also offers advice on the use of bid management software and the bid review process.

This is the small book with a big motivational message - that we can all be winners with the right management techniques.

This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management. * Challenges the stereotypical opposition between 'creatives' and 'suits'. * Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden.