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Rivtow was just a three-boat log-towing operation when Lucille Johnstone came aboard as an unskilled girl Friday in the late 1940s. By the 1980s, Rivtow had taken over its biggest...

A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.

In the business environment of the late 20th century, constant change is the norm. However, executives implementing changes vital to an organization's growth, or even its survival, find themselves facing...

In The Search for Value: Measuring the Company's Cost of Capital, Michael C. Ehrhardt analyzes the latest prescriptive techniques and models for determining the cost of capital. He provides a...

Are you ready for the leadership moment? "Gripping adventure and actionable advice."-Fast Company Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't...

Learn the language of persuasion How does a leader get others to see things the way he or she sees them? These authors assert that one of the most powerful...

Graham Winter weaves a fascinating and entertaining business story that reveals an engagingly simple and powerful model to free organisations of 'silo thinking' and empower them to fulfil the possibilities...

In DISCOVERING THE SOUL OF SERVICE Leonard L. Berry goes beyond the scope of his previous works on service quality to show how flourishing service companies can sustain their success....

Looking for that critical edge in your presentations? Learn how to engage, connect, and inspire with this unique and powerful approach. Are you a presenter searching for a blueprint to...

After a sell-out first edition, we now have a new fully revised and updated second edition. Includes an all-new comprehensive chapter about the role of the CEO and the role...

A self-help guide on how to speak with confidence, published alongside a BBC Radio 4 series. Aimed at people who need to give presentations, make speeches, or regularly address any...

The Balancing Act is a "must-read" for every leader trying to juggle the competing demands of customers, investors, owners, employees, the government, the environment, the community, the global economy, the...

Establishes the fact that after the excesses of the 80s we need to return to the management values of efficiency and hard work. Provides a comprehensive review of essential standard...

Praise for WHAT I LEARNED FROM SAM WALTON "Michael Bergdahl's book presents unique insights into the staggering international success of Wal-Mart. Throughout the pages of this book, you can almost...

Not only examines how to analyze industry structure and how todetermine your company's competitive position within it, but alsodetails how to use such analysis in order to gain the competitiveedge...

Issues a bold challenge to business managers to commit their companies to sustained measurable growth and enduring success. Noted business author and management consultant Robert M. Tomasko details five distinct...

Founded by Jack Cohen 70 years ago, Tesco has developed from street market to corner, shop, self-sevice to supermarket and Green Shield stamps, superstore to hypermarket. Superficially a story of...

Provides an integrated approach for bringing a corporation into the next century. Giving special attention to managing technology, the book covers the key building blocks of strategic management and presents...

Mission statements have become a high fashion corporate accessory - a verbal logo to match the one on the letterhead. This book claims however that the statement is an irrelevant...

Wayne Berry is convinced that, to achieve the most desirable result when we are negotiating, our behaviour should be counter instinctive and based on the quality of relationships. In this...

For fans of The Social Network , the story of an accidental pirate, a mastermind, and a mogul. How Music Got Free is a blistering story of obsession, music and...

What big business has taught the drug lords. Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they've learnt from big business - brand value and franchising from McDonald's, supply chain...

WOW Your VIP Guests And Boost Your Business Whether you run a casino, resort, club, hotel, restaurant or conference centre, it has never been harder to compete for your guests'...

Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward. Based on years of research examining teams...

Offers an analysis of the future of our society in the information age, examining the impact of technology on economics, politics, work, communications, and our daily lives.

* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of the year This is not just an engrossing read--it's bursting with practical insights. Ozan Varol's dazzling debut might...

Your no-nonsense guide to making sense of Robert's Rules The classic Robert's Rules of Order has a proven track record of helping membership groups apply codes of conduct to serve...

"Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people...

Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organization, immediate, proven, and evidence-based...

Ignore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create...

Dynamics of International Business: Asia-Pacific Business Cases brings the challenges and complexities of the contemporary international business environment into the classroom. These authentic case studies, based on recent research and...

Unlock progress through doubt and uncertainty The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy...

Ask yourself: what's the difference between a rich person and the average person on the street? And, more importantly, which one do you want to be?Successful people don't have mysterious...

Praise for THE CHIEF HR OFFICER The Chief HR Officer offers the most current thinking on the evolving role of the chief human resource officer (CHRO). An essential resource for...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the world's preeminent business thinkers and co-author of the bestseller, Competing for the Future, Gary Hamel has helped set the management agenda for three...

This text is the first to dedicate itself to the nonprofit sector. It provides a comprehensive overview of nonprofit and voluntary organizations, nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic foundations and civil society institutions....

'An adventure into the very human science of making breakthroughs together.' - Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of Habit The best groups are more than...

The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of the Internet has been extraordinary - instigating and enabling changes in virtually every...