In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company’s $25 billion…
Strategic human resource management has been taken up by academics, consultants and practitioners alike. However, the integration of human resource strategy with overall business strategy is often easier in theory than in practice. Armstrong's Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management provides a…
Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight:…
In Control in an Age of Empowerment, Robert Simons explains how to give employees the freedom to innovate while protecting your firm from loose cannons. Using powerful examples, Simons shows how to apply four powerful management "levers" to balance autonomy…
This authoritative title, co-edited by an internationally recognised expert on corporate strategy, includes seminal articles on the theory underlying corporate strategy, the empirical evidence linking corporate strategy to firm performance and the influence of the firm's upper echelon on corporate…
This book attempts to offer a practitioner's perspective on how the tenets, methods and discipline of design thinking can be applied across a range of domains, including to everyday problems, and help us become expert problem-solvers through the use of…
Economic Development is the leading textbook in this field, providing a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, the driving policy issues, and the latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context…
Nike's former Chief Marketing Officer reveals how to unlock the creativity of any team. Join Greg Hoffman, Nike's former Chief Marketing Officer, as he helps craft the company's iconic campaigns for Ronaldo and Serena, Olympic Games and World Cup finals.…
ESSENTIALS OF NEGOTIATION, 4e is a short paperback derivative from the main text, NEGOTIATION, 5e. It explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. Fourteen…
Early stage investor Bhaskar Majumdar reveals why it is critical for entrepreneurs to have an ‘everything started as nothing’ attitude to innovate and create value.
As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up - and our companies, workplaces, and democracies get left behind. This is the exponential gap. Now, a leading technologist explains how this exponential gap is rewiring business and society. Exploring…
The phenomenal bestseller FISH! has sold more than one million copies worldwide and has appeared on numerous bestseller lists. Now, with the FISH! Omnibus, readers can enjoy the wisdom of FISH! and its sequels FISH! TALES and FISH! STICKS in…
Goleman explains that those who succeed in life rely on smart practices such as mindfulness, meditation, mental prosthetics, focused preparation and positive emotions and connections. Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence concludes by telling the readers to pay attention to…
