Management

In the classroom, activity-based costing (ABC) looks like a great way to manage a company's limited resources. But executives who have tried to implement ABC in their organizations on any significant scale have often abandoned the attempt in the face of rising costs and employee irritation. Time-Dri... More

"As the most widely admired, studied, and imitated CEO of his time, Welch has enriched not only GE's shareholders but the shareholders of companies around the globe."--Fortune magazine Of all the outstanding business leaders of our time, none can boast the almost universal respect-awe, even-that Ja... More

For undergraduate and MBA courses in business-to-business marketing or industrial marketing.Business Market Management explores the process of understanding, creating and delivering value to targeted business markets and customers. It provides an analytical framework for assessing customer value and... More

In 1982, business guru Tom Peters co-authored In Search of Excellence, one of the most influential business guides of all time. More recently, through 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries, Peters reexamined, refined and reinvented his views on innovation--the #1 survival strategy, he asserts, ... More

Hailed as the "unofficial GE leadership handbook," this bestseller is a detailed look at how Jack Welch was able to take a venerable and successful old line corporation and transform it into a 21st-century dynamo of innovation.Acknowledged as the outstanding business leader of the late twentieth cen... More

Increase Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership!With Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard applies his pioneering management method to the subject all business people have been crying out for- how to achieve power, freedom and autonomy in an ever more hectic working en... More

Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success. In this captivating business parable, bestselling author... More

SPECIAL FEATURES: * Dual sets of end-of-chapter questions (Technical Problems and Applied Problems); Numerous new and revised illustrations; Mathematical Appendices (self-contained mathematical treatment of key concepts); Mathematical Exercises (at the end of the mathematical appendices)Table of Con... More

In this hilarious new analysis of the world of work, Scott introduces the Weasel Zone - the giant grey area between good moral behavior and outright criminality. It's where your co-workers, bosses, salespeople, CEOs, human resource executives, hotel clerks, home repair people, family and loved ones ... More

A current, well-written strategic management textbook with the most up-to-date compilation of cases available. It offers a popular practitioner-oriented perspective, focuses on skill-building in all major areas of strategy formation, implementation, and evaluation, and weaves three very contemporar... More

A straight-talking must-read of powerful strategies for every executive headed for the top. Written in the same no-nonsense, hard-hitting manner that McCormack brings to his own fast-paced business and management style, this is mandatory reading for executives on every rung of the corporate ladder.... More

We are confronted by negative people every day. If you are like most people. You may even experience negative thoughts and display negative behaviours yourself. Research has shown that negativity can lead to increased stress and conflict - even serious health problems. Therefore, it is to your advan... More

This book is about makingchange easier. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens,how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather than adreaded concept. It offers consideredinsights into the many frameworks, models and ways of approaching change andhel... More

"Turf wars and bureaucracy can undermine even the strongest corporate strategies. Drawing on lessons learned throughout his distinguished career, Bob describes innovative and practical ways to tackle this pervasive problem - and beat The Fiefdom Syndrome." --Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software A... More