Strategy & Competition

Would your company survive a sudden economic crisis or enviromental disaster? Will your best employees still be with you in a year's time? In order for your business to prosper, you must continually plan for and evaluate the future. In just SIX WEEKS of step-by-step guidance, this book will ensure t... More

Is ALUMINIUM bad for you? What is an ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM? Is there an effective substitute for CHLORINE BLEACH? Answers to these and many other questions are in this invaluable guide to managing a company's environmental performance. It assesses the benefits and risks of hundreds of prod... More

In today’s highly competitive corporate set-up, organizations are shifting towards total quality. This book gives a definition of what total quality is and how best a manager can proceed to attain total quality.... More

Delegation serves as a guide on how to delegate more in practice and thereby get people to give their best at work.... More

The Handbook of Business Enterprise has helped hundreds of participants on the Business Growth and Developemtn Programme achieve their ambitions. Many of their businesses have grown spectacularly while others have raised millions in new capital to fund expansion. Now it's your turn.... More

In our global technological age, everyone is involved in transformation and innovation. Practicing managers are perhaps the most hard pressed, having to deal with both external and internal changes at a pace that is always accelerating. This friendly and incisive book, Making A Difference,  pro... More

Knowing how the competition is performing can be the single most important advantage a company has when trying to improve its own performance. How to Beat Your Competitors shows how the performance and profitability of your company can be increased by making use of benchmarking techniques that are h... More

"[An] important new book . . .Mr. O'Toole puts soul and values squarely back into a vital topic, leadership."--Tom Peters The New York Times Book Review "A deeply philosophical and eminently practical study of leadership as change."--James MacGregor BurnsPulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner... More

In his phenomenally bestselling Reengineering the Corporation, Michael Hammer set forth a revolutionary philosophy that has taken the business world by storm. Now, in The Reengineering Revolution, Hammer and Steven Stanton build on this foundation to share with readers their experiences in successfu... More

This inspirational work follows the pioneering successes of a group of 12 African-American marketing executives at Pepsi Cola in the late 1940's and early 1950's who paved the way for a more inclusionary marketing plan that helped transform U.S. business and society in the post-war years.In America'... More

Ex-cel-lence (n.) 1. The clearly false and destructive theory that a company ought to be great at everything it does. 2. A mistaken goal in which the predictable outcome is that the company ends up world-class at nothing--not well-differentiated and therefore not thought of by consumers at the momen... More

Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward.Current traditional, internally focused models of teams aren't working in an increasingly complex and ever-changing world. We need new structures, a new way of organi... More

Practical, easy-to-follow planning strategies geared to the special requirements of the nonprofit This very accessible resource from a team of experts in the nonprofit sector adapts basic business concepts to the unique structure and goals of nonprofit organizations. Breaking the planning process i... More

The Indian economy, society, policy and decision-makers at the top, are at the crossroads. In the liberalization and post liberalization era, there have been momentous transformations in the domestic and global economic and socio-political scene. This is the time of introspection for planners and po... More

A groundbreaking guide to mastering the most important leadership skills Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders gives anyone from managers to executives an unparalleled opportunity to do just that. John Baldoni explores the communication styles of many of the world`s most influential leaders a... More

The Six Sigma Way is a comprehensive guide to the real-world application of Six Sigma across all industries. Authors Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, and Roland Cavanagh give you a comprehensive briefing on Six Sigma - showing you what's behind the movement, how it's paying off, and most important, how y... More