Now can you become a more successful manager, a stronger team leader, and a motivator who gets the best results from a group? Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick's The Leadership Pill provides the answer. In the bestselling tradition of Whale Done! and The One Minute Manager, their entertaining and inspiring ... more »

... R&D can encompass and at the same time brings out the elements which unite them. The papers in this book are organized into three main sections: * Strategy and Organization explores the importance of R&D and of the structures and strategies of individual organizations. The emerging ''core competence ... more »

Drawing upon extensive field research in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, this book focuses on networks of business and personal relationships as a key means of transnational operations. The book highlights the role of Chinese business networks in facilitating the emergence of transnational corporations ... more »

What are the constraints on privatisation? What is the likely impact of privatisation? Throughout the 1980s privatisation was hailed as the panacea to the problems of the public sector, not only in developed economies, but also in the developing world and in the post-Socialist world. In practice, privatisation ... more »

Each year, e-commerce generates billions of dollars in revenue and market capitalization. It's no wonder that this is one of the most popular features of both the print and interactive versions of The Wall Street Journal. Here are tales of those who have taken the e-commerce plunge, interviews with e ... more »

Product Info An examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms, this text focuses on firms that have converted to either partial or full employee ownership. more »

... , and bonds. It then shows how to take advantage of the vast power of the Internet to become a savvy and successful investor. The coverage includes: * How to trade stocks online (and a rundown on the biggest, most popular online trading firms) * How to use the Internet to research and take part in initial ... more »

Managing the consumption and conservation of energy in buildings must now become the concern of both building managers and occupants. The provision of lighting, hot water supply, communications, cooking, space heating and cooling accounts for 45 per cent of UK energy consumption. Energy Management and ... more »

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions ... more »

Whether it's to make a sale, rally a team, or ask for a raise, the ability to frame a clear, compelling message, deliver it with conviction, and hold an audience's attention to the end, is the essence of effective communication. And nobody knew that better than the Bard, William Shakespeare. This book ... more »

As in earlier editions of this work, Professor Aldcroft presents a succinct and lucid account of the development of the European economy throughout the twentieth century. The text divides into several clearly defined sub-periods: the aftermath of the First World War and reconstruction in the 1920s, through ... more »

The positive psychology movement -- overcoming self-defeating attitudes and developing our talents and positive traits -- stems directly from Norman Vincent Peale's bestselling classic, The Power of Positive Thinking. From it, a systematic program has here been distilled for all businesspeople, and adapted ... more »