If you want to understand how modern media has changed the world, this is the one book you must read. Rupert Murdoch is the man everyone talks about but no one knows. He's everywhere, a larger-than-life media titan who has spent a lifetime building his company, News Corporation, from a small, struggling ... more »

The author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation reveals the strategies IDEO, the world-famous design firm, uses to foster innovative thinking throughout an organization and overcome the naysayers who stifle creativity. The role of the devil's advocate is nearly universal in business today. It allows ... more »

This book provides a comprehensive and focused collection of readings to support and encourage wider consideration of alternative ways of thinking about management and its effectiveness in contemporary organizations. more »

Life in the emergency room is often like that in the business world. Both are places of activity and excitement, unexpected developments, highs and lows, crises, and great intensity. Here is enlightening, occasionally lighthearted advice offering readers real and surprising lessons for achieving success ... more »

The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves -- now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about. Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping, has run ... more »

H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert, counter to conventional cost management thinking, that any company can avoid waste. Management must simply change how it organizes work. Following principles that emulate life systems, even a lean and profitable company can lessen earnings instability and reduce ... more »

In this groundbreaking guide, Stephanie Winston explains how she discovered, after more than two decades as a leading organization expert and bestselling author, that senior executives and CEOs seem to possess unique conceptual skills in the areas of time management and organization that enable them ... more »

The age of Biotech is dawning, says BusinessWeek. Here's how companies will benefit from the coming revolution in biotechnology. Biotech companies are quickly becoming the new economic engines of growth and innovation--and when they explode, the Internet revolution will look like small potatoes. Businesses ... more »

Strategies for traders to master the most important trading tool - their minds. Psychology is 80% of the high-stakes trader's game. And within the mind of any successful trader exist surprisingly similar emotions and psychological beliefs. The 21 Irrefutable Truths of Trading introduces these values ... more »

Jean-Baptiste Say was one of the most influential and colourful figures of classical economics, but until now there has been no book devoted to the analysis of his economics. This book uses archival and published sources to place Say in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy ... more »

Product Info This book draws from art history, photography and visual studies to develop an interdisciplinary, image-based approach to understanding consumer behaviour. more »

More than just a set of bizarre suggestions, Weird Ideas That Work represents a breakthrough in management thinking. Sutton shows that the practices we need to sustain performance are in constant tension with those that foster new ideas. The trick is to choose the right balance between the conventional ... more »