Business studies: general

Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays.

American Indian business is booming.

This book explores the interdependencies between technologies and institutions in network infrastructures.

This book provides you with the means to set development goals and to track your progress on achieving them.

Before you can help others develop their leadership skills and abilities, you must first help them to recognize strengths and identify areas in which they need to improve.

Mit OKR und KPI zu organisatorischer Excellenz: Eine Blaupause für nachhaltiges WachstumIn einer Welt, in der Zielsetzung und Effizienz die Treiber des Unternehmenserfolgs sind, bietet dieses Buch einen unverzichtbaren Leitfaden zur Meisterung von Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) und Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

This collection makes a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to the study of Political Economy.

In einer Zeit, in der die finanziellen Anforderungen an Projekte stetig steigen, wird die Fähigkeit, fundierte Investitionsentscheidungen zu treffen, zur Schlüsselkompetenz für jeden erfolgreichen Projektleiter.

This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form.

From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants-Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO-and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.

There are actions a leader can take before, during, and after a crisis to effectively reduce the duration and impact of these extremely difficult situations.

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas.

In the years since that report was published, we have learned more about development in place—from research, from working with managers and organizations that are making use of developmental assignments, and from our colleagues in the field.

Learn how to apply the proven principles of Hug Your Customers to refine your selling technique, boost your sales, and keep your customers coming back for more.

The world of work is changing dramatically and jobs for life have become a thing of the past.

The world of work is changing dramatically and jobs for life have become a thing of the past.

Influence is an essential component of leadership.

Today's managers, business owners, and public relations practitioners grapple daily with a fundamental question about contemporary crisis management: to what extent is it possible to control events and stakeholder responses to them, in order to contain escalating crises or safeguard an organization's reputation?

The book that has taught thousands of students how to write winning business reportsFor more than 30 years, Carter A.

Even high-performing individuals and groups can be overlooked and underestimated.

Organizations today are awash in change.

This book will show you how to diagnose problems in your team by focusing on the three outcomes of effective leadership: direction, alignment, and commitment.

It may be human nature to resist change—particularly when it's delivered as a hardship, disappointment, or rejection.

In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on sensory branding ever written, international business legend Martin Lindstrom reveals what the world's most successful branding companies do differently -- integrating touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound -- with startling and measurable results.

This Center for Creative Leadership® publication shows you how your organization and its leaders can create a culture that fosters accountability by focusing on five areas: support, freedom, information, rescources and goal and role clarity.

*Shortlisted in the Management and Leadership Textbook Category at CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2017* Are you undertaking (or thinking of doing) a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) or other professional doctorate (PD) in business and management?

This book presents eight evidence-based strategies that promote generative learning, which enables learners to apply their knowledge to new problems.

An award-winning news anchor presents methods for better communication in any business environmentDuring her 20 years in broadcasting, award-winning news anchor Suzanne Bates conducted more than 10,000 interviews, during which she witnessed business leaders, politicians, and celebrities at their best and worst.

The late Honourable Michael Wilson was a Canadian politician and business professional.

Ernesto Caravantes was among the multitudes of people who were affected by the Recession of 2008, the financial impact of which continues to be felt to this day.

Conflict is inevitable, in everyday life and especially in today's increasingly nonhierarchical organizations-in the workplace.

In the years since that report was published, we have learned more about development in place—from research, from working with managers and organizations that are making use of developmental assignments, and from our colleagues in the field.

Being able to communicate effectively across cultural differences, understanding how to negotiate complex social situations, and being familiar with the customs and norms of many cultures are important skills in organizations today.

The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop.

Lead 4 Success sets your development as a leader on the right track, focusing on the four fundamental skills that fuel the thoughts and drive the actions of leaders who make a difference: SELF-AWARENESS-understanding who you are and what you have to offer, LEARNING AGILITY-the capability to absorb new information,process it, and use it to meet new challenges quickly and decisively, COMMUNICATION-the ability to establish shared understanding and convey a vision for the future INFLUENCE-the power to persuade others to act on that vision.

Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development.

Develops a new theory of public regulatory interventions in private sustainability governance based on policymaking in the European Union.

Explores the prospects for sustaining strong economic growth in the United States in the face of recent challenging trends.

Get the score you want on the GMAT Verbal and Writing sections!

Exam boards: WJEC and WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BusinessFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout the course.

This guidebook is about changing the way you think about setting goals.

Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders.

The modern era is marked by intricate disruptions originating from diverse sources, carrying long-term implications.

Take your business education to the next leveland drive your career forward.

Wales has one of the highest concentrations of Japanese manufacturing investment in Europe.

HRM practitioners and academics have been blindsided by unprecedented changes in the global war on talent.

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women''s empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

There is a growing sense today that organizations and the people that make them up are, to repeat a figure of speech recently used by Robert Kegan, in over their heads.

The prevailing orthodoxy of public service management is that it should be marketized, commissioned, contracted, managed, measured, and evaluated.