Business studies: general

A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs.

In the realm of global commerce, Europe has long been renowned for its exceptional hardware products, dominating markets with its machine tools and luxury automobiles.

Both mentors and mentees realize many benefits from mentoring, as do organizations that encourage, structure, and support mentoring.

If you've got an idea you want to sell, you need to do two things: scan your environment and use effective tactics.

This guidebook outlines the benefits of effective delegation and the fears and concerns that can prevent or hinder it, then offers four key ideas that leaders can use to enable better delegation.

Listening well is an essential component of goodleadership.

Balance isn't an issue of time, but an issue of choice.

Poor access to care in low- and middle-income countries due to high costs, geographic barriers, and a shortage of trained medical staff has motivated many organizations to rethink their model of health service delivery.

Designed for the intellectually curious, this book provides a solid foundation in basic probability in an informal style, without jargon.

The pace of technological innovation has accelerated rapidly over the past decade, and this has led to Disruptive Business Strategies (DBS) that have reshaped many industries.

On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia.

Competition is fiercer today than ever before, and effective leadership represents a rare source of competitive advantage.

When all is said and done, a lot more gets said than done.

Interpreting the path of the future is made easier by understanding the past.

The Art of Asking Essential Questions illuminates an underappreciated yet vital skill set that lies at the root of all learning and success.

Executive coaching is an increasingly popular means for developing organizational leaders.

Inclusive Business Models will be relevant to students in management institutes, both in India and globally.

In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations.

43 MISTAKES is Duncan Bannatyne's guide to the common traps people in business fall into, and how to stay out of them.

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.

If your team isn’t getting results, you may think the problem starts with a failure in leadership.

A detailed yet concise handbook clarifying all the major terms needed for a thorough understanding of key research methodology concepts in business and management.

The seventh edition of The Business Environment has been perfectly tailored to cover the core topics that will be studied on an introductory Business Environment module.

Case Study Research: Core Skills in Using 15 Genres examines the processes involved in conducting case research in a number of genres including participant observation, fuzzy set social science, system dynamics, decision systems analysis, forced metaphor elicitation technique, ethnographic decision tree modeling, mapping strategic thinking, the historical method, storytelling research and conversational analysis.

Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice.

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publicationChanging markets are challenging governance.

The Capitalists Bible,edited by Gretchen Morgenson, an award-winning journalist with the New York Times, is the essential guide to capitalism and its many languages, customs, and practices.

If you are a manager anywhere in the world, you are almost certainly dealing with people of nationalities and cultures different from your own.

For nearly two decades, emerging markets have been a primary source of growth in the world economy.

An updated and revised edition of the essential and enduring bestseller, incorporating the latest theories and topics taught at America's top business schools.

Economics and political economy lack the analytical tools to explain the differing impact of the recent international financial crisis that erupted in 2007 on developed economies.

Listening well is an essential component of good leadership.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFrom the cofounder of the longest-running Bitcoin exchange comes a compelling argument for how this digital currency will transform the global economy and how it can work for you.

Dieses Buch greift den Digitalisierungstrend auf und vermittelt Businesstrainer:innen eine stabile Basis, um den Wellenritt auf den Trends der Zeit zu erleichtern, so dass sie mit den richtigen Techniken und etwas Mut und mit Freude die Geschwindigkeit des stetigen Wandels erleben können.

The New York Times bestseller that is a must-read for any parent!

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

To build morale, pride, and spirit, a leader needs certain characteristics and skills.

Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema.

In the digital age, data has become the cornerstone of effective marketing strategies.

If you've got an idea you want to sell, you need to do two things: scan your environment and use effective tactics.

Experience is vital for a leader's success, but merely having an experience (such as a challenging new job, a stretch assignment, or an unexpected hardship) isn't enough.

'An inspiring story of a life well lived.

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

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity.

When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory.

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