Business studies: general

Leaders need to be forceful - to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform.

Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance.

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.

Some of the strengths that lead high-potential managers to early promotions can become weaknesses.

Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance.

Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences.

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.

Leaders often have to make decisions without complete information, and those decisions are expected to be not only right but also timely.

Dispersed teams are a necessary, strategic work unit in a world that continues to grow more interconnected every day.

Dealing with cultural differences isn't just an intellectual exercise.

Creative solutions can be challenged and defended in the pursuit of profitability.

Team success isn't inevitable.

Peer conflicts that arise from incompatible goals or from different views on how a task should be accomplished can usually be resolved.

Conflict between managers and direct reports affects their work and influences how productive and effective an organization can be.

Getting your team off on the right foot is critical to its success.

Successful managers seek out, build, and maintain effective relationships with others.

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

Teams are expensive and time consuming to launch, and leading a team is a full-time job.

There are three main reasons why your goals may fail to inspire and motivate change.

If you want to get a good return on your investment in a leadership program, make sure you have clear expectations, goals, and a plan to put what you learn into practice when you return to the office.

What are the most common mistakes that threaten successful careers?

What can you learn from nonwork experiences?

The wrong word, the wrong gesture, the wrong impression-cross-cultural blunders can have serious business consequences such as lost customers, lost relationships, and lost opportunities.

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For whatever reason, managers find it hard to give feedback to their direct reports.

When it comes to developing your leadership skills, some of the best leadership lessons come from your work experience.

Managers can use three strategies to develop their technical and interpersonal skills in their drive to reach their development goals.

Do you want feedback that will really do you some good?

Each year from 1978 through 1987 the Center for Creative Leadership hosted an event called Creativity Week, during which a select group of researchers and practitioners would get together for a high-energy exchange of ideas on organizational creativity.

Successful leaders get results.

Leadership networking is not about collecting business cards or schmoozing.

If you are a manager or executive who is beginning a coaching engagement or who is considering a developmental plan that calls for an executive coach, you need more than a desire to improve your leadership capabilities.

If you are a department head or project manager, or if you are the senior-level champion or sponsor of a proposed team, you need to understand the five factors critical to building effective teams and how to use those factors to lay the groundwork for successful teams.

Zena Everett is an expert in communication, an international leadership coach, and a highly sought-after speaker.

Disaster, disruption and change are recurring challenges in business.

Disaster, disruption and change are recurring challenges in business.

First published as 'Markets for Managers', this book has proved to be a popular way for non-economists to understand and apply the key tools of economics.

First published as 'Markets for Managers', this book has proved to be a popular way for non-economists to understand and apply the key tools of economics.

';The book flawlessly delivers the principles and practicalities that will set you up for an inevitably successful life in business.

There are always challenges in writing up your research.

This inspiring follow up to FISH!

The phenomenal international bestseller FISH!

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.

You Can Get It If You Really Want, by Levi Roots, the man behind the Reggae Reggae Sauce empire and hero of BBC's 'Dragons' Den', is a business book brimming with positivity.

This book is the first of its kind to focus on the role of economics, social issues and sustainability in terms of sport entrepreneurship, thereby paving the way for both a monetary and social perspective of the subject.

This book is the first of its kind to focus on the role of economics, social issues and sustainability in terms of sport entrepreneurship, thereby paving the way for both a monetary and social perspective of the subject.

This ultimate guide focuses on case research, writing, and teaching for a revolutionary new form of teaching case-Compact Cases.

This ultimate guide focuses on case research, writing, and teaching for a revolutionary new form of teaching case-Compact Cases.

Business educators use cases to give students the experience of solving real challenges while standing in the shoes of real-life business leaders and asking 'why?

Business educators use cases to give students the experience of solving real challenges while standing in the shoes of real-life business leaders and asking 'why?