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Jonathan Marshall, William Heinecke |
Wiley
The Entrepreneur : 20 Golden Rules for the Global Business Manager
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A lively and practical guide for budding and blooming entrepreneurs.So you want to be a successful entrepreneur? Fed up with taking orders from above? Want to be your own boss, make your own decisions, and go head-to-head with the big boys in the business world?This is a book for people bursting with energy and ideas. It comes from the heart of a man who has seen and done it all in one of the toughest markets of them all. Bill Heinecke started his own business when he was in high school, was a millionaire before he was twenty-one, and now runs a business empire that straddles Southeast Asia. The Entrepreneur features a road map for budding businesspeople with tips how to get started; why you must follow your instincts and defy conventional wisdom; what is expected of a good leader; when to listen, when to act; and where to look for new opportunities.William Heinecke (Thailand) is the world's largest manufacturer of golf gloves. He was recently valued at around US$100 million by Forbes magazine. Jonathan Marsh (Australia) is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald. He is a former Asia correspondent for the Independent and managing editor of the Asian Times.
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Mcgraw-hill
Education
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Europe
Planning Construction Projects
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Construction project management planning, scheduling and controlling a project is a mission. Completing a project on time, keeping quality, costs resources and schedules in line with efficient planning is the objective of this mission. "Construction Project Management" provides a thorough understanding of construction project management by providing various concepts, practical insights, real life examples and skills to execute large and small projects. The book arises out of the author's several years of experience in managing large construction projects in India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman and UAE. It dwells at length on planning, a topic of concern to project managers. Numerous examples, problems, exhibits and data have been included to demystify the subject. The book contains 18 chapters, divided into four Construction Project Management project management process, project failures, planning, scheduling and controlling; Time Methodologies for breaking down project work into activities, activity duration estimation, modeling and time analysis of CPM, PERT and Precedence networks; preparation of time-limited and resources-limited schedules; Resource strategies for planning manpower, construction materials, plant machinery, production costs and project budgets; and, Planning Control Organisation of control systems, methodologies for controlling resource productivity, costs, time, codification of planning systems and management of information systems using information technology. The book will be useful for project managers, their team member, trainers, project consultants, architects and students of civil engineering and business management.
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David Clark, Mary Buffett |
Scribner
Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success
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Buffett insiders and bestselling authors Mary Buffett and David Clark provide a new angle to help readers understand and emulate Warren Buffett’s success—his philosophy for managing career, money, business, and life.Even in today's economic climate, when so many investors and major companies are failing, Warren Buffett continues to succeed in all aspects of his life. Mary Buffett and David Clark have written the first book ever to take an in-depth look at Warren Buffett's philosophies for personal and professional management—what they are, how they work, and how you can use them.Through close examination of Warren Buffett's life and career from his earliest days to now, Buffett and Clark shed light on his decision-making processes and reveal his strategies for keeping on track and maintaining focus. They examine Buffett's inimitable leadership qualities and explain how Warren integrated what he learned over time into a winning management formula and became not only the manager whom other managers want to emulate but also the second richest man in the world.A true companion volume to Buffett and Clark's successful Buffettology series, Warren Buffett's Management Secrets is filled with anecdotes and quotes that show how Buffett's life philosophies are reflected in his business decisions and in the way he manages people and businesses. This insider's view into Warren Buffett's management techniques offers simple solutions for success to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike and illustrates how and why success in business and life usually go hand in hand.
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Karen Lam
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Ws
Professional
Power Talk: Insights From Asia's Leading Entrepreneurs
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"Karen’s interviewees were a veritable who’s who in Asia … Entrepreneurs who reflect the diversity of Asia, the different routes and paths to success, but who are bound together by common themes on life, family and values. This is what Power Talk has managed to capture, and in essence, what Channel NewsAsia was meant to do … I would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand entrepreneurship in Asia." Debra Soon Chief Customer Officer, Mediacorp Pte Ltd What drives success in Asia? How did the pioneers do what they did, how are they planning their succession? What are their views on life and family? After six seasons of Channel News Asia's Power List Asia, with 73 episodes high-powered guests, over 26,000 manhours of pre- and post-production and 130,000 airmiles, comes Power Talk. Distilling the very best and most memorable conversations with various head honchos, Karen Lam sits down (not on television this time) to compile the best business ideas, personal philosophies, attitudes and intriguing stories into common themes of leadership and entrepreneurship in Asia. Featuring more than 20 Powerlisters and a range of topics such as crisis management, brand building, expanding westward and succession planning, Power Talk is a must-read for any Asian entrepreneur on the cusp of that next league.
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Kim S. Cameron, Marc Lavine |
Berrett-koehler
Publishers
Making the Impossible Possible: Leading Extraordinary Performance-the Rocky Flats Story
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The most contaminated nuclear weapons plant in the country, Rocky Flats was an environmental disaster and the site of rampant worker unrest. Although estimates projected that cleaning up and closing the facility would take 70 years and $36 billion, the project was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $30 billion under budget, and most of the site is now on its way to becoming a wildlife refuge. Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine explain how this amazing feat was accomplished and how other organizations can apply the same methods to achieve breakthrough levels of performance. The authors discovered that the Rocky Flats leaders used a distinctive “abundance approach,” identifying and building on sources of strength, resilience, and vitality rather than simply solving problems and overcoming difficulties. Drawing on numerous firsthand accounts and public records, they identify 21 specific leadership practices and key techniques that were fundamental to this innovative approach. This fascinating and thoroughly researched case study provides a complete guide for anyone wanting to better understand and apply the lessons of this remarkable, history-making achievement.
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Sam Bucolo
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Laurence
King
Publishing
Are We There Yet?: Insights on How to Lead by Design : Insights on How to Lead by Design
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The fundamental question that the book addresses Are our innovation efforts aligned to the challenges of our times? We face high costs, global competition, low productivity, and technology disruptions. Our education system is geared towards solving known problems through an inductive thinking mindset. We have relied on massive technology investments as our source of competitive advantage, but our growth is declining. If we want to maintain our standard of living, we need firms to grow.Firms therefore need a new approach to innovation, one that focuses on customer engagement in its business model. The concept of design thinking is often described as the mindset for fi ms to make this transition. But with so much being written on design thinking, why do so many firms struggle to adopt this mindset and make this transition?
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Tom Rath, James K. Harter |
Gallup
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Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
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Much of what we think will improve our wellbeing is either misguided or just plain wrong. Contrary to what many people believe, wellbeing isn't just about being happy. Nor is it only about being wealthy or successful. And it's certainly not limited to physical health and wellness. In fact, focusing on any of these elements in isolation may drive us to frustration and even a sense of failure.When striving to improve our lives, we are quick to buy into programs that promise to help us make money, lose weight, or strengthen our relationships. While it might be easier to treat these critical areas in our lives as if they operate independently, they don't. Gallup's comprehensive study of people in more than 150 countries revealed five universal, interconnected elements that shape our The Five Essential Elements The Five Essential Elements will provide you with a holistic view of what contributes to your wellbeing over a lifetime. Written in a conversational style by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath and bestselling author Jim Harter, Ph.D., this book is filled with fascinating research and novel ideas for boosting your wellbeing in each of these five areas.By the time you finish reading this book, you should have a better understanding of what makes life worthwhile. This will enable you to enjoy each day and get more out of your life -- and perhaps most importantly, boost the wellbeing of your friends, family members, colleagues, and others in your community.(Each copy of this book includes a unique ID code for Gallup's online Wellbeing Finder, a program designed to help you track and improve your wellbeing over time.)
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Daniel Goleman
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Bloomsbury
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Working with Emotional Intelligence
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WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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THE MCKINSEY WAY can be a great read for anyone who wants to get an in-depth understanding of how one of the world's best consulting firm works. The book provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at McKinsey & Company's approach to problem-solving, team-building, and management. In addition, Ethan Rasiel's writing style is engaging and witty, making it a fun read. The book serves as a toolkit of problem-solving techniques without peer, and it empowers every business decision-maker to become a better strategic player in any organization.
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Navi Radjou, Simone Ahuja, Jaideep Prabhu |
Random
House
Jugaad Innovation
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Jugaad is a word often heard in general conversation in India. Whether to find ingenious solutions to problems or turn adversity into opportunity—Indians swear by it. In this seminal book, Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, and Simone Ahuja challenge the very way a traditional organization thinks and acts. Leading companies such as Facebook, Future Group, GE, Google, PepsiCo, Philips, Renault-Nissan, Siemens, Suzlon, Tata Group, and YES BANK, among others, are already practising jugaad to generate original ideas and pioneer growth. In the midst of rising global competition and swelling R&D budgets, Jugaad Innovation presents ways to innovate, be flexible, and do more with less. Peppered with examples of innovative entrepreneurs in emerging markets such as Africa, India, China, and Brazil, Jugaad Innovation illuminates paths to engender breakthrough growth in a complex and resource-scarce world.
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Rowan Gibson
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Unkno
Rethinking The Future - Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets And The World
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In a series of original and inspiring contributions, a celebrated group of authors that includes Stephen Covey and Peter Senge defines the new paradigm that will revolutionize business and society in the 21st century. "Rethinking the Future" examines the changing role of the leader and the powerful influence in corporate culture.
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Patrick A. McNutt
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Mcgraw-hill
Education
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Decoding Strategy
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OVERVIEWHumans are curious by nature we like to observe people in action and we not only like to play games, but also to win.With its central focus on observing management behaviour to predict likely future actions, this book explores the various ways and means of predicting competitor reaction by examining the actions and reactions of competing firms.The approach adopted in this book is based on the premise that individual behaviour follows a line of action and reaction, thus creating a predictable pattern that resembles a set of moves akin to a game of chess. This pattern is termed a critical time line.Using real-time case studies of global companies in his book, Patrick demonstrates how the pattern embedded in each time line offers a window into the strategic behaviour of companies as competitors in a game. These patterns are an integral part of decoding strategy and winning!TARGET AUDIENCE- MBA students- Business leaders, managers, professionals and executives
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Jack Covert, Todd Sattersten |
Portfolio
The 100 Best Business Books Of All Time : What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You
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Thousands of business books are published every year— Here are the best of the bestAfter years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the one hundred best business titles of all time—the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today’s busy readers.The 100 Best Business Books of All Time puts each book in context so that readers can quickly find solutions to the problems they face, such as how best to spend The First 90 Days in a new job or how to take their company from Good to Great . Many of the choices are surprising—you’ll find reviews of Moneyball and Orbiting the Giant Hairball , but not Jack Welch’s memoir.At the end of each review, Jack and Todd direct readers to other books both inside and outside The 100 Best . And sprinkled throughout are sidebars taking the reader beyond business books, suggesting movies, novels, and even children’s books that offer equally relevant insights.This guide will appeal to anyone, from entry-level to CEO, who wants to cut through the clutter and discover the brilliant books that are truly worth their investment of time and money.
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Ram Charan
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Currency
Global Tilt : Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift
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This book offers practical guidance for business leaders to navigate the shifting global economy. Charan encourages readers to challenge their assumptions about national and managerial superiority, develop soft skills for leading a global organization, and equip their organizations to face necessary shifts in decision-making and resource allocation. His insights, based on his unparalleled experience with global leaders and companies, will light the way for readers on their journey to pursue opportunities in a tilted world.
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boye-de-mente
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Prentice
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Trade
The Japanese Way of Doing Business
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Explains how Japanese culture and manners dominate the way their businesses are run and offers advice on how Western businessmen should approach their Japanese counterparts
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Curtis Johnson, Michael Horn, Clayton M. Christensen |
Mcgraw
Hill
Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
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"Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system needs--a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students and bring our schools into the 21st Century. Unlike so many education 'reforms,' this is not small-bore stuff. For that reason alone, it's likely to be resisted by defenders of the status quo, even though it's necessary and right for our kids. We owe it to them to make sure this book isn't merely a terrific read; it must become a blueprint for educational transformation."―Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education "A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education."―Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great “Just as iTunes revolutionized the music industry, technology has the potential to transform education in America so that every one of the nation’s 50 million students receives a high quality education. Disrupting Class is a must-read, as it shows us how we can blaze that trail toward transformation.”―Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn't always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically-we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence, reevaluate our educational system, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. In other words, we need "disruptive innovation." Now, in his long-awaited new book, Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson take one of the most important issues of our time-education-and apply Christensen's now-famous theories of "disruptive" change using a wide range of real-life examples. Whether you're a school administrator, government official, business leader, parent, teacher, or entrepreneur, you'll discover surprising new ideas, outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories. You'll learn how:
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Sybille Sachs, James E. Post, Lee E. Preston |
Stanford
Business
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Redefining the Corporation : Stakeholder Management and Organizational Wealth
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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how modern corporations operate beyond just wealth creation. The case studies of Cummins Engine Company, Motorola, and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group provide a real-world perspective on how corporations can prioritize humanistic values and continuous learning while still achieving success. By adopting a stakeholder-centric approach, this book argues that corporations can create lasting benefits for all their stakeholders, from customers and suppliers to social and political actors.
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JOHNSON & WHITTINGTON
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Pearson
Education
Exploring Strategy Text Only 10E
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Over 750,000 students worldwide have used this best-selling book to understand and explore strategic management through their academic and professional careers."Available in two versions (Text and Text & Cases), ""Exploring Corporate Strategy"has established a reputation as a pre-eminent textbook in its field, based upon the expertise of authorship, range of cases, depth of commentary and wealth of supporting resources.The 8th edition builds on these strengths, including coverage of key topic areas in this fast-moving discipline such as internationalisation, innovation and entrepreneurship. It is written for students of Strategic Management at all levels.
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Peter Schwartz
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Currency
The Art of the Long View : Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
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What increasingly affects all of us, whether professional planners or individuals preparing for a better future, is not the tangibles of life—bottom-line numbers, for instance—but the intangibles: our hopes and fears, our beliefs and dreams. Only stories—scenarios—and our ability to visualize different kinds of futures adequately capture these intangibles.In The Art of the Long View, now for the first time in paperback and with the addition of an all-new User's Guide, Peter Schwartz outlines the "scenaric" approach, giving you the tools for developing a strategic vision within your business.Schwartz describes the new techniques, originally developed within Royal/Dutch Shell, based on many of his firsthand scenario exercises with the world's leading institutions and companies, including the White House, EPA, BellSouth, PG&E, and the International Stock Exchange.
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Harvard Business School Press
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Harvard
Business
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HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)
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MEET YOUR GOALS—ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.How do you rein in the scope of your project when you’ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention?Whether you’re managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.The
HBR Guide to Project Management
will help you:• Build a strong, focused team• Break major objectives into manageable tasks• Create a schedule that keeps all the moving parts under control• Monitor progress toward your goals• Manage stakeholders’ expectations• Wrap up your project and gauge its success
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G. William Dauphinais, Colin Price |
Simon
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Schuster
Straight from the Ceo : The World's Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas That Every Manager Can Use
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Straight from the CEO reveals the practical, far-reaching insights of the world's top CEOs, Royal Dutch/Shell's Cor Herkströter, mastermind of the most ambitious makeover among the world's energy behemoths;British Airways' Sir Colin Marshall, the market genius who powered the carrier's celebrated turnaround;Chase Manhattan's Walter Shipley, architect of one of the largest mergers ever to take place in the financial sector;Monsanto's Robert B. Shapiro, who has raised the hurdle bar on growth and profitability goals, although the company is at the peak of its form;British Aerospace's Sir Richard Evans, developer of one of Britain's biggest and boldest corporate-change management programs;Compaq Computer's Eckhard Pfeiffer, who has transformed himself from a successful turnaround artist into a hard-driving champion of continuous corporate renewal.Straight from the CEO is a major event, providing the rare opportunity to hear directly from the world's greatest business leaders. No ivory-tower theorizing, no speeches, no "consultant speak," these are the practical insights of leaders who every day must find ways to test and validate new ideas, implement change to improve the bottom line, and ultimately focus on the core ideas that will truly reshape their corporations. Straight from the CEO is an invaluable tool for managers at every level.
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Christopher Meyer
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Free
Press
Fast Cycle Time : How to Align Purpose, Strategy and Structure for Speed
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This book is perfect for business leaders who want to increase their company's productivity and efficiency. Meyer provides a step-by-step process to help businesses reduce non-value-added activities and empower their workforce to learn faster. The book's unique approach to productivity sets it apart from other business books and makes it a must-read for any company looking to stay competitive in the rapidly changing market.
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At Thryft, our Economics collection opens up pathways to understanding complex economic theories and real-world applications. Whether you’re interested in microeconomics, macroeconomics, or behavioural economics, our carefully curated selection is designed to enrich your knowledge. Discover works from Nobel laureates and renowned economists that are essential for students, professionals, and enthusiasts who crave a deeper understanding of the economy.
We're proud to offer a diverse selection ranging from introductory texts to advanced treatises. Explore topics like microeconomics, macroeconomics, and behavioural economics here.
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