The latest addition to the phenomenally successful ONE MINUTE MANAGER series of business classics by Ken Blanchard: this new parable teaches readers how to accept responsibility for their errors.

More than 150,000 books sold in the 36-Hour series! A crash course on the critical business practice of operations management

This fascinating new core textbook, authored by a highly respected academic with over a decade of industry experience, takes a global and strategic approach to the important topic of operations management (OM).

Organizing involves continous challenges in the face of uncertainty and change. How is globalization impacting organizations? How will new strategies for a turbulent world affect organizational design? This book deals with these questions.

A simple fable with profound lessons for working and living in an ever changing world.

Why we should all work less! A radical and pragmatic manifesto for tackling the twin crises of work and care in contemporary capitalism.

Over 7,100 entries cover all aspects of business and management including marketing, accounting, organizational behaviour, business strategy, finance, law, and technology. Fully revised and updated, this new edition remains an essential book for business students, teachers, professionals, and anyone needing a guide to business terminology.

This edition shows why most change efforts don't work and explains how to redesign organizations to succeed. It also shows the reader how to take structural laws into account when they restructure their own organizations, so changes they attempt to make do succeed, and they can achieve their goals.

We have recently seen stock-markets plunge and governments bail out banks. People have been made redundant, and many others are very worried. Some of the short essays in this collection are part musing and part reaction to the recent economic situation, which hope to dispel nonsense and encourage sense in the world of people management.

The best of Drucker all in one place Peter Drucker revolutionized management thinking before there was management thinking. For nearly half a century he inspired and educated managers-and powerfully shaped the nature of business-with his landmark articles in Harvard Business Review .

Policy Issues for Business

Make your LinkedIn account work for you and your business LinkedIn is not just another social media tool. It's the world's largest professional online network, with over 120 million users in over two hundred countries.

Offers practical guidance on managing the day-to-day life of colleges and universities throughout the academic year. This book takes a proactive approach and provides a range of examples and solutions for resolving dilemmas that arise in a rapidly changing environment.

This work provides a general inroduction to the field of management science, and gives a balanced view of the most widely used applications. It shows how managers can use scientific ideas to solve business problems.

A collection of twenty-five case studies that explores spiritual and philosophical traditions in management. It looks at the practical virtues inherent in managerial decision-making, which leads to wise decisions in strategic management, leadership, finance, and human resource management.

This is a comprehensive account of the techniques and the day-to-day tasks of the researcher. Easy to read and understand, McGivern's book covers not only research methods and techniques, such as sampling and questionnaire design, but also the practical tasks of running a research project.

This book provides an ideal introduction to the fundamentals of international investment law and dispute settlement for students, scholars, and practitioners. It combines a systematic analytical study of the texts and principles underlying investment law with a jurisprudential analysis of the case law arising in international tribunals.

Product strategy and management are at the very heart of marketing and should lie at the core of a firm's overall strategy. Knowledge andunderstanding of the nature and practice of product strategy and management are necessary elements in the development and formation of the professional manager.