Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

The bestselling GCE Business Studies texts updated and improved for the new specifications

From abstracts to online professional profiles, from blogs and forums to the e-mail and formal reports, The Business Writer's Handbook uses smart, accessible language to spotlight and clarify business writing today.

Business: The Key Concepts provides everything you need to know about concepts and terms. It combines detail and accessibility and explores new developments in business.

One of the most reprinted articles in the history of the Harvard Business Review, "The Core Competence of the Corporation" challenged and redefined traditional concepts of management strategy in an increasingly global and competitive market. Prahalad and Hamel base their 1990 argument on a comparison of case studies.

Cannibals with Forks passionately demonstrates how all businesses can and must help society achieve the three inter--linked goals of economic prosperity, environmental protection and social equity, issues which are already at the top of the corporate agenda.

Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive - as individuals, as organisations, as nations, even as a species.

Traces the evolution of the great shifts in organizations and the role of managers in the ongoing effort to balance change with continuity. This book paints a picture of management thinking and practice. It offers insight and guidelines for managers seeking to address organizational challenges.

Coaching Skills: A handbook, Third edition introduces the reader to the core skills needed to become a great coach.

How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? This book shows managers how to get collaboration right through 'disciplined collaboration'. It delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate for real results.

Shortlisted at HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK AWARDS 2013 Be the best you can be in presentations, meetings, negotiations and networking. Collins Key Business Skills gives you the tools you need to succeed in business if English is not your first language.

Available for the first time in one complete toolkit--the five most important topics for new managers from the popular Mighty Manager series. This book is the ultimate resource for new managers and the newly promoted alike.

The book studies and analyses General Motors as a large social institution involved in business activities. It describes what management is, how managers are selected, how they act, and how a corporation is organized into management units at different scales. It also seeks to explain the role and position of large corporations in modern society.

What principle-driven companies like Whole Foods, Starbucks, REI, and many others are doing to transform capitalism and how to follow their lead. This book offers a new blueprint for business, showing how some of today's most successful companies create business value while helping to preserve the inherent good of capitalism and society.

"The consumer in public services" critiques established assumptions surrounding citizenship and consumption. Drawing on empirical research, it challenges existing stereotypes about the 'consumer as chooser' and shows how we must develop a more sophisticated understanding of consumers, examining their place and role as users of public services.

An original analysis of how human behaviour is conditioned within corporate cultures, and how managers come to adopt unconscious controlling habits that are counter-productive, inhibit growth, and create cultures of fear.

The most accessible introduction to corporate governance, providing broad, international coverage, whilst illustrating real world governance in action.

This book critically discusses key concepts and topics related to corporate sustainability, with a focus on corporate sustainability strategies and corporate value chains. It introduces ideas from global ecology and the natural sciences to provide readers with a new language for discussing business and sustainability.

There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today's market-centric economic model. This book presents approaches to measuring the true costs of business and its obligation to society. It offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping an equitable, sustainable future.

Written in an engaging style by a trio of experts with decades of experience researching, teaching and consulting on complex business problems, this book will be an indispensable manual for anyone interested in creating value by helping their organizations crack the problems that matter most.