Suitable for busy executives, managers, and entrepreneurs, this practical guide provides you with 100 essential tools, organized for ease-of-use, including: Time management; Brainstorming; Presentations; Process management (Six Sigma and balanced scorecard); and, Communication/teambuilding.

The sequel to the international #1 bestseller, Wikinomics. Wikinomics showed how mass collaboration was changing businesses around the world. MacroWikinomics takes it beyond the boardroom to show how the mass collaboration is revolutionizing the way we live, work, and create.

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. This book is about how all that is being reversed.

Making Better Decisions offers explanations of both the theories we would like to adopt in order to make better decisions, and the theories that explain how those around us behave.

Helps to learn how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges with Lessons Learned. This title also offers all of the lessons in their original video format, free bonus videos, and other exclusive features online.

This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management. * Challenges the stereotypical opposition between 'creatives' and 'suits'. * Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden.

A self-help manual for Board members. It contains six chapters, each containing a 'module' to aid management development in Boards. These are conceiving the organization; setting up the organization; statutory conditions for the organization; the governing board of the organization; organizational growth and development; and emerging challenges.

An authoritative, case-based study of IS in business today Management Information Systems, 17th edition, Global Edition, helps your students to understand the connection between MIS and business performance. The ideal textbook for introductory courses in IS and MIS. This title is available with MyLab (R)MIS and has a Companion Website.

Management Lives

Organized into three categories: managing yourself, managing your team, managing your business, this book teaches the soft and hard skills that are required to succeed in the workplace. It helps you learn a diverse range of skills, from managing your time to inspiring a team and motivating customers.

Examines the organizational environment and shows readers how to inspire innovative and creative thinking as an approach to problem solving, idea generation and new product development.

From hiring and retaining good people to motivating and developing team members, from understanding key financial statements to delegating work effectively, and from setting goals for others to managing your own career, this guide walks readers through various aspects of managing in a complex business world.

In this unique organizational change textbook, important ongoing debates about managing change and leading change are combined, giving a broader perspective that encourages readers to engage with both management and leadership.

A realist's guide to management, the authors capture the complex life of organizations, providing not only an account of theories, but also an introduction to their practice with examples from everyday life and culture discussing the key themes and debates along the way.

Central to management is the management of change. The edition considers the leadership, interpersonal and management skills needed to manage change effectively within nursing. This is particularly important given the current pace of change within the health service.

The topic of change management presents students with many challenges. One of the most difficult is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature. This textbook encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory, presenting a challenging review of existing literature in the change management field.

Explores how and why change occurs, and how this process can be managed effectively. This title offers a critical perspective, challenging the main assumptions in this area and ensuring that the complexity of the subject is understood. It includes coverage on Perspectives, Power and Politics, Ethics, Agents and Agency, HRM, and Evaluation.

Accessible and lively introduction to the management of cross-cultural communication for undergraduate and postgraduate business students. Drawing on the latest research and incorporating the author's own extensive experience of working in different cultural settings, it addresses the core theory and practice. An essential course companion.

There is no doubt about it, innovation is the major driving force in organisations today. With the rise of truly global markets and the intensifying competition for customers, employees and other critical resources, the ability to continuously develop successful innovative products, services, processes and strategies is essential.