The original, best-selling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world-wide.

Leaders who create execution cultures focus on five key items: specific priorities for their businesses; assigning the right projects to the most competent people; setting milestones with regular reviews; measuring performances; and linking everything from priorities to external information.

The knowledge, resources, and computing power of billions of people are self-organizing into a massive collective force. This book investigates how small businesses can achieve success by using a dynamic ecosystem of partners to co-create and peer-produce value in a networked economy.

Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

This guide throws out old marketing ideas to make way for the special realities of the hi-tech market. Based on a modern model and offering practical insights, this edition has been updated to include coverage of the Internet and World Wide Web.

From mere trainee, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. This is a tale of greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

Challenges what you thought you knew about competing in the crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth.

The multi million copy bestselling personal finance book that teaches people how to become masters of their money and sustain wealth for themselves and their families. Over 7 million copies sold worldwide.

This interactive business book provides individuals, managers and organisations with personalised tools to identify their talents and succeed at every level.

A gripping novel in which Alex Rogo fights to save his factory before it is closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. The story contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC).

Including case histories and anecdotes, this book shows, among other things, how one Australian scientist convinced the world he'd discovered the cause of stomach ulcers by drinking a glass filled with bacteria, and how a gifted sports reporter got people to watch a football match by showing them the outside of the stadium.

Based on the largest study of its kind ever undertaken, company managers reveal revolutionary insights about successful managerial behaviour.

Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this guide helps readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way.

Urging you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable, this book is a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.

Intelligence, imagination and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that convert these into results. This title ranges widely through the annals of business and government to demonstrate the distinctive skill of the executive. It identifies five talents essential to effectiveness.

Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realise only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. This title introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites different systems and processes under one common infrastructure, allowing companies to make quantum leaps in efficiency, growth and profit.

A 38-item paper handout that is a team development tool. It provides participants with an opportunity to begin exploring the pitfalls that are side-tracking their team. It is suitable for off-sites, retreats, or a series of team development meetings.