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

Based on years of research, this book argues against business tradition to reveal the powerful bottom-line benefits of leading with levity. With interviews, exercises, and case studies, it reveals how humor in the workplace helps you communicate messages, build camaraderie, and encourage creativity for a better workplace and bigger profits.

Explores the fat smoker syndrome and how individuals, managers, and organisations can overcome the temptations of the short-term and actually do what they already know is good for them.

Learn how to influence others by managing yourself and building good relationships. This volume contains practical techniques for improving your confidence and presenting your ideas successfully, and gives you the tools to enable you to achieve co-operation from your team and senior managers.

Deals with computers/software.

Helps readers find out why the trick to outperforming their competition and staying ahead of the curve in a customer-centric business environment is achieving the optimum levels of complexity in their products, services, and operations. This book includes tools that let you quantify and pinpoint complexity in your business.

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.

'Squirrel Inc.' is satirical animal fable about the use of storytelling as a leadership tool in organisations. It shows leaders how to use the different forms of storytelling to meet their key challenges and illustrates the pitfalls into which one can fall if one tells the wrong kind of story.

A collection of works in organisation theory,designed for those new to the field. Helps students grasp the important themes, perspectives and theories of the field by describing what organisation theory is, how it has developed and how its development has coincided with developments in other fields.

Identifies the key success factors in managing performance. This book deals with: what must be done to make the organization perform, prosper and grow - what the executive, the maker of decisions, must do to move the enterprise forward. It is useful for students of management as well as executives in industry and commerce.

In this inspirational handbook, the discoveries of Donald O. Clifton, the grandfather of positive psychology, show how the briefest interactions affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. 100,000 first printing.

Offers a look inside the mind and leadership methods of John Wooden. This book outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, and shows you how to develop the skill and confidence.

Provides an overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. This book, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, takes a critical view toward organizations, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society.

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

An updated edition of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies .

Shows the authors passion for knowledge and sense of fun. This work features revealing pieces that spans his lifetime of enthusiasm for discovering what makes the world tick - including tales of early student experiments; safe cracking and outwitting US censors during the Second World War; and his first lecture as a graduate student.

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

Tells a story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in your life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organization you work for in, or the family or community you live in.