Features an entrepreneur's inside track on his life in business. This book lets you discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, and how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as one of the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars.

Adapting one minute manager techniques to enable successful leadership to happen. Using different ways to motivate different kinds of people.

Suitable for students, especially MBA candidates, this work introduces them to the core concepts and principles of strategy. It includes coverage of internet-based strategies, fresh examples of resource-based competitive advantage, case illustrations in every chapter and self-study questions.

Process, Content, Context. Third edition.

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.

What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty.

A comprehensive introduction to research methods in business for students planning or undertaking a dissertation or extensive research project in business and management. The fifth edition of Research Methods for Business Students brings the theory, philosophy and techniques of research to life and enables students to understand the practical relevance of the research methods. A highly accessible

Presents an integrated treatment of international management problems. Combining a strategic focus with coverage of the functions that underpin global business, this book delivers a fresh European perspective on international business. It is suitable for post-introductory undergraduate courses and also for MBA students.

Presents an overview of information systems fundamentals. This book covers the fundamentals of introductory Management / Business Information Systems (MIS/BIS) course. It is suitable for shorter courses or those involving less detail while still requiring a comprehensive survey of the core concepts that make up modern information systems courses.

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.

A parable that helps you love the work you do - even if you can't always do work that you love.

Teaches you about strategy analysis and how to model business systems and processes and covers other topics including business case development, change management, and engineering/information resource management. This book supports the ISEB qualifications in Business Analysis.

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

Ask anyone involved with management to name the 20 most important skills and competencies and you will encounter a wide range of responses. However, there will also be a broad agreement on what it takes to be a successful manager and The Secrets of Success in Management reveals all the key skills and core capabilities every manager needs to master from setting objectives and solving problems to ..

With 50 per cent to 90 per cent of most managers' time spent in some form of group activity, the concept of teamwork is more important than ever before. This book explains how all groups move through four stages of development - orientation, dissatisfaction, resolution and production.

Features a story about a penguin colony in Antarctica that illustrates key truths about how deal with the issue of change. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him.

Is your workload overwhelming? This volume aims to teach you how to keep a clear head, relax and organize your thoughts while implementing the organizational methods taught in the book, which include planning and progressing projects, reassessing goals, and overcoming feelings of anxiety.

The third edition of the popular Surridge & Gillespie AS Business Studies, fully updated to take into account the new AQA specifications and including a lively and user-friendly CD with self-assessment exercises.

Provides a set of practical techniques which have been tried in many of today's leading companies with dramatic improvements to sales performance. This text makes the spin-selling method available in paperback and includes a new preface by the author.

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