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In Brand from the Inside, Libby Sartain and Mark Schumann, branding experts who helped to build employer brands at Southwest Airlines and Yahoo!, describe this secret weapon for a business. The book gives leaders across an organization step-by-step instruction on how to motivate employees to consist... More

A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothesWhen journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? in... More

Finding it, refining it, loving it, and actually getting out there and doing itDon't waste your life not doing something you aren't brilliant at, not setting the world on fire with your ideas, your thinking, your inventions, your words -- it doesn't matter how you do your Thing, what matters is that... More

The One-Page Project Manager shows you how to boil down any project into a simple, one-page document that can be used to communicate all essential details to upper management, other departments, suppliers, and audiences. This practical guide will save time and effort, helping you identify the vital ... More

This Third Edition to Peter Block's Flawless Consulting addresses business changes and new challenges since the second edition was written ten years ago. It tackles the challenges next-generation consultants face, including more guidance on how to ask better questions, dealing with difficult clients... More

Practical tools and advice for managing financial risk, updated for a post-crisis worldAdvanced Financial Risk Management bridges the gap between the idealized assumptions used for risk valuation and the realities that must be reflected in management actions. It explains, in detailed yet easy-to-und... More

An accessible treatment of Monte Carlo methods, techniques, and applications in the field of finance and economicsProviding readers with an in-depth and comprehensive guide, the Handbook in Monte Carlo Simulation: Applications in Financial Engineering, Risk Management, and Economics presents a timel... More

Discover what legendary trader Dick Diamond knows about trading that you don't <P> Trading as a Business: The Methods and Rules I've Used To Beat the Markets for 40 Years gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how Dick Diamond has become a successful independent trader for more than four decades. ... More

The definitive organization management text for executives andaspiring business leaders Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practices, SecondEdition is the completely updated and revised landmark guide to"macro" organization theory and design, fully grounded in currentinternational practice. I... More

The go-to guide to acing the Series 26 Exam! Passing the Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Principal Qualification Exam (Series 26) qualifies an individual to operate as a principal responsible for supervising and managing a firm and its agents conducting business in open-end m... More

In this book the author highlights the importance of social relations in agricultural and economic development.... More

Leaders today--whether in corporations or associations, nonprofits or nations--face massive, messy, multidimensional problems. No one person or group can possibly solve them--they require the broadest possible cooperation. But, says Harvard scholar Dean Williams, our leadership models are still esse... More

Eager business owners gain access to the playbooks of 23 of today's most respected and well-known online marketers, who reveal their most valuable online strategies and tactics for capturing new customers and influencing ongoing purchases from current ones. Each chapter is a coaching session designe... More

interpreting results in a way that will improve things rather than complicate them. This book will help you to recognize, correct and even avoid common performance measurement problems, including: * Measuring for the sake of measuring* Assuming that measurement is an instant fix for performance issu... More

Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge is a faith-based companion to the best-selling leadership book of all time--The Leadership Challenge Grounded in Jim and Barry's time-tested research, Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge describes their Five Practices of Exemplary Lead... More

'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and thisVery Sh... More

This text provides an introduction to the understanding of changing consumer behaviour and trends in managerial practice in the grocery industry.... More

The concise version of Corporations, Tenth Edition includes materials on Limited Liability Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies. This edition continues the approach of earlier editions in emphasizing rich, full-bodied versions of the principal cases, and a functionalist approach to the prob... More

Each of us has the capacity to spot opportunities, invent products, and build businesses--even $100 million businesses.How do some people turn ideas into enterprises that endure? Why do some people succeed when so many others fail? The Creator's Code unlocks the six essential skills that turn small ... More

Doug Rossinow, professor of history at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the author of numerous works, including Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo and is past president of the Peace History Soc... More

Explores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers.... More

How to Invest Your Time Like Money is a concise, practical guide to get you out of time debt. Unlike others, who create the false hope that if only you worked harder, faster, longer, and smarter, you could do everything you want and make everyone happy, time coach Elizabeth Grace Saunders introduces... More

Health and Education in Early Childhood presents conceptual issues, research findings, and program and policy implications in promoting well-being in health and education in the first five years of life. Leading researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of early learning and human capital formati... More

The nature of management is changing: managers are becoming more like consultants, focusing on projects, functional integration, change and 'clients'. This timely book is based on a large-scale, international study of new management practices and examines the emergence of consultant managers. It b... More

"In the last ten years, the United States--the most powerful and technically advanced society in human history--has been confronted by a series of ominous, seemingly intractable crises. First there was the threat to the environmental survival; then there was the apparent shortage of energy: and now ... More