Feeling stressed about your upcoming presentation? Whether you're nervous about how you'll organize your thoughts or how you'll articulate them on the big day, Presentations provides the quick guidelines and expert tips you need to: - Craft your message - Prepare and rehearse effectively - Engage your audience - Manage Q&A sessions Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most…
Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must. Running Meetings guides you through the basics of: - Crafting a useful agenda - Inviting the right team members - Making sure everyone's voice is heard while avoiding conflict - Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks Don't have much t…
A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success--whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to: - Present your idea clearly - Develop sound financial plans - Project risks and rewards - Anticipate and addres…
An in depth analysis of the rapidly growing phenomenon of crowdsourcing reflects on the dramatic economic, cultural, business, and political implications of applying the open source idea to a variety of fields outside of software development and addresses the unique opportunities and problems of this expanding trend.
Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell. Using the same stunning visual format as the authors global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel…
Offers tools and techniques to systematically understand, design, and implement new business models and renovate and rework old models.
This book offers a penetrating analysis of the behavior and values that shape the Korean business personality, making them such formidable competitors. The author provides practical tips and guidelines on how to interact with South Koreans in a truly positive and effective manner, and how to avoid the many pitfalls that so often doom foreign business efforts in Korea.
The Economist : Numbers Guide is invaluable for everyone who has to work with numbers, which in today's commercially focused world means most managers. In addition to general advice on basic numeracy, the guide points out common errors and explains the recognized techniques for solving financial problems, analyzing information of any kind, forecasting and effective decision making. Over 100 cha…
The work of a manager in a service organisation is not the same as the work of a manager in an organisation that manufactures goods. Managing Public Services, Implementing Changes - A Thoughtful Approach 2e, is for students and managers who intend to work in a service organisation whether it is owned publicly of privately. This book concentrates on how managers can change things for the better …