30th Anniversary Edition Written in a fast paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry even to your bosses but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. …
Negotiation is a critical skill needed for effective management. Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases 7e by Roy J. Lewicki, Bruce Barry, and David M. Saunders takes an experiential approach and explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. It is relevant to a broad spe…
When Yahoo hired star Google executive Marissa Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California's headquarters. On them, there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But just more than a year later on November 4, 2013 Mayer sat in front those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo's campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair w…
This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at dis…
We are living in a hinge time when the way that we think, interact, and innovate at work is rapidly changing. In the past, "Marketshare" companies dominated, ruled by hierarchy and top-down leadership. Today, the new market leaders are "Mindshare" companies, where influence is more important than power and success relies on collaboration and the ability to inspire. Markova and McArthur believe …
An innovative and accessible guide to business, management and commerce Learning about business can be daunting, but The Business Book makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas simply explained. Simple explanations and stylish infographics open up the business world to even the complete novice. The Business Book is the perfect primer to key theories of business and management, c…
Bold technology. Good bye, linear thinking, hello, exponential ; Exponential technology: The democratization of the power to change the world ; Five to change the world Bold mindset. Climbing Mount Bold ; The secrets of going big ; Billionaire wisdom: Thinking at scale The bold crowd. Crowdsourcing: Marketplace of the rising billion ; Crowdfunding: No bucks, no Buck Rogers ; Building communitie…