

One of the first in the new checklist series from the Chartered Management Institute.
The experts'guide to how to manage and work with the people and teams you are responsible for. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to getting the most from those you have to manage and work with, on such topics as:Get the right people and get ...
One of the first in the new checklist series from the Chartered Management Institute.
The experts'guide to how to manage the most important person you are responsible for: yourself. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to your personal performance as a manager, on such topics asStarting a new job, Fitting in and getting on, ...
Why do we remember certain things but forget others?
Memory is an essential part of who we are. But whatarememories, and how are they created? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, like a snapshot, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to remember. Remembering is an act of narrative as much as it is the ...
The expanded and fully updated edition of the business classic that started a global trend - the ...
In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share ...
A moving true account of European society on the brink of war
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments,1913is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever.The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis ...
Tolstoy'sWar and PeaceandAnna Kareninaare considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here ...
In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history.Born into a ...
Bestselling author Robert Greene combines forces with 50 Cent to help you get ahead.
The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, where everything has been turned on its head. Building on the runaway success of Robert ...
For the first time, the full story of the race to decipher the world's greatest puzzle.
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination.But, captivating as it is, this story ...