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Winning Without Losing
Jordan Milne, Martin Bjergegaard
A business book about more than business: the ultimate guide to improving your work/life balance.
Whatever your job is, chances are you find it hard to switch off. Today, we work longer hours, at weekends, at home and on the move - while the office is only ever a click away via smartphones and the Internet. But as much as we assume that this is the price of success - it doesn't have to be this ...
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Clarks: Made to Last
Mark Palmer
The story behind an iconic British brand that is approaching its double century
Clarks'reach extends to all corners of the globe and yet it remains a family-owned business firmly rooted in its Quaker origins, (unlike other well known Quaker firms like Cadburys, now part of US giant Kraft.) Founded in 1825 by two brothers, Cyrus and James Clark, the company began as a rug-making operation in the ...
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What Management Is
Joan Magretta
Timeless business wisdom from an award-winning business writer
Whether you're new to the field or a seasoned executive, this book will give you a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform. It presents the basic principles of management simply, but not simplistically. Why did an eBay succeed where a Webvan did not? Why do you needbotha business modelanda strategy? Why is it ...
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How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
A provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics.
Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one half the most extraordinary developmental success story ever seen, the other half a paper tiger.Joe Studwell ...
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The Economist Guide to Commodities
Caroline Bain
From aluminium and platinum to zinc and gold, oil and gas to cocoa and wheat, a comprehensive ...
The price volatility of so many commodities over the past decade has underlined their economic importance and how dependent we are on them. The price of gold has soared to new peaks as currencies have endured a crisis of confidence; demand from China...
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The Economist Guide to Commodities
Caroline Bain
From aluminium and platinum to zinc and gold, oil and gas to cocoa and wheat, a comprehensive ...
The price volatility of so many commodities over the past decade has underlined their economic importance and how dependent we are on them. The price of gold has soared to new peaks as currencies have endured a crisis of confidence; demand from China...
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The Customer Rules
Lee Cockerell
39 essential rules to delivering impeccable service - from the man who ran Disneyworld.
Today, consumers have more choice than ever before. It's no longer enough to simply provide a service - companies who want to stay in business must also provideimpeccableservice with such consistency, integrity and creativity that people who experience it will not only keep coming back for more, but recommend ...
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Enterprise Rules
Don Young
The tried-and-tested rules so many business have lost sight of that determine lasting success - and ...
The messages ofEnterprise Rulesare hugely important. Organisations that manage to provide meaning to employees, satisfaction to customers and a net contribution to society can expect to prosper in the long term. This has been known for a long time, ever since the great...
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The Economist Guide to Project Management (2nd Edition)
Paul Roberts
How to make sure that projects run to budget and schedule - and deliver the intended results.
From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were ...
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The Economist Guide to Project Management (2nd Edition)
Paul Roberts
How to make sure that projects run to budget and schedule - and deliver the intended results.
From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred, to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were ...
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The Change Book
Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler
From the creators of the bestsellingThe Decision Bookcome fifty surprisingly simple explanations of ...
How do you make your way in a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some people unfaithful? How can our government act against threats before they happen?This book is about change - from the small ...
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Swiss Made
R. James Breiding
From poverty to prosperity - one country's remarkable achievement
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh ...
