Successful management and leadership has never been a greater challenge. Time is stretched, your people are highly motivated but can be highly demanding and business is competitive. Whether you are a first-time manager or experienced leader, straightforward, practical advice on best practice can be hard to find. John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Leadership and Management will help you find the answers and inspiration you need. The book provides accessible advice from one of the world's best-known and most sought after authorities on leadership and management - advice you can put into practice immediately. 作者简介： John Adair is internationally recognized as a leadership and management guru and has twice been named as one of 40 people worldwide who have contributed most to the development of management thought and practice. He is the author of more than 30 books and numerous articles on history, leadership and management development and over two million people world-wide have participated in the

The practical guide to discovering the rules of our superconnected world through the science and sociology of networks. In Superconnect, Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood show that success is less about who you are than how you connect—a chance meeting with an old colleague leads to a swanky new job; two businessmen collaborate online and cofound a successful start-up; a friend introduces a promising entrepreneur to a millionaire looking to invest. But why do these lucky breaks always happen to other people? Personal and professional networks shape everything we do, but simply knowing that they exist won’t help you harness your connections for maximum success. With an eye toward business applications, Superconnect outlines the new rules of our densely linked society. At the core of the analysis are three simple network components—strong relationships, weak relationships, and hubs—that interact in surprising, counterintuitive ways. Understanding how these components mesh, and connecting unrelated p

Warren Buffett is the most successful investor of all time.His ability to consistently find undervalued companies has made himone of the world's richest men. Yet while his track record is hardto argue with, the Buffett way isn't the only way, nor is it alwaysthe best way, to invest. Even Buffett Isn't Perfect dispels many myths about Buffett andhis "solid as a rock" style. It shows readers how to learn from themaster's best moves while avoiding strategies that don't apply tosmall investors -- and avoiding Buffett's mistakes, such assometimes riding his winners too long.

edition holds true to the original vision of teaching the subject from both the preparer and user perspective, but with a revision focused on greater accessibility to the variety of students taught. Two annual reports (Gateway and Ben Jerry s) and an annual update program with price stability guarantee highlight the third edition package. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Like it or not, the digital revolution has swept the businessworld and, no matter how good you are at your job, if you don'thave the technical tools to keep up you'll be left behind. Luckily, The Digital Revolution is here to get you up to speed andget the jump on the competition.

Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it isprobably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this onehas managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usualpolemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers,and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with formerWal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g.,Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of theFortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a businessthat is dramatically reshaping our lives.

Managing people is fraught with challenges--even if you're aseasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Reviewarticles and selected the most important ones to help you maximizeyour employees' performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to: ? Tailor your management styles to fit your people ? Motivate with more responsibility, not more money ? Support first-time managers ? Build trust by soliciting input ? Teach smart people how to learn from failure ? Build high-performing teams

Supercharge your job performance and get where your want to beby becoming an ACTIVE LEARNER In today's highly competitive workenvironment, continuous learning is an absolute necessity--arequirement to keep up with the latest innovations in the field andincrease productivity. Learn Your Way to Success helps you spototherwise overlooked opportunities to learn and teaches you how totake advantage of them. It provides tools for setting a personallearning agenda, keeping track of what is learned, and determininghow to use that learning to improve performance in their currentjob, prepare for their next job, and plan their careers. Daniel R.Tobin has more than 30 years of experience in the learning anddevelopment field. He has founded two corporate universities(Digital Equipment Corporation's Network University and WangGlobal/Getronics Virtual University) and served as vice presidentof design and development at the American Management Association(AMA).

"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts. In this visceral tour to the heart of the financial system, Michael Lewis takes us around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the current crisis. He meets the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all of cliff. How could we have all been so deluded for quite so long? Where did it all start? Was it systemic? Was it avoidable? And who the hell can we blame? Michael Lewis has the answers. No one is better qualified to get to the heart of this labyrinthine story. And no one can make it such an enjoyable ride along the way.

You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucialdifference for you, your organization, your community. You presentit to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, andverbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, youridea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Thosewho would have benefited from your proposal. You. Your company.Perhaps even the country. It doesn't have to be this way, maintain JohnKotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win thesupport your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key?Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers andobfuscators deploy time and time again. Then engage theseadversaries with tactics tailored to each strategy. By "inviting inthe lions" to critique your idea--and being prepared forthem--you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp yourproposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing thesolution. The book presents a fresh and amusing fictionalnarrative s

Marketing is shrouded in arcane mystery and buzzwords. Itfrightens many and bewilders others. Yet every business, from thehand-car-wash by the side of the road, to the world's most famousbrands, engage in marketing every single day. This is an essential,reliable, speedy and up to date guide to the most robust andimportant concepts in marketing. This book shows you how to understand and do marketing withouthaving to study a degree or a diploma in it. Along the way it showsyou what has been learned about marketing over the centuries, whatexperts can teach us that we can use ourselves, how marketing haschanged in our new ‘digital' world, and how to avoid classicmistakes. In short, this is all you need to know about marketing.

"In The Well-Timed Strategy, Navarro provides a useful primer on business cycle risks and opportunities. Recognizing that business success depends most of all on human capital, he makes the crucial observation that the trough of a recession is the best time to find good people and the most important time to focus on retaining them. This and other insights about investment, production, and marketing give today’s executives a useful checklist for building and maintaining competitive advantage." –Michael Milken, Chairman, The Milken Institute "Navarro’s conclusions should be an integral part of any management strategy playbook. Timing is indeed everything, and this book shows you how to master it for a successful business." –Bruce Karatz, Chairman and CEO, KB Home "The business cycle bedevils all companies, yet few take it into account when plotting strategy. Peter Navarro provides a powerful set of tools, insights, and examples that will help every executive master the all-important ar

Exploring the paradigm shift in business brought about by innovations in communication technology, this collaboration from three consultant-authors provides a succinct metaphor for the shift in the information economy-from "push" to "pull"-but little else. Though they provide an effective survey of the effect of more interactive, ubiquitous and on-demand communication, it already feels dated; the essential messages that Hagel, Brown, and Davison derive-networking is key, you should pursue your passions, many traditional ways of doing business are over-are old news in the business self-help section. The examples they provide focus primarily on individually-driven collaborative efforts (wikis, online gaming) and make poor analogies for someone looking to revitalize a corporation or present a compelling case for change to colleagues or an intransigent CEO. Professionals who already know that the Internet isn't just a phase will need more information than this book provides. Copyright Reed Business Information

A commemorative edition of the landmark book from PatrickLencioni When it was published ten years ago, The Five Temptationsof a CEO was like no other business book that came before. Highlysought-after management consultant Patrick Lencioni deftly told thetale of a young CEO who, facing his first annual board review,knows he is failing, but doesn't know why. Refreshingly originaland utterly compelling, this razor-sharp novelette plusself-assessment (written to be read in one sitting) serves as atimeless and potent reminder that success as a leader can come downto practicing a few simple behaviors behaviors that are painfullydifficult for each of us to master. Any executive can learn how torecognize the mistakes that leaders can make and how to avoid them.The lessons of The Five Temptations of a CEO, are as relevant todayas ever, and this special anniversary edition celebrates ten yearsof inspiration and enlightenment with a brand new introduction andreflections from Lencioni on the new challenges in business

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition,drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosenprofession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren'tmanaging their knowledge workers' careers. Instead, you must beyour own chief executive officer. That means it's up to you tocarve out your place in the world and know when to change course.And it's up to you to keep yourself engaged and productive during acareer that may span some 50 years. In Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker explains how to do it. Thekeys: Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself by identifyingyour most valuable strengths and most dangerous weaknesses.Articulate how you learn and work with others and what your mostdeeply held values are. Describe the type of work environment whereyou can make the greatest contribution. Only when you operate with a combination of your strengths andself-knowledge can you achieve true and lasting excellence

Services requiring parts has become a $1.5 trillion business annually worldwide，creating a tremendous incentive to manage the logistics of these parts efficiently by making planning and operational decisions in a rational and rigorous manner。This book provides a broad overview of modeling approaches and solution methodologies for addressing service parts inventory problems found in high-powered technology and aerospace applications。The focus in this work is on the management of high cost，low demand rate service parts found in multi-echelon settings。The text may be used in a variety of courses for first-year graduate students or senior undergraduates，as well as for practitioners，requiring only a background in stochastic processes and optimization。It will serve as an excellent reference for key mathematical concepts and a guide to modeling a variety of multi-echelon service parts planning and operational problems。

The definitive guide to fixed income investing--revised andupdated for the new era of investing The Handbook of Fixed IncomeSecurities is the investing industry's most trusted, widelyfollowed fixed income reference. For nearly three decades,investors have been drawn to its unparalleled scope, detail, andexpertise. Now, the world's most authoritative fixed incomeresource has been updated with facts and formulas to help youbetter analyze, value, and manage fixed income instruments andtheir derivatives in today's evolving marketplace. This thoroughlyrevised eighth edition includes detailed discussions of: Types,features, and uses of fixed income securities Active and structuredportfolio management strategies Basics of fixed income analytics,from bond pricing to price volatility measures Risks and riskcontrol strategies Interest rate and credit derivatives and theirportfolio management applications Asset-backed securities,collateralized debt obligations, and innovative fixed incomeapplications The Handbook

The essential resource for building a global communityof customers. How to Say It : Marketing with NewMedia provides business owners with the tools they need toeffectively market their company to today’s ever-evolving onlinecommunity. Packed with power words, content templates, practicalsteps for getting the word out, and the essentials of speaking tothe right audience, this book is the key to building a community ofloyal customers online. It also offers quick tips for generatingwebsite copy, articles, podcast *s, and blog posts months inadvance, so any small business owner can start an online marketingcampaign regardless of limited schedules and budgets.

"Genetics For Dummies," 2nd Edition serves as a perfect coursesupplement for students pursuing degrees in the sciences. With 25percent new and revised material, "Genetics For Dummies," 2ndEdition includes coverage of recent discoveries in the field ofgenetics and provides science lovers of all skill levels witheasy-to-follow and easy-to-understand information about thisincreasingly advanced field. It includes new information on: basicgenetics genetic mutations, diseases, and evolution gene therapyand other new--and controversial--medicines the exploration ofethical issues as they pertain to the study of genetics the futureof genetic science results and applications of scientificdiscoveries such as stem cell research, cloning, moleculargenetics, behavioral genetics, bioarcheology, and geneticengineering and more

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead guided by our teachers, parents and managers we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, whilst our strengths lie dormant and neglected. International bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Centre, have created a revolutionary programme to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the innovative Internet-based StrengthsFinder Profile, access to which is provided by a unique number found in each copy of the book. This programme introduces thirty-four dominant themes that when combined, can provide an insight into the readers core abilities and how they can be translated into personal and career success.

Protect the earth and your bottom line. If you need the best practices and ideas for turning sustainabilityinto competitive advantage--but don't have time to find them--thisbook is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, allin one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: - Craft strategy to compete on green turf - Redesign your business model, products, and processes to achieve green goals - Parlay your efforts into lower costs and higher revenues - Capture more value from clean-tech investments - Launch sustainability programs with impact - Synchronize green initiatives by overhauling your supplychain - Engage constructively with environmental activist groups - Mitigate the risks of climate change