Spark addresses the important issue of growing bands in an increasingly competitive, crowded market place. Written by an expert in marketing, here is a book that demystifies the esoteric subject of brand-building. Spark achieves this by providing a practical framework. It handholds the reader...

Standing on My Head is intensely personal - and just as intensely universal. In this little volume, Hugh Prather teaches us how to see ourselves - in ways that seem both so true (or right) and normal (or obvious) that we cant believe we...

Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its prices the night of an earthquake. He crosses paths with provost and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest against the price-gouging retailer-which...

Starred Review* The notion that values matter--in the workplace as well as at home--is certainly not new to the ranks of management gurus and corporate leaders. What is novel in consultant Slap's first book is his passion for the subject, which bleeds from every...

Start with Noand offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situation-the purchase of a new house, a multimillion-dollar business deal, or where to take the kids for dinner.Think a win-win solution is the best way to...

Starting from basic management progressing to Creative Management. Covering the four core issues of business management, the three plans of management and the twelve M's of management

Starting work or changing jobs can be one of life's most stressful experiences, and with today's crowded job market it is more of a challenge than ever. A 'one-stop shop' for all job hunters, Ultimate Job Search takes the stress out of job hunting...

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large,...

Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your company build and sustain success for decades to come?Professor Alex Hill has conducted thirteen years of groundbreaking research...

Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his unique perspective on...

Stephen R. Covey believed there were only two ways to live life: a life of primary greatness or a life of secondary greatness. Through his books and speaking, he taught that the intrinsic rewards of primary greatness - integrity, responsibility and contribution - far...

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is Superfreakonomics. It reveals, among other things: - Why you are...

Stimulating, intelligent and enjoyable discussions of the most important issues of our day.' STEVEN PINKER'From entrepreneurs to athletes, and world leaders to entertainers, this is a fascinating collection of interviews with some of the world's most influential individuals.' MARK CUBAN'Thought Economicsand is a fine...

Stop! Don't Go There! Mistakes Made by Top Leaders, provides a framework that should permeate strategies to balance the imperatives of the present with the high pressure demands of the future. The case in point is to focus on the organisation's core competencies rather...

Stories have always had the power to move, but it has only recently become clear thatand purposefuland stories - those created with a specific mission in mind - are essential in persuading others to support a vision or cause. For Peter Guber, what began...

Storm the Norm is a first-of-its-kind collection of contemporary stories of truly inspiring businesses and brands from India that either wrote or rewrote the norms of their respective industries and brought in unprecedented change and vibrancy. This book features twenty such stories from an...

Strategies for Asia Pacific has established itself as the leading book on strategic analysis related to firms, markets, business cultures and logic in the Asia Pacific region. Recommended by The Economist as one of the five books on Asia that need to be read,...

Struggling newspaper-editor Hissam is finding it harder and harder to pretend that believing in your work is just as satisfying as landing a big promotion. His old college friend Kaiser has fared considerably better as one of the city's wealthiest property developers, who also...

Study the masters! Improve your handicap, swing, and technique.Move from Saturday-golfer to amateur extraordinaire. Packed with everything golfing - from the history of golf, key players, and famous courses to insightful tips on how to step up your own game and master key shots.Learn...

Subhash Chandra, the promoter of Zee TV, Essel Packaging and Esselworld, is an unlikely mogul. Hailing from a small town in Haryana, where his family ran grain mills, Chandra has been a perennial outsider, repeatedly aiming high and breaking into businesses where he was...

Success is not final and failure is not fatal.Maria Hatzistefanis should know. Having spent 20 years building her own company (described by the press as 'an overnight success'), she acknowledges how hard it is to keep going and find your motivation, especially in the...

Sun Tzu'sand Art of Warand is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest tools for understanding and resolving conflict ever. But how do you translate its military insights into practical tactics you can use in the corporate boardroom, the PTA meeting, or the...

Superhubs: How The Financial Elite And Their Networks Rule Our World

Sustainable investing is booming. The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective.But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them to do? How can an investor tell if their investments...

Take another awe-inspiring leap into the darkly imagined future of REVELATION SPACE, where it is time for Humanity to meet its Unmakers.Mankind has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly brutal interstellar war ... but there is still no time for peace and...

Taking Down the Lion is a compelling inside look at the controversial CEO best known for his $6,000 shower curtain - who when at the pinnacle of success was taken down in a very public legal drama that played out twice in a New...

Tarek El Moussa - known to millions as the star ofand Flip or Flop,and Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussaand andand The Flipping El Moussasand - shows how the principles that make him such a successful house flipper can also be applied to improving...

Ten years after his bestsellerand Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society's broad forces but by quiet changes within narrow slices of...

Ten years after the worldwide bestsellerand Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and...

Ten years ago, Jim O'Neill made a startling prediction: the G-7 countries including the US, the UK and Japan would no longer be the world's economic powerhouses. With globalization, a new era would emerge in which the emerging forces of Brazil, Russia, India and...

Ten years ago, Jim O'Neill made a startling prediction: the G-7 countries including the US, the UK and Japan would no longer be the world's economic powerhouses. With globalization, a new era would emerge in which the emerging forces of Brazil, Russia, India and...

Ten years ago, world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne broke ground by introducing "blue ocean strategy," a new model for discovering uncontested markets that are ripe for growth. In this bound version of their bestsellingand Harvard Business Reviewand classic article, they apply...

Terry O'Brien's Perfect series is the ultimate enabler for professional and personal success. Easy-to-read, concise and full of easily actionable advice, this new series will aid readers in mastering the little things and becoming 'perfect'. A best-selling author and motivational trainer, Terry O'Brien shares...

The "Melting Point" of the title refers to a critical psychological threshold that all of us face when under massive stress and pressure-the point at which we cannot control our thinking, emotions, and behaviors in an impactful way anymore. We start to internally derail,...

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How Maori belief is driving the England team to seize the moment'and Sunday Telegraph'Belonging is a must-read for anyone interested in building a long term high-performing team.' - Stuart Lancaster'One of the wisest books about winning you'll ever read...Powerful lessons beautifully...

The #1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and columnist behindand The Atlantic's popular "How to Build a Life" series, a guide to transforming the life changes we fear into a source of strength.In the first half of life, ambitious strivers embrace a...

The 2010 edition has been completely updated, revised, refreshed and expanded. As regulars will know, "The Economist Pocket World in Figures" contains rankings on numerous topics in subject areas as wide-ranging as geography, population, business, the economy, trade, transport, finance, industry, demographics, the environment,...

The 2018 Edition has been radically updated whilst maintaining all of the classic advice from earlier, successful editions. This business book is great for leaders, middle managers and entrepreneurs interested in the following categories; • SMALL BUSINESSES • START-UP BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Beermat Entrepreneur...

The 7 most expensive words in any organisation are... We have always done it that way. Running a business is tough in the best of times but when things do go well, its easy to be complacent. Few business owners and leaders are complacent...

The Achilles heels that hold us back from success - and how to overcome them. Most people learn their greatest lessons not from their successes, but from their mistakes. Maximum Success zeroes in on the most common behaviour patterns that can impede a career....

The anthology -Billionaire Mindset is an exploration to the world of aspirations of human beings. People of all race, country and background dream to be a billionaire at certain point of their life. Being a billionaire is not merely amassing money rather it s...

THE ART AND CRAFT OF MANAGEMENT

The Arts Dividend looks in depth at seven key benefits that art and culture bring to our lives: encouraging the UK's creativity; advancing education; impacting positively on health and wellbeing; supporting innovation and technology; providing defining characteristics to villages, towns and cities; contributing to...

The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money.'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real EnglandImagine a year living without spending money...Former businessman Mark Boyle undertook this extraordinary challenge and...

'The astoundingly well reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was once a great American company. A must-read' Bethany McLean, bestselling author of The Smartest Guys in the Room 'Compelling and richly reported, Flying Blind is about so much more than...

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration for the twenty-first century with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an official title.and Many are quick to respond to the mounting pressures facing...

The author plans to change your point of view about your job and how you approach it. She tells you in easy-to-understand, step-by-step detail how it can be done. And, using the information in this book, you're going to be more financially successful at...

The author says it best: "This book is for people like you and me. People who go to work and--using words, pictures, music, and stories--are expected to make s**t happen . . . to make the phone lines light up and the in-box fill...

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the...

The BBC is a central part of British life, shared culture and international standing. It is the British public's most important and trusted news provider in a world of global fake news; a hugely popular, low-cost source of universally available information, education and entertainment...