Originally published: as The use of lateral thinking. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
This Study and Revision Guide will ensure you approach your exams feeling confident and prepared through the help of accurate and accessible notes, examiner advice, and exam-style questions on each key topic.
Huffington Post columnist Russell Bishop explains how to cut through red tape when obstacles stand in the way of getting things done
Lead and succeed like the worlds greatest business innovator. When it comes to Steve Jobs, everyone from business journalists to the average iPod owner asks the same question: How did he do it? Anyone facing practical business challenges on a daily basis, though, reframes the question to.
Organisation provides 60 practical, effective organisation techniques that can immediately be applied to transform your workplace, increase productivity and job satisfaction. This title covers all vital organisation skills, including prioritising tasks and responsibilities, creating checklists that work, keeping email under control and streamlining your workday.
Combining professional insights from Samsung insiders with practical applications for managers, executives, and CEOs, this book shows you how to: speed up decision making and execution, on a bigger scale; and create a convergence synergy among diversified businesses, while staying competitive in core businesses.
Reveals how customer recommendations in the digital space have radically transformed the way people buy - which means you need to come up with new methods to reach customers and improve your products. This title provides what you need to seize the competitive edge and grow your company.
A corporate manifesto for overcoming obstacles to professional success identifies the reasons why companies often make questionable decisions, outlining 12 fast-track principles of business transformation that discuss the involvement of CEOs, personal accountability and increasing revenue instead of cutting costs.
A framework for improving managerial effectiveness, based on the timeless principles of Peter Drucker
Two leading workforce development specialists deliver the framework and tools today's executives and HR professionals need to develop and build capabilities for the future.
Offers advice on seeking organizational changes rather than allowing them to happen.
Describes what sets market-dominating companies apart and provides a framework you can leverage to surge to the lead in your own industry. This title examines the internal operations of dominant organizations across a wide spectrum of industries, from technology to design and from manufacturing to health care.
Offers females advice on handling women-to-women relationships in the workplace, discussing how to transform toxic relationships into mutually beneficial ones.
The next step in social marketing! Moving beyond basic tactics to building an organization-wide customer-relationship strategy
OverviewrnClassroom management may be the hardest part of being a teacher: fraught with power struggles, it often leaves teachers feeling stressed and drained and students feeling mutinous or powerless. Most familiar classroom management practices reflect a dissonance between the rapid pace of change in our culture and the decades-old instruction and management techniques that still form the fo…
OverviewrnThis book provides school administrators with practical, easy-to-use, and inexpensive ways to reward and recognize the efforts of their staff. More than 100 ideas are divided into three categories based on the amount of effort they require. Recognizing and rewarding your staff can be as simple as writing a heartfelt thank-you note to a bus driver or as unexpected as taking a teacher's…
Operations management is an important skill for current and aspiring business leaders to develop and master. It deals with the design and management of products, processes, services, and supply chains. Operations management is a growing field and a required course for most undergraduate business majors and MBA candidates. Now, Operations Management For Dummies serves as an extremely resourceful…
An innovative and accessible guide to business, management and commerceLearning 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, co…