Case Studies in Survival, Sustainability and Success
Brings together highly regarded specialists to stimulate new ideas for innovation, community action and social enterprise, and to offer advice for deploying new skills across a range of fields and contexts.
How to successfully implement your business strategy
Without clear direction, a productive working environment and an effective strategy implementation process, integrated with all aspects of the working organization, an organization’s strategy may not be delivered and the causes of failure will not be clear.
Good strategy implementation is about effective leadership. Effective leadership is not ......
Combining the science of effectivement procurement with the art ofmanaging supplier contracts
Until now, there has no book that sets out structures and strategies for sound supply contract management. This book sets out to do more than this: it aligns the science of sourcing and procuring of supplies/suppliers with the art of smart contract management. And it does so based...
Revitalise Your Business, Wrong-Foot Your Competitors
Learn how to reshape and reposition your company to meet tougher challenges and competitors, when to confront and when to retreat, how to assess risk and opportunity and how to move to seize opportunities and knock-out the competition.
How to Achieve Corporate Success in the People's Republic
Presents how to benefit from doing business in China, also how to avoid the serious risks that the endeavor entails. This title brings to bear a unique combination of experiences as former top government official, political scientist, professor of international corporate strategy, and consultant.
How to Persuade Others to Do What You'd Like Them to Do
Learn how to get other people to want to do what you want them to do because your ability to interact, communicate, negotiate, influence and persuade. While plenty of books teach sales and negotiation techniques, this one explains the fundamentals and the psychology behind why these techniques work and how to use them most effectively.
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 today, however. After decades of growth and prosperity...
Achieving and Sustaining High Performing Organizations in the Nonprofit
Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations.