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From hiring and retaining good people to motivating and developing team members, from understanding key financial statements to delegating work effectively, and from setting goals for others to managing your own career, this guide walks readers through various aspects of managing in a complex business world.

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Offers insights into the management of companies operating in an international environment. This book describes the emergence of a revolutionary corporate form - the transnational - and reveals how the nature of the global competitive game has fundamentally changed.

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Helps music managers and artists learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager's work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. This book teaches them how to acquire clients, negotiate contracts, develop image, administer taxes and finances, and deal with promoters, media, attorneys, and unions.

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Managing through change and crisis is difficult in any business environment. This guide offers advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change such as M&A, and address emotional responses to downsizing.

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Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges This title is part of a series that offers essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced. It teaches the secrets to leading effectively - from top executives.

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Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges This title is part of a series that offers essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced. It teaches the secrets to leading effectively - from top executives.

(Paperback)

Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation.

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Designed for a senior-level or first-year MBA course on organizational behaviour and human resource management, this text examines contemporary issues facing management such as drugs in the workplace, ethnic diversity, family and career and women in management.

(Paperback)

When a new project is handed to them, readers can use this guide to help juggle the gamut of tasks required to get the job done. The handy tools and checklists offer guidance on how to: * Identify necessary resources * Develop schedules and set deadlines * Set and monitor budgets * Communicate progress and problems

(Hardback)

Describes the opportunities that a rapidly expanding older workforce offers employers, the challenges that stand in the way of full engagement and productivity particularly with respect to their younger managers, and the specific strategies and practices that organizations and managers can adopt to manage older workers more effectively.

(Paperback)

When faced with packed schedules, endless emails, and towering in-boxes, it's easy to become overwhelmed and ineffective at work. This guide will put readers back in charge of their time and workload by showing how to: - Set goals and prioritize tasks - Utilize appropriate scheduling tools - Control distractions and interruptions - Delegate wisely

(Paperback)

Managing up is a conscious approach to working with your manager toward mutually agreed-upon goals that are in the best interests of you, your manager, and the organization. This book provides strategies for keeping your boss in the loop and on your side, despite differences in style and philosophy.

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Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation Corporate cozying up Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. This guidebook contends that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job - and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor and your entire company.

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Argues that market rebels also establish fresh niches and fresh cultural styles. This book shows how consumer activists have faced down chain stores and big box retailers, and how anti-biotechnology activists in Germany penetrated pharmaceutical firms and delayed the commercialization of patents.

(Hardback)

Presents an analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel understanding of global markets. This book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production depend, and provides an alternative approach to the analysis of pricing mechanisms.

(Paperback)

Effective marketing can mean the difference between runaway successes and costly flops. Covering everything from customer programs to ad campaigns to sales promotions, this guide for marketers, aims to help them to turn opportunities into profits.

(Hardback)

CEOs are more than frustrated by marketing's inability to deliver results. Has the profession lost its relevance This work argues that, while the function of marketing has lost ground, the importance of marketing as a mind-set-geared toward customer focus and market orientation-has gained momentum across the entire organization.

(Hardback)

Marketing in the Groundswell

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The Internet, globalization, and hypercompetition are dramatically reshaping markets and changing the way business is done. This work describes the next transformational imperative for marketing. It calls for a fundamental rethinking of corporate strategy to enable the ongoing creation and delivery of superior value for customers.

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Argues that "the history of every dead and dying 'growth' industry shows a self-deceiving cycle of bountiful expansion and undetected decay." This book illustrates that memories are short.

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