Business & economics / Management Science

Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager

by Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler & Lawrence Hawkins

Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader. Now, Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager clearly and thoroughly reveals...

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

by Michael E. Porter

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

by Scott Belsky

"Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part."

-Guy Kawasaki, author of Enchantment

According to productivity expert Scott Belsky, no one is born with the ability to drive...

The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management

by Eric Verzuh

This is one of the bestselling books ever published on the topic of project management. Now in a revised new third edition, it presents you with a wealth of proven techniques for managing projects-from establishing...

Managing Across Cultures: The 7 Keys to Doing Business with a Global Mindset

by Charlene Solomon & Michael S. Schell

hether you run a giant corporation or work in a small business, it’s more than likely that you regularly deal with people of different cultures—from customers and suppliers to salespeople and colleagues....

The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management

by Eric Verzuh

An updated and revised edition of the bestselling guide to managing projects

For any professional responsible for coordinating projects among different departments, across executive levels, or with technical...

Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management Testimony before the Special House Committee

by Frederick Winslow Taylor

A three-part collection of Frederick Winslow Taylor's explanations of scientific management. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of...

The Portable MBA

by Kenneth M. Eades, Timothy M. Laseter & Ian Skurnik

A totally revised new edition of the bestselling guide to business school basics

The bestselling book that invented the "MBA in a book" category, The Portable MBA Fifth Edition is a reliable and information-packed...

The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Perf ormance

by James A. Autry

Servant leadership is leadership the right way—a better way of being a manager and part of organizational life. Servant leadership will produce fulfilling emotional, psychological, and spiritual rewards for...

Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

by Henry Mintzberg

In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic...

Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

by Robert Axelrod & Michael D Cohen

Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and...

Winning the Global Game: A Strategy for Linking People and Profits

by Jeffrey Rosensweig

In the 21st century global economy, emerging nations will provide almost half of the potential customers for western goods and services, concludes international business expert Jeffrey A. Rosensweig. Drawing...

Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People

by Anders Broms, H. Thomas Johnson & Peter M. Senge

Waste has plagued almost every industrial-age firm for the past century. In this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking, experts H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert that...

Difficult Conversations

by Douglas Stone & Bruce Patton

The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask"

We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming...

Executive Intelligence

by Justin Menkes

The final word on what traits make for highly successful managers—and a detailed explanation of how to identify potential standout performers.

Executive Intelligence is about the substance behind great leadership....

The Gifted Boss

by Dale Dauten

Want freedom from management, mediocrity and morons?

Ever wonder what the best bosses know that you don't?

Do you want to have great employees, people who don't need to be managed and who make everyone around...

Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence: Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future

by Ray C. Rist

The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but three critical areas presently being impacted means that long-held assumptions are no longer true, that the past...

Project and Program Management: A Competency-Based Approach

by Mitchell L. Springer

Choosing the right people to carry out a project is essential to its success. When multiple projects are combined into a complex program, the "human aspect" becomes even more important. This book is the first...

Managing Projects in Africa: Essentials from the Project Management Journal

by Project Management Journal

This special issue of the Project Management Journal presents a collection of six articles on managing projects in Africa. Providing a window into the important project activity taking place there, these articles...

Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management

by Malcolm Goodman & Sandra M. Dingli

Many organizations in both the private and public sector are confronted with stiff challenges as they face rapid changes in the business environment. Understanding the causes of these changes is essential if...