The unwritten laws of business

It's a little book with a big history. In the summer of 2005, the magazine "Business 2.0" published a cover story on a self-published management pamphlet by William Swanson, CEO of American aerospace contractor Raytheon. Lauded by chief executives including Jack Welch and ...

Guide to project management

achieving lasting benefit through effective change

Project management is too often considered to be work done only by those called "project managers". Responsibility is delegated to individuals who struggle against sometimes impossible odds to bring about a successful outcome. Yet, experience demonstrates that any project requires the collaboration of a great ...

Emerging markets

lessons for business success and the outlook for different markets

Business opportunities in China, Russia, East Asia and Eastern Europe, including Turkey, offer increasing rewards if you get it right - and disaster if you get it wrong. Using the real experiences of companies wherever possible to illustrate the points it makes, this extensively updated and ...

Successful strategy execution

how to keep your business goals on target

Strategy-to-performance gaps foster a culture of under-performance. Unrealistic plans create the expectation throughout the organisation that plans simply will not be fulfilled. The book shows how to overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively. Common failings include: companies rarely track their performance against long-term plans ...

Guide to financial markets

Financial markets have been around ever since people started trading crops with each other. They take many different forms and operate in many different ways. But all of them, whether highly organised, like the New York Stock Exchange, or highly informal, like money-changers in Africa ...

After the Neocons

America at the Crossroads

Attacking the right-wing policymakers he had previously associated with, Francis Fukuyama argues that the Bush administration, in the war in Iraq, has wrongly applied the principles of neoconservatism - a philosophy that is vital to the arguments about Iraq, but rarely explored, and whose history he ...

Adam Smith

and the pursuit of liberty

The Scottish Philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was long ago adopted as the father of a neo-conservative ideology of unregulated business and small government. Politicians such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promoted Smith's famous 1776 book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of ...

Alexis de Tocqueville

a biography

It is now 200 years since the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, liberal politician and writer of genius whose great works, "Democracy in America", and the "Ancien Regime", are ever more influential and discussed. As the son of a noble family, which was ...

The shock of the old

technology in global history since 1900

The first proper global account of the place of technology in twentieth century history, this brilliant, thought-provoking book will radically revise our understanding of the relationship between technology and society. Whereas standard histories of technology give tired old accounts of the usual inventions - planes, bombs ...

The Alhambra

Business Consulting

a guide to how it works and how to make it work

In the last three decades of the 20th century the management consultancy industry grew at a cracking pace but increased scepticism about the value that consultants genuinely add, combined with the economic slowdown, has made life much tougher for the consulting industry. As firms have ...

Knowledge based business

Surveys of knowledge management initiatives reveal that it is becoming one of the highest priorities in more and more companies, reflecting the recognition that a company's knowledge and how it is nurtured and managed can dramatically increase a firm's competitive advantage. This book ...

Guide to business modelling

All organisations face more and more complex decision-making while the risks dependent on their decisions require increasingly explicit understanding of potential outcomes. The new edition of this widely acclaimed guide is full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible and easy-to-use ...

Economics

making sense of the modern economic

Substantially revised edition of previously successful title that, with typical Economist style and clarity, provided expert analysis of different aspects of the modern economy. Subject areas covered include Globalisation * The power of the state in influencing economic life * The power of financial markets * The impact ...

Guide to the European Union

Headhunters and how to use them

a guide for organisations and individuals

Building a better business

the key to future marketing, management and motivation

Starting from the premise that people's attitudes to business have changed: both the role businesses should play in the world and how individuals can achieve a better work-life balance, this book shows how you can build a better and more successful business and achieve ...

The transformation of Ireland

1900-2000

The cardinal's hat

money, ambition and housekeeping in a renaissance court

Second son of Lucretia Borgia, Ippolito d'Este loved gambling, hunting, tennis and women. He became Archbishop of Milan at the age of 9 ... But he had to wait another twenty years before he acquired his coveted cardinal's hat, the route to wealth and ...

Essential economics

In the complicated, fast-moving global environment in which we live and work today, an understanding of economics is more important than ever. This book is a clear and lively guide to the essentials of economics, with entries that stretch from A to Z and cover ...