Scaldingly honest, impeccably researched and movingly written, ‘MAXED OUT’ is, as ‘FAST FOOD NATION’ was to the food industry, the book the captains of the debt industry wish you would never read.‘Maxed Out’ is a groundbreaking work that targets the debt industry and how it is fundamentally re-shaping our lives through misleading, unethical, insidious and sometimes illegal practices designed to bury us under ever higher amounts of debt.The book ...
What is talent? How do you get the best out of yourself? What are the secrets of leadership?In Edge, Ben Lyttleton gets unprecedented access to some of the world’s top football clubs to discover their innovative methods for developing talent – and reveals how we can use them in our everyday lives. Elite teams now look for an edge by improving the intangible skills of their players ‘above the shoulder’. Liverpool’s approach to talent will make yo ...
The fascinating tale of how one company spawned a huge international business success story, created legions of new gamblers and revolutionised the worlds of gambling and sport for ever.In 2000 a company called Betfair, founded by Andrew Black and Ed Wray, began trading. Since then, the brainchild of these two contrasting English innovators has meant the world of gambling, sport, the Internet, government attitudes to betting and public perceptio ...
Business authors Jack and Suzy Welch return, nearly a decade after publishing their international bestseller, Winning, to tackle the most pressing business challenges in the modern world. From creating winning strategies to leading and managing others The Real Life MBA acts as an essential guide for every person in business today – and tomorrow. You can talk about theories, concepts, and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to i ...
Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success.In this captivating business parable, bestselling author Ken Blanchard tells the story of Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician n ...
The Way of Nowhere is a business book by the UK’s hottest change management consultancy who have led transformations in some of Britain’s biggest and best known organisations. An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to make a creative difference in their lives and the lives of people around them.Inspired by the unique practice of 'nowhere', a community of companies that specialise in co-creation, this is an inspirational book that will help ...
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework , are back with a manifesto to combat all your modern workplace worries and fears.
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct successor to Rework , the instant bestseller that showed readers a new path to working effectively. Now Fried and Heinemeier Hansson have returned with a new strategy for the ideal company culture – what they call “the ...
Ця книжка навчить вас мистецтва ефективного делегування та розподілу обов’язків. Підвищити продуктивність компанії, налагодити комунікацію зі співробітниками, вибудувати чітку стратегію керівництва, розподілити обов’язки між підлеглими відповідно до їхніх можливостей, встигнути вирішити більше важливих задач за менший час із допомогою злагодженої командної роботи, промоніторити виконання завдань та здійснити підтримку проектів – ці та інші прему ...
В статье дается анализ ситуации смены идентичности университетов и поиска ими новых институциональных форм и моделей. Описаны мировые тренды, влияющие на смену идентичности, к каковым относятся тренд смены временных ориентиров, тренд трансграничности, тренд смены идентичностей основных агентов, студента и профессора, тренд обретения «третьего места». Авторы показывают, что в ситуации влияния мировых трендов формируется запрос на новый тип мышлен ...
