The professional service company in the 1990s needs to rethink its whole posture towards the market and distinguish its firm from the mass of new and old competitors which surrounds it. This book takes the reader through the key steps to building a positive corporate image.
What happens when you, as a manager, discover that you're the cause of poor performance? This text reveals techniques that helps you overcome common behavioural obstacles and reach success in workplace. It covers techniques that include ways to engage employees, control negative emotions, and develop a contagious positive attitude.
Thousands of people every year think about starting their own business. This book offers inspirational, real-life advice on how to work out if this route is right for you, and how to get started on the path to becoming an entrepreneur.
Principled leadership is a debt and a duty owed to past and future generations to replenish that which is used. Be honourable and share equally (Mahatma Gandhi). The last twelve months has led to turmoil for all of us from the greatest to the smallest. We feel more uncertain of our individual and collective ...
Communication seems so simple, yet breakdowns in communication abound and serious misunderstandings can have you losing your temper, face or credibility and failing to achieve what you want. But both written and presentational business communication are career skills - affecting your current job and ...
Aims to give non-lawyers a working understanding of Inheritance tax. This book enables readers to: assess their particular situation and discover where it might be considerably improved; talk with advisers intelligently; judge their worth; and evaluate their advice. It is also useful for law and accountancy students approaching the subject.
Written to give step-by-step guidelines to British and other anglophone nationals moving to France. This book also gives them the best possible chances of turning their dream of self-employment into a successful reality.
Explores several national corporate governance reform experiences from around the world and offers an explanatory theory with regard to national systems of corporate governance. This book also underlines corporate governance as a management tool and principle.
This book challenges much of the rhetoric about the role of knowledge in business. Although top managers hail knowledge and learning as the source of their competitive edge, the rich empirical studies presented in the book question this top-down perspective. It will make compelling reading for management academics and practitioners alike.
Over the years, large numbers of academics and practitioners have looked into the valuation of companies and the different techniques that can be applied. Discounted cash flow, residual income, and economic value added are only a few of the techniques that have been researched extensively. Typically, ...
Corporate governance constitutes the internal and external institutions, markets, policies, and processes designed to help companies maximize their efficiency and value. In this collection of classic and current articles from the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, thought leaders such as Michael Jensen ...
Many companies are multi-national corporations (MNCs) that have significant foreign operations deriving a high percentage of their sales overseas. The controllers of MNCs require an understanding of the complexities of international finance to make sound financial and investment decisions. International ...
Jeremy Holt, Jeremy Newton, Sarah Ellacott, Andrew Katz, Jean Morgan, Jennifer Pierce, Graham Wood
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This comprehensive guide for management professionals discusses the IT-related legal issues faced by businesses on a daily basis. Legal concepts and terminology are notoriously difficult for non-specialists, but this book explains in plain English the most relevant legal frameworks and gives examples from actual case law.
To be read by all organisations and Government Ministers, this provocative book looks closely at the disease of targetitis and its cure. It examines common ways of setting targets and argues that the primary purpose of orthodox management is to secure compliance. Many vital topics are explored.
Shows how BC's successful public energy system is being supplanted by a deregulated private electrical system. This book says that the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to provide a supportive financial, environmental, legal and ownership framework to assist the growth of private energy investments in BC.
As students leave college â?? already weighed down by the burden of student loans to repay â?? and enter the working world with all of its financial and legal traps and temptations, it is more important than ever that they understand the most important facts of personal finance and employment rights. ...
