Business

This book explores the psychological theory about goal setting and feedback - essentials in building excellent performance culture. This sets the expectations and real-time feedback that managers, as coaches, can understand how to sustain it.

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Robots are all around us. Working in factories, hospitals, with armies and manufacturers and even, increasingly, around your home. But how have we come so far so quickly? How does the technology function? And which robots will dramatically change our lives?

Shows how to develop talent within your staff and retain them in your company.

Jewell writes the first history of the Southern States Industrial Council (SSIC), which charts its transformation as a regional business interest to a key player in the South's dramatic political realignment in the post-1945 era from 'Solid South' to conservative Republican stronghold.

At 19, Nathan Latka founded a software company with just a few thousand dollars of his own money. He sold it five years later for $10.5 million. He doesn't consider himself exceptionally brilliant; he just realised something few people know: You can be a hugely successful capitalist without any capital. ...

From the author of The Economist's Schumpeter column: how business must adapt and change in the face of unprecedented disruption to the world of work.

Does for disagreements what Quiet by Susan Cain did for introverts

Lloyd Lim, who operated a small family business for more than ten years, knows that not everyone is a business genius. But anyone--even first-time entreprenuers--can learn basic concepts that will help them spot issues, ask the right questions, and operate a successful enterprise. In this business guidebook, ...

Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staff

It is the numbers; you have got to make your numbers. Whether you are a rookie or a veteran salesperson, the immediate challenge is to make your numbers. Well, it is time to sharpen your skills; get out of the same old humdrum drill each month as you try to meet your companys sales and profit goals. ...

A gripping investigation into the private companies that run Britain

This volume will introduce the reader to basic topics of corporate finance. The notes will provide an integrative model that will help students evaluate projects, examine financing alternatives and assess a firm.With problems and detailed solutions at the end of each chapter, this volume will also greatly ...

Seeking Adam Smith provides a fascinating insider's explanation for why business school faculty members, including the author, bear some responsibility for the highly destructive corporate practices evident throughout the first sixteen years of the 21st century.Since the Great Recession substantial resources ...

Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions.

A survey of the complex and intertwined set of forces behind the various commodity markets and the interplay between these markets and the global economy. Summarizes a rich set of facts combined with in-depth analyses distillated in a nontechnical manner. Includes discussion of structural trends behind ...

There are two traditional views of the role of intellectual property (IP) within the field of innovation management: in innovation management research, as an indicator or proxy for innovation inputs or outputs, e.g. patents or licensing income; or in innovation management practice, as a means of protecting ...

Since the pioneering work scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship have evolved to become two separate and distinct disciplines. Schumpeter 1 focused on the contributions of entrepreneurial startups and smaller firms, whereas Schumpeter 2 emphasized ...