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The Management Mythbuster

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Become a better manager by challenging the myths of commonly accepted management wisdom

A humorous review of current management practice with a very serious message, The Management Mythbuster makes an entertaining case for questioning much of the conventional wisdom that pervades the corporate world today.

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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

Simon & Schuster, 2013

Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage.

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The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders

Jossey-Bass, 2006

This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of "take away" best practices in each area—an executive summary in reverse—that will serve as a...

The First-Time Manager

AMACOM, 2012

It is shortlisted for the Chartered Management Institute's Management Book of the Year award 2012. What's a rookie manager to do? Faced with new responsibilities, and in need of quick, dependable guidance, novice managers can't afford to learn by trial and error. The "First-Time Manager" is the answer, dispensing the...

International Economics (9th Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2011

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, renowned researcher Maurice Obstfeld, and new co-author Marc Melitz of Harvard University, continue to set the standard for International Economics courses with the text that remains the market leader in the U.S. and around the world.

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Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable

Apress, 2012

Newly promoted CISOs rapidly realize that the scope of the position they have taken on is often beyond what they have been prepared for. The nature of securing an enterprise is daunting and overwhelming. There are no simple checklists or roadmaps for success. Many of the technical security skills a CISO has acquired during the early...

Patterns, Programming and Everything

Springer, 2012

With 11 invited submissions from leading researchers and teams of researchers sharing one common characteristic ? all have worked with Dr. Judith Bishop during her long and continuing career as a leader in computer science education and research ? this book reflects on Dr Bishop?s outstanding contribution to computer science....

Law Express: Intellectual Property Law (Revision Guide)

Longman Publishing Group, 2010

Intellectual property law is a demanding but enjoyable subject. It covers a range of rights, some of which have little in common with others. Students should keep in mind that, although some rights may be quite different to others, a number of rights may exist in respect of the same subject matter. For example, a new design of...

The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

The Agile Pocket Guide explains how to develop products, services, and software quickly and efficiently, without losing the main components of the framework so effective in streamlining the creating of these products and for making positive change within a company. It includes

The basic tennets of the Scrum...

Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself (Que Biz-Tech)

Que, 2010

Use Social Media to Build a Great Personal Brand–and a Great Career!

Need to demonstrate more value to customers or employers? Want a new job or career? Use social media to build the powerful personal brand that gets you what you want! In...

Collaborative Leadership: How to Succeed in an Interconnected World

Routledge, 2009

Collaborative leadership is about delivering results across boundaries. The nature of that boundary is important, whether it's a formal contract or an informal agreement between two parties to work together for a common aim. And leaders need to be clear about where the boundary lies and how to use the different capabilities on either side...

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

Jossey-Bass, 2011

The first true revision of the classic book from the bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge

As the world falls deeper into economic downturns and warfare, the question of credibility (how leaders gain and lose it) is more important than ever. Building on their research from The Leadership Challenge, James...

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