Business The Ultimate Resource

by Law, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781408128114
• ISBN10: 140812811X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-15
• Publisher: A&C Black

Summary

An international bestseller,BUSINESS: The Ultimate Resourceis a one-stop reference and interactive tool covering all aspects of today's world of work.Unique, authoritative, and wide-ranging, it offers practical and strategic advice for anyone doing business today. Written with a team of world-class writers and editors, it is an essential desk reference for managers, MBA and business students and for small business owners worldwide.Fully updated and revised for this new edition,BUSINESSfeatures: Best Practice: over 170 essays from a stellar cast of business thought leaders Checklists and actionlists: more than 200 practical solutions to everyday business challenges Management Library: time-saving digests of more than 100 of the world's best business books Dictionary: jargon-free definitions of more than 7,000 terms Giants and Thinkers: revised biographies of over 100 of the world's most influential gurus and pioneers

Author Biography

Features various authors including:

• Gary Hamel, lauded by The Wall Street Journal as "the world’s most influential business thinker" and author of many management bestsellers, including Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future.

• John Kotter, Professor of Leadership Emeritus at Harvard Business School and author of the classic Leading Change.

• Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University.

• Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 professor of International Business at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, director of its Centre for Global Leadership, and an internationally respected expert on strategy and innovation.

 

Writers and practitioners such as Warren Bennis, Henry Mintzberg, Seth Godin James Champy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne complete the stellar contributors list.