Business and Management

Reveals the secret expectations harbored by business school professors when viewing presented material. Designed to offer a competitive advantage to anyone interested in a career in business, this book offers a truly unique means of developing powerful presentation skills.

‘The Meetings Handbook: Formal Rules and Informal Processes’ is a comprehensive manual to the rules and issues of meetings, as well as a useful guide to understanding the informal processes that underlie the successful conduct of the business of meetings.

“Gaucho Dialogues on Leadership and Management” analyzes Latin American militias as organizations, highlighting the elements that best fit people who see themselves as members of groups—a description that fits the vast majority of the world. Among militias, loyalty largely overrides merit and can align a people into highly effective action, a characteristic that business organizations wish to promote.

‘Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times’ presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – Athletic Leadership. Athletic CEOs are not humble or empathic; their leadership is grounded in a combination of toughness and adaptability. They deliver superior performance and transform their companies, employees and near-environments by systematically applying a set of meta-practices.

Over the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed various small regions into global powers. But they have faded when they did not embrace the next big innovation. Gerard J. Tellis and Stav Rosenzweig argue in ‘How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations’ that openness to new ideas and people, competition and empowerment of individuals are key drivers in the development and adoption of transformative innovations.

‘The Craft of Professional Writing’ is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer.

‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’ is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

Private Equity’ explores the deal making and investment strategies of private equity investors with an analytical framework that focuses on value-add.

Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, "The Plight of Potential" shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.

Have you ever wondered why many of the over 28 million small businesses in operation in the United States do not survive past the first five years? Is it the economy? The stock market? Or is it something else? ‘Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival’ explains why.

‘Managing Global Supply Chains’ addresses the challenges and trends that the global supply chain industry has encountered in recent decades. The book’s emphasis is on emerging and developed economies in Asia, North America and Latin America.

A critical handbook for those interested and engaged in investing capital to generate financial returns with social and environmental impacts, “The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors” offers a review of total portfolio management strategy and practice for investing capital and understanding its impact on creating a better world for both investors and community members.