For the first time the story that is taught in business schools around the world is told from the inside. Haier purpose is a comprehensive guide to the strategies and innovation that made Haier the global phenomenon that it is today.
The Lazy Project Manager shows how adopting a more focused approach to life, projects and work can make us twice as productive. By exercising effort where it really matters we will work smarter. The simple techniques of lazy project management can help us to work more effectively and improve our work-life balance.
Karen McCreadie's thoroughly up-to-date interpretation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War illustrates Master Sun's two thousand-year-old principles of battlefield tactics and strategies with modern case studies to enable 21st century leaders to transform their organizations.
Nine visions of capitalism argues that capitalism does have a future despite its recent crises, but only if the standard Anglo-American model of capitalism absorbs the dynamism and flexibility of the German Mittelstand, pays heed to Singapore's hybridization model and learns from the world's vibrant immigrant communities.
The Oak Lord is the finale to Jack Brenin's adventures, which began with the international bestseller The Golden Acorn, winner of the 2010 Brit Writers' Award, and continued in its sequels, Glasruhen Gate, Silver Hill and The Lost Treasure of Annwn.
The Lost Treasure of Annwn is the fourth in the magical six-book Jack Brenin series. Jack's adventures continue as he is required to take sole responsibility for finding and remaking a lost treasure to prove that he is the rightful heir to the throne of Annwn. Written for readers aged 8 to 11 the Jack Brenin series continues in The Oak Lord.
In Consumptionomics one of Asia's leading sources of new ideas, Chandran Nair, tackles head on what is certain to prove the most controversial political challenge of the next two decades, Asia's presumed need to consume more and the concomitant threat to the global environment.
In this revealing, emotional and uplifting book, single-mother Anne-Marie Cockburn shows how she used the art of writing, combined with determined self-belief, to guide her through the traumatic experience of losing her only child to an overdose of the drug Ecstasy. This Anniversary Edition includes an additional chapter, bringing Anne-Marie's story up-to-date.
Codebreaking our future examines the structure of modern society and provides an overview of the four major challenges that will dominate change in the 21st century. Drawing on centuries of academic research and examples from contemporary scientists, demographers and trend-watchers, this book establishes a methodology for predicting the future.
This fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world's greatest brandy provides an authoritative account of how the much-loved spirit is produced and matured, an engaging review of the history and personalities, and a comprehensive directory of cognac producers and their products.