Product Description: Provides readers with a powerful tool to ensure success when entering into a strategic alliance on both national and international scales. Extensive case studies illustrate the advantages and pitfalls involved in alliances. Contains guidelines which enable companies to assess if an alliance is right for their business and what criteria to use when selecting a partner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Richard Lewis provides a truly global and practical guide to working and communicating across cultures, with penetrating insights into how different business cultures accord status, structure their organizations, and view their role of leaders.

Product Description: Learning to respond effectively to the increasingly diverse business environment! We all confront and respond to various forms of diversity every day. The ability to recognize and respond to diversity of all kinds is a skill needed for success in and around business organizations today...read more

Forced into seclusion after her father is released from prison, Esther Jackson, fearing for her life, must place her trust in Craig Nighthawk, a man on trial for a crime he did not commit. Reprint.

Product Description: Any company operating across culturally different contexts has a need for intercultural management, whether the cultural differences are ""external"" (e.g. different regional cultures) or ""internal"" (e.g. differences in company culture)...read more

Product Description: Drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas's social theory for the critical study of management, organization and employment, this book proposes a new definition of legitimate corporate action; based on Habermas's principles of communicative rationality and discourse ethics...read more

Product Description: How do you ignite creativity, problem solving, and risk taking to score big in business? According to bestselling author Kevin Carroll, it’s child’s play! Former 76ers athletic trainer Kevin Carroll, has turned his childhood passion for playing ball into a bestselling franchise...read more

Product Description: The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. Because it has never been fully developed as a managed process and applied to our organizations, the way in which we have been trying to deal with the complex issues we face today is looking increasingly inadequate...read more

Product Description: Put digital business strategy at the center of your business Welcome to the social media age. Although its impact was first felt in the marketing department, the social web is spreading across all business functions, impacting the way they communicate, operate, organize, and create value...read more

Product Description: Offering a dynamic take on sustainable development, this volume presents the guiding principles behind the Connected Value Approach—developing collaboration between unlikely allies and encouraging the establishment of new directions while remaining connected to professional context...read more

Ten years of research uncover the secret source of growth and profit …Those who center their business on improving people’s lives have a growth rate triple that of competitors and outperform the market by a huge margin. They dominate their categories, create new categories and maximize profit in the long term.Pulling from a unique ten year growth study involving 50,000 brands, Jim Stengel shows how the world's 50 best businesses—as diverse as Method, Red Bull, Lindt, Petrobras, Samsung, Discovery Communications, Visa, Zappos, and Innocent—have a cause and effect relationship between financial performance and their ability to connect with fundamental human emotions, hopes, values and greater purposes.   In fact, over the 2000s an investment in these companies—“The Stengel 50”—would have been 400 percent more profitable than an investment in the S&P 500.  Grow is based on unprecedented empirical research, inspired (when Stengel was Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble) by a study of companies growing faster than P&G.  After leaving P&G in 2008, Stengel designed a new study, in collaboration with global research firm Millward Brown Optimor.  This study tracked the connection over a ten year period between financial performance and customer engagement, loyalty and advocacy.Then, in a further investigation of what goes on in the “black box” of the consumer’s mind, Stengel and his team tapped into neuroscience research to look at customer engagement and measure subconscious attitudes to determine whether the top businesses in the Stengel Study were more associated with higher ideals than were others.  Grow thus deftly blends timeless truths about human behavior and values into an action framework – how you discover, build, communicate, deliver and evaluate your ideal. Through colorful stories drawn from his fascinating personal experiences and “deep dives” that bring out the true reasons for such successes as the Pampers, HP, Discovery Channel, Jack Daniels and Zappos,  Grow unlocks the code for twenty-first century business success.From the Hardcover edition.