Management

1.       Event Management and Sustainability

Sustainable management is an important consideration for businesses and organisations, and the enormous number of tourism events taking place requiring facilities, power, transport, people and much more makes sustainable event planning a considerable priority. By looking at mega events, sports events, conferences and festivals, this book uses best practice case studies to illustrate sustainable management issues and practical considerations that managers need to apply, providing an essential reference for researchers and students in leisure and tourism This e-book contains 283 pages

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2.                                                               Executive Power: Use the Greatest Collection of Psychological Strategies

Executive Power arms readers with effective, fast-acting techniques that show them, step-by-step, how to get what they need before they and their companies pay a heavy toll for lack of it. This book contains specific, carefully formulated psychological tactics that can be applied to any business situation, with any person. This book offers readers the opportunity to use the most important psychological tools governing human behavior, not just to level the playing field, but to create an automatic advantage in today’s business world. The book will arm the reader with the tactics to:
* Get back any customer you’ve lost.
* Find out who in your company is loyal to you and who is not.
* Get any group of people to get along and work as a team.
* Turn a lazy worker into an ambitious go-getter.
* Fire anyone easily, without an argument or even a difficult conversation.
* Dilute the impact of negative publicity quickly.
* Collect money owed, no matter how long it’s been overdue.
* Inspire your client, colleague, or boss to go along with your idea or plan.
* Manage the unmanageable-get any employee to fall in line with the company line.

This e-book contains 193 pages

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3.       Exploring Corporate Strategy, 8th Edition

Over 750,000 students worldwide have used this best-selling book to understand and explore strategic management through their academic and professional careers.Available in two versions (Text and Text & Cases),Exploring Corporate Strategyhas established a reputation as a pre-eminent textbook in its field, based upon the expertise of authorship, range of cases, depth of commentary and wealth of supporting resources.The 8th edition builds on these strengths, including coverage of key topic areas in this fast-moving discipline such as internationalisation, innovation and entrepreneurship. It is written for students of Strategic Management at all levels. This e-book contains 659 pages

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4.       Financial and Management Accounting: An Introduction, 4th Edition This revised and fully updated edition continues to provide students with a clear and well-structured introduction to financial and management accounting. This edition retains all of the classic features that have contributed to the book’s success particularly its clarity of expression within a sound conceptual framework.  There is a strong emphasis on the ‘why’ rather than simply the ‘what’ and ‘how’. Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Financial Accounting DeMYSTiFieD is a shortcut to developing a working knowledge of accounting practices. This e-book contains 819 pages Price: $6 only ___________________________________________

5.       Financial Management for Decision Makers Adopting an innovative, open-learning approach to introduce the main principles of financial management in an accessible, non-technical way, this fully updated 5th edition provides a unique focus on the practical application of financial management and its role in decision-making. This e-book contains 283 pages Price: $6 only __________________________________________

6.       Financial Strategies for the Manager   Part of Tsinghua University Texts, Financial Strategies for the Manager includes a range of financial management issues such as financial statement analysis, a systematic approach to financial performance appraisal, liquidity management and sales growth, working capital management, budgeting, foreign exchange and interest rate risk management, and a most useful tool not normally understood – EVA. The book is written in a concise and accessible style, minimizing the use of the technical jargon and complicated mathematical formulae. Included exercises enhance student learning and examples bolster ability to understand and use concepts in day-to-day situations. The material was originally developed for a large corporate client in the telecommunications business to assist non-financial managers in understanding financial theories in a practical way. It was expanded and revised into a text for a post-graduate course of the Asia/Pacific Management Co-operative Program, Capilano University, BC, Canada. Charles Priester is a professor at Capilano University of Canada; Jincheng Wang is a professor at the International Business School of Tianjin Foreign Studies University of China. This e-book contains 229 pages Price: $6 only ___________________________________________

7. Human Resource Management, 12th Edition

Take the most current look at human resource management and its impact on the success of organizations today with the latest edition of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT from Mathis/Jackson. Whether you are currently a practicing human resource management professional or plan to use HR knowledge in your career this comprehensive market-leading text has the information you need for ongoing professional success. This authoritative text offers a leading resource for preparation for professional HR certification by providing coverage of all major topics for the PHR and SPHR professional examinations given by the Human Resource Certification Institute (SHRM). This edition effectively blends theory and practice as it highlights the latest trends in human resource today, including strategic HR, employee retention, HR technology, talent management, total rewards, risk management, and workforce demographics changes. An updated research and academic approach with relevant examples demonstrates how HR is contributing to and impacting overall organizational success.. The book’s application approach details how emerging trends in technology, globalization, and HR Metrics are driving changes in HR management today. Valuable learning features, from the latest HR headlines to HR Best Practices, add to your knowledge of how current events impact HR and shape success today. This edition’s new integrated CengageNOW online learning system helps you efficiently manage and complete course requirements, with personalized study plans that maximize study time as you focus on the areas most challenging for you. The new HR BizFlix video clips from today’s feature movies put HR principles in action. Find everything you need to understand the latest transformations in HR today and how HR can contribute to your success, both individually and organizationally, success with Mathis/Jackson’s HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 12E.  This e-book contains 623 pages

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9.       Modern Management: Concepts and Skills, 12th Edition

Core concepts, cutting-edge skill training. Modern Management is a traditionally organized principles of management text that integrates core concepts with cutting-edge skill training—all while keeping the focus on application. This e-book contains 601 pages

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10.  Multiple Attribute Decision Making: Methods and Applications

Decision makers are often faced with several conflicting alternatives. How do they evaluate trade-offs when there are more than three criteria? To help people make optimal decisions, scholars in the discipline of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) continue to develop new methods for structuring preferences and determining the correct relative weights for criteria. A compilation of modern decision-making techniques, Multiple Attribute Decision Making: Methods and Applications focuses on the fuzzy set approach to multiple attribute decision making (MADM). Drawing on their experience, the authors bring together current methods and real-life applications of MADM techniques for decision analysis. They also propose a novel hybrid MADM model that combines DEMATEL and analytic network process (ANP) with VIKOR procedures.

The first part of the book focuses on the theory of each method and includes examples that can be calculated without a computer, providing a complete understanding of the procedures. Methods include the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), ANP, simple additive weighting method, ELECTRE, PROMETHEE, the gray relational model, fuzzy integral technique, rough sets, and the structural model. Integrating theory and practice, the second part of the book illustrates how methods can be used to solve real-world MADM problems. Applications covered in the book include:

·                  AHP to select planning and design services for a construction project

·                  TOPSIS and VIKOR to evaluate the best alternative-fuel vehicles for urban areas

·                  ELECTRE to solve network design problems in urban transportation planning

·                  PROMETEE to set priorities for the development of new energy systems, from solar thermal to hydrogen energy

·                  Fuzzy integrals to evaluate enterprise intranet web sites

·                  Rough sets to make decisions in insurance marketing

Helping readers understand how to apply MADM techniques to their decision making, this book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners. This is an e-book containing 335 pages

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11.  Operations and Process Management Written by best-selling authors in their field, Operations and Process Management inspires a critical and applied mastery of the core principles and processes fundamental to managing business operations. Approaching the subject from a truly managerial perspective, this brand new text provides clear and concise coverage. ·                  A diagnostic approach equips you with the questions to effectively assess and improve the operations and processes in your company. ·                  Cases in the main text provide an insight into the reality of managing operations. Interactive cases provide the opportunity to work through the decision-making process to solve operations problems. ·                  A balance of service and manufacturing examples equips you with a practical and wide-ranging understanding of the material. ·                  An interactive study guide featuring video, animated diagrams, Excel spreadsheets and further examples provides practical guidance on core concepts and issues. Ideal for students taking any practically-orientated MBA, executive MBA or executive course in Operations and Process management. This e-book contains 560 pages Price: $6 only ________________________________________

12.  Operations Management Chapter 1 focuses on examples of excellence in operations management and on the strategic design of operations and supply chain management. Chapter 2, Quality Management, emphasizes quality management systems and has expanded coverage of Six Sigma, including the Six Sigma process, Six Sigma tools, Six Sigma and profitability, and lean Six Sigma. Chapter 4, has new sections on Design for the Environment. Chapter 5, Service Design, includes discussions of the service economy, characteristics of services, the service design process, and tools for service design. A streamlined waiting line analysis section is included in this chapter. Chapter 6 emphasizes process analysis skills, and Chapter 7 contains examples of various service layouts. Both Chapter 8, Human Resources, and Chapter 9, Project Management, emphasize diversity in the workplace and global diversity issues. Chapter 10, Supply Chain Management Strategy and Design, and Chapter 11, Supply Chain Procurement and Distribution, both focus on creating value along the supply chain and include new material on sustainability. Chapter 11 includes a section on China’s increasing role in the global supply chain. Chapter 12, Forecasting, and Chapter 13, Inventory Management, both emphasize the important role of these topics in operations and supply chain management. Chapter 14 introduces Sales and Operations Planning into the aggregate planning process. Chapter 15, updates resource planning with discussions of SOA (service oriented architecture) and PLM (product lifecycle management). Chapter 16, has sections on leaning the supply chain, lean services, value stream mapping, and lean and the environment. This e-book contains 834 pages. Price: $9 only __________________________________________

13.  Operations Strategy (2nd Edition) The aim of this book is to provide a treatment of operations strategy which is clear, well structured, and interesting. It seeks to apply some of the ideas of operations strategy to a variety of  businesses and organisations. The text provides a logical path through the key activities and decisions of operations strategy as well as covering the broad principles which underpin the subject and the way in which operations strategies are put together in practice. More specifically, the text aims to be: _ Balanced in its treatment of the subject. In addition to taking the orthodox ‘market led’ approach to operations strategy, the book also provides an alternative but complementary ‘resource-based’ perspective._ Conceptual in the way it treats the decisions, activities and processes which together form an organisation’s operations strategy. Although some examples are quantified, the overall treatment in the book is managerial and practical. _ Comprehensive in its coverage of the more important ideas and issues which are relevantto most types of business. In any book covering such a broad area as operations strategy, one cannot cover everything. However, we believe that the more important issues are all addressed. _ Grounded in the various bodies of knowledge which underpin operations strategy. Most chapters introduce concepts and principles, often from other academic disciplines, which illuminate the particular operations strategy issue being discussed. International. In the examples it uses, the book describes practical operations strategy issues. This book is intended to provide a broad introduction to operations strategy for all students who wish to understand the strategic importance and scope of the operations function, for example: _ MBA students, who should find that it both links and integrates their experience and study of operations management with their core studies in business strategy; _ higher-level undergraduates studying business or technical subjects, although we assume a prior knowledge of the basics of operations management; _ postgraduate students on other specialised Master’s degrees should find that it provides them with a well-grounded approach to the subject; _ executives will also be able to relate the practical and pragmatic structure of the book to the more conceptual and theoretical issues discussed within the structure. This e-book contains 497 pages. Price: $6 only __________________________________________

14.  Principles of Marketing, 14th Edition

Learn how to create value and gain loyal customers. Today’s marketing challenge is to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers who make products and brands a part of their daily lives. To help readers understand how to create value and gain loyal customers, Principles of Marketing presents fundamental marketing information in a comprehensive format, organized around an innovative customer-value framework. The fourteenth edition includes coverage on sustainability and a focus on marketing in today’s challenging economic climate. This e-book contains 740 pages.

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15.       PROJECT MANAGEMENT    

This book is based upon the gtlobal project management experiences the author gained in different positions, especially with international management consulting companies and working as a member and chairman of executive boards, and now the author has the pleasure to share his knowledge and gain new experiences (not only in project management) as a professor with eager and enthusiastic students.  Every project manager will develop his or her own management style in their career.  Due to the constraints in the number of pages of this book I have limited the examples and case studies to an absolute minimum.  Aslo the so-called “soft-skills” of project management could not be discussed in detail.  This book should provide the interested reader with an overview of the methods and toolos which have been proven successful for project managers.  Everybody who would like to have an extended reading about some chapters should refer to the endnotes, where additional references are listed. This e-book contains 117 pages.

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16.  Rational Decision Making for Managers: An Introduction

Rational Decision Making for Managers provides students with a basic understanding of quantitative and analytical techniques that managers use to make complex business decisions and helps them to recognise when they are appropriate. Sarah Keast and Mike Towler also show the characteristics of the decisions that can be informed by the use of each technique, thereby guiding the reader in their choice.

Rational Decision Making for Managers features:

·                  separate chapters on robustness analysis and game theory

·                  a strong contextual discussion and clear structure

·                  a concise mathematical appendix

The book is essential reading for students studying business decision making, quantitative methods and business research methods.

The primary aim of this text is to provide managers and students with an introduction to some of the most common decision-making techniques. Following a discussion of the decision context, the approach followed is to divide the techniques into sections according to the types of decision for which they are most appropriate. This text begins, in Chapters I to 3, by introducing the nature and context of decisions. In particular, the consideration of futures is developed, while both quantitative and qualitative techniques for describing continuous or discrete models of the
future are expounded. These first three chapters aim to familiarise readers with the potential nature of the future, whether it is certain, uncertain, or strictly uncertain. The second section of the text, Chapters 4 to 7, and the third section, Chapters 8 to 10, are divided to stress that, while some decisions are singular in nature in that they will be taken once or will be repeated after a finite period of time, some decisions are sequential in nature, opening up future decision-making opportunities in which managers may add value. This is a simple yet important conceptual step. The role of the nature of the future introduced in the first section is seen throughout the later chapters. The future may he certain, as highlighted in Chapter 6 with examples from linear programming, it may be uncertain owing to uncontrollable events and considered discrete (e.g. Chapter S considers payoff matrices and Chapter 9 considers decision trees), it may be uncertain and considered continuous (exemplified in Chapter 4 with inventory management decisions), or it may be uncertain owing to the actions of a competitor (e.g. Chapters 7 and 10 consider game theory).

This e-book contains 344 pages.

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1.       SKILLS FOR PROJECT MANAGER

This e-book is a collection of the following e-books in one PDF project-format:

1.          Project Management

2.          Project Management - the Managerial Process

3.          McGraw-Hill 36 Hour Course on Project Management

4.          Leadership Principles for project Success

5.          Develop your Leadership skills

6.          90 days to Success as a Project Manager

7.          The Leadership Challenge

8.          Brilliant Project Management: What the project managers know, do and say

9.          A Manager's Guide to Resolving problems so every one can get back to work

10.       The Project Manager Mastering the Art of Delivery

11.       The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your ideas

12.       Leading with Emotional Intelligence

This e-book contains 3836 pages

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2.       Stragegic Management and Strategic Financial Management This e-book contains two parts: one is of Strategic Management and the other is of Strategic Financial management. The first part is aimed to give an overview of what the marketing means really in the prevailing business environment. It is more of reference document to stimulate some thinking and discussion about marketing, which is an essential part of any higher education course on marketing. This part of the e-book contains 121 pages. When you read the second part, you will not only appreciate the major components of contemporary finance but also find the subject much more accessible for future reference. The emphasis thro’out is on how strategic financial decisionsshould be made by management with reference to classical theory and contemporary research. This second part of the e-book contains 109 pages. This e-book contains 230 pages Price: $6 only ___________________________________________

3.       Strategic Management Concepts Introduce strategic management concepts using the market-leading text that sets the standard for the most complete, relevant presentation. Written by highly respected experts and prestigious scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson’s STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS, 9E provides an intellectually rich, yet thoroughly practical, analysis of strategic management concepts today. This unique text is the only one to integrate the classic industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm to give readers a complete understanding of how today’s businesses use strategic management to establish sustained competitive advantage. The authors present cutting-edge research and strategic management trends within a strong global focus, using memorable examples from more than 600 companies. A wealth of learning features, CengageNOW online tools, and an electronic business library further help you prepare students to face the broad range of issues confronting mangers today. This e-book contains 449 pages Price: $6 only ___________________________________________

4.       STRATEGIC MARKETING   This book is aimed to give an overview of what marketing really means in the contemporary business environment.  It's not a "how to guide" it's more a background/reference document to help stimulate some thinking and discussion about marketing, which is an essential part of any higher education course covering Marketing This e-book contains 121 pages. Price: $3 only __________________________________________

5.       Strategic Marketing: Planning and Control The completely revised and updated 3rd edition of the hugely successful Strategic Marketing: planning and control continues to provide a concise yet comprehensive synthesis of the key strategic marketing concepts. The text cuts through the complexity and jargon surrounding the subject and is tightly written to accommodate the reading time pressures on students. A clear, comprehensive and user-friendly text it provides an unrivalled digest of the tools, techniques and knowledge required to understand strategic marketing. Covering contemporary issues by exploring current developments in marketing theory and practice. It offers- . Coverage of key developments in customer relationship management, business ethics, market-led orientation and resource/asset-based approaches to internal analysis and planning . A highly exam focused approach which has been class tested and refined . A new chapter offering a ‘problem-based learning’ (PBL) approach to the subject . Thoroughly revised and updated case studies and vignettes of real world best practice throughout the text This e-book contains 349 pages Price: $5 only ___________________________________________

6.       The Management Consultant: Mastering the Art of Consultancy The secret for success in attracting, winning, retaining and growing client business whether working as an independent or for a firm. Mike Lander, CEO, Consulting Strategies Ltd Richard knows what clients value and provides clear, practical and experienced guidance on how to become and more importantly, be recognised and selected as the best. Mike Lander, CEO, Consulting Strategies Ltd WHAT DOES IT REALLYTAKE TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT? The secret of being a successful management consultant is to focus on the genuine needs of the client. As a consultant, you must develop the skills that enable you to understand these needs, deliver real value to your clients and help them get the results they want. The Management Consultantis your ultimate guide to success as an expert professional consultant. It reveals the skills and attributes that make great consultants and shows you how to develop these to provide genuine client centric consulting. Whether you’re already working as a consultant, starting out on your own, or just considering the profession - this book is essential reading. It will also help those who train, employ or work with consultants regularly. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, DO AND DELIVER TO BE A GREAT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Learn the answers to the critical questions you need ask to be a top management consultant such as: * How should you identify and define the services you will offer? * Why do clients buy consultancy and what are they looking for? * How can you bring maximum value to the client’s organisation? * How do you engage clients and win work? * How can you deliver results that will be sustainable for your client? * How do you establish long-term relationships that bring you repeat business with clients? * When should you say no’ to a consulting engagement? * How do you navigate your way through potential ethical dilemmas that face consultants? DISCOVER THE CLIENT-CENTRIC APPROACH TO SUCCESSFUL CONSULTING  This e-book contains 318 pages Price: $9 only ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________

7.       The Manager’s Pocket Calculator   Your success or failure is reflected in one number: the bottom line. So you’d better get a handle on the numbers that influence it. The Manager’s Pocket Calculator gives you the essentials of budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis, reporting, interest and rate-of-return calculation, statistics, and more. Not just an overview, the book contains more than 100 formulas and ratios with numerical examples, spreadsheet entries, and step-by-step calculations. The Manager’s Pocket Calculator trains you in the application of mission-critical business fundamentals, better preparing you to: Create and justify budgets Excel in planning meetings concerning financial performance Craft reports and presentations demonstrating financial outcomes Communicate with internal and external accounting, auditing and other financial entities An indispensable, everyday business tool, The Manager’s Pocket Calculator makes you more than a manager. It makes you a powerful architect of your organization’s financial stability. This e-book contains 289 pages Price: $3 only __________________________________________

8.       The Management Consultant: Mastering the Art of Consultancy   The secret for success in attracting, winning, retaining and growing client business whether working as an independent or for a firm. Mike Lander, CEO, Consulting Strategies Ltd Richard knows what clients value and provides clear, practical and experienced guidance on how to become and more importantly, be recognised and selected as the best. Mike Lander, CEO, Consulting Strategies Ltd WHAT DOES IT REALLYTAKE TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT? The secret of being a successful management consultant is to focus on the genuine needs of the client. As a consultant, you must develop the skills that enable you to understand these needs, deliver real value to your clients and help them get the results they want. The Management Consultantis your ultimate guide to success as an expert professional consultant. It reveals the skills and attributes that make great consultants and shows you how to develop these to provide genuine client centric consulting. Whether you’re already working as a consultant, starting out on your own, or just considering the profession - this book is essential reading. It will also help those who train, employ or work with consultants regularly. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, DO AND DELIVER TO BE A GREAT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Learn the answers to the critical questions you need ask to be a top management consultant such as: * How should you identify and define the services you will offer? * Why do clients buy consultancy and what are they looking for? * How can you bring maximum value to the client’s organisation? * How do you engage clients and win work? * How can you deliver results that will be sustainable for your client? * How do you establish long-term relationships that bring you repeat business with clients? * When should you say no’ to a consulting engagement? * How do you navigate your way through potential ethical dilemmas that face consultants? DISCOVER THE CLIENT-CENTRIC APPROACH TO SUCCESSFUL CONSULTING. This e-book contains 318 pages ___________________________________________

9.       Understanding Management, 6th Edition

UNDERSTANDING MANAGEMENT, Sixth Edition provides an engaging survey of modern management practice that seamlessly integrates classic and contemporary principles. Rather than concentrating on large global enterprises, the text focuses on dynamic small to mid-sized “local” businesses and entrepreneurial issues, giving students valuable real-world insights and practical skills they can readily apply when beginning or continuing their careers. To help students deepen their understanding and hone their skills, numerous skill-building and application exercises appear in every chapter. UNDERSTANDING MANAGEMENT also features a streamlined format and impressive ancillary package that make it affordable, flexible, well-suited to any course, and effective for students of diverse backgrounds and interests. This e-book contains 738 pages

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10.  Wargaming for Leaders: Strategic Decision Making

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Even in today’s economic climate, when so many investors and major companies are failing, Warren Buffett continues to be successful in all aspects of his life. Mary Buffett and David Clark have written the first book ever to take an in-depth look at Warren Buffett’s philosophies for personal and professional management — what they are, how they work, and how you can use them. Through close examination of Warren Buffett’s life and career from his earliest days to now, Buffett and Clark shed light on his decision-making processes and reveal his strategies for keeping on track and maintaining focus. They examine Buffett’s inimitable leadership qualities and explain how Warren integrated what he learned over time into a winning management formula and became not only the manager whom other managers want to emulate but also the second richest man in the world. A true companion volume to Buffett and Clark’s successful Buffettology series, Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets is filled with anecdotes and quotes that show how Buffett’s life philosophies are reflected in his businessdecisions and in the way he manages people and businesses. This insider’s view into Warren Buffett’s management techniques offers simple solutions for success to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike and illustrates how and why success in business and life usually go hand in hand. This is an Audio-book

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The book presents a broad overview of the nature and functions of strategic management in nine chapters.

Part 1, Introduction to Strategic Management, explains what strategic management is and provides a framework for understanding what strategic managers do. Chapter 1 discusses the relationship between strategic management and strategic leadership and shows how competitive advantage results in superior performance. It also describes the plan of this book and discusses the principal functions of strategic managers. Chapter 2 discusses the ways in which companies affect their stakeholders and why it is necessary to create corporate governance mechanisms that ensure that strategic managers work to further the interests of stakeholders and behave ethically.

In Part 2, The Nature of Competitive Advantage, we discuss the factors and forces both external and internal to an organization that determine its choice of strategies for creating a competitive advantage and achieving above-average profitability. Chapter 3 looks at opportunities, threats, and competition in the external environment. Chapter 4 examines how a company can build competitive advantage by achieving superior efficiency, quality, innovation, and responsiveness to customers. It also discusses how managers can craft functional-level strategies that will allow an organization to achieve these goals.

In Part 3, Building and Sustaining Long-Run Competitive Advantage, we provide a streamlined discussion of the different levels of strategy that must be developed to build and sustain a long-term competitive advantage. Chapter 5 considers how to use business-level strategies to optimize competitive positioning and outperform industry rivals. Chapter 6 discusses how to strengthen competitive advantage by expanding globally into new national markets. Chapter 7 then examines the various corporate-level strategies, such as vertical integration, diversification, and outsourcing, that are used to protect and strengthen competitive advantage and sustain long run profitability.
Finally, in Part 4, Strategy Implementation, we examine the many operational issues involved in putting all these strategies into action simultaneously. Chapter 8 first discusses the importance of strategic change in today’s fast-moving global environment and the issues and problems involved in managing the change process effectively. Then it outlines how to build and develop a company’s business through the use of internal new venturing, acquisitions, and strategic alliances and considers the pros and cons of these different methods. Chapter 9 discusses how to implement strategy through the design of organization structure and the operational issues involved in selecting structures to match the needs of particular strategies. It also looks at the organizational control systems necessary to fit strategy to structure and the role of organizational culture in developing competitive advantage.

As you can see by perusing the table of contents, the approach we take in Essentials of Strategic Management parallels that of our other book, Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach. Our goal is to offer a contemporary, integrated account of strategic management, but one that is streamlined and focused only on the essentials of this complex and fascinating subject.

This e-book contains 385 pages

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Ready to implement better, faster, cheaper, more-profitable processes in your organization? Lean Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition, shows you how to use proven techniques for simplifying, streamlining, and optimizing business practices for maximum productivity and profitability.

Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide covers the fundamental methods and tools of Lean Six Sigma. You’ll get details on reducing defects and deviation, sustaining improvements, and achieving laser-focused process innovations. Measurement systems analysis (MSA), Design for Lean Six Sigma, and statistical tools such as analysis of variance (ANOVA) are also discussed. Clear examples, helpful diagrams, and concise explanations make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam reinforce key concepts.

It’s a no-brainer! You’ll learn about:

·                  The seven speed bumps of Lean

·                  Value stream mapping and spaghetti diagramming

·                  Control charts, Pareto charts, and Ishikawa diagrams to laser-focus improvements

·                  Excel power tools for Lean Six Sigma

·                  Lean Six Sigma tar pits

·                  Ways to implement Lean Six Sigma to maximize results and minimize costs

Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Lean Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition, is your shortcut to this powerful improvement methodology. You’ll also get a 90-day free trial of Q1 Macros software for Lean Six Sigma. This e-book contains 498 pages

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This book has two themes: Private Banking and investment decisions regarding Structural Financial Products. Dr. Dimitris Chorafas examines in a rigorous way whether structured financial products are advisable investments for retail and institutional investors and, if yes, which risks they entail. As our society becomes increasingly affluent, and state-supported pension schemes find it difficult to survive, a growing number of high net-worth individuals, and families, have become retail investors - looking for ways and means to optimize wealth management, and Private Banking deals with these sorts of clients. Private banking also deals with clients that are institutional investors, such as pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies, as well as not-for-profits, foundations and companies explicitly set up for wealth management. Both institutional and retail investors are being offered by the banks they work with structured products. Typically, these are securities that provide them with a redemption amount, with may be either with full or partial capital protection, and some type of return. The book examines structured financial products, their polyvalent nature, and the results which could be expected from them. Return on structural instruments, which are essentially derivatives, is paid in function of a specific investment strategy on selected underlying asset(s). This essentially means on the performance of the underlyings, obtained by asset managers, which may be banks or hedge funds, through purchase or sale of embedded options. But there are risks. Both risk and return from structured products are related to three main issues: the volatility of future value of an underlying, the uncertainty of future events, and the exposure of the product. Every type of investment is subject to market forces, and the more leveraged a portfolio is, the greater will probably be both the assumed risk and the expected reward. The fact that structured financial products appeal, or at least are being marketed, to both retail investors and institutional investors makes the dual approach deliberately chosen in this book most advisable. This book addresses all these issues in a practical manner with numerous case studies and real-world examples drawn from the author’s intensive research. *Because it is based on intensive research, the book is rich in practical examples and case studies
*Addresses the growing trend towards the use of structured financial instruments in private banking
*Thorough treatment of structured financial products that keeps maths to a minimum

Harvard Business Essentials are comprehensive, solution-oriented paperbacks for business readers of all levels of experience. In today’s ever-changing business environment, hiring an all-star work force and keeping it in place is a challenge for any organization. With an overview on topics such as recruiting the right people, cultivating the right culture, avoiding employee burnout, and calculating employee turnover, Hiring and Keeping the Best People offers managers a clear understanding of how to hire more effectively and increase retention. Packed with hands-on tips and tools, this helpful guide provides actionable and practical advice for managers and human resources professionals alike. This  e-book contains 185 pages

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16.  Implementing Six Sigma and Lean A Practical Guide to Tools and Techniques

This is a comprehensive, user-friendly and hands-on book that is a single source of reference of tools and techniques for all quality practitioners. Implementing Six Sigma and Lean covers the basics of how to manage for consistently high quality and gives good coverage of both simple tools and advanced techniques which can be used in all businesses. This book provides guidance on how to use these tools for different situations such as new start-up companies, stalled projects and the constant achievement of high quality in well-established quality regimes.Case studies are included that encourage the reader to respond in a practical situations and provide a good learning resource for courses. There are summaries of key elements and questions with exercises at the end of each chapter.

* Single source of reference of tools and techniques for practitioners
* All tools and techniques in the book contain definitions, applications, basic steps and worked examples.
* Benefits and pitfalls of each technique give the reader a balanced view.

This e-book contains 375 pages.

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17.           . Encyclopedia of Management

The Encyclopedia of Management is an alphabetical reference book covering a comprehensive slate of management concepts. The Encyclopedia’s essays represent an authoritative treatment of the entire field of management, encompassing all the current theories and functional areas of this vast and growing discipline, and all essays were written by recognized scholars, practitioners, and authorities in the field, including business management professors, other business professors, M.B.A. and doctoral research students, researchers, practitioners, reference librarians, and professional business writers. It is designed to be a desk reference for everyday business management needs. Still another use of the Encyclopedia is in a deeper understanding of one or more key functional areas of management. By using the book, the reader can obtain a more thorough, in-depth understanding of key functional areas of management, and this e-book offers every executive, executive-aspirant, management consultant, and educator and student of management, both comprehensive and authoritative information on all the theories, concepts, and techniques that directly impact the job of management.. This e-book contains 1028 printable pages.

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38. Strategic Management

This book is aimed to give an overview of what the marketing means really in the prevailing business environment. It is more of reference document to stimulate some thinking and discussion about marketing, which is an essential part of any higher education course on marketing. This e-book contains 121 pages.

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This book is intended for all who want a comprehensive introduction to the theory and application of risk management. It sets out an integrated introduction to the management of risk in public and private organizations. Studying this book will provide insight into the world of risk management and may also help readers decide whether risk management is a suitable career option for them. Many readers will wish to use this book in order to gain a better understanding of risk and risk management and thereby fulfill the primary responsibilities of their jobs with an enhanced understanding of risk. This book is primarily concerned with business and commercial risks and the roles that we fulfill during our job or occupation. However, the task of evaluating risks and deciding how to respond to them is a daily activity not only at work, but also at home and during leisure activities. This e-book contains 385 pages.

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Do you have a burning desire to be a brilliant project manager? Are you relatively new to project management and keen to develop your skills quickly? Or are you an experienced professional looking for a refresher? If your head is nodding then you’re just the kind of person this practical guide is for.In this book we’ve distilled down what we think it takes to be a brilliant project manager. We’ve drawn on the good, the bad and the ugly – and the eccentric. But above all, we’ve thought long and hard about what we’ve learned from rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty. Between us we’ve got over 30 years of hands-on project management experience. That’s plenty of time to learn lessons at the school of hard knocks! This e-book contains 173 pages.

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This book is built on the presumption that developing management skills- that is, the skills needed to manage one’s own life as well as relationships with others-is a ceaseless endeavour. This e-book is not to try to duplicate the popular appeal of the best-selling organizations and well known managers. In fact, the author wants to share with the readers what is known and what is not known about how to develop management skills and how to foster productive, healthy, satisfying, and growth-producing relationships with others in your work setting, Developing Management Skills is designed to help you actually improve your personal management competencies – to change your behaviour. This book, therefore, serves more as a practicum or a guide to effective managerial behaviour than a description of what someone else has done to successfully manage an organization. This e-book contains 744 pages

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This e-booklet deals with empowering, team-building, inspiring, supporting and vision which are essential for every manager. Leadership is the ability to create an environment

 

45. Project Management: 36 Hours Course

 

46. Project Management for Business, Engineering, and Technology: Principles and Practice

 

This book is intended for “ general ” project managers. It is comprehensive in the sense that it provides an understanding of project management concepts and

techniques widely recognized and applicable to virtually any industry or project situation. It is not the intent of this book to dwell on particular methodologies and

techniques used only in specific industries or organizations. This would be difficult because many industries—construction, information systems, product development,

social work, and so on—have modified “ traditional ” project management practices or adopted other approaches to satisfy their unique project needs. Many of these

 

47.The Project Manager: Mastering the art of Delivery

 

whenever you look at books, attend courses and talk to project management trainers, almost the whole time they refer to what is called the 'mechanics' of project management. By mechanics -it means - the processes, systems and tools that form the core body of knowledge of project management. What you would realise is that these mechanics are important, but they are not the only factor in ensuring successful delivery. There is a range of other skills and competencies required in addition. it is an exhaustive study of the subject - but it will add great value to most project managers, big or small. This is the project manager's guide to delivery. It is called The Project Manager because it focuses on the person managing the project before thinking about tools and processes, consistently deliver exceptional projects on time and to budget Whether you are just starting out in project management, or have a few years under your belt and want to achieve real mastery, certainly this e-book will make you to deliver.

This fully updated second edition covers:

• The most important project management tools

and techniques - a concise survey of the critical

methods

• How to get your project started

• What actually is your project? Understanding the

importance of scope and how best to define it

• Getting the best out of your project team

• Communications - learning to understand who

your customers and stakeholders are: what they

want and how best to communicate with them

• Managing your project effectively

• What is successful delivery?

• When to constructively kill a project

• Change management

This e-book contains 329 pages.

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48. A Text Book on Strategy

 

This e-book contains 11 volumes. The subject matter covered in each volume is as follows:

1.    Studying Strategy

2.    Thinking Stretegically

3.    Essentials of Strategic Management

4.    Strategic Management

5.    Operations Strategy

6.    Strategic Marketing

7.    Business Strategy: A guide to effective Decision Making

8.    Strategic Marketing: Planning and Control

9.    Strategic Financial Management

10. Strategic Financial Management: Exercises

11. Internal Control Strategies:  A Mid to Small BusinessGuide

 

49. Virtual team Success: A practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance

 

It is a practical guide for working and leading from a distance. Until now, there has not been a resource available to guide organizations in setting up and getting the most out of virtual teams or to help virtual team members and leaders enhance their effectiveness collaborating or leading from a distance. The objective of this book is to fill that gap and provide a hands-on, practical toolkit for both members and leaders of virtual teams. We have also included applied tools that we’ve used in our consulting work. For example, the book includes several case study–like ‘‘brain teasers’’ that allow you to consider how you would handle certain challenging situations related to collaborating or leading from a distance. Section One focuses on the skills and characteristics necessary for building high performing virtual teams. Chapter One highlights our research findings on the challenges many virtual teams face and the pitfalls that often lead to failure. Chapter Two provides a profile of high-performing teams to outline what ‘‘good’’ looks like. Chapter Three is a practical toolkit and resource guide to help you successfully launch virtual teams. Chapter Four reviews the differentiators of successful virtual teams and introduces a practical model of top-performing teams. And we

discuss strategies and tips that help team leaders and members boost virtual team performance. Section Two focuses on best practices for leading from a

distance. Chapter Five outlines our research findings on the unique leadership challenges that virtual team leaders face, and we discuss the practices of the most effective team leaders. Chapter Six addresses the critical things that virtual team leaders can do to boost the performance of virtual teams who are struggling to achieve their objectives. Chapter Seven is a practical guide for facilitating and managing virtual team communication. In it, we discuss tips for effectively facilitating virtual meetings and how to optimize technology use for virtual collaboration. Finally, the Conclusion summarizes some of the key lessons from our research and consulting work with virtual teams and team leaders. This e-book contains 222 pages.

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50.    Managerial Perspectives in general

 

This e-book is a package of containing the following useful book-lets dealing with required managerial perspectives to develop the managerial abilities in general for junior and middle management levels.

The following chapters are covered in this e-book:-

1.    Management Basics

2.    Art of Managing People - 500 Quotes on how to get the best out of others

3.    Effective Discipline - How to manage discipline at work

4.    Administration Skills

5.    Training Skills - How to improve the Skills and Performance of Your Employees

6.    Delegation and Empowerment - Giving people the chance to excel

7.    Couselling Skills - Managing People Problems at Work

8.    Facilitation Skills - empowering groups to Grow

9.    Undestanding Personlaity types - Managing people through their Personality Traits

10. Getting Motivation Right - How to get everyone in your business Motivated

11. Leadership Skills

12. Art of Leadership

13. Supportive Leadership - New Role of Executives in 21st Century

14. Performance Management

15. In pursuit of World Class of Excellence

16. Management Briefs

17. Managing Budgets

18. Manaaging Projects

19. Project Leadership - Step by step

20. Risk Management made Easy

21. Coaching and Mentoring

22. Commercial Awareness for Managers

23. Managing Quality in 21st century - Principles and Practice

24. Managing through Change

25. Change Management

26. Operations Management

27. Strategic Financial Management

28. Profit from Six Sigma - A Guide to Principles and Practice for Business Benefit

29. Running Effective Appraisals

30. Running Effective Meetings

31. Team Building

32. Corporate Social Responsibilithy - Principles, Stakeholders and Sustainability

33. Corporate Social Responsibilithy - Performaces Evaluation, Gobalisation and NFP's

34. Corporate Social Responsibilithy - Strategy and Leadership

35. Business Blogs -best Social Media Tool for Business

36. Business Briefs -Business Theory Made Simple

37. IT Management

38. Successful Time Management

39. Sports Development, Law and Commercialisation

40. Working as an Independent Contractor

 

This e-book contains 2589 pages in totality.

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51. UNDERSTANDING the ORGANISATION

 

This e-book makes the people to have an idea about organizations, for which it contains the following e-booklets and e-books:

 

Understanding Organisations - What do HR do?

Understanding Organisations - What do Managers do?

Understanding Organisations - What do Organisations look like?

Understanding Organisations - What else do Managers do?

Hiring and Keeping the Best People

Supportive Leadership: the new role of executives in this 21st Century

 

This e-book contains 468 pages in totality

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52. HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT – a book for HR Managers

 

This e-book is a collection of the following standard e-books and useful e-booklets:

 

Managing the Human Resource in the 21st Century

Human Resource Management - 12th Edition

The Standard handbook of Human Resource Management

Employers Guide to Recruitment: How to get the right person for the job

Recruitment and Selection: Hiring the people you want

From Reactive to Proactive: High Impact Strategic HR

Genenational challenges in the workplace

Getting Motivation Right: How to get everyone in your business motivated

Dealing with Chronic Mondayitis: How to reduce Duvet Days and Increase Attendance

Seven Deadly sins of Employment: How to aboid the most common mistakes made y employers

Tackling Workplace investigations

How to sack Employees: without being taken to tribunal

Gettting Redundancy Right: How to reduce the risk of unfair dismissal claims

 

This e-book contains 1918 pages in totality.

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Professional Alfresco: Practical Solutions for Enterprise Content Management

A timely and authoritative guide, written by the Chief Architect and Founder of Alfresco
Alfresco is considered the leading open source solution for Web and Content Management. What makes Alfresco unique is its services, which can be easily extended with web scripts via RESTful services. Written by an author team that includes the chief architect and the founder of Alfresco, this comprehensive guide provides in-depth coverage of the Alfresco architecture and services and shows how to extend them through Web scripts to meet real business needs.
You'll learn how to use Alfresco services to create effective content management solutions while detailed code examples show you how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts using RESTful services to deliver custom solutions.
Features detailed, working code examples that demonstrate how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts
Written by the Chief Architect and other key Alfresco insiders, ensuring that this book is both authoritative and up-to-date
Shows how to integrate Alfresco with Drupal and Joomla portal solutions
Covers the upcoming Alfresco 3.2 release
Includes real-world case examples of increasing levels of sophistication and complexity
The companion Web site contains all source code examples in the book
You'll benefit from this timely resource that shows how to get the most from Alfresco for specific business requirements.

This e-book contains 576 pages.

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