Essentials of management

Essentials of Management makes the connection between theory and concepts to actual practice by showing how managers and organizations effectively apply the basic principles of management. The text takes a functional approach, first introducing the role of a manager and the modern managerial environment, before ...

High perfomance leadership

creating, leading and living in a high perfomance world

Management decision making

towards an integrative approach

The text will be a valuable guide for students either intending to, or pursuing a career in Management. It is suitable for advanced level undergraduate Business and Management degrees as well as postgraduate courses. Practising managers would also find the book a useful reference to ...

Not bosses but leaders

Extraordinary Leadership

creating strategies for change

The author argues that leadership is about converting vision into reality via strategic thinking and co-ordinated action. His book offers a synthesis of key concepts from his 18 years of international experience in leadership development

El testamento del millonario

un relato sobre el arte de triunfar y ser feliz

El protagonista de esta historia es un humilde chófer de limusina, sin demasiada formación y sin demasiados contactos, pero con una gran ambición en la vida: conseguir su primer millón de dólares. Sin embargo, un buen día, por un guiño del destino, la suerte le ...

Construir equipos de trabajo en la era de la conexión

Tecnología e innovación en la empresa

En la década de los años noventa,el papel de la tecnología y la innovación en la competitividad empresarial alcanzó un reconocimiento generalizado,que vino acompañado de una doble preocupación:entender y profundizar el conocimiento de las características del proceso innovador y,en consecuencia,definir ...

Coaches y mentores

métodos prácticos para mejorar el aprendizaje

Workflow management

models, methods, and systems

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization's resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right information reaches the right person or computer application at the ...

Business continuity management

a crisis management approach

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is broadly defined as a business process that seeks to ensure that organizations are able to withstand any disruption to normal functioning. This exciting and fully comprehensive new text tackles the issue of BCM from both a theoretical and empirical perspective ...

Aligning human resources and business strategy

El monstruo del cambio

el factor humano como elemento decisivo para estimular o frustrar el cambio en la empresa

Managing performance in the public sector

Performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public organizations, as governments around the world use performance measurement to evaluate their products services. But as indicators of sucess, how effective are these systems?

Aprendizaje organizativo y sistemas complejos con capacidad de adaptación

implicaciones en la gestión del diseño de producto

El propósito de este libro es profundizar en el aprendizaje organizativo, recogiendo las aportaciones de los denominados sistemas complejos con capacidad de adaptación, inmersos en la nueva teoría de la complejidad, y vinculándolo a otras aproximaciones teóricas cercanas como son la organización que aprende y ...

Strategic Management in the Knowledge Economy

Strategic Management may be classified as the managerial science of how to lead and enable business organizations to achieve its stakeholders? objectives in a rapidly changing competitive and collaborative environment. With new strategic management requirements, new business management models arise, based on knowledge, networking and ...

Who says elephants can't dance?

inside IBM's historic turnaround

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow- by-blow account of his arrival at the company and his campaign to rebuild the leadership team and give the workforce a ...

Compensation management in a knowledge-based world

With the recession of 2001-2002 and the dramatic bankruptcies of ENRON and other large corporations, the need to return to BASICS in Human Resources Administration is more critical than ever. As the leading text in its field Compensation Management offers a practical exploration of the ...

Leading the revolution

how to thrive in turbulent times by making innovation a way of life

The man who helped set the management agenda for the 1990s now brings us into the twenty-first century with the national bestseller Leading the Revolution. In this newly updated edition, Gary Hamel lays out an action plan for any individual or company intent on becoming ...

Sincronicidad

el camino interior hacia el liderazgo

He aquí una guía que nos enseña a desarrollar uno de los retos más importantes del liderazgo en nuestra época: la capacidad para dar forma colectivamente a nuestro futuro. Desde el relato de su propia vida hasta la explicación detallada de los aspectos más espinosos ...