Management: Leadership & Motivation

Ethical leadership does not simply emerge from a code of conduct, a good school, or a host of good intentions. It is an individual choice, or rathe...

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explains how to create a differentiation strategya strategy for being different in a way that causes...

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, logical, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike some more theory-heavy texts, this boo...

Do you cringe at the mention of feedback, dreading the awkwardness or potential conflict it may bring? Or perhaps, as a manager or leader, you stru...

Organizing for Resilience provides a fresh and novel insight into research on how leaders can prepare their organizations to face up to shocks and ...

A must-read in the wake of COVID-19, this book unpacks the nature of resilient organizations and how they prepare for unpredictable, complex, and p...

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explains how to create a differentiation strategya strategy for being different in a way that causes...

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, logical, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike some more theory-heavy texts, this boo...

Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges...

In an uncertain and complex world leaders should not merely respond to the speed of change but attempt to anticipate it. Sometimes it is unexpected...

In Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage Dhirendra Kumar shows how the Enterprise Excellence (EE) philosophy is a holistic approach for leadin...

For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audi...

Where do powerful strategies come from? How do some companies develop strategies that enable them to outperform others regardless of the state of t...

Leading the Customer Experience explores the relationship between leadership behaviour and exceptional service. Most organisations strategic aims a...

This book doesn't offer overrated success stories which in most cases cannot be imitated. It contains no check lists or recipes for success and it ...

The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global s...

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, the...

Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result ...

Sometimes unanticipated threats or opportunities create a situation in which work is required unexpectedly. On these occasions, such urgent and une...

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, the...

Globalization, consumerism, legislation and human rights issues impact on workplace demographics, changing the very nature thereof. It is of strate...

Since the beginning of the 2000s, important changes in external environments have affected the corporate governance practices of firms all around t...

A comprehensive introduction to the field of philanthropy, Philanthropy and Society challenges the reader to think deeply about the role of philant...

First published in 1998, this volume is designed to explore the requisite knowledge, skills and drive which both prospective and practising manager...

The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System (SPADES) provides a path to long-term success in the environment of rapidly changing techno...

No one likes change. Too often its viewed as something that must be endured; something to get through as fast as possible so that everything can re...

Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT+ inclusive workplaces, this approachable and easy to follow book guides curr...

First published in 1963, Edgar Ansteys work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee. Within a committee, different interest...

Learn how to assign homework that truly enhances learning and isn't just busywork. This important book defines what deliberate homework looks like ...

The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you ar...

Effective sustainability communication can deliver business value. Get it wrong, however, and the reputational damage will be costly. Stakeholders,...

When it comes to perceptions of what is a sustainable economy and how it may be realised, companies expanding into Central and Eastern European mar...

This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years. While...

Every day we hear stories about the consequences of human frailties for individuals, their families and friends, and their organizations. Some of t...

This book focuses on leadership -- what it is, how it works, and how complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional it is -- and how it will change i...

Strategies, Leadership and Complexity in Crisis and Emergency Operations will bring together the main themes of strategy, operational leadership, o...

A research-backed guide to leading with confidence and resilience in an age of anxiety. Leading is inevitably frustrating and emotionally demanding...