Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it.

From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies. Strategy ...

This book is for anyone who has experienced a difficult person at work. Revealing the 9 different types of difficult people, there's a quick quiz so you can work out the personality type you're dealing with, and how to communicate with them effectively. Decode the warning signs through stories of each type Discover practical tools and techniques for dealing with each type Find short exercises to help you build the right mindset for success Boost workplace relationships with videos and an onl...

Despite countless diversity initiatives, gender inequality in career pathways for women in the modern workplace continues. This book reveals Why. It is a call to action. Drawing on a meticulous study that involved interviews with 70 corporate executives, a survey of 2,000 employees, and comprehensive desk-research, Dr Khan unearths the pernicious impact of gender stereotypes, sexual objectification, and the intricate web of double standards that plague the corporate realm.

Yet, her insights ...

This title is split into three parts. The first part deals with the basics of meeting and greeting communications, the second looks at problem solving and verbal communications. Finally part three deals with team work, and managing your boss, your customers and yourself.

Master a complete five-step program for identifying and executing on disruptive business opportunities! Now updated and even more effective, Luke Williams' Disrupt, Second Edition combines the design industry's most powerful "disruptive thinking" techniques with real business implementation discipline. Drawing on his pioneering experience innovating at the legendary frog design (and teaching innovation at NYU), Williams shows exactly how to generate and execute on a steady stream of disruptiv...

"Longman Academic Writing "Level 4has been transformed into a digital experience. The Interactive Student Book, powered by MyEnglishLab, allows students and teachers to better assess the writing process. Teachers can now monitor student performance to personalize learning and increase student motivation.

The " Longman Academic Writing Series " helps students master the academic writing skills needed to succeed in their academic careers. The five-level series spans writing topics from composin...

The #1 Process Safety Guide, Now Extensively Updated for Current Industrial Processes, Systems, and Practices Process safety has seen a dramatic consolidation of concepts in the past few years. Chemical Process Safety, Fourth Edition, provides students and working engineers with the understanding necessary to apply these new concepts to safely design and operate any process. Long the definitive guide in the field, this edition fully reflects major recent advances in process safety technology ...

Now students can learn Microsoft Project efficiently and painlessly!

- Quickly start a new plan, build task lists, and assign resources

- Share plans and track progress

- Capture and fine-tune work and cost details

- Use Gantt charts and other views and reports to visualize project schedules

- Share resources across multiple plans and consolidate projects

- Master project management best practices while learning Project

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An enthusiastic and practical approach to language learning. A riveting and valuable combination of David Crystal's language expertise and Geoff Barton's sound, practical classroom experience. Essential reference for every student working towards GCSE and Standard Grade.

Learning a language and being able to speak it do not go hand in hand. This book provides both structured activities to get students speaking and ideas for developing confidence in using English outside the classroom. Essentially, this book:examines the different approaches and activities that can be used for teaching and testing speaking.

covers areas of speech such as articulation, fluency and register. looks at classroom approaches such as drilling, discussions, drama, dialogues and conver...