ROAD TEST YOUR IDEA BEFORE YOU LAUNCH YOUR LEAN START-UP

Thinking about starting a new business? Stop! Is there a genuine market for your idea? Do you really want to compete in that industry? Are you the right person to pursue it? No matter how talented you are or how much capital you have, if you're pursuing a fundamentally flawed opportunity then you're heading for failure. So before you launch your lean start-up, take your idea for a test drive and make sure it has a fighting chance o...

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) isn't just an HR exercise - it can make a real difference to your team performance too. By making everyone in your team feel like they belong, you'll be able to boost motivation and productivity.

Everyone Included helps you make inclusion, belonging and wellbeing central to your team. By helping everyone feel that they belong, your team will foster genuine inclusion and be ready to adapt and evolve in the future.

With a step-by-step plan to design and implemen...

Expert consultant Richard Newton explains how to build a freelance consultant business. Understand how the consultancy market works, how to build your business strategy and define your product offer, how to find and retain customers, and how to develop and continually improve your skills. Discover a wealth of insider knowledge as well as a network of other successful advisors willing to share their stories.

Thist itle is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has workedclosely with educators around the world to include content which is especiallyrelevant to students outside the United States. For undergraduate and graduate-level business courses that coverthe skills of negotiation. Delve into the mind and heart of the negotiator to enhance yournegotiation skills The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator isdedicated to individuals who want to improve their ability to negotiateGÇöwh...

Psychology of Aging: A Concise Exploration introduces students to the study of adulthood and aging, offering a holistic examination of its impact on our bodies, minds, relationships, and social roles. Through an innovative myth vs. fact approach, the text dispels common misconceptions using humor, compassion, and robust research.

Step-by-step advice on how to create simple, impactful data visualisation specifically using qualitative data. It can be used as an upgrade to your QDA training or as a standalone data visualisation textbook.

Step by step, students will learn how to transform simple tables into full analytical models of immense power. They will master data modeling through a collection of realistic scenarios of increasing sophistication. For each, the authors start with a simple "naïve" model that can't provide robust solutions. Next, they guide readers to update and improve the model, so it can deliver the knowledge and insights they really need.

In today’s world, considering sustainability in project management is no longer an idealistic ambition of a small group of caring individuals. It is a reality and a necessity for all project professionals operating in today’s business environment, in which economic performance needs to go together with performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.

Sustainable project management is the ‘new normal’ in project management, in which the concepts of sustainability and...

More than a century ago, Einstein made the theory of relativity workable by assuming the constant speed of light, he showed that time passes more slowly in a moving system. But another of his conclusions that a moving object must shrink in the direction of motion remained a matter of debate.

To examine the latter conclusion the author very precisely followed Einsteins line of thought and he found that this conclusion was the result of an incorrect physical insight. The inevitable outcome of t...