We get feedback every day of our lives, from friends and family, colleagues, customers, and bosses, teachers, doctors, and strangers. We know that feedback is essential for professional development and healthy relationships - but we dread it and even dismiss it. This book teaches you how to take criticism productively.

An indispensable guide enabling business and management students to develop their professional competences in real organizational settings, this new and fully updated edition of Problem Solving in Organizations equips the reader with the necessary toolkit to apply the theory to practical business problems. By encouraging the reader to use the theory and showing them how to do so in a fuzzy, ambiguous and politically charged, real-life organizational context, this book offers a concise introdu...

This bestseller text offers clear, simple-to-understand and comprehensive coverage of management and cost accounting. Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition brings together techniques, concepts and practices in a way that is readable and with language that is easy to follow. Keeping its international focus, the text includes a wealth of case studies featuring companies from around the world, and offers up-to-date coverage of the most contemporary aspects affecting management accounting t...

Learn to identify, select, implement, and adapt market-driven business strategies for profitable growth in competitive markets

In Strategic Market Management, David Aaker and Christine Moorman deliver an incisive, practical, and up-to-date guide for identifying, selecting, implementing, and adapting market-driven business strategies in increasingly complex, dynamic, and crowded markets. The authors provide the concepts, frameworks, tools, and best practice case studies required to develop cap...

Global disruption, new technologies and changing consumer habits are causing turmoil in the supply chain industry. This book shows businesses how to remain resilient in this dynamic new environment. The supply chain crisis of 2021 exposed the necessity of a sustainable supply chain.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has transformed our society and economy. The logistics and supply chain industry continues to be innovated by automation, blockchain and sustainability. Amid all this volatility, i...

'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.'Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.

Sixth edition updated and revised to take account of changes in approaches to the management of F&B operations brought about by issues such as COVID, Brexit, staff shortages, technology and sustainability ethics; * Content based on the application of systems operations management theory to traditional and current industry practice in food and beverage operations * Specially designed to support learning being divided into ten chapters, ideal for semester teaching, thorough pedagogic features, ...

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In de economische theorie wordt vaak uitgegaan van een consument, een producent of een overheid die verschillende keuzemogelijkheden tegen elkaar afweegt om zo tot de beste beslissing te komen. Zo eenvoudig is net meestal niet, want economisch handelen wordt ook beïnvloed door allerlei instituties, organisaties, vaste gewoontes en gedragscodes. Bovendien is er vaak sprake van onvolledige informatie en gedragen de economische actoren zich niet altijd rationeel. Juist al...

Het begrip 'Animal Spirits' (psychologische drijfveren) was in de jaren dertig de verklaring van econoom Keynes voor het grillige menselijk handelen voor en tijdens de Grote Depressie: eerst de euforie en het optimisme, daarna de massale verkoop van aandelen, consumenten die in paniek al hun geld bij de bank weghaalden met als gevolg grote werkeloosheid. In de huidige crisis zien we hetzelfde gedrag. De zuivere marktwerking heeft gefaald; de ideeën van Reagan en Thatcher en de revolutie van ...