A trio of experts on high-tech business strategy and innovation reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the world and the first trillion-dollar companies. Managers and entrepreneurs in the digital era must learn to live in two worlds-the conventional economy and the platform economy. Platforms that operate for business purposes usually exist at the level of an industry or ecosystem, bringing together individuals and organizations so they can innovat...

The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion-a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold-now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini-New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion-explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insigh...

Deze set van Contact! – nieuw 2 bevat het papieren tekst- en werkboek met online-mp3’s + de digitale cursistenlicentie van het tekstboek en werkboek samen. De digitale licentie is online en offline te gebruiken op verschillende apparaten.

De digitale versie van het tekstboek is voorzien van audiolinks, een zoek- en bladerfunctie, een zoomfunctie, een markeerfunctie en de mogelijkheid om notities te maken en op te slaan.

Het digitale werkboek bestaat uit interactieve oefeningen. Bij de ges...

Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams both face-to-face and virtual reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts. Visual Teams shares bes...

Elke les in het Arbeitsbuch begint met een overzicht van de basiswoordenschat. Daarna worden er veel verschillende soorten oefeningen aangeboden, evenals Fokus-kaders, die nadere informatie geven over belangrijke grammaticale onderwerpen, kennis van land en volk, en leerstrategieën. Het onderdeel Lust auf mehr biedt extra oefenmateriaal. Wortschatz und Strukturen im Überblick biedt een overzicht van de geleerde taalhandelingen. Na elke twee lessen volgt het onderdeel Das kann ich schon!, wa...

Provides an introdcution to impact investing. The term first appeared in 2008 and today the most commonly used definition is investing made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.

50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing 50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing addresses the challenges facing every student beginning a program of academic study. This comprehensive guide gives you everything you need to write well-constructed academic essays. It is packed full of information that is critical to attaining better marks, including: * how to apply critical thinking skills * how to strengthen your arguments * how to include paper referencing * how to avoid plagiarism 50...

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation--new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever.

Why? The management paradigm of...

“This is perhaps the best book on negotiating ever written. Roger’s powerful, practical principles will save or make you a fortune in the months and years ahead.” —Brian Tracy, author, Eat That Frog! and Million Dollar Habits

“This is the one negotiating book that really opened my eyes and gave me practical tools I could use immediately.” —Timothy Ferriss, bestselling author of The 4-Hour Work Week

“A fast, entertaining read that should be required reading for anyone who deals...

In de wereld van vandaag werken, studeren en leven veel mensen in internationale en multiculturele omgevingen. Om die reden is interculturele communicatie in veel studiegebieden en beroepsvelden een belangrijk thema geworden. Kennis over cultuur en cultuurverschillen is in de complexe, globaliserende wereld van vandaag echter lang niet altijd genoeg.

In dit volledig Engelstalige boek is het uitgangspunt dan ook interpersoonlijke communicatie in plaats van interculturele communicatie: de ont...