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.

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For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinking courses. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this book's approach to critical thinking is as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one's thinking. Based in theory developed over the last 30 years, it focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical; it fosters the development of basic intellectual skills students need to think through cont...

This highly respected and best-selling textbook provides an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to the major topics within physical geography. It focuses on understanding the inter-linkages between processes, places and environments and is comprehensively illustrated to demonstrate how the physical environment works. Now in its fourth edition, the book has been thoroughly updated throughout to contain the latest research. Between them, the contributors have researched in detai...

For undergraduate database management courses. Get Students Straight to the Point of Database ProcessingDatabase Processing: Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation reflects a new teaching and professional workplace environment and method that gets students straight to the point with its thorough and modern presentation of database processing fundamentals. The Fourteenth Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest software.

International Financial Reporting delivers a focused, user-friendly introduction to international financial reporting and how to implement the IASB standards for undergraduate students.

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.

"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 ...