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Maritime Economics / 3rd edition
2008 || Paperback || Martin Stopford || Taylor & Francis
For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the “perfect†market of classical economics. This blend of sophisticated logistics and larger than life entrepreneurs makes it a unique case study of classical economics in a modern setting.
The enlarged and substantially rewritten Maritime Economics u...
Tribes
We need you to lead us
2008 || Paperback || Seth Godin || Little, Brown Book Group
n this fascinating book, Seth Godin argues that now, for the first time, everyone has an opportunity to start a movement - to bring together a tribe of like-minded people and do amazing things. There are tribes everywhere, all of them hungry for connection, meaning and change. And yet, too many people ignore the opportunity to lead, because they are "sheepwalking" their way through their lives and work, too afraid to question whether their compliance is doing them (or their company) any good.
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Strategy Safari / 2nd Edition
The complete guide through the wilds of strategic management
2023 || Paperback || Henry Mintzberg e.a. || Pearson
"Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys." The Observer "My favourite management book of the last 25 years? No contest. The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning." Tom Peters, managment guru Strategy is the most prestigious but also the most confusing part of business. Managers are constantly bombarded with new jargon and the latest fads promising the magic bullet for every strategic problem.
The world of strategy can seem to be an impenetrable jun...
Managing Oneself
2020 || Paperback || Peter Ferdinand Drucker || Harvard Business Review Press
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers careers.
Instead, you must be your own chief executive officer. That means it's up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. And it's up to you to keep yourself engaged and productive during a ca...
Key Management Ratios
The 100+ Ratios Every Manager Needs to Know
2008 || Paperback || Ciaran Walsh || Pearson || ook als eBook
Financial measures are critical for business success and if you're a manager, for your career. That may scare some people. But here's the good news: there is a relatively small number of essential management ratios with which you can measure any aspect of business performance you need to. If you can master these, you will have a firm grip of business finance and need never be put off by the numbers again. Key Management Ratios cuts straight to the measures that matter. It shows you what they...
Business Information Systems / 6th Edition
Analysis, Design and Practice
2008 || Paperback || Graham Curtis e.a. || Pearson
This book aims to equip those in, or entering business to assess the opportunities, limitations and major issues surrounding modern business information systems and to appreciate the way that information systems can aid the realization of business objectives. This book provides students with: good technical coverage, accessible coverage for both business students and computing students, interesting case studies, including a running case throughout the systems development chapters, showing rea...
Straight and Level / 3rd edition
Practical Airline Economics
2008 || Paperback || Stephen Holloway || Taylor & Francis
Presents developments in airline industry and business models. This book examines important elements in demand and traffic, price and yield, output and unit cost. It also probes into three critical aspects of capacity management: network management; fleet management; and revenue management.
Profit Beyond Measure
Extraordinary Results Through Attention to Work and People
2019 || Paperback || H. Thomas Johnson || Simon & Schuster
The New Gold Standard / 1st edition
5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
2008 || Hardcover || PhD Joseph Michelli || McGraw-Hill
Discover the secrets of world-class leadership!When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed.
The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the sce...
Safety at the Sharp End
A Guide to Non-Technical Skills
2008 || Paperback || Rhona Flin e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed managers in such sectors have realised the necessity of understanding the human dimension to their operations if they hope to improve production and safety performance. While organisational safety culture is a key determinant of workplace safety, it is also essential to focus on the non-technical skills of the syst...