International travel in a post-9/11 world is discussed by Leki, who has spent more than 20 years training diplomats and their families for life abroad. This experience has led the author to write a pr
Competitive advantage in business today is being defined by the winners and losers in the war for talent: hiring and retaining the best and the brightest are what market leadership is all about. What
Readers may never think of learning, training, or teaching the same way again! Building on the pioneering fundamentals of effective adult learning and many of the core principles of today's popular ac
From C-level executives to front-line supervisors, the research is clear: emotional competencies are more important than training, IQ, and technical experience in determining who succeeds and fails at
A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) t
Richard Watson Todd touches on all aspects of the English language, from onomatopeia to cliches, politically correct language to Cockney rhyming slang, metaphors and oxymorons, in a lighthearted and e
A charming, off-the-wall and thoroughly entertaining travel book recounting the true-life adventures of a young safari guide living in the Botswana bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain and w
Practical advice and personal stories help prepare readers for establishing a life far from home. More than just a how-to book on the mechanics of moving, the book also offers the authors' reflections
Naked Finance: Business Finance Pure and Simple is a friendly, accessible, jargon-free guide that makes finance fun and interesting for ordinary humans-essential reading for all managers, not just the
In the ten years since its first publication, The 80/20 Principle has become a business classic and a global bestseller. The special anniversary edition of this original, provocative and practical boo
David Clutterbuck bridges the gap between what is known about team learning and coaching and the practical experience of managers and team coaches. He answers such questions as how team coaching diffe
A tale of a hapless young artist, a truck called Yasmine and an extraordinary journey, Misadventures in the Middle East creates a portrait of the post-9/11 Middle East that transports the reader into
Cultural differences among group members, whether they belong to multinational business teams or culturally diverse families, are frequently the sources of misunderstanding and conflict. Using example
Mastering global business requires leaders and managers to understand the differences within countries as well as between them. Drawing on the authors? years of hands-on experience, Global Diversity:
On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an English hitchhiker and his reluctant French girlfriend in the Australian Outback! Thumbs Up Australia: A Hitchhiker's Gu
In The Human Value of the Enterprise Andrew Mayo confronts the challenge to today's managers - finding a way to measure (and account for) a business's most crucial resource, its human value. He propos
While many books are devoted to the study of Islam, and dozens more to specific Muslim societies (usually Arab ones), this is the first to bring together both, explaining Islam in theory and in practi
Having succeeded George Davies at NEXT plc in a blaze of publicity, he turned it around from nearly going broke to becoming the most talked about and successful retailers of the last 20 years -an asto
The received wisdom is to try harder, to be more innovative, to take more risk - and almost every company tries. There are only a tiny percentage of management teams who settle for sticking to their c
PRESENCE: EXPLORING PROFOUND CHANGE IN PEOPLE, ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETY gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations h
Communication styles, the authors note, are patterns of behavior things people do rather than things they are . Further, labels commonly used to identify communication styles, such as "direct" and "in
So many of us are searching for a spiritual path. Although our reasons may differ, we share the same basic motivation: to lessen suffering and enhance our sense of fulfillment.50 Spiritual Classics: T
Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. By pursuing a Lone Wolf policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state to one of t
In Donna Dunning's highly-acclaimed first book, What's Your Type of Career?, she delivered a set of powerful tools that for the first time linked personality, type to career success and helped thousan
From amusing and enlightening parables to the inspirational rags-to-riches stories of industrialists, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs, 50 Success Classics summarizes each industry's key ideas and c
Rich in examples--from Italy to India, Turkey to Thailand--Working GlobeSmart bridges the gap between what we know about business success and what we know about differences in values, abilities and be
Four forms of energy pulse through each of us at all times: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. To thrive, we must recruit all four of these energies in the service of a specific mission. To be
In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject
Whether working in another country or bridging corporate and professional boundaries, the demands of global business require new ways of managing and motivating people. Author Philippe Rosinski introd
Understanding the nature of cultural diversity is one thing-managing it day-to-day is quite another! When doing business internationally, culture shock--and sometimes culture clash--is unavoidable. Jo
This volume is a revised edition of Quenk's 1993 Beside Ourselves (also by Davies-Black). Quenk, a psychologist, employs Jungian theory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory to
This text is designed as a practical guide for cross-cultural trainers, educators, and students. Based in Geert Hofstede's (Tilburg U., Netherlands) work on national culture, the guide introduces Hof
Revised and updated for the new economy, this text describes how the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization and culture can achieve a quantum leap in performance. In the 1990s, reengi
Turning Bricks into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans bridges the metaphorical gap between East and West. Exploring Chinese and American interactions throug
This book explores a variety of German cultural themes, such as the need for order, insistence on clarity of thought, compartmentalization, the love of abstract debate, and the sharp distinctions betw
Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business Principles, Competition, Control, Leadership, Markets and the World looks at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow's hypercom
Editors Sandra Fowler and Monica Mumford have brought together the most comprehensive collection of training methods and exercises used by experts in the cross-cultural field. This second volume inclu
THE DANCE OF CHANGE offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of p
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a revolutionary approach to human communication and development based on the discovery that by changing how you think, you can transform what you think. It helps
