Business Transfers, Family Firms and Entrepreneurship (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)
‘Business transfer’ refers to the transfer of ownership and leadership from one or more outgoing owner-manager(s) to one or more incoming owner-manager(s). Apart from all the company's material assets, it presupposes that information, relationships, know-how and social capital are also transmitted from one to the other. While much of the research on entrepreneurship has focused on new business ventures, few studies have considered business transfers as an alternative way of embarking on entrep...
Digital Transformation Game Plan
by Gary O'Brien, Guo Xiao, and Mike Mason
The Digital Age is having a broad and profound impact on companies and entire industries. Rather than simply automate or embed digital technology into existing offerings, your business needs to rethink everything. In this practical book, three ThoughtWorks professionals provide a game plan to help your business through this transformation, along with technical concepts that you need to know to be an effective leader in a modern digital business. Chock-full of practical advice and case studies t...
How to successfully navigate and prevent conflict From the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success he's his company's top revenue driver, and his take-charge attitude gets the job done. However, when he is passed over for promotion again after losing two direct reports, who cite his abrasive style as their reason for leaving, John is forced to r...
Leading in a Technology-Driven WorldThe relationship of humans to technology is a ubiquitous theme in today's world of mobile devices, 24/7 internet access, and omnipresent digital business tools. The essays in this collection don't focus on a specific technology but on the challenges technology creates for management. In them Peter F. Drucker explores how managers can harness technology to enable workers to be more productive. In this collection he offers insights on: how technology affects the...
Tom Hopkins, bestselling author of How to Master the Art of Selling, now brings his 27 years of experience in the field to the ."..for Dummies" series. His fun and easy guide focuses on getting the answer "yes," handling setbacks and rejection, giving presentations and demonstrations, building networks, and becoming a selling champion in all areas of life!
WARNING: This book will make you ambitious AF. Side Effects May Include: Career success. Beyoncé confidence. A renegade resume. Gold medal mindset. Loss of apprehension. Read at your own risk. Everyone always tells you, “do what you love.” But how is this possible? You're thinking that you’re just not talented enough, or don’t have the right degree, or that your goals are too lofty. Amanda Nachman shares that you are more remarkable than you realize—and that you’re worthy of your dream j...
Recognizing and responding to change is the oxygen of life for an organization, and leadership is fundamentally about focusing organizations on these new realities. Leadership and Change Management provides the reader with a practical, real-world understanding of several dimensions of leadership that are usually neglected in management textbooks, such as the nature of new realities and how managers can improve their insight into them, and how leaders can identify and overcome resistance to chang...
The Secrets of Power Negotiating (Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator, #1)
by Roger Dawson
Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership
Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership brings together new scholarship in this burgeoning field to build an important foundation for further multidisciplinary developments. In its three parts, "Origins of Heroism," "Types of Heroism," and "Processes of Heroism," distinguished social scientists and researchers explore topics such as morality, resilienc...
Unlocking the Source for True Leadership Too many people, men and women alike, have bought into a notion of leadership that exclusively emphasizes traditionally “masculine” qualities: hierarchical, militaristic, win-at-all-costs. The result has been corruption, environmental degradation, social breakdown, stress, depression, and a host of other serious problems. Nilima Bhat and Raj Sisodia show us a more balanced way, an archetype of leadership that is generative, cooperative, creative, inclus...