Are you tired of being told to 'think positive'? Do you ever feel like the odds are stacked against you or that you're running on empty? What if you could stop trying to improve yourself and just be yourself? We're often told that to be brave or handle life’s challenges, we need to build mental strength and resilience. But what happens is that we end up in an endless cycle of self-improvement wondering why we keep getting stuck in the same old mind traps and behavioural patterns. In this g...

For courses in international business, international management, and general management. Management around the world: business strategies and interpersonal skills. Companies that operate overseas conduct business across a multitude of different cultures, languages, traditions, and a range of economic, political, and technological landscapes.

With this in mind, International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, 10th Edition explores the challenges managers may face along with how ...

The mindsets and skillset that will make you a better leader in an increasingly complex and fast-changing world of work, equip you for the future, and build your long-term capability as a leader.

Brealey, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 11e, is an introduction to corporate finance focusing on how companies invest in real assets, how they raise the money to pay for the investments, and how those assets ultimately affect the firm's value. It also provides a broad overview of the financial landscape. The book offers a framework for systematically thinking about most of the important financial problems that both firms and individuals are likely to confront: financial management is impo...

For undergraduate and graduate courses in organisational behaviour and human resources. An applied approach to developing and practicing interpersonal skills. By developing and practicing the material in Training in Interpersonal Skills, students can learn how to build productive relationships for any situation.

This text also helps students master the skills necessary for personal and organisational effectiveness such as self-management, communication, teaming, and problem solving. The sixth...

Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it's difficult, risky, stressful and, in venture capitalist and long-time Return Path Board Member Fred Wilson's view, "lonely, heavy duty, and a thankless task." As a startup CEO, seeing things for the first time, you're likely to make mistakes, to fail, to get things wrong, and to feel like you don't have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, Second Edition he...

Every decision is an economic decision.

Principles of Economics by Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan), and Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan) emphasises that every decision is an economic decision. The authors’ focus on useful economics uses compelling explanations and real-life examples to help students develop and apply economic intuition to their everyday decisions. They provide a thoroughly fresh take on a wide range of foundational topics in an engaging presentation that ha...

Ship management has constantly had to evolve to take into account the advancements in technology as well as the demands of the shipping industry. Having internet access and email on board ship has meant that the ship manager has to possess certain sets of skills to function effectively in the post, including computer literacy. The emergence of large multi-national ship management companies has also changed how business is conducted and this is turn means that the ship manager and tiers of man...

Written by experts in the field, this well-established book covers the core fundamentals of HRM, contemporary issues and contains a rich array of research-based case studies.