Business

Forecasting guru Simon Thompson shows you how to build financial forecasts quickly, effectively and cheaply through his unique, proven and easy-to-follow 10-step process.

Sue Richardson, shows you how to use your expertise, knowledge and experience to become a published authority in your field and gain the visibility you and your business needs.

In today's volatile world sales professionals must know how to build trust in their company, their products and ultimately themselves in order to win the business. In this Authority Guide, Paul Avins shares his proven 4 step system to help you contact, connect and convert more customers with less effort.

Argues that, after record increases in funding, the theory that failures in public services are due to the fact that we are not spending enough has been tested to destruction: the problem resides in the fact that we have now reached the limits of effective political action.

Big business is often seen as the villain in terms of the environment or social wellbeing. But some leading businesses are becoming leaders in the fight against climate change and protectors of human rights. This book explains why this is now a core part of strategy and not just philanthropy for these businesses.

Taking the reader on a tour of the fast changing East, Simpfendorfer urges the business world to respond by planning for the unexpected. Now that the East has secured its role as a powerful player on the world stage, The Rise of the New East provides simple business strategies for dealing with an increasingly complex global environment.

Banks are entering a new environment. Regulation and supervision are becoming tougher, so that banks will be less likely to fail. If a bank does fail, bail-in rather than bail-out will be the new resolution regime, so that investors, not taxpayers, bear loss. Safe to Fail sums up the challenges that banks will face and how they can meet them.

An analysis of the potential of e-commerce and the difficulties and pitfalls of this new business world.

How to make investment in management developments count and how you decide what you want from individual managers.

This text introduces a customer service programme that has been applied, refined and customized in many top businesses. It explains in practical terms how you can build a service culture into your business.

The Internet allows businesses of all sizes to promote their products cheaply and effectively. Virtually Free Marketing takes a look at how leading lights in e-commerce such as Amazon, Google and YouTube have made their mark, before taking readers through the process step by step.

An innovation leader from Coca-Cola explains how to apply its practices of design, scale and agility to respond to dynamic market conditions, using easy-to-understand case studies to demonstrate key examples of company strategies at work.

Business ethics teaching appears to have had little impact, particularly in the light of continued malpractice and misdemeanour in the form of financial scandals, environmental disasters and adverse consequences for communities. In this timely work, Hemingway reveals fresh insights to suggest how integrity in the workplace can be encouraged.

Few of us are natural salespeople, and many small business owners struggle with the process. Strong selling skills are essential if you are to make your company a success, however, and this practical book offers advice and techniques to help you overcome your inhibitions, understand sales are made, and close a deal successfully.

Roly Weaver quit his 'day-job' as a Chartered Civil Engineer at the age of 50 in March 2008 - fulfilling his long standing dream 'to retire early'. He was able to do this because in 2002, along with his wife Rachel, he started investing in UK property; he bought family houses and rented them out. By ...

More than just a handbook, How to Bridge what the CEO Expects and what the Employee Delivers provides readers with a window into the author's thousands of days of management and consulting experience - for the price of far less than 'one hour' of consulting!

The subject of advertising is often treated with indifference by economists and disdain by the public. Indeed, from time-to-time, there have been calls to ban advertising. Though there has been no general ban, advertising has been prohibited in some sectors and further regulation in this field is continually ...

This book outlines a path towards a more practical era for "corporate responsibility", where companies make real environmental gains based on hard facts, using lifecycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs).By the time you have finished this book you will be able to make the ...

Tom Bergin, an oil broker turned Reuters reporter, watched the 'two-pipeline company' of the early 1980s grow into a dynamic oil giant and PR machine by the turn of the twenty-first century.