Business Development

Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money....

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems.... 

There are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Company of One by Paul Jarvis, read by Sam Woolf....

Countless enterprises fall apart the moment they scale; their positive results fizzle, they lose valuable time and money and the great electric charge of potential that drove them early on disappears....

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....

To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth....

Growth is now the first thing that investors, shareholders and market analysts look for in assessing and valuing companies....

Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change....

Running a business is ultimately about freedom. Scaling Up shows business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride....

Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....

Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

This motivational audiobook is a wonderful collection of short and inspirational stories and facts that have the power to evoke the leader within oneself. Be it a student or a manager, this audiobook is for everyone and for all ages....

This extensively revised and expanded new audio edition of Coaching for Performance clearly explains the principles of coaching and illustrates them with examples....

Silicon Valley is renowned for its striking number of businesses which have grown from garage start-ups into global giants - Apple, Cisco, Google, HP and Intel, to name a few.... 

This audiobook will explain everything about Agile project management, starting from how to comprehend what it is, what it does, how it works, how it may be useful to you, how to begin utilizing it, what are the ramifications of the selection, and significantly more....

Smart and accessible, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is the definitive text on branding....

Venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping - and actionable - plan to conquer humanity's greatest challenge: climate change....

In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....

Smart, competent, and capable people are rare and in high demand. Every organization-from commercial enterprises, healthcare, non-profit, sports, education, to the military-is in an outright battle to recruit and retain these bright and talented people. 

In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take - that is, net positive companies....

User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience....

Twenty years after creating the phenomenal best-selling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series....

We're building more products today than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can't complete what we want to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product. What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. In this book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving product/market fit for your fledgling venture. This new edition introduces the continuous innovation framework and follows one entrepreneur's journey from initial vision to a business model that works.

"Mit gutem Gewissen - Der gesunde Weg zum Wirtschaften". Ökonomie und Ökologie sind keine Gegensätze. Das zeigt Ihnen Unternehmer und Bestsellerautor Detlef Lohmann in seinem neuesten Hörbuch. Der Buchpreisträger weist nach, dass erfolgreiches Wirtschaften auch ohne rücksichtslose Ausbeutung der Ressourcen unseres Planeten und die Zerstörung der Umwelt möglich ist. Im Gegenteil: Lesen Sie, warum der gesunde Weg zum Wirtschaften sogar der einzige sinnvolle Weg ist, Ihr Unternehmen in die Zukunft zu führen.

Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360° is a must-listen for anyone wanting to know more about investing for positive social, environmental, and ethical impact-with market returns. These are the stories and tactics of those leading the way as Sustainable and Responsible Investing goes mainstream. 

Die einzigartige Geschichte von Amazon. Nahezu jeder kennt und nutzt Amazon. Amazon hat es geschafft, jeden Haushalt der Welt zu erreichen. Zunächst mit einem unschlagbaren Online-Shopping-Angebot, dann durch eine gnadenlose Expansion in sämtliche Bereiche unseres Lebens: Smart-Home-Angebote, Cloud-Computing-Lösungen, Logistikdienstleistungen, Lebensmittellieferungen - sogar unser Fernsehprogramm stellt der Online-Riese mit einem Lächeln bereit.

Immigration is a fraught and misunderstood topic in America’s social discourse, with much of what we believe based largely on myth. Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan have spent the last decade searching for the facts. Their pioneering research digs deep into the data on immigration, linking the experiences of immigrants from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to those of immigrants today. Using powerful storytelling alongside big data, they provide new evidence about the past and present of the American Dream that will change our thinking and policies.

Over his 30 years as an executive in the technology sector, Matt Hulett has become the go-to company fixer. From RealNetworks to Rosetta Stone to Expedia, he has steered start-ups and large companies into renewed areas for growth and driven more than $2 billion in value creation. Now, he shares five key questions that will uncover new insight into your business’s potential—without the need for a lengthy and costly strategic planning process.

Jedes Unternehmen hat eine Philosophie, eine Vision und eine prägnante Zielsetzung. Die Entscheidungen und Strategien in einem Unternehmen werden von den vorgegebenen Unternehmenszielen abgeleitet. Primär möchte jedes Unternehmen Gewinn erzielen und eine Unternehmensgeschichte schreiben. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde die Übernahme von sozialer und ökologischer Verantwortung zu einem weiteren fundamentalen Ziel. Grundsätzlich lassen sich Unternehmensziele anhand der drei Zielarten in ökonomische, soziale und ökologische Ziele unterscheiden.

What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? Pity debate, Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. 

One of the most important features of China’s economic emergence has been the role of foreign investment and foreign companies. The importance goes well beyond the USD 1.6 trillion in foreign direct investment that China has received since it started opening its economy. Using the tools of economic impact analysis, the author estimates that around one-third of China’s GDP in recent years has been generated by the investments, operations, and supply chains of foreign invested companies. 

There is a lot of hype, hand waving, and ink being spilled about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. The amount of coverage of this topic in the trade press and on shareholder calls is evidence of a large change currently underway. It is awesome and terrifying. What started as an inquiry into how executives can adopt AI to harness the best of human and machine capabilities turned into a much more profound rumination on the future of humanity and enterprise.