Business books bonanza
24 Mar 05

Pearson Education publishes a wide range of Business books - everything from Project Management to Strategy and Leadership and Logistics and Operations to guidance on Entrepreneurship and New Business! Below are a selection of our key business titles available NOW!

Strategy Bites Back It is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel 0273693468 (Paperback) Dec 2004, 304 pages Save 10% Was £19.99, Now £17.99

SWOTed by strategy models? Crunched by analysis?  Strategy doesn’t have to be this way.

Strategy Bites Back invites you to encounter a diverse and unlikely set of voices with something sharp to say about strategy --- from Michael Porter and Peter Drucker to Coco Channel’s "little black dress". Taken together these perspectives will provide you with new and dramatically different angles from which to attack the world of strategy.

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Project Workout A Toolkit for reaping the rewards from all your business projects Robert Buttrick 0273681818 (Paperback) Jan 2005, 536 pages Save 10% Was £28.48, Now £25.63

Robert Buttrick's book is an invaluable, lucid and practical guide to a crucial area of management, which has been crying out for the treatment it receives in these pages"  Robert Heller

Supported by the Project Workout Live online resource, The Project Workout shows you how to:

• Measure critical success factors in any project
• Diagnose and address any potential difficulties of implementation
• Master a staged framework for managing a successful project
• Develop the soft (interpersonal) and hard (structured management) skills of the project manager
• Analyze your project as a single entity, and also manage a portfolio of projects
• Assess your resource strategy and management effectively
• Improve your project tracking and delivery

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Success The need to succeed is in your genes. The way to succeed is in this book . Richard Hall 0273693697 (Paperback) Nov 2004, 184 pages Save 10% Was £9.99, Now £8.99

Success. We all want it, but we often feel like we’re not getting enough. This is the book to help you identify what success is, according to your own definition, and then guide you through the core set of skills, behaviours and attributes needed to help you achieve the success you deserve.

Richard Hall reveals three simple but powerful 'quick win' strategies to ensure that you are on the right track and that you are not letting your best opportunities for success pass you by. He includes techniques for making the most of what you've got, transforming your performance, and useful tips of what to do when everything seems to be going wrong.

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Rules of Management The Definitive Guide to Managerial Success Richard Templar 0273695169 (Paperback) Nov 2004, 232 pages Save 10% Was £9.99, Now £8.99

Some people seem to be naturally great managers. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards through all the politics, the system, the people problems, the impossible targets, the work overload and all the nonsense that goes on. They say the right thing; do the right thing and know how to handle every situation. 

Is there something they do that we don’t? Is it a natural ability or something we could all learn? Is there a secret to managerial success? Yes... and all is revealed in The Rules of Management.

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Your Future Looks Bright Expect more from life. Get more from work. Cheryl Walmsley 027370172X (Paperback) Dec 2004, 216 pages Save 10% Was £9.99, Now £8.99

Your Future Looks Bright is for anybody who is thinking 'is there more to life and work than this?' or 'I need to change my life'. 

The book is the first step to radically improving the quality of your life at work. It helps you weigh up your options and move forward armed with confidence and common sense.

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Make Money, Be Happy How to Make the Money You Want And Do The Things You Want to Do Carmel McConnell 0273675605 (Paperback) Dec 2004, 248 pages Save 10% Was £9.99, Now £8.99

Do you think you have enough money? Do you feel really fulfilled by your career? Very few people can answer yes to both questions.

Make Money, Be Happy shows that a career is just one income stream, and that many others exist. It offers the reader a different life perspective, one that integrates career ambition with greater personal financial control.

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Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times Mukul Pandya, Robbie Shell, Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar, Jeffrey Brown 0131531182 (Hardback) Oct 2004, 288 pages Save 10% Was £18.99, Now £17.09

Learn how you can discover, use, refine, and nurture your own leadership style, enabling you to gain powerful influence in your own career.

No other book offers this much actionable insight into this many extraordinary business leaders.

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Living Leadership A Practical Guide for Ordinary Heroes George Binney, Gerhard Wilke, Colin Williams 0273693743 (Paperback) Nov 2004, 264 pages Save 10% Was £19.99, Now £17.99

Living Leadership is the first leadership book for people, like you, who have to deliver results working with the reality of the challenges in your business, the people in your team and the personality that you bring to work.   An insightful and practical lesson in how real leaders behave, day by day, this book delivers a new way of seeing leadership, and new ways of living it.

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The Seven Cs of Coaching The definitive guide to collaborative coaching Mick Cope 0273681109 (Paperback) Oct 2004, 256 pages Save 10% Was £18.99, Now £17.09

Mick Cope has developed the definitive guide to the process of coaching and reveals a new process that enables sustainable change. Collaborative Coaching will be invaluable as a guide for every manager and every professional coach.

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Get That Job! Easy Steps to the Job You Want Malcolm Hornby 0273702122 (Paperback) Feb 2005, 296 pages Save 10% Was £12.99, Now £11.69

Get That Job is a self-development manual and jobhunter's guide in one. It will help you to decide and plan the life  you want. It gives practical advice on how to get a job, in the context of  your life goals.

This book will be your very own career and life-planing personal coach. It enables you to identify what makes you special, set your own career and life goals, discover techniques to help you succeed in your job search ….. and then Get That Job!

With this book you will be sure to Get That Job!

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Chinese Century, The The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job Oded Shenkar 0131467484 (Hardback) Oct 2004, 208 pages Save 10% Was £17.99, Now £16.19

A fundamental restructuring of the global business system is occurring... and it will transform the roles of all participants in the global economy. Shenkar previews tomorrow's new competitive ground rules, terms of employment, and consumption patterns, showing how Chinese ascendancy is redrawing political, economic, and social battle lines. This book shows what you must do to survive and prosper in "the Chinese Century."

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All these titles are available to purchase online from www.pearson-books.com. Buy online before 24th April 2005 and benefit by receiving a 10% discount! All orders to the UK and Europe qualify for FREE P&P!

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