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Savvy advice to make every business trip hassle-free and productive. Business travel can be one of the most stressful or stimulating aspects of executive life; it all depends on how well prepared you are. It's about knowing the smartest route to your destination; knowing the quickest route into town; knowing how to get an upgrade; knowing what to do if you feel ill in a foreign country; finding the best hotel; and avoiding those frustrating experiences with laptops and modems. This is far more than a guide to logistics or travel directory. It is a forward thinking handbook of business travel management, containing hundreds of ideas for making your time away productive and effective - from 10 things to work on if you are delayed in the airport with just pen and paper, through the best material to take on a journey, to ideas on how to effectively manage your team back home while you are away. From planning a stress-free business trip to making best use of all your time away, the FT Guide to Business Travel is the definitive travel companion for the global executive. Don't travel without it. "The secret to life on the road isn't knowing how to make plans. It's knowing how to change plans." FAST COMPANY

Now you can find out what ten key business secrets lie at the heart of the Branson management style and the Virgin empire. Business the Richard Branson Way charts his spectacular career and examines how his unique abilities - as savvy negotiator, dazzling newsmaker, creative leader, and more - have made him one of the most colorful, dynamic, and successful businessmen in the world.

Mega-mogul Bill Gates is quite simply the richest and most successful businessman of all time. His remarkable vision and obsessive desire to win have created a leadership style radically different to anything the business world has seen before. The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Bill Gates Way draws out the universal lessons from Bill Gates' phenomenal success and identifies 10 secret leadership strategies that can be applied to any business or career: Be in the right place at the right time Fall in love with technology Take no prisoners Hire very smart people Learn to survive Don't expect any thanks Assume the visionary position Cover all the bases Build a byte-sized business Never ever take your eye off the ball Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are in your hands. Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series: Richard Branson; Jamie Oliver; Duncan Bannatyne; Alan Sugar; and Philip Green.

In many ways, Richard Branson and his company the Virgin Group are unique. In an era dominated by strategists, Branson is an opportunist with an uncanny knack of sniffing out great deals where others hesitate or fear to tread. Never before has a single brand been so successfully deployed across such a diverse range of goods and services. Branson is the ultimate brand builder. So how does he do it? Now bought completely up to date for this new edition, Business the Richard Branson Way , not only reveals the secrets of Branson's remarkable success but also draws out the universal lessons and identifies strategies that can be applied to any business or career. From picking on someone bigger than you to moving faster than a speeding bullet, and from making work fun to keeping the common touch, you have in your hands the secrets of phenomenal success. Contents

Richard Branson, the international powerhouse entrepreneur, is an opportunist with an uncanny knack of sniffing out great deals where others hesitate or fear to tread. Branson is the ultimate brand builder and never before has a single brand been so successfully deployed across such a diverse range of goods and services. So how does he do it? The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Richard Branson Way draws out the universal lessons from Richard Branson's remarkable success and identifies 10 strategies that can be applied to any business or career: 1. Pick on someone bigger than you 2. Do the hippy, hippy shake 3. Haggle: everything's negotiable 4. Make work fun 5. Do right by your brand 6. Smile for the cameras 7. Don't lead sheep, herd cats 8. Move faster than a speeding bullet 9. Size does matter 10. Never lose the common touch Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are in your hands. Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series: Jamie Oliver; Duncan Bannatyne; Alan Sugar; Bill Gates; and Philip Green.

Successful innovation is elusive and difficult to put into effective practice. In What we mean when we talk about innovation Thinkers50 founders Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove explore the realities of innovation and the ideas behind it with the world's leading thinkers on innovation and the world's most innovative companies.

V roce 1977 neznámý počítačový „podivín“ opustil Harvard před ukončením studia a začal pracovat v malé společnosti zabývající se počítačovým softwarem. V roce 1980 tentýž jedinec získal nabídku na dodávku operačního systému pro první osobní počítač IBM. Zbytek by mohl být obvyklou historií, kdyby ovšem tím „podivínem“ nebyl Bill Gates a společností Microsoft. Kniha Bill Gates a byznys vypráví tento pozoruhodný příběh, zachycuje Gatesovu cestu od chvíle, kdy ho jako třináctiletého chlapce posedl počítač, hovoří o prvním uskutečněném obchodu s počítačovou firmou, dohodě, že bude vyhledávat chyby v jejím softwaru výměnou za čas, který může zadarmo strávit u jejího počítače... po neúspěch na vysoké škole... k postavení nejbohatšího obchodního magnáta na světě. Kniha Bill Gates a byznys je zábavná a poučná, odhaluje podnikatelskou genialitu, která je hnací silou úžasného úspěchu Microsoftu, a prozrazuje deset hlavních obchodních tajemství technického odborníka – a skvělého obchodníka.

Der Atlas des Management lädt getreu der Idee serious play dazu ein, jenseits von Routine-Besprechungen gewohnte Problemstellungen neu anzugehen - zu experimentieren, erkunden und Ideen zu entwickeln. Ob Konzernmulti oder Ein-Mann-Unternehmen - im Business geht es immer darum, die Antworten auf einige ganz einfache Fragen zu finden: Wie kann ich mit meinem Produkt Geld verdienen? Wie kann ich meine Mitarbeiter zu Höchstleistungen anspornen? Aber die Antworten auf diese einfachen Fragen sind nicht so leicht zu finden. Oft bewegt man sich auf unbekanntem Terrain, wenn es darum geht · Märkte zu erobern · Konkurrenten zu lokalisieren · Strategische Ausrichtung zu finden · Verkaufshindernisse zu umgehen · Nach Kreativität zu schürfen · Arbeitsfelder zu analysieren Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele zeigen, wie sich Managementaufgaben in Landkarten darstellen lassen und welche Exkursionen von bekannten Managern und Unternehmen schon erfolgreich geführt wurden.