Business

Brief Summary "This book presents a comprehensive treatment of all key aspects of private international trade law. It shows how international trade law operates in its political, economic and business contexts and provides a clear and concise explanation of the theoretical framework, which underpins the law against the background of modern trade documentation and export practice. The author takes a practical approach to the subject incorporating example contractual clauses, forms and diagrams to demonstrate how the law works in practice, examining legal complexities in cases and materials. The book sets out summaries of the more significant cases, and covers significant cases on documentary credits, private international law, shipping, sale of goods and arbitration. It examines the influence of ECJ case law on private international law. ISBN:9781847033444 Author:Jason Chuah

Brief Summary Closely aligning with the military strategy concepts that the ancient Chinese warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu developed in The Art of War over 2500 years ago, Strategic Planning is a practical guide written by two German experts in strategy and innovation. Witmann and Reuter help leaders develop the ability to recognize opportunities in their corporate environment and take advantage of these opportunities effectively and flexibly by implementing revenue-generating strategies. To foster active participation, they engage readers in direct question "workshops" that can be worked through individually or in teams, guiding them through analysis of value-based management, the strategic environment, strategic strength development, building strategies to suit products, and techniques to gain competitive advantage. A full case study in strategy and business planning further coaches readers in handling the challenges of value creation and long-term success. ISBN:9780749452339 Author:Robert Wittmann and Matthias Reuter

Brief Summary To do: • take the stress out of work • defeat ‘information overload’ • be more efficient. Whether you are overwhelmed by your to-do list, or get stressed just looking at your full inbox, this Practical Guide from productivity expert Graham Allcott reveals how to think, and act, more productively and to start loving work. Following a simple A-Z of expert tips and real-life examples, you will learn to improve your focus, regain control, and feel cool, calm and collected. ISBN:9781848316492 Author:Graham Allcott

Brief Summary Taking in an amazing range of nationalities - British, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, Greek, Italian, American, Korean - in "Leadership: It's in Your DNA "Rhea Duttagupta examines how her interviewees became leaders, what worked for them, mistakes they've learned from and risks they've taken. From boardroom politics to the challenges faced by the first female commissioner of Asian police tasked with transforming the world's one of the most corrupt prisons, the stories are diverse, inspirational and instructional. This book provides readers with a framework of ten ingredients distilled from Rhea's extensive experience and research. She argues that these ingredients are innate within us and that if we recognise their importance and enhance them within ourselves, they'll help us maximise our achievements and our leadership qualities. ISBN:9781283902427 Author:Rhea Duttagupta

Brief Summary In this vital book, visionary international investment manager Antoine van Agtmael -- the pioneer who coined the term "emerging markets" -- pulls back the curtain on the new powerhouses of the world economy. Picking up where Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat left off, he persuasively demonstrates that the world's center of gravity is already tipping decisively in favor of the emerging economies. With this seismic shift, competitive challenges and investment risks are also being dramatically transformed, while new opportunities are arising for those who are alert to them. A new breed of world-leading companies are catching their Western competitors off guard. Household names of today -- IBM, Ford, Sony, and Shell -- are in danger of becoming has-beens as these more innovative new superstars in the emerging markets claim dominance. Understanding how they have become world-class market leaders, and where they are taking the world economy, is crucial to understanding not only the future of globalization, but the future of Western competitiveness. Each year we are buying more planes from Brazil's Embraer, refrigerators from China's Haier appliance maker, smart cell phones from Taiwan's HTC, and gas from Russia's Gazprom. How have these relative unknowns come so far in the world markets so fast? What are they doing right that their Western competitors are doing wrong, and how can Western companies face the intensifying challenges and survive? With in-depth, inside knowledge of these emerging powerhouses that's based on his thirty years of working, traveling, and investing in emerging markets and his extraordinary access to the leading companies, van Agtmael trains his experienced analyst's eye on twenty-five of the top emerging giants, taking readers into the executive suites and labs where they are outmaneuvering their Western rivals. Profiling these major players, such as Korea's Samsung Electronics, China's computer maker Lenovo, Brazil's iron ore giant CVRD, and India's Infosys, van Agtmael divulges their strategies for growth, and analyzes how their rise to dominance will change our lives. His unique insights point the way to how we in the West can capitalize on the opportunities these companies represent while also mobilizing a powerful response to the challenges they present. The Emerging Markets Century is a compelling and necessary read for anyone who wants to understand the true magnitude of change under way in the global economy today. ISBN:9781847370303 Author:Antoine W van Agtmael

Brief Summary The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviours that Transform Ordinary People into World Class Leaders Everything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact, only 7 percent of the CEOs of today's companies went to a top school--and 8 percent didn't graduate from college at all. Never put a foot wrong. In fact, people who have become CEOs have on average had five to seven career setbacks on their way to the top. Drawing on the biggest dataset of CEOs in the world -- in-depth analysis of 2,600 leaders, drawn from a database of 17,000 CEOs, as well as 13,000 hours of interviews -- The CEO Next Dooris crammed full of myth-busting and counter-intuitive insights in what it really takes to get ahead. Discover the way actual CEOs of top companies think and behave, and the kind of traits to develop if you want to make your ambitions a reality and take your career right to the top. ISBN:9781101906491 Author:Elena L Botelho, Kim Powell and Tahl Raz