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The Economist Managing Talent

KShs1,995.00 KShs1,896.00
Brief Summary The Economist: Managing Talent: Recruiting, Retaining and getting the most from talented people. Survey after survey confirms how the success of a business has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of its staff. And because talented people are in short supply the hunt for people of unusual ability will continue in earnest. Hiring such people is the relatively easy part; keeping them engaged so that they don't move on and getting the best out of them while they are with you is the greater challenge — one that more than ever requires a good understanding of what people want from both work and life outside work, as well as flexibility and imagination in seeking to accommodate their aspirations. Drawing on original research, including interviews with senior executives, recruitment specialists and people considered to be "talented” within their organizations, Managing Talent outlines how companies such as Google, Apple, Santander, Mars, Unilever, PepsiCo, Nokia, Olam International, Tata Chemicals and Bank of America are facing the challenge of recruiting and developing the talent they need. Full of useful insights and practical help for those who are responsible for the success of their organization, it also provides invaluable guidance to those in search of career satisfaction. " ISBN:9781846685897 Author:Michel Syrett Marion Devine

Managing Community Projects

KShs695.00 KShs661.00
Brief Summary New TARA Publication on Community Projects TARA is pleased and proud to announce the publication of an attractive 68 page booklet on community rock art projects with a case study of its highly vibrant project on Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Managing Community Projects: TARA and the Abasuba Community Peace Museum. The book is loaded with pictures and with stories from many of the actors and players involved in TARA’s largest community project to date. Co-authored by Gloria K. Borona (TARA, Community Projects Manager) and Gladys Nyasuna Wanga (Former TARA Programme Manager), with a foreword by Alain Godonou (Director of EPA at the time), the book chronicles the genesis of the project, its implementation, its successes and shortcomings. Also highlighted are community project management principles / best practices and four other TARA community projects (Dabous, Niger; Kakapel, Kenya; Lokori , Kenya and; Kondoa, Tanzania). The production of this book was made possible through the support of EPA – Ecole Du Patrimoine African, in Benin with funds from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ISBN:9966705589 Author:Nyasuna-Wanga, Borona and Tara

The Economist: Guide to Managing Growth

KShs2,999.00 KShs2,850.00
Brief Summary The Economist Guide to Managing Growth: How to get bigger and be better Successful and ambitious organizations recognize the 'growth imperative' but are often insufficiently aware of what might threaten continued success. Growth means change. What worked last year won't necessarily work next year - an organization that wants to manage growth successfully will need to change things that aren't yet broken. Growth, and the change it brings, affects every aspect of the business - people management, marketing, customer and client management, financial management, organizational design, performance management and measurement. Growth gives rise to problems for businesses of all size. A young business run by its entrepreneurial founders is quite likely not to pay enough attention to the robustness of an organization’s structure and systems. Different divisions in a big business will evolve at different speeds and be at different stages of their evolution, each with their own particular issues to address - plus the need to be satisfactorily reconciled with each other. This guide explores the different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics that will enable businesses to address the issues they face and move forward to a bigger and even more successful future. ISBN:9781846684135 Author:Rupert Merson

Marketing and Managing Tourism Destin...

KShs4,350.00 KShs4,133.00
Brief Summary Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations is a comprehensive and integrated textbook which uniquely considers both destination marketing and management in one volume. It focuses on how destination marketing is planned, implemented and evaluated as well as the management and operations of destination marketing and management organizations, how they conduct business, major opportunities, challenges and issues they face to compete for the global leisure and business travel markets. This textbook provides students with: • A solid introduction to destination marketing strategy and planning, to organization and support planning and then to operations, implementation and evaluation, as well as major issues, challenges and expected new directions for destination marketing, management and Destination Management Organizations (DMOs). • A unique systematic model to manage and market destinations. • Core concepts are supported with well integrated international case studies to show the practical realities of marketing and managing destinations as well as the need to take a flexible and adaptive approach to managing different destinations around the world. • To encourage reflection on main themes addressed and spur critical thinking, discussion questions and links to further reading are included in each chapter. This accessible yet rigorous text provides students with an in-depth overview of all the factors and issues which are important to consider to make a destination successful. ISBN:9780415672504 Author:Alastair M Morrison

Managing Business Risk

KShs7,290.00 KShs6,926.00
Brief Summary Managing Business Risk: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business The effective management of risk has become an essential boardroom issue. Companies now realize that while financial integrity and business continuity are still of primary importance, these must be considered alongside practical business risks, such as branding and reputation, employment practices, product liability, health and safety, fraud, intellectual property, customer loyalty and supply chains. Problems in any of these areas can undermine prospects for creating value and delivering earnings to forecast. To manage business risk - and particularly in a challenging economic climate - it is imperative that a company's board is structured to provide clear controls on risks and to deliver transparent reporting to stakeholders. Passively complying with rules and regulations is no longer an option. With a new foreword by Steve Fowler, CEO of the Institute of Risk Management, this practical guide to potential areas of risk within a business contains invaluable advice for directors of both large and small companies, bringing readers swiftly up to speed with the latest thinking and techniques for managing risk in a structured and integrated way. ISBN:9780749462826 Author:Jonathan Reuvid

Managing Human Resources

KShs4,490.00 KShs4,266.00
Brief Summary Wayne Cascio's Managing Human Resources, 9e is perfect for the general management student whose job inevitably will involve responsibility for managing people. It explicitly links the relationship between productivity, quality of work life, and profits to various human resource management activities and as such, strengthens the students' perception of human resource management as an important function, which affects individuals, organizations, and society. It is research-based and contains strong links to the applicability of this research to real business situations. ISBN:9780078029172 Author:Wayne Cascio

Managing Change in Organizations

KShs4,250.00 KShs4,038.00
Brief Summary Managing Change in Organizations provides a practical and thorough overview of how effective change can be achieved in organizations. The text is ideal for advanced undergraduates, MBA and postgraduate students on courses in managing change and organizational change. Colin Carnall takes a strategic approach, outlining guidance and techniques for planning and implementing, evaluating and learning from major organizational change. Reviewing traditional and more recent critical theories, he also presents models and frameworks for change that are apt for the complex and fast-moving challenges of contemporary organizations. ISBN:9780273736417 Author:Colin Carnall and Rune Todnem

Managing Multiple Projects

KShs2,150.00 KShs2,043.00
Brief Summary All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. Today's workplace is often complex and unpredictable, yet most project management books address only the topic of managing individual projects and solving specific problems. Managing Multiple Projects presents a realistic method for developing the individual and group skills needed to cope with competing demands. It shows readers how to develop a reliable system for taking on multiple projects, work with others to allocate conflicting workloads, cope with the stress that comes from managing multiple projects, and more. ISBN:9780071388962 Author:Michael Tobis and Irene Tobis

Managing Change

KShs4,950.00 KShs4,703.00
Brief Summary Managing Change examines the concept and practice of change within the context of the history, literature and theories of management. In particular, it links the process of change to the strategic development, management and leadership of organizations. The reader is encouraged to reflect critically on areas such as post-modernism, realism and complexity theory, and explores in depth the influence of culture, power and politics. The book is aimed at students of change management, strategy and organizational change as part of undergraduate, MBA and MA programmes. ISBN:9780273778967 Author:Prof Bernard Burne

The Economist Managing Uncertainty

KShs2,350.00 KShs2,233.00
Brief Summary The Economist: Managing Uncertainty: Strategies for Surviving and Thriving in Turbulent Times A guide to understanding and responding to business uncertainty in the twenty-first century Managing uncertainty has become a new business imperative. Technological discontinuities, regulatory upheavals, geopolitical shocks, abrupt shifts in consumer tastes or behavior, and many other factors have emerged or intensified in recent years and together conspire to undermine even the most carefully constructed business strategies. Managing Uncertainty: Strategies for Surviving and Thriving in Turbulent Times addresses these new challenges, assessing the sources of business turbulence, how to classify uncertainty, and the different ways in which uncertainty can be embraced to allow greater innovation and growth. Drawing on examples from around the world, the book presents the most recent ideas on what it means to manage uncertainty, from practitioners, academics, and consultants. • Addresses the challenges of managing uncertainty in business • Presents a step-by-step guide to managing business uncertainty • Draws examples from major international companies, including Intel, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Boeing, Philips, Ford, Apple, and many more Written for business leaders and managers looking for new ways to ensure that their businesses continue to thrive in a world of increasing complexity, Managing Uncertainty presents new and innovative ideas about reducing risk by understanding difficult-to-predict shifts. " ISBN:9781846684883 Author:Michel Syrett

Managing Information: IT for Business

KShs6,790.00 KShs6,451.00
Brief Summary The 3rd Edition of Management Information Systems promotes active learning like no other text in the market. Each chapter is comprised of tightly coupled concepts and section-level student activities that transport your students from passively learning about IS to doing IS in a realistic context. The integration of Microsoft Excel and Access exercises at the end of every chapter enables students to practice their Microsoft application skills in the context of the chapter material. ISBN:9781118895382 Author:Kelly Rainer,? Brad Prince and Hugh J. Watson

Managing Finance

KShs3,795.00 KShs3,606.00
Brief Summary Managing Finance is developed from tried and tested materials that are easy to read and work is written from a managerial perspective for general managers on executive or MBA courses. The text focuses on accounting from the viewpoint of the needs of managers for financial information and understanding. Scenarios and examples are included that demonstrate a socially responsible approach. Business Scenarios are presented at the opening of each chapter and this is then used to explore the topics covered given at the start of the chapter. This approach is very appealing to people with business experience There is supplementary material with this text for the website with additional exercises, cases, multiple choice questions, PowerPoint presentations, and tutorial material. This will be kept up-to-date and provide links to other resources. ISBN:9780750661010 Author:D. Crowther

Managing In Turbulent Times

KShs1,795.00 KShs1,706.00
Brief Summary This book, the author explains, "Is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis." It deals with the strategies needed to transform rapid changes into opportunities, to turn the threat of change into productive and profitable action that contributes positively to our society, the economy, and the individual. ISBN:9780887306167 Author:Peter Drucker

Managing for Results

KShs1,795.00 KShs1,706.00
Brief Summary The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic work, The Practice of Management. Managing for Results shows what the executive decision maker must do to move his enterprise forward. Drucker again employs his particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives for profits and growth. ISBN:9780060878986 Author:Peter Drucker

Management in 10 Words

KShs1,595.00 KShs1,516.00
Brief Summary In his fourteen years as CEO of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy not only turned the company into the largest supermarket chain in the UK but also transformed it into a global enterprise. As a result, Sir Terry is now one of the world's most admired business leaders, widely acclaimed for his drive, flair and no-nonsense approach. In Management in 10 Words he draws on his experience and expertise to pinpoint the ten vital attributes that make successful managers and underlie great organizations. He tackles the challenges that every manager faces, in a series of insights that are personal, provocative, and down to earth. And he explains: • Why initial failure often leads to ultimate success. • Why profits stem from a company's values, not its day-to-day business. • Why competition should always be welcomed. • Why simplicity leads to innovation. • Why trust is the bedrock of effective leadership. The result is an inspiring, thoughtful and supremely practical guide that will prove invaluable to all managers in all types of organization. ISBN:9781847940896 Author:Terry Leahy

28 Business Thinkers Who Changed The ...

KShs1,950.00 KShs1,853.00
Brief Summary 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World: The Management Gurus and Mavericks Who Changed the Way We Think about Business 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a guide to the people who have shaped the way we do business today. Some are great intellectuals while others are "gut instinct" types. Some want to change the world while others want money and power. With energy and wit, Rhymer Rigby takes readers through the top business brains of our time to show the human behind the headlines, highlighting world industry leaders such as Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. With discussions on the influential people behind successful companies such as McDonalds, Sony, Southwest Airlines and Starbucks, he describes the oversized impact of their businesses on the world today. This book offers profiles on the great minds of the modern capitalist world. From Oprah to Mark Zuckerberg, Rhymer Rigby describes how they made it, the risks they took and the legacy they leave behind. ISBN:9786029498547 Author:Rhymer Rigby

Profitable Growth Is Everyones Business

KShs2,195.00 KShs2,086.00
Brief Summary Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning The coauthor of the international bestseller Execution has created the how-to guide for solving today’s toughest business challenge: creating profitable growth that is organic, differentiated, and sustainable. For many, growth is about "home runs”—the big bold idea, the next new thing, the product that will revolutionize the marketplace. While obviously attractive and lucrative, home runs don’t happen every day and frequently come in cycles. Products like Kevlar, Teflon, and the Dell business model for selling personal computers may be once-in-a-decade phenomena. A surer and more consistent path to profitable revenue growth is through "singles and doubles”—small day-to-day wins and adaptation to changes in the marketplace that build the foundation for substantially increasing revenues. The impact of singles and doubles can be huge. They are not only the basis for sustained revenue growth but, in fact, the foundation for home runs. Singles and doubles provide the discipline of execution, an absolute necessity for successfully bringing a breakthrough technology to market or implementing a new business model. Inherent in this way of thinking is the revolutionary idea that growth is everyone’s business—not solely the concern of the sales force or top management. Just as everyone participates in cost reduction, so must everyone be engaged in the growth agenda of the business. Every contact of each employee with a customer is an opportunity for revenue growth. That includes everyone from the people working in a company’s call center handling customer inquiries and complaints to the CEO. In this trailblazing book, Ram Charan provides the building blocks and tools that can put a business on the path to sustained, profitable growth. For more than twenty-five years, Ram Charan has been working day in and day out with companies around the world. The ideas he has developed for solving the profitable revenue growth dilemma facing many businesses are based on personally seeing what works in real time. These are ideas that have been tested across industries and that deliver results, and they can be put to use starting Monday morning. " ISBN:9781400051526 Author:Ram Charan

Trading Commodities and Financial Fut...

KShs2,690.00 KShs2,556.00
Brief Summary Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step by Step Guide to Mastering the Markets More fortunes are made and lost more quickly in the commodity futures markets than anywhere else. It is a game of consequence where profits won by one player are lost by another. The stakes are high, but for those who know how to play well, the rewards can be immense. Trading Commodities and Financial Futures shows you how to play the game to win. In this book, one of the world's most experienced traders introduces a new step-by-step methodology built on more than twenty-five years of success. George Kleinman begins with the basics—including a complete primer on how futures and options trading works, how traders' psychology impacts the markets, and how to avoid the pitfalls that trip up so many traders. This edition offers updated coverage of electronic trading, the latest contracts, and state-of-the-art trading techniques you won't find in any competing book. Previous editions of Kleinman's Commodity Futures and Options became international best sellers. This one offers even more insight for winning the commodities game—and winning big. • Winning in a zero-sum game for every commodities winner, there's a loser: here's how to be the winner • The trend is your friend How to use techniques designed to generate profits in a trending market • The fundamentals: supply and demand in every key market mastering the markets, from crude oil to soybeans, gold to coffee, foreign exchange to stock index futures • TMVTT: The most valuable technical tool A unique trading methodology—how it works and how to use it • When to get in, when to get out How to recognize the beginning—and end—of major market moves • Twenty-five trading secrets of the pros A lifetime's experience, distilled into twenty-five crucial tips ISBN:9780131476547 Author:George Kleinman

The Second Curve

KShs1,595.00 KShs1,516.00
Brief Summary The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society Britain's leading guru looks to the future. Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends – such as Beyond Certainty – has changed the way we view society. In The Second Curve, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life – as students, parents, workers and voters – and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be. Provocative and thoughtful as ever, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves – and points us in the direction of some of the answers. ISBN:9781847941329 Author:Charles B. Handy

Rivals How the Power Struggle

KShs1,695.00 KShs1,611.00
Brief Summary Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade. The former editor in chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his best-selling book The Sun Also Sets to lay out an entirely fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan and what it will mean for America, the global economy, and the twenty-first-century world. Though books such as The World Is Flat and China Shakes the World consider them only as individual actors, Emmott argues that these three political and economic giants are closely intertwined by their fierce competition for influence, markets, resources, and strategic advantage. Rivals explains and explores the ways in which this sometimes bitter rivalry will play out over the next decade—in business, global politics, military competition, and the environment—and reveals the efforts of the United States to manipulate and benefit from this rivalry. Identifying the biggest risks born of these struggles, Rivals also outlines the ways these risks can and should be managed by all of us. " ISBN:9780151015030 Author:Bill Emmott