Economics and Business

John F. Kennedy famously said, 'Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate'. Everyone needs to reach agreement with others, but many people are overly fearful of what they think is a complex process. In THE PRACTICAL NEGOTIATOR, Cohen demystifies negotiation, offering common-sense approaches anyone can use no matter what the issue.

There are four major pitfalls that business owners experience that inevitably lead to failure. START ME UP! provides strategies to avoid those pitfalls and gives you the powerful ideas you need to build your thriving business. This is the perfect time to start a small business using your existing skills.

Should your company pursue global expansion or mine local opportunities? Take risks to grow dramatically or protect your current stability? Seek to maximise sales or the bottom line? We're so often faced with apparent paradoxes: continuity and change, conservatism and progressiveness, predictability and chaos.

Life is a contact sport and no one knows that better than Eve Wright, a dynamic professional sports executive, entrepreneur and mother. But as our world grows increasingly complex, competitive and confusing, life becomes less about the luxury of doing what we want and the necessity of doing what we must. But it doesn't have to be that way.

As companies expand and grow, the skills that led to their success often won't sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. Yet few resources exist to help them. They frequently flounder in their attempts to create a competitive strategy, work with the board and keep other talented executives, managers and employees on board, all while endeavouring to navigate the ...

80 percent of small businesses do not receive outside funding. They scrimp and save to make their business dreams a reality. As these businesses grow, the hasty financial decisions and systems put in place during their infancy inevitably crumble.

Most companies around the globe clearly believe that people should have the opportunity to achieve as much as their initiative and native talent can justify, but too many managers still lack the wherewithal to effectively groom junior employees who have the potential to climb the corporate ladder. The support of a mentor is an integral part of any effort to maximise someone's full potential.

After years of sharing her small-business tips and marketing tricks with readers of her popular blog, ChunkOfChange.com, and column in the Long Beach Post, Olga Mizrahi has taken her message to the streets, urging business owners to focus in while reaching out.

Play is an essential, necessary and natural human activity... and it's for adults and companies too. Play is an immersive process that allows us to ask “What if?” - to break free of the strictures that limit creativity and satisfaction.

Somewhere between self-help and self-promotion lies self-awareness and advancement. YOUR ULTIMATE SUCCESS PLAN is a book that provides surprisingly easy-to-apply business strategies in an approachable, actionable, authentic way and encourages you to find your voice and realise your potential.

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.

In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them.

Think and Grow Rich has sold millions of copies since Its initial publication and is still one of the bestselling books on the market. With 365 quotations from Napoleon Hill's most important works on success and abundance, this daily guide serves as a companion for everyone who wants to experience more prosperity in their lives.

With customer loyalty weighing in as the most valued commodity in the workplace today, wead all like to know how to create lasting emotional connections to keep clients personally satisfied and eager to do business with us.

Here is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims on strategy, battlefield tactics, and deception—in the spirit of such classics as The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings—made fresh and relevant with contemporary examples and explanation.

Ken Robinson, author of the international bestseller The Element and the most viewed talk on TED.com, offers a practical guide to discovering your passions and natural aptitudes, and finding the point at which the two meet: Finding Your Element.

The Element has inspired readers all over the world to change their lives and this new companion is a practical guide containing all the tool