Stuart Crainer Books

The modern organization exists in a multi-dimensional ecosystem sustained by a potent combination of trust, technology, and management.

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

This book aims to make leading edge ideas more accessible. For quick reference, the Glossary includes an A-Z of key management thinkers with details of their main ideas and publications.

This edition has been updated to include more emphasis on leading edge ideas and a greater international flavour with more US contributors

Drawn from around the world and throughout the ages, this volume is a thoroughly entertaining collection of management decisions that changed the world. It ranges from the establishment of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, to Walt Disney's decision to call his mouse Micky instead of Mortimer, to the creation of Amazon.com.

Leadership the Sven-Göran Eriksson Way examines the leadership style of the England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. Our argument is that Eriksson’s approach is important because it brilliantly exemplifies a new leadership which defies conventional and historical stereotypes of how leaders think and behave. Eriksson is a not a tub-thumping bellower of orders. He is no dictator. Instead, he is a modern leadership archetype, a leader we can all learn from. From Leadership the Sven-Göran Eriksson Way "This book does have an important message... Sven and Richard Branson are the future... the Scandinavian business model is something we should try to copy". Lucy Kellaway, The Financial Times "I very much enjoyed it and in particular the way it gelled good business management principles with their application to football as illustrated by many of the policy decisions taken by our national coach who inside 12 months has brought cofidence, assurance, team spirit and a more worldwide awareness to our England team giving everybody optimism…" Gordon Taylor, Chairman of the PFA (Professional Footballers Association)

A guide to business and management books, which are set in context by the authors. Those titles featured include Ansoff's Corporate Strategy, Keynes's The General Theory, Friedman's Free to Choose and Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management.

This is one of a series that shows how the "big shots" of the business world have attained their positions in which they control huge empires and command vast personal fortunes. The book reveals the secrets, deals, schemes and dreams of these, the world's fiercest business competitors.

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This work provides summaries of the strategic business thinking of a range of business "gurus", along with an assessment of the impact that these thinkers have had on the business world. It is intended to offer a fast path into the ideas of those who have made a difference.