Product Description: Richard Koch has made a career out of spotting ‘Star Businesses’ – and has made millions from them. By a ‘Star Business’ he means a new business that operates in a high-growth market and is a leader in that market. In his new book, the author of the worldwide bestseller The 80/20 Principle shows how you too can get rich from the ‘Star Principle’...read more

Product Description: Richard Koch has made a career out of spotting ‘Star Businesses’ – and has made millions from them. By a ‘Star Business’ he means a new business that operates in a high-growth market and is a leader in that market. In his new book, the author of the worldwide bestseller The 80/20 Principle shows how you too can get rich from the ‘Star Principle’...read more

Product Description: YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO STRATEGY. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. The FT Guide to Strategy is your unbeatable reference on strategy. It offers an incisive overview of both corporate level and business unit level strategy, an A to Z of the world's leading strategic thinkers and introduces the key strategic tools and techniques you need to develop your own strategy...read more

The practical guide to discovering the rules of our superconnected world through the science and sociology of networks. Personal and professional networks shape everything we do. A chance meeting with an old colleague leads to a swanky new job; two businessmen collaborate online and co-found a successful start-up; a friend introduces a promising entrepreneur to a millionaire looking to invest. In this practical guide to discovering the rules of our superconnected world, the authors show that success is less about who you are than how you connect. With an eye toward business applications, SuperConnect outlines the new rules of our densely linked society. At the core of the analysis are three simple network components--strong relationships, weak relationships, and hubs--that interact in surprising, counterintuitive ways. Understanding how these components mesh, and connecting unrelated people, is the way to achieve in today's hyper-connect world.

Product Description: The practical guide to discovering the rules of our superconnected world through the science and sociology of networks. Personal and professional networks shape everything we do. A chance meeting with an old colleague leads to a swanky new job; two businessmen collaborate online and co-found a successful start-up; a friend introduces a promising entrepreneur to a millionaire looking to invest...read more

Western civilization has thrived more than any other civilization in the past or present - it has been much more successful in economic, military and political terms, in science and technology, in the arts, and in enhancing its citizens' health, wealth, longevity and even, probably, their happiness.

Product Description: Everyone knows that strategy is the cornerstone of any business. But very few people know how to make it work for them. What do smart people know about strategy that the rest of us don't? And how can we learn from the best and apply the lessons for ourselves? Smart Strategy gives you everything you need to devise a great strategy and keep it on track...read more

Product Description: Are you responsible for devising the strategy for your business unit? Want to make sure you have a smart, achievable and effective strategy but not sure where to start? This book gives you strategy in a nutshell. Everything you need to know to assess your business unit and build an effective strategy for future profitability is here...read more

Product Description: "Most CEOs claimed that they wanted to spend about a third of their time on strategy. That's about 80-days in a typical working year". McKinsey Research, 2003. A strategy is an essential tool in business. How do you know what you're doing without one? But what exactly is a good strategy? How do you get one? What are the options? Which are the key concepts and models you need to know about? In the third edition of this easy-to-read and logically structured guide, Richard Koch leads the reader through each critical step in creating, delivering and understanding successful strategy...read more

The father of the 80/20 approach to work and living shows readers how to apply his plan to the pursuit of a balanced life, urging readers to focus on lifestyle and focus on what they do well in order to become successful. Original.

Applying the 80/20 principle to developing a more profitable, successful business, this practical business manual explains how executives, managers, and entrepreneurs can utilize their 80/20 skills to enhance their business, drawing on real-life examples from such companies as Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Intel, and Toyota. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: A new 21st century individualism is overtaking “corporation-as-king” capitalism, transforming the way we work and live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at a time...read more

Product Description: From wannabe to can be-the book on 21st-century leadershipThe technological and marketplace challenges that only yesterday seemed like speculation are now a reality. The future is here. And so is the best advice available on becoming-and being-the kind of leader a truly twenty-first-century firm needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This title offers practical lessons for individuals who want to be part of the 80/20 revolution, a revolution which may dramatically change the economy. It shows how individualism is replacing capitalism and how individuals can create wealth and well being.

The author of The 80/20 Principle reveals the parallels between the laws of nature and the natural laws of business to teach managers and executives how to apply scientific and economic theory to vital business issues. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Few people are inventing strategies that challenge the status quo and even fewer are showing the audacity to implement them. But these few smart people will be big winners. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One Cross the Red Sea you have to leave the security of the status quo and summon up the will to change everything Two Form a Tribe get to know and appreciate your people and understand your business surroundings Three Visit Mount Sinai declare the Ten Commandments and define the new religion of your business Four Journey to the Promised Land with a group of zealous missionaries you must make the religion work and take time to explain the future your people will create Five Arrive in the Promised Land the tribe will know when you have arrived...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: *Who really makes money in the City? *How do the professionals do it? *How can you do the same? "Now in its third edition, Richard Koch's Selecting Shares That Perform has earned its right to a place on every investor's bookshelf...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Corporate break-up is dominating the business press and making executives worldwide fear for their careers. This text examines this phenomenon, and explores its far-reaching effects for shareholders, managers, employees, investors and customers.

Product Description: Capstone is a mould-breaking trade business publisher, with books written by the world's most innovative business thinkers who are redefining the work world. Formed just two years ago in February 1996 by Mark Allin, Richard Burton, Richard Koch, and Catherine Meyrick, Capstone has developed into an oustanding brand in the international trade business market...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ""Strategy has never been so simple, accessible, powerful and practically directed to raise profits." - Robin Field, Chief Executive, Fairfax Group " Behind every business success-story lies a successful strategy, and behind many a business failure lurks a bad strategy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A new guide to unlocking the maximum performance energy in business focuses identifying the 20% of time and energy expended to do 80% of the work. Reprint.

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Product Description: Learn the time-tested secret of achieving more with less using the 80/20 Principle. Based on the counter-intuitive fact that 80% of results flow from 20% of causes, it is the guiding principle of highly effective people and organizations...read more