Business: The Ultimate Resource [Hardcover]

If business makes you scratch your head, enlightenment is here thanks to Bloomsbury’s heavyweight Ultimate Resource. Everything you ever wanted to know about business but were too afraid to ask is crammed into this encyclopedic, multi-faceted volume. The Ultimate Resource is a one-stop shop for practical solutions, theoretical debate and essential business information--each of its seven sections offering a vibrant take on vital business tools and techniques. In Best Practice, the world’s best-known business writers address some of the management problems and issues that are likely arise in every working life. Management Checklists and Actionlists identifies and provides answers to a range of practical business challenges while the Management Library presents executive summaries of essential business literature, distilling the ideas from key titles such as Blur and The Age of Unreason for busy executives. Business Thinkers and Management Giants profiles the gurus and pioneers whose ideas have shaped the commercial world while the lively Dictionary section presents an up-to-the-minute guide to current business terms, slang and jargon. The World Business Almanac contains statistics and facts on a range of countries and industries and finally in a comprehensive Business Information Sources section, a massive collection of contacts, books, organisations, Web sites and magazines make finding further information on everything from accounting to working abroad a walk in the park. Bloomsbury’s epic joins essentials such as BusinessThink, The Writing on the Wall and The Naked Leader in helping business out of the Dark Ages. With more knowledge, insight and big name contributors than you can shake a stick at, The Ultimate Resource is an entire management library under one dust jacket.--Iain Campbell

"Designed for maximum efficiency and readability … this volume will be what its title promises-as long as you can lift it."

'For the first time with Business a single resource offers each of us what we need to know, when we need to know it. If not a virtual MBA, think of it as a consultant on your bookshelf.' Daniel Goleman

'"Business" is arguably the most ambitious business book ever published.’

'Pound for pound…it may be the best purchase one could make for a business library.’

‘…a cross between a Baedeker for business and Business for Dummies…'

‘…Business: The Ultimate Resource really is the ultimate business encyclopedia- worth a spot on any manager’s shelf.’

"a sound notion that should appeal both to those running
their own businesses and to those attempting to work their way up larger enterprises."

The core of the database, this section contains over 150 strategic essays on best management practice across the range of business sectors. Incisive and contemporary views on topical business themes are covered by some of the world's most influential management thinkers and commentators. The essays are cross-referenced to the tactical management action lists. The management action lists and check lists aim to give busy managers a practical way to solve everyday business problems. Each user-friendly, action-oriented entry contains a summary giving an over view of the key points to consider in each action list; quick answers to the frequently asked questions managers need to address when considering a topic; a step-by-step guide to the right solution (sample solutions are given for financial ratios and such specific Human Resources issues as bullying at work); information on how to avoid common mistakes and get things right first time; and information on the best sources of help in print and online. With concise overviews of the theories behind, and the practice of, successful international business include core thinking, contributions and key works of management thinkers; explain the challenges faced and successes achieved by business pioneers; reflect the global nature of business and management today; and profile innovators in traditional, expanding and emerging business sectors. Comprising of more than 5000 terms with full, jargon-free definitions, the dictionary provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of key business terms and concepts. It is international in scope, and includes business English terms from around the world. Special features include: mini-essays for more complex concepts; biographical entries on key business thinkers and leaders; full expansions of abbreviations and acronyms; and extensive listings of the world's stock exchanges and key financial institutions. Associated dictionary terms are fully cross-referenced, and key terms are a

Our contributors include some of the best-selling non-fiction authors of the past decade, as well as the top current business thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic:

Professor Charles Handy, Emeritus Professor, London Business School. The best-known and most popular management guru outside the USA. Author of million copy best-sellers such as Understanding Organisations and The Empty Raincoat

Daniel Goleman, one of Bloomsbury’s bestselling non-fiction authors (over 300,000 copies sold of Emotional Intelligence). He will be promoting BUSINESS via a series of interviews in late September 2002

Sir John Harvey-Jones, former CEO of ICI, Presenter of BBC’s Trouble Shooterand one of the best practitioner books Making it Happen

Bob Heller, the top-selling UK business author in 2001. Editor of DK Effective Manager series. He is Editor of the Best Practice section of BUSINESS

Professor Christopher Bartlett, Harvard Business School and Professor Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School, authors of 1990s bestseller Managing across Borders

Professor Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. One of the world’s leading academic experts on leadership. He is also on our advisory board.

Fons Trompenaars, best-selling author of Riding the Waves of Culture.

Jim Collins, author of the 1990s bestseller Built to Last

Michael Hammer, co-author of one of the million copy seller Re-engineering the corporation. His co-author is James Champy, who is on our editorial board

Professor Philip Kotler, Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Chicago – the author of the best textbook on Marketing

Patricia Seybold, author of Customers.com

Meredith Belbin, Judge Institute, Cambridge University, author of perennial bestseller Management Teams

Professor Malcolm McDonald, Cranfield Business School, author of best-selling UK textbook on business planning - Marketing Plans

Jonas Ridderstrale – Author of best-selling business book in Europe Funky Business (FT Management); Professor of Business at Stockholm Institute of Economics

Professor Jean Paul Larreche, Professor of Strategic Marketing, INSEAD, France. Also a member of the Advisory Board

Professor Leif Edvinsson, international renowned expert on intellectual property, University of Lund, Sweden