International Management

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool.

International management is considered an achievement in my eyes. If you have run a business so successfully that you have enough funds to enter new markets, you are a great manager in general. International expansion is also an investor's dream because the more countries a company enters, the more potential revenue can be made. My international college professor gave me A+, 100 percent, so this paper will not disappoint you.

In The Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs. Washington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies.

The Complete Strategy Collection, a compilation of ancient and historical philosophies, will increase your knowledge of strategy, conflict, and adversity throughout the ages, giving you valuable insight into the past while opening a window to the future. Although each of the works can be considered a manual or diagram for war or engaging in physical combat, the life skills embodied in each can be adapted to everyday life in modern society. Listen and learn how you, too, can take advantage of the strategies of war.

Find out how to successfully resolve your most emotionally charged conflicts. In this landmark book, world-renowned Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro presents a groundbreaking, practical method to reconcile your most contentious relationships and untangle your toughest conflicts.

These six daily practices will fuel your efforts to create and sustain positive change in your life. Now The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs brings you these principles in a whole new light - alongside the entrepreneurial elevation principles and the entrepreneur's elevation skills. These are essential skills that you need to create a successful business and personal life.

Do you want to become your own best version? Do you want to showcase your charismatic, authentic self so that you attract people and become popular? If so, this book How to Be Charismatic, Develop Confidence, and Exude Leadership: The Miracle Formula for Magnetic Charisma, Defeating Anxiety, and Winning at Communication is the right book for you!

Conquer the SOA ILA 201-I FSA Exam in Under 90 Minutes is designed for actuaries preparing for the Society of Actuaries Fellowship track in international life and annuities. This concise study guide delivers a focused review of advanced valuation methods, product risk management techniques, and the regulatory frameworks that shape insurance markets worldwide. Inside, you will find clear coverage of mortality and policyholder behavior risk, product design, solvency and capital standards, and international perspectives on reinsurance and asset-liability management. Each chapter is written in ...

A book of being, entitled The Ultimate Coach. Who would I need to be to be a more loving person? Who would I need to be to be a more effective parent? Who would I need to be to create a level of confidence that is remarkable? I promise you that if you listen to this book with the intention of expanding your state of being, you will do exactly that. Your experience will be remarkable. Who you are being is everything. Loving you. Be blessed. Be you.

In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.

10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition 2025 It has been 10 years since the first publication of this encyclopedia in 2015. Major changes and additions have been introduced in this revised 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of 2025. This practical handbook stands as the only thoroughly comprehensive encyclopedia on Lean Management that meticulously delineates a sequential, plug-and-play methodology designed for immediate real-world application in any organization. More than a conceptual overview, this work serves as a globally validated, practice-oriented training manual aimed at ...

This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national best-seller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank.

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.

Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution.

In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. These movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.

“Leaders,” writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, “think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain. It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy.”

Develop a Positive Mindset and Attract the Life of Your Dreams teaches listeners how to feel better about themselves and create a clear action plan for sustainable improvement. In this book, the author explores the power of the mind to help the listener discover the endless possibilities of thinking positively. Included also is How to Stop Being Negative, Angry, and Mean. With this second book, listeners will discover how to manage emotions, the importance of a growth mind-set and how to develop one, the major causes of anger, and more.

In Dark Zone, a race-to-the-finish thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, the brutal murder of an undercover agent reveals a plot to incite a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine. Former US Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old...

Your voice matters. Your ideas, your vision, your work—they all have the potential to make a significant impact, but only if your message touches a nerve and sticks with your audience long after you’ve spoken. Voices Of Reason equips leaders to communicate with impact. Drawing on Aristotle’s timeless principles—ethos (character), logos (logic), and pathos (emotional resonance)—this book offers a roadmap for persuasive leadership. Learn strategies to craft compelling speeches, overcome speaking fears, and foster open dialogue.

A groundbreaking guide that revolutionizes strategic planning by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence. This book offers a comprehensive approach to strategic planning, combining the proven StratExec model with the cutting-edge capabilities of ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art AI developed by OpenAI. Readers will discover how to leverage AI to enhance their strategic planning process, from defining their mission, vision, and values, to setting strategic objectives, identifying key performance indicators, and monitoring progress. The book provides step-by-step guidance, practical ...