Work Smarter with LinkedIn

By Alexandra Samuel | Harvard Business Press Books, June 2013 If you think LinkedIn is just for job hunting, you’re missing out on the many ways you can take advantage…

Understanding Social Media

By Sam Hinton, Larissa Hjorth | SAGE Publications, June 2013 Understanding Social Media provides a critical and timely conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. Taking…

Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life

By Paddy Miller, Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg | Harvard Business Press Books, March 2013 Turn team members into innovators… Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity. Every so…

Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future

By Dorie Clark | Harvard Business Press Books, April 2013 A step-by-step guide to reinventing you… Are you where you want to be professionally? Whether you want to advance faster…

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region

By Joe Studwell | Profile Books, 2013 A provocative look at what has worked and what hasn’t in East Asian economics. Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s,…

Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits and Growth

 By Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz | Crown Business, 2013 The remarkable story of a workplace revolution being led by bosses…the leaders transforming the fortunes of dozens of businesses and…

It’s much more difficult to do business now than in my time

Select excerpts from a recent interview with Mr. Ratan Tata, former Chairman of the Tata Group, by Benedict Paramanand, Editor of ManagementNext magazine, for the forthcoming book ‘CK Prahalad’s Impact…

Temp and perm distinction disappearing

Here’s some good news for staff on temporary contracts – the compensation parity between them and permanent employees is closing in. Does that make permanent employees insecure? It should if…