Starting with the premise that there's only ever one chance to make a good impression, this title covers the issues involved in producing a plan - from profiling competitors and forecasting market development, to the importance of providing clear financial information.

Inside the hottest business, media and technology success of our time

Managing through change and crisis is difficult in any business environment. This guide offers advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change such as M&A, and address emotional responses to downsizing.

Covers stages of property development. This title includes practical 'how-to' advice and important guidance on making a profit from property.

Explores the requirements that various new businesses must meet: the satisfaction of its four primary influencers - its employees, customers, suppliers, and investors - through four fundamental categories - visual, emotional, functional, and financial.

Peopleware asserts that most software development projects fail because of failures within the team running them. This strikingly clear, direct book is written for software development team leaders and managers, but it's filled with enough common-sense wisdom to appeal to anyone working in technology. Authors Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister include plenty of illustrative, often amusing anecdotes; their writing is light, conversational, and filled with equal portions of humour and wisdom, and there is a refreshing absence of"new age" terms and multi-step programmes. The advice is presented straightforwardly and ranges from simple issues of prioritisation to complex ways of engendering harmony and productivity in your team. Peopleware is a short read that delivers more than many books on the subject twice its size. -- Jake Bond

Written by Britain's one of the most successful entrepreneurs, this book traces the author's financial and personal achievements from his childhood as a Pakistani immigrant to the phenomenal success of his first company and beyond.

Sticky Wisdom should be required reading for anyone who's ever wondered how to have more fun at work and profit by it. The basic message is that creativity is like gold dust but it needs to be practised and worked at in organisations. It needs to become part of the organisational furniture. Dave Allan and his coauthors run ?What If!, a creative consultancy (and the title of the first edition) aimed at helping businesses move outside the proverbial tramlines and here, minus the fee, they show how, with activities, games, insights and general lunacy.

The basic premise is that there are six main ways of being more creative--from thinking about things afresh through greenhousing (letting good ideas grow) to bravery (making them happen). Each chapter presents a range of case studies that help ground the activities in a sense of reality--for example one client managed a breakthrough in their advertising for toothpaste when they started seeing their product as liquid teeth. Where many management books are drier than a diver's underpants this has a freshness and zing about it. It keeps you reading and it keeps you smiling too. Sticky Wisdom sends a rocket into the comfortable world of conventional thinking. -- Steve Morris

Lets you understand the global developments in small business management and entrepreneurship. This title walks you through the key stages of creating and managing small businesses to show you how value is generated within a diverse range of enterprise settings.