Résultats Éditeur "University Press Audiobooks" dans Prévision et planification stratégique

The Strategic Career provides listeners with the ultimate guide to career choices, both short term and long term. While other authors approach career development from the perspective of psychology and counseling, Bill Barnett demonstrates how business strategy concepts can successfully guide us as we chart our careers.

The second volume of Hospitality Branding brings together new insights and case studies that reflect evolutions in the study of hospitality branding. In recent years, the brand has become preeminent as the key to success. Previously, business strategy started with marketing and incorporated branding as one of its elements; today the brand drives marketing within the larger hospitality enterprise and has become the chief organizing principle for most hospitality organizations.

Public-service executives, both elected and appointed within the public and nonprofit sectors, are retiring at record levels, and the number of Americans reaching age 65 annually will continue to rise over the next decade and is expected to surpass four million in 2020. Finding qualified, motivated leaders to fill vital public-service positions will challenge the public and nonprofit sectors. Unfortunately, recent studies show that few proactive steps are being taken by public-service organizations to plan for the next generation.

How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies, targeting nine that have survived for more than 100 years and have significantly outperformed the market over the past fifty years. Readers may wonder, "Why European companies?" Yet Europe is the ideal place to seek the key to long-term success; half of the Fortune Global 500 companies that are 100 years old or older can be found in Europe, as can 72 of the 100 oldest family businesses in the world.