This paper reports on the first large-sample survey of management attitudes among over 1,400 Russian mid-level managers and 740 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). We find that while CEOs focus on knowledge of finances, company operations and legislation, as ideal CEO’s qualities, mid-level...

Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This title shows you how! The book provides a proven method for generating world-changing ideas. It empowers individuals who have given up on their innate creativity, who believe that they have lost their creative powers through...

Successful innovation-the key to competitive growth and profit-rests on disciplined management of the innovation process, from idea inception to customer service. This book answers, first, the key questions: Why innovate? What to innovate? How to innovate? and Who innovates? It then provides ten...

In today's global village, every manager is a global manager. Even if your business is putatively 'local', with no sales abroad, you still probably face competitors in other countries. Smartonomics</strong> provides global managers with a simple, powerful set of macroeconomic tools, which have been...

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