Macmillan Readers adaptation of Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun. Scaramanga is a cold-blooded killer with connections to the KGB and the Cuban Secret Police. There is only one man skilled and brave enough to go after him - 007, James Bond. To carry out the mission, Bond ends up in Jamaic[...]
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for learners of English, with great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. Macmillan Readers Upper Intermediate adaptation of Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun. Scaramanga i[...]
"The Entrepreneurial Mindset" offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principle[...]
General Motors and IBM have been battered to their cores. Jack Welch, the chairman of General Electric, called the frenzied competition of the 1980's "a white knuckle decade" and said the 1990s would be worse. In this pathbreaking book that will define this new age of "hypercompetition," Richard D'A[...]
With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn knowledge [...]
Robust methods to identify new growth opportunities YOUR SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND growth; your company needs growth; and your career can suffer or soar because of how you drive growth--or don't. While executives often talk about their great growth plans, very few of these plans actually deliver real gai[...]
You've been charged with growing your business. Incremental growth can no longer deliver the results you need. You need truly dynamic growth - and you need to achieve it without risking a hugely expensive gamble. How can you encourage innovative new ventures and pursue ambitious growth while minimiz[...]
Available for the First Time: The Complete "Social Entrepreneur's Playbook"
Covers all three phases of the start-up to scale-up process, developed with reader feedback from "one of the more unusual ebook...experiments of the year" ("ThinReads")
Wharton professor Ian C. MacMillan and Dr. Jame[...]