Transforming your skillset and accelerate your business career without the going into a classroom and without the two-year commitment.

If you want to accelerate your career development and transform your skillset, but without the price tag and two-year commitment of the MBA, this is the book for you.

The 30 Day MBA covers the 12 core disciplines of business: accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behaviour, business history, business law, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics and social responsibility, operations management, research and analysis and strategy. It provides the tools and techniques you need to seize business opportunities and implement strategies successfully. Complex concepts are explained in simple and practical terms, helping you to apply high level concepts to the real-life world of business.

The 30 Day MBA also contains insightful case studies from leading organizations including IKEA, Cisco, Cobra Beer, Heinz, Shell, Hotel Chocolat and Chilango, to help keep you right up-to-the-minute with current trends and inspire you to explore new concepts. This book equips you with essential hard knowledge, but also helps you understand how business and current thinking is shifting in today's turbulent global markets, and broadens your mind with the knowledge and confidence to excel in a competitive career.

Vorwort
Online Resources: Self-testing questions and answers

Autorentext
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and East Asia. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners. As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics.

Inhalt

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Accounting; Chapter - 02: Finance; Chapter - 03: Marketing; Chapter - 04: Organizational behaviour; Chapter - 05: Business history; Chapter - 06: Business law; Chapter - 07: Economics; Chapter - 08: Entrepreneurship; Chapter - 09: Ethics and social responsibility; Chapter - 10: Operations management; Chapter - 11: Quantitative and qualitative research and analysis; Chapter - 12: Strategy