The chapters in this volume exemplify research and teaching activities that fall within the ESP profession in university and workplace settings. They illustrate the nature of ESP as currently understood and practiced in a variety of different contexts and locations, with all of its admirable strengths and a few of its yet-to-be-resolved weaknesses

This practical guide offers readers a clear and comprehensive overview on how to communicate effectively for every business situation, from giving sensitive feedback to employees to persuasive communications for customers

A soup-to-nuts guide for entrepreneurs, covering all areas of business creation, development, and management. The book includes a wealth of insightful tools and information, and success stories and interviews from entrepreneurs who have experienced the joys and frustrations of business ownership firsthand

This book celebrates the unique qualities of the family business and offers a comprehensive resource for successfully managing the enterprise across generations. Paisner offers practical recommendations for handling conflict, establishing professional management structures, setting strategic goals, making the most of outside directors, preparing heirs to take the reins, proactively setting tax and estate priorities, and making wise selling decisions

Business creation experts Jana B. Matthews and Mark P. Rice explain the three key principles of successful business incubation; the 10 best practices for starting, developing, and managing a business incubation program; ways to attract high-quality entrepreneurs; the litmus test to determine an incubator's feasibility; and many hands-on examples from the directors of some of the country's top business incubators

"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time

This book provides the provides the starting point for all those who wish to follow us into this fiscal labyrinth

Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction

This volume brings some initial practical lessons of the experence with budget support, drawing on the contributions of practitioners, academics, and dovernment officals from around the world

This is the story of two great sports. One is "America's game," while the other is "the world's game." Baseball and soccer are both beloved cultural institutions. What draws fans to one game is often a mystery to fans of the other. Despite superficial differences, however, the business and culture of these sports share more in common than meets the eye. This is the first in-depth, cross-cultural comparison of these two great pastimes and the megabusinesses that they have become. The authors illustrate how the different traditions of each sport have generated different possibilities for their commercial organization and exploitation