Oak Tree Press: 139 books

While change and transition have become bywords in many organisations today, it is still a difficult process to manage. This ebook explores the conditions necessary for healthy change, as well as the role of the manager in times of change.

Leadership is a fundamental aspect of putting strategy to work. It is a non-optional imperative in creating the future. This ebook explains the 7 As of practical leadership.

Before starting a business, it's important to check you understand what's involved. Based on 20+ years of running and advising small businesses, this guide looks at key aspects you must consider: skills and experience, finance, family and determination.

A perspective on innovation, execution, organisational structure, technology, purpose and the need to understand exponential.

Finding an idea often is the hardest thing about starting a business. This guide shows you how to do so, how to decide what kind of business it will be and how to choose between starting, buying and franchising a business.

In business, nothing happens until a sale happens. Delivered to acclaim for many years, the ASK (Attitude + Skills + Knowledge) sales process is easy to understand and gives you the competitive advantage you need in business. ASK for the Order! is a useful refresher or introduction to the sales process. The...

A quick introduction to the basics of marketing, aimed at people starting a business for the first time.

500 quotations on business from a wide range of sources, including from Pope John XXIII, Fidel Castro, Mark Twain, JK Galbraith, Michael O'Leary, Tom Peters, Howard Schultz, John D Rockefeller and William Butler Yeats.

Pre-negotiation is a heightened, or (arguably) more aggressive, form of research that may be carried out by either party to a negotiation, in advance of that negotiation. Its success is largely based on the negotiator turning the traditional buyer / seller relationship on its head. By using the pre-negotiation...

Once you have a business idea, you must ask yourself, "Will anyone want to buy my product / service?". Market research tells you about your customers, competition and pricing, as well as your likely sales volume, costs, investment and profitability.

Negotiations are part of our every day lives, whether we like it or not. Every day, we are required to negotiate either personally or professionally. This ebook explains the five stages of negotiation to help you in future negotiations.

While there's no magic formula for getting more done with your day, this ebook looks at why managers have problems with time and offers sound strategies for achieving better results. Time management sometimes means making tough, and reluctant, choices.

The idea for this eBook came about after the author Zahra Khan was repeatedly approached for advice from start-up companies from a HR perspective on the internal challenges a start-up business faces – from setting up the corporate culture, staffing issues, the roles and responsibilities of founders...

Good motivators encourage people to retain the vitality and enthusiasm they first brought to the job. They value the individual, agree clear goals and giveg continuous positive and constructive feedback. This ebook explains the techniques to use.