Format: Hardcover, 208 pages Publisher: Broadway Business On Sale: May 18, 2004 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50953-4 (0-385-50953-7)
In Beating the Business Cycle, Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji, the directors of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) demonstrate how businesses can predict and profit from the inevitable booms and busts of the economy.
Beating the Business Cycle reveals how decision makers at all levels can see into the economy’s...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: December 27, 2005 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6417-5 (1-4000-6417-1)
In this life-transforming book, Larry Ackerman shows readers how to crack their identity codes. With more than twenty years of experience helping organizations and individuals identify their purpose, Ackerman reveals the Laws of Identity and the Eight Essential Questions they contain. As readers answer these questions, their identity will gradually become...
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Format: Hardcover, 528 pages Publisher: American Benchmark Press On Sale: July 31, 2007 Price: $100.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-38345-7 (0-307-38345-8)
From Ace Hardware to Ziploc, the products and logos featured in this lavishly illustrated, story-filled reference have captured the hearts and minds of American consumers. Each brand began with a spark of genius: Earle Dickinson invented the Band-Aid for his accident-prone wife, Josephine. Hector Boiardi's pasta sauce was so good that...
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: March 2, 1993 Price: $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-36239-1 (0-345-36239-X)
In 1973, an excavation at a noble's tomb in Mawangdui, China, uncovered a collection of ancient Chinese brush-written silk texts buried in 168 B.C. These texts included the ancient versions of the long lost cornerstones of Chinese culture, philosophy and military strategy.
This new translation of a well-known Chinese classic contains...
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Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: March 17, 2009 Price: $27.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6694-0 (1-4000-6694-8)
A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 1, 1992 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74135-0 (0-679-74135-6)
Auletta chronicles the revolution in American business and popular culture that was the story of network television in the 1980s: the big three networks lost a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits, while takeovers and coups turned NBC and ABC into assets of two megacorporations...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: May 14, 2002 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-64260-2 (0-679-64260-9)
Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161–180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s...
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: December 26, 2006 Price: $23.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2258-6 (0-7679-2258-1)
THE BOOK OF HARD CHOICES examines the notion of integrity in the workplace. James Autry and Peter Roy, experienced executives themselves, interviewed numerous leaders about the tough decisions they’ve made on the job. They spoke with people including former Starbucks president Howard Behar, Iowa Cubs owner Michael Gartner, and Governor Tom...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: November 30, 2004 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5473-2 (1-4000-5473-7)
In The Servant Leader, Former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry argues that a mangement style he dubs "servant leadership" offers a set of skills and ideals that will help leaders nurture the needs and goals of those who look to them for leadership. The result, he maintains, is a more...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 9, 2005 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3078-1 (1-4000-3078-1)
If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages Publisher: Bantam On Sale: February 27, 2007 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38387-4 (0-553-38387-6)
By neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over half a million dollars in earnings by the end of her career. Yet, as research reveals, men are four times more likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. From...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Broadway Business On Sale: October 19, 2004 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50773-8 (0-385-50773-9)
In Managing Up Rosanne Badowski offers a straightforward, entertaining, no-holds-barred account of what it takes to make your relationship with your boss work to your advantage, no matter where you stand in the corporate hierarchy.
Told through rich, colorful anecdotes about her years spent working with one of the smartest, most...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: August 21, 2007 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-33720-7 (0-307-33720-0)
Surprisingly, it’s not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of us are like jack welch, who started life as a lowercase guy, the son of a railroad conductor, but went on to become the most celebrated and successful executive of recent years. Sure, Jack Welch—and lots of other...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 308 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: January 5, 1998 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0189-5 (0-7679-0189-4)
What do shoppers dislike most about shopping? What's the most common reason customers are turned off by ads? Which recent technology ranks highest as a consumer pet peeve? As founder and chairman of America's Research Group, Britt Beemer has spent the past two decades researching questions like these and learning how...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Publisher: Broadway Business On Sale: December 27, 2005 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-0-385-51359-3 (0-385-51359-3)
Based on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center,How We Compete goes into the trenches of over 500 international companies to discover which practices are succeeding in today’s global economy, which are failing –and why. There is a rising fear in America that no job is safe. In industry...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: October 23, 2007 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-35110-4 (0-307-35110-6)
Cathie Black is the wise, funny mentor that every woman dreams of having. She was a pioneer in advertising sales at a time when women didn’t sell; served as president and publisher of the fledgling USA Today; and, in her current position as the president of Hearst Magazines, persuaded Oprah to...
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: October 19, 2004 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5084-0 (1-4000-5084-7)
"These busy authors have managed to bring fresh insights into a matter that's high on the corporate agenda. What's more, Confronting Reality is even more readable than its predecessor [Execution]." --Businessweek
The fundamentals of how a business makes money are being rapidly and permanently altered by sweeping structural changes. In Confronting Reality, noted...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Broadway Business On Sale: June 19, 2007 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-51547-4 (0-385-51547-2)
“As unique as it is valuable, [8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs] achieves where so many business books fail. It provides practical advice for individuals . . . [I]t delivers what few business books ever aspire to achieve—wisdom regarding business and decision making, within a special context: start-up firms.” —From the...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages Publisher: Broadway Business On Sale: December 26, 2006 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-51849-9 (0-385-51849-8)
Using the no-nonsense, results-oriented boot camp approach, Brodow drills readers on the basic skills needed to master the art of negotiation including conquering our fear of confrontation and overcoming the negative behaviors that hold us back, and identifying and developing our personal negotiation style.
Using a wealth of examples from real-life encounters...
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Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: January 31, 2006 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-48102-3 (0-345-48102-X)
Executive producer Mark Burnett has revolutionized television. So how did a British immigrant with little cash and no connections become his own entertainment empire? In Jump In!, Burnett shares his astounding personal saga of risk and reward, and tells enthralling stories about his shows and their contestants that have never before...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: July 18, 1995 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-449-90958-4 (0-449-90958-1)
From better decision-making to improved teamwork, the authors present proven, step-by-step techniques for surviving—and thriving—in today’s complex workplace.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: November 11, 1997 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-449-00282-7 (0-449-00282-9)
This groundbreaking bestseller shows managers how to revitalize their companies from the ground up, with motivational strategies that encourage employees to take responsibility, use their creativity, and develop a sense of pride in their work.
An accessible guide for the successful managers of tomorrow.
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: June 19, 2007 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-34574-5 (0-307-34574-2)
As Jim Camp's first book, Start with No, gained attention from publications like Harvard Business Review and Fortune, he became a tireless proselytizer for his ideas. During interviews many people wanted to know how his system of negotiating could be applied to their personal lives including day-to-day problems encountered at work...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: July 9, 2002 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-609-60800-5 (0-609-60800-2)
Think win-win is the best way to make the deal? Think again. It’s the worst possible way to get the best deal. This is the dirty little secret of corporate America.
For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation—the “fair” way for all concerned. But don’t believe it. Today...
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