Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: December 27, 2005 Price: $25.00 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, 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: 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: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: November 30, 2004 Price: $13.99 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: Crown Business On Sale: October 19, 2004 Price: $15.99 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: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: March 1, 2011 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-45253-5 (0-307-45253-0)
In THE 10 LAWS OF ENDURING SUCCESS, Maria Bartiromo offers a candid look at her life and career, sharing what she learned from her close-knit family and her upbringing, along with insight gained from pivotal moments in her professional life. Bartiromo synthesizes her hard-earned wisdom with important lessons she’s learned interacting daily...
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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, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business 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: Crown 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, 256 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books On Sale: October 26, 2010 Price: $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-57687-549-0 (1-57687-549-0)
In 2009 for “Earth Hour,” Leo Burnett moved over a billion people to action–that’s slightly more than one out of every seven people on the planet, the largest mass participation event ever.
For the first time in Leo Burnett’s history, the company responsible for building some of the most beloved and popular...
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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: Crown Business On Sale: June 19, 2007 Price: $14.99 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: Crown Archetype On Sale: December 27, 2011 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-88768-9 (0-307-88768-5)
In countless studies, psychologists have discovered a surprising fact: For decades they assumed that people who face adversity—a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck—will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant percentage are able to overcome their life circumstances and achieve spectacular success...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: January 17, 2012 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59239-2 (0-307-59239-1)
In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Crown 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: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: July 18, 1995 Price: $15.00 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: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: January 29, 2013 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-35215-6 (0-307-35215-3)
An ALA Notable Book of 2012 Named a "Best Book of 2012" by Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal Selected for Common Reading at Case Western Reserve University
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown On Sale: January 24, 2012 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-35214-9 (0-307-35214-5)
Library Journal Best Books of 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012 At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but prefer not to pitch their own ideas; who favor working on their own...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: June 19, 2007 Price: $25.00 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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