Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: March 20, 2012 Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-71921-8 (0-307-71921-9)
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Signal On Sale: May 8, 2012 Price: $27.99 ISBN: 978-0-7710-0747-7 (0-7710-0747-7)
Ask leaders in any country this essential question: “What is your most valuable asset?” and they may suggest one of three traditional forms of capital — financial, human, or intellectual. These are intelligent, well-meaning answers but they are also completely wrong. More valuable than money, human resources, and intellectual property, Passion...Read more >
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: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: August 28, 2007 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-80540-6 (0-553-80540-1)
"In the past, one could get by on intuition and experience. Times have changed. Today, the name of the game is data. Ian Ayres shows us how and why in this groundbreaking book Super Crunchers. Not only is it fun to read, it just may change the way you think." —Steven D...
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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, 192 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: April 8, 2008 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2973-8 (0-7679-2973-X)
Go Green, Live Rich outlines fifty ways to make one's life, home, shopping, and finances greener—and get rich trying. From driving the right car to making one's home energy smart, Bach offers ways to improve the environment while spending less, saving more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. He demonstrates how...
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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, 320 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: May 15, 2004 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-6187-9 (0-8070-6187-5)
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian’s warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation’s news “alarmist.” Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America’s daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers...
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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: 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: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: February 20, 2007 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-51357-9 (0-385-51357-7)
The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week. However, it is argued that...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: September 14, 2010 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59111-1 (0-307-59111-5)
In I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works, New York Times technology reporter Nick Bilton breaks down how the radically changed media world is influencing human behavior, and how successful companies are changing alongside it. He illustrates his point using case studies—how the porn industry is adapting to...
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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: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press On Sale: November 1, 2005 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-1-58008-729-2 (1-58008-729-9)
Richard Nelson Bolles presents an updated version of one of the most widely acclaimed exercises from PARACHUTE, the Flower. This highly effective tool, reproduced here in handy workbook form, helps readers target their ideal work situation. Simple step-by-step worksheets focus on translating personal interests into marketable job skills as well as...
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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: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: July 5, 2011 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52906-8 (0-385-52906-6)
In a powerful, story-driven narrative that weaves together cutting-edge research in psychology and sociology, organizational business consultant Ori Brafman and psychologist Rom Brafman explore what it means to “click”: the common factors present when our brain and senses are fully engaged. From two co-workers who fall head over heels for each...
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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: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: December 29, 1997 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-47950-9 (0-385-47950-6)
Insightful and instructive, Co-opetition describes a business strategy that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Co-opetition is a pioneering, high profit means of leveraging business relationships. Intel, Nintendo, American Express, Nutrasweet, American Airlines, and dozens of other companies have been using the...
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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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