The Game-Changer
How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
Written by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-38173-6 (0-307-38173-0)

How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.

Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share... Read more >

The Perfect Business Plan Made Simple
The best guide to writing a plan that will secure financial backing for your business
Written by William Lasher, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1858-9 (0-7679-1858-4)

Starting a business is part of the American Dream. But raising money requires a polished business plan that sells financial backers on an idea. The Perfect Business Plan Made Simple approaches the business plan as a sales document that will persuade bankers and venture capitalists to invest in your new or... Read more >

Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 978-1-60980-432-9 (1-60980-432-5)

From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy 101 is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model... Read more >

Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Edited by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-473-2 (1-60980-473-2)

From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy 101 is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model... Read more >

The New Job Security, Revised
The 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of Your Career
Written by Pam Lassiter

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-58008-377-5 (1-58008-377-3)

“A must-read for those seeking growth and satisfaction in their careers.”
--Dr. Myra Hart, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School


Job security used to mean counting on a company to support you until retirement. Well, the rules have changed—companies downsize, jobs are outsourced, and pensions are eliminated as fast as the... Read more >

Management in Ten Words
Practical Advice from the Man Who Created One of the World's Largest Retailers
Written by Terry Leahy

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3569-1 (0-7704-3569-6)

The meteoric rise of UK supermarket chain Tesco from humble beginnings to its current status as one of the largest retailers in the world can be largely credited to one man—its recently departed CEO, Terry Leahy. Leahy’s unflagging drive and commitment to progress, his no-nonsense approach to leadership, and his visionary... Read more >

The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition

Edited by Andrew Leckey and Ken Auletta

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72501-2 (0-375-72501-6)

“[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.”–USA Today, on the 2001 edition

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and... Read more >

The Future of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72644-6 (0-375-72644-6)

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating... Read more >

Free Ride
How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Written by Robert Levine

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53376-8 (0-385-53376-4)

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.

On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This... Read more >

Cut to the Chase
and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time
Written by Stuart R. Levine

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51620-4 (0-385-51620-7)

In CUT TO THE CHASE, CEO and consultant Stuart R. Levine reveals 100 no-nonsense rules on how to be more effective at work and make the best use of our most precious resource: our time.

Levine's answer is to simply cut to the chase. He defines successful individuals as the ones... Read more >

Take on the Street
How to Fight for Your Financial Future
Written by Arthur Levitt

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71402-3 (0-375-71402-2)

Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade’s rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street’s obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it... Read more >

Deep Leadership
Essential Insights from High-Risk Environments
Written by Joe Macinnis

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf Canada
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $25.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-36110-3 (0-307-36110-1)

In this new twist on a topic of perennial interest, Joe MacInnis shows how the leadership traits forged in extraordinary circumstances are transferrable to our everyday lives. Simply put, this is a handbook for building character.

Some people are born leaders. The rest of us find ourselves in positions where leadership... Read more >

Mindful Economics
How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different
Written by Joel Magnuson

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-847-0 (1-58322-847-0)

Are the huge profits garnered by corporations each year a case of a few bad apples in the business world taking advantage of unmonitored dealings? Is this consolidation of wealth made at the expense of the overall economy and the wellbeing of the average citizen? Will the planet be saved by... Read more >

Bonjour Laziness
Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
Written by Corinne Maier

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9628-2 (1-4000-9628-6)

Your company wants you to be loyal. You should feel lucky–after all, your job is a privilege (think of all those who would like to have it). And you know (despite what you’ve read about Enron and WorldCom) that management has your best interests at heart. Your goal is to devote... Read more >

Trade-Off
Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
Written by Kevin Maney
Foreword by Jim Collins

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52595-4 (0-385-52595-8)

A Fresh and Important New Way to Understand Why We Buy

Why did the RAZR ultimately ruin Motorola? Why does Wal-Mart dominate rural and suburban areas but falter in large cities? Why did Starbucks stumble just when it seemed unstoppable?

The answer lies in the ever-present tension between fidelity (the quality of a... Read more >

In Pursuit of Elegance
Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
Written by Matthew E. May
Foreword by Guy Kawasaki

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52650-0 (0-385-52650-4)

In this thought-provoking exploration of why certain events, products, and people capture our attention and imaginations, Matthew E. May examines elegance, the elusive element behind so many innovative breakthroughs in fields ranging from physics and marketing to design and popular culture. Combining unusual simplicity and surprising power, elegance is characterized by... Read more >

The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Written by Micheline Maynard

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-50770-7 (0-385-50770-4)

In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely believed that Detroit had miraculously overcome the threat of foreign imports and regained its ascendant position. However, as business journalist Micheline Maynard makes brilliantly... Read more >

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Written by Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-58834-0 (0-307-58834-3)

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail? Here, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be... Read more >

Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0343-5 (0-8070-0343-3)

A society top-heavy with billionaires may seem like a paradise of upward mobility, but it actually more closely resembles a boneyard of broken dreams for all but a lucky few. Between 1980 and 2008, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans grew by a meager 1 percent compared to... Read more >

Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0339-8 (0-8070-0339-5)

The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation–a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >

Cracking Creativity
The Secrets of Creative Genius
Written by Michael Michalko

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
On Sale: June 26, 2001
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-58008-311-9 (1-58008-311-0)

In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko shows how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you. To create this book, Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—and then brought their techniques into the modern... Read more >

Thinkertoys
A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
Written by Michael Michalko

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
On Sale: June 8, 2006
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-58008-773-5 (1-58008-773-6)

In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?

In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking THINKERTOYS, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive... Read more >

The Company
A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
Written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7287-0 (0-8129-7287-2)

2008 First Year Seminar Program Selection for John Carroll University

Winner, 2004 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.

Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that... Read more >

Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Written by Stacy Mitchell

Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3501-6 (0-8070-3501-7)

In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement–and she shows how a... Read more >

Start Something That Matters

Written by Blake Mycoskie

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8144-5 (0-8129-8144-8)

Selected for common reading at Coastal Carolina University, Missouri State University, Philadelphia University, and SUNY Buffalo

The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good

“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal

Why this... Read more >