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The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $28.00
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $28.00
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $26.00
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.”... Read more >
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $26.00
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.”... Read more >
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The Fred Factor
How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
Written by Mark Sanborn
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2004
Price: $15.95
How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
Written by Mark Sanborn
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2004
Price: $15.95
Meet Fred.
In his powerful new book THE FRED FACTOR, motivational speaker Mark Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionately loves his job and who genuinely cares about the people he serves. Because of that, he is constantly going the extra mile handling the mail – and...
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Emotional Intelligence
10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Written by Daniel Goleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $18.00
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.
Through... Read more >
10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Written by Daniel Goleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $18.00
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.
Through... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Written by Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.
By showing us the true nature... Read more >
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Written by Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.
By showing us the true nature... Read more >
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Execution
The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Written by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $27.50
The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job
Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram... Read more >
The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Written by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $27.50
The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job
Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram... Read more >
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House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Written by William D. Cohan
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $27.95
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Written by William D. Cohan
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $27.95
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank: “In my book, they are insolvent.”
This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Irrational Exuberance
Written by Robert J. Shiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $16.00
As Robert Shiller’s new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets “has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” As we all, ordinary Americans and... Read more >
Written by Robert J. Shiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $16.00
As Robert Shiller’s new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets “has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” As we all, ordinary Americans and... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download.
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The Servant
A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
Written by James C. Hunter
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $22.00
In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back... Read more >
A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
Written by James C. Hunter
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $22.00
In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Wealth of Nations
Written by Adam Smith
Introduction by Alan B. Krueger
Format: Paperback, 1264 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $7.99
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence.
In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and... Read more >
Written by Adam Smith
Introduction by Alan B. Krueger
Format: Paperback, 1264 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $7.99
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence.
In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and... Read more >
