Father, Son & Co.
My Life at IBM and Beyond
Written by Thomas J. Watson and Peter Petre
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2000
Price: $21.00
In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture...
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Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business
10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning
Written by Ram Charan
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2004
Price: $23.00
The coauthor of the international bestseller
Execution has created the how-to guide for solving today’s toughest business challenge: creating profitable growth that is organic, differentiated, and sustainable.
For many, growth is about “home runs”—the big bold idea, the next new thing, the product that will revolutionize the marketplace. While obviously attractive and...
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Three Steps to Yes
The Gentle Art of Getting Your Way
Written by Gene Bedell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2002
Price: $15.00
“
Three Steps to Yes shows you how to sell your ideas or yourself . . . a clear guide for instilling trust and respect.” —
BookPageEverybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that...
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Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000
Running a Business in Today's Consumer-Driven World
Written by Pete Blackshaw
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $21.95
In today’s Internet-driven world, customers have more power than ever. Through what interactive marketing expert Pete Blackshaw calls "consumer-generated media"—blogs, social networking pages, message boards, product review sites—even a single disgruntled customer can broadcast his complaints to an audience of millions. Blackshaw shows managers, marketers, and business leaders how to establish...
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The Wall Street Journal. Personal Finance Workbook
Written by Jeff D. Opdyke
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $13.95
A hands-on, interactive guide to managing your monday and building your financial future
Many of the worksheets in this book are available online and can be saved, printed, and recalculated at any time. Go to: WSJ.com/BookTools
Understanding your money, and getting it to work for you, is more important today than it ever...
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The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
Written by William D. Cohan
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $17.00
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were...
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The Future of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
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...
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Age of Betrayal
The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
Written by Jack Beatty
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.95
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of...
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