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Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 26 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
By Malcolm Gladwell, 2002
ISBN 0316346624
This celebrated New York Times bestseller now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback is a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the...
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey, 2004
ISBN 0743269519
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity...
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven D. Levitt, 2009
ISBN 0060731338
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist.
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
By Dale Carnegie, 1998
ISBN 0671027034
This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature...
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007
ISBN 1400063515
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...
- The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas L. Friedman, 2006
ISBN 0312425074
Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you...
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
By Jim Collins, 2001
ISBN 0066620996
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How...
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
By Seth Godin, 2008
ISBN 1591842336
Already an Amazon bestseller, the book is short and small and simple. It argues, as clearly as Seth is capable, that leadership is the best marketing tactic to any organization--a company, a school, a church, a job seeker.
- The One Minute Manager
By Kenneth H. Blanchard, 1982
ISBN 0688014291
For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the...
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2008
ISBN 1400067936
Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of...
- Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
By Guy Kawasaki, 2000
ISBN 088730995X
Guy Kawasaki, CEO of garage.com and former chief evangelist of Apple Computer, Inc., presents his manifesto for world-changing innovation, using his battle-tested lessons to help revolutionaries become visionaries.* Create Like a God *Turn conventional wisdom on its head-create revolutionary...
- Inside Steve's Brain
By Leander Kahney, 2008
ISBN 1591841984
Steve Jobs has turned his personality traits into a business philosophy. Here?s how he does it. It?s hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ?80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and digital music in the 2000s (with the iPod...
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
By Jim Collins, 2004
ISBN 0060566108
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial.
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
By Alice Schroeder, 2008
ISBN 0739327984
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him...
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
By James Surowiecki, 2004
ISBN 0385503865
“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken was wrong.In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea...
- The 48 Laws of Power
By Robert Greene, 2000
ISBN 0140280197
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence...
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
By Keith Ferrazzi, 2005
ISBN 0385512058
Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of...
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
By W. Chan Kim, 2005
ISBN 1591396190
Winning by Not Competing: A Fresh Approach to Strategy Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation.
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By Robert B. Cialdini, 2007
ISBN 006124189X
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along...
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
By Guy Kawasaki, 2004
ISBN 1591840562
Kawasaki ( Rules for Revolutionaries ) draws upon his dual background as an evangelist for Apple's Macintosh computer and as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist in this how-to for launching any type of business project. Each chapter begins with "GIST" ("great ideas for starting things"), covering a...
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
By Geoffrey A. Moore, 1999
ISBN 0066620023
Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for brining cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This revised and updated edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech...
- The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
By Peter F. Drucker, 2008
ISBN 0061345016
Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of...
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
By Steven Gary Blank, 2005
ISBN 0976470705
The essential "how to" book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company. The book offers insight into what makes some...
- Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
By Danny Meyer, 2008
ISBN 0060742763
At age twenty-seven, Danny Meyer launched his groundbreaking Union Square Cafe—the first of his innovative and revered New York City institutions. Twenty-three years later, he is CEO of one of the world's most dynamic restaurant organizations. Now Danny shares the groundbreaking business...
- The Innovator's Dilemma
By Clayton M. Christensen, 1997
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In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.
