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The Versatility Factor
Strategies for Building High-Performing Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
How effective are you in leading or dealing with clients, your manager, your colleagues? Do you build rapport with some people easier than others? Are there some people with whom you just can't connect? The Versatility Factor reveals the keys to developing leadership skills and achieving highly effective...
Shadowbosses
Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their...
by Philip Dray
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray...
Do What You Love
And Other Lies About Success & Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Love exposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society.
Virtue and capital have always been twins in the capitalist, industrialized...
by Erik Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Platform: Loomis blogs at the hugely popular site Lawyers, Guns, and Money, with 550,000 unique visitors for over one million pageviews a month, where his ongoing series “This Day in Labor History” (the basis for this book) won the 2011 Cliopatria Award from the History News Network
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by Barry Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.
Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising,...
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This marketing classic has been expanded to include new commentary, new illustrations, and a bonus book: The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding.
Smart and accessible, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is the definitive text on branding, pairing anecdotes about some of the best brands in...
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The global phenomenon that has sold 3.6 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents—now updated and expanded with new content
In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent...
by Charles T. Clotfelter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television...
by Ignatio Madanhire, Charles Mbohwa
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This book explores effective environmental impact mitigation for petroleum-based lubricants to reduce their negative persistence during usage and upon end-of-life disposal. The book reviews the basic tribology of lubricants as well as initiatives that may enhance the environmental and economic effectiveness...
The Lean Product Design and Development Journey
A Practical View
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book presents a series of high performance product design (PD) and development best practices that can create or improve product development organization. In contrast to other books that focus only on Toyota or other individual companies applying lean IPD, this book explains the lean philosophy...
by Al Ries, Laura Ries
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Bestselling authors and world-renowned marketing strategists Al and Laura Ries usher in the new era of public relations.
Today's major brands are born with publicity, not advertising. A closer look at the history of the most successful modern brands shows this to be true. In fact, an astonishing...
by Daniel F. Spulber
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Innovative entrepreneurs are the prime movers of the economy. The innovative entrepreneur helps to overcome two types of institutional friction. First, existing firms may not innovate efficiently due to incumbent inertia resulting from adjustment costs, diversification costs, the replacement effect,...
Retirement Heist
How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the HR representative wrote to her superiors. 'That would be the death of all existing retirees.'"
It's no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage...