Jeffrey: 3395 books
Making IT Work
A History of the Computer Services Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.
The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions...
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity...
The Unforced Error
Why Some Managers Get Promoted While Others Get Eliminated
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
A guide to help managers prepare for whatever comes over the net
In tennis, the player with the fewest unforced errors usually wins. The same is true in business- all too often, the mistakes that sabotage a career are completely avoidable, if you can anticipate them early enough.
Bestselling...
by Timothy N. Ogden, Jeffrey K. Liker
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The definitive inside account of Toyota's greatest crisis—and lessons you can apply to your own company
"Those who write off Toyota in the current climate of second guessing and speculation are making a profound mistake and need to read this book to get the facts. Toyota is a company that will...
Think Big, Act Bigger
The Rewards of Being Relentless
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
The most dangerous move in business is the failure to make a move.
Global business celebrity and prime-time Bloomberg Television host, Jeffrey W. Hayzlett empowers business leaders to tie their visions to actions, advancing themselves past competitors and closer to their business dream. Drawing...
Buzz
The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Characterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director's chair, Berkeley is notorious for his inventiveness and signature...
What Were They Thinking?
Unconventional Wisdom About Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalize on opportunities because they misunderstand the real sources of business success.
Based on his popular column in Business 2.0, Jeffrey Pfeffer delivers wise and timely business commentary that challenges conventional wisdom while providing...
Bomb
The Author Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
Secrets of Great Rainmakers
The Keys to Success and Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In Secrets of Great Rainmakers, you'll learn how to outsmart the competition and set yourself apart from the pack. In over 50 interviews with industry leaders from a wide variety of fields, bestselling author Jeffrey J. Fox will share the proven techniques and hard-won wisdom that have helped great...
by Jeffrey Kopstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background...
Shell Games
The Life and Times of Pearl McGill, Industrial Spy and Pioneer Labor Activist
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Set against a backdrop of murder, intrigue, and industrial labor conflict in the early twentieth century pearl button industry, Shell Games graphically portrays one of the most important battles in the fight for safe and humane working conditions. Filtered through the thoughts and emotions of Pearl...
The Hero's Farewell
What Happens When CEOs Retire
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1991
How a business replaces its chief executive often determines that firm's future. If a business does not effectively manage the transfer of power, utter turmoil can result, with profound implications not only for the CEO, but also for the other employees, the shareholders, and the community at large....
Guarding Alaska
A Memoir of Coast Guard Missions on the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Alaska represents twenty percent of the land area, twenty percent of the oil production, forty percent of the fresh water of the United States, but after Wyoming, its the least populated state.
Despite that contradiction, the state has an abundance of natural resources, history, and adventureespecially...
Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The most widely feared misfits and controversial heretics to ever challenge society norms and behavior are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From convicted murderers James Earl Ray and Jeffrey MacDonald, to activists Abbie Hoffman...