Crown Business imprint: 386 books
The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices
How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
If you've ever read a book on an e-reader, unleashed your inner rock star playing Guitar Hero, built a robot with LEGO Mindstorms, or ridden in a vehicle with child-safe air bags, then you've experienced first hand just a few of the astounding innovations that have come out of the Media Lab over the...
The Cheat Code
Going Off Script to Get More, Go Faster, and Shortcut Your Way to Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Have you ever noticed that there are certain people who seem to get ahead just a bit faster than everyone else? You know, the types who always seem to be a bit ahead of the curve, to get noticed a bit more, and to achieve their goals a bit more quickly than the rest of the pack? And have you ever...
Intellectual Capital
The new wealth of organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Visionary in scope, Intellectual Capital is the first book that shows how to turn the untapped knowledge of an organization into its greatest competitive weapon. Thomas A. Stewart demonstrates how knowledge--not natural resources, machinery, or financial capital--has become the most important factor...
Organized for Success
Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
In this groundbreaking guide, Stephanie Winston explains how she discovered, after more than two decades as a leading organization expert and bestselling author, that senior executives and CEOs seem to possess unique conceptual skills in the areas of time management and organization that enable them...
Confidence
How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.
Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again...
Kinds of Power
A Guide to its Intelligent Uses
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In the boldest expose on the nature of power since Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety. Power, we often forget, has many faces, many different expressions. "Empowerment," writes...
The Career Playbook
Essential Advice for Today's Aspiring Young Professional
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Are you about to graduate and begin your job search?
Or are you a young professional trying to choose the right field or looking for that perfect position that will catapult your career?
Figuring out a career and getting a great job has never been more difficult. On top of that, today’s...
by Bill Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life...
The Cult of the Amateur
How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show
In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the...
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL (R) THE SPARK
Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives Within Us All
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Creativity and innovation are widely recognized as essential to success in business, and so many aspects of our lives. For over two decades, Cirque du Soleil has been a world-renowned laboratory of creativity, enthralling audiences around the world by fusing dazzling acrobatics, staging and choreography,...
Presence
An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how...
Start Late, Finish Rich
A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2005
David Bach has a plan to help you live and finish rich—no matter where you start
So you feel like you’ve started late?
You are not alone.
What if I told you that right now as you flip through this book, 70% of the people in the store with you are living paycheck to paycheck?
What...
Leading Up
Managing Your Boss So You Both Win
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Eight true stories show that Leaders today aren’t just bosses, they’re self-starters who take charge even when they haven’t been given a charge. Upward leaders get results by helping their superiors lead. They make sure that good ideas don’t die on the vine because a boss’s understanding...
Managing Up
How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Everyone has a boss. And anyone who has aspired to move up the corporate ladder knows that their relationship with those they report to is crucial. In Managing Up Rosanne Badowski offers a straightforward, entertaining, no-holds-barred account of what it takes to make your relationship with your boss...