Crown Business imprint: 386 books
MBA in a Box
Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
The best minds in business—at your service
MBA in a Box brings together some of the best brains in business who show how the core curriculum of an MBA program works in the real world. People like Michael Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Adrian J. Slywotzky, Warren Bennis, and Bill George give...
A Stake in the Outcome
Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
The First Management Classic of the New Millennium!
A bold experiment is taking place these days, as leading-edge companies turn upside down the management paradigm that has dominated corporate thinking for more than one hundred years. Southwest Airlines is perhaps the most visible practitioner, soaring...
Trump: The Way to the Top
The Best Business Advice I Ever Received
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
The host of the hit reality show The Apprentice presents an invaluable collection of grounded, hard-hitting advice on business success, from people who have made it to the boss’s chair at some of America’s most thriving companies.
How can you find the way to the top?
Ask people who...
by Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
As a young man, Earvin “Magic” Johnson admired his father and other small-town entrepreneurs who created jobs and served as leaders in his Midwestern community. He worked for them, watched them, and his interest in building communities through economic development grew even while his basketball...
The Whuffie Factor
Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The book that catches the crest of Web 2.0 and shows how any business can harness its power by increasing whuffie, the store of social capital that is the currency of the digital world.
Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and has heard about someone...
Winning Decisions
Getting It Right the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Business revolves around making decisions, often risky decisions, usually with incomplete information and too often in less time than we need. Executives at every level, in every industry, are confronted with information overload, less leeway for mistakes, and a business environment that changes rapidly....
Doing What Matters
How to Get Results That Make a Difference - The Revolutionary Old-School Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
When Warren Buffett was asked why the Gillette board of directors chose Jim Kilts to be CEO, he said, “Jim made as much sense in terms of talking about business as anybody I’ve ever talked to. If you listen to Jim analyze a business situation you get absolutely no baloney. And, frankly, finding...
Know-How
The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
The new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan . . . The breakthrough book that links know-how—the skills of people who know what they are doing— with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader.How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision...
The Moneymakers
How Extraordinary Managers Win in a World Turned Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
When real money is at stake, it tends to clarify the mind, and for over a decade, Anne-Marie Fink has had literally billions of dollars resting on her assessments of companies. As an equity analyst and professional investor, she has been charged with understanding whether businesses are solid, long-term...
by Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Now available in paperback, with an all new Reader's guide, The New York Times and Business Week bestseller Co-opetition revolutionized the game of business. With over 40,000 copies sold and now in its 9th printing, Co-opetition is a business strategy that goes beyond the old rules of competition...
The Heart of Business
Integrating Prosperity and Values for Real Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
In The Heart of Business Liz Mohn describes her experiences as a woman and an entrepreneur at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media corporation, in a powerful call to action for organizations of every size and purpose to adapt to the evolving criteria of success in the twenty-first century. With the...
by Noel Capon
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
The way far too many people at far too many companies think about and execute marketing was born in an era when suppliers-the companies generating products and services-were in the catbird seat. That world is long dead, and customers now occupy that position. In this relentlessly globalizing economy,...
Digital Darwinism
7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Don’t let the rapid evolution of the Internet economy leave your business extinct before its time! Here are the key strategies you need to keep your company alive, growing, and profitable in today’s volatile Web climate.
The dramatic boom that took place in the Web economy is over. The...
Managing the Dragon
How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
The first book by a westerner who built a company in China from scratch
The emergence of China as a world economic power is one of the biggest stories of our time. Every business that intends to be an important part of the fast-changing global economy needs to know how to play the game in China....