Crown Business imprint: 386 books
How Companies Lie
Why Enron Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
The questions investors need to ask . . . The answers corporate America must give about the true facts of corporate performance and value.
During the 2001 baseball season, when games were played at Enron Field in Houston, a typical reaction was: “What the hell is Enron and what do they do?”...
Monopoly Rules
How to Get the Next Big Thing to Market Ahead of Your Competition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
“Competition is the bane of the free enterprise system.” —Anonymous business mogul
What people on the front lines—making, marketing, and selling products and services—really want is to be alone in the marketplace, to have a space that they own for a long enough period of time so they...
Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville
How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
by Anthony Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
by Stephanie Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Whether you work in Hollywood or not, the fact is that selling ideas is really difficult to do. The reason the pitching secrets of the most successful writers and directors are relevant is because these people have evolved an advanced method for selling ideas.
Whether you’re a screenwriter, a journalist...
The Future Arrived Yesterday
The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. . . .
The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death...
Guts!
Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-as-usual
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s previous book, Nuts!: Southwest Airline’s Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, described the unconventional leadership that made Southwest an airline industry dynamo. In GUTS!, the Freibergs look at twenty-five gutsy and extraordinarily successful businesses...
Upward Bound
Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Your team has faltered at a critical moment. A key member says he can’t continue, requiring you to make a snap decision: Do you write him off? Or do you risk the whole venture by trying to get him back on his feet?
It could be a scenario straight from the business world.
Yet this one...
Remade in America
How Asia Will Change Because America Boomed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
In a stunning rebuke to a large group of naysayers, Jim Rohwer convincingly argues that the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 was not a turn for the worse; rather it was short-lived and helped rid Asian markets of many of the problems that were holding it back. Now, while most analysts go wild over...
by Nancy Keates
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Almost Everything You Need to Know About Leading the Good Life
Too many decisions. Too many choices. What today’s smart consumer must have is a money-and-time-saving guide for conducting the “business of life”—both the big challenges, such as getting top-notch health care for the family...
by Alan Deutschman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography...
Rubies in the Orchard
How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
POM Wonderful. FIJI Water. Teleflora. The Franklin Mint. Lynda Resnick's marketing triumphs read like an encyclopedia of branding. She is the smartest and hardest-working marketing brain in the business - the kind of marketer who can sell "ice sculptures to Eskimos."...
eBoys
The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In eBOYS, Randall Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy...
The Education of an Accidental CEO
My Journey from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
David Novak—one of today’s most engaging, unconventional, and successful business leaders—lived in thirty-two trailer parks in twenty-three states by the time he reached the seventh grade. He sold encyclopedias door to door, worked as a hotel night clerk, and took a job as a $7,200-a-year advertising...