Crown Business imprint: 386 books
Building Wealth in China
36 True Stories of Chinese Millionaires and How They Made Their Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
See how thirty-six of China’s most successful and innovative entrepreneurs are creating the global economy of tomorrow. In these pages you’ll learn valuable lessons from remarkable business leaders, such as:
• Zhang Yin, chairwoman of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, who trans-...
by Neil Chenoweth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
If you want to understand how modern media has changed the world, this is the one book you must read.
Rupert Murdoch is the man everyone talks about but no one knows. He’s everywhere, a larger-than-life media titan who has spent a lifetime building his company, News Corporation, from a small,...
Tell to Win
Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Today everyone – whether they know it or not – is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders, customers, and employees to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell...
Take Command
Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your professional life.
What do elite members of the military,...
Final Accounting
Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm.
Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently,...
Boss Bitch
A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin is back with a sassy and actionable guide empowering women to be the boss of their lives and their careers.
You don’t need dozens of employees to be a boss, says financial expert and serial entrepreneur Nicole Lapin. Hell, you don’t even need...
The Culture Code
An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes.
In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to...
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop
How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
"Deftly and compassionately captures [Ben's] genius in all its entrepreneurial splendor...This tale will keep you entertained."--New York Times Book Review.
A former CEO of Ben & Jerry's tells how two '60s holdovers built a single ice cream store into one of America's hottest...
Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint
How to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Think about the most powerful speech you’ve ever heard a leader give. What made that speech–and that speaker–memorable was likely a mix of authenticity, stage presence, masterful delivery, and–above all–an inspirational message.
Nobody ever walked out of a great speech saying, “I...
The 80/20 Individual
How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
A new 21st century individualism is overtaking “corporation-as-king” capitalism, transforming the way we work and live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at...
Effortless Entrepreneur
Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman started the multimillion-dollar franchise College Hunks Hauling Junk when they were just twenty two, and they’ve been having the time of their lives ever since. What’s their secret?
That's just it--there isn't one. There's no fancy software or complicated business...
Scaling Up Excellence
Getting to More Without Settling for Less
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**Wall Street Journal Bestseller
"The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times
"One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and Mail
Bestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that...
The Myth of the Garage
And Other Minor Surprises
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage: And Other Minor Surprises, a collection of the authors’ best columns for Fast Company magazine—16 pieces in all, plus a previously unpublished piece entitled “The Future Fails Again.”
In...
Management in Ten Words
Practical Advice from the Man Who Created One of the World's Largest Retailers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
From one of the world’s most admired business leaders, here is a remarkable book
that will forever change the way you think about management.
The meteoric rise of UK supermarket chain Tesco from humble beginnings to its current status as one of the largest retailers in the world can be largely...