Crown Business imprint: 386 books
Say It and Live It
The 50 Corporate Mission Statements that Hit the Mark
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Say It And Live It is the first collection of provocative, passionate, and intelligent corporate mission statements--the most powerful and popular managerial tool in business today. A corporate mission statement is the most dramatic presentation of a company's vision and its goal. No other document--annual...
Hope Is Not a Method
What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with...
The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs...
Power Ambition Glory
The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today . . . and the Lessons You Can Learn
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders.
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The Navy SEAL Art of War
Leadership Lessons from the World's Most Elite Fighting Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In a groundbreaking, narrative-driven book for businesses, managers (and those who aspire to the managerial ranks), and entrepreneurs, a veteran Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer shows how the skills that enable SEAL teams to achieve the impossible in the battlefield can help business executives and career-minded...
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history.
Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and...
The Buy Side
A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
New York Times Bestseller
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible...
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the...
A Global Lesson
Success Through Cooperation and Compassionate Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Reinhard Mohn, legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann, offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world’s foremost businesspeople.
Reinhard Mohn has grappled with the political and cultural changes of recent decades like...
by Dave Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Unravel the Mysteries of the Financial Markets—the Language, the Players, and the Strategies for Success
Understanding money and investing has never been more important than it is today, as many of us are called upon to manage our own retirement planning, college savings funds, and health-care...
It's Not Just Who You Know
Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In It’s Not Just Who You Know, Tommy Spaulding—the former CEO of Up With People—has written the new How to Win Friends and Influence People for the twenty-fist century. Success—in business and in life—is all about relationships. In this powerful guide to reaching out to others, Spaulding...
by Larry Donnithorne
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
West Point has bred more CEOs than any business school, and the leadership skills taught there are truly matters of life and death. Bolder than Sun Tzu, savvier than Gracian -- THE book on learning to lead.
Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive.
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the...
It's All Politics
WINNING IN A WORLD WHERE HARD WORK AND TALENT AREN'T ENOUGH
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
From It’s All Politics
Like business in general, politics is not a spectator sport. You cannot afford to be apolitical at work if you have any aspirations for advancement. The only way to avoid politics is to avoid people—by finding an out-of-the-way corner where you can do your job. Of...