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The Power of Nice
How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval have moved to the top of the advertising industry by following a simple but powerful philosophy: it pays to be nice. Where so many companies encourage a dog eat dog mentality, the Kaplan Thaler Group has succeeded through chocolate and flowers. In THE POWER OF NICE,...
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
**Learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel—and act—as bright and capable as others already know you are with this award-winning book by Valerie Young. **
It’s only because they like me. I was...
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.
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...
Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be the answer for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.
Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your checking account, with...
The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2003
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.
In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely...
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...
Ubuntu!
An Inspiring Story About an African Tradition of Teamwork and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
A powerful story about the African philosophy of teamwork and collaboration that has the power to reshape our workplaces, our relationships with our coworkers, and our personal lives, written by the bestselling coauthor of Fish! and the bestselling author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees.
John...
The Male Factor
The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Based on a nationwide survey and confidential interviews with more than three thousand men, bestselling author of For Women Only, Shaunti Feldhahn, has written a startling and unprecedented exploration of how men in the workplace tend to think, which even the most astute women might otherwise miss....
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines. 416 pp. Radio drive-time pubilcity. 20,000 print.
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman
What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
An honest and practical handbook that reveals important insights into relationships between men and women and work, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, is a must-read for every woman who wants to leverage her power in the workplace.
Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporate...
Start with No
The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Start with No offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situation—the purchase of a new house, a multimillion-dollar business deal, or where to take the kids for dinner.
Think a win-win solution is the best way to make the deal? Think again.
For...
Pigs at the Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
“Wonderfully incendiary and right-headed . . .Huffington is mad as hell, and rightly so.” –Esquire
The scathing and insightful New York Times bestseller, now updated to include the current economic crisis
Pigs at the Trough is Arianna Huffington’s eerily prescient exposé of...